Overview

• Die Nichte des Polizisten streams on ARD Mediathek from October 3 and airs on Das Erste on October 8 at 20:15.
• The film centers on a character inspired by the slain officer and follows her into a world of organized crime and right‑wing tendencies in policing, with an opening disclaimer that it is fictional yet draws on the possible, the lost and the forgotten.
• Director Dustin Loose rejects the prevailing random‑victim explanation, describing the killing as a daylight execution and urging closer scrutiny of right‑wing structures.
• The Federal Criminal Police Office reports no indications of any prior relationship between Kiesewetter and NSU members, and federal prosecutors still classify her and her wounded colleague as random victims.
• Kiesewetter’s 2007 death in Heilbronn remains the last and most puzzling murder attributed to the NSU, with the motive still unresolved.