The dead from Lake Constance - The Stumpengang

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Episode of the series Die Toten vom Bodensee
Original title The stump corridor
Country of production Germany , Austria
original language German
Production
company		 Rowboat film and television production
Graf Filmproduktion GmbH
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 8 ( list )
First broadcast January 3, 2019 on ORF 2
German-language
first broadcast		 February 4, 2019 on ZDF
Rod
Director Michael Schneider
script Timo Berndt
production Sam Davis
Klaus Graf
Kim Fatheuer
music Christopher Bremus
camera Matthias Pötsch
cut Jörg Kroschel
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Die Toten vom Bodensee - The fourth woman

Successor  →
The Dead from Lake Constance - The Mermaid

Die Toten vom Bodensee - Der Stumpengang is a German-Austrian ORF / ZDF - TV film by Michael Schneider from 2019 . This is the eighth part of the crime series Die Toten vom Bodensee . It was first broadcast on January 3, 2019 on ORF 2 . The film was first shown on ZDF on February 4, 2019.

action

The students of a school class, including Manuela Frick, are with their teacher Dr. Aloys Hartl on a night hike through the forests of Lake Constance. In the process, they come across a male corpse who was handcuffed with leather caps, leather dice cups , so-called "stumps". The objects with which the deceased was tied up come from the local history museum located nearby. The utensils used are reminiscent of the history of the medieval corridor. In the 14th century, offenders with leather goblets were dumped in the forest and hunted down. Those who survived and found their way back were acquitted, but most perished in the process. The victim is the forester Sebastian Weidinger. His stepson Lukas Weidinger, who is friends with Manuela, is also a student in Hartl's class, but Lukas was not there on the hike.

The commissioners Micha Oberländer from Lindau and Hannah Zeiler from Bregenz questioned the victim's widow, Lisa Weidinger, whose motive could have been Sebastian's adultery and who lived in divorce, the dead woman's lover, Natascha Schwärzler, and Lukas Weidinger . The investigations show that the medieval objects were put on the dead person only after he was murdered by being killed in order to divert attention from the true motive.

The museum is currently being rebuilt without any special security measures, so that the objects were relatively easy to access. The wood for the construction work is supplied by Lisa and Sebastian Weidinger's sawmill, the metalwork is carried out by Meinhardt Hager, and Natascha Schwärzler is responsible for the architecture. At the blacksmith Meinhardt Hager, Natascha Schwärzler's older brother, Zeiler found historical records of the pillar walk from the local museum. In addition, Natascha Schwärzler's car was set on fire, she claims that it was Lukas Weidinger because he is said to have hated her and his stepfather, but he denies this.

Noah Schwärzler, Natascha's husband, has been missing for three years. Zeiler initially suspects Aloys Hartl of having both Noah Schwärzler and Sebastian Weidinger on their conscience because he was interested in their partner Natascha Schwärzler. He is not allowed to approach her due to an injunction . Noah Schwärzler was a bank employee; he is said to have embezzled around one million customer funds. His remains are found during the search for the murder weapon near the place where Weidinger's body was found, and identification is via the x-ray images of the teeth in the missing person's file. Aloys Hartl was one of Noah Schwärzler's customers, whose money was also embezzled. Natascha Schwärzler and her brother Meinhardt Hager overpower Aloys Hartl in Schwärzler's house. Hartl wanted to get his money back and was looking for records.

Forensic doctor Egger finds shavings with the oil of a chainsaw on Schwärzler's remains. Due to the nature of the traces of injury, broken rubble in a line, the investigators come to the conclusion that Schwärzler died in an accident and was killed by a tree that Sebastian Weidinger had cut down. Years ago, Weidinger carried out forest work at the later site where Schwärzler's remains were found. Weidinger then buried Schwärzler's body and looked after his widow, and finally started a relationship with her. Natascha Schwärzler is finally arrested by the police. She murdered Sebastian Weidinger because he was responsible for the death of her husband and had kept this from her.

Production and Background

One of the locations: the Rappenlochschlucht

The shooting took place together with the ninth part The Mermaid from April 17 to June 21, 2018 at Lake Constance and the surrounding area. The scenes with the Stumpengang were shot on Gebhardsberg in Bregenz , the final sequence was shot in the Rappenloch Gorge in Dornbirn . The Deuringschlössle in the Bregenz Upper Town served as a backdrop for the exterior shots of the “Bregenz Local History Museum” .

The film was produced by Graf Filmproduktion GmbH and Rowboat Film- und Fernsehproduktion , Austrian Broadcasting and Second German Television were involved and the production was supported by the TV Fund Austria and the state of Vorarlberg .

Hjalti Bager-Jonathansson was responsible for the sound, Hans Jager for the equipment, Heike Werner for the costume design and Birgit Beranek and Gerda Pichler for the mask.

For the legend of the Stumpengang, invented by the screenwriter Timo Berndt, he was inspired, among other things, by the ways of the cross on Lake Constance, such as the Hirschlatter Kreuzweg near Friedrichshafen . There is also a record of an honor penalty practiced in the region , in which offenders were publicly humiliated. The author's public atonement served as a starting point.

reception

Audience rating

In Austria, the first broadcast on ORF on January 3, 2019 was seen by an average of 741,000 people, the market share was 24 percent.

The first broadcast on ZDF on February 4, 2019 reached 7.88 million viewers and the market share was 24.6 percent.

Reviews

Volker Bergmeister from tittelbach.tv said: "Two misunderstood, lonely seekers, tied to one another at work, plus a Whodunit with a mystery look in a calm and exciting staging - with this mixture, ZDF has probably finally found the formula for success for this series." The eighth film in the series is an atmospheric family drama that would also take a lot of time for the inspectors, who are heavily played by Waldstätten and Koeberlin. Author Timo Berndt would continue the horizontal narrative style consistently and deliberately with both of them.

Tom Heise wrote in the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung that after the secret of Zeiler's father has been clarified since episode six, the series seems to be running out of breath. The story hardly manages to build tension. "Waldstätten and Koeberlin bravely play against the poor book about a family drama." The series has potential, but better material should come soon for the duo.

Julian Weinberger said in the Weser Kurier that viewers quickly lose their connection to the 90-minute film because the crime thriller reveals a dark secret from the past in addition to the numerous suspects and their vague entanglements with one another. Paradoxically, the fact that the film is still fun is due to the subplots: Whether with the sad family past of Commissioner Zeiler or the painful certainty of her colleague Oberländer that she will also lose his children emotionally after his wife - the film scores above all with interpersonal relationships.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CELEBRATE TOGETHER on ORF 2: The highlights in the Christmas program . OTS notification dated November 29, 2018, accessed December 2, 2018.
  2. ↑ fernsehserien.de: The dead from Lake Constance, episode 8: The Stumpengang . Retrieved December 2, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b c Graf Filmproduktion GmbH - The dead from Lake Constance - The Stumpengang . Retrieved January 10, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b "Die Toten vom Bodensee:" How an ancient and brutal custom finds a new victim . Article dated January 30, 2019, accessed February 2, 2019.
  5. ↑ Rowboat Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH: The dead from Lake Constance - The Stumpengang . Retrieved January 10, 2018.
  6. ^ The dead from Lake Constance - The Stumpengang at crew united . Retrieved December 2, 2018.
  7. ↑ “Die Toten vom Bodensee” with up to 779,000 spectators . OTS announcement of January 4, 2019, accessed January 4, 2019.
  8. ↑ a b Volker Bergmeister: Series “Die Toten vom Bodensee - Der Stumpengang” at tittelbach.tv , accessed on January 18, 2019.
  9. ↑ Disappointing: "The Dead from Lake Constance: Stumpengang" . Article dated February 4, 2019, accessed February 4, 2019.
  10. ^ Julian Weinberger: Revelations in Abundance. In: Weser Courier . July 27, 2020, accessed on July 28, 2020 .