TV epitaval: The Dibelius - Schnoor case

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Episode of the TV episode series
Original title The Dibelius-Schnoor case
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 German television broadcasting
length 87 minutes
classification Episode 7
First broadcast December 29, 1960 on DFF
Rod
Director Wolfgang Luderer
script Friedrich Karl Kaul ,
Walter Jupé
camera Martin Kayser
Siegfried Peters
Hannelore Grossmann
Rosemarie Kapp
Gerhard Leist
cut Ingrid Koch
occupation

The case Dibelius - Schnoor is a thriller series Fernsehpitaval of German Television by Wolfgang Luderer from the year 1960th

action

It's the end of November 1918. Preacher Schnoor is sitting at the breakfast table in his house in Königshorst while his wife is upset about the alleged moral misconduct of their 16-year-old maid Grete. Here comes Lieutenant Hans Wirt, who lives in the same house , congratulates his brother-in-law on his birthday and takes a seat at the table. Because of another birthday guest, the Schnoor couple leave the room and Hans Wirth uses this opportunity to harass Grete, who is just coming down the stairs, with sexual indecentities, whereby his brother-in-law catches him. Angry, the preacher sends the lieutenant out and confronts Grete, with whom he has a relationship. But now Hans Wirth comes back into the room and overlooks the situation, which leads to a dispute that is only ended when Ms. Schnoor enters.

On the occasion of Christmas, Preacher Schnoor, his wife and her brother, and Dr. Otto Dibelius invited to the head of the office of Friese and his wife. When Hans Wirth wants to leave the company prematurely, he is held back by his brother-in-law. Meanwhile, in the pastor's household, the maid receives a visit from her father, as she has to work over the holidays. On this occasion she explains to him that she would like to quit, but without giving a specific reason, which her father advises against. Back at home, Preacher Schnoor secretly tries to sneak into Grete's room at night, but is caught with a gun in hand by Hans, who hears the noises. At midnight, visitors to the village restaurant hear a shot and think that a hunter is still on the way at this time. Mrs. Schnoor also wakes up from the bang, runs down the stairs and sees her husband standing in front of her dead brother. The next morning the preacher goes to the head of the office Friese and tells him tearfully that his brother-in-law was murdered by burglars the previous night. The subsequent investigation of the case by the Neuruppin public prosecutor's office , probably under the influence of the head of office, does not bring any result and the proceedings are discontinued because the perpetrators were able to escape undetected. Only in the village do doubts arise again and again, as the rumors about the conditions in the rectory do not go away.

A short time later, Ms. Schnoor dies giving birth to her second child. A foreign housekeeper moves into the rectory, on August 23, 1923, she marries Mr. Schnoor and thus becomes his second wife. In the following years the preacher hopes to finally be called to the properly appointed pastor in Königshorst, which finally seems to come true in 1926. When word got around in the village, the old story was immediately brought up again and a woman confirmed that Grete, who now works as a waitress in Berlin , told her about Schnoor's reenactments. In a conversation in the village pub , Grete's father confirmed to a young worker functionary that this story was true and that the only witness, Lieutenant Hans Wirth, died at the time. The young man agrees to interest an experienced Berlin detective in the case, which he succeeds. He interrogates Schnoor's former maid and demands a confrontation with the preacher, who is picked up from Köngshorst after consulting with the Berlin police chief Karl Zörgiebel . Schnoor can only send his wife to the head of department Friese in order to have him inform the Neuruppin public prosecutor's office so that they can take action against it. However, Friese cannot reach a responsible employee in Neuruppin.

During the confrontation, the preacher is now forced to admit his moral wrongdoing, but without it being possible to prove that he participated in the death of his brother-in-law, which is why he has to be released again. For the detective inspector, however, the matter is not over, because he is convinced that Schnoor is the murderer of his brother-in-law. The official presentation of the preacher for questioning in Berlin, which quickly became the talk of the town in Koenigshorst, threatened ecclesiastical authority and moral order in the eyes of the chief officer Friese and the superintendent Dibelius. Dibelius decides to appoint Preacher Schnoor on March 27, 1927 in Königshorst as a properly appointed pastor and to give the introductory sermon personally in order to restore the pillars of authority and moral order. In the celebratory address, Dibelius claims that the bloodthirsty communist rabble killed Hans Wirth. Furthermore, he raises serious allegations against the Berlin police because of their behavior in a pending trial, which he calls an outrageous misconduct with regard to Schnoor's civil rights. The entire speech will be published in the press and also read at the Berlin police headquarters. After three days, the police chief takes a position and proves that the scandalous sermon consisted only of lies and agitation and falsified the real events. A short time later, the official news appeared in the press that Pastor Schnoor had been removed from his office.

Production and publication

The television film was released as the 7th episode of the television episode and was broadcast for the first time on December 29, 1960 on 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 .

criticism

H. Knietzsch from New Germany experienced an impressive evening on television when this case was broadcast.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 2, 1961, p. 3