Roiter and Zorowski

Roiter and Zorowski
Channel	SFB
active	1996-1998
place	Berlin
cases	12
predecessor	Franz Markowitz (until 1995)
successor	Ritter and Hellmann (from 1999)
team
Detective Joachim Huber		Cases 5, 6, 9 and 11
Investigation location Berlin

Ernst Roiter and Michael Zorowski are fictional characters from the crime series Tatort . They were played by Winfried Glatzeder and Robinson Reichel . The Sender Freie Berlin (SFB) produced a total of twelve episodes with this team of investigators from 1996 to 1998.

background

Roiter and Zorowski were set up as a provocative team in Berlin-Mitte, which, however, received mostly negative reviews from the press. The whole production seemed cheap and facade-like, was the tenor. "Unimaginative dialogues from a less glamorous partnership" and "wooden acting" actors with "senseless slapstick interludes" was the verdict. Since the production company pursued an austerity course for cost reasons, which is why it was shot on Betacam (instead of film) and with the handheld camera, the result was corresponding, on the other hand, the lack of cooperation between the editorial team and the actors was counterproductive.

The criminal cases themselves included the reality of life in Berlin at the end of the 1990s, because after the fall of the Berlin Wall the building boom exploded and illegal garbage deals between East and West were not uncommon.

Figures from the Berlin crime scene episodes

Winfried Glatzeder (2008)

Ernst Roiter

Chief Inspector Ernst Roiter is played by Winfried Glatzeder . He was born in Spandau in the early 1940s and also studied in Berlin. After working for the Frankfurt homicide squad for a long time, he came back to the capital as head of the 5th homicide squad. He often implements his own ideas without consulting his partner and colleague Michael Zorowski or discussing it with him. Roiter tends not to take his assistant really seriously, which is also reflected in the fact that he rarely lets him behind the wheel of his company car.

Roiter is slightly short-sighted, not particularly athletic, but always well dressed. An inheritance allows him to afford costly hobbies and has an extensive collection of historic motorcycles. He loves to ride a motorcycle and repairs it himself as best he can. He likes to go out to eat exquisitely accompanied by women or even cook at home for the one he has chosen. However, his affairs usually cloud his view during his investigations. All in all, he leads a rather unsteady life and moves more often, so that there are always a few moving boxes around the apartment. Roiter's daughter Caroline lives with his divorced wife in Bad Homburg until she finishes school, but later also comes to Berlin as a journalist.

Robinson Reichel (2017)

Michael Zorowski

Robinson Reichel plays the detective inspector Michael Zorowski . He is around 30 years old and comes from Moscow. There he was trained at the police school and then served in the Moscow police. He is sporty, non-smoker and because of his origins a tea drinker. His willingness to work in solving cases is praiseworthy and it happens that he is not afraid of any risk, so that a brawl can happen. As Roiter's assistant, he investigates with him, but also has to help him and write the reports. When it comes to working together, there is more often a problem because Roiter likes to work alone and without consultation and his occasional disregard for Zorowski can be felt. To a certain extent, Zorowski endures this patiently, but now and then he bursts the collar. Computer games often help him to ventilate, sometimes in the office, but his extensive knowledge of Russian folk wisdom, which he often quotes in appropriate places, is also a support. Zorowski is usually dressed casually with jeans, a woolen hat and sunglasses.

Joachim Huber

Detective Joachim Huber , played by Hanns Zischler , can be seen in episodes 5, 6, 9 and 11.

Caroline Roiter

The main investigator's daughter was played by Stefanie Stappenbeck in episodes 1 and 3 , and in episode 12 by Sonja Kerskes .

consequences

case	title	First broadcast	episode	author	Director	particularities
1	Death in a jaguar	0Jun 9, 1996	335	Raimund Kusserow, Peter Sandmeyer	Jens Becker	After criticizing a misleading preliminary press release with "anti-Jewish passages" and the film depiction of Jewish traders, the film was not repeated
2	The Phoenix deal	Jul 28, 1996	339	Frank Grützbach	Peter Ristau
3	Colorful water	Oct 13, 1996	344	Uwe Saeger	Pete Ariel
4th	Crocodile guardian	Nov 10, 1996	346	Andreas Pflüger	Berno Kürten	Criticized for brutal, sexist and inhuman depictions and not repeated
5	Horrific business	May 25, 1997	361	Andreas Pflüger	Jürgen Brauer	Roiter follows one of the suspects ( Leslie Malton ) into a cinema, where The Legend of Paul and Paula , with Winfried Glatzeder in the title role, is shown.
6th	Key to murder	Aug 10, 1997	367	Leo W. Helm	Sylvia Hoffman
7th	money or life	0Sep 7 1997	368	Berno Kürten	Berno Kürten
8th	Freezing	28 Sep 1997	370	Henning Borgelt, Lienhard Wawrzyn	Kurt Ockermüller	Guest appearance by figure skater Peggy Schwarz
9	Look into the abyss	0Apr 5, 1998	381	Andreas Pflüger	Jürgen Brauer
10	A touch of Hollywood	Jul 13, 1998	390	Jiri Polak	Urs Odermatt	Satire on crime genre; classified by the SFB as an "experiment", deleted from the main evening program and first broadcast on Monday night.
11	The second man	16 Aug 1998	393	Christos Yiannopoulos , Petra Welzel	Sylvia Hoffman
12	Berliner Weisse	Nov 22, 1998	401	Paul Kroker, Richard Otto	Berno Kürten	In the end, Zorowski is run over by a car and flown away in the police helicopter while Mozart's " Requiem " is played.

Reviews

The Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung criticized the quality of all twelve crime scenes with Winfried Glatzeder. Above all, she criticizes the low budget of the films, since "'only' around 1.5 million instead of the otherwise 2 million D-Mark per episode were available" and the resulting poor image quality:

“The frenzy culminated in the insane idea of ​​capturing the twelve episodes in an adventurous beta-cam aesthetic. An unparalleled aesthetic catastrophe! "

Also Winfried Glatzeder criticized in his biography of Paul and I the poor picture quality:

“The most insane idea of ​​the then artistic director Horst Schättle, however, was the use of video technology instead of the 16 mm film cameras that had been common up until then . The 'Tatort' format thus became a test balloon for a recording technique with which the cameramen had little experience at the time [...] The critical assessment of the SFB 'Tatort' was mainly directed against this wrong decision. "

In addition, the work with the editorial team bothered him massively:

"The most problematic thing for me, however, was that I couldn't find a contact person in the editorial team who felt responsible for our work."

Web links

• www.tatort-fundus.de - Roiter and Zorowski
• www.tatort-fundus.de - Trial balloon bald head

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Roiter and Zorowski at tatort-fundus.de
2. ↑ The Roiter era - 12 crime scenes from Berlin at tatort-fundus.de
3. ↑ ^{a b} Tatort: ​​Poison cabinet at tatort-fundus.de
4. ↑ see: Flavia Brüesch: Tatort oder Mattscheibe? . In: TR 7, Zurich, 29/1998. ( PDF, 1.24 MB )
5. ↑ Frank Juergens: Twelve accident scenes with Winfried Glatzeder. Really bad - Inspector Roiter. In: New Osnabrück Newspaper. October 7, 2010, accessed June 14, 2019 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Winfried Glatzeder: Paul and me. Structure Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 184 ff.