Crime scene: the girl on the stairs

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The girl on the stairs
Crime scene the girl on the stairs.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavaria Atelier GmbH for the WDR
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 138 ( List )
First broadcast June 27, 1982 on ARD
Rod
Director Peter Adam
script Martin Gies
production Hartmut Grund
music Tangerine Dream
camera Joseph Vilsmaier
cut Ingrid Broszat
occupation

The girl on the stairs is a television film from the crime scene crime series by ARD and ORF .

The film was produced by WDR and first broadcast on June 27, 1982. It is the 138th episode in the Tatort series. It is their fourth case for the chief detective Horst Schimanski ( Götz George ) and Christian Thanner ( Eberhard Feik ).

action

When Chief Detective Schimanski came home late in the evening, the young Katja Behrens was sitting on the staircase in front of his apartment and asked him to look around the apartment across from her mother. She came home from boarding school but did not find her mother and found the apartment ransacked. Schimanski does the girl a favor, but does not attach any urgent importance to the situation. Nevertheless, he allows the frightened Katja to spend the night with him.

The next morning, the police found a woman's body not far from the apartment. It is Katja's mother who was shot and then run over several times. Kriminalhauptkommissar Thanner and Schimanski try to elicit information about her mother from Katja, who is in grief. The girl repeatedly outsmarts them both and poses some puzzles. The investigators go to the dead person's place of work, the specialty restaurant "Hawaii", and question its boss, Straub. He tells them about the mother's problems with her daughter Katja. Meanwhile, the young Wolfgang Patschke, called Wolli, follows Schimanski and Katja, and it turns out that he and Katja's mother worked together in "Hawaii". Wolli is also after a pack of drugs that Katja is carrying, as are two unknown men who try to kidnap the young woman. When this pack is seized by Schimanski at Duisburg main station, Katja tells him that she wanted to blow up her mother's employers. She suspects that one of them is the killer. A raid in "Hawaii" proves the drug trade , but Straub was able to escape.

When Thanner and Schimanski seem to be stuck in a dead end, Katja remembers a former lover of her mother who is allegedly also involved in the drug trade. She only knows his first name, Pit. An old 8-mm film leads to the identity of the man named Peter Henje who owns the building in which the “Hawaii” is located. Schimanski looks for him in his office. As an alibi, Henje pretends to have had dinner with business friends at the time of the crime. Since Katja also happens to have her birthday, Schimanski invites the girl to the very same restaurant that Henje visits on the same evening. Although Henje actually shows up there, Schimanski doesn't get anywhere. Katja stays overnight at Schimanski's again and secretly sneaks away with his service weapon at night . The superintendent noticed her disappearance in time and rushed to “Hawaii”, where the girl already tried to get Henje to admit her mother's murder with warning shots . He confesses to Katja's murder and attempted kidnapping; the latter, however, is based on blackmailing her mother, who allegedly kept a confession about Henjes further illegal activities. He thought this was owned by Katja. In the end, Schimanski and Thanner actually find this document in their possession. She left the police in the dark all along to make sure that in the end both Henje and Straub would be brought to justice.

background

  • Actor Erich Bar had several recurring roles in the Schimanski episodes, of which this one and that of the machinist in the Duisburg-Ruhrort episode contained a humorous component. In both cases, Schimanski replied to his question what should happen next, that he could now look for a new job.
  • The episode was filmed from October 28, 1981 to December 4, 1981 under the working title Dirty Snow .
  • Most of the shooting took place in Duisburg . Among other things, the Duisburg main train station served as the location for the episode. The scene in which the body of Katja's mother is found was made in Duisburg-Beeck on Heckershof street. The Thyssen steelworks in Duisburg-Bruckhausen can be clearly seen in the scene in the background. However, the residential buildings in this area have been completely demolished in recent years as part of urban renewal measures.
  • Actor Günter Lamprecht has so far been seen in a supporting role in many crime scenes (including the first crime scene episode Taxi to Leipzig ), and from 1991 to 1995 he was even able to investigate the crime scene commissioner Franz Markowitz in Berlin.

Soundtrack

The song for the film is a slightly modified version of the piece White Eagle from the Tangerine Dream record of the same name and, due to the simultaneous chart success, established the beginning of a series of specific Schimanski songs that culminated in the mid-1980s with the interpreters Klaus Lage and Dieter Bohlen should.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for the crime scene: The girl on the stairs . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
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