Katharina Thalbach

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22.04.25 I Katharina Thalbach

Miss Merkel. Murder in the Uckermark

Katharina Thalbach has already played the character of the ex-chancellor twice as "Miss Merkel" in the film adaptations of David Safier's wonderfully quirky crime series. Now she returns to the book and reads the best scenes from Safier's first "Miss Merkel" volume.

The Chancellor has been retired for six weeks and has moved to the Uckermark with her husband (and pug!). After a turbulent life in Berlin, however, she finds it difficult to settle down to the quiet country life. Just baking and hiking quickly becomes boring. However, when Baron Philip von Baugenwitz is found poisoned in a castle dungeon that is locked from the inside, Angela is reawakened. Supported by her loving husband and gentle bodyguard Mike, she sets off on a dangerous search for the murderer.
The first two bestsellers "Miss Merkel. Murder in the Uckermark" and "Murder in the Cemetery" by David Safier have already been made into films. Volume 3 "Murder on the High Seas" was published as a book in 2023, the fourth volume "Murder in Therapy" in 2024.

Katharina Thalbach made her breakthrough in the theater at the age of 15 in the role of Polly in the Threepenny Opera at the Berliner Ensemble. Countless theater roles followed and since the end of the 1980s she has also worked as a stage director, for example at the Schillertheater, the Thalia Theater and the Maxim Gorki Theater. She also appears regularly in cinema and television films and has received numerous awards: in 1987 she was awarded the German Film Prize for Best Actress, in 1991 the Konrad Wolf Prize of the Berlin Academy of the Arts; in 1997 she was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize for the television film "Gefährliche Freundin". She is currently acting at the Komödie am Kurfürstendamm alongside her daughter and granddaughter in "Mord im Orientexpress", which she directed herself.
She played the title role in the film adaptation of David Safier's bestselling series "Miss Merkel".