Crime scene: beer war

Episode of the series Tatort
Original title	Beer war
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	MDR
length	90 minutes
classification	Episode 357 ( List )
First broadcast	April 13, 1997 on Das Erste
Rod
Director	Wolfgang Panzer
script	Claudia Sontheim , Peter Zender
production	Hans-Werner Honert
music	Filippo Trecca
camera	Edwin Horak
cut	Claudio Di Mauro
occupation
Peter Sodann : KHK Bruno Ehrlicher Bernd Michael Lade : KHK Kain Walter Nickel : Forensic Technician Walter Esther Schweins : Police officer Herbert Olschok : Peter Kreiling Laura Tonke : Miriam Kreiling Ines Dalchau : Marta Kreiling Hilmar Eichhorn : Peter Funke Michael Tonke : Udo Schaffert Anna-Katharina Muck : Rita Merz Hannelore Koch : Christina Born Christoph Hofrichter : Arno Lehmann Emanuela von Frankenberg : Sylvia Lehmann Jochen Kretschmer : Head of the choral society Dieter Vienna : Chief Detective Edwin Meissner Lutz Teschner : Chief of Police

Bierkrieg is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD , ORF and SRF . The film was produced by MDR and first broadcast on April 13, 1997. It is the crime scene episode 357. For the detective chief inspector Bruno Ehrlicher ( Peter Sodann ) and his colleague Kain ( Bernd Michael Lade ) it is the 13th case.

action

At night, two barrels of Dobitzer Bräu are brought to a vehicle by hand truck and loaded into a white station wagon. A man in a tie and white shirt gives incomprehensible instructions. The man with the hand truck leaves the refrigerator. Immediately afterwards, the man in the shirt makes defensive hand movements and is shot. The second shot goes into a barrel of beer. The next (Sunday) morning, of course, the disgruntled detective chief commissioner Ehrlicher first has to grope into the puddle of beer. The dead person is the brewery's Dresden customer service representative, Udo Schaffert. The murder weapon, a Russian Makarow, and a beer supply contract between Dobitzer Bräu and the newly opened Ballhaus are found. A cheeky photographer appears right at the scene of the crime. Commissioner Ehrlicher throws him and his camera out. This resulted in an ultimatum of 72 hours to resolve the case.

Ehrlicher and Kain find an internal note in Schaffert's office in which he questions the competence of sales manager Arno Lehmann. The murder victim was apparently not only a successful businessman, but had hit with women and each with first name, measurements, relationship duration and photo stored in his database. Schaffert had an open relationship with neighbor Rita Merz (on the evening of the crime), secretary Sylvia Lehmann (after all, Arno Lehmann's wife) and three others.

Cain moves from relationship to relationship and Ehrlicher goes to the restaurant "Zum Stammtisch", which Schaffert had in his appointment calendar for Saturday evening. There he learns that most of the landlords have signed a contract with Schaffert and serve Dobitzer Bräu. Peter Kreiling, representative of the competing brewery Eichen Pils, could do little with his temperament against Schaffert, but was able to sign a supply contract with Peter Funke, the leaseholder of the Ballhaus , because he could offer better conditions. Honest comes to pondering for a moment, since the competition contract was found with the dead. The fax with the notice to Eichen Pils stole spark from the dead man's abandoned Porsche. Schaffert had funke in hand through his relationship with his wife.

Kain learns from the real estate agent Christina Born in the presence of Schaffert's neighbor Rita Merz that Schaffert had acquired Kreiling's foreclosed villa. For Ehrlicher this is completely incomprehensible, since Schaffert comes from Dresden, but has no past. After all, he had the photo of Marta Kreiling in his apartment, which dates from her time as a dancer 20 years ago. They had a relationship back then before he fled the GDR and took his wife's name in the West. After the fall of the Wall, he suddenly stood in front of the door and asked Marta Kreiling for a divorce.

Daughter Miriam Kreiling, who reacted conspicuously to the question about the murder pistol on Ehrlicher's first visit, describes the scenes on the night of the murder in panic and immediately afterwards kills herself in father's car.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of the Bierkrieg crime scene on April 13, 1997 was seen by a total of 6.63 million viewers in Germany and thus achieved a market share of 19.03%.

criticism

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave this crime scene the worst rating (thumbs down) and wrote: "Exciting as a stale Pils, plus badly written and poorly played - a low point for the now retired 'Tatort' investigator." she: "Dish hunted perpetrators, zero oomph and tension".

Web links

• Crime scene: beer war in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Beer war in the online film database
• Summary of the plot of Bierkrieg on the ARD website
• Beer war at the crime scene fund
• Beer war at Tatort-Fans.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Audience ratings at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on January 8, 2016.
2. ↑ Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on November 23, 2015.

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