Antoine Monot and Wanja Mues rehearsing in the restaurant

Antoine Monot and Wanja Mues celebrate ten years of “Ein Fall für zwei”. (ili/spot)

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SpotOn News | 13.09.2024, 13:48

For ten years, Wanja Mues and Antoine Monot have been solving exciting criminal cases in and around Frankfurt am Main as private detective Leo Oswald and lawyer Benjamin Hornberg in “Ein Fall für zwei”. In an interview to mark the anniversary, Monot revealed how the two prepare for the filming days.

In May 2014, the first season of the new edition of the popular crime series “Ein Fall für zwei” started on ZFD. The two main actors are Wanja Mues (50) as private detective Leo Oswald and Antoine Monot (49) as lawyer Benjamin Hornberg. It is the new edition of the television series of the same name, which was produced from 1981 to 2013 with Claus Theo Gärtner (81) as Josef Matula, among others.

The big footsteps have long since been caught up

“Yes, of course you have respect for it, because it is also a great responsibility that we were given by ZDF back then,” says Antoine Monot in an interview with the new broadcaster about the big shoes they have to fill since filming in 2013. But it was also a “great opportunity”.

At some point, however, they stopped thinking about their footsteps and “got into action” and “simply started putting one foot in front of the other. And that’s how you start running and racing. And before you know it, ten years have passed,” the German-Swiss actor sums up.

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Joint rehearsals in the restaurant

The crime cases are filmed in and around the Hessian metropolis of Frankfurt am Main. And it is precisely here that the two main actors rehearse their scenes together.

“We have been friends for years and we are always happy to see each other and work together. Wanja is a wonderful colleague,” Monot says enthusiastically about his colleagues. Then he says: “We always meet in the evening after filming and then in Frankfurt we usually go to the same bar and learn lines, prepare the scenes for the next two days – and yes, we always look forward to it and spend a lot of time together.”

Monot also gets excited when he thinks about the filming location. “It’s a small city, but it has incredible wealth thanks to its banks and economy.” As a result, Frankfurt am Main “is like a big city in terms of its cultural and gastronomic offerings – and that’s great, of course,” he says.

In the interview, the actor also explains why he now writes his name without Jr.: “At some point I thought: now you can leave out the ‘Junior’, you’re so old now,” he jokes and says: “My father used to call me that because a lot of people said: ‘It had become established at some point’ and he had incorporated it into the name, ‘but now I’m leaving it out again’.”

topicnews · September 13, 2024

Antoine Monot and Wanja Mues rehearsing in the restaurant

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