Crime scene: Duisburg-Ruhrort

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Duisburg-Ruhrort
Crime scene duisburg ruhrort.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavaria Atelier GmbH for the WDR
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 126 ( List )
First broadcast June 28, 1981 on German television
Rod
Director Hajo Gies
script Horst Vocks ,
Thomas Wittenburg
production Bernd Sponge
music Klaus Doldinger (opening credits)
camera Axel Block
cut Felicitas Lainer
occupation

Duisburg-Ruhrort is a television film from the television crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF .

The film was produced by WDR and first broadcast on June 28, 1981. It is the 126th episode in the crime scene series and the first case for detective chief inspectors Horst Schimanski ( Götz George ) and Christian Thanner ( Eberhard Feik ).

action

The body of the inland shipper Heinz Petschek is found in the inland port of Duisburg . He was beaten and fatally wounded with a knife. Chief Detective Schimanski has to solve this case together with his colleague Christian Thanner. Kriminaloberrat Königsberg suggests the case to him because of his proximity to the milieu. Schimanski first investigates the deceased's environment. Since Petschek was registered with the Losse family, he questions Mr. Losse and learns that the victim was cheating with his wife and Mrs. Poppinga, the wife of another barge. Schimanski learns from Mrs. Poppinga that her husband Jan Poppinga was familiar with the affair with Petschek. Schimanski looks for him in the pub "Zum Anker" and arrests him after Poppinga admitted to having beaten the victim at the time of the crime.

Further research by the commissioners shows that Petschek has changed his employer. It turns out that Petschek is interested in socialist and Turkish culture and has hired the inland boatman Wittinger. Suddenly the body of a Turk appears. The trail leads the investigators to a metal factory where the Turk worked. Schimanski contacted the Turkish trade union through a friend, who informed him that both victims were on the trail of a gunsmith ring . Petschek had accepted a job at Wittinger with the intention of breaking into the network. His Turkish contact would then provide the union with the evidence. But then the bar is attacked and Schimanski recognizes Ali Engin, a colleague of the murdered unionist from the metal works, and shoots him up. When Engin escaped, his colleague Schubert, who was involved in the investigation, also found evidence in the form of FN pistols .

Schimanski promptly orders a search at Wittinger and finds it. The laboratory discovers blood and scraps of cloth from the Turk's jacket in Wittinger's car. Wittinger admits that Ali Engin forced him to get rid of the Turkish trade unionist when he was sniffing on his ship. But Wittinger cannot be proven of the murder of Petschek. Rather, it turns out that Losse stabbed Heinz Petschek to death when he was left injured by Poppinga.

background

The opening scene received an homage in the later Schimanski episode Death in the Settlement , in which the ending was similarly staged with windows and music. The song from the cassette recorder, which Schimanski starts up, is Leader of the Pack by the Shangri-Las from 1964. It should also symbolize a character trait from the character's youth.

In the Duisburg-Ruhrort episode , Schimanski's apartment is in Duisburg-Wanheim . The view from the top floor of the residential building at Biegerpark extends to Rheinhausen , where the Krupp factory , which was still in operation at the time, can be seen.

In one scene, Schimanski stops in front of an advertising poster for instant cameras and ties his shoes. The poster shows the actor Hansjörg Felmy , who embodied the character of Commissioner Haferkamp in earlier episodes of Tatort on WDR .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: Duisburg-Ruhrort . 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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