Crime scene: pile of broken glass

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Pile of broken glass
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SWR
Maran film
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 830 ( list )
First broadcast March 4, 2012 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Johannes Grieser
script Eva Zahn and
Volker A. Zahn
production Nils Reinhardt
music Jens Langbein
Robert Schulte Hemming
camera Jürgen Carle
cut Sabine Garscha
occupation

Schherdhaufen is a television film from the crime series Tatort . It is the tenth case of the Stuttgart investigators Lannert and Bootz . The contribution produced by Maran Film and Südwestrundfunk was first broadcast on March 4, 2012.

action

A murder in a cemetery. The porcelain manufacturer Otto Imberger is shot at when he visits his father's grave. But his chauffeur Marco Hummel is hit, who dies on the scene. Thorsten Lannert is initially investigating alone, as his colleague Sebastian Bootz is currently on vacation.

It quickly becomes clear that there is a bitter struggle within the Imberger family as to who will be the company's successor. After all, there is a lot of money involved and the brothers also quarrel about company interiors.

Public prosecutor Álvarez brings Sebastian Bootz back from vacation and smuggles him into the family as a bodyguard for Otto Imberger in order to protect him from further attacks. At the same time, Bootz can investigate in the family environment. Lannert trains him in advance because he has relevant experience as an undercover agent and can therefore give his colleague helpful tips.

Imberger and his sons have four hunting rifles, which Lannert can show them to and which they give to the KTU . However, the results of the review are negative. The family is outraged by the approach and suspects Rudolf Bischoff, a former employee whom the Imbergers recently had to fire. Lannert visits him immediately to question him and learns that the reason for the termination was null and void. Obviously the company management wanted to get rid of the veteran employee. A short time later, Bischoff threatened Otto Imberger with a rifle. He desperately wants to confront his former boss, but instead of shooting at him, he shoots himself with the gun. Bootz knows about Bischoff's daughter that her father was in psychiatric treatment and suspects that he was not the culprit from the cemetery . Nevertheless, a second rifle, which later turned out to be a murder weapon, was found in Bischoff's allotment garden.

Otto Imberger is still not relieved. After all, he had known Bischoff for 35 years and believes that if he had not released him, he would still be alive. Somehow there seems to be a curse on him and his family. Bootz informs him that the police assume that the weapon found was being pushed into Bischoff. A murderer would make a murder weapon disappear and not remove all fingerprints.

Meanwhile, there are indications of a false alibi from Gerald Imberger, the eldest son. The lifestyle of the employee Lars Reichhardt is also striking. But behind it is an industrial espionage that he had carried out as a computer specialist for the company and for which he was paid accordingly. Because of this secret information, the Imbergers were able to get a large order from China that would bring them millions in sales and secure the future of the company. Lannert finds out that the chauffeur Marco Hummel found out and blackmailed his boss with this knowledge. So the shots in the cemetery were not aimed at Otto Imberger, but Hummel should be cleared out of the way from the start. Otto Imberger is outraged by the suspicion against him and his family.

Bootz managed to gain Otto Imberger's trust. So he tells his conscience how he wants to justify the death of two people, even if he may have saved many jobs with industrial espionage. Bischoff's dismissal was justified because, as a long-time expert, he would have found out that the new findings could not have come from his own efforts. While Bootz comes to an agreement with Imberger, Lukas Imberger storms into the room and threatens Bootz. He admits that he shot Hummels because he was "just a rat" who ruined the company with his blackmail. Bootz, who now has to fear for his life as a confidante and is threatened with a weapon by Lukas, is able to escape from the house while Lukas is chasing him. Lannert, who was worried about his colleague in the meantime, because he had not reported regularly as agreed, has just arrived and can help his colleague by incapacitating Lukas with a targeted shot in the upper arm.

Otto Imberger is now facing the ruins of his life. He has to answer for the industrial espionage and see his youngest son in prison for years.

background

The shooting took place from April 27, 2011 to May 30, 2011 under the working title The big picture in Stuttgart, Plochingen and Baden-Baden . The scenes that take place in Bischoff's gazebo were shot in the Mönchberg ( Untertürkheim ) wine-growing region in Stuttgart .

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Schherdhaufen on March 4, 2012 was seen by a total of 9.59 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 25.7% for Das Erste ; In the group of 14 to 49 year old viewers , 3.17 million viewers and a market share of 20.4% were achieved.

In Austria, 724,000 viewers and a 23% market share were achieved.

Reviews

The reviews of the crime scene: Piles of broken glass were mixed, but usually a positive assessment outweighed it. The portrayal of conflicts within a medium-sized company was particularly praised.

"Twisted, intelligent case, solid direction, overall a bit too good again."

- Volker Bergmeister : tittelbach.tv

“The script by Eva and Volker A. Zahn, routinely staged by Johannes Grieser, not only outlines the problems of modern entrepreneurs, from the question of succession to the pressure to innovate and how they behave towards employees. [...] Almost by the way, the 'Tatort' tells of the fragility of modern working and living conditions, of the pressure to adapt and the fear associated with it. Because what drives Bischoff is not only economic, it is existential need. It is the fear of being discarded, of no longer being worth anything. That is the exciting story that saves the otherwise straightforward, but also well-behaved crime thriller about striving for power, corruption and industrial espionage. "

- Sandra Kegel : FAZ.net

“Richy Müller and Felix Klare confirm themselves once more in“ Schherdhaufen ”as the sympathetic duo among the“ Tatort ”couples: the dear family dad and the fatherly friend. All those 'Tatort' fans who can't stand it when the ARD crime thriller is too human have probably switched off beforehand [...] Together with everyone else, we remember an unusual Sunday crime thriller that was not excellent, but it was was very entertaining. "

- Sandra Zistl : focus.de

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ crew-united.de: Tatort - Schherdhaufen , accessed on March 5, 2012.
  2. ↑ tagblatt.de : Tatort takes place in the Untertürkheim vineyards , accessed on March 5, 2012.
  3. ↑ quotemeter.de : Almost 10 million viewers for «Tatort» , accessed on March 5, 2012.
  4. ↑ Medienforschung ORF , data from Sunday, March 4, 2012.
  5. ↑ tittelbach.tv: “Tatort - Scherschehaufen” series , accessed on March 5, 2012.
  6. ↑ FAZ.net: "Tatort: ​​Scherschehaufen" A life breaks , accessed on March 5, 2012.
  7. ↑ focus.de: “Tatort” criticism: “Piles of broken glass” The ceramic plot , accessed on March 5, 2012.
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