Crime scene: trench warfare
Trench warfare is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by Maran Film and Südwestrundfunk premiered on December 3, 2010 at the Baden-Württemberg Film Show and first broadcast on April 25, 2011 on Das Erste . The Stuttgart investigator duo Lannert and Bootz is investigating its 8th case.
action
In the midst of the local political dispute over a cultural and art area at the Stuttgart North Station, Stefan Aldinger, one of the two managing directors, is found dead on the site. He was most likely killed from behind with a pipe wrench, which cannot be found at the crime scene. The suspicion is directed - not least because of statements by the councilor Wilma Fuchs - against the building contractor Walter Rühle, who wants to build a residential complex on the site.
Aldinger's wife, the kickboxer Elena, seems devastated by the death of her husband. When Lannert and Bootz visit her at home, they discover a large amount of cash, and she is suspected when it is revealed that she had had a serious argument with her husband on the eve of his death. Elena is justifiably jealous and pregnant. It is also known that she often uses her sportiness in marital disputes and that the body of the deceased shows numerous old bruises.
As part of the investigation, Bootz meets a former schoolmate, Clemens Doll, who works as a legal advisor for the tyrannical Rühle, and Doctor Julian Siebert, an art historian who runs a yoga studio on the cultural site. The investigators find out that shortly before the murder there was a clarifying conversation between Rühle and Aldinger, after which Rühle apparently succeeded in persuading Aldinger with 150,000 euros not to extend his lease for the cultural area. However, his business partner Timo Holzmann knew nothing about it and was upset when he found out about it.
In Lannert, the suspicion is smoldering that Doll could have done the "dirty work" for Rühle, as he wanted the site at all costs. Even if there was actually an agreement between the two, Aldinger could have changed his mind again. Surprisingly, a pipe wrench is found in Rühle's car, which puts him under massive suspicion. The forensic investigation, however, shows that it is not the murder weapon, and Lannert immediately suspects Doll again of having put the tongs in his boss's car in order to avenge himself for the many mean things against him.
On the way to Holzmann, the investigators arrive when his office is blown up. While checking his last phone calls, they come across Doctor Siebert. Holzmann had called him when, while looking through Aldinger's files, he came across a trip to London with Siebert. So it turns out that the two had a homosexual relationship and met secretly in London. Holzmann found out and so Siebert tried to silence him with the attack. He had an argument with Aldinger on the evening of the crime because he had decided in favor of his wife and wanted to drop Siebert. He could not bear that and killed Aldinger in affect.
background
The plot in the Stuttgart crime scene shows a clear parallel to the argument about Stuttgart 21 , which is shown in the film in particular in the uprising of the citizens against the planned demolition of the car halls in favor of new residential complexes.
The two scriptwriters Stefan Cantz and Jan Hinter, who were already involved in the scripts for eight episodes of the crime scene of the Münster team around Thiel and Boerne, have incorporated an allusion to the Münster forensic doctor Prof. Boerne in trench warfare : the Stuttgart forensic doctor Daniel Vogt complains after a conference about the “non-stop squadronades of the esteemed Münster colleague”.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast on April 25, 2011 was seen by a total of 7.44 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 22.2 percent for Das Erste ; 2.15 million viewers and a market share of 16.2% were achieved in the group of 14 to 49 year old viewers .
Reviews
The eighth crime scene by Lannert and Bootz against the current background around the controversial Stuttgart 21 project is, according to the television newspaper TV Movie , more modern than the earlier Swabian crime scenes with Commissioner Bienzle . Winding and rapid, it brings "a breath of fresh air into the country again".
“Trench warfare” is a classic Whodunit. However, the usual suspects in this “crime scene” display such harmlessness or roar so loudly that one cannot believe they could also bite. Whimsical feel-good thriller that fully exploits the sympathy potential of its detective - but not the possibilities of the thriller. The case has little internal logic, the film follows the external logic of the riddle, a riddle for the viewer. The scriptwriters pulling the cord on the set-pieces station. "
“Fortunately, the script (Stefan Cantz and Jan Hinter) has plausible motives for murder in store for each of the suspects. So the game with the many possible perpetrators goes on for a while without the viewer getting bored or feeling fooled. […] Well, some rubbish ("There are a few centimeters missing, as is so often the case in life") and the cordless screwdriver attack on Lannert's neighbor threaten to tip in the wrong direction from the fine line between "smiling" and "too silly" . On the other hand, it is extremely pleasant that the "crime scene" -typical portion of private life of the investigators fits well into the Stuttgart case without appearing forced or touching on another topic. "
“Trench Warfare” is a wonderful television game because it constantly shifts the front line of its skirmishes: between high and alternative culture, between young and old, between the sexes, between rich and middle class, even between yoga and sandbag boxes or Bentley and Porsche, and no one can ever be really sure of his position. Only the figures of Otto Dix continue to dance unimpressed on the crater rim of the volcano. "
“Weird and beautiful - and the crime case with murder out of disappointed gay love (or what is the politically correct name? The commissioners are brooding too) plus the father-son drama between the construction investor and his lawyer remains narrated. “Tatort” isn't that bad today, if only it manages to forego too much social worker romance. On the contrary: clean work in the clean Swabian region! "
Web links
- Grave struggles in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Trench warfare in the online film database
- Summary of the plot of trench warfare on the ARD website
- Trench warfare at the crime scene fundus
- Trench warfare at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. For example, the comments in the review at stern.de: TV review "Tatort": When two people argue about one , accessed on August 16, 2011.
- ↑ cf. also the SWR press kit (PDF; 160 kB) on the scene of the crime: Trench warfare, p. 3.
- ↑ a b tittelbach.tv: “Tatort - Trabenkampf” series , accessed on August 16, 2011.
- ^ Andreas Markhauser: "Tatort" wins on Easter Monday on quotenmeter.de , accessed on April 26, 2011.
- ↑ stern.de: TV review "Tatort": When two people argue about one , accessed on August 16, 2011.
- ↑ faz.net: “Tatort” from Stuttgart: Faith alone does not move a train station , accessed on August 16, 2011.
- ↑ focus.de: "Tatort: Trench Warfare": Clean, Schwabenländle! , accessed August 16, 2011.
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