Anniversary season started: “A case for two”: Antoine Monot and Wanja Mues rehearse in the restaurant

In May 2014, the first season of the new edition of the popular crime series “Ein Fall für zwei” began on ZDF. From then on, Wanja Mues (50) as private detective Leo Oswald and Antoine Monot (49) as lawyer Benjamin Hornberg became the main actors in the new edition of the television series, which was realized from 1981 to 2013 with Claus Theo Gärtner (81) as Josef Matula.

Big shoes have long since been filled

“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 been filling since filming began in 2013. But it is also a “great opportunity”.

At a certain point, they consciously stopped thinking about the footsteps and instead “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 long.” “Ten years have passed,” the German-Swiss actor sums up.

Joint rehearsals in the guesthouse

The crime cases are filmed in and around the Hessian capital Frankfurt am Main. This is also where the two 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 begins by praising his colleague. He then explained: “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 notes.

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, adding: “My father used to call me that because a lot of people said: ‘I’m a visual copy of my father.’ That had become established at some point,” and he integrated it into the name, “but now I’m leaving it out again.”

What can viewers expect in the anniversary season?

Four new crime adventures await fans. It all begins with the broadcast of the episode “Showbiz” this Friday evening at 8:15 p.m. on ZDF: A rapper is suspected of having killed his sister…

The next Fridays will see “Divided” (September 20), “The Last Delivery” (September 27) and “Disappeared Without a Trace” (October 4).

By (ki/spot)