Ultimately, the investigators convict her of a lie: Tanja Zietmann, friend of the two victims in the “crime scene” from Dortmund. Did she look familiar to you?
In Dortmund’s “Tatort: Love is Pain” she covers up for her murdered friends – and thus herself. Ultimately, the murderer is also after her to avenge his friend, for whose health Tanja and her buddies are responsible. It’s quite possible that you – especially as crime fans – knew the face of the kiosk seller.
Johanna Polley played the role of Tanja Zietmann. In 2021, the now 30-year-old was seen in two public television crime thrillers in one weekend. On Saturdays she played in “Herr und Frau Bulle” on ZDF and on Sundays in the Black Forest “Tatort” on the first. Both times as a murderess. And further appearances in various thrillers are added for Polley.
From 2017 to 2020 she had a permanent role in the ZDF series “Der Kriminalist”, which has since been discontinued. As Vera Kleinefeldt, she investigated alongside Bruno Schumann (Christian Berkel).
In 2020, Polley starred in other crime formats: in one episode “Großstadtrevier”, in “Police call 110: Death of a dead person” and in “Usedom crime thriller: Pain threshold”. With the already mentioned “Tatort” episodes from Dortmund and the Black Forest, Polley appeared three times in the Sunday evening crime series. In 2021 she was also seen in the Bremen case “Neuborn”.
This year, Polley took on a role in the new ARD Thursday crime thriller “Tod am Rennsteig – An Eye for an Eye”. Only at Easter did she appear in the Berlin double “crime scene: “Nothing but the truth”.
“Make sure my roles aren’t too cliche”
When Polley is not in front of the camera, she supports the ProQuote Film association, which advocates for a higher proportion of women in film productions. That’s important to the actress, as she said to the German Press Agency in 2021: “Of course I make sure that my roles aren’t too much of a cliché now, even if you can’t always counteract that.”
She thinks the change in the industry is good, “that women’s roles then have a job and are not just related to someone, usually someone male”. When asked about characters she would like to play, Polley cites someone like mathematician Ada Lovelace, who is credited with being the world’s first computer programmer. “I think that’s cool,” she says. Polley also supports the Filmmakers for Future group and Bündnis 90/Die Grünen.
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