Flückiger and Ritschard

Reto Flückiger
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
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.

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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
01	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.
02	839	scalpel	May 28, 2012	Urs Bühler	Tobias Ineichen	First appearance for Liz Ritschard
03	840	Hillside location with a view	26 Aug 2012	Felix Benesch	Sabine Boss
04th	862	Dirty Thursday	Feb 10, 2013	Petra Lüschow	Dani Levy
05	879	Birthday child	Aug 18, 2013	Moritz Gerber	Tobias Ineichen
06th	908	Between two worlds	Apr 21, 2014	Eveline Stähelin, Josy Meier	Michael Schaerer
07th	915	Tracked	Sep 7 2014	Martin Maurer	Tobias Ineichen
08th	953	Defenseless	5th July 2015	Josy Meier, Manuel Flurin Hendry	Manuel Flurin Hendry
09	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

1. ↑ ^{a b} Claudia Schwartz : Gnadenschuss: The Swiss «Tatort» moves from Lucerne to Zurich , in: NZZ from April 5, 2018, accessed on December 29, 2018
2. ↑ Two women for Zurich: This is the new «Tatort» duo . Article dated May 22, 2019, accessed May 23, 2019.
3. ↑ NZZ: In the new Swiss “Tatort” from Zurich, two police officers investigate . Article dated May 22, 2019, accessed May 23, 2019.
4. ^ Daniele Muscionico: Last «crime scene» from Lucerne: Flückiger hoists the sails. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 27, 2019.
5. ↑ Matthias Kohlmaier: With woeful cowboy character at sueddeutsche.de, accessed on March 22, 2015.