Crime scene: Katja's silence

Episode of the series Tatort
Original title	Katja's silence
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	Bavaria Atelier GmbH for the WDR
length	88 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
classification	Episode 225 ( List )
First broadcast	December 3, 1989 on German television
Rod
Director	Hans Noever
script	Uwe Erichsen
production	Hartmut Grund
music	Klaus Doldinger (opening credits) Tony Carey
camera	Kurt Lorenz
cut	Claudia Minzloff
occupation
Götz George : KHK Horst Schimanski Eberhard Feik : KHK Christian Thanner Chiem van Houweninge : Hänschen Gerhard Olschewski : Ossmann Katja Riemann : Katja Schaaf Ulrich Pleitgen : Jannek Paul Cabanis : Tommy Schaaf Will Danin : Zander / pike Edgar M. Böhlke : Mr. Schaaf Maddalena Kerrh : Mrs. Schaaf Nellis Du Biel : Billy

Katjas Schweigen is a television film from the crime scene crime series by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by WDR and broadcast for the first time on December 3, 1989. It is the 225th episode in the crime scene series and the 22nd case for Commissioners Horst Schimanski and Christian Thanner .

action

Schimanski and his friend, the probation officer Jannek, train juvenile delinquents on a football team . One evening a supermarket was attacked by teenagers and a policeman was shot dead. Examination of the bullet reveals that the weapon is an Astra 900 that has already been used in a fight in a fitness club .

The next day, Thanner arrests two of Schimanski's boys because they were already involved in an ongoing series of robberies that is being processed by the robbery department. In order to establish a connection between the weapon and the current and the previous case, Schimanski questioned the fitness club owner Billy, who had been shot a year earlier by a certain Zander with the same weapon. Suddenly another youth in his group, Tommy Schaaf, is also targeted by the investigators and disappears. When Tommy's sister Katja is asked about Zander, nothing comes of it, except a warning from her over the phone, where she tells someone that the police are looking for him.

After Schimanski managed to coax the real name Zander, actually called Hecht, out of Billy, he and Thanner are called to a back yard where Tommy is said to have been seen. Thanner fires a warning shot in the air, but Tommy is shot in the neck by a stranger. Schimanski is furious and accuses his colleague of having killed the boy, whereas Thanner protests. Despite his assurances that he hadn't aimed at Tommy, Thanner is suspended. He is now trying on his own to prove his innocence by following Schimanski's every step. Schimanski looks for Zander at the bowling alley and confronts him. Driven into a corner, however, he flees, but is caught by Hänschen, and an Astra 900 is discovered in his motorcycle.

Over a beer with Schimanski with Thanner and Hänschen, it turns out that Katja has also been checked. She already has a criminal record and worked for Billy. The men conclude that the incident between Billy and Zander was about Katja.

So Schimanski lures Zander out of his hiding place, a game club, and a search reveals more Astra pistols. The officers are certain that the key to solving the case lies with Katja. Schimanski believes it was Jannek who revealed Tommy's whereabouts to the police. With a secret message, the inspector manages to get Katja to rethink. That same evening Katja made a scene to her parents that they were so naive as to trust Jannek. Schimanski learns from the young woman that her father once went to jail for Jannek and a little later Katja's mother tells the two that her husband went out to the river "to kill himself." Schimanski and Katja rush to the river, Katjas can But no longer save father. Shortly afterwards, Jannek takes them under fire from his Mercedes. Schimanski fires back, but is not sure that he has hit. To be on the safe side, he faked a bullet in his car and confronted Jannek with it on the field the next day. Jannek still refuses to admit defeat and tries to dismiss Schimanski's accusation as crazy. But then Katja takes the last Astra 900 out of its hiding place, so that Schimanski can now transfer Jannek with the bullet hole on his car.

background

• The Astra 900 often mentioned in the film , already out of date at the time, was a copy of the Mauser C96 .
• Jannek's weapon is an FN Browning HP with a special sight attachment and silencer.

Tony Carey interpreted the song I Feel Good for this crime scene . In one scene, Katja's record player can also be heard from his hit Room with a View .

The shooting for this crime scene episode took place from April 4 to May 9, 1989 in Duisburg and in the Bavaria Filmstudio in Geiselgasteig in Munich .

The episode Katja's silence is contained in the DVD box Tatort: ​​Schimanski Complete Box 2 (13 cases), published by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, published on March 22, 2012, running time 1,152 minutes, numerous bonus material.

Reviews

prism

“Katjas Schweigen” was the first of two “Tatort” thrillers (“Schimanski's weapon” followed a year later) that director Hans Noever staged with the extremely popular Duisburg investigator duo. According to the book by Uwe Erichsen (“Tatort - Schöne Wochen”, “The Cat”, also with George), an exciting case arose in which Götz George, as Schimanski, had to choose between his not always correct own assessment and the opinion of his colleague. As the title-giving Katja, Katja Riemann, who was completely unknown at the time, can be admired in one of her first TV roles.

TV feature film

believes "that the interesting case is one of the better Schimanski films" and continues "The then unknown Riemann received the" Golden Camera "in 1990 as the best young actress for" Regina on the steps. "

Web links

• Katja's silence in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Katja's silence at the crime scene fund
• Katja's silence at Tatort-Fans.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release certificate for the crime scene: Katja's silence . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
2. ↑ cf. DVD Schimanski Complete Box Part 2, accessed on July 4, 2012 ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ cf. Crime scene: Katja's silence at prisma.de. Retrieved July 4, 2012
4. ↑ cf. Crime scene: Katja's silence on TV feature film. Retrieved July 4, 2012

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