Eberhofer on TV: The eternal Stenz

Sometimes you're late. That's how it was for me with the Eberhofer crime novels, the tenth film adaptation of which is currently in cinemas. According to cinema charts, it is currently in third place, behind Spiderman and Odyssey. You can think about that. The films are based on Rita Falk's bestsellers, there are fourteen, so there are enough templates for further cinema hits.

How did I get to Eberhofer? About analogue television! In July I was sitting on a North Sea island, my wife and children were already on their way to bed, I was lounging on the sofa, completely exhausted, and this huge holiday apartment screen was hanging in front of me. And then there was an Eberhofer running. And after a few zapping attempts to escape, I got stuck and was hooked.

Why? Was it nostalgia? For a Bavaria that never existed - and that's why it never goes away? Might be. But actually, as a Schwabinger, I have no experience with Bavarian or other village life. I'm a city dweller like Sebastian Bezzel, who portrays Eberhofer, who doesn't seem to be particularly unhappy that he lives in Hamburg, although he was born in the Oberland.

“Eberhofer crime novels”, in the ARD media library and for a fee, for example on prime

For me, Bezzel is also the key to this film series. Because, unusually for a German production, he is a broken and dazzling figure, a Strizzi.

You just have to like him, the sergeant with the self-made gun and the quick pull of the gun, who has managed for so long not to be driven out of the pigsty of his eternal youth.

And of course you don't have to like him. Because he is someone who lets people love instead of loving himself, a modern Monaco Franze, who also has his contemporary Manni Kopfeck at his side in Simon Schwarz. And when you hear the great Susi (Lisa Maria Potthoff) in the office in Niederkaltenkirchen, you immediately think of the classic “Always the shit with Elli”.

So these are genre characters in the main roles that I know from my childhood. And the actors manage to fill these characters with life. There are discoveries to this - I said I was late; but Daniel Christensen as Ignaz Flözinger is quite a number, especially in the tavern scenes! And the plump old Eisi Gulp as the stoned Eberhofer father is interesting, not least because he is the only one who speaks really clean Bavarian - a Schwabinger, after all!