Overview

• The feature, titled “Die Nichte des Polizisten,” is now streaming on the ARD Mediathek and is scheduled to air on Das Erste on Wednesday, October 8 at 20:15.
• Director Dustin Loose contends the 2007 shooting was a deliberate public execution signaling broader right-wing structures, countering the dominant ‘random victim’ narrative.
• The Bundeskriminalamt reports no evidence of any prior relationship between Michèle Kiesewetter and the suspected NSU members, and the Bundesanwaltschaft classifies her and her injured colleague as random targets.
• The film opens with a disclaimer that it is fictional yet draws on real gaps and documented facts to interrogate unresolved aspects of the case.
• The dramatization reimagines the victim as Rebecca Henselmann and explores alleged right-wing tendencies within policing and links stretching from Thuringia to Heilbronn.