Police call 110: How is the world so quiet

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title How is the world so quiet
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 The Film GmbH
on behalf of the BR
classification Episode 292 ( List )
First broadcast April 13, 2008 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Alain Gsponer
script Alex Buresch ,
Alain Gsponer
production Uli Aselmann
music Marius Felix Lange
camera Matthias Fleischer
cut Vera van Appeldorn
occupation

How is the world so quiet is a TV film from the crime series Polizeiruf 110 . The film produced for Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) was first broadcast on April 13, 2008. Chief Inspector Jo Obermaier ( Michaela May ) and Chief Inspector Jürgen Tauber ( Edgar Selge ) investigate. The title of the film is a line from the poem Abendlied by Matthias Claudius .

action

Tauber and Obermaier have to investigate a triple murder. The Harms couple and their son Holger were brutally slain. The perpetrator caused a bloodbath and then ravaged the apartment. The missing instrument is a heavy wooden object, possibly a baseball bat. The family's daughter, Maren Harms, was with a friend at the time of the crime. The house shows no signs of burglary, so the investigations are based on people who are close to the family and who may have a house key.

Tauber, who looks attacked, reconstructs that the murderer must be well acquainted with the processes in family life; he gained entry, waited in the house for his victims and brutally murdered first the son and then the returning parents.

When looking for a motive, it turns out that the Harms are wealthy people, among other things, they own several houses and apartments. First, the neighbors are interviewed. Ms. Seifert, who discovered the crime, is rumored to have had a relationship with Holger Harms. Since Tauber cannot rule out an act of jealousy, the husband is questioned by Mrs. Seifert. The rude employee of a security company can have got the house key without any problems. He has no alibi, behaves aggressively, loses control when confronted with the supposed relationship with his wife and attacks Tauber. However, the suspicion against him cannot be substantiated.

The car dealer Günter Vieth, who is walking a baseball bat in the trunk, has borrowed a large amount of money from Mr Harms that he cannot repay. He claims to have been playing poker at the time of the crime. The clues don't match - how is Vieth supposed to have got a house key?

Richard Laue, Mrs. Harms' brother, has neither house keys nor an alibi. He's a seedy alcoholic and lives in a Harms condominium for a meager rent. Can one trust this poor contemporary, who can only give incoherently information, such a murder out of greed?

Tauber, who promised the deeply disturbed Maren Harms that the case would be cleared up quickly, is increasingly showing signs of psychological impairment. He sleeps in the office, dreams of the bloody act and the pictures haunt him. Tauber is impatient, uncontrollable and even allows himself to be carried away to fistfight Richard Laue, who then files a complaint against Tauber. Obermaier is also of the opinion that her colleague urgently needs a break and expresses this to a manager. This leads to another conflict between the two investigators. Because of a lack of staff, Tauber, who can only keep himself awake with high doses of caffeine, is allowed to continue investigating this case.

Maren's friend Thomas Rösch is the focus of the investigation. He has access to the house key via Maren. The self-confident event manager turns out to be a slick guy. He is said to have had violent arguments with his girlfriend's father. That could be a motive, but Rösch counters with a watertight alibi: He spent the night in question with his lover, Teresa Schwarz! Maren, confronted by the less sensitive Tauber with this fact, vehemently denies it.

In the meantime, fingerprints that do not belong to any of the known persons have been found in the room of the murdered Holger Harms. They are the fingerprints of a neighbor of Harms, Johannes Ottl. The young man was on the night of the crime with Holger, with whom he is friends. At first he was uncooperative and withdrawn and said that they watched a football game on television together. Further surveys of the neighbors indicate that Ottl could have had a homosexual relationship with Holger Harms. Ottl's father is considered a radical Catholic who would never tolerate such an inclination. Tauber has Johannes Ottl monitored the phone.

The fact that Ottl is in a relationship with a girl, Laura, speaks against alleged homosexuality. Laura is questioned extensively, also on intimate matters. Because of the suspicions and also because she feels betrayed, Laura ends the friendship abruptly. Friends and work colleagues also turn away, even his own father is very hard on Ottl. And for Tauber he is the main suspect.

Ottl becomes increasingly desperate and commits suicide. He wrote a suicide note in which he denied the act. The investigation seems to have stalled. The SOKO is dissolved by the public prosecutor. Tauber suffers a nervous breakdown due to the "collateral damage" that the investigations have caused in the wrong direction and has to go to the cure.

Two months later: The murder weapon, a baseball bat, is found in a field near the crime scene; it has DNA traces of the perpetrator. The SOKO is set up again. Tauber is also on board again. The police obtained DNA samples from all suspects. The DNA on the baseball bat matches that of Thomas Rösch, Maren Harms' friend. Maren is the sole heir and has a considerable fortune, which now also benefits Rösch. He is arrested in the shared apartment, but denies all allegations. Teresa Schwarz, with whom he is cheating on Maren, is now suspected of complicity. She collapses in an interrogation conducted by Obermaier and revokes her alibi for Rösch. At the same time, Tauber confronts him with the murder weapon, which he thought had long since been removed. Rösch finally makes a confession and gives hatred of the family as the motive. The case is solved.

Tauber reports the results of the interrogation to Maren in his office - after all, he had promised her to convict the murderer. In an unobserved moment, Maren seizes the baseball bat lying on a cupboard as evidence and rushes at Rösch, who is being taken away after an identification service. She knocks him down with a baseball bat. In the last shot, Tauber desperately turns his head away.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Wie ist die Welt so Stille on April 13, 2008 was seen by 5.85 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 16.6% for Das Erste .

criticism

“The script of this 'Police Call 110' is weak. The inadequate dramaturgy suffers in numerous corners, a lot is not really worked out, characters are not narrated properly, and the atmosphere of this cold film often seems very strange and artificial. The case does not affect, and so little to no emotionality may arise. "

- Thilo Wydra : The daily mirror

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fabian Riedner: Primetime-Check: Sunday, April 13th, 2008.quotemeter.de , April 14th, 2008, accessed on August 12th, 2013 : “In the last few weeks, the ARD recorded ranges of eight or nine with the“ Tatort ”series Millions of viewers. On Sunday evening, however, the new "Police Call 110" only entertained 5.85 million people. "
  2. ↑ Thilo Wydra: Empty psycho box. In: Media. Der Tagesspiegel, April 12, 2008, accessed on August 12, 2013 : "Woe, if Inspector Tauber starts to paint."
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