The fifth commandment (radio play)
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| Radio play from Germany | |
| original language | German |
| Year of production | 2010 |
| publication | May 12, 2010 |
| genre | Thriller |
| Duration | 55 min |
| production | Radio Bremen / ARD |
| Contributors | |
| author | John von Düffel |
| Machining | Holger Rink |
| Director | Christiane Ohaus |
| music | Christoph Grund |
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The fifth commandment is a Kriminalhörspiel from the series of radio crime scene . The original text comes from John von Düffel , who has already written the script for several radio crime scenes for Radio Bremen around the Bremen investigator duo Chief Inspector Claudia Evernich and her assistant Claas Berding and the accompanying public prosecutor Dr. Kurt Gröninger delivered. The Fifth Commandment was first broadcast publicly on May 12, 2010. In the audible of the Neues Schauspielhaus Bremen there was a preview in the presence of the author on May 8, 2010. In addition to the main actors, the following well-known speakers and actors appeared in it: Samuel Weiss , Dietmar Mues , Gustav Peter Wöhler and Wilfried Dziallas .
The present 29th case of the entire series and third case of the Bremen crime scene revolves around the supposedly literal execution of a dealer and junkie on the street in the Huckelriede district with a baseball bat . What started out as a long-planned act of revenge of a former victim, then such a statement as drug dealers looks, turns out finally as the crime of passion and vigilantism a repeated burglary victim.
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Public Prosecutor Dr. Kurt Gröninger is called to a crime scene early in the morning from an embarrassing situation: a police patrol stopped him as an alleged bicycle thief because he was on two wheels. Here, the of had Bremerhaven as commuters traveling Gröninger only at the station regained his previously stolen Believed Erstrad and now no identity papers there. At the crime scene in Kochstrasse, the investigators are confronted with a drastic bloody act. The male victim was far from a Kiosk with handcuffs to a lamppost chained and according to the first findings of forensic with the "classic", a baseball bat , killed. Found early in the morning by the newspaper messenger, the man had been dead for hours. According to his identification documents , he was the dealer and junkie Stephan Haller, who had only recently been released from the prison after eight years of imprisonment after supposedly good conduct .
Haller had been sitting there for serious assault and rape , because he had brutally abused the former star star and background singer Sandy Schröder during a drug party. Their friend at the time, the - quote from Claas Berding - "Bremen's answer to DJ Bobo ", Mickey Baretta, had physically attacked and threatened the dealer in the courtroom because he had destroyed both lives. Because the already alcoholic singer broke up both emotionally and in his career because of the separation from his girlfriend. This means that the police officers have at least one suspect, since Haller had only been sentenced for 10 years and six months instead of the originally required twelve years and was now released after eight years.
While Evernich and Berding go to the nearby apartment of the dead man, Gröninger investigates on his own in the direction of Baretta. In doing so, he comes across an outwardly purified Baretta, who seems to have succeeded in withdrawal and has found his hold in faith. Even the pastor of his congregation, Gregorius, campaigns personally for the singer in the presidium and warns the irritated public prosecutor that you can lose a soul.
Evernich and Berding, on the other hand, are initially stopped by the curious neighbor, Ms. Röttgen, who she wants to write down as they park in the driveway. In doing so, it turns out to be a potential source, as it constantly notes down all the car license plates of the illegal parkers. In addition, the police found a kilo of pure heroin in the apartment , which after the stretch should have a street sales value of 100,000 euros, and a larger sum of money. Haller was by no means re-socialized, so that the group of suspects has expanded, especially since the later control of the fingerprints found on the banknotes yielded interesting hits at the Federal Criminal Police Office : On the one hand, a drug dealer who was still in prison and, on the other hand, the "gray eminence" of the Bremen drug trade, which has never been done before vulnerable Jo Schultz. Or was the act a dispute between the supplier and the street vendor? Gröninger in particular objects that Haller's murder is hardly logical if the heroin is still in the apartment at the same time. But Evernich brushes the objection aside, since criminals of this type would rarely proceed logically.
But the manhunt soon focuses on Baretta again, whose nerves seem noticeably shattered and who recently relapsed in his drug use. Because a .357 Magnum is found well hidden in the bed box in his apartment . He was then placed in custody. A failed suicide attempt is seen as a confession, especially since Baretta takes the blame for Haller's death without being able to credibly describe the course of events. Gröninger in particular has pronounced doubts about this admission, as Baretta “almost yearns for penance”.
Since forensics found an unopened six-pack of beer and cigarettes in the immediate vicinity of the crime scene , the officials speculate whether Haller “served himself” at the kiosk that had been attacked eight times shortly before his death. The questioning of the owner, the Moroccan Said Alami, does not seem to reveal anything, except his indignation at the frequent break-ins, against which the police did nothing and which his insurance no longer supports. When the officers were about to break off the questioning, Gröninger asked for gummy bears, whereupon Alami reluctantly opened the closed kiosk. Berding found fresh traces of burglary and Gröninger surprisingly saw pepper spray in the range .
He only reveals the latter discovery to Evernich and Berding at the Presidium. A baseball bat and handcuffs would only be missing as a self-defense instrument for an angry kiosk owner. When they get back to the kiosk, Alami has holed up in the kiosk, complains about the apathy of the authorities, “although one is in Germany, law and order must prevail here” and ultimately collapses with a confession.
He had caught Haller breaking into the house, who wanted to leave it unmoved. Then he went nuts with the baseball bat. But Haller was still alive after the blows, although the last blow broke his left temporal lobe. When he became aware of what he had done, he wanted to drive him to the hospital in his car, but the car did not start. So he put him next to the lantern. But Haller kept crawling out onto the street. To prevent this from happening, he was said to have handcuffed him to the lantern while sitting upright and waited for someone to come by. Finally someone came, but he just sat down next to Haller and talked to him. The officials guess that it was Baretta, who spoke to the dying person with quotations from the Bible and felt complicit in the act.
For the first time Evernich praises Gröninger because he now “thinks like a policeman”, but this is also indirectly due to her. There is only a happy ending for Mickey Baretta, as Sandy Schröder found his way back to him in the face of his suicide attempt.
background
For the first time, the author John von Düffel did not make an open reference to a current case such as The Invisible Woman and Scream of the Geese and, in contrast to the previous "open ends", closed the case consistently. When asked about this, von Düffel said: “First of all, I didn't want to risk the Bremen police arresting me for defamation at some point. And secondly, there was from the actors to the massive desire that their characters sometimes have success and not always fail. "However, he had the police consultant, Jan Arnold, of a comparable case of vigilante justice told the him to the radio play had suggested . In reality, however, it only ended with a few bumps for the burglar after the kiosk owner, "left alone" by the police, lay in wait with a baseball bat in his shop. The role of the hit pop star was borrowed from fate Mickey Rourke , whose wife was raped while intoxicated with heroin. Rourke was dissuaded from his desire for vigilante justice by a priest in a 24-hour conversation.
About Gröninger's private life, one learns that even after more than two years he is still commuting between Bremerhaven and Bremen. His frequent problems with bicycle theft and vandalism are discussed here for the first time as a recurring joke and in the following, Who turns around or laughs ... , is taken up again.
In the conversation between Evernich and Berding and the neighbor Ms. Röttgen, two repeated allusions to the TV crime scene are taken up: On Röttgen's "they don't look like police officers at all, they always look different on television" Evernich exclaims "we hear that more often" and a half-loud “The witnesses on television are at least a little good for that.” At least one useful lead comes from Ms. Röttgen, even if it leads in the wrong direction.
The Swiss- born actor Samuel Weiss can come up here as Mickey Baretta, alongside character actor Wilfried Dziallas, as the only speaker with a Bremen accent, as he worked for several years at the Bremen Schauspielhaus. Dziallas appears here again as a simple policeman in a humorous supporting role, similar to that in The Invisible One . He also appeared in other radio crime scenes: in the NDR radio crime scene Death of a Diver , he played police chief Euler in Büsum and in the Schlick case, which belongs to the same series, a simple shopkeeper. Katharina Matz, on the other hand, who embodies the curious neighbor here, spoke in the last radio crime scene in Bremen so far, A clear case , even Evernich's mother. Gustav Peter Wöhler filled the role of ornithologist Karsten Eisler in the aforementioned death of a diver .
The exposure of the radio play leads the listener (un) consciously in the wrong direction, as an (initially anonymous) confessional conversation between Pastor Gregorius and Mickey Baretta is undercut in the introduction with the cries of pain from the beaten up Haller. The confession revolves around the fifth commandment, “you should not kill,” whereupon Baretta says that if it were that important, then it should actually be the first commandment. Hence the title of the radio play. The sacred confessional character of the introduction was taken up by the composer Christoph Grund , so that all interludes were accompanied by organ music.
In the press announcement of some other radio broadcasts, the victim's name was originally incorrectly given as Michael Lorre . The deliverer of the newspaper was also referred to several times as that of the Weser courier ; the radio play version only speaks of a newspaper delivery.
Reviews
- “The third Radiotatort in Bremen is convincing with its well-established team of investigators and a very interesting and original case. This time you can even convince with the big criticisms of the first two episodes: This time the finale does justice to the story. (...) The subject of "vengeance" and "vigilante justice" works very well here, because you are faking a simple process, but the real story is completely different. (...) Overall, a very successful crime scene - the best from Bremen so far and also one of the better in the entire series so far. Friends of good crime entertainment should risk an ear here! "
- “John von Düffel constructs this murder case almost as a detective farce, in which the brisk staging by Christiane Ohaus at least suggests that the investigators' background work is working. One also seems to have fun comparing oneself with the ARD television "Tatort" and the quality of the witnesses there. "
Web links
- The fifth commandment radio crime scene . On: www.ard.de/radio/radiotatort/die-faelle/. Accessed November 13, 2012.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d press release: The ARD radio crime scene: The fifth commandment. On: www.radiobremen.de. April 6, 2010. Accessed November 13, 2012.
- ↑ Audible. The fifth commandment. On: taz.de. May 8, 2010. Accessed November 13, 2012.
- ↑ programm.ard.de
- ↑ Making of The Fifth Commandment. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On: www.ard.de/radio/radiotatort/die-faelle/. Accessed November 13, 2012.
- ↑ “A big point of criticism in terms of taste was the end in the last Evernich case. At that time you could still excuse it as 'original'. Also in this episode there is no satisfactory finale. That would be fine in and of itself. However, since two out of two cases come with a similar ending, one can attest to the fact that there is apparently no great interest in rounding out the story. (…). “In: www.hoerspieleipps.net - Radiotatort 17 - The Invisible ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Accessed November 14, 2012.
- ↑ www.hoerspieleipps.net - Radiotatort 5 - Schrei der Gänse ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Accessed October 18, 2012.
- ↑ Carsten Klook: Radio play: Is that exciting now? Our author is a "Tatort" fan. The thrillers are now also available on CD! With sweets up on the sofa for the first hearing test In: Die Zeit . January 15, 2009. Accessed October 18, 2012.
- ↑ See the Ten Commandments .
- ↑ a b The fifth commandment by John von Düffel . On: www.ndr.de. May 15, 2010. Accessed November 13, 2012.
- ↑ The fifth commandment Radio-Tatort ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On: www.ard.de/radio/radiotatort/die-faelle/. Accessed November 13, 2012.
- ↑ www.hoerspieleipps.net - Radiotatort 26 - The Fifth Commandment ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Accessed November 12, 2012.
- ^ Waldemar Schmid: Serious problem. John von Düffel: The fifth commandment. "ARD Radio Tatort" series, radio / criticism ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On: radio correspondence. Accessed November 13, 2012.
