Helen Dorn: The third girl

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Episode of the series Helen Dorn
title The third girl
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Network Movie
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 1 ( list )
First broadcast March 8, 2014 on ZDF
Rod
Director Matti Geschonneck
script Magnus Vattrodt
production Wolfgang Cimera ,
Silke Schulze-Erdel
music Nikolaus Glowna ,
Ludwig Eckmann
camera Theo Bierkens
cut Eva Schnare
occupation
chronology

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under control

The third girl is the first film of the crime series Helen Dorn of the ZDF . In the main role Anna Loos plays the investigating commissioner Helen Dorn at the LKA Düsseldorf.

action

The body of the young nurse Tatjana Decker is found on the Lower Rhine . Her case is reminiscent of three feminicides that took place in the area four years ago: Back then, too, the victims were brutally mistreated and disfigured, wrapped in foil and submerged in water. Since the victims were killed with a hammer, it was referred to as the hammer murderer . Chief Detective Gregor Georgi begins the investigation. His superior Falk Mattheissen, head of department at LKA Düsseldorf , also brings Helen Dorn to the team. She was also the chief investigator in the female murder cases four years ago and was transferred to the Duisburg-West area commissioner during the investigation. Surprisingly, it is shown that the film and tape of the new case match those of the old cases. At that time a perpetrator had been identified in the form of teacher Michael Cornelius who is currently still in prison. He had made a partial confession at the time that he later revoked, was acquainted with a victim and was even intimate with one; he was also seen by a witness not far from a crime scene.

More details about the current victim come to light. Tatjana made an emergency call three days earlier from an emergency call box near Aachen - this makes it clear that the perpetrator "played" with the victim. A neighbor of Tatjanas, who lived in a dormitory, had gained access to her computer and its webcam and was secretly watching her. He is now considered suspicious. With Michael Cornelius and other men, he is confronted with the witness at the time, gardener Erwin Geiger, who, however, cannot identify any of the men as the perpetrator. Geiger, in turn, receives more and more visits from civil servant André Kuppka, who is involved in investigating both the then and the current case. He threatened Erwin Geiger that he should stay out of the current investigations, so Erwin went to the location of the new corpse several times and was recorded by a surveillance camera that Helen Dorn had installed on the street at the location. Kuppka makes the surveillance images that show Erwin disappear. When this is noticed, it becomes clear why the case failed four years ago: Although Michael Cornelius was suspect because he was known to have two victims, he was only convicted on the basis of Erwin Geiger's testimony. Geiger, on the other hand, had never seen Michael Cornelius himself. Kuppka had shown him pictures of the man and, through massive questioning, had him pass off the teacher as the man not far from the crime scene. Kuppka wanted to bring the case to a quick end because he was sure that he had found the culprit in Cornelius. Since the then new department head, Falk Mattheissen, agreed with Kuppka's opinion and ignored Helen Dorn's doubts, she gave up the case and had herself transferred. Kuppka is now suspended from duty.

The investigators find out that Tatiana was taking psychotropic drugs . You will find in her apartment of Dr. Petry issued prescriptions and was eventually told by colleagues that she was in a very unhappy relationship. Her boss can be identified as a lover. He claims to have been with Tatjana on the day of the crime, but to have separated from her at a gas station in an argument. Surveillance photos confirm this and also show Tatjana then getting into Erwin Geiger's son Raimund's car. The investigators drive to Geiger's property, where Erwin Geiger has already searched his son's belongings, which he has been storing in the barn of his father's farm for some time. Here he finds boxes with women's clothes and confronts Raimund. For a long time he suspected that his son was the murderer of women, since he had seen him and not Cornelius not far from the crime scene. Raimund admits to being the murderer; Erwin ties him up and shortly afterwards takes his own life. While Gregor Georgi is interrogating Raimund, Helen Dorn picks up Michael Cornelius for a walk. They drive to Cornelius' house, where both of them prepare lunch with his wife. Meanwhile Georgi receives the confessions for three of the four murders from Raimund. The fourth murder - of Cornelius' student and lover - was known to have been hospitalized. Georgi sends officials to Cornelius and alerts Helen Dorn, who, under a pretext, sends Cornelius' wife out of the house. Cornelius soon realizes that Helen Dorn is playing for time, and she finally confronts him with her suspicion that he is a murderer after all. Cornelius confesses to having committed the third murder, imitating the two previous feminicides. When he notices that snipers are surrounding his house, he grabs a knife, deliberately and visibly through the windows towards Helen Dorn and is shot after saying goodbye to her.

production

Filming for the first episodes of the Helen Dorn crime series began on July 16, 2013 and was scheduled to last until mid-September. During this time, the first two episodes of the series - The Third Girl and Under Control - were filmed. Filming locations were Düsseldorf, Cologne , the Ruhr area and the Lower Rhine. The first episode of the series was shown for the first time on German television on March 8, 2014 on ZDF as a Saturday crime thriller .

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast reached 8.01 million viewers and a market share of 25.4 percent.

criticism

The show received the criticism benevolently. Matthias Matschke received special praise for the "finely crafted" figure drawing by investigator Gregor Georgi. The taz wrote that only when you see him do you notice "what rough carpentry work most of the characters in German crime novels are".

Awards

Helen Dorn: The third girl was nominated for the German TV Prize 2014 for Best TV Film.

Sequels

Overview

to the television series Helen Dorn with episode list

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helen Dorn - The Third Girl , helendorn.zdf.de, March 8, 2014.
  2. ↑ Anna Loos is "Helen Dorn" - shooting start for a new ZDF crime series ( memento of the original from October 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . anna-loos-de, July 16, 2013.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.anna-loos.de
  3. ↑ Anna Loos alias Commissioner "Helen Dorn" investigates in Düsseldorf . augsburger-allgemeine.de, July 16, 2013.
  4. ^ ZDF press office: Anna Loos is "Helen Dorn" / ZDF is shooting a new crime series in Düsseldorf . presseportal.de, July 16, 2013.
  5. ↑ Clear quota win for "Helen Dorn" with Anna Loos. ( Memento of January 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) DPA notification of March 9, 2014.
  6. ↑ Jürn Kruse: Krimis on ZDF - We kill and kill and kill. In: taz.de of March 8, 2014
  7. ↑ Helen Dorn: The Third Girl, nomination for the German Television Award 2014 .