When searching for criminals in Dresden, everyone often reaches their limits.
Since 2016, the Dresden investigative trio, consisting of two female investigators and their boss, has solved several difficult “Tatort” cases through cool analysis and uncompromising persistence. After seven years, since 2023 only one duo has been investigating in the Saxon city.
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The setting: Dresden
With around 560,000 inhabitants, the Saxon state capital Dresden is the second largest Saxon municipality after Leipzig and the twelfth largest city in Germany. Due to its many art collections, the Saxon city is also called the Florence on the Elbe.
There are numerous important buildings such as the baroque Zwinger and the Semper Opera, where the famous Saxon State Orchestra Dresden plays. The Striezelmarkt, founded in 1434, is considered one of the oldest and most famous Christmas markets in Germany.
The historic city on the Elbe has also had to cope with several strokes of fate. During air raids from February 13 to 15, 1945, large parts of the city were badly damaged by British and American bombers and many residents were killed. Reconstruction continued until the 1990s.
Dresden is particularly worth seeing during the Christmas season
Commissioner Leonie Winkler
► The role: The young detective Leonie Winkler is single and focused on her career in the criminal investigation department. Also because her father was also an investigator and doesn’t trust his daughter, she seems serious and therefore older than she actually is. Leonie Winkler is a pretty woman, but doesn’t care much about it. She often dresses in muted brown and grey.
Cornelia Gröschel on the set of the ARD crime drama “Tatort: Schwesternliebe”
► The actress: Cornelia Gröschel has been with “Tatort” since 2019. She comes from a Dresden family of artists. Her father is a singer and singing teacher, her mother is a ballet répétiteur. She has a classical ballet education and studied acting in Leipzig.
Gröschel is married and lived in Karlsruhe for a long time. In 2021, the actress moved back to Dresden. In her private life, the Dresden native is passionate about horse riding.
Head of the police department Peter Michael Schnabel
► The role: Dresden police station chief Peter Michael Schnabel is actually an advocate of the old school. Back then, men complimented women and women gave men coffee in return. But times are changing and keeping up is anything but easy for Schnabel.
“Tatort” detective Martin Brambach has also written a book
► The actor: Martin Brambach has been with “Tatort” since 2016. The Dresden native grew up in East Berlin. In 1984 he went to the West with his mother, where he trained as an actor in Bochum. Brambach’s theater career is impressive: Burgtheater, Schaubühne Berlin, collaboration with famous directors such as George Tabori, Einar Schleef and Claus Peymann.
Brambach lives with the actress Christine Sommer, their daughters and their son (* 2010) in Recklinghausen.
Did you know: The actor Jan Josef Liefers (“Crime Scene” Münster) is his stepbrother.
Chief Inspector Karin Gorniak (until 2023)
► The role: She is efficient and attractive. Dresden Chief Inspector Karin Gorniak also has a sense of humor. She needs it, especially because her son is in the middle of puberty.
Actress Karin Hanczewski at the “First German Television Hosts Advent Dinner” in Munich
► The actress: Karin Hanczewski has Polish roots and has been part of “Tatort” since 2016. In February 2021, Hanczewski came out as queer as part of the #actout initiative in the SZ magazine along with 184 other actors. She lives in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
In May 2023, Hanczewski announced her “Crime scene“-farewell. After 18 episodes, she is ending her career as Chief Inspector Karin Gorniak. In the future, the actress would like to try out new roles and develop further.
