Crime scene: wet things

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Wet things
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 MDR
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 804 ( List )
First broadcast June 13, 2011 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Johannes Grieser
script Andreas Knaup
production Jan Kruse
music Jens Langbein and Robert Schulte-Hemming
camera Wolf Siegelmann
cut Esther Weinert
occupation

Wet things is an episode of the German crime series Tatort from 2011. The film of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk by director Johannes Grieser with Simone Thomalla and Martin Wuttke as Leipzig investigators Saalfeld and Keppler was broadcast for the first time on Whitsun Monday, June 13, 2011 on the first .

action

The Leipzig investigators are called to a Leipzig industrial area at night. On a street, Jannis Kerides, a used car dealer, was thrown out of a moving car. The two chief inspectors are pretty sure that this is a dispute among criminal car dealers .

The inspectors Saalfeld and Keppler want to get an idea of ​​the situation in Keride's garage. Here they catch Georg Hantschel, the business partner of the victim. When Saalfeld, with his weapon drawn, orders Hantschel to turn around, he grabs his jacket. Eva Saalfeld believes that he will pull out a gun and seriously injures him with her shot. She blames herself, especially since no weapon was found in the subsequent investigation. Saalfeld is even suspended from duty for a short time.

The next day, Walter Rimbach, an employee of Kerides, is found dead in his apartment. Investigators find out that Rimbach was Kerides' murderer. However, you are beginning to wonder if this was really about the used car business, or if there were family reasons behind these crimes. Not only Rimbach's deeply indebted daughter Karla had reasons for the act, also Thomas Kramm, who threatened Rimbach shortly before his death in the workshop, because he blamed him for the mysterious disappearance of his father in 1983. It turns out that the murderer and the victim Rimbach were once police officers and as a Stasi henchman involved in the death of an opponent of the regime, and that his son was seeking revenge almost 30 years later.

In the Stasi documents seized by Kramm , Eva finds, to her surprise, the name of her father, the supposedly former police officer Horst Saalfeld. She finds out that her father was present at the 1983 murder of Kramm's father. When Keppler deals more closely with Rimbach's daughter, Karla Rimbach, he learns that Walter Rimbach was with her shortly before he died. According to the taxi driver, he still had a bag with him on the way there, but he no longer had it on the way home. For this reason, Saalfeld follows Karla to the airport, who now had the bag described. She sits down at the table with an older man and disappears shortly afterwards.

Saalfeld follows her into the parking garage and watches how she is suddenly attacked by this man. When she intervenes, she can't believe her eyes: Her father, who was believed to be dead, is standing in front of her. After Kramm's death in 1983, he fled to Cyprus with a new identity and made his family believe he was dead. In Cyprus, he financed his living with money laundering, real estate and arms deals. But this life threatened to be exposed because Rimbach had blackmailed him with documents from the Birthler authorities . It said that he had fired the decisive shot in Kramm's death.

While Saalfeld needed time to regain composure, her father stole her gun and tried to escape. But together with Keppler she succeeds in finding the former Stasi officer.

background

The crime scene was produced by Saxonia Media for Das Erste on behalf of MDR . Andreas Knaup , who was born in Dresden, wrote a Tatort screenplay for the first time and previously worked as an actor, director and voice actor.

"Wet things" is the term used in secret service jargon for measures of violence up to and including contract killing. According to the BND, the responsibilities of the murder and kidnapping plans lay directly with Erich Mielke and in the command line of Lieutenant General and Vice Minister Gerhard Neiber . According to the Federal Intelligence Service : “The plans for the respective liquidations were handwritten in only one copy and personally signed by Minister Mielke or his deputy, General Neiber.” Gerhard Neiber was charged several times with such crimes - but he was never convicted.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast on June 13, 2011 was seen by a total of 7.88 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 24.0 percent for Das Erste ; In the group of 14-49 year old viewers , 2.39 million viewers and a market share of 18.3% were achieved.

Reviews

RP Online called the Tatort debut Knaups a "hot potato" because it was about "systematic contract killings by the state organs of the GDR ". But Knaup avoids “turning his script into a political indictment”. Above all, the personal level is convincing: "The GDR regime's actions, which in retrospect, especially from a Western point of view, appear very abstract, are given names and faces through the criminal case." Lorenz Weger, on theother hand, describes the crime scenein the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as "Annoying self-search", it is no longer a crime thriller, "but a female melodrama in which murder and stolen goods and the Stasi only provide the pretexts to somehow make the father's search and thus also the identity of the female heroine plausible." . He is thus a "contemporary document of a subjectivism that swells to gigantic proportions."

The Mitteldeutsche Zeitung said that the author Andreas Knaup had succeeded in “combining his crime screenplay with the claim to tell a story about the GDR. It is less about coming to terms with the past; in the foreground are the dramas from which the affected families still suffer today. ”In Stern.de, Swantje Dake called the evidence“ terribly constructed and twisted ”and the turn of the plot“ grotesque ”. Too often scripts would try to address the GDR past or the turning point. The crime scene is "a good example of how to break a well-entertaining crime novel".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Such a thing . In: Der Spiegel . No. 21 , 1993 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Press kit on the crime scene “Nasse Dinge” ( memento of the original from December 10, 2015 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. (PDF file; 525 kB) of the MDR @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mdr.de
  3. ↑ We'll find you everywhere . In: Der Spiegel . No. 34 , 1990 ( online ).
  4. ^ Died Gerhard Neiber . In: Der Spiegel . No. 8 , 2008 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Manuel Weis: Primetime check: Whit Monday, June 13, 2011.quotemeter.de , June 14, 2011, accessed on June 19, 2011 .
  6. ↑ Eva Saalfeld's coming to terms with the past ( memento of the original dated June 24, 2011 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. RP-Online from June 13, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rp-online.de
  7. ^ Narcissus and Schmollmund , FAZ of June 13, 2011
  8. ^ "Tatort" runs in the GDR past Mitteldeutsche Zeitung from June 10, 2011
  9. ^ The annoying misery with the Stasi past , stern.de of June 13, 2011

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