Sherlock Holmes, the new cases, 15 cases

I'm looking for one or two new favorite serials and have in this way the first time ever in the "new cases" the master detective Sherlock Holmes (Romantruhe) into part. Of course I wanted to know what audible content is hiding behind the covers with the still very unusual, but also creative character style ......

There are two things that I noticed this:

Firstly, it is here indeed a very exciting adventure story almost feature length (over 80 minutes): a night train with 13 coffins, an ominous passenger, wolf howling in the bog of Devonshire and a truly thrilling finale in Baskerville Hall!
Memories of the TV classic "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1959) with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee made me anyway.
The play itself is in all respects (dialogues, speakers, sound etc) implemented positively.
As adventure radio play, mind you!

Because there is a second point, and now concerns me as a beginner:
Similar to the bizarre cover I was surprised at the performance of Christian Rode as Sherlock Holmes. Just as it appears and speaks, I would never have imagined a Sherlock Holmes, actually: so dynamic, almost energetic, properly theatrical!

I was curious and googled Christian Rode. Incredibly, even Wikipedia has to have prescribed for him. He was born in 1936, already turned 1960 his first feature film, and since the 1970s, working as a radio speaker. That is, I must say, unbelievable again. He looks a good 30 years younger!

And I want to make a comparison: In my previous favorite series "John Sinclair" has (unfortunately!) Well-known as top spokesman Joachim Kerzel (born 1941), Wolfgang Grapefruit (born 1945) and Frank Glaubrecht (born 1943) replaced by younger. Thus, the series has lost much of its real flair, of their nature.

But back to Christian Rode: He is impulsive, he can speak almost all the roles. Just for the character of Sherlock Holmes, he's too briskly to ballsy, too impetuous. For me as Ersthörer this series which is very used to. And I also want to restrict fair to say that I do not exactly know how exactly Sherlock Holmes has appeared in the original novels. Perhaps just Christian Rode of this right performer. Even he himself as Holmes already (s) a core audience. I have investigated: In earlier 60 style marine radio plays, he embodied already the Sherlock Holmes and Peter Groeger incidentally the Dr. Watson. And even under the current label Romantruhe least fifteen new cases were produced between October of 2012 and November 2014.

So far, so good: A class- radio play, a class keynote speaker, the people love to hear (the other speakers are included), but just in this combination it does not convince me (!) (!) (!). It is a very good adventure radio play for me, but not in the sense of a Sherlock Holmes detective piece. Therefore - despite all the excitement and entertainment - (even) 4 stars.