Crime scene: Reported as stolen

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Reported as stolen
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavarian radio
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 48 ( List )
First broadcast February 16, 1975 on German television
Rod
Director Wilm ten Haaf
script Erna Fentsch
production Peter Hoheisel
music Rolf Alexander Wilhelm
camera Luy Briechle
cut Margret Sager
occupation

The 48th episode in the crime series Tatort is reported as stolen . Produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk, the episode was in on 16 February 1975 First program of the ARD broadcast for the first time. It is the fifth case of Chief Inspector Veigl, portrayed by Gustl Bayrhammer . The episode is about the death of a master mechanic and his involvement in shady business.

action

A farmer and his mother find an unconscious man on the side of a country road and call the police. The arriving officers cannot find any traces of the accident. Chief Inspector Veigl and his assistants are entrusted with the case. Remnants of a white shirt are found on the unconscious man. In addition, the stranger found a bag with seals from the motor vehicle company Stumm, whereupon Veigl went to the company, which was located in the immediate vicinity of the site. The company owner can identify the unknown man as her master mechanic Otto Jirisch. He drove away the night before and never showed up. His car has also disappeared. Gigga, the daughter of the company owner, shows Veigl the injured man's apartment. There the inspector discovered some expensive technical equipment, but nothing that would help him. Gigga can't tell him much about the injured man, she lived in boarding school until six months ago. In the hospital, Veigl learns that Jirisch was clinically dead when he was admitted, but is now on the ventilator and is relatively stable. Whether he will ever come to is questionable. In the hospital, Veigl meets Mrs. Stumm who wants to visit her master mechanic.

In the meantime, the police found a yellow Porsche unlocked in downtown Munich with a no-parking permit, the key of which was still in the lock. The car is being towed. It turns out that it is Otto Jirisch's vehicle. When Veigl comes into the office, Lenz and Brettschneider are already congratulating him on solving the case. A used towing device with only Jirisch's fingerprints on it was found in the car. In addition, road maps were found on which the telephone numbers of suppliers and customers of cars are noted. In addition to fabric residues on the driver and front passenger seats, the laboratory also found traces of blood from two different blood groups on the driver's seat. According to the traces, first Jirisch, but later another person in a wool jacket, must have sat in the driver's seat. So the person in the wool jacket must have been the passenger first, then knocked down Jirisch and put it down, and then drove away in his car. However, no fingerprints were found for anyone else. Two of the phone numbers found point to a house in Schwabing, the people called do not answer by name. When Lenz and Brettschneider wanted to take a look around there in the evening, they saw an intoxicated woman who had an accident while parking. Since she refuses to provide identification, the officers take her away. In the woman's car they find a freshly laundered wool jacket, just as the wanted person must have been wearing at the time of the crime.

Veigl interrogates Mathilde Jahn, who is now a suspect because she also has no alibi for the time of the crime. The officers found an injury on the woman's neck, so that this also fits into the perpetrator profile. An arrest warrant is issued against the woman. The officers learn from the central register that Jirisch has a criminal record and that this file is in Hamburg. Veigl visits Ms. Stumm again, who is not a specialist herself, but has taken over the business from her deceased husband. Jirisch practically ran the business as a master mechanic. She knows nothing about his private life. In a flashback, however, it is shown that both obviously had a relationship. Brettschneider, meanwhile, asks Gigga, who claims to have been to the cinema on Sunday. When he catches her lying, she claims to have met a man whose name she does not want to reveal. After Brettschneider left, Gigga frantically searches the house for a cash box that she takes.

The employees, especially the male ones, have made negative comments about Jirish. The officers found Gigga's bra in his apartment. Veigl informs Ms. Stumm that Jirisch has been living in Hamburg. He had told her that he had been abroad for a few years. When Veigl said goodbye, he accidentally overheard an insurance employee informing Ms. Stumm that "once again" one of her customers had reported his car as stolen.

Lenz and Brettschneider check Mathilde Jahn's apartment. In the stairwell they meet a man with injuries in the face who pretends to be a sales representative. When the officers ask for his ID, he pulls a gun, but Lenz and Brettschneider manage to overpower him. His name is Georg Leu, he tells Veigl that he suffered the injuries to his face while intoxicated. The name Jirish means nothing to him. There are no fingerprints on his weapon, and a check shows that his hands are burned with hydrochloric acid and are no longer leaving fingerprints. He is arrested. Veigl goes to Gigga Stumm again to ask her about the name of the man she had met at the time of the crime. He notices the cash box in which he sifts through photos of Gigga and Jirisch in an intimate pose. Veigl, who asked Hamburg Chief Inspector Trimmel for administrative assistance and had sent him photos of Leu to Hamburg, learned from his colleague that Leu was known there under the name "Eduard Schulein". Schulein was in prison with Jirisch and is a locksmith by profession. Jirisch has since died in hospital. Mathilde Jahn succeeds in producing an alibi, which explains her injuries, as she was performing SM practices with an older man at the time of the crime. She will be released.

An employee of Stumm can remember Schulein / Leu, he was obviously an acquaintance of Jirisch and had recently visited him. He was wearing a wool jacket. Veigl seeks out the insurance clerk who was with Mrs. Stumm. He confirms that since Mr. Stumm has died and Jirisch has been working for Mrs. Stumm, customer vehicles have been stolen all the time and the Stumm company can deliver replacements within a very short time. It is always the same models and always with a low mileage. He had informed his superiors about this, but investigations had not led to any results. The last car was only stolen on the weekend when Jirisch was fatally injured, like almost all cars. Veigl has license plates and chassis numbers handed over. At night the inspector received a call from Ms. Stumm, who shortly afterwards showed him fake TÜV stickers, license plates and chassis plates. Among them is the sign of the recently stolen car. Mrs. Stumm explains to Veigl that after her husband died unexpectedly in Jirisch, she saw her rescue, as he was very demanding and energetic. She was naive about the business and allowed him to manipulate her as a result. Because she found herself in financial difficulties, she let him persuade her to steal customer vehicles. Jirisch took care of everything else related to insurance fraud. At first Jirisch got half, later he got the whole profit. Even now she is still defending him for having been put under pressure by the locksmith who got him the car keys.

Veigl feels sorry for Ms. Stumm, so he asks Kriminalrat Härtinger to release him from the case, which the latter refuses. When Veigl is informed by Brettschneider that Schulein recently had contact with Jirisch, he realizes who the locksmith is who has put Jirisch under pressure. Schulein finally admits this and is excited that he was fobbed off with smaller amounts of money. Jirisch also turned him away when he needed shelter. In Jirisch's car there was then an argument between them. Jirisch beat him out of the car after he refused to get out. He fought back, and Jirisch was injured. He then left him on the side of the road and only now learned of his death. After making this confession, Schulein manages to overpower a police officer and flee. After a chase inside the police headquarters, Schulein falls to his death.

Audience ratings and special features

When it was first broadcast, the episode achieved a market share of 67.00%.

Gisela and Susanne Uhlen, who play mother and daughter in the film, are also in real life.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm also rate this crime scene positively because of Trimmel's guest appearance: "Two veterans of the crime series cooperate".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: Reported as stolen . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Reported as stolen at tatort-fundus.de
  3. ^ Tatort: Reported as stolen Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on November 26, 2014.
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