Crime thriller from Franconia
“Take care, my big one”: Dagmar Manzel’s farewell to the “Tatort” pension
Dagmar Manzel in her last “crime scene” from Franconia
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Actress Dagmar Manzel is quitting as “Tatort” detective Paula Ringelhahn after ten years. As a farewell, there was a case with six dead bodies and a crying colleague.
At least she’s still alive. After the recent dramatic “Tatort” exits, the farewell to Dagmar Manzel as Franconian investigator Paula Ringelhahn was comparatively mild. Their Frankfurt colleagues Anna Janneke (Margarita Broich) and Paul Brix (Wolfram Koch) were blown up in a car bomb the previous week. At the beginning of the year, Hamburg inspector Julia Grosz (Franziska Weisz) bled miserably to death in a side street. The Berlin investigator Nina Rubin (Meret Becker) and Martina Bönisch (Anna Schudt) from the Dortmund team died in action in 2022 as a result of an exchange of fire.
Dagmar Manzel simply sent her chief inspector Paula Ringelhahn into retirement. As a farewell, she quietly sang “The Sound of Silence” by Simon & Garfunkel. As determined as she often investigated, her departure was just as consistent. “I don’t want to, I have to. That’s the rule after all,” she said in one scene. She kept the fact that she was leaving a secret for months – even from her team partner Felix Voss (Fabian Hinrichs). The sight of the farewell flowers brought tears to his eyes.
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After all, with Paula Ringelhahn he is not only losing a long-time colleague, but also a good friend and yes, perhaps something like a mother figure. When she whispered farewell to him: “Take care, my big one,” it had something of a mother letting her son loose into the world. She taught him everything, now he has to manage on his own. Ringelhahn was definitely a mentor for Voss. “If I learned anything about this profession, it was from you,” was his conclusion.
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In the next “Tatort” from Franconia, which will be filmed this year and broadcast in 2025, Felix Voss will initially investigate alone. The responsible broadcaster BR wants to decide in peace and quiet who should succeed Dagmar Manzel and announce it in due course. Actor Fabian Hinrichs is relaxed about a possible replacement. “I can imagine a lot of things. At first I don’t care whether it’s a man, a woman, young, old or nobody. What’s important is what cinematic world is created,” he told the German Press Agency. And: It’s unlikely that his film character Felix Voss will say goodbye any time soon. “I love it,” enthuses Hinrichs about his role as chief inspector. Maybe there will be fewer corpses in his first solo “crime scene” than the six dead in Dagmar Manzel’s farewell case.
