Dietmar Bär on the anniversary in Cologne: We remain the crime scene normals | entertainment
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How the “Tatort” stars negotiated their contracts
When Dietmar Bär (61) ripped off cinema tickets in the then completely smoky arthouse cinema in Dortmund-Hombruch (NRW) in the early 1980s “to earn a few marks”, he watched a western dozen times.
“Until the roll of film was worn out and shortened,” he says to BILD am SONNTAG. It was the Sergio Leone classic “Play Me the Song of Death”.
Today, TV death is Bär’s job. The son of a journeyman butcher took a handful of cowboy feelings with him to one of the famous crime scenes.
Even after 25 years, for the silver jubilee (“Trace of Blood”, today, 8.15 p.m., Das Erste) of the Cologne investigators, Chief Inspector Freddy Schenk (Bear) carries a revolver instead of a modern service weapon (P99).
A bit “old school, a bit used, but still in good shape”. In contrast to the changing vintage cars, which according to Bär “often don’t even see the end of a rotation of the engine”. Not only people die in the Cologne crime scene. “Our cars are also dying,” says Bär.
Since the premiere episode “Welcome to Cologne” (October 5, 1997) and 84 episodes later, Bär and the trained mining mechanic Klaus J. Behrendt have been on the same path.
Behrendt (’92 to ’94 previously crime scene assistant Ballauf in Düsseldorf) suggested his buddy for the equal investigative role. Condition: “Same coal, same contracts.” That still applies today.
“But we’re always open to something new, and have already cooperated with other Tatort teams. By the way, I really like the interaction. As a BVB fan, I often defended my colleagues from the Dortmund team against criticism in the Westfalenstadion when they started out.”
And further: “We have something down-to-earth here in Cologne. Honest as a currywurst. We remain the detective normals.”
And even longer. According to BILD am SONNTAG information, the investigators’ contracts have been extended again. I died crime scene-Mark “100” a goal?
Bär: “If you want to see us as a silverback, then we’ll play. The vintage cars in our cases are also timelessly popular. And as long as fans come up to us and say, ‘Thanks for the regular Tatort episodes,’ we haven’t done that much wrong.”
This article comes from BILD am SONNTAG. The ePaper of the entire issue is available here.