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“Tatort” Commissioner Ulrike Folkerts: “It takes role models and visibility”

The actress Ulrike Folkerts came out as a lesbian in 1999. Now the “Tatort” commissioner has written an autobiography. In the SN interview, she talks about her childhood, her fame and her desired role in “Jedermann”.


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Ulrike Folkerts alias Lena Odenthal in action: Scene from the “Tatort” episode “The Evil King”.

She has played the chief inspector Lena Odenthal in “Tatort” since 1989 – that is the longest “period of service” in the popular crime series. On Sunday (ORF 2, ARD, 8:15 pm) the 59-year-old Ulrike Folkerts can be seen in the episode “Der böse König”. Her autobiography “Ich muss raus” will be published on Monday.

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