Crime scene: wrong life

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Wrong life
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 MDR ,
Saxonia Media
length 87 minutes
classification Episode 748 ( list )
First broadcast December 6, 2009 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Hajo Gies
script Andreas Pflüger
production Jan Kruse ,
Sven Döbler
music Stefan Will ,
Marco Dreckkötter
camera Thomas Etzold
cut Gabriele Hagen
occupation

Falsches Leben is an episode of the German crime series Tatort from 2009. The film by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk with the Leipzig investigator duo Saalfeld and Keppler was first broadcast on December 6, 2009 on Das Erste . In this 748th crime scene episode and the sixth joint case, the investigators have to clarify a death after an arson and have to experience how the suspect himself is murdered in the end.

action

In a youth center in Leipzig, the youngsters rehearse a play. In the process, Mischa Celinski and the mentally handicapped Ulf Meinert clash massively. Enraged by Mischa, he borrows an ax from his garden neighbor and wants to take revenge. Knowing that Misha often stays at the youth center, he penetrates there.

That night the youth center burns down and Ulf Meinert is found dead in the rubble. Saalfeld and Keppler determine whether there is a murder or an accident. Due to the dilapidation caused by the fire, the youth center is now to be demolished. When the excavators are already approaching, the young people demonstrate against the project that was ordered by the owner Ludwig Kleeberg. He appears in person with his daughter at the scene and states that he has the city's order to demolish the building. From the youth worker Sybille Schäfer, however, Saalfeld learns that Nadja Kleeberg showed up three weeks ago to announce that she would terminate the rental agreement. A supermarket is to be built on the site. Sybille Schäfer also reports to the investigators about the incident between Ulf and Mischa. When they want to talk to Celinski, he initially fled, but was caught. He says that he didn't sleep in the youth center that night, which is what he usually did when things weren't going well at home. His boxing trainer Norbert Zirner confirms his alibi.

While Saalfeld thinks Celinski is the murderer, Keppler focuses on Nadja Kleeberg. The prospect of selling the property would end their financial squeeze for the time being. With a trick they can get Celinski to admit that he was not at Zirner's on the night of the fire. This means that Zirner, who is getting more and more involved in the case, has no alibi.

It gradually turns out that Zirner was formerly a police officer and, just like Ludwig Kleeberg, was involved in the events around the Paulinerkirche in Leipzig in 1968 . The SED had the university church blown up in 1968, against which many Leipzig citizens demonstrated in advance. However, they could not prevent the demolition and so the art objects were removed from the church beforehand. Kleeberg was already an antiques dealer at that time and procured foreign currency for the GDR through Koko . With Zirner's help, he had illegally disposed of the art objects and grave goods from the church. From this old connection, from which Zirner also enjoyed material advantages, he had now asked him to burn down the youth center so that he could sell it to the supermarket chain after the warm demolition . He didn't just want to leave his daughter in debt and hadn't suspected that someone would be in the building at night.

Among the demonstrators in 1968 was Hannah Wessel, a young theology student who fought against the demolition and was arrested. While in custody she was mistreated and tortured by Zirner. The dead man was her son, who had been taken away from her at the time because the state was of the opinion that her political views made her unsuitable for raising a child. He grew up in the home and after 1990 she managed to get guardianship for him. When Hannah Wessel learns that Zirner has killed her son, she goes to him. Since he is in the hospital because of a heart attack, he is defenseless against the woman and she can stab him. Since the investigators are also on their way to Zirner and now find him dead, they immediately suspect Hannah Wessel, because Keppler had just seen her in the hospital. You go to her and she admits the murder. On the one hand, it was Zirner's fault that her son was not like others, and now it was also his fault that he had to die.

background

The shooting for this crime scene episode took place in Leipzig and the Leipzig area. On the occasion of the upcoming 600th anniversary of the University of Leipzig in 2009, the Leipzig Paulinerkirche and its reconstruction were chosen as the background .

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Falsches Leben on December 6, 2009 was seen by 7.95 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 21.6% for Das Erste .

Reviews

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv says about this Leipzig crime scene: “The list of shortcomings is even longer than that of the suspects. Thekla Carola Wied plays way too big a drama in the first scenes. The everyday dialogues and awkward performers are annoying and the verbal Saalfeld-Keppler-Genecke has little relief as a contrasting color to the overconstructed crime drama. [...] The film leaves the impression of a patchwork, because Gies does not manage to atmospherically bind the little scenic. He'd rather let the actors do it. But that's no help with a commonplace book. "

Kino.de assesses the wrong life positively: “The complexity of the plot is impressive: Andreas Pflüger lets the different lines of life cross over and over again in a fascinating way. Nevertheless, the great Hajo Gies [...] manages to tell the story fluently as a thriller. However, the staging is easily broken several times. A nice idea is, for example, the repeated disappearance of the historian, who constantly seems to vanish in the middle of a conversation with Saalfeld's colleague Keppler (Martin Wuttke). The dozen of mobiles that Hannah Wessel's son made out of the lids of tin cans are also original. Marginal events such as the regular, rough clashes between Saalfeld and various young people or two children who play all sorts of pranks on her with crackers and water bombs, also ensure a really rough atmosphere. "

At Filmstarts.de , Thomas Ays awards four out of five possible stars. He means "" Tatorte "from Leipzig are ideal for rummaging through recent German history and that of the GDR. So also in "Falsches Leben", which was wonderfully written by Andreas Pflüger. The author cleverly manages to take up and work on an old explosive question of the GDR and at the same time create a murder case that actually has little to do with the past - at least at first glance. In truth, interesting threads are spun with both levels. "

At Tatort-fans.de, the criticism is cautious: “As is so often the case with the episodes from the new federal states, the story of the former GDR also forms the background of the story in the Leipzig crime scene“ Wrong Life ”. Stasi crimes, forced adoptions, art theft, old clergy and a church demolition form the framework for the investigation of a murder with which the commissioners Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Keppler are confronted. "

Also Feridun Zaimoglu at Zeit.de is skeptical and says: "Leipzig" Tatort "will tell of losers in East and West. Unfortunately he sacrifices his story as a courtesy: silly and not very dramatic! "

In Quotenmeter.de Jurgen Kirsch feels "the subject well chosen and also the end is laudable," but he also said that "with the different stories each have their own soup cooked [is]. […] On the whole, the tower of the actual investigation story collapses because it was built up too complex. […] [Here] Simone Thomalla looks good as an investigator, always appears credible and convinces both in open scuffle and as a clever investigator who plays off suspects against each other. [...] The weak point is rather the multi-faceted script, as the many side stories distract from the actual case. "

The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm believe that the "crime thriller [...] is totally bogged down." "Screenwriter Andreas Pflüger piles up so many sensitive topics that the story collapses underneath."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Filming locations and audience ratings on tatort-fundus.de, accessed on February 9, 2014.
  2. ^ Rainer Tittelbach film review on tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 9, 2014.
  3. ↑ Falsches Leben film review on kino.de, accessed on February 9, 2014.
  4. ↑ Thomas Ays film review on filmstarts.de, accessed on February 9, 2014.
  5. ↑ Episode 748: Wrong Life on web.de, accessed on February 9, 2014.
  6. ↑ Feridun Zaimoglu film review on zeit.de, accessed on February 9, 2014.
  7. ↑ Jürgen Kirsch's criticism ofquote meter on quotenmeter.de, accessed on February 9, 2014.
  8. ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on February 9, 2014.
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