Criminal cases without example: Murder in the Märkisches Viertel

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Episode in the series of unprecedented criminal cases
Original title Murder in the Märkisches Viertel
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 DEFA on behalf of East German television
length 81 minutes
classification Episode 8
First broadcast July 6, 1975 on GDR television
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Director Helmut Krätzig
script Helmut Krätzig
music Helmut Nier
camera Peter Süring
cut Hildegard Conrad-Nöller
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Murder in the Märkisches Viertel is a thriller series criminal cases without precedent of the GDR television from Helmut Krätzig from the year 1975th

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The Märkisches Viertel is a newly built satellite city on the northern edge of West Berlin . Here on a November day in the youth club “Die Brücke” a debate about the closure of this facility takes place. Suddenly one of the youngsters pulls out the plug of the microphone and when it works again, the angry youngsters only understand the last words of the lawyer Dr. Kienbaum that he wants to inform the public prosecutor what those present equate with the use of the police and therefore begin to riot. At the same time, the youth worker Hans-Christian Bennewitz, who was part of the presidium, went to the door to actually call the police from a nearby telephone booth , which he could not reach. He is followed by 15-year-old Manfred Weber, who watches him and accuses Bennewitz of being a police spy . So he closes the phone booth and tells the person locked in it that the others from the youth club will be there in a moment to finish him off. In his fear, Bennewitz pulls a pistol and shoots Manfred Weber through the glass door, who can only drag himself a few meters further to the next playground before he collapses lifeless. As an informed by a local resident patrol car arrives, the two police officers see only the dead and the person sitting on a bench Bennewitz, who runs away only when he is called.

When the reinforcement of the police arrives with a special signal, the young people in the "bridge" who are discussing again notice this and run to the crime scene, where Mark Weber meets his slain brother. While Dr. Kienbaum succeeds in sending the angry young people back to the club, Mark Weber runs to the house where Bennewitz lives, since he suspects that only he can be the shooter. Here he catches Bennewitz talking on the phone to his liaison officer at the state authorities, explaining what has happened to him and still holding the pistol in his hand. Mark manages to steal the pistol from him and when he tries to inform the police about the whereabouts of the murderer by phone, Bennewitz is able to escape. The breaks in the car of Commerce Dr. Beck, who finds him there after work and goes to Dr. Kienbaum brings. Mark Weber is stopped by the police after leaving the house and the pistol is found on him during the search, which is why he is handed over to the homicide squad, whose head Inspector Bülow is currently doing the autopsy of the dead man. The Chief Public Prosecutor Meiwald arrives here at the same time and orders that all findings on this case must go over his desk. Inspector Bühlow is told to check what motives could be behind the crime, because the convicted Mark Weber lives with his mother in a homeless settlement , which is always a playground for rebellious and anarchist elements. All surveys in the environment of Mark Weber do not reveal any connections in this direction.

In the meantime, Hans-Christian Bennewitz and the lawyer Dr. Kienbaum to the police. Here it turns out that he worked in the youth club on behalf of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution , but was completely overwhelmed with this task. The chief public prosecutor asks the commissioner to handle the matter with tact, because Hans-Christian is the son of city ​​councilor Professor Bennewitz. After his release from pretrial detention , Mark Weber reports to his probation officer Konrad von Henkel and since he is not at home, he talks to his wife Katja. Here he talks for the first time about his idea of using his brother's funeral for a demonstration at which everyone should find out who really killed Manfred, since that should be covered up. Then Konrad comes home accompanied by a filmmaker who wants to make a documentary about the homeless settlement. In the conversation, Mark recounts the idea of ​​the action in the cemetery and meets the director's interest in recording this action in a film.

On the day of the funeral, the camera team takes a position in an apartment opposite the cemetery, in front of which a team transport vehicle with several police officers is waiting. Suddenly about 20 motorbikes with black-clad drivers pull up to the entrance to attend the funeral. At this moment the cemetery attendant closes the gates with the help of plainclothes policemen and when Mark's group tries to climb over them, the policemen come running out of the car to stop them with brute force and rubber truncheons . When the police want to load the arrested persons onto the team van, Mark manages to jump into the unoccupied, open driver's cab and drive away with the car. A policeman just manages to jump onto the step on the driver's side, pulls his pistol and wants to shoot Mark. The car drives so close to a street lamp that the policeman hits it at high speed and loses his life in this way. The entire process is recorded by the film team, but the film is then confiscated by Police Commissioner Bühlow.

Mark Weber manages to escape and looks for shelter in the junkyard where he has been busy lately. From here, he calls his probation officer to ask for some money and clothing. When asked whether the police were with him, Henkel answered no, although she overheard the conversation in the room. The length of the conversation was not enough to trace the line back. During the conversation that followed, von Henkel tried to convince Mark to turn himself in to the police, but he refused to agree. In the conversation, Mark also demands that Katja von Henkel come to Seegebier's junkyard with her old, fully fueled Volkswagen, two children, money and something to eat. After consulting her husband and the police, Katja agrees and picks up Mark. After a few hundred meters, the headlights of several police vehicles go on around the car and Mark is trapped. He lets Katja get out with the children and wants to risk a breakthrough alone, which ends in a hail of bullets from a police sniper and his death.

Hans-Christian Bennewitz is for his murder with a youth sentence of two years on probation convicted. A psychiatric expert found Bennewitz only partially culpable .

Production and publication

The television film was released as the 8th episode in the film series Criminal Cases Without Example and was broadcast for the first time on July 6, 1975 on the first program of GDR television.

The scenario was written by Günter Prodöhl . Evelyn Heyden was responsible for the dramaturgy .

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