The bull from Tölz: Berlin air

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Episode of the series Der Bulle von Tölz
Original title Berlin air
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Country of production Germany
original language German
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Season 9, episode 5
42nd episode overall ( list )
First broadcast April 2, 2003 on Sat.1
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Director Wolfgang F. Henschel
script Peter Ertel
production Ernst von Theumer junior
music Uli Kümpfel
camera Thomas Schwan
cut Michael Breining
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Berliner Luft is a German television film directed by Wolfgang F. Henschel from 2003 based on a script by Peter Ertel . It is the 42nd episode of the crime series Der Bulle von Tölz with Ottfried Fischer as the main actor in the role of Chief Inspector Benno Berghammer. It was first broadcast on April 2, 2003 on Sat.1 .

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The building contractor Anton Rambold is organizing a tour group consisting of former members of the Tölzer Knabenchor. Resi Berghammer, who is responsible for the physical well-being at the destination, the Bavarian state representative in Berlin, is also there. The official purpose of the event is to bring Bavarian culture closer to the federal capital; in reality, Rambold is hoping for a lucrative building contract.

After the tour group has left, the head of the Bad Tölz city archive appears in the police station and wants to report a burglary. The most likely option is a woman dressed in black and veiled who visited the archive shortly before the break-in and probably explored it. Since police officer Anton Pfeiffer is at a congress of the police union in Berlin, Benno Berghammer declares that he is ready to forward the matter to the burglary department. But before he can take the first steps, the inspector learns that policeman Pfeiffer was found drunk next to a strangled corpse in the Berlin hotel and arrested on suspicion of murder. The victim is Ulla Kleinecke, an employee of the building contractor Rambold, who came to Bad Tölz from the GDR in 1989. Until then she had been the secretary of a Mr. Bordirsky.

Since he does not trust his colleague Pfeiffer to commit murder and Superintendent Kruse is convinced that he has arrested the perpetrator, Benno Berghammer goes to Berlin to investigate on his own with colleague Sabrina Lorenz.

Kruse forbids any kind of interference, but does not pursue any further leads. Berghammer learns from the chambermaid Irina that she has seen someone bring the nearly unconscious police officer Pfeiffer into the victim's room. He also finds out that the victim had a daughter and goes to see her in Köpenick. But since he is not allowed to investigate by the police in Berlin, he comes across a wall of silence with daughter Gabriele and her friend Stefan Kastenbauer. The latter catch Benno Berghammer and Sabrina Lorenz trying to sell old documents a little later and get him to confess the break-in together with his girlfriend in Bad Tölz, as this gives him an alibi for the murder. He claims to have received the order to break in from Ulla Kleinecke, who approached Pfeiffer to have an alibi for this act.

Benno Berghammer meets the pretty art historian Dr. Know Beatrice Schinkel and shows her the Bad Tölz advertising poster. A spark jumps between the two and they arrange to meet for Rambold's reception. There, the building contractor learned from the Bundestag member Hans Meidenbauer that the ministerial official Bordirsky, responsible for awarding public construction contracts, had already decided weeks ago in favor of a competitor, namely a company in which Bordirsky himself holds a stake.

Bordirsky, who is also an art and antiques dealer, lives in a villa in Wannsee . Berghammer and Lorenz drive there and surprise the housekeeper, Ms. Strack, with the direct question about the documents from Bad Tölz and threaten serious consequences if she does not cooperate. Bordirsky comes home and wants to throw the commissioners out, but they confront him with murder suspicion, which he firmly rejects; he also has an alibi for the time of the crime. On the suspicion of stolen goods, he testifies that Ulla Kleinecke asked him for an expertise. He shows the Bavarian inspectors the documents from the Bad Tölz city archive, but does not know the name of the prospective buyer.

Relieved by the quick retrieval of the documents, the two commissioners visit their distraught colleague Pfeiffer in prison, who is now beginning to believe himself to be a murderer. They encourage him to remember the evening he bogged down at the bar with Ulla Kleinecke. He replies that she kept talking about a manatee and a scent can.

The suspicion that the manatee could be an alias with the Stasi is confirmed. A Stasi officer had come up with it for Ulla Kleinecke, and the scented box was a worn brassiere in a mason jar. Who this officer was remains a mystery for the time being.

When Gabriele Kleinecke, the daughter of the first victim, is found strangled, the Tölz commissioners want to see the body; However, Commissioner Kruse only allows Ms. Lorenz to do this. In doing so, she collects a few hair and fingernail fragments unnoticed and lets Kruse's cell phone go along. While Berghammer and Lorenz have the evidence examined in the forensic medicine department, Kruse arrests Stefan Kastenbauer. They confront the superintendent with the result of the evaluations, because he left genetic traces when strangling the victim, who defended himself violently. In addition, Gabriele Kleinecke called him before the crime to blackmail him after she found out that he was the Stasi officer who gave her mother the code name manatee. Previously, Ulla Kleinecke tried to blackmail him with this knowledge and paid for it with her life.

When Benno Berghammer returned to Bad Tölz, Dr. Beatrice Schinkel in front of the "Pension Resi". Pleased about this unexpected visit, he invited her into the house and offered her a room. While she stands behind him in seductive lingerie, he tells his mother that he is alone when she tells him on the phone that the bus is broken; she won't come home until the next day.

The next day, Benno Berghammer and his “Bea” visit the Tölz city archive, and Sabrina Lorenz is also there. When the art historian feels unobserved for a moment, she removes a sheet of paper from the guest book, but Ms. Lorenz has not escaped. She takes Dr. Schinkel removes the paper and accuses her of having been the client for the burglary in the city archives after she had previously assessed the location. Dr. Schinkel does not deny anything and lets himself be led away without resistance.

background

The shooting took place in Bad Tölz and Berlin ; The Hollerhaus Irschenhausen served as the setting for the "Pension Resi" .

criticism

The program magazine TV Spielfilm writes: "Bull against bull: funny turf war."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Luft - derbullevontoelz.de ( Memento from April 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Der Bulle von Tölz: Berliner Luft - film review at TV Spielfilm
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