Saalfeld and Keppler

Saalfeld and Keppler
Martin Wuttke and Simone Thomalla as Keppler and Saalfeld (2011)
Channel	MDR
active	2008-2015
place	Leipzig
cases	21st
predecessor	Honest and Cain
successor	Sieland, Gorniak and Schnabel
team
Wolfgang Menzel		(2008-2015)
Investigation location Leipzig ( Saxony )

Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Keppler are fictional detective chief inspectors from the Tatort television series . From 2008 to 2015 you formed the team of investigators in the crime scene films of the MDR set in Leipzig . They were portrayed by Simone Thomalla and Martin Wuttke . They replaced the Ehrlicher and Kain duo as the Saxon team of investigators in 2008 and were in turn replaced by the Sieland, Gorniak and Schnabel team in Dresden in 2015 .

background

As a police headquarters, the Konsumzentrale is a regular filming location

Simone Thomalla , who had previously played two roles in Tatort episodes, was contacted by MDR in 2006. Martin Wuttke as Keppler actor was later selected jointly by Thomalla and the MDR. He had also previously appeared in two Tatort episodes.

The shooting of the episode Hopeless took place in May and June 2007. The episode Death Penalty was broadcast first , which was filmed later but was planned as the first episode from the start. The death penalty was the 700th film in the series to be broadcast.

Regular filming locations in the Leipzig crime scene include the consumer center in the Plagwitz district as a fictitious police headquarters and a guesthouse in Gohlis where Keppler lives.

A special episode is the double episode from Kinderland and your little one comes , which was first broadcast on Easter 2012. It is the first double episode in Tatort history. In Ihr Kinderlein kommet, Saalfeld and Keppler do not investigate in Leipzig, but in Cologne, where they support their colleagues Ballauf and Schenk .

On January 22, 2014, Das Erste announced that it would air the final episode with the team in 2015.

Figures from the Leipzig crime scene episodes

Eva Saalfeld

Chief Inspector Eva Saalfeld, played by Simone Thomalla , grew up in Leipzig. She became a police officer because of her father, who had been believed to be dead since 1983, who was a people's police officer and her great role model. She is a fun-loving, impulsive and empathetic woman who is often emotionally affected by the cases. In this way she forms the opposite pole to the grouchy Keppler, who cannot be disturbed by anything.

Eva Saalfeld was married to her colleague Keppler. However, the marriage fell apart when the two lost their child together. In addition, Keppler was an alcoholic . At the beginning of the first episode ( death penalty ) , they had been divorced for a few years.

Andreas Keppler

Chief Inspector Andreas Keppler, played by Martin Wuttke , is Eva Saalfeld's ex-husband and her partner on the homicide squad. Keppler is usually addressed by his last name, even by his ex-wife. He comes from West Germany and only arrives in Leipzig at the beginning of the first episode. There he lives in a pension to be free.

Keppler loves order and is an excellent observer, whose introversion shows parallels to Adrian Monk . He is very taciturn, which is often taken as rudeness.

Wolfgang Menzel

Menzel actor Maxim Mehmet (2010)

Wolfgang Menzel ( Maxim Mehmet ) is a forensic technician on the Leipzig homicide squad. He is married and has one child. In the episode Turkish Honey , we learn that his father was a Turk from the Black Sea. His relationship with Eva is good, but he doesn't feel valued enough by Keppler. He takes Menzel's good work for granted and rarely has a word of thanks for him. When Keppler applied for a job in Wiesbaden after the rendezvous with death , Menzel described it as “good news”.

Schmitz

Schmitz ( Dieter Jaßlauk ) is the owner of the pension where Keppler lives. His first name is unknown. Schmitz is an older man who knows his way around Leipzig and can occasionally help Keppler with information. Keppler and Schmitz regularly play chess against each other . Sometimes it happens that Schmitz falls asleep.

As the only recurring figure in the Leipzig episodes, Schmitz does not speak High German, but a Saxon dialect .

Inge Saalfeld

Eva Saalfeld's mother Inge ( Swetlana Schönfeld ) does not agree with Eva's choice of career, but still supports her as much as possible. She is a nurse and regularly looks after people in need with whom Eva interacts during her investigations.

More roles

Other recurring characters are Eva Saalfeld's nephew Lukas (various actors) and the coroners Dr. Striesow ( André Röhner ) and later Dr. Reichau ( Kai Schumann ). In the episodes Schön is different and Rendezvous with Death , Saalfeld has a brief relationship with the doctor Pierre Holsten ( Oliver Bootz ).

consequences

case	title	First broadcast	episode	script	Director	particularities
1	death penalty	May 25, 2008	700	Andreas Schlueter , Mario Giordano	Patrick Winczewski
2	Hopeless	0Jul 6, 2008	701	Andreas Pflüger	Hajo Gies
3	Incorruptible	0Dec 7, 2008	713	Andreas Pflüger	Nils Willbrandt
4th	Black Peter	Jan. 18, 2009	718	Kathrin Bühlig	Christine Hartmann
5	Wallflower	0March 8 2009	725	Simone Schneider	Johannes Fabrick
6th	Wrong life	0Dec 6, 2009	748	Andreas Pflüger	Hajo Gies
7th	crash	14 Mar 2010	758	André Georgi	Torsten C. Fischer
8th	Homeward	0Jun 6, 2010	766	Heike Rübbert	Johannes Grieser
9	Beautiful is different	Dec 12, 2010	783	Katrin Bühlig	Judith Kennel
10	Rendezvous with death	Feb. 20, 2011	791	Clemens Schönborn , Maike Hauck	Buddy Giovinazzo
11	Wet things	Jun 13, 2011	804	Andreas Knaup	Johannes Grieser
12	Images of death	Jan 15, 2012	824	Miguel Alexandre	Miguel Alexandre
13	Kinderland	0Apr 8, 2012	834	Jürgen Werner	Thomas Jauch	First part of a double sequence together with Ballauf and Schenk
14th	Come ye Ye Children	0Apr 9, 2012	835			Continuation of the series Kinderland together with Ballauf and Schenk
15th	Shooter	0Dec 2, 2012	852	Andreas Schlueter , Mario Giordano	Johannes Grieser
16	Black Afghan hound	17th Mar 2013	866	Holger Jancke	Thomas Jahn
17th	The truth dies first	Jun 16, 2013	877	Miguel Alexandre , Harald Göckeritz, André Georgi	Miguel Alexandre
18th	Turkish honey	Jan. 1, 2014	893	Andreas Pflüger	Christine Hartmann
19th	Breakfast forever	16. Mar. 2014	904	Kathrin Bühlig	Claudia Garde
20th	Blood guilt	Feb 15, 2015	936	Stefan Kornatz	Stefan Kornatz
21st	Lower instincts	Apr 26, 2015	945	Sascha Arango	Claudia Garde

reception

The crime scene investigators most popular with the audience are not Saalfeld and Keppler. Between May 2010 and May 2012 the average number of viewers was 8.67 million. This puts the Leipzig team in the middle of the field of crime scene investigators.

In the Tatort episodes with Saalfeld and Keppler, critics recognize an effort to deal with socially relevant topics in the crime thriller.

The Münsterländische Volkszeitung judged in a review that Saalfeld and Keppler were by far the most annoying crime scene investigators. The TV Spielfilm wrote that the team was just bored and would never have worked properly. The Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , on the other hand, found that Saalfeld and Keppler would replace Ehrlicher and Kain well - not least because of the prehistory of the inspectors, which is often discussed.

Web links

• Saalfeld and Keppler on daserste.de
• Saalfeld and Keppler on tatort-fans.de
• Andreas Keppler & Eva Saalfeld on tatort-fundus.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Francois Werner: The TATORT life before Eva Saalfeld on tatort-fundus.de.
2. ↑ Eric Leimann: Determining with the ex ( memento of the original from 23 August 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Interview with Simone Thomalla, April 30, 2008 on monstersandcritics.de.
3. ↑ Simone Thomalla and Martin Wuttke determine ( Memento from May 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on mdr.de.
4. ↑ Hopelessly on tatort-fundus.de
5. ^ Francois Werner: A noticeable advantage? on tatort-fundus.de.
6. ↑ Alexander Laboda: crime scene double episode: TV commissioners are shooting together for the last time in Leipzig . Leipziger Volkszeitung, August 4, 2011.
7. ↑ Kerstin Decker: Gohlis bar and boarding house "Zur 102" is "Tatort" for the Leipzig crime scene . Leipziger Volkszeitung, January 13, 2012.
8. ↑ Antonia Stahl: Street children, sex offenders and slapstick ( Memento from June 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) . Schleswig-Holstein newspaper publisher, April 10, 2012.
9. ↑ New "crime scene" and new investigators for Saxony. In: DasErste.de . Retrieved January 22, 2014.
10. ↑ Tilmann P. Gangloff: Review of the death penalty in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, quoted on tatort-fundus.de
11. ↑ Beauty and the Beast . focus.de, September 26, 2011
12. ↑ The most popular crime scene investigators . rp-online.de
13. ↑ Andreas Fischer: The old people's money . Criticism of the teleschau to the crime scene episode Heimwärts on tatort-fundus.de
14. ^ Heinz Zimmermann: The Leipziger in Cologne . Criticism of the teleschau on the crime scene episode Your little children come to tatort-fundus.de
15. ↑ Tobias Rüster: Only the investigators were annoying ( memento of April 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) . Critique of the Münsterländische Volkszeitung on the crime scene episode Rendezvous with Death
16. ↑ Rainer Unruh: The Saalfeld / Keppler team is just bored . Column on tvspielfilm.de
17. ↑ Sebastian Harfst: Bitchy inspectors in the crime scene "Images of Death" . Review of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung on the crime scene episode of death pictures