If anyone clicks on this topic, you are invited to let your imagination run free.
I, for one, have some ideas for a story-line and a new love-interest for Carla. I'm really nervous about it because I don't know how to craft a whole story or write dialogue. I also have absolutely no chronological sense; to me a decade can go by before I recognize a distinct passage of time! Then I awake as if ten years was a yesterday. Weird!
So my story will be weak in these areas, and fail at continuity.
I'll try to put it up here because I have no shame (until I'm caught!)
Plot: There have been one or two attempts on Ansgar's life by a person or persons unknown. He suffers no serious injuries just yet, as I don't want him to garner any strong sympathy. However, I'd like to see him sporting a black-eye or other image-impairing injury. It's just the devil in me!
Well, in comes this stunning representative of the local constabulary--Detective Marie-Elise Schwarzenbach, played by Ulrike Folkerts.
The 50 year old Folkerts, is an accomplished actress and graduate of the Hochschule School of Music and Theatre. From 1989 she has played Commissioner Lena Odenthal in 40 episodes of the continuing crime scene series
Tatort. (I will link to her beauteous characterizations at the end of this thread. I have no idea how to embed photos or videos!).
Ulrike ended a
15 year relationship with Astrid Stenzel in 2004, and has entered a new one with co-author Katharina Schnitzel. She is a humanitarian, a winner of medals in swimming at Gay and Euro-games.
I suspect she is spectacularly overqualified for The Incredible Lightness of Meaning that is the soap opera, but who cares? That's why fantasists exist, to protect the foolish from transferring their fevered imaginings to the real world!
Some pictures of Odenthal may make one think of androgyne lesbianism, however, Folkerts thinks playing Odenthal as a lesbian would distract from the Tatort storyline. Ha! On our show mit Carla, that
is the story-line!
However, in honor of her resistance I will cast my Odenthal-like character as Schwarzenbach and later make an historical point with that name.
Do Carla and the Detective have anything in common?
Yes, they are both single-mothers. The Detective's wife is dead! I can't figure-out why yet. Killed in line of fire against D (the detective), dead via childbirth, fell off the love-boat---we'll see. Her son's name is Billi--he is either an adopted child as a result of D's lover's work with Burundikid.eV, or a result of artificial insemination---
without Lars!
D. may have a police-partner, like Kopper in the Tatort series. If she does, then he and her co-workers sometimes call her Doc. Why? Because she gives 'prescriptions.' That's there joke for her advice-giving---or maybe not---hmmmm
Some of the following conversations take place before or after The Detective and Carla become friends. And probably after Carla is no longer a suspect. Aha! I haven't figured-out how they become friends or lovers, yet. Just scenes of them already being transported to those places in the story.
Doc wonders why Carla doesn't seem to have a circle of friends, seeming instead to prefer frequenting bars for pick-ups.
D: You make yourself vulnerable when you wait for love to come to you-- by accident--through your family and straight friends.
C: I'm not looking for love--lovers leave.
D: Well, I can't debate the point. Work must be done. I do it. I don't ask why me anymore.
C: I do the same. I was saddened by the loss of one love, angered by the loss of the other.
I lost a kind of innocence when Hanna sickened--then died--and there was nothing I could do--no amount of money, no amount of love could stave-off death. I was helpless.
D: But you loved again. Pain didn't destroy you; it must have made you stronger.
C: It did in a way. I'd been afraid of losing my father's love--it made me strong enough to face that rejection. I'd sacrificed so much of our relationship out of fear. I was determined not to surrender love to cowardice again.
D: You must have surrendered it to something. It's gone.
C: (hurt, angry) That's unfair!
D: I'm sorry. But, you know, sometimes we build walls where doors should be.
C: Oh? And sometimes we look at mirrors as though they were windows!
[Now, really I should end this exchange right here! But do I!? Oh no, I get us deeper into the muck. . .Well, these remarks are expendable or transferrable.]
D: Well, one thing I've learned about rigidity. You find it in corpses.
C: You think anger at my wife's betrayal has made me rigid?
D: You learned from Hanna's death not to trade cowardice for love. . .
C:
Life didn't betray me! I couldn't do anything about death--
D: I'm being hard---I'm a cop, not a therapist.
C: You could have fooled me!
D: But then, analysis is a detective's speciality.
C: Then investigate, don't psychoanalyze!
D: Then I've destroyed out fledging friendship already? (a smile)
C: (frustrated) it's just that you seem to think I am supposed to have learned some lesson by losing Susanne---
D: I know. I didn't know Hanna or Susanne--I don't really know you--but you are strong and you seem so game--I think you are surrendering again--in some way.
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The Detective and her partner have met Carla von Lahnstein. In their car the partner--Weiss says:
She's a lesbian!
D: So what is that to me?
W: And you're single. . .
D: Weiss, I don't live on a desert island surrounded by heterosexual sharks---I have a lesbian friends, a social life.
W: And she's beautiful--
D: Jesus, Weiss!
W: Where's your romance, doc? Lovely, available, rich--ready to be swept-up into heavenly . . . (laughing)
D: Romance is an illusion that calls itself love. Please, spare me the poetry, Weiss!
W: Why because you're afraid of sentiment?
D: No, because you're no good at it!
(They both laugh)
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The lustrous Ulrike on JBK in 2005--Pt. 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge33veEWYHM&feature=channel
Her rather non-femish appearance
Ulrike Folkerts - in Tatort - Gewaltfieber (2001)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yStqJSXlfE&feature=PlayList&p=DCC5E073DC40939D&index=29
Her capacity to defend Carla and smash evil-doers in Die Liebwachterin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygi1XCIImnc&feature=related
And an exception to the "no distraction" rule--a kiss as Lena!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJEPiD7yMag&feature=related
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Well, I'm tired now. Macduff has laid on. I sure hope someone comes here and creates their own stories For the Love of Carla.
I'll add some more unbelievably inappropriate dialogue another time. I mean, really, if this kind of dialogue went on on VL, millions would tune-out simultaneously.
CH