Crime scene: The trembling of the tenors

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The trembling of the tenors
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 NDR
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 125 ( List )
First broadcast May 31, 1981 on ARD
Rod
Director Hans Dieter Black
script Hansjörg Martin
production Rudiger Humpert
music Peter Janssens
camera Günther Wulff
cut Irene Brunhöver
occupation

The Trembling of the Tenors is a television film from the crime series Tatort , which was first broadcast in 1981. It is the only crime scene with the commissioner Greve, played by Erik Schumann. The film is based on a novel by the writer Hansjörg Martin . The music comes from Peter Janssens , who is otherwise mainly known as a sacropop musician. Janssens also worked as an actor in a supporting role.

action

Pensioner Otto Fintzel wants to renovate his attic in the (fictional) town of Endwarden in Schleswig-Holstein . He finds a suitcase that belonged to his brother Julius, who died in World War II . Julius Fintzel was a loyal NSDAP member and also had a passion for collecting. When Otto Fintzel told his friends at the Germania Choral Society, some secretly suspected that the unopened suitcase could contain incriminating material. Different people therefore try to get the suitcase into their possession.

The teacher Rainer Buchholz was a National Socialist poet in his youth . He fears that this could cost him his upcoming promotion. So he breaks into Fintzel's and meets the landlord Klaus Möhlmann, who falls down the stairs and has a fatal accident. That is why Commissioner Greve is coming to Endwarder. He pretends to be an old friend of the deceased to investigate undercover, and applies in vain for admission to the choral society.

The pharmacist Walter Hanke is also interested in the contents of the suitcase. He bought his business at a ridiculous price to the detriment of a Jewish family. His daughter Edda, a city councilor, fears the end of her political career if it were made public. Hanke therefore tries in vain to get the contents of the suitcase.

Hermann Kroll junior, who is interested in Hanke's property, wants to force him to sell the contents of the suitcase and hires a crook in Hamburg to steal the suitcase for him. Greve under surveillance but Fintzels house and follows the intruders to the site of the planned handover, where he takes Julius Fintzels suitcase itself. Finally he shows up at the meeting of the choir, where it turns out that the suitcase does not contain any incriminating material, but only worthless junk. Greve also informs the Sangesbrothers that Möhlmann's death was an accident and that the investigation will be closed.

Others

Trittau , one of the locations

The place of the action, Endwarden, seems to be in the Duchy of Lauenburg , as the local residents drive cars with RZ license plates. Commissioner Greve, who goes to the small town to investigate, drives a car with a Lübeck number (HL).

The choral society "Germania" from Hamburg-Finkenwerder sings the songs and the Geesthacht brass orchestra from 1960 plays the concert in the film.

reception

When it was first broadcast, the episode was seen by a good 15 million viewers. This corresponds to an audience rate of 44%.

The television magazine TV Spielfilm called the film a “crime scene classic at the highest level”. The weekly newspaper Die Zeit also praised the film:

“Precise craftsmanship - the plot: well done; the story: consistently and wittily told; the direction: intelligent in the reduction of an Oedipus case (past secrets penetrate into the present) to the size of a small town in the Federal Republic of Germany and convincing in the elaboration of the ironic punch line of the whole: pretense of a community in which it, unlike in Globke Germany , it's a shame to have been there back then. (...) A counter-thriller (with a dead person, of course, but that was the only superfluous thing about this film), the appeal of which lay in the travesty: fun and tension around a little nothing (in the end everything dissolves in favor ) in an imaginary country where it is not honorable to have been a Nazi. "

- Something is uncomfortable . Die Zeit, June 5, 1981

The literary scholar Michael Mandelartz, on the other hand, cites the film as an example of a crime scene episode with clear weaknesses. A problematic topic, namely dealing with the National Socialist past, is addressed, but not actually carried out. The end, in which the crimes of the past are not brought to light and Commissioner Greve supports this repression, is not convincing in Mandelartz's opinion.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The trembling of the tenors on tatort-fundus.de
  2. ^ Tatort: ​​The Trembling of the Tenors on tvspielfilm.de
  3. ↑ Michael Mandelartz: The "crime scene" and the limits of the law. The television thriller as ritual and as art (PDF; 1.6 MB) , p. 16f
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