Claudia Michelsen has been enhancing the TV landscape for some time now with roles that allow her to explore great emotional depths. In 2008, this can be seen in her successful character study of a Stasi victim who falls in love with her tormenter in "12 heißt: Ich liebe dich" ("12 means: I love you"). The jury: "It is truly masterful the way Claudia Michelsen presents a state of emergency, which can breed love as easily as it can breed hate."