TV epitaval: The think case

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Episode of the TV episode series
Original title Think case
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 German television broadcasting
length 79 minutes
classification Episode 8
First broadcast March 5th, 1961 on DFF
Rod
Director Wolfgang Luderer
script Friedrich Karl Kaul ,
Walter Jupé
camera Ursula Arnold
Siegfried Peters
Gudrun Ilfrich
Hanna Christian
cut Ingrid Koch
occupation

The Denke case is a crime film in the TV epitaval series of the German television station by Wolfgang Luderer from 1961.

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At the end of 1923 / beginning of 1924 Eduard Trautmann, who had been sentenced to 15 years in prison, was summoned to the office of the public prosecutor's office at the district court in Glatz , as he repeatedly asked for his trial to be restarted in writing. He affirms that he did not kill his girlfriend Emma, ​​even though she broke up with him because of another man. He wanted one last talk with her, but it never happened. He is innocent of her subsequent disappearance without a trace, which is why he was wrongly convicted and has therefore been in prison for 12 years for no reason. Trautmann is not concerned with being released into freedom, he just wants to be considered innocent, but does not get a hearing from the responsible public prosecutor's council with this concern.

At the police station of the city of Münsterberg , a tramp is questioned who claims to be merely looking for work. During this interrogation, Karl Denke, known as a trader, enters the area, who only wants to have his traveling trade license extended. He listens for a long time and offers the unemployed an occupation that he will gladly accept and the police are only right, since they have one less case to deal with. One of the next few days, Denke will be back on the market offering canned meat, shoelaces and the job seeker's suit that he took from the police station. Here an unemployed person asks him for a donation, but Denke offers him a job as a clerk and he should contact him in the evening.

Shortly before Christmas 1924, the unemployed Vinzenz Olivier reported to the Münsterberg police station to inquire about a job. The police throw him out again, but show him the way to the homeless asylum , where he can find accommodation for the night. The next day he goes looking for a job and therefore rings the doorbell at almost every apartment door in town. So he also comes to think, who offers him some money if Olivier would write him a letter for it and he goes into his apartment. After a certain time the neighbors who are in the hallway hear cries for help from this apartment and a man comes running out of the apartment covered in blood, whereby Denke tries to hold him back. It's Olivier, who has a large wound on his head with a pickaxe in his hand and who claims that the man in the apartment wanted to murder him, which is why he goes to the police with the neighbors.

The sergeant there, however, does not believe him and takes him to a cell for the time being . It was only after the neighbors had longed to persuade Constable Kretschmar to bring Karl Denke to the police station to clarify the allegations and also to lock him up in a cell. When the police superintendent Hartke arrives and Denke is to be taken out of the cell, the sergeant does not find him alive any more. Karl Denke committed suicide through strangulation . A subsequent investigation of Denkes apartment by the criminal police revealed many findings that point to his murders. The definitive evidence is a notebook that accurately lists 31 of his murders. When questioned by the detective, Olivier stated that he was supposed to write a letter in Denkes' apartment and therefore sat down at a table while behind him Denke was already pulling out the pickaxe to split his skull in half. Only by moving his head accidentally did he manage to avoid being hit and thus seriously injured, but still alive.

Although the found notebook clearly proves that Eduard Trautmann could not have committed the murder of his girlfriend Emma, ​​because she is on Denkes list, the prosecutor's council refuses to allow him to reopen.

Production and publication

The television film appeared as the 8th episode of the television episode and was broadcast on March 5, 1961 for the only time in the DFF .

The book was written by Friedrich Karl Kaul , who also speaks the explanatory texts, and Walter Jupé based on authentic court records. Aenne Keller was responsible for the dramaturgy .

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