Lessing and Dorn

Lessing and Dorn
Channel
active	since 2013
place	Weimar
cases	10
team
Lessing (Chief Inspector) Kira Dorn (Chief Inspector) Kurt Stich (Chief Inspector) Dr. Seelenbinder (forensic doctor) Ludwig Maria Pohl (police officer) Hans Bangen (forensic scientist )		since 2013 since 2013 since 2013 since 2013 since 2015 2013–2015
Investigation location Weimar ( Thuringia )

The fictional detective inspectors Lessing and Dorn are the main characters in the episodes of the ARD television series Tatort, which are set in Weimar . The crime thrillers produced for the MDR have been broadcast with the investigative team since 2013 . Christian Ulmen and Nora Tschirner play the main roles.

background

The MDR announced in early 2012 that it would establish a new team of investigators in Thuringia. Up until then, Thuringia was the only federal state without a crime scene - or Police Call 110 team.

In order to develop concepts for the new team, the MDR launched an Internet call for tenders for production companies who could present their ideas. From over one hundred ideas on the location and concept of the new Tatort team, the concept of the Cologne and Munich-based production company FFP New Media and director and author Thomas Bohn around the investigators Funck, Schaffert and Grewel , who were to investigate in Erfurt , was finally chosen. The MDR managers liked the idea of ​​the Munich producers Wiedemann & Berg Television for a Weimar crime scene with the cast Ulmen / Tschirner so much that they had a one-off "event film" produced for broadcast on Boxing Day 2013. The MDR announced before the first broadcast that the series would be continued. The second film was shot in August 2014 in Weimar and the surrounding area, and it was broadcast, again as an event, on New Year's Day 2015. A third film was produced in 2015 and broadcast on April 24, 2016.

Figures from the Weimar crime scene episodes

Lessing

Christian Ulmen plays KHK Lessing

Christian Ulmen plays Chief Detective Lessing, whose first name remains unknown for the time being and who himself is only called by his surname by his partner Dorn. Lessing is a smart investigator with a keen sense of dry, profound humor and often lets his literary education shine through.

Lessing has been transferred from Hamburg to Weimar, where he is supposed to recover from a burnout. In the Hanseatic city he has seen and experienced a lot as a detective: After six years in the drug crime department, he worked for the KDD - the permanent detective service. There is hardly a violent crime that Lessing did not have to deal with. The constant stress and pressure finally tore on the nerves of the ambitious investigator. The stressed investigator is hoping for recovery from his new beginning in tranquil Thuringia. His new boss Kurt Stich, who found out about Lessing's burnout syndrome through the rumor mill , welcomes him warmly. In reality Lessing is in a relationship with Kira and the father of the initially unborn child.

Commissioner Lessing is curious, he is particularly interested in "language profiling". He has a quick, analytical mind and is always on the lookout for new knowledge and ideas. Accordingly, he is open to his fellow human beings. Women appreciate him because he is a man who can listen really well and shows interest in his counterpart. The investigator has a great deal of empathy.

In his investigative work, he benefits from his eye for the details. Chief Inspector Lessing is able to calmly look at the pieces of the puzzle in a case, draw the right conclusions from them and put the pieces together in such a way that a coherent overall picture emerges - and the case is solved. He would never follow a lead blindly, out of his stomach.

Kira Dorn

Nora Tschirner plays KK Kira Dorn

Nora Tschirner plays Detective Inspector Kira Dorn, who - unlike Lessing - is not a head person, but a gut person. So she briefly considered emigrating to the United States to work for the New York police . She is always active, almost restless. “If you rest, you rust”, could be Dorn's motto in life. She shares a sense of humor with Commissioner Lessing; the woman from Weimar has a large portion of sarcasm. She is secretly impressed that Lessing knows how to deal with her quick wittedness, because not many men can do that.

Like Lessing, Dorn is also intelligent, quickly analyzes the facts of a case - and acts immediately, following your gut instinct. In her private life, the Commissioner is far more reserved. In the first case, “Die Fette Hoppe”, when she allegedly only got to know her Hamburg colleague Lessing, Dorn is six months pregnant, but she refuses to ask about her child's father. Because of her pregnancy, she does not expect any special treatment; She makes it clear to her superior, Kurt Stich, that she is fully operational up to the statutory maternity leave .

In later episodes, Dorn and Lessing's child goes to kindergarten so that she can continue to work with Lessing at the same time.

More figures

• Kurt Stich, played by Thorsten Merten , superior of the two commissioners
• Dr. Soulbinder, played by Ute Wieckhorst , forensic doctor
• Ludwig Maria Pohl (called "Lupo"), played by Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey , a police officer

cases

case	title	First broadcast	episode	script	Director	Range
01	The fat Hoppe	Dec 26, 2013	0891	Murmel Clausen , Andreas Pflüger	Franziska Meletzky	8.03 million
02	The mad Ivan	0Jan. 1, 2015	0929	Murmel Clausen, Andreas Pflüger	Richard Huber	8.87 million
03	Faithful Roy	Apr 24, 2016	0984	Murmel Clausen, Andreas Pflüger	Gregor Schnitzler	9.85 million
04th	The departing bobby	0Feb. 5, 2017	1010	Murmel Clausen, Andreas Pflüger	Sebastian Marka	9.22 million
05	The desert Gobi	Dec 26, 2017	1040	Murmel Clausen, Andreas Pflüger	Ed Duke	5.92 million
06th	The cold fry	Feb 11, 2018	1047	Marble Clausen	Titus Selge	9.79 million
07th	The robust Roswita	26 Aug 2018	1064	Murmel Clausen, Andreas Pflüger	Richard Huber	8.57 million
08th	Hellish Heinz	0Jan. 1, 2019	1078	Murmel Clausen, Andreas Pflüger	Dustin Loose	7.10 million
09	The hard core	22 Sep 2019	1103	Sebastian Kutscher, Deniz Yildiz	Helena Hufnagel	8.53 million
10	The last scream	0June 1, 2020	1134	Murmel Clausen, Andreas Pflüger	Mira Thiel	7.61 million

Awards

In 2015, Nora Tschirner was awarded the Austrian TV and Film Prize Romy in the category Most Popular Actress Series / Series for her role as Detective Inspector Kira Dorn.

Web links

• Lessing and Dorn on DasErste.de
• Lessing and Dorn on tatort-fans.de
• Lessing and Dorn on tatort-fundus.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ focus.de: Thuringia gets its own "crime scene" , accessed on September 9, 2014.
2. ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Content wins , accessed on September 9, 2014.
3. ↑ Nice presents - MDR sets up a Christmas "event" TATORT ( memento from January 18, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ), Tatort-Fundus.de
4. ↑ Ulmen and Tschirner remain crime scene inspectors. Retrieved December 27, 2013.
5. ^ "Tatort": Nora Tschirner and Christian Ulmen continue to investigate , accessed on December 9, 2014
6. ^ Another case for Tschirner and Ulmen. In: Thuringian General. 7th August 2014.
7. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Commissioners Dorn and Lessing - All the consequences for Tatort fans. Retrieved October 22, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Angelika Zahn: Crime scene in check: Ulmen and Tschirner mix up Weimar again . In: Focus Online . ( focus.de [accessed on January 23, 2018]).
9. ^ Dorn and Lessing - crime scene. First German TV (ARD), accessed on January 23, 2018 . 
10. ^ "Tatort" critics mirror: Irony in the extensions . In: The time . Hamburg February 4, 2017 ( zeit.de [accessed January 23, 2018]).
11. ^ "Tatort" and "WWM" -Promispecial dominate the holiday , DWDL, June 2, 2020.
12. ↑ Focus : Media: New Weimar “Tatort” on television at the end of April , dpa , January 27, 2016.