Crime scene: Quartet in Leipzig

Episode of the series Tatort
Original title	Quartet in Leipzig
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	WDR
length	88 minutes
classification	Episode 458 ( list )
First broadcast	November 26, 2000 on Das Erste
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Director	Kaspar Heidelbach
script	Hans-Werner Honert , Fred Breinersdorfer , Wolfgang Panzer
production	Jan Kruse Sonja Goslicki
music	Arno Steffen
camera	Daniel Koppelkamm
cut	Hedy Altschiller
occupation
Klaus J. Behrendt : KHK Max Ballauf Peter Sodann : KHK Bruno Ehrlicher Dietmar Bär : KHK Freddy Schenk Bernd Michael Lade : KHK Kain Vadim Glowna : Professor Kleist Matthias Koeberlin : Ricardo Kleist Fabian Busch : Manuel Frei Theresa Hübchen : Claudia Kleist Max Herbrechte : Professor Hauke Dirk Martens : Hermann Böhme, chestnut major Annekathrin Bürger : Frederike Walter Nickel : Walter Joe Bausch : Dr. Joseph Roth Lutz Teschner : coroner in Leipzig Markus John : fraternity member Marie Gruber : Mrs. Simmer Wolf Dietrich Rammler : Peter Kuhn, pastor Ute Hiersemann : Kristin Meyer : Policewoman Yves Hinrichs : fraternity members Oliver Scherz : Student

Quartet in Leipzig is a television film by Kaspar Heidelbach from the crime series Tatort . In this crossover episode, the investigator duos Ballauf and Schenk from Cologne and Ehrlicher and Kain from Leipzig meet for the first time . The German first broadcast took place on November 26, 2000 in the first program of the ARD.

action

At the Elsterwehr in Leipzig, the body of Dr. Maik Frei found. Since he was obviously beaten to death, the criminal police are notified. While the Leipzig commissioners Ehrlicher and Kain are taking care of this case, Ballauf and Schenk are simultaneously trying to solve a murder in an ICE in Cologne , in which a train passenger was killed by a toxic drug. Someone injected it into his capsules, which he has to take every day because of a bladder problem. This victim is also a doctor. Since there is a cell phone in his belongings, Ballauf dials the number of his last call and now has Commissioner Ehrlicher on the other end, who had taken the ringing phone out of Maik Frei 's pocket. After both of them were convinced that they were colleagues, they found that each of the victims was a member of the Votania fraternity.

Ehrlicher and Cain go to the fraternity's house where Maik Frei had an apartment. Apparently there was a wet and happy gathering there, at which there should have been arguments. You learn that the Cologne victim stayed with Claudia Kleist, the daughter of a respected lung specialist. She, in turn, is actually engaged to Professor Hauke, which, however, was only arranged by her father. Nevertheless, there is definitely a motive for murder for the commissioners, but that does not apply to their case. Both victims worked for Professor Kleist and did research there.

In Cologne, the investigators are on the spot and Ballauf is of the opinion that the solution can be found in Leipzig. He wants to go there unofficially and can also convince Schenk of his idea. While Schenk unintentionally meets Ehrlicher in Leipzig and thus has to work with him, Ballauf, the alleged brother of the Cologne victim, settles in the fraternity house. When Inspector Kain arrives there to further question the Burschanschaft members, he identifies himself as Inspector Ballauf. Ballauf comes into closer contact with Manuel Frei, the brother of the Leipzig victim, and learns from him that he suspects that his brother was killed by Karl Kuhn out of jealousy, because Maik Frei was also in love with Claudia Kleist and he was his rival Wanted to have gone. His brother, in turn, would have poisoned Kuhn because he wanted to reveal some secret from the clinic to the public. That sounds too easy for Ballauf.

Forensic technician Walter had looked at the medical files on which the Leipzig victim had last worked. It struck him that the documents on patient Simmer, who died shortly after an operation, could not be found. Ballauf finds her a short time later in Kuhn's room. They point to a drug deal in Kleist's clinic. In order to be able to research this better, Inspector Ehrlicher went to this clinic as a patient, in which he should have been operated on long ago, but had repeatedly postponed it. Meanwhile, his colleagues fear that something could be done to him in the clinic, as there have been some inconsistencies since the Simmel case and Kleist is getting more and more distressed. According to her research, he had diagnosed patients with harmless lung diseases with a tumor that he wanted to cure with his special combination of surgery and medication, and had “operated on healthy patients” to present it as his personal achievement. While Kleist Ehrlicher is administering the anesthetic, he predicts that he will unfortunately not survive the operation. At the last minute, Ehrlicher's colleagues storm into the operating room and take him away from there.

On his feet again, Ehrlicher wants to confront Kleist in front of his assembled fraternity and convict him of the murders. Frei had discovered his manipulation and wanted to blackmail him, while Kuhn wanted to report it to the public prosecutor. Kleist should admit this, after all, in the fraternity, honor, honesty and the word of a man still counts. Under this moral pressure, Kleist's son suddenly rises that he did it for his father ...

background

For the 30th anniversary of the crime scene series, there should be a special anniversary thriller with the episode quartet in Leipzig . For the first time, the Cologne commissioners Ballauf and Schenk, together with their East German colleagues Ehrlicher and Kain , are investigating a German-German encounter that, like the very first crime scene ( taxi to Leipzig ), takes place in Leipzig. The relationship was resumed in 2002 with the return match and the successors of Ehrlicher and Kain also had their encounter with Ballauf and Schenk with Kinderland and your little child comes .

The shooting of this crime scene took place in Leipzig and Cologne .

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Quartett in Leipzig on November 26, 2000 was seen by 9.90 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 26.09 percent for Das Erste .

Reviews

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv simply calls this crime scene “harmless”. "With 'Quartet in Leipzig', one of the most important things to know is how the four inspectors can get on with each other." "There is a lot of joking at first" and "Basically everyone reacts [...] irritably when someone else intrudes into their territory", " but the resentment quickly evaporated. "

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm , on the other hand, gave the best rating (thumbs up) and wrote: “Nice, self-deprecating 'unit' crime scene”.

Web links

• Tatort: ​​Quartet in Leipzig in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Summary of the action by Quartet in Leipzig on the ARD website
• Quartet in Leipzig at the Tatort fund
• Quartet in Leipzig at Tatort-Fans.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Quartet in Leipzig retrieved from tatort-fans.de.
2. ↑ locations at the Internet Movie Database retrieved.
3. ↑ Quartet in Leipzig Audience at fundus de, accessed on February 14, 2016.
4. ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Tatort-Crossover: the commissioners from Leipzig meet their colleagues from Cologne Film criticism at tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 14, 2016.
5. ↑ Event-Tatort for the 30th in the series: Commissioners implement German unity. at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on February 14, 2016.

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