Cenk Batu

Cenk Batu
Mehmet Kurtuluş plays Cenk Batu
Channel	NDR
active	2008–2012
place	Hamburg
cases	6th
predecessor	Casstorff and Holicek (until 2008)
successor	Tschiller and Gümer (from 2013)
team
KHK Uwe Kohnau (boss and VE leader)		continuous
Location of investigation Hamburg

The Hamburg detective chief Cenk Batu , played by Mehmet Kurtuluş , is a fictional person from the episodes of the crime series Tatort, for which Norddeutscher Rundfunk is responsible .

background

Batu is the successor to Jan Casstorff , whose actor Robert Atzorn did not want to continue the crime scene after 15 episodes. In 2010 Kurtuluş also announced to the NDR that he would leave the crime scene after two more episodes because he wanted to devote himself to more international film projects. The last episode with him premiered on May 6, 2012.

characters

Cenk Batu

Chief Detective Officer Cenk Batu ( Mehmet Kurtuluş ) lives alone on the 19th floor of one of Hamburg's Mundsburg towers and regularly works as an undercover agent . In each episode he is on a different mission, with the long-term placement of the undercover agent being mostly anticipated. Occasionally his Turkish origin helps him during his missions, although it is not particularly important to him and he speaks poor Turkish .

Peter Jordan alias Uwe Kohnau

Uwe Kohnau

Chief Detective Uwe Kohnau ( Peter Jordan ) leads the undercover investigator and is the official head of the investigation and head of Batu. You have a trusting and open, but strictly professional relationship with one another. The cool, matter-of-fact Kohnau has to call Batu to order or protect him again and again, because his emotionality leads him to go it alone and investigative methods on the verge of legality.

cases

case	title	First broadcast	episode	script	Director	particularities
1	On the sunny side	Oct 26, 2008	709	Christoph Silber , Thorsten Wettcke	Richard Huber	Audience Award of the Marler Group 2009 ; German Television Award 2009 for Best Camera to Martin Langer ; nominated for the Golden Camera 2009
2	Urban warfare	Apr 13, 2009	729	Johannes W. Betz , Peter Braun	Florian Baxmeyer
3	forget Me Not	28 Mar 2010	760	Christoph Darnstädt , Tim Krause	Richard Huber
4th	Life against life	Feb. 27, 2011	792	Nils Willbrandt	Nils Willbrandt
5	The way to paradise	Dec 18, 2011	821	Alexander Adolph	Lars Becker
6th	The ballad by Cenk and Valerie	0May 6, 2012	837	Matthias Glasner	Matthias Glasner	Nominated for the 2013 Grimme Prize

reception

"When is a man a man? In any case, Cenk Batu alias Mehmet Kurtulus not only gives the 'crime scene' a new face, the male image also looks relatively unusual in the crime bastion. Cool and distinctive, taciturn and elegant - that is anything but the civil servant mentality and working according to regulations, as you often see in other TV stations. "

- Rainer Tittelbach : Tittelbach.tv

"The undercover cop Cenk Batu, played by Mehmet Kurtulus, developed into the most exciting character in the series: The cases in which the extremely versatile inspector could be seen were fast, complex and ultra-modern."

- Christian Buß : Spiegel Online

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Christian Buß : Mehmet Kurtulus leaves "Tatort". Departure of an all-rounder. In: Spiegel Online . March 4, 2011, accessed May 6, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Price decisions. Grimme Institute , accessed on May 6, 2019 . 
3. ↑ 2009 Best Cinematography: Martin Langer for Tatort: ​​On the Sunny Side. Deutscher Fernsehpreis GmbH , accessed on May 6, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Golden Camera 2009 - 44th award. The winners. Funke Programmzeitschriften GmbH , accessed on May 6, 2019 . 
5. ^ Tatort - The Ballad of Cenk and Valerie (NDR). Nominations. Grimme Institute , accessed on May 6, 2019 . 
6. ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Series "Tatort - On the sunny side". In: Tittelbach.tv . Retrieved May 6, 2019 . 

Web links

• Mehmet Kurtuluş at DasErste.de
• Batu at Tatort-Fundus.de