Thorsten Falke

Falke and Grosz
Channel
active	since 2013
place	Hamburg
cases	13
team
Thorsten Falke (Police Chief Commissioner) Julia Grosz (Police Chief Commissioner) Katharina Lorenz (Police Chief Commissioner) Jan Katz (Police Chief Commissioner)		since 2013 since 2016 2013–2015 2013–2015
Place of investigation Hamburg and the surrounding area

Chief Inspector Thorsten Falke , played by Wotan Wilke Möhring , is a fictional police officer from the ARD television series Tatort who, together with Chief Inspector Katharina Lorenz (until 2015) and Chief Inspector Julia Grosz (from 2016), embodied by Petra Schmidt-Schaller and Franziska Weisz , determined in northern Germany (Hamburg and Lower Saxony). Originally, Falke and Lorenz belonged to the LKA Hamburg , but switched to the federal police in 2014 with the third cold start case .

Wotan Wilke Möhring (Thorsten Falke) and Franziska Weisz (Julia Grosz)

characters

Thorsten Falke

Chief Inspector Thorsten Falke grew up in Hamburg-Billstedt , where he had to decide early on which side of the law he was on. What gives him an advantage over his colleagues is that he knows the laws of the road, knows what makes people tick, and has an eye for them. Accordingly, he cultivates a proletarian demeanor that he inherited from his father and grandfather, who were both active as dock workers in the Hamburg labor movement. In several episodes, Falke wears a t-shirt from the punk band Ramones , which can be interpreted as an allusion to Möhring's own past as a punk musician. Another hallmark of Falke is a preference for milk, especially in the early episodes - be it in the company car, during an interrogation or even as part of your own long drink. The commissioner lives alone because he has decided against the family and for the job. From an affair with a married woman, he has a son, Torben, who at first doesn't know who his real father is, but later develops a relationship with him.

Katharina Lorenz

Petra Schmidt-Schaller (Katharina Lorenz)

Chief Inspector Katharina Lorenz grew up in a harmonious environment in a suburb of Schwerin . Her parents were established as a lawyer for family law and a physiotherapist in the performance center for top athletes in the GDR , but after the fall of the Wall , Lorenz had to fight for her own place in life with intelligence, diligence and ambition. After graduating from high school, she studied law , after which she took her first job at the criminal investigation department's fire department. She supported Thorsten Falke for the first time as part of a series of arson attacks . In 2015, at the end of the episode Burned , she separated from him and was transferred to another post. The events of police violence against a person in custody had pushed her emotionally to her limits. Lorenz's exact relationship to Falke is, although mostly in accordance with a typical crime scene investigative team, left to the viewer's interpretation in several episodes: In Die Cowardice of the Lion , an alcoholized one night stand is implied, but not taken up further in the following, nor is their departure on The end of the episode Burned leaves room for interpretation so that Falkes and Lorenz's relationship went beyond a friendly and collegial level.

Julia Grosz

Federal police officer Julia Grosz worked at Hannover-Langenhagen Airport after several missions abroad and met Chief Inspector Falke there in 2016 during the investigation into God's Wrath . She had to shoot her previous service partner in self-defense while on duty in Afghanistan, whereupon she was transferred to the quieter post in Hanover. Despite her background and her cool and aloof manner, Thorsten Falke asked the police superintendent at the end of the episode Wrath of God to become his future service partner. In line with its history, the new partnership is professional but largely distanced on a personal level. Only in the episode Everything You Say it turns out that Falke and Grosz trust each other blindly, and at the end of the episode they first speak to each other for confirmation. In the episode of December 1, 2019 ricochet , the viewer learns that the trust between the two is growing and that they are also grappling with their private lives. So one learns from Falke that Grosz feels drawn to the female gender and that they are very good friends, without secrets. The last sentence in this episode is that Falke doesn't need to know everything about their love life, however.

Jan Katz

Chief Detective Jan Katz, played by Sebastian Schipper , is an old friend and colleague of Falkes, whom he has known since his training. Because he became a father, he left the team, only occasionally stood by Falke and in 2015 (episode Happy Easter, Falke! ) Completely dropped out of the crime scene series.

Federal Police

Thorsten Falke with Katharina Lorenz and Julia Grosz is the first and so far only Tatort team employed by the Federal Police. According to ARD , as a member of a special commission of the federal police in northern Germany, they investigate capital crimes against the background of global refugee and migration movements. Originally the designation "Kriminalhauptkommissar" ("Kriminalkommissar" for short) was also used for the investigators in this crime scene , but this does not exist in the Federal Police because the official designation there is "Polizeikommissar". Julia Grosz was therefore introduced to the series with the rank of "Chief Police Officer".

automobile

Thorsten Falke drives an old Citroën XM and is reminiscent of Horst Schimanski , who drove this model in 1990 at Tatort: ​​Medicine Men .

consequences

case	title	First broadcast	episode	script	Director	scene of action	particularities
01	Fire devil	Apr 28, 2013	0872	Markus Busch	Özgür Yildirim	Hamburg
02	Murder on Langeoog	Nov 24, 2013	0887	Max Eipp , Stefan Kornatz	Stefan Kornatz	Langeoog	First performed on October 3, 2013 at the Hamburg Film Festival
03	Cold start	Apr. 27, 2014	0909	Raimund Maessen , Volker Krappen	Marvin Kren	Wilhelmshaven	Change from LKA Hamburg to the Federal Police
04th	The cowardice of the lion	Nov 30, 2014	0924	Friedrich Ani		Oldenburg	World premiere at the Hamburg Film Festival 2014
05	Happy Easter, falcon	Apr 6, 2015	0942	Thomas Stiller		Hamburg	World premiere on September 13, 2014 at the Oldenburg International Film Festival .
06th	Burned	Oct 11, 2015	0957	Stefan Kolditz	Thomas Stuber	Salzgitter	Last case for Petra Schmidt-Schaller as Commissioner Katharina Lorenz. Preview in many German cinemas on September 30, 2015.
07th	gods anger	March 20, 2016	0980	Florian Oeller	Özgür Yıldırım	Hanover	First case for Franziska Weisz as Commissioner Julia Grosz
08th	Bad ground	Nov 26, 2017	1037	Georg Lippert , Marvin Kren	Sabine Bernardi	Dollbergen , Hamburg
09	Dark time	17th Dec 2017	1039	Judith Angerbauer , Niki Stein	Niki Stein	Hamburg , Lueneburg
10	Everything you say	Apr 22, 2018	1056	Arne Nolting , Jan Martin Scharf	Özgür Yildirim	Lüneburg , Hamburg and the surrounding area
11	Driven hunt	Nov 18, 2018	1072	Benjamin Hessler , Florian Oeller	Samira Radsi	Hamburg ( Hamburg-Neugraben-Fischbek )
12	Ricochet	Dec. 1, 2019	1111	Oke Stielow	Stephan Rick	Hamburg	Premiere on June 15, 2019 at the Emden-Norderney Film Festival .
13	The golden age	Feb 9, 2020	1120	Georg Lippert	Mia Spengler	Hamburg, St. Pauli	Premiere at the Hamburg Film Festival on September 29, 2019.

See also

• List of crime scene episodes

Web links

• Falke and Grosz at daserste.de
• Falke and Lorenz at daserste.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ All cases by Falke and Lorenz at DasErste.de, accessed on January 15, 2015
2. ^ Another "crime scene" commissioner for Hamburg. In: Stern.de of July 9, 2012
3. ↑ "Witty, flippant, lighter": The NDR "Tatort" with Wotan Wilke Möhring is being subjected to a small relaunch. Westfälische Nachrichten Medien, March 18, 2016.
4. ↑ Falke and Lorenz (Hamburg) at DasErste.de, accessed on March 2, 2016
5. ↑ Falke and Grosz (Hamburg) at DasErste.de, accessed on March 2, 2016.
6. ↑ The first: ricochet
7. ↑ Torsten Falke and Katharina Lorenz will investigate with the federal police in the future. In: daserste.de. Retrieved May 27, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Crime scene: Murder on Langeoog at the Hamburg Film Festival 2013
9. ^ Tatort: ​​The Cowardice of the Lion at the Hamburg Film Festival
10. ^ Crime scene: Happy Easter, falcon at filmportal.de
11. ↑ New Falke-Tatort celebrates its preview in the cinema. In: Tatort-fundus.de, accessed on October 12, 2015
12. ↑ Crime scene: ricochet. Internationales Filmfest Emden-Norderney 2019, accessed on July 3, 2019 . 
13. ^ Tatort: ​​The golden age. In: Program. Filmfest Hamburg, accessed on October 12, 2019 : "Nominated for Hamburg Producer Award for German TV Productions"