Crime scene: 3-0 for Veigl

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title 3-0 for Veigl
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavarian radio
length 82 minutes
classification Episode 40 ( List )
First broadcast May 26th 1974 on German television
Rod
Director Michael Kehlmann
script Carl Merz ,
Michael Kehlmann
production Horst Bergmann,
Peter Hoheisel
camera Manfred Ensinger
cut Engelbert Kraus
occupation

The episode 3: 0 for Veigl is the 40th TV film in the crime series Tatort . Produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk, the episode was broadcast for the first time on May 26, 1974 on ARD's first program. It is the fourth case of Commissioner Veigl, portrayed by Gustl Bayrhammer . The episode is about the outbreak of a gang boss, about forged tickets for the soccer world cup 1974 , about the alleged suicide of a woman and about the shooting of two burglars by a police officer in supposed self-defense.

action

Due to the upcoming soccer World Cup in 1974 there is an acute shortage of personnel in the Munich police force. So this time Veigl has to deal with several cases at the same time.

The felon Johann Strasser manages to escape on his divorce date because his wife secretly slips him a pistol before the trial. Veigl is entrusted with the search for the escape due to the personnel shortage. Almost at the same time, two more cases come in via Veigl. On the one hand, he is supposed to clarify the circumstances of an alleged suicide of a woman with gas in her marital apartment, and on the other hand, the case of mass forgeries of tickets for the soccer World Cup. Since the hotels that unknowingly sold the forged cards to their guests fear a scandal, all hotel employees refuse to testify. Only one porter wanted to testify, but he was attacked and is now in the hospital. Before Veigl can question the doorman at the hospital, Veigl even has to deal with a fourth case. Inspector Schneehans entrusts him to investigate another incident. The night before, the patrol officer Lohse apparently shot two intruders in self-defense. Schneehans would like this case to be quickly confirmed by Veigl as a self-defense.

Veigl looks for the porter in the hospital, but he has been afraid since the attack on his person and now refuses to give evidence. Finally the porter gives a hint about a certain Feuerlein. Veigl then visits the patrol officer Lohse in the training center of the Munich police. This says that he noticed an open garage door and two burglars inside in the dark. Veigl is puzzled because Lohse was able to kill both with a shot in the head despite allegedly poor visibility. Kriminalrat Schneehans sees the matter as settled. Next Veigl seeks Mr Madlmeier, the husband of the woman who was killed by gas. The widower looks badly marked by his wife's suicide. When he found his wife dead, he immediately called a neighbor to help; both found Frau Madlmeier's body together. It was lying in front of the open gas pipe by the stove. The pipe had been screwed onto the nut. Ms. Madlmeier had cancer and had been operated on years ago. The pain reappeared on my last vacation in Spain. After the doctor had indicated that the cancer would return, Ms. Madlmeier was, according to her widower, discouraged and no longer wanted to be treated. Veigl is puzzled because Mr Madlmeier did not initiate any attempts at resuscitation, but hurried over to the neighbor and instructed Lenz to make further inquiries about Madlmeier.

In a strip bar, Veigl asks about Mallik, an accomplice in Strasser's gang. He doesn't meet him, but can question two women who were with Strasser's accomplices; they give him clues about criminal offenses, but insist that he no longer have any contact with Strasser or the relevant accomplices. The next morning Veigl visits a gas station in Aubing, which is said to have been attacked by the group. There he finally meets Mallik, who has often served as an informant for Veigl. Mallik's wife is close friends with Ms. Strasser. Mallik claims that Strasser is abroad, but he has no other informants. Back at the gas station, the owner can identify two of the perpetrators in a photo that Veigl received from the women in the restaurant as the robbers who attacked his gas station the year before. In the meantime, Brettschneider interrogates Mr. Feuerlein, the dealer who sold false cards to the injured hotel porter. This gives a reference to a travel agency in Leopoldstrasse. Lenz has meanwhile found out that the widower Madlmeier has a girlfriend, as Veigl suspected from the start. She is a photo model. Ms. Strasser and Ms. Mallik meet in a café at Augsburg Central Station. For security reasons, Ms. Strasser does not know where her husband is. Ms. Strasser expresses the fear that Strasser would like to take revenge on Veigl, with whom he still has an account. Meanwhile, Lenz finds out at the forensic medicine department that Ms. Madlmeier actually died of gas poisoning. Veigl had found a plug under the bed in the Madlmeiers' bedroom and found that the bedside table drawer was empty, which maintains his suspicion. When Veigl met his colleague Lutz from Stuttgart in the evening, he told him about a joint ex-colleague who now runs a forensic laboratory in Frankfurt. They now have a new chemical process with which they can determine the gas or poison content in the blood of all kinds of substances. In view of the Madlmeier case, Veigl pricks up his ears. Lutz arranged an investigation for Veigl against Veigl's last World Cup card.

The next day, Brettschneider visits the travel agency that Feuerlein drew his attention to and asks for World Cup tickets. The lady in the travel agency is clueless. The managing director of the travel agency, Vikicevic, says that he received this as a gift from an unknown customer. Brettschneider takes the man to Veigl's station. Vikicevic finally testifies that he obtained the forged tickets from two Italian waiters at an ice cream parlor near the Olympic site. Veigl also makes progress in the case of the two burglars who were shot. He suspects that the young police officer Lohse must have known the intruders he shot. Via Lenz he ordered the ambushed gas station attendant to the presidium, but he could not clearly identify Lohse as the third gangster in a randomly arranged encounter, but Veigl noticed the reaction of Lohse, who was quite shocked by this apparently chance encounter. During a local appointment at the crime scene, Veigl confronts Lohse with his incredible shooting luck, which he would have had if he had really hit the burglars as he had stated. This is astonishing, because Lohse was noticed in the target practice as not a very good shooter. In addition, the colleagues only heard two shots, it must have been a strange coincidence if the gangsters and Lohse had shot twice at exactly the same time. Veigl is also puzzled that one of the gangsters was found with the gun in his right hand, although Veigl knows from the investigation file that he was left-handed. Lohse then reveals himself because he notes that both gangsters could have shot with both hands and only stated that they were left-handed. Lohse then collapses and admits to having been the ex-accomplice of the two gangsters. They blackmailed him with his past, so he ordered her to the garage and executed her there. Then he fabricated the scene to look like self-defense. Lohse bursts into tears, he wanted to start a new life with the police. Veigl can lead him away, it is 1-0 for him.

During the night Mallik Veigl rings the doorbell and claims that his life is in danger. Strasser has returned to Munich and now knows that he is an informant of Veigl. Veigl and Brettschneider visit Madlmeier in the morning and both confront Madlmeier with the fact that Ms. Madlmeier has been completely cured of cancer. In addition, they confront him with the fact that they know that he met the young model while on vacation and gave her gifts worth DM 30,000, which the latter indignantly rejects. In addition, Madlmeier had studied chemistry for several semesters and worked in a pharmaceutical company until he met his wife and from then on only looked after her not inconsiderable assets. The officials have also determined that Madlmeier resumed his relationships with the company he had once worked for during his wife's crisis, which was more likely due to acquaintance than alleged recurrence with cancer. He did this to get chloroform. With this he had drugged his wife and placed her in front of the gas pipe. Madlmeier replied that this could not be proven, but Veigl held up against him the additional findings that he received from the forensic medicine institute in Frankfurt. The stopper Veigl found under the bed belonged to the chloroform bottle, which Veigl had also examined at the institute using the new procedure. Veigl and Brettschneider arrest Madlmeier, now it's 2-0 for Veigl.

Veigl then drives to the Napoli ice cream parlor at the Olympic site, where the forged World Cup tickets that have been resold in the travel agency come from. He recognizes a forger known to him in the waiter and promptly discovers the printer for the counterfeit cards in the back room. Veigl also discovers a night camp where Strasser spent the night, who now threatens Veigl with a weapon. With the help of his dachshund Oswald, who grabs Strasser by the leg, Veigl succeeds in disarming Strasser. A patrol officer comes to Veigl's help and Strasser and the forger are taken away. So it is now 3-0 for Veigl.

Afterwards you can see Veigl, who gave away all his World Cup tickets, happily walking into the stadium. The rascal has pocketed enough forged World Cup tickets to be able to enjoy the World Cup. Since he was also able to smuggle his beloved dachshund Oswald into the stadium, the episode actually ends 4-0 for Veigl.

Audience ratings and special features

When it was first broadcast, the episode had a market share of 65.00%.

3-0 for Veigl was the 1974 World Cup in their own country, making it the first crime scene to be a current event. Since the action already takes place during the World Cup, this is the first Tatort episode to be set in the future. However, there is a contradiction to this in the first interrogation scene with Madlmeier, because Veigl describes an operation by Ms. Madlmeier from November 1966 as "six years ago". This is obviously calculated from the time of production.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm rate this crime scene positively: “A crime story overwritten by reality”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "3: 0 for Veigl" at tatort-fundus.de
  2. ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on November 26, 2014.
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