Scene of the crime: Tanzmariechen

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Tanzmariechen
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 86 minutes
classification Episode 1011 ( List )
First broadcast February 19, 2017 on Das Erste , SRF 1
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Director Thomas Jauch
script Jürgen Werner
production Sonja Goslicki
music Stephan Massimo
camera Clemens Messow
cut Dagmar Lichius
occupation

Tanzmariechen is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by WDR was broadcast on February 19, 2017 on Erste and SRF 1 . In this 1011th crime scene episode, the Cologne commissioners Ballauf and Schenk determine their 69th case.

action

A teenage girl is holding onto a bridge railing and looking frightened at the river below. Your phone vibrates. She jumps.

It has been two months since the girl committed suicide. Elke Schetter, the strict dance trainer of the carnival club “De Jecke Aape”, is found dead a few days before the start of the new carnival season. During their investigations, Freddy Schenk and Max Ballauf encounter rivalries among the dancers for the position of the first dance marie . The dancer Saskia Unger, who was appointed as the new choreographer after Elke's death, is urgently suspicious. This clashes with the dancer Annika again and again, because Saskia takes medication and generally gets more praise. In addition, Annika received a clear rejection from Elke the evening before because she did not have the talent to dance mariechen.

After the girl's suicide, the commissioners determine that her name was Evelyn Pösel; she had a good chance of getting the role of dance marrying before she committed suicide as a result of extreme bullying. The offensive comments and pictures that they show naked in the shower can be traced back to Saskia. When Evelyn's irascible father Rainer finds out about it, he confronts Saskia and discovers that she is taking medication. He accuses her of pissing herself off while his daughter was a great dancer completely without aids. Saskia then replies that although she was the bully to get the role of the dance marie, the pressure from Evelyn's family was also to blame. Evelyn just loved to dance, but since her parents said she had to use her talent to at least become a dance marie, she became her competitor. You both, Saskia and Rainer, would have killed Evelyn. Ballauf and Schenk arrive just in time to prevent Rainer from strangling Saskia. It turns out that she had a foot injury and actually couldn't have danced because of the pain. After this is revealed, she won't be back this season.

Although Pösel had let off his frustration with the dance mariechen on the evening of the crime, he was demonstrably not near the practice hall on the evening of the murder. The suspicion that Annika had an affair with the club boss also comes to nothing. The examination of the corpse shows that the murder weapon must be made of marble. The shape of a cup base would fit. When the investigators want to take the trophies with them as evidence, they are stopped by the indignant club boss, who notices that someone is missing. This was won by Evelyn. At home with the Pösel family, the son Paul points out that his mother Martina went to the cemetery with Evelyn's trophy, dress and shoes. Ballauf and Schenk find the objects on Evelyn's grave, but not Martina. She wants to throw herself off the bridge at the same point as her daughter, but Ballauf and Schenk can save her. Then she admits the murder: She only wanted to get her daughter's clothes and trophy when Elke showed up and told her that they belonged to the club. Out of anger that those who were responsible for Evelyn's death did not even want to leave her these memories, she killed the choreographer.

background

The film was shot in Cologne from September 8, 2015 to October 8, 2015. The eponymous Tanzmariechen is a traditional figure in the Rhenish carnival .

reception

Reviews

“The happiness as a tragedy, the exaggeration of the jerky enthusiasm as an obsession - that is an interesting dramatic approach, which, however, is dealt with here with every crime thriller routine. Thomas Jauch's wooden staging strings a lot of dialogues in the style of thrillers sent out thousands of times, and many characters fulfill clichés at best. "

- Thomas Gehringer : tittelbach.tv

“Director Thomas Jauch and screenwriter Jürgen Werner worked out some of the best and most stressful Dortmund 'crime scenes' with the insane inspector Faber, it went haywire, good and bad were often indistinguishable. Some of the central characters are drawn very simply and the interests and emotions are often banal. In terms of atmosphere, the 'Tatort' barely benefits from the special situation - this is particularly noticeable in comparison with the unleashed Munich episode of the Oktoberfest . The Rhenish folk festival madness looks downright good against the massive drunk and mad hidden objects from the Bavarian beer tents. "

- Christian Buß : Spiegel Online

“... turns out to be a real family drama. "Tanzmariechen" is a solid crime thriller with cheerful inspectors. Not a film jewel, but exactly what many Tatort fans expect from good entertainment on Sunday evening. "

- Katharina Mehles : Rheinische Post

“... a carnival review as cheap as it is humorless, which, directed by Thomas Jauch, works with a hard maximum contrast of cheerfulness and tragedy. (..) However, Jauch failed all along the line in capturing the Cologne carnival atmosphere, regardless of whether it is rejected or celebrated. "

- Oliver Junge : Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Tanzmariechen on February 19, 2017 was seen by 10.71 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 28.4% for Das Erste . In Switzerland, the crime scene was watched by 438,000 viewers on SRF 1 and achieved a market share of 23.0%.

Trivia

For his business trips, Schenk uses a 1984 Cadillac Sedan DeVille with a license plate from historic vehicles .

Her first name is misspelled on Evelyn Pösel's grave cross. The cross is inscribed with Eveyln Pösel .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tatort: ​​Tanzmariechen at crew united
  2. ↑ Thomas Gehringer: "Tatort - Tanzmariechen" series. Behrendt, Bär, Seith, Knaup, Dieks, Jauch, Werner. Crime meets Cologne Carnival. In: tittelbach.tv . January 25, 2017. Retrieved February 20, 2017 .
  3. ^ Christian Buß: Foolish Cologne "crime scene". Carnival Ultras in the class struggle. In: Culture. Spiegel Online , February 17, 2017, accessed on February 17, 2017 : "6 out of 10 points"
  4. ↑ Katharina Mehles: The ugly side of the carnival. In: Panorama. Rheinische Post , February 19, 2017, accessed on February 20, 2017 : "Solid crime thriller with good-humored inspectors"
  5. ↑ Oliver Junge: In the cauldron of joy. In: Feuilleton. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 19, 2017, accessed on February 20, 2017 : "A carnival review that is as cheap as it is humorless"
  6. ↑ Sidney Schering: Primetime check: Sunday, February 19, 2017.quotemeter.de , February 20, 2017, accessed on February 20, 2017 : “With the carnival“ crime scene ”, Das Erste easily passed all of the competition on Sunday evening [ ...] "
  7. ↑ Audience figures, SRF 1 - February 19, 2017. (PDF) Retrieved April 3, 2017 .
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