Tannöd

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Tannöd is a crime novel by the German author Andrea Maria Schenkel . The book was published in January 2006 by Edition Nautilus and was filmed in 2009 under the same title .

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The novel tells the story of a sixfold murder on the fictional Upper Palatinate Einödhof Tannöd in the mid-1950s. In 39 short sections, the perspectives of the victims, the locals and the perpetrator are linked. The sections are partly short narrative passages, but mostly isolated testimonies that only gradually come together to form an overall picture: A peasant family, ruled by a tyrannical father who abuses women and children, draws other people into its network of relationships, up to and including one of them, von Disappointment overwhelmed, in a frenzy of blood all residents of the farm were murdered particularly brutally, including two children and a newly employed personMaid .

In the village people are surprised that nothing has been seen in the Danners' farm for several days, so Georg Hauer, Johann Sterzer and the farmhand Alois Huber decide to look. On the remote courtyard in the barn they find the bodies of the Danner couple, their daughter Barbara and their daughter Marianne covered with hay. Josef, who is only two years old, lies dead in his cot and the body of Marie, who was only hired the day before, lies under a feather bed. Everyone's skull was knocked in with a pickaxe. The suspect is the widower Georg Hauer, as he is the alleged father of little Josef, but Barbara refused to have any contact with him. Since Georg couldn't cope with that and was madly in love with Barbara, he wanted to meet her for a chat on the night of the murder. The two met in the barn and an argument broke out. Georg choked Barbara out of anger and then killed her with a pickaxe. When Frau Danner saw the light, she also went to the barn, where she had to lose her life as a witness. Mr. Danner also went out to look and the same thing happened to him. Marianne, Barbara's little daughter, wanted to check on her mother and went to the barn, where she was murdered too. Then Georg went into the house, where he murdered the maid Marie and little Josef in order to be able to exclude these two as witnesses. He feeds the cows for several days and pretends that the family will continue to live.

It becomes clear that old Danner had sexually abused his daughter Barbara since she was 12 and she had become pregnant. Barbara had married the war refugee Spangler and tried to put the child on him, but he found out, whereupon old Danner gave him money so that he could disappear. When Barbara was expecting a child a second time with her own father, she began a love affair with Georg.

background

The novel processed details of a murder that occurred in 1922 on the no longer existing Upper Bavarian Einödhof Hinterkaifeck . The village of Tannöd of the same name has nothing to do with what is happening. The author claims to have become aware of the historic case through a newspaper report and read several publications about the murder. She wrote the book mostly during a summer vacation.

For her book, Schenkel moved the plot to the post-war period and invented the neighborhood around the courtyard and its residents. The narrative structure uses fictional statements in front of the police, files and conversations. Prayers are interspersed. To resolve the murder, Schenkel invents an eyewitness from whose point of view the killings are described; in the final chapter the perpetrator makes a confession, the last paragraph suggests a subsequent suicide.

This case was also dealt with in 1978 and 1997 by the author Peter Leuschner in non-fiction, who in April 2007 filed a lawsuit against the author for plagiarism at the Munich Regional Court. The Munich Higher Regional Court found in the second instance that the novel was not a plagiarism of the non-fiction books, there can be no copyright on the facts and their arrangement. The court dismissed Leuschner's lawsuit in mid-November 2009, thereby confirming an identical judgment by the Munich regional court in May 2008.

Adaptations

In 2007, Norddeutsche Rundfunk ( NDR ) produced a 70-minute radio play of the novel Tannöd (radio play adaptation and director: Norbert Schaeffer ).

On September 25, 2008, Tannöd celebrated its German premiere as a stage work in the Stadttheater Fürth , based on the stage version by Maya Fanke , who also directed.

The film adaptation of the novel Tannöd of the same name (directed by Bettina Oberli , production company Desert-Film West ) was released on November 19, 2009. The screenplay was written by Petra Lüschow , with Julia Jentsch , Monica Bleibtreu and Volker Bruch in the leading roles .

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Edition

By May 2009, one million copies of the novel Tannöd had been sold.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Süddeutsche Zeitung: I used to write for waste paper . Interview with Andrea Maria Schenkel, March 16, 2006, p. 50
  2. ↑ Information on the Tannöd production ( memento of the original from October 2, 2008 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. on the homepage of the Stadttheater Fürth @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / stadttheater.de
  3. ↑ Information about Tannöd on the homepage of Andrea Maria Schenkel.