a clear case
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| Radio play from Germany | |
| original language | German |
| Year of production | 2012 |
| publication | May 16, 2012 |
| genre | Thriller |
| Duration | 53 min |
| production | Radio Bremen / ARD |
| Contributors | |
| author | John von Düffel |
| Machining | Holger Rink |
| Director | Christiane Ohaus |
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A clear case is a crime radio play of 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 Claas Berding and the accompanying public prosecutor Dr. Kurt Gröninger delivered. A Clear Case first aired on May 16, 2012. In addition to the main cast following well-known representatives appeared therein: Alexander Radszun , Katharina Matz , Hans-Michael Rehberg and Ingeborg Kallweit , the latter as a pathologist in previous episodes as in turns Who or laughing ... was heard.
This 52nd case turns out, despite DNA evidence as not as clear, suggests as the title, Claudia Evernich learns a lot about the past of their dying father, an innocent man is killed in custody and Claas Berding goes voluntarily to investigate the crime " undercover " into jail.
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At the beginning of the episode, Evernich and Berding involuntarily witness a "lightning press conference" by the busy personal advisor to the police chief and head of the Bremen pilot project Security DNA , Dr. Hannes Koehler. He wants to celebrate the current success of his project in front of the press in order to distract from the entanglements of the private company. The Security DNA is a security system ( DNA property marking) in security-relevant premises, which in the event of a break-in or theft sprays specially marked artificial DNA , which is invisible to the perpetrator (s ) and which is supposed to contribute to the burden of proof after the police have accessed it.
In the current case, the Bremer Spielbank was robbed and relieved of 180,000 euros. Shortly afterwards, the alleged perpetrator had already been found and arrested by Claas Berding, who happened to be passing by, while he had to use force to prevent the alleged robber from throwing himself out of a window. At the same time, according to Berding, he seemed glad to have been prevented from doing so, how desperate that he would be charged on the basis of the burden of proof of a DNA-stained balaclava and the jacket in question. He protested his innocence and claimed to have found both in the dumpster . The fact that Köhler presented Berding as a “hero” in the press is disgusting, as he instinctively feels that this apparently clear case still holds shallows.
But Claudia Evernich, together with prosecutor Dr. Kurt Gröninger the further investigations, since she will start her previously submitted one-week vacation. When asked about the holiday destination, she evades that she has private reasons. In fact, she wants to use the time to be with her cancer-stricken father in oncology .
Berding, who is now almost on his own, then reports to the unsuspecting Gröninger about the developments. On the one hand, Gröninger is surprised that Evernich, who is apparently married to her profession, actually took an announced vacation, on the other hand, she is extremely annoyed that the careerist Köhler anticipated the investigation for political reasons. This rejection is intensified when both learn that Koehler wanted to be one step ahead of them in the actual investigation by interrogating the suspect. When he in custody is found hanged, the case for Koehler is solved - the money stays but still gone.
The unequal team of Berding and Gröninger continues to strain the investigation for different reasons, as neither believe in a suicide nor in a perpetrator. While Gröninger appalled Koehler's investigative methods and press work that violate the separation of powers and hierarchies and ultimately saw himself ignored, Berding did not see an admission of guilt in the alleged suicide, as the suspect seemed to thank him the first time. In addition, Berding feels responsible for his life. In the remand prison they find out that the dead man must have hanged himself with a tightly wrapped one-way blanket and that he was found by his fellow inmate, criminal Illing, who is well known to the police and prepared to use violence.
When the pathologist Dr. Elisabeth Michel examines the corpse, she first establishes that it has ideal-typical strangulation features and hemorrhages in the petechiae, but otherwise there must have been remarkably little resistance to death by suffocation. The corpse also shows bruises, but these could also come from Berding's arrest. It is noticeable that the dead person has traces of the Security DNA product everywhere , but not where his eyes should have been exposed to the spray mist unprotected under the balaclava. Since Michel does not yet have the blood test results that could prove an influence of drugs, a momentous decision matures in Berding.
Meanwhile, Evernich realizes that her seriously ill father seems to be in complete control of himself spiritually, but, as a former pastor, he continues to reproach her for her decision to join the police force, above all to use the weapon. Although she has never used it, he is noticeably interested in this weapon, asks whether she has it with her and whether it would free him from his suffering. Only through a conversation with her mother and the long-time keeper of the remand prison does she get closer to the background. Her father was a committed and liberal prison pastor in Bremen in the late 1960s / early 1970s who sided with the inmates as a hostage in a prison riot. For him, it had less to do with the well-known Stockholm Syndrome than with his fundamental conviction. For Pastor Evernich, the real terrorism lay in the excessive security awareness of the Federal Republic and the resulting curtailment of basic rights. Ever since a prisoner close to him was allegedly accidentally shot by a sniper during the hostage-taking, the pastor has consistently rejected the state authorities. Before the chief inspector can come to her father for reconciliation, however, events come thick and fast in a way that was unexpected for her and Gröninger.
Because Berding had allowed himself to be smuggled undercover into Illing's cell as a supposed prisoner together with a UV lamp when he learned from the pathologist that the dead man had an unusually high dose of barbiturates in his blood. However, Berding flies up relatively quickly, as Illing suspected that the glowing device was a cell phone that he really wanted. Then Illing Berding suggests hospital ripe.
While Köhler, who continues to provoke Gröninger, wants to take control of the investigation again, Evernich himself now intervenes. During the following interrogation, Illing, who continues to claim that the original suspect, a petty criminal drug addict, committed the deed out of desperation, offers a trade: the location of the hidden loot. Köhler wants to go into the suspicious trade all too quickly when a call from the clinic interrupts everyone. Despite his injuries (a concussion , two broken ribs and a hand fracture), Berding quickly regained consciousness and can testify that Illing had traces of the evidence DNA glowing in the black light everywhere on his face in the vicinity of the viewing slits of the balaclava , and therefore this to him just as wanted to silence his former inmate. Illing was the real casino robber and murderer of the real scapegoat .
Instead of thanking the investigators, Dr. Köhler remains unswerving of the success of his project, which he also intends to exploit in the private sector. He is only briefly irritated that all four tires of his car parked in front of the prison were stabbed. Even if the law enforcement officer reminds him of his warning that the relatives of the inmates often targeted the presumed police and public prosecutor's cars on visiting days, the incident is more reminiscent of Gröninger's earlier mishaps with his damaged or stolen bicycles.
Evernich, who now understands her father better, comes too late for reconciliation: Her father died that night. According to her mother, he kept calling for her in his sleep.
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Hans-Michael Rehberg , who played the fatally ill father Evernich in bed, performed the sound recordings adequately lying down, as the making of still photo revealed.
review
- “The scene of the crime almost seems overloaded, John von Düffel brings up so many topics here. But thanks to a successful structuring, he manages to tell the whole story in a very understandable way. What may seem a bit exaggerated here, namely the artificial DNA, has a real background and is therefore exempt from this reproach. The staging is successful. The change between the individual narrative sections works, the changes in tempo keep the piece alive. From the good ensemble I would like to highlight the performance of Martin Engler, who makes a very strong performance here. "
- "A good crime scene with first-class speakers and a good story that contains a hidden warning against the hype about new security technologies."
Web links
- A clear case. Radio crime scene . On: www.ard.de/radio/radiotatort/die-faelle/. Accessed July 16, 2012.
- Radio play presentation in the Schauspielhaus with director Christiane Ohaus and police advisor Jan Kunze . May 7, 2012. Accessed July 16, 2012.
Individual evidence
- ↑ In contrast to the ARD website, Radio Bremen states May 17th on its own website: press release at www.radiobremen.de . April 23, 2012. Accessed July 16, 2012.
- ↑ Making of. A clear case. Radio-Tatort ( Memento of the original from September 1, 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 July 16, 2012.
- ↑ www.hoerspieleipps.net - Radiotatort 52 - A clear case ( memento from June 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Accessed July 16, 2012.
- ↑ hoernerd.de - Radiotatort 52 - A clear case . Accessed July 16, 2012.
