Lürsen and Stedefreund

Lürsen and Stedefreund
Oliver Mommsen and Sabine Postel 2016
Channel	Radio Bremen
active	1997–2019 (Stedefreund from 2001)
place	Bremen
Assistants	Detective Assistant Karlsen
cases	50
successor	Andersen, Selb and Moormann
Location of investigation Bremen

Inga Lürsen and Nils Stedefreund are fictional people from the Tatort television series . From 1997 to 2001 Lürsen initially investigated alone. From December 2001 to April 2019, she and Stedefreund formed the team of investigators in the Tatort films that were set in Bremen and produced by Radio Bremen . Sabine Postel and Oliver Mommsen played the detectives. At the end of February 2017 it was announced that Postel and Mommsen wanted to get out of the Tatort series at the beginning of 2019.

In December 2019, Jasna Fritzi Bauer , Dar Salim and Luise Wolfram were presented as the investigator trio Liv Moormann, Mads Andersen and Linda Selb as successors for Lürsen and Stedefreund.

characters

Inga Lürsen and Nils Stedefreund worked in police station 31 of the Bremen criminal police . The episodes played in both Bremen and Bremerhaven .

Inga Lürsen

Sabine Postel embodies Inga Lürsen.

Chief Detective Inga Lürsen, played by Sabine Postel , lived in Bremen from childhood. Born on May 20, 1953 in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, she was involved in the peace movement , demonstrated with friend Conny Barop against the nuclear power plant in Brokdorf and in 1971 took part in a "tent camp for peace" in Rostock . So her decision to go to the police came as a surprise to many of her old friends, one of whom even joined a terrorist movement. None of her friends expected that Inga Lürsen of all people would take up the job of a policewoman. The shadow of the crime scene is part of a key episode through which one can understand why Inga Lürsen is who she is: always fighting for justice and not accepting when the state itself wants to bend the law or her person.

Lürsen married Lothar Reinders, a teacher, and had their daughter Helen. When the girl was eight years old, the couple parted ways. Helen stayed with her father and Lürsen lived alone again in a house in Old Bremen . After the separation, the commissioner took on her maiden name again. She is not uninterested in men, but it is usually not enough for a real relationship. From now on she lives almost exclusively for her job.

On December 28, 1997, Inga Lürsen started as an investigator in Bremen. Until Inspector Nils Stedefreund appeared on the scene, she had to do with assistants who changed several times. Lürsen impresses with objectivity and rationality, but sometimes with a certain tendency towards perfection; in addition, there are control neuroses that shape their nature. Since she wants to work “on the scene” and working at her desk is a chore, she has no ambitions to climb the career ladder and become head of the commission. Diplomacy is not her forte, and her occasional emotional, almost irascible outbursts show this clearly. The Commissioner also often puts herself in great danger by going it alone. Both their colleagues and their superiors recognize their technical competence . Lürsen doesn't let her closest colleague Nils Stedefreund come up against it. She treats him fairly and in a spirit of partnership.

After work, the inspector likes to treat herself to a glass of red wine. She only reveals what is going on in her in rare moments. The sometimes dire fate into which she is drawn by her job, require her to build a protective wall around herself. Lürsen often has a guilty conscience towards her daughter because she could never be her mother as she should have been. It is a similar burden when she has to send her father, who has Alzheimer's disease, to a nursing home.

Although at first she finds it difficult to accept Helen's wish to become a police officer, she finally comes to terms with it and supports her daughter as best she can, even when it comes to her dog "Paul" again To take care of. It is a surprise for Lürsen that her own daughter will take over the management of the homicide squad in Bremen from October 2010 and thus become her superior.

Nils Stedefreund

Oliver Mommsen embodies Nils Stedefreund.

Chief Detective Officer Nils Stedefreund, played by Oliver Mommsen , was born in 1969 and grew up in the Hanover area . As a child and also as a teenager, he spent part of his time in Bremen and Bremerhaven, as the talented footballer was part of the SV Werder Bremen B youth team . At the age of 15 he had to give up playing football because of a weak meniscus. He started his career as a commissioner in Bremerhaven. A brief marriage with Bettina, who caught him cheating, is behind him. He was divorced again at the age of 29.

Stedefreund was then transferred to Bremen and now lived in a condominium in the Steintorviertel with a foosball table in the middle of the room and a racing bike on the wall. As a part-time job, he temporarily sold alarm systems because his financial situation was quite tense, also because his ex-wife initially demanded maintenance costs of 900 euros. Stedefreund himself did not have a lavish lifestyle. When he was transferred to Bremen, he was initially supposed to represent Inga Lürsen for three months, since Lürsen was teaching at the police academy during this time . Stedefreund initially assumed that he would be able to take over from Lürsen, but then felt quite comfortable with her as her boss as her partner. In their 22nd joint case ( puppeteer ), he allegedly decided to go to Afghanistan as a trainer and give up the joint work. In reality, he was working undercover for the BKA ( where has my sweetheart gone? ). This break was only brief; he returned to Bremen and became Inga Lürsen's partner again.

Stedefreund's approach to life tended not to make it harder for himself than necessary, which gave him a certain serenity and seldom got him into situations in which he was upset. He was thus a congenial and complementary partner for Inga Lürsen, who occasionally loyally kept her back free.

He dies in the episode Where is my darling? , shot dead by a BKA officer in revenge for Stedefreund having arrested his boss.

Helen Reinders

Helen Reinders, played by Camilla Renschke , is Inga Lürsen's daughter from her marriage to Lothar Reinders. When her parents divorced, she lived with her father because as a teacher he had a more regular schedule. She spent most of the weekends with her mother. Shortly before graduating from high school, she completely shifted the center of her life to her. Because of an empty refrigerator, there were often differences between mother and daughter. Inga Lürsen also disliked the fact that Helen was making use of her red wine supplies. Lürsen, who is a tolerant mother, was more relaxed about other circumstances, such as putting the bath under water and the like, just as she otherwise supported the daughter's decisions, plans and quirks. Helen, on the other hand, was sometimes extremely embarrassed when her mother turned up in places where she intended to lead her own life. After graduating from school, Helen tried to find her way and switched from the au pair job in Toronto to her “great love” in New York City . Since love didn't last, Helen came back to her mother and tried out various jobs without a clear vision of the future. Lürsen urged the daughter to move into her own apartment and to look after herself.

After the young woman had worked in an institution for the disabled, a conversation with Nils Stedefreund persuaded her to start training with the police. From then on she lived with another police officer. Ultimately, Lürsen tolerated the daughter's decision, even if she first showed Helen many reasons that spoke against such a career choice. When Helen took over the management of the homicide squad in Bremen in October 2010 and became her mother's superior, it took some getting used to for Lürsen and, at least at first, not easy.

Karlsen

Detective assistant Karlsen, played by Winfried Hammelmann , born around 1960, wearing glasses and now also with a gray ponytail, researches diligently and tirelessly does all the tasks assigned to him by Inga Lürsen and Nils Stedefreund. But he needs very precise guidelines, because his ability to think along is not particularly strong. Lürsen values ​​Karlsen's reliability when it comes to completing research tasks, but is aware that his area of ​​responsibility can only be limited. Although the type is rather taciturn, Karlsen always manages to negatively influence ongoing investigations by gossiping or unintentionally revealing information to suspects. So it happens occasionally that Lürsen and Stedefreund treat him not very nicely on some days, which Karlsen feels is unfair. Since he hardly ever receives praise, he is of the opinion that he is entitled to such praise because he usually does a good job.

Karlsen is married to Pia; the couple has a son. His family is very important to him; from it he draws strength and the necessary support. When his marriage was in crisis, it threw him off course, which was also reflected in his demeanor. Since Karlsen is unsportsmanlike and does not keep fit, this can lead to shortness of breath when he has to move around. Its effect on others is characterized by lethargy . In contrast, he finds easy access to children as well as animals. He even teaches "Paul", Helen Reinders' dog, who is often left with him, small tricks.

cases

case	title	First broadcast	episode	script	Director	particularities
1	Inflagranti	Dec 28, 1997	376	Sabine Thiesler	Petra Haffter
2	Burns	Apr 26, 1998	384	Thommie Beyer	Detlef Röhnfeldt
3	Straight to the heart	13 Sep 1998	396	Gabriella Wollenhaupt	Ulrich Stark
4th	The Horsemen of the Apocalypse	Oct 24, 1999	425	Urs Aebersold, Bernd Schwamm	Martin Gies
5	Cold anger	Oct 21, 2001	482	Thorsten Näter	Thorsten Näter
6th	An inconspicuous woman	Nov 11, 2001	485	Jochen Greve	Martin Gies	first case with Stedefreund
7th	Endgame	May 20, 2002	500	Britta Stoeckle	Ciro Capellari
8th	shadow	Jul 28, 2002	506	Thorsten Näter	Thorsten Näter	nominated for the Adolf Grimme Prize and the Television Film Prize of the German Academy of Performing Arts
9	The black troll	May 25, 2003	533	Thea Dorn	Vanessa Jopp
10	The love of the butcher	Nov 16, 2003	547	Jochen Greve	Thomas Jauch
11	scum	0Apr 4, 2004	562	Thorsten Näter	Thorsten Näter
12	Scheherazade	0Jun 5, 2005	600	Christian Jeltsch	Peter Henning , Claudia Prietzel	German Television Award 2005 (best camera) and German Camera Award (television play) to Ngo The Chau
13	Death Angel	Jul 10, 2005	602	Thorsten Näter	Thorsten Näter
14th	requiem	25 Sep 2005	607	Thorsten Näter	Thorsten Näter
15th	Quiet days	May 21, 2006	632	Jochen Greve	Thomas Jauch
16	Smoldering fire	Jan. 21, 2007	653	Thorsten Näter	Thorsten Näter
17th	Shining future	Aug 26, 2007	671	Christian Jeltsch	Mark Schlichter
18th	Family constellation	0Feb 8, 2009	721	Thea Dorn , Seyran Ateş	Mark Schlichter
19th	Sink ships	May 24, 2009	734	Wilfried Huismann , Philip LaZebnik	Florian Baxmeyer
20th	Dead men	Jun 14, 2009	737	Jochen Greve	Thomas Jauch	Radio Bremen and WDR
21st	Royal children	0Feb 7, 2010	756	Thorsten Näter	Thorsten Näter	Radio Bremen and WDR
22nd	Sleeping dogs	May 30, 2010	765	Wilfried Huismann , Dagmar Gabler	Florian Baxmeyer
23	quiet waters	Feb 13, 2011	790	Thorsten Näter	Thorsten Näter	Radio Bremen and WDR
24	The illegal death	May 15, 2011	801	Christian Jeltsch	Florian Baxmeyer
25th	Order in balance	Feb 12, 2012	828	Peter Henning , Claudia Prietzel	Peter Henning, Claudia Prietzel
26th	wedding-night	16 Sep 2012	843	Jochen Greve	Florian Baxmeyer
27	Puppeteer	Feb. 24, 2013	864	Christian Jeltsch	Florian Baxmeyer
28	He will kill	0Jun 9, 2013	876	Christian Jeltsch	Florian Baxmeyer
29	brothers	23 Feb 2014	901	Wilfried Huismann , Dagmar Gabler	Florian Baxmeyer
30th	All of my boys	May 18, 2014	912	Erol Yesilkaya , Boris Dennulat , Matthias Tuchmann	Florian Baxmeyer
31	The return	March 15, 2015	939	Felix Götze , Sabine Radehold	Florian Baxmeyer
32	Whoever harvests wind sows storm!	June 14, 2015	951	Wilfried Huismann	Florian Baxmeyer
33	The hundredth monkey	May 16, 2016	987	Christian Jeltsch	Florian Baxmeyer
34	echo sounder	Oct. 30, 2016	998	Christine Otto , Peter Henning	Claudia Prietzel , Peter Henning	Broadcast as part of the ARD theme week "Future of Work"
35	Night vision	March 12, 2017	1014	Matthias Tuchmann , Stefanie Veith	Florian Baxmeyer
36	Back into the light	Oct 22, 2017	1032	Christian Jeltsch , Olaf Kraemer	Florian Baxmeyer
37	In the blind spot	March 11, 2018	1051	Katrin Bühlig	Philip Koch
38	blood	Oct 28, 2018	1070	Philip Koch , Holger Joos	Philip Koch
39	Where did my darling go?	April 22, 2019	1091	Florian Baxmeyer , Michael Comtesse , Stefanie Veith	Florian Baxmeyer	Death of Stedefreund

reception

"At the Bremen crime scene , you always get the impression that Sabine Postel wants to convince us that the Hanseatic city is also entitled to a solidarity surcharge , the place comes across as ugly and the inspector so lousy."

- TV movie

“The people in charge of the Bremen“ Tatort ”(editor: Annette Strelow) always had the courage to tell socio-political material using the B-movie; Florian Baxmeyer often directed these bizarrely unleashed themed thrillers. "

- Christian Buß : Spiegel Online

Web links

• Lürsen and Stedefreund on DasErste.de
• Questions to Oliver Mommsen on DasErste.de
• Bremen crime scene on radiobremen.de
• Lürsen and Stedefreund on tatort-fans.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Postel and Mommsen get off at the Bremen Tatort , Berliner Morgenpost, February 28, 2017
2. ↑ Jasna Fritzi Bauer in “Tatort”. Retrieved May 14, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Proof of first name: Lothar Lürsen at tatort-fundus.de.
4. ↑ Data on the investigator: Nils Stedefreund & Inga Lürsen at tatort-fundus.de
5. ↑ The unmistakable one: Inga Lürsen at tatort-fundus.de
6. ↑ Inga and the men at tatort-fundus.de
7. ↑ ^{a b} Data on the investigator: Helen Reinders at tatort-fundus.de
8. ↑ Data on the investigator: Nils Stedefreund at tatort-fundus.de
9. ↑ Data on the investigator: Karlsen at tatort-fundus.de
10. ↑ Crime scene cleanup: TV Spielfilm, issue 9/2015, page 10
11. ^ Christian Buß: Last "crime scene" with Postel and Mommsen. A heroin injection full of madness to say goodbye. In: Culture. Spiegel Online , April 19, 2019, accessed April 22, 2019 .