Farewell as a crime scene commissioner: Axel Milberg felt like teenagers in the first “crime scene”

Actor Axel Milberg perceived the filming for the NDR “crime scene” in his birthplace Kiel as a “strange form of double exposure”. “As someone who was extremely rarely in his hometown after leaving her, suddenly to school, friends or along the water,” said Milberg of the German Press Agency. “Whether I wanted or not – others will know that – I was again the young man at the age of 18, 19 when I left the city.”

On March 16, the first showed the last Kiel “crime scene” with Milberg (“Borowski and the head of the Medusa”). “It was special,” said Milberg. In 2002 he was a proposal to the NDR. From 2003 to early 2024 he regularly stood in front of the camera in 43 episodes for his role as Klaus Borowski in the north. “My wishes, dreams and suggestions were always concrete and reappeared in the stories when they were enriching. The wolf, which silently observed the disappearance of the body, for example.”

Milberg left Kiel after school. “I have to go here, otherwise I will be crazy,” was the thought at the time. “Imagine Kiel in the mid -1970s: there might have been in Hamburg once a year. There were few streets. There were three television programs.”

He didn’t know the actor at the time. “And if so, they thought of James Stewart and Spencer Tracy, but not the heroes from the Kiel Schauspielhaus,” said Milberg. Back then, becoming an actor was a distant dream for him and not the reason to leave the city.

The reason for his departure was the instinct, said Milberg. “I have to go, otherwise I will soon won’t be able to get away and take root here and – that was how it seemed to me – experience a manageable life. I definitely didn’t want that.”

“To a certain extent, all these feelings typed on my shoulder when I shot in Kiel,” said Milberg. That had remained so over the years. “I really enjoyed it, because everything went well for me – life outside of Kiel.”