TV epitaval: The Haarmann case

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Episode of the TV episode series
Original title The Haarmann case
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 DEFA (Albrecht-Produktion)
on behalf of the DFF
length 66 minutes
classification Episode 3
First broadcast March 6, 1960 on DFF
Rod
Director Wolfgang Luderer
script Friedrich Karl Kaul ,
Walter Jupé
camera Günter Haubold
cut Wally cucumber
occupation

The Haarmann case is a crime film from the series Fernsehpitaval of the German television station by Wolfgang Luderer from 1960.

action

In 1924 Fritz Haarmann entered the restaurant at Hanover Central Station and was immediately expelled from the room by a police officer. He then went straight to the station's police station and had a telephone connection established with Inspector Müller from Department IV. He gives him indications that a dark business is to take place in his apartment in the evening and that the police can arrest two fences . This is not his first deal with the police. With this action, Haarmann achieved that the inspector ensures that he can no longer be sent away in the station district. Furthermore, he is referred to the political department of the police in order to work there as an informant. At the same time, several bodies of young men were found in Hanover . The request to reinforce the relevant department with staff is rejected because the political department has only just been increased, which is decidedly more important.

Some time later Haarmann enters the station restaurant again , this time without being bothered by the police. While a newspaper seller loudly shouts the headline of a new body found, he discovers a young man sitting alone and sits down next to him. During the conversation, he learns that he has run away from home to apply to the sea . With clever arguments, he convinces the boy not to take the train in the evening and to spend the night with him. When his parents look for him at the train station, he is no longer there and probably already dead. The next morning Haarmann offers a coat and a suitcase for sale in his regular restaurant. So the viewer knows early on that Haarmann is the murderer.

Inspector Müller introduced Haarmann to two retired police inspectors, who asked him to convince a young musician not to continue the relationship with a daughter from a good family. Of course he agrees to deal with the matter and later explains to the two pensioners that he managed to convince the musician to emigrate to America. One of the two, Inspector Olfermann, convinces him to set up a detective agency together, which makes it even easier for him to appear in public because he can now identify himself as an official. The roommates in Haarmann's house, as well as several people around him, are slowly suspecting that something is wrong with this. However, any information given to the police is not taken seriously by them, as they work closely with them. Haarmann can even convince a patrol officer of his innocence with his resolute demeanor, even though he only killed a young man in his apartment minutes beforehand, which his neighbors suspected. The next morning he brings his victim's belongings back to his local pub for sale.

Back in the train station restaurant, Haarmann meets a young man whom he already had at home once, but who was able to escape in time. When he refuses to go again, Haarmann calls a policeman in his arrogance, but the boy succeeds in credibly reporting the others. Now Commissioner Retz is taking over the case and begins a search of Haarmann's apartment, during which many things from those who have been murdered so far, as well as possible murder tools, are found. The relatives of the murder victims are summoned to the police headquarters in order to identify the belongings of the dead, which is often achieved. They also hit the jackpot when the son of the host couple appears in his local pub and wears a jacket that even contains the identity card of the former murdered owner.

In the following trial everything will be done to allow the police to cover up and ignore the matter, although it has long been known that Haarmann had a long criminal record. The press representatives are also expressly warned against providing objective reporting, which means that the close connection between Haarmann and the authorities, such as his spy services for the police from 1918 to 1924, must not become known. On December 29, 1924, Haarmann was sentenced to death 24 times.

Production and publication

The television film was released as the third episode of the television episode and was broadcast for the first time on March 6, 1960 on the DFF .

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

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