Crime scene: death of an auctioneer
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Death of an auctioneer |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
WDR |
| length | 87 minutes |
| classification | Episode 313 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | June 25, 1995 on Das Erste |
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| Director | Erwin Keusch |
| script | Claus-Michael Rohne |
| production | Veith von Fürstenberg |
| music | Andreas Koebner |
| camera | Dietmar Koelzer |
| cut | Monika Bergmann |
| occupation | |
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Death of an Auctioneer is a television film from the crime series Tatort . It is the tenth case of the Düsseldorf investigators Flemming and Koch and the 313rd crime scene sequence. The report produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk was broadcast for the first time on June 25, 1995 on Das Erste . Flemming and Koch are dealing with the family environment of the deceased and with a scene of German national art collectors and their opponents.
action
The student Christoph Eckstein visits the auctioneer Johann Kampenrath, who is currently preparing an auction from the estate of the German East Africa researcher Carl Peters, to see the exhibits. As he goes to wash his hands, he hears a loud argument between Kampenrath and an unknown person, when Eckstein returns, he finds Kampenrath dead, stabbed with a knife belonging to the exhibits. In his panic, he takes hold of the murder weapon, but drops it again immediately. After he has composed himself, he takes the murder weapon and destroys the entry of their appointment from Kampenrath's calendar before he escapes, filmed by surveillance cameras. He buries the knife in front of his house, but the heavy rain later clears it again. The next morning, Kampenrath's employee Erika Walter found the body of her boss, Flemming and Koch found with their help that the tape of the surveillance camera and some exhibits from the collection including the dagger had disappeared. While playing children find and dig up the dagger, everything indicates for Flemming and Koch that Kampenrath had an appointment with his murderer, they also learn that the deceased had been divorced for ten years and that he lived with his sister Cornelia.
The children's father, Karl-Heinz Heckmann, has meanwhile taken the dagger and tried to sell it to an antique dealer, who deceived him about the value of the exhibit and promised to help him with the sale, Heckmann later found out from the newspaper of the murder of Kampenrath. The antique dealer also reads about the murder in the newspaper and finally proposes a deal to Heckmann according to which the dealer should receive 60% and Heckmann 40% of the sales proceeds. Flemming and Koch learn that the dagger was clearly the murder weapon, which speaks for a spontaneous act, Flemming seeks out Cornelia, she continues the preparations for the auction, but wants to liquidate the family business at the earliest possible date, she tells Flemming that she Brother has taken out life insurance in her favor, she has no alibi for the time of the crime. Meanwhile, Koch finds out that Kampenrath was receiving psychotherapeutic treatment and recently met again with his ex-wife Helga Wolfhard. Koch meets with Helga, who says that she separated from her husband on good terms, the reasons for the divorce were the dominance of her sister-in-law Cornelia and his impotence. Meanwhile, Flemming learns from the psychotherapist that Kampenrath was connected to his sister by a platonic, otherwise almost incestuous love.
Eckstein confides in his African friend Lisa, with whom he is planning a demonstration against the auction, he makes it clear to her that he will not be able to go there after the events at the auction house and that she should be the spokesman for the demonstration. The children of Heckmann steal the found dagger unnoticed by their parents and play with it until the dagger is stolen from them by other children. While Heckmann notices that the dagger is missing and is desperately looking for his children, a large group of students storms the auction in front of Flemming and Koch to protest against the commercial exploitation of the dark colonial history. While Heckmann is looking for his sons, the auctioneer calls Ms. Heckmann and asks where her husband is. He has organized a group of German national men who are interested in the dagger and threatens to report her husband to him for the murder or at least stolen goods if he does not come along soon the dagger appears. Heckmann finds his sons, can get the dagger back from the boy next door and deliver it to the antique dealer, but the neighbor has recognized the dagger from the newspaper article about the Kampenrath murder and notifies the police. Flemming then turns up at Frau Heckmann's, who reveals to Flemming the location of the antique dealer's secret auction, Flemming can secure the dagger and has all participants in the private auction as well as Heckmann arrested. Flemming learns from Ms. Heckmann that the children have found the dagger, he has them show him where it was found, it is the dormitory in which all the students who took part in the protest live, the Heckmanns are released.
While the search of the dormitory did not yield anything, Flemming brought Cornelia up to date, she expressed the assumption that the demonstrators could have had people behind them who did not appear at the auction themselves. Flemming has the idea of sending Miriam Koch to the university and checking who is currently working on a master's thesis on the history of German East Africa. She runs into Christoph Eckstein, when she seeks him out, he tries to flee, but Koch can catch him. Eckstein testifies that Kampenrath, according to his perception, committed suicide, he left the house key in the door, he sticks with this depiction even when Flemming confronts him with the fact that the key has disappeared. Flemming believes the young man and is now certain that another person hidden in the house must have killed Kampenrath. Flemming arranges a confrontation between Eckstein and Cornelia, who admits to having seen the young man in the house. She claims to have been worried about her brother and to have gone to the auction house, where she found her brother dead. She then faked a robbery and made the tape from the surveillance camera disappear so that she could still get the insurance sum paid out, the tape destroyed her. Erika Walter seeks out Flemming, she rules out Kampenrath's suicide, since he was just about to buy an apartment in Munich near his ex-wife, which he would probably not have in mind if he wanted to commit suicide. Cornelia took the call from Erika Walter to the agent in the shop.
Flemming and Koch are on their way to see Cornelia when they notice a television technician whom Cornelia had ordered, who tells the officials that he should install a television and a video device in Villa Kampenrath, Flemming instructs him to relocate the line in this way that even the officers outside can receive and record the images on the television. The officers record that Cornelia was in the villa in front of Eckstein, hid and fled to Eckstein. Flemming and Koch storm the villa, Cornelia destroys the cassette, but when the officers show her that they have made a copy, Cornelia confesses that her brother had told her that he would leave her and move to his ex-wife in Munich. When she wanted to talk to him again, he wanted to throw her out, she then killed him in an affect. Cornelia is arrested.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of the crime scene death of an auctioneer on June 25, 1995 was seen by a total of 5.95 million viewers in Germany and thus achieved a market share of 22.04%.
Reviews
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm rate the episode as mediocre and comment: "Many suspects, little tension"
Web links
- Crime scene: death of an auctioneer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Death of an auctioneer in the online film database
- Summary of the plot of the death of an auctioneer on the ARD website
- Death of an auctioneer at the crime scene fund
- Death of an auctioneer at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Audience ratings at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on February 16, 2016.
- ↑ Death of an auctioneer Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on February 16, 2016.
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