Flückiger and Ritschard
Reto Flückiger | |||
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Channel | SRF | ||
active | 2008–2019 (from 2011 as main investigator) | ||
place | Lucerne | ||
Assistants | Liz Ritschard (from episode 2) | ||
cases | 17 (+3 with Blum and Perlmann ) | ||
successor | Grandjean and Ott | ||
team | |||
Eugen Mattmann (Government Councilor ) Ernst Schmidinger (Chief Detective ) Marcel Küng (Computer Specialist ) Brigitte Bürki (Investigator) Elsa Giger (Secretary) Yvonne Veitli (Forensic Technician ) Corinna Haas (Forensic Technician ) |
2011–19 2011–13 2011–13 2011–13 2011–15 2011–14 2015–19 |
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Location of investigation Lucerne ( Switzerland ) |
Detective inspectors Reto Flückiger , played by Stefan Gubser , and Liz Ritschard , played by Delia Mayer , are fictional characters in the Lucerne episodes of the crime series Tatort . From 2011, Swiss Radio and Television (SRF) was responsible for the consequences. The first of these episodes was created without the character Ritschard, from 2012 there were two new cases with Flückiger and Ritschard. Flückiger had previously investigated three episodes of the Konstanz crime scene as the chief of the maritime police in Kreuzlingen on Lake Constance , before moving to the cantonal and municipal police in Lucerne as a commissioner in the specialist group offenses for life and limb in 2011.
In 2018 it became known that the SRF would discontinue the Lucerne crime scene after the 17th episode and, from 2019, would produce Tatort episodes with Zurich and a new team as the main location. In May 2019, Anna Pieri Zuercher and Carol Schuler were presented as the investigator duo Isabelle Grandjean and Tessa Ott from Zurich. The 17th and final episode of the Lucerne crime scene series was broadcast on October 27, 2019.
Follow in Constance
The character Flückiger already played a role in the following Tatort films:
- 2008: distress at sea
- 2010: The policewoman murderer
- 2011: The beautiful appearance
Cases with Lucerne as the main place of investigation
case | episode | title | First broadcast | script | Director | particularities |
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1 | 806 | Wishful thinking | Aug 14, 2011 | Nils-Morten Osburg | Markus Imboden | The first broadcast, scheduled for April 17, 2011, was postponed in February due to quality concerns on the part of Swiss television. |
2 | 839 | scalpel | May 28, 2012 | Urs Bühler | Tobias Ineichen | First appearance for Liz Ritschard |
3 | 840 | Hillside location with a view | 26 Aug 2012 | Felix Benesch | Sabine Boss | |
4th | 862 | Dirty Thursday | Feb 10, 2013 | Petra Lüschow | Dani Levy | |
5 | 879 | Birthday child | Aug 18, 2013 | Moritz Gerber | Tobias Ineichen | |
6th | 908 | Between two worlds | Apr 21, 2014 | Eveline Stähelin, Josy Meier | Michael Schaerer | |
7th | 915 | Tracked | Sep 7 2014 | Martin Maurer | Tobias Ineichen | |
8th | 953 | Defenseless | 5th July 2015 | Josy Meier, Manuel Flurin Hendry | Manuel Flurin Hendry | |
9 | 954 | You will be judged | 6 Sep 2015 | Urs Bühler | Florian Froschmayer | |
10 | 979 | Little princes | 13 Mar 2016 | Stefan Brunner | Markus Welter | |
11 | 993 | suicide | Sep 18 2016 | Eveline Stähelin , Josy Meier | Sabine Boss | |
12 | 1013 | Shards of War | 5th Mar 2017 | Stefan Brunner , Lorenz Langenegger | Tobias Ineichen | |
13 | 1028 | Two lives | 17 Sep 2017 | Mats Frey , Felix Benesch | Walter Weber | |
14th | 1063 | The music dies last | 5th Aug 2018 | Dani Levy | Dani Levy | |
15th | 1077 | eat or die | Dec 30, 2018 | Jan Cronauer | Andreas Senn | |
16 | 1099 | Counted out | June 16, 2019 | Urs Bühler, Michael Herzig | Katalin Gödrös | |
17th | 1106 | The elephant in the room | October 27, 2019 | Felix Benesch , Mats Frey | Tom Gerber | Last episode |
reception
Matthias Kohlmaier described the figure of Reto Flückiger at Süddeutsche.de as “a Swiss mixture of Al Pacino and Robert De Niro . The face as hard as bone and furrowed, mostly with an expression of grim cowboyism . To this end, he only speaks the bare essentials, and occasionally not even that. The image runs counter to the fact that at some point, with masculine self-indulgence (or: sorry masculinity) in his gaze, he says: 'Sometimes I am concerned that I'm alone when I go in Bite the grass. ' Maybe living on his houseboat is a little on him. "
On the occasion of the announcement of the end of production for the Lucerne Tatort episodes with Flückiger and Ritschard, the journalist Claudia Schwartz said in the NZZ 2018 that the episodes had "always seemed like an unsolvable problem" since the beginning. The series is considered to be "sedate", which is due to "bumpy scripts and sleepy plots", the films have focused more on the Lake Lucerne setting than on the crime story. The subsequent synchronization of the films originally shot in Swiss dialect into High German was always problematic and responsible for the often poor audience ratings compared to other Tatort episodes.
Web links
- at DasErste.de , accessed on January 27, 2015
- at Tatort-Fundus.de , accessed on January 27, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Claudia Schwartz : Gnadenschuss: The Swiss «Tatort» moves from Lucerne to Zurich , in: NZZ from April 5, 2018, accessed on December 29, 2018
- ↑ Two women for Zurich: This is the new «Tatort» duo . Article dated May 22, 2019, accessed May 23, 2019.
- ↑ NZZ: In the new Swiss “Tatort” from Zurich, two police officers investigate . Article dated May 22, 2019, accessed May 23, 2019.
- ^ Daniele Muscionico: Last «crime scene» from Lucerne: Flückiger hoists the sails. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 27, 2019.
- ↑ Matthias Kohlmaier: With woeful cowboy character at sueddeutsche.de, accessed on March 22, 2015.