The bull of Tölz: murder in the monastery

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Episode of the series Der Bulle von Tölz
Original title Murder in the monastery
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Country of production Germany
original language German
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Season 12, episode 4
56th episode overall ( list )
First broadcast November 30, 2005 on Sat.1
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Director Wolfgang F. Henschel
script Michael Lerchenberg
production Ernst von Theumer junior
music Uli Kümpfel
camera Thomas Meyer
cut Michael Breining
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chronology

←  Predecessor
A first class funeral

Successor  →
Santa Claus is dead

Mord im Kloster is a German television film directed by Wolfgang F. Henschel from 2005 based on a script by Michael Lerchenberg . It is the 56th 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 November 30, 2005 on Sat.1 .

action

The Bad Tölz Criminal Police Office receives an anonymous notification of irregularities in the case of the death of a nun in the Benedictine convent of St. Ehrentraud. A sheet of a recipe pad was used for the message. Benno Berghammer and Sabrina Lorenz go to the monastery and talk to Mother Maria Ancilla, the interim prioress. She shows them the death certificate of Sister Maria Apollinaris, but they are not allowed to see the deceased. The prioress states that the vow sister was a little ailing, but maybe not quite able to cope with the life of prayer and penance.

Public Prosecutor Dr. Georg Lenz is furious because the commissioners have investigated without his assignment, and declares the case closed, especially since according to the death certificate there is a natural cause of death. He also bans them from investigating because orders and monasteries are under the special protection of the Bavarian state government. Incidentally, according to Dr. Lenz, is the prioress the daughter of the former Minister of Education Schödl.

Benno Berghammer now really wants to investigate, because the handwriting on the death certificate is identical to that of the anonymous tip and comes from Dr. Lukas Fischer. Sabrina Lorenz doesn't want to be involved at first, but then she can't help it.

Dr. Fischer admits to have given a natural cause of death out of embarrassment, although he cannot explain the sudden death of the young, healthy sister Maria Apollinaris; it was inconceivable for him to carry out a thorough examination of the corpses of a nun. Commissioner Berghammer proposes that the death certificate be destroyed and a new one issued, in which “cause of death unknown” is ticked; then he was ready to forget the matter. The doctor has no choice and agrees.

By means of a trick, Berghammer receives instructions from the public prosecutor by telephone to have the corpse taken to forensic medicine. When Dr. Lenz realizes that the inspector is not referring to any corpse, but the nun, if he wants to whistle back to Berghammer, but Berghammer has already hung up. At the next personal meeting, the public prosecutor threatens him to be transferred to the border police in the rearmost Upper Palatinate if the autopsy does not reveal anything.

Benno Berghammer gets to know the pastoral advisor Maria Mittendorfer at lunch in the rectory. When the mysterious death comes up in the monastery, she leaves the room and the inspector rushes after. He learns from her that she, together with Maria Apollinaris, was a novice in the monastery of St. Ehrentraud.

Sabrina Lorenz finds out that the real name of the deceased nun was Johanna Angermeier and that she was the sole heir to the “Café Waldstüberl” after her parents were killed in a car accident. The café has some land and money in the bank. Since it is one of the principles in the monastery to live in poverty, the nuns must make a will in favor of the monastery. Thus, St. Ehrentraud now inherits this fortune.

The autopsy, carried out by Dr. Robert Jump, reveals that the victim with black henbane was poisoned, but were todesursächlich spindle tree seeds , administered in a muesli. The forensic doctor thinks that the perpetrator must have specialist knowledge in biology or pharmacy and gives Berghammer a few relevant books.

The public prosecutor asks Sabrina Lorenz to go to the monastery for further investigations, as only she as a woman has free access. There she learns that Sister Maria Fidelis was friends with the victim and wants to speak to her because she is lying in the sick room with the same symptoms as Maria Apollinaris before her death. But the nun has been missing for hours. During the search, the inspector finds a love letter from Johanna alias Maria Apollinaris in Maria Fidelis' laundry, which indicates a same-sex relationship, but not a motive. Finally, Sister Maria Fidelis is found dead; she cut her wrists and painted an "A" on the wall with her own blood. Since several religious names in St. Ehrentraud begin with A, this does not help the commissioners. Between the undershirts of Maria Fidelis, a sachet of peacock seeds is found, which, according to Inspector Lorenz, was not there when she searched the laundry. Prosecutor Lenz is nevertheless certain that Sister Maria Fidelis poisoned her co-sister Maria Apollinaris, and tells Mother Maria Ancilla and Prelate Hinter that the case is closed.

The commissioners learn from Maria Mittendorfer that the sisters Maria Apollinaris and Maria Fidelis operated a kind of silent mail, in the form of a diary, hidden in the attic where the nuns' suitcases are stored. The pastoral advisor suggests climbing over the monastery wall with Frau Lorenz the following night and fetching the diary.

The two women actually find what they are looking for. In Sister Maria Apollinaris' diary it is written that she wants to leave the monastery and donate her property to a home for homeless youth, for which mother Maria Ancilla had promised her hell.

When Sabrina Lorenz informs her colleague and notes that the monastery would have been bankrupt if the nun had left, especially since extensive renovation work is currently underway, the latter says unimpressed that he now knows who committed the murder and reads the title of a book, the Dr. Jump gave him: “Dr. Angelika Schödl: About the medicine of the Bavarian monasteries in the Middle Ages ”. Mother Maria Ancilla alias Dr. Angelika Schödl did her doctorate in folklore, but the knowledge was enough for a poisoning.

Berghammer and Lorenz rush to the monastery to arrest the prioress, but she has climbed the scaffolding. The commissioners also climb up and try to get them to surrender. But Mother Maria Ancilla sees herself in the right before God and evades earthly jurisdiction by throwing herself from the scaffolding.

Dr. Lenz accuses Berghammer of having to request a SEK . This time he can no longer avoid disciplinary proceedings and a transfer to the Upper Palatinate. But the prosecutor gives in when Prelate Hinter appeals to him to let the matter go; he should imagine a murder trial against the prioress of one of the oldest orders in the Christian West, who is also the daughter of a former minister.

For Maria Mittendorfer and Benno Berghammer, who fell in love, it is now time to say goodbye, because Prelate Hinter sends the pastoral advisor to the Bolivian mission for a year. Maria points to a star in the evening sky and says that you could "make phone calls" over it if he and she were looking at it here in Bolivia.

background

The shooting took place in Bad Tölz and Burghausen ( Raitenhaslach monastery ); The Hollerhaus Irschenhausen served as the setting for the "Pension Resi" .

criticism

The program magazine TV Spielfilm writes: "Yesterday's gags about pious sisters."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Murder in the monastery - derbullevontoelz.de ( Memento from April 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ The bull from Tölz: Murder in the monastery - film review at TV Spielfilm
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