Munich: “Polizeiruf 110” – Real police examined the charred corpse on the film set

Munich. In the first-place TV crime drama ‘Polizeiruf 110’, only the actors Johanna Wokalek and Stephan Zinner investigate as detectives from the Munich police – but during the filming of the current episode ‘Funkensommer’ the real police started investigating. Detectives followed up on a tip about the body of a burned person, as Munich police confirmed on Monday. However, the supposed dead person was a doll.

The episode, which aired on Sunday, centers on a charred body found in a burned-out house. For the recordings in May last year, employees prepared a realistic puppet, as the Bayerischer Rundfunk announced. In the story, actress Wokalek had to look at photos of the victim in the office. To have these printed, the production prop master turned to a drugstore. When he went to pick up the photos the next day, the police were waiting for him, investigating a suspected murder. Store employees alerted officers.

To clarify the matter, the prop master took the investigators to the film set in Ottobrunn. There, director Alexander Adolph confirmed that no one had lost their lives as a result of the gruesome sight.

RND/dpa