Crime scene: Bienzle and the taxi murder

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Bienzle and the taxi murder
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SWR
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 538 ( List )
First broadcast August 3, 2003 on First German Television
Rod
Director Hans-Christoph Blumenberg
script Felix Huby
production Brigitte Dithard
music Stephan Massimo
camera Thomas Makosch
cut Roswitha gracious
occupation

Bienzle and the Taxi Murder is an episode of the crime series Tatort . The first broadcast of the contribution produced by Südwestrundfunk under the direction of Hans-Christoph Blumenberg took place on August 3, 2003 on First German Television . It is the 538th episode of the film series as well as the eighteenth with the Stuttgart inspector Ernst Bienzle, who is promoted to the first chief inspector in this episode.

action

Commissioners Bienzle and Gächter investigate the murder of taxi driver Konrad Lenzen. Everything points to robbery and murder and the forensics department is hoping for usable images from an inside camera of the taxi. Bienzle recalls the unsolved murder case a year ago. The owner of the taxi company Holz was also stabbed and this time an employee of this company is the victim. Bienzle therefore lets the files of the old case come to her.

Bienzle initially suspected that Konrad Lenzen could have stabbed his boss to death because he was fired by him. Anita Holz, who continues to run the taxi company after her husband's death, confesses to him that she and Lenzen are planning a future together. He was expecting an inheritance that he wanted to put into the company and that would be restructured. Now wood is on the verge of ruin, which should be fine with its competitor Erich Blacher.

With the help of the inside camera and the information from taxi colleagues, two young people were the last passengers. After they are found and subjected to a DNA test, however, both are ruled out as perpetrators. Nevertheless, the investigators can get an indication of another passenger from Lenzen through the two. Based on the phantom image made in this way, the trail leads to Tim Roloff, who is then searched for.

In the meantime, Bienzle contacted Martin Gollhofer, who had dealt with the Holz case at the time and put it on file with remarkable speed. He finds out that Gollhofer is the biological father of Konrad Lenzen and that that is why he closed the files so quickly, because he also thought he was the perpetrator at the time and was unable to arrest him. However, Erich Blacher was also suspected at the time, as he was constantly putting the small taxi companies under pressure.

In the middle of the investigation, there is another murder of a taxi driver. It very quickly turns out that Thomas Breuer had found out that Erich Blacher had committed the murder of Holzer and blackmailed him with this knowledge. Bienzle then confronts Blacher with the evidence against him and learns that Tim Roloff works for him and takes care of certain unpleasant matters. In concrete terms, however, they cannot prove anything to Blacher. While Bienzle and Gächter are looking for concrete evidence, Blacher goes on the offensive and incites the taxi drivers against Roloff. Anita Holz informs Bienzle and so at the last moment he can prevent the angry taxi drivers from lynching the wanted person. Since Roloff will now testify against Blacher, Bienzle can prove the murder of Holz and Breuer to him. Lenzen, however, was stabbed to death by Roloff, as he was supposed to intimidate him on Blacher's order not to put his money into the taxi company Holz.

background

The shooting of Bienzle and the Taxi Murder took place from November 12th to December 13th, 2002 in Stuttgart and Baden-Baden .

reception

Audience ratings

When it was first broadcast on August 3, 2003, 6.09 million viewers followed the program, which corresponds to a market share of 25.2 percent.

criticism

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv says: “'Bienzle and the Taxi Murder' is urban and unusually dark for a 'crime scene' with the cozy Swabian investigator. The atmosphere is uninviting; the prevailing tone of voice is aggressive, mist billows in the side streets and Blumenberg's directing ideas are quite wrong. The story of prolific writer and Bienzle inventor Huby is a bit better. The good actors unfortunately have to apply much too thick. "

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm think: "Great actors in a solid story."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Filming locations from the Internet Movie Database , accessed on March 10, 2016.
  2. ↑ Audience rating at tatort-blog.de, accessed on March 10, 2016.
  3. ↑ Tilmann P. Gangloff: Steck, Russek, Saß, Redl, Huby, Blumenberg - and the fear in the neck at tittelbach.tv, accessed on March 10, 2016.
  4. ↑ Does taxi operator Katrin Sass have two of her drivers on her conscience? Bienzle looks closely. Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on March 10, 2016.
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