Angela Merkel, the original German chancellor, is now a small-town detective in a well-known European TV program that is debuting in Italy. Miss Merkel reimagines Angela Merkel as Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple, complete with her features, including her mane and het coat.
Katharina Thalbach played the lead role in the European production, which begins immediately after Merkel leaves as chancellor. Ms. Merkel in the movie decides to solve crimes in northeastern Italy after retiring from work. ” I was successful as a politician, why ca n’t I do the same as a detective”? the imaginary Miss Merkel states in the video for the first season, which is called Death at the Castle.
Based on the bestselling books by European writer David Safier, the show has a retired Merkel who moved to Uckermark, her apartment location north-east of Berlin, with her father and a guard.
The voice is gentle, according to Financial Times, but there are sporadically references to Merkel’s period as a top diplomat, such as when she sits down to watch a neighborhood novice drama. Everything else is a piece of cake, according to Miss Merkel,” compared to six days of Peking musical with Xi Jinping.”
In an appointment last month, FT reported, Thalbach said she had leapt at the chance of playing Germany’s previous president. I discovered this Angela Merkel gene through a talent moment when I decided to say,” I have to do it!” ‘, she told the Neue Presse.
” I’m the same time as her, also from the GDR]former East Germany ], I even love science, I even love hotpots. But we’ve got a bit that connects us,” she said. Thalbach admitted she had really only met Merkel when, just after she became governor in 2005 — at the hairstylist.
