Police call 110: Katharina

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Episode of the series Polizeiruf 110
Original title Catherine
Country of production GDR
original language German
Production
company		 DEFA
on behalf of DDR television
length 79 minutes
classification Episode 133 ( List )
First broadcast October 27, 1989 on GDR 1
Rod
Director Georg Schiemann
script Ulrich Frohriep
production Werner Langer
music Thomas Natschinski
camera Jürgen Lenz
cut Anneliese Hinze-Sokolowa
occupation

Katharina is a German crime film by Georg Schiemann from 1989. The television film was released as the 133rd episode of the film series Polizeiruf 110 .

action

35-year-old Katharina learns that she is pregnant. She does not appear at the celebration of her company, but is on everyone's lips there even without being present. She is supposed to work on a project in the south of the republic - with Richard Paulsen, a previous love affair. In the evening gossip, the suggestion keeps cropping up that this could turn into a new love journey. At some point the director forbids this gossip, which comes primarily from his chief secretary Wilma.

In the morning, Katharina listens to the love message that her teenage lover Johann has spoken on tape. A little later Katharina's roommate Gregor Baumann comes home and finds Johann in shock on an armchair. Katharina's body lies on the floor in front of him. Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner asks Lieutenant Thomas Grawe and Lieutenant Klaus König to deal with the case. This is particularly inconvenient for Thomas Grawe, as he has several days of vacation and was planning to move his family to a larger apartment during this time.

During their investigations, Thomas Grawe and Klaus König encounter a network of relationships. Katharina had numerous affairs, but they always ended on good terms. The men speak very well of her without exception, the young Paul even calls her his lifesaver, as she once brought him out of a relationship he could no longer bear. The neighbors burst into tears when they hear of Katharina's death. She had often helped the old Breit couple. The investigators' heads soon spin. Katharina had a relationship with Johann. Shortly before her death, she gave him a message on tape. She made it clear to him that after some time she had finally decided in favor of him and that she loved him. The doorbell interrupted her message, in which she wanted to tell Johann that she was three months pregnant by him. The investigators initially suspect that Gregor Baumann could be the culprit. He has no alibi for the time of the crime, but was deeply friends with Katharina. He had lived with her for years, both were a couple when Katharina wasn't in love with another man, and Gregor also accepted that she didn't love him, just liked him very much. He knew she would come back to him again and again.

Richard Paulsen is one of the suspects. He was once with Katharina, although he was married. Katharina separated from him one day and he returned to his wife and children. That was three years ago. During a conversation with chief secretary Wilma, the investigators learned that she was jokingly gossiped about a new affair between Richard Paulsen and Katharina because of their future work together in the south. Everyone heard this, including Richard's wife Doris, who hadn't told her husband about the work in the south. Thomas Grawe goes to the couple therapist who Doris visited when her husband returned to her. She always came alone and the psychologist found Doris' obsessive fixation on her husband and children. At the time she advised her to speak to Katharina, but Doris refused. The investigators go to the Paulsen family. Doris left a note for her husband telling him to leave him. He had told her shortly before about Katharina's pregnancy and she was shocked. In the family cellar, the investigators find the instrument of the crime: a silver candlestick. The search for Doris is called because there is an urgent suspicion of suicide. Doris, however, turns himself in to the police a short time later. She claims to have gone to see Katharina because she feared a new affair between her husband and her. When Katharina began to laugh, Doris killed her in anger. She thought Katharina laughed out of arrogance. Now the tape that Katharina recorded shortly before her death is played to her and Doris realizes that Katharina was laughing at her because her assumption was crazy. Ashamed, she bursts into tears.

production

Katharina was shot from January 6th to the end of March 1989 in Berlin , Potsdam and Golm . The costumes of the film created Werner Bergemann , the Filmbauten derived from Lothar Kuhn . The film experienced on 27 October 1989 in the first program of the television of the GDR its premiere. The audience participation was 38.8 percent.

It was the 133rd episode in the series Polizeiruf 110 . First Lieutenant Jürgen Huebner investigated in his 58th case and First Lieutenant Thomas Grawe in his 22nd case.

literature

  • Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00958-4 , p. 180.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation according to http://www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de/filme.php?Nummer=133 (link only available to a limited extent)
  2. ^ Peter Hoff: Police call 110. Films, facts, cases . Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 141.
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