Crime scene: alter ego

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title alter ego
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 844 ( list )
First broadcast September 23, 2012
on Das Erste
Rod
Director Thomas Jauch
script Jürgen Werner
production Sonja Goslicki
music Stephan Massimo
camera Clemens Messow
cut Dagmar Lichius
occupation

Alter Ego is a television film from the television crime series Tatort by ARD , ORF and SF .

The film was produced by WDR and broadcast almost simultaneously for the first time on September 23, 2012 by the stations Das Erste and Einsfestival . It is the 844th episode in the crime scene series and the first case with Jörg Hartmann as chief inspector Peter Faber in Dortmund , Anna Schudt as chief inspector Martina Bönisch and the chief inspectors Nora Dalay and Daniel Kossik played by Aylin Tezel and Stefan Konarske .

action

Chief Inspector Peter Faber has returned from Lübeck to his home town of Dortmund. But the homicide team has no time to properly greet their new boss at the police headquarters. The body of the homosexual student Kai Schiplock was found naked in his apartment, only covered with a cloth. Initial traces point to a jealous drama, as the murder victim was known for his easygoing lifestyle. As the first main suspect, Schiplock's ex-boyfriend Lars Bremer falls into the field of vision of the inspector, as Bremer recently suffered from Schiplock's behavior.

Above all, Commissioner Kossik cannot cope with Faber's investigative methods. The new supervisor is closed off, takes antidepressants and has the strange habit of putting himself into the psyche of the perpetrator for investigative purposes in order to gain conclusions about the perpetrator and the course of events. Only Chief Inspector Bönisch seems to be slowly getting used to his methods. In addition, Kossik strains the relationship with his colleague Nora Dalay, who does not want to enter into a permanent relationship with him.

The trail leads Faber to a high-tech company in Dortmund that manufactures robots. The murder victim last worked here as an intern. Since there had been a dispute there, Kai Schiplock left the company boss Dr. Hendrik Strehlsen and especially his colleague Sebastian Lesniak made a lasting impression. The dispute broke out because Lesniak belongs to a religious community with extremely homophobic tendencies.

Suddenly another corpse is discovered on a renatured heap on the outskirts of Dortmund; the murdered person is Lars Bremer. He too is naked and wrapped in a cloth. The further investigations lead Faber to the luxurious villa in which Dr. Strehlsen lives with his wife with his father, the steel industrialist August Strehlsen. Faber will rely on Dr. Strehlsen's homosexuality as well as his father's anti-gay attitude. Dr. Hendrik Strehlsen seems to have had a secret relationship with Kai Schiplock, where he himself tried to fight against his homosexuality. A video recording that shows Strehlsen in a parking garage near Schiplock's apartment, the latter is increasingly in distress.

After the scene of the murder of Lars Bremer was located in an empty house, the real estate agent Martin Höller is considered the main suspect because he had access to the house and knew the two dead. But then Faber is knocked down in the parking lot in front of his house and kidnapped. He finds himself tied up in the living room of an empty house. Dr. Strehlsen spills gasoline everywhere and is about to kill himself and Faber. He admits that he killed Schiplock, who cheated on him, and Bremer, who wanted to betray him. Meanwhile, Bönisch finds out that the commissioner is probably in the former house of the Strehlsen family near the Phoenix Lake in Hörde . When the building is surrounded, Kossik manages to secretly break into the house. Meanwhile, Faber uses a trick so that Dr. Strehlsen initially loses control of his lighter. As a result, the two inspectors manage to save themselves with a courageous leap out of the window just in time, before Strehlsen finally causes the house to explode.

Production and Background

The film was shot in various locations, mainly in the Dortmund area. The roof on which Faber stands at the beginning and end of the film is the school roof of the Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium on Erzbergerstraße in the eastern city center of Dortmund. The scenes at the police headquarters were created on the real main building of the Dortmund police headquarters on Markgrafenstrasse in Ruhrallee . Thomas Bremer's (Lars Bremer's father) house is located on Weingartenstrasse in Hörde , directly adjacent to the new Phoenix Lake development area. In search of Lars Bremer, Dalay and Kossik walk across the grounds of the Zollern colliery in Bövinghausen in the west of Dortmund. Lars Bremer is later found dead on the Deusenberg dump in Deusen . The scenes in the Robotix company , whose boss Dr. Strehlsen is, were filmed in the Colani egg in the Brambauer district of Lüner . Further scenes were created in the Dortmunder U , on the forecourt of the Dortmund Central Station and in Cologne .

Another World , the soundtrack for the film, is by Antony and the Johnsons .

Private matters of the inspectors: Peter Faber, who came back to his hometown Dortmund from Lübeck, accepted the chief post after Martina Bönisch rejected him. His erratic behavior seems mostly related to a bad event in his past. He lets it be known that he had a wife and a daughter. Bönisch, who has two children and an unemployed man, did not want to take on the responsibility of the homicide squad as well. To relax and to switch off, she meets with a callboy every now and then .

KOK'in Nora Dalay gets involved with her colleague Daniel Kossik, who is considered a womanizer, and, unlike Kossik, is no longer so sure the next day whether that was right. So she insists that the private relationship between the two of them remains a secret, which is not exactly what the young commissioner wants.

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of the film Alter Ego was seen on the television station Das Erste by a total of 8.73 million viewers and achieved a market share of 24.8%. In the advertising-relevant target group , it reached 3.10 million viewers and a market share of 21.7%. On September 23, 2012, it was the most watched program on German television in both target groups.

criticism

TV Spielfilm gave a thumbs up, gave one of three possible points for claim, humor and action, two for tension and said: “'I'm not a madman. No matter what is said. ' Peter Faber, the new head of the homicide squad, behaves so strangely that his team almost forgets to solve the murder of a student ... Faber's first case stutters from time to time, but the 'crime scene' rocks over it with great speed. ”The conclusion then also read: "Still a bit out of round, but quite unique."

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv found the beginning with the “well-staffed team around Jörg Hartmann”, which offers “good approaches to family constellations”, “very promising” and wrote: “The WDR is sending a third 'Tatort' Team into the race. Because the Ruhrpott has not yet been filmed dead and everyone is talking about BVB - therefore Dortmund as the location. A quartet as a double duet: experience meets youth, disillusionment meets freshness, depression meets ambition. Highlights: simulated victim-perpetrator situations. "Tittelbach's conclusion was then:" A successful debut, a team from which a lot can be expected, an imperceptibly worsening case, not entirely cliché-free, homogeneous look, fast-paced. "

Holger Gertz from Süddeutsche spoke of a “remarkable crime scene” and was of the opinion that the viewer would be “served” “closeness in all aggregate states” at the first Dortmund crime scene. It was also said: “When does lust kill? When does it heal? Four inspectors are investigating, one is acting like a vomit bag. There is still sexual tension between them - and a murder in the gay milieu. ”Regarding the soundtrack of the Antony and the Johnsons film Another world , he said:“ Only a person who has no heart does not have to cry when he hears the song, that it is more of a prayer. ”Regarding Jörg Hartmann's role of chief investigator Peter Faber, Gertz said:“ It was played superbly. ”

Jakob Biazza from Focus was of the opinion that the first episode “Alter Ego” “nourishes the hope that the new Dortmund 'crime scene” could become a great crime thriller ”. He had to "but still remove the gap between the fanatical Jörg Hartmann and the rest". Biazza wrote: “The gap between the young drama team (Tezel / Konarske) and the old hands (Hartmann / Schudt) is still steep. But it flattens out a bit in the course of 'Alter Ego'. There is hope that this trend will continue. Also because Werner gives them better lines. 'Everything changes - that's the way it is and it stays that way!' It's a paradox - and an opportunity. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TV ratings. In: Meedia. September 24, 2012, archived from the original on September 24, 2012 ; Retrieved October 2, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Dortmund's “Tatort” attracts almost 9 million viewers to the area. In: Horizont.net . September 24, 2012, archived from the original on September 24, 2012 ; Retrieved October 2, 2012 .
  3. ↑ 'Crime Scene: Alter Ego.' TV thriller. Jörg Hartmann's controversial debut as Dortmund inspector Faber. at tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved October 12, 2014.
  4. ^ Rainer Tittelbach : 'Tatort - Alter Ego' series. Hartmann, Schudt, Tezel, Konarske. The strange methods at the Dortmund crime scene . at tittelbach.tv . Retrieved October 12, 2015.
  5. ↑ Holger Gertz : "Tatort Dortmund Alter Ego". Canned food In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , 23 September 2012
  6. ↑ Jakob Biazza: The Dortmund "crime scene" in the criticism. Fortunately, your ego exists, dude! In: Focus , September 23, 2012. Accessed October 12, 2015.
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