Crime scene: everything is theater

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title All theater
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SFB
length 80 minutes
classification Episode 221 ( List )
First broadcast July 30, 1989 on German television
Rod
Director Peter Adam
script Knut Boeser
production Andrä Kubaile
music Stefan Melbinger
camera Klemens Becker
cut Friederike Badekow
occupation

Alles Theater is an episode of the ARD crime series Tatort . The episode produced by the broadcaster Free Berlin (SFB) was first broadcast on July 30, 1989 on ARD. It is the sixth and last crime scene with Chief Detective Bülow, who this time has to solve a murder in the ranks of a theater company. It is the last crime scene filmed and broadcast in what was then the western part of the divided city before the fall of the wall and reunification .

action

Chief Detective Bülow is invited to the premiere of the new play by his vacation acquaintance, the theater director Regine von Lempert. Your co-director Holger Koch is very nervous before the premiere because he staged the performance. The actor Georg Mertens, who plays a leading role in the play, has made preparations to buy shares in the theater with the help of Sadowsky, one of the partners in the theater, in order to force Koch out as artistic director. The tensions between Koch and Georg Mertens before the premiere are more than clear for Bülow as well. Koch is in a relationship with the young actress Uta Pohl and Georg with the wife Kochs, the leading actress Anna Pfeil. Georg has been supplying Uta, who is very nervous before the premiere, with cocaine for some time and also gives her something before the performance. Bülow notices the further taunts and disputes among the protagonists of the theater.

During the performance, Georg Mertens aims at Uta, as intended in the script, but then shoots himself. The actors around and Bülow in the audience quickly realize that something is wrong, Mertens is bleeding, he actually shot himself with the gun. After the performance was interrupted, Bülow immediately began the investigation and asked the property manager, who stated that the weapon was actually real, but should not be loaded. Mertens had insisted on a real weapon, which he should not have fired with, however, the shot should be fired with a second weapon with blank cartridges behind the stage. Mertens had taken the weapon with him in his cloakroom after the dress rehearsal instead of giving it to the prop master for safekeeping, as he usually did. Another theater employee tells Bülow that Uta Pohl was in Mertens' dressing room before the performance, that she came out and cried. Von Lempert explains Bülow about Koch's relationship with Uta and that von Koch is pregnant, Anna Pfeil fell into a depression because of the relationship and then entered into a relationship with Mertens, who, however, had other women on the side. Sadowsky tells Bülow that he would like to get rid of Koch as director and make Mertens his successor. However, Koch should stay with the theater as a director. Due to the death of Mertens, he would have to keep Koch as artistic director for some time longer. Von Lempert says in private Bülow that he shouldn't believe a word of Sadowsky.

The prop master told Jahnke that the magazine in the murder weapon had been replaced, the officers are now looking for the original magazine. While Sadowsky and Koch are planning to repeat the premiere, Sadowsky provokes it, so that Koch attacks Sadowsky. Sadowsky then visits Bülow and tells him about his and Mertens' plans that Mertens should buy 30% of the shares in the theater for DM 150,000, but the previous shareholder suddenly declined when he planned to sign the contract because he had reached an agreement with Koch. However, this is over-indebted. Sadowsky then checked the books and found that DM 150,000 was missing from the cash register and had been paid into a blocked account. Meanwhile, Uta confesses to the embezzlement. Based on recordings and video recordings that Mertens had made, Jahnke found out that Mertens had affairs with various women, including von Lempert, Uta and Anna Pfeil. Anna wants to make up with her husband after he harshly rejects her and makes it clear to her that he is planning a future with Uta, Anna confronts Uta, while Uta accuses Anna of being Mertens's murderer.

Bülow interrogates Koch, he complains that the scene was rewritten in such a way that the fatal shot could occur; in the novel of the play, another character was supposed to shoot himself invisible to the audience. Koch claims to have changed the play for dramaturgical reasons and that he did not seek Mertens' life. When asked by Bülow that Mertens had endangered his directorship, Koch admits the embezzlement, but he continues to deny the murder. Von Lempert joins in; she also protests Koch's innocence and accuses Uta of killing Mertens. A letter from Mertens to Uta, which von Lempert took from Uta's handbag and is now presenting, shows that Mertens is the father of her child and that the child insisted on a paternity test. Koch dismisses Lempert's suspicions and rules out Uta as a perpetrator. Koch only wakes up when Bülow presents him with the video that Mertens made of the secret love game with Uta.

Bülow wants to visit Uta, but she fell out of her dressing room to her death. Jahnke finds the empty original magazine of the gun in Uta's handbag. Bülow rules out suicide because there are signs of battle in Uta's wardrobe, and von Lempert can also confirm that the magazine was not in Uta's handbag when she took the letter from Mertens out of it. Anna Pfeil's bracelet has disappeared, Bülow discovers it in the hands of the dead, Anna confesses to having killed Mertens and Uta because they would have destroyed her and Holger Koch's marriage. Bülow has Anna taken away.

background

The episode was filmed in West Berlin between July and August 1988.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm rate this crime scene as mediocre and comment: "... and the viewer is looking for tension".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tatort: ​​All theater data for the 221st Tatort at tatort-fundus.de
  2. ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on March 8, 2015.
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