While performing his first professional directing gig on the RTL transmitted legal series, "Staatsanwalt Posch ermittelt," he was asked to take a role in an upcoming pair of episodes as the boyfriend of Andrea Suwa, one of the series leads, who had seven years earlier played his older sister on the popular German soap, "Verbotene Liebe." The resulting publicity of their reunion - not to mention the romantic nature of their characterizations - resulted in the highest ratings yet for the show.