Sunday thriller: Franken- “crime scene”: Felix Voss reaches its limits

He looked like a really nice guy. Friends, neighbors and his mother describe him as friendly, helpful, almost sacrificing. But behind the harmless facade of the Nuremberg bicycle dealers Andreas Schönfeld a dark secret. In the eleventh “crime scene” of Franconia, the investigators are gradually on track.

After the summer break, the crime series starts with an exciting and at the same time tragic case, in which the dividing lines between good and evil, perpetrators and victims blur. The first shows the episode “I see you” on Sunday (September 14th) at 8:15 p.m.

Felix Voss alone, without Paula Ringelhahn

For loyal “crime scene” fans, this episode is a cut: the investigation is main commissioner Felix Voss (Fabian Hinrichs) after the exit from Dagmar Manzel as his colleague Paula Ringelhahn for the first time. Not everything runs smoothly, he seems overwhelmed at times, reacts too late and in the end finds himself tied up on the floor.

The fact that the new case Felix Voss puts its limits can be guessed at the beginning. Then the commissioner falls in the shower in the morning and injures his shoulder. Because he can no longer move his arm, his boss provides him with the archivist Fred (Sigi Zimmerschied), which is just before the pension. At first mulse and bureaucratically slow, it later turns out to be surprisingly than the rescue.

A murder destroys many lives

As always, Felix Voss also gets support from Wanda Goldwasser (Eli Wasserscheid), who previously took on a supporting role at the “Franconia” crime scene and is now getting more to the fore. Nevertheless, Felix Voss is traveling alone most of the time to speak to witnesses.

The “Franken” crime scene produced by Bavarian Radio shows how the violent death of a person can and has been loyal to destroy a lot of life for many years.

People are in the foreground

“Investigation and police work are the job for all crime series,” says director Max Färberböck. But the Franconian “crime scene” is different. “Not narrative patterns, but people are very far ahead. Her laughter, her fear, her meanness, her hope, her again and again.”

So the stumbling from Felix Voss, getting used to the new role in the team, fits into the picture. In the “Franken” crime scene, the investigators and their sensitivities are not the focus, but the human disaster around them walks past them without a trace.

Towards the end of the film, Felix Voss interrogates the alleged murderer of the bicycle dealer – and then struggles with his job. Since someone is sitting in front of him who had a real reason, and then lies so bad that he will convict him, the investigator says to his colleague Goldwasser. “This is our job. We have to get it, we’ll get him. That sucks.”

What the films made up are nuances and nuances, said Fabian Hinrichs recently during the shooting of the next “crime scene”, which is to be broadcast in autumn 2026. After the farewell to Dagmar Manzel after ten common “crime scene” years, he didn’t even think about stopping. “I think these are special films and there was no reason for me at all.”

New colleague brings a breath of fresh air

Incidentally, Felix Voss does not stay long alone. Already in the next “crime scene” the rather reserved North German with the energetic chief crime commissioner Emilia Rathgeber from Upper Bavaria, played by Rosalie Thomass, a new colleague. “This is very lively and very different per se,” said Hinrichs to the figure constellation. This also brings a nice development for Felix Voss, he thinks. Because now he is the older one in the investigator duo.