Crime scene: the wet nurse
Christina Scherrer plays the new assistant
Assistant Meret Schande (Christina Scherrer) in “Tatort: The Nurse”
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The Viennese “Tatort” investigators have a new assistant in Meret Schande. She is embodied by the Austrian Christina Scherrer.
The “Tatort: The Nurse” (March 28th, 8:15 pm, the first) is the second Viennese case with assistant Meret Schande. After her debut in “Tatort: Schock” (2017), she is now a bit bigger with Austro investigators Moritz Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer, 60) and Bibi Fellner (Adele Neuhauser, 62). The successor to assistant Manfred Schimpf alias Thomas Stipsits (37) is embodied by the Austrian actress Christina Scherrer (33).
Christina Scherrer tells in an interview with Erste how she found out about her commitment. “The call from ORF came a year ago at the beginning of January, asking if I could imagine it,” she says. She only really realized the whole thing at the closing ceremony of the “Tatort” filming last summer. There the responsible ORF editor told her, “that the next ‘Tatort’ will be followed by another one in autumn. Of course, I was very happy to be part of the team from now on”.
Her debut in “Tatort: The Wet Nurse” is a bit bumpy on the part of Commissioner Bibi Fellner. What role will the assistant play in the future? “First of all, it is a challenge to join an existing team. Meret is super fresh, she wants to do her job as well as possible and of course she still makes mistakes. She accepts that you will be reprimanded in extreme situations,” she says Christina Scherrer understandingly. Assistant Schande is well armed and knows that it is a backbreaking job that you have to grow into and that leave its mark.
Learn from a real cop
The actress prepared for the role with the help of an acquaintance, among other things. “I am fortunate that my circle of acquaintances includes a former police officer from the ‘WEGA’ special unit, who is called to action in our ‘crime scenes’ over and over again,” says Christina Scherrer. She was able to ask him a few things, which was very exciting and helpful.
But that’s not all. “I would like to do something like a job shadowing. Just be there for a day and watch a day at the police, preferably in the BKA, as an observer,” the actress reveals in an interview.
The other great talent
Christina Scherrer is not only an actress, but also a singer, even dreamed of a career as an opera singer. But this dream quickly burst. “My love for music, especially singing, has remained. Not as a main job, but as a heart project,” she says.