The bull from Tölz: murder with applause

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Episode of the series Der Bulle von Tölz
Original title Murder with applause
Bulle von Tölz.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Season 8, episode 3
36th episode overall ( list )
First broadcast February 13, 2002 on Sat.1
Rod
Director Werner masts
script Franz Xaver Sengmüller
production Ernst von Theumer junior
music Uli Kümpfel
camera Philipp Geigel
cut Michael Breining
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
final whistle

Successor  →
circus air

Mord mit Applaus is a German television film by Werner Masten from 2002 based on a screenplay by Franz Xaver Sengmüller . It is the 36th 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 February 13, 2002 on Sat.1 .

action

The team of the TV quiz show “One against all” rents all rooms in Resi Berghammer's pension. Only the show master Claus Claasen stays in the best hotel in Bad Tölz. The next morning a corpse is discovered in his room - however, the dead person is not Claasen, as initially assumed, but production assistant Tim Beyle, who keeps holding the position when Claasen's jealous wife calls. The commissioners Benno Berghammer and Sabrina Lorenz assume a murder of mistake and start looking for motives.

Claasen's wife Hannelore is currently in Bad Tölz, but she has spent the night of the murder with her lover Lutz Korn, the man who is already in the starting blocks as a showmaster when the editor Dr. Tillmann-Kreuz has given the quiz show a makeover.

Benno Berghammer learns from production manager Ralph Liebhardt that Tim Beyle was in a relationship with production manager Anja Gläser. But he has no idea how long the relationship has existed, maybe two or three months.

Mayor Geisreiter states that he was in Claasen's room until around 10:30 p.m., then they said goodbye on the best of terms. In reality, he had a violent argument with the quiz master because he forced him to hire his girlfriend, the animal rights activist Christa Pögl, as an environmental officer with a captivating video. Geisreiter mixed a sleeping pill into Claasen's drink and went to Claasen's unlocked room at midnight to get the video into his possession. When he was quickly washing his hands, another person came into the room and suffocated the victim while hiding behind the shower curtain in fear. The next day Claus Claasen got the copy of the video from Tim Beyle's room and now has the mayor in his hand again.

While jogging, Claus Claasen barely escapes another attack. Fortunately, the shots fired at him miss their target. Dr. Tillmann-Kreuz demands police protection for the quiz master, whereupon Anton Pfeiffer is assigned to this task. The editor can hardly believe her luck when she receives an email in which a certain O. normal consumer announces that Claasen will be executed on the open stage on the next broadcast. She immediately pulls out all the stops so that the show is not only recorded, but broadcast live.

Commissioner Berghammer can get the showmaster to release the video; In return, the issue of extortion is off the table with the police. He informed the mayor that he now had nothing to fear because the video was being kept in the police station.

It gradually dawns on the two commissioners that they are on the wrong track with the mistaken identity theory, because sooner or later all leads have led to a dead end. Since no motive can be found for a targeted murder of Tim Beyle, Berghammer and Lorenz hope that the murderer makes a mistake on the evening of the quiz show.

Immediately before the broadcast, there is a lively atmosphere behind the stage, which police officer Pfeiffer attributes to his presence as a bodyguard. Commissioner Berghammer, on the other hand, is suspecting that Claus Claasen and Christa Pögl only staged everything in order to drive up the audience. The two admit that they had the opportunity to do so, but there is no evidence of this.

Resi Berghammer, who was personally invited by Claasen to participate, wins the elimination round and can now take the quiz questions. While his mother answered one question after the other correctly, Benno Berghammer found out from the editor Tillmann-Kreuz that production manager Ralph Liebhardt and unit manager Anja Gläser have reunited. They were engaged and wanted to get married until Tim Beyle had uncomfortable his boss's partner. The alarm bells are ringing for the inspector. He calls his colleague over by radio and puts her in the picture. Together they accuse Ralph Liebhardt of having lied at the first interrogation. He claimed that he had no idea how long the relationship had existed. In reality, he knew exactly because he had finally lost his fiancée to Tim Beyle. This new insight leads to the oldest motive in the world: jealousy. Liebhardt admits the act and gives the reason that Beyle was a characterless pig; he had got Claasen's assistants drugs and had destroyed Anja too.

In the police station, Berghammer and Lorenz find that the seized video cassette has disappeared from the refrigerator. Berghammer rushes to the mayor and demands her back. After some back and forth, he gives the inspector a video and asks him to watch it immediately. The tape does not show the mayor's expected orgy, but Resi Berghammer copying the questions and answers from the dossier for the quiz show in the editor's office . The commissioner is beside himself and wants to know why she was not disqualified, whereupon the mayor says that it was a heartfelt wish for him and the editor that a senior candidate win.

When the crowd of journalists is just asking what Resi Berghammer would like to fulfill with the money, her son joins them and replies that it is being donated to charitable purposes.

background

The shooting was done in Bad Tölz and Gaißach ; The Hollerhaus Irschenhausen served as the setting for the "Pension Resi" .

criticism

The program magazine TV Spielfilm writes: "Applause: Otti Fischer chastises the media circus." Conclusion: "Great crime fun spiced with irony."

Web links

Individual evidence

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