Ballauf and Schenk
 Ballauf and Schenk
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Dietmar Bär (Schenk) and Klaus Behrendt (Ballauf) (2016) |
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| active | since 1997 | ||
| place | Cologne | ||
| cases | 79 | ||
| predecessor | Flemming | ||
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Max Ballauf (Chief Commissioner) Alfred Schenk (Chief Commissioner) Joseph Roth (Forensic Medicine) Norbert Jütte (Chief Commissioner) Lissy Pütz (Secretary) Wolfgang von Prinz (Public Prosecutor) Franziska Lüttgenjohann (Secretary) Tobias Reisser (Commissioner) |
since 1997 since 1997 since 1998 since 2018 1997–2000 1997–2014 2000–2014 2014–2018 |
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Investigation location Cologne ( NRW ) |
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The fictional detective chief inspectors Max Ballauf and Alfred ("Freddy") Schenk are the main characters in the episodes of the ARD television series Tatort set in Cologne . The crime thrillers produced for WDR have been broadcast with the investigative team since 1997 . Klaus Behrendt and Dietmar Bär play the main roles.
background
The WDR currently produces around three Cologne crime scenes per year. With over 70 episodes, the team is one of the busiest investigative teams in the crime scene universe . Almost every episode ends at a snack bar on the Rhine with a view of Cologne Cathedral . This will be positioned between the Deutzerbrücke and Severinsbrücke in Cologne-Deutz especially for the filming . In July 2020 it became known that the sausage roasting facility will be closed.
A special feature of the Cologne crime scene are the co-productions of the WDR with the MDR, four of which have been broadcast together so far. In 2000 and 2002, the episodes Quartet in Leipzig and return match were broadcast, in which the Cologne commissioners investigated together with their Leipzig colleagues Ehrlicher ( Peter Sodann ) and Kain ( Bernd Michael Lade ). In the two crime scenes Kinderland and Ihr Kinderlein kommet (first broadcast: April 8th and 9th, 2012) Leipzig and Cologne investigated again. This time Ballauf and Schenk met Saalfeld and Keppler in the murder case of a missing young woman from Leipzig ; the double episode was the crossover within the Tatort universe, which included more than one episode.
The actors Klaus J. Behrendt and Dietmar Bär already played in Schimanski -atorte in Cologne before their commissioner career: Dietmar Bär 1984 in the 159th episode Two Kinds of Blood and Klaus J. Behrendt in 1990 in the 234th episode Schimanski's weapon . In the role of Commissioner Ballauf, Klaus J. Behrendt also worked from 1992 to 1994 in eight episodes as the assistant to Commissioner Flemming ( Martin Lüttge ) at the Düsseldorf crime scene.
Figures from the Cologne crime scene episodes
Max Ballauf
Chief Inspector Max Ballauf, played by Klaus J. Behrendt , worked as Chief Inspector together with Chief Inspector Bernd Flemming and Inspector Miriam Koch at the Düsseldorf criminal investigation department before emigrating to Canada. Two years later he completed a four-year specialty training course in drug investigation in Florida. After Ballauf's girlfriend dies on an assignment in the USA and he is caught drunk behind the wheel, he is expelled. The BKA transfers him to Cologne, where he snatches Freddy Schenk's position as head of the homicide squad, believed to be safe. Ballauf, the former daredevil who had no difficulty conquering women, has become more thoughtful after he passed the age of 40. He often asks himself whether it was right to live alone after his wife and two young children left him shortly before he emigrated to Canada, but has difficulties with a new relationship.
Alfred ("Freddy") Schenk
Alfred - known as "Freddy" - Schenk, played by Dietmar Bär , is chief detective and later chief superintendent at Murder Commission 3 . He is a very reliable and calm work colleague of marked loyalty and general popularity. Computers and EDP are very popular with him, as are his unusual older and often American cars, which he usually gets from the pool of vehicles confiscated by the police and drives them on duty. He was the “secret boss” of the department for about a year and was convinced that he would get the position of head. However, this was awarded to Ballauf, which was the reason for a difficult collaboration at the beginning. He sees himself as a “city cowboy”, which is represented by his passion for cowboy boots. The son of a police officer himself, he was born in Dortmund on August 25, 1958 , is married and has two children.
Forensic doctor Joseph Roth
Joe Bausch has played the role of pathologist and forensic doctor Joseph Roth since 1997. Bausch doesn't just work as an actor, he actually studied medicine. In his main job he worked as a prison doctor in the JVA in Werl until his retirement in November 2018 .
Assistants from Ballauf and Schenk
- Norbert Jütte, Chief Criminal Investigator, since 2018 ( Roland Riebeling )
- Tobias Reisser, 2014 to 2018 ( Patrick Abozen )
- Miriam Häslich, 2014 ( Lucie Heinze )
- Franziska Lüttgenjohann †, 2000 to 2014 ( Tessa Mittelstaedt ). Suffocated to death at the end of her last fall.
- Lissy Pütz, 1997 to 2000 ( Anna Loos )
More figures
- Public Prosecutor Wolfgang von Prinz, 1997 to 2014 ( Christian Tasche )
- Melanie Schenk, Freddy's younger daughter ( Karoline Schuch ) in "Bestien", "Frozen", "Spätschicht", "Damned", "Narrow Shoulders" and "Family Ties"
- Police chief Heinz Obst ( Arved Birnbaum ), in "Three Monkeys", "The Woman on the Train", "Protégés", "Sleep, Child, Sleep" and "Pechmarie"
- Police psychologist Dr. Lydia Rosenberg ( Juliane Köhler ), with whom Ballauf has a relationship, in "With Calm Hand", "Old Iron", "No Police", "True Love", "Scars", "Neighbors", "Captured"
- Herbert Paul Assenbacher, head of the drug search ( Paul Faßnacht ), in "Welcome to Cologne" and "The woman on the train"
- Sonja Schenk, Freddy's older daughter ( Natalie Spinell ) in "Children of Violence" and "Light and Shadow"
- Richard Schenk, Freddy's uncle ( Traugott Buhre ), in "Iconoclasm"
- Gertrud Schenk, Freddy's grandmother ( Ilse Werner ), in "Bitter Almonds"
- Margot Schenk, Freddy's grandmother ( Helga Göring ), in "Hundeleben"
cases
literature
- Björn Bollhöfer: Geographies of television: The Cologne crime scene as a media location of cultural practices , Transcript Verlag , Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89942-621-2
Web links
- Ballauf und Schenk on tatort-fundus.de
- Ballauf and Schenk on DasErste.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The snack bar at the Tatort Fundus, accessed on October 28, 2014.
- ↑ Famous “Tatort” shop in Cologne, operator of “Wurstbraterei” with sad news
- ↑ a b Ballauf & Schenk. Retrieved January 9, 2013 .
- ↑ a b Ballauf and Schenk. The first, accessed January 9, 2013 .
- ↑ Ballauf und Schenk at tatort-fans.de. Retrieved September 9, 2014.
- ↑ Koch and Flemming / Max Ballauf at tatort-fundus.de
- ↑ The crime scene "Manila" - A crime thriller with consequences. Tatort - Straßen der Welt e. V., accessed on January 9, 2013 .
- ↑ Crime scene: straight to the heart. Serienjunkies.de KG, accessed on January 9, 2013 .
- ↑ Crime scene - second leg. Westdeutscher Rundfunk, accessed on January 9, 2013 .
- ↑ Double “Tatort”: “Kinderland” and “Your little children come”. Focus, April 9, 2012, accessed January 9, 2013 .
- ↑ On the death of Christian Tasche alias Wolfgang von Prinz. Colleagues, production and editorial staff mourn. DasErste.de, accessed on September 26, 2014 .
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