Crime scene: pale purple letters

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Pale purple letters
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SWF
length 102 minutes
classification Episode 139 ( List )
First broadcast July 25, 1982 on ARD
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Director Stanislav Barabáš
script Kurt Rittig based on a script by Herbert Rosendorfer
production Peter Schulze-Rohr
music Rolf Kühn
camera Johannes Hollmann
cut Gudrun Weber
occupation

Pale Purple Letters is the 139th episode in the Tatort television series . By the Südwestfunk result produced (SWF) was first on 25 July 1982 at the First Channel of ARD broadcast. It is the second case for Chief Detective Hanne Wiegand ( Karin Anselm ). It's about the death of a woman who apparently didn't even exist.

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The married Lutz Waldner has a relationship with the also married Grete Steinbeiss. In order to hide the relationship from her husband, he disguises his letters as those of her alleged old school friend Marion Winterfeld. The real estate agent Waldner has bought an apartment for himself and his lover as a love nest for their undisturbed hours for two, the apartment is in the name of the alleged friend Marion. Since Jürgen Steinbeiss becomes suspicious, Lutz decides to hire a friend of his, the theater actress Vera Kraske, so that Grete can introduce her to her husband as her school friend. After Lutz has discussed the plan with Vera, Waldner finds out that he was being watched by his wife, who confronts him and thinks Vera is his affair. Since denial is futile, Waldner admits the relationship, but wants to continue living with his wife, he will end the relationship. Meanwhile, Mr. Steinbeiss is also becoming more and more suspicious, so he makes an appointment with Vera, whom he thinks is Marion. Grete urges a meeting with Lutz, she is also jealous of Vera, but Lutz makes it clear to her that because of his wife he cannot see her anymore for the time being, Grete is beside herself with anger and desperation.

When Jürgen Steinbeiss enters the open apartment of the alleged Marion, he finds Vera Kraske's body there. Instead of calling the police, he leaves the apartment and drives back home. In the house he is observed from the neighboring apartment. Shortly afterwards, neighbors find the body and call the police. Detective Chief Inspector Wiegand and her assistant Korn found out at the scene that the woman was stabbed with two knife stabs, she had also inhaled gas leaked from the stove, suicide is out of the question. Wiegand and Korn noticed that there were no personal belongings of the woman in the apartment. The caretaker tells the officials that the apartment is the model apartment of the real estate agent Lutz Waldner and that he personally rented it to Marion Winterfeld and that he also visited her regularly, although he did not know the woman. At home, Steinbeiss tells his wife that Marion has been stabbed to death. He asks her if she killed her friend, which she denies, even though she only returned home shortly before her husband. The officers are trying in vain to find Waldner, who is on a business trip, but they found flowers that Steinbeiss had bought for Marion and left behind in the apartment, and the flower seller gave them a description of Steinbeiss.

Wiegand went to the Steinbeiss couple because the police found one of the coded letters in the apartment, and the police also found a letter from Lutz to Grete in the envelope. Grete loses composure when her husband reads Lutz's letter and tells Wiegand that it was possible that her friend had led a double life. Meanwhile, Steinbeiss gives his wife an alibi. Wiegand and Korn visit Mrs. Waldner, she pretends not to know anything about her husband's business and has never been to the apartment. In the meantime, Korn has found out that no Marion Winterfeld is registered with the residents' registration office, and Waldner's secretary could not find a rental agreement for the apartment. In a tape recorder Wiegand found a cassette with Vera's speech sample for a Strindberg play, she can locate the theater in which the play is being rehearsed, and the director there can finally identify the deceased as Vera Kraske. She did not live on Karolastrasse, where she was found. Korn went to the guesthouse where Vera Kraske lived and found there evidence of a connection to Waldner, including the money that Waldner had paid her for her play. Wiegand ponders why Grete Steinbeiss had identified the dead woman as her friend Marion and Jürgen Steinbeiss denies having been in the apartment, although the flowers clearly come from him, when Frau Waldner unexpectedly visits her. She is worried about her husband and tells about her argument with her husband. At this moment Wiegand learns that the neighbor Mau is missing, the police break into his apartment and find him murdered in the same way as Vera Krase was before in the neighboring apartment.

When Wiegand and her colleagues secure the crime scene, Lutz Waldner appears and enters the Winterfeld apartment. Wiegand speaks to him and informs him of Kraske's death. Walder tells her about his relationship with Grete Steinbeiss and the game of hide and seek with the alleged Marion, for which he had hired Vera. The neighbor Mau, who was also murdered, had nothing to do with the game of hide-and-seek. Waldner also claims to have reached an agreement with his wife to end the relationship with Grete. Ms. Waldner's alibi soon turns out to be false. Meanwhile, assistant Korn finds out that the knife that was used as a murder weapon was bought by Waldner and asks him, but Waldner can provide an alibi. The next morning Wiegand summons Grete Steinbeiss and tells her that she lied to the police. This admits her lies and her relationship with Lutz Waldner. When Ms. Waldner overhears this, she collapses. Wiegand observes an argument between the two women after the questioning in front of the presidium and assigns Korn to observe Ms. Waldner. Shortly afterwards Jürgen Steinbeiss visits Wiegand and admits that he was in the apartment after all and saw the body. Wiegand is not surprised because she no longer suspects him. On this occasion Steinbeiss found out about the murder of the neighbor and was able to testify that he had been seen in Maus' s apartment by a woman he did not know.

Watched by Korn, Lutz Waldner and Grete Steinbeiss meet, she wants to continue the relationship with him and assures him that she is not the murderer, that she went to Vera in the apartment, that she was still alive when she left. He makes it clear to her that the relationship is finally over and that he will stay with his wife. When the Waldner's house was searched, the officials found transfer receipts that prove that Ms. Waldner transferred DM 300 to Mr. Mau. Wiegand also confronts Ms. Waldner that Jürgen Steinbeiss saw her at the crime scene. Since Ms. Waldner refuses to testify, Wiegand bluffs her by pretending that her husband has gone abroad. Thereupon Mrs. Waldner confesses to have killed Vera Kraske in the assumption that she was her husband's lover, Mr. Mau killed her because he suddenly stood in the door and had seen everything. Ms. Waldner hands over the weapon to Wiegand, Mr. Mau was her informant who informed her of the relationship. Mrs. Waldner is arrested.

Audience and background

When it was first broadcast, this episode attracted 12.56 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 35%. The episode was shot in Baden-Baden and the surrounding area and in Freiburg between October 12 and November 20, 1981.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm rate this crime scene positively and comment: "Killer hunt with intellect and feeling".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Crime scene: Pale purple letters data on the 139th crime scene at tatort-fundus.de
  2. ↑ Crime scene: Pale purple letters short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on August 24, 2015.
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