Crime scene: African violets

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title African violets
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavarian radio
length 86 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 123 ( List )
First broadcast April 20, 1981 on German television
Rod
Director Wilm ten Haaf
script Herbert Rosendorfer
music Erich Ferstl ,
Joachim Heider
camera Eduard Windhager
cut Karin Fischer
occupation

African violets is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk under the direction of Wilm ten Haaf was first broadcast on April 20, 1981 in the first program of ARD . It is the 123rd episode in the crime scene series; the 15th and last case with Chief Inspector Veigl.

Veigl has to clarify a murder case and is investigating his personal circle of friends.

action

Lawyer Walter Berg wants to separate from his lover, the pharmacist Ulla Brendel, after five years in order to end the eternal quarrels with his wife about this relationship. The decision is not easy for Berg, but he is determined. Since his wife knows that Ulla Brendel had already attempted suicide before and in order not to have too bad a conscience towards her competitor, she meets with her to talk.

Walter Berg traveled to Regensburg for two days because he and his colleague Runau want to defend a client there. When he tries to find out how Ulla is doing, he cannot reach her by phone. On the spur of the moment, he goes to Munich that night and finds Ulla Brendel lying dead on the floor in her apartment. Distraught, he drives back to Regensburg, where his host hadn't noticed that Berg had been out all night.

After a few days, Ulla Brendel is found in the apartment by the caretaker. Chief Detective Veigl and his assistant Lenz are called to the scene. The pensioner Wiedemann explains very quickly that his neighbor probably had a relationship with a married man, who has not come for a few days. In contrast, the day before, a woman had rang the doorbell of his neighbor who had brought a white African violet.

Veigl is beginning to suspect that the dead woman might be the lover of his regular fellow Berg. To be on the safe side, he had Wiedemann identify Berg with a photo.

Veigl is very uncomfortable having to investigate his friend. He goes to Regensburg, where Berg has already been busy for a week. Berg states that he has not been back with Ulla since they split up. Even on the night of the crime he would have been with his colleague Runau.

In the meantime, Chief Detective Josef Brettschneider interviewed Ulla Brendel's employer, the pharmacist Froschhammer. Since his employee was on vacation, he hadn't noticed her absence. In private he hardly knows anything about her. Brettschneider is also looking for the victim's aunt, as she could be the woman with the African violet, but she has been in Tenerife for weeks and is therefore out of the question. Veigl finds out that Frau Berg bought the flower and rang the doorbell at Ulla Brendel's door. The attentive neighbor Wiedemann observed everything, but heard no shots.

The next day, Veigl was approached by a reporter that, according to his research, Berg would have been in Munich on the night of the murder and could therefore be considered a murderer. The victim's aunt also returns from Tenerife to testify to the police. Accordingly, she inherits the pharmacy, because her niece was engaged to the pharmacist and he would have transferred the business to her. Veigl is more than surprised and wants to speak to his friend right away. Berg admits that he was actually in Munich and also at the crime scene, but that the victim was already dead on the ground. Unexpectedly, Ms. Berg made a confession that she shot Ulla Brendel and threw the gun into the Isar .

Chief Detective Ludwig Lenz is researching that the pharmacist Froschhammer has both a pistol and a gun license. In addition, there is an investigation into illegal drug trafficking against him from earlier years, which has been discontinued. Veigl questions Froschhammer and confronts him with his statement that he hardly knew Ulla Brendel privately. Now Froschhammer admits that he had fooled himself and always hoped that Ulla would return to him. He would have gone to see her on the evening of the crime, but she would have strictly refused and threatened to make additional statements to the police about his drug deals if he did not finally leave her alone. Then he would have shot her in anger.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of African violets on Easter Monday 1981 was seen by 12.98 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 35.0 percent for Das Erste .

Reviews

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm write about this last crime scene crime thriller in which Gustl Bayrhammer investigates full-time: "A rascal takes his traditional hat."

“The crime fiction, it's long been a worn-out Oktoberfest. Nothing happens to Doa. "

- Gustl Bayrhammer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: African violets . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ a b On TV this week . In: Der Spiegel . No.  17 , 1981, p. 255 ( online ). Quotation: “In Herbert Rosendorfers 'Tatort' crime thriller, title: 'Usambaraveilchen', Gustl Bayrhammer, as Commissioner Veigl, clarifies his last murder case. The Bavarian character grumbler has had enough of the TV series [...] "
  3. ↑ African violets. Crime scene fund, accessed on August 15, 2016 .
  4. ^ Tatort - Usambaraveilchen Filmkritik at tvspielfilm.de , accessed on February 22, 2015.
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