Murder in Eberswalde
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| Original title | Murder in Eberswalde |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 90 minutes |
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| Director | Stephan Wagner |
| script | Holger Karsten Schmidt |
| production |
Martin Zimmermann , Christian Becker |
| music | Irmin Schmidt |
| camera | Thomas Benesch |
| cut | Gunnar Wanne-Eickel |
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Mord in Eberswalde is a German crime film by the director Stephan Wagner . The story told is based on the real case of the child murderer Erwin Hagedorn . The television film was produced for WDR and broadcast on Das Erste in 2013 . In addition to Ronald Zehrfeld, Ulrike C. Tscharre , Florian Panzner , Godehard Giese and Martin Brambach play the leading roles .
action
Two nine-year-old boys are murdered in Eberswalde (then Frankfurt (Oder) district ) in 1969 . Led by the Commissioner Heinz Gödicke by the police and Stefan Witt, Major the Stasi , which is murder investigation Commission (MUK) furnished. All relatives and acquaintances of the victims are questioned extensively, but this does not provide any indications of tracing the perpetrator. The fact that both corpses had a large number of small knife wounds, which were not fatal, lead Gödicke to suspect a sadistic and mentally ill person. The case of the child murderer Jürgen Bartsch , who shortly before reached the public in the FRG through the media, gives food to his assumption. But the state security in the person of Witt does not allow this thought, because something like that could not and should not exist in the German Democratic Republic . Additional tension between the investigator duo arises when the secret relationship between Witt's partner, the elementary school teacher Carla Böhm, and Gödicke comes to light. Witt, who is loyal to the line, announces the dissolution of the MUK and has the case filed as unresolved.
Gödicke, who promised one of the victims' fathers to find the killer of his child, continued investigating for months. But he cannot prevent a third child murder. Witt, who has meanwhile been promoted to colonel, appears again, who now has to hear from Gödicke that he has this child on his conscience.
Gödicke goes on the offensive and questions the children in the Eberswalde school. From a boy he receives a reference to a young man in his twenties. The commissioner compares the list of animal abusers, which was drawn up in the course of the investigation in 1969 but was never evaluated, with the list of people who were present at the 1969 burial. In doing so, he comes across Erwin Hagedorn, born in 1949. He works in the Eberswalde branch of the VEB Fischkombinat Rostock , which explains to the investigators the professional use of a knife as a murderous tool, according to the investigation. When Gödicke and his colleague Georg Thom from the People's Police visit the suspect, the suspect confesses: "I am who you are looking for."
Since Hagedorn confesses to all three murders and there is no doubt about his guilt even after the course of the crime has been re-enacted, he is sentenced to death. Gödicke tries to stand up for him because he considers him to be mentally ill and thus incapable of guilt, but he is not heard by the judge. After Walter Ulbricht , the chairman of the State Council of the GDR at the time , rejected a petition for clemency, Hagedorn was executed on September 15, 1972 in the penitentiary facility in Leipzig with an unexpected close-range shot with a pistol in the back of the head.
Production, background
The film was not shot on the original location, but u. a. in Bautzen , Löbau and Zittau in Upper Lusatia .
The murders of the sex offender Erwin Hagedorn were already the template for the crime film Polizeiruf 110: At the age of ... , which was shot in 1974 and banned by the GDR authorities before it was even completed . The first broadcast, originally planned for 1975, only took place in 2011 in a newly dubbed version.
reception
Reviews
“It's hard to say which is more disturbing in the end: That bizarre film in the film or the execution of Hagedorn, shown afterwards, with an 'unexpected close shot' in the back of the head. Anything but a disturbing conclusion would also be inappropriate for this finely balanced time, crime and society study. "
“The detailed reconstruction of everyday socialism, right down to Tscharre's armpit hair (production design: Zazie Knepper) happens incidentally and never pushes itself into the foreground Brambach as Gödicke's partner) as well as the amazingly authentic-looking extras. "
“Exciting (TV) crime drama based on an authentic case that rocked the GDR at the end of the 1960s. [...] The film captures a lot of time color and clairvoyantly thematizes the ideology of the GDR. "
Audience rating
The first broadcast of Mord in Eberswalde on January 30, 2013 was seen by 5.23 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 15.7% for Das Erste .
Awards
- Baden-Baden TV Film Festival 2013 : actor award to Ronald Zehrfeld
- Award of the German Academy for Television 2013 for the picture design to Thomas Benesch and for the music to Irmin Schmidt
- German TV Crime Prize 2013 : Main Prize
- Grimme Prize 2014 in the "Fiction" category to Holger Karsten Schmidt (book), Stephan Wagner (director), Zazie Knepper (production design) and Ronald Zehrfeld and Florian Panzner (depiction)
Web links
- Murder in Eberswalde in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Murder in Eberswalde at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Grimme Prize - Murder in Eberswalde. (No longer available online.) In: Grimme Prize. Grimme Institute, archived from the original on March 20, 2014 ; Retrieved March 19, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Peter Luley: ARD crime thriller about GDR child molesters. In a two-stroke on the hunt for sex offenders. In: Culture. Spiegel Online, January 29, 2013, accessed March 2, 2014 .
- ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff: TV tip of the day: "Mord in Eberswalde" (WDR). Joint work of Protestant journalism , November 23, 2013, accessed on February 28, 2014 .
- ^ Murder in Eberswalde. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Fabian Riedner: Primetime check: Wednesday, January 30, 2013.quotemeter.de , January 31, 2013, accessed on March 1, 2014 .
