Ronald Zehrfeld is again investigating Dengler as a ZDF investigator. The case: a baby is bitten by a rat in the nursery at night – what’s behind it? A criminal Berlin investor?
Berlin – What a horror: criminals abandon rats in a block of flats, a baby is bitten in the nursery at night and loses a finger.
With the rats, the tenants are obviously intended to be intimidated and displaced so that an investor can have an easy time building expensive apartments. Or is there something else behind it?
The Berlin housing market is so competitive that the rat scene in the ZDF crime thriller “Dengler – Kreuzberg Blues” (November 22nd, 8:15 pm) in 2021 does not seem completely out of thin air. The majority of Berliners has just ticked “yes” in the referendum on the expropriation of large housing companies.
Crime author Wolfgang Schorlau has often found explosive topics for his Stuttgart private detective Georg Dengler, such as factory farming, the Oktoberfest attack or the NSU series of murders. The new ZDF crime thriller with Ronald Zehrfeld as Dengler and Birgit Minichmayr as Dengler’s friend Olga is about the dark side of the real estate industry.
Olga brings Dengler from Swabia to Berlin. Her friend Ezra (Seyneb Saleh) is the mother of the baby that was bitten. But Jan Kröger’s (Peter Trabner) real estate company doesn’t want to have anything to do with it. Kröger hires Dengler to solve the case. He doesn’t need bad press. He’s hoping to do business with a hedge fund.
The tenants from the block of flats at Kottbusser Tor are raving when Kröger faces a residents’ meeting: “Piss off, speculator!” But is the investor just a rascal and not a criminal? Until the case is solved, Dengler has to face a lot – right up to the fire roller in the basement.
Sabin Tambrea (“Ku’damm 56”), one of the most interesting actors of his generation, plays a seedy lawyer, Winfried Glatzeder an old left Kreuzberg. Lars Kraume (“The State Against Fritz Bauer”) wrote the book for this solid ZDF crime thriller, the sixth in the Dengler series. Directed by Daniel Rübesam.
According to ZDF, Zehrfeld said of the crime thriller: “Of course I also observe how entire districts in Berlin are changing. Old buildings are being replaced by new ones, and old and new do not always work well together. ”The authenticity of some neighborhoods is lost if long-established pubs or shops are replaced by new buildings. “Berlin is becoming priceless for many, a topic that is also being discussed in my environment.”
According to ZDF, author Wolfgang Schorlau (like many others) identified a problem in Berlin that years ago the city sold thousands of apartments to hedge funds, from today’s perspective at low prices. “The Senate gave the apartments away to the financial industry. To reverse this is the order of the day. ”Dpa
