Crime scene: death penalty

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title death penalty
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 MDR
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 700 ( List )
First broadcast May 25, 2008 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Patrick Winczewski
script Mario Giordano and Andreas Schlueter
production Ulrike Zirzow
music Andreas Hoge
camera Matthias Papenmeier
cut Klara Mottlova
occupation

Death Penalty is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk was first broadcast on May 25, 2008. He introduced Simone Thomalla and Martin Wuttke as the Leipzig investigative team in Saalfeld / Keppler .

action

Eva Saalfeld has just started her new position as chief inspector of the Leipzig Police Department and has moved into her new office. At her side is Chief Inspector Andreas Keppler - her ex-husband, with whom she was married until ten years ago. The marriage broke up after three years and Keppler moved away from Leipzig. Now he returns and has problems finding his way around the city of yore. He is called to his first crime scene directly from the train station. Hans Freytag, owner of the factory youth center , is found stabbed to death at his workplace. In the hall he restored boats, among other things, with young people from the area helping him. In turn, he has received massive hostility from adults since his wife had reported him for abusing her own daughter. Only a few sided with him, including the bakery employee Beate Kühne, whom Hans found dead. She also saw a youth run away, but cannot identify him.

Hans was deliberately killed with a stab in the heart. His body shows numerous bruises and false stitches, which should probably make a kind of madness believable when killing. The investigators found numerous fiber traces, photographed Hans' boat on which the word “death penalty” was sprayed, and found not only dog ​​biscuit leftovers and postal strings but also a plastic strip with the name “Pifama” at the crime scene. After her interrogation, Beate Kühne attacks a man not far from the crime scene who, according to her, poisoned the atmosphere in the area. It is Kurt Steinbrecher, owner of the Sachsenhof inn . He recently founded the association Aktion Selbsthilfe Kinderschutz , which campaigned, among other things, for the death penalty for the sexual abuse of children . Keppler finds the murder weapon and the spray can not far from the crime scene, the can bearing Steinbrecher's fingerprints. The fibers on Hans' clothing also come from Steinbrecher. However, he is released when his earlier handwriting samples do not coincide with the fresh spray trail on Hans' boat, and he confesses to a fight with Hans shortly before his death.

The investigation leads Saalfeld and Keppler to the Lornsen family. Son Max last phoned Hans and the young man says that Hans was a role model for him. He had promised the young people who helped build the boat that he would go on a sailing tour with them. In general, Hans was like a friend with whom you could talk about anything, unlike your own parents. Max's parents wanted to prevent their son from speaking to the police. Postman Lutz and his wife have also signed up on Steinbrecher's list of association members.

When they visit the crime scene again, the investigators find Hans' empty cash box. They found out that shortly before his death, Hans sold one of his boats for 70,000 euros. However, the money has disappeared. Sibylle Freytag, who had reported her husband for child abuse, makes herself suspicious. She has an affair with her lawyer, Klaus Arend. She also had debts and Klaus paid part of her expenses. Saalfeld and Keppler catch Sibylle at the crime scene. She got the 70,000 euros out of hiding. It turns out that Sibylle and Klaus wanted to separate from their partners and marry themselves. To this end, Sibylle started the rumor that Hans had abused his daughter because she wanted Hans to leave town. One day before Hans' death, Sibylle wanted to withdraw the charges, but did not. Both now have a moral guilt for Hans' death.

The key to solving the case seems to lie in the "Pifama" badge. It turns out that "Pifama" is part of a mail name for a flirt platform for young people. In an advertising campaign, backpacks with individualized mail trailers were given out. Keppler writes to “Pifama” on the flirt platform. A meeting is arranged and “Pifama” is provided. It is about the youngster Lars, who was friends with Hans. He had found Hans' body in front of Beate Kühne and reported that he had seen another young person flee. The investigators secretly follow Lars, who leads them to Max. Max also says that he only found Hans dead.

Keppler combines and finally finds the solution. Post cord and dog biscuits at the crime scene point to Lutz Lornsen as the perpetrator, especially since he was trained as a lone fighter in the army and can kill in a targeted manner. In his file, Keppler finally finds the information that Lutz was previously called Lutz Glasing and that his uncle sexually abused him as a child. Lutz saw in Hans a danger for his own son Max and thus became a murderer, with his wife helping him in the act. Both are arrested.

production

Crime scene: The death penalty was the 700th crime scene and the first of the investigative duo Saalfeld and Keppler. The shooting took place from August 28 to September 25, 2007 in Leipzig and the surrounding area. Aenne Plaumann created the costumes and Matthias Baumgärtel designed the film . The film had its television premiere on May 25, 2008. When it was first broadcast in Germany, it reached 8.48 million viewers and a market share of 26.5%.

In the film, the hit is hearing you lied to me a thousand times from Andrea Berg . The Leipziger teacher's choir eV also sings at the fountain in front of the gate .

criticism

TV Spielfilm wrote: “A dismaying milieu with believable characters. Conclusion: good debut for an interesting duo ”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See crew-united.com
  2. ↑ See daserste.de
  3. ↑ See tvspielfilm.de
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