Crime scene: Bienzle and the secret witness

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Bienzle and the secret witness
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SWR
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 469 ( List )
First broadcast May 6, 2001 on First German Television
Rod
Director Arend Agthe
script Felix Huby
production Brigitte Dithard
Ulrich Herrmann
music Matthias Raue
Martin Cyrus
camera Hans-Jörg Allgeier
cut Carola Hülsebus
occupation

Bienzle and the Secret Witness is an episode of the crime series Tatort . The first broadcast of the contribution produced by Südwestrundfunk under the direction of Arend Agthe took place on May 6, 2001 on First German Television . It is the 469th episode in the film series and the thirteenth with the Stuttgart inspector Ernst Bienzle.

action

Commissioner Bienzle is looking forward to attending a concert by the Stuttgart Boys' Choir. Christian Jareis, one of the choirboys, grabs his manager Barbara Massenbach's cash box because he wants to help his father out of an emergency and doesn't know what else to do. Just as he is about to leave the office, he hears people coming, so the boy quickly hides. He involuntarily witnesses his manager being stabbed to death with a letter opener. But he can't see anything of the perpetrator except the conspicuous black shoes.

After the police have been notified by an anonymous caller, Bienzle has to examine the scene and cannot attend the concert. He initially suspects the choirmaster and conductor Marcus Canteni, whom the manager wanted to fire soon because she had learned that Canteni is homosexual and he was therefore no longer acceptable to her as a choir director of a boys' choir. But the very next day, the music store operator Berthold called the police. Christian secretly sent him two wads of banknotes with banderoles bearing the stamp of the Stuttgart Boys' Choir. Since Paul Jareis owes him exactly this amount, he is now suspected. Bienzle also explains Christian's striking behavior. He suspects that the boy saw something and if this was his father, he must inevitably have got into a conflict of conscience. Jareis is arrested and his son is to be handed over to the youth welfare office. Since he does not want this under any circumstances, he takes flight. He manages to get into custody up to his father. There he confesses to him what he had done and seen. Bienzle finds out about this and fears that Christian could now be in danger. Therefore he requests personal protection for the boy.

Forensic doctor Kocher informs Bienzle that Barbara Massenbach was pregnant. This notice draws the commissioner's attention to Henry Buchenhöfer, the future artistic director and chairman of the choir's friends' association. According to rumors, he had a relationship with the manager and could therefore also be the child's father. A DNA comparison confirms this. As a married family man who is as public as Buchenhöfer, it would be a scandal for the end of his career. For Bienzle a very strong motive for murder.

The situation comes to a head when Christian visits his friend Wolfgang Buchenhöfer and recognizes his father's shoes as those of the murderer. Henry Buchenhöfer finds out that Christian had observed him doing what he did. He wants to silence him and throw him from the church tower, but because of the surveillance, the police are always close to Christian and Bienzle can save Christian.

background

The shooting of Bienzle and the secret witness took place from November 2 to December 11, 2000 in Stuttgart , Baden-Baden and Alpirsbach . The then acting Federal Minister of Justice Herta Däubler-Gmelin has a guest role as minister in this crime scene. The musical parts were designed with the help of the Rottweiler Münstersängerknaben.

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast on May 6, 2001 was followed by 6.6 million viewers. Das Erste thus achieved a rate of 20 percent.

criticism

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv says: “Lovers of old-fashioned crime stories get their money's worth, especially since Bienzle (Dietz Werner Steck) lets all suspects fidget with relish. [...] Like practically all 'crime scenes' from Stuttgart, this episode also dispenses with superficial effects; the drawing of the characters is much more important to the author and director. Therefore it is all the more annoying that some of the supporting actors choose anything but quiet tones and show off, as if it was a matter of reaching the last row in the packed theater. All the more relaxing is the sovereign, calm manner of Dietz Werner Steck, who, as always, is the calm pole of the action. "

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best possible rating (thumbs up) and said: “A bit conservative, but told in an exciting and straightforward manner. For guessing. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Murder in the Boys Choir Ñ a case for the Minster Boys' Choir retrieved from schwaebische.de.
  2. ↑ Munster Boys' Choir say goodbye to Auginski at schwarzwaelder-bote.de, accessed on 2 March 2016th
  3. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff: Dietz Werner Steck, Russek, Trepte, Huby. Bienzle lets the suspects fidget on tittelbach.tv, accessed on March 2, 2016.
  4. ↑ TV thriller with Grimme Prize winners Ludwig Trepte and Herta Däubler-Gmelin. Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on March 1, 2016.
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