Crime scene: played out

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Played out
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 NDR
length 87 minutes
classification Episode 352 ( List )
First broadcast February 23, 1997 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Jürgen Roland
script Hans Werner Kettenbach
production Doris J. Heinze
music Wolfgang Timpe ,
Klaus Doldinger
camera Randolf Scherraus
cut Angelika Strelczyk
occupation

Ausgespielt is a TV movie from the crime series Tatort of ARD and ORF . The film was produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk and first broadcast on February 23, 1997. It is the crime scene episode 352. For the chief detective Paul Stoever ( Manfred Krug ) it is the 31st case. For his colleague Peter Brockmöller ( Charles Brauer ) it is the 28th case in which he is investigating.

The Hamburg chief detective Stoever and Brockmöller deal in this case with the homeless scene.

action

After an evening argument with his friends at the port of Hamburg, the jazz musician Max Zeller is found lifeless in the morning. The detective chief inspectors Stoever and Brockmöller are called and are amazed to find the well-known musician among the homeless. They inquire immediately at the music club where they made music together years ago. There they find out that Zeller was last with the singer Tina Beck.

Stöver then asks Zeller's nephew, who has debts and is now the sole heir. But since Zeller was penniless, Achim Zeller's perpetration seems unlikely. While Stoever continues to search for suspects, the homeless Bruno Fellgiebel also sets off. He had learned from Zeller that someone had stolen his last composition from him. With this knowledge he approaches the composer Detlev Markowski, who very likely found the sheet music from Tina Beck, with whom he lived briefly after she separated from Zeller. He demands money for his silence and is found strangled in a pension shortly afterwards. Stoever and Brockmöller then question Fellgiebel's homeless colleagues and receive information about blackmail about which Fellgiebel recently spoke. At the same time, however, one of the men reveals himself and the inspectors learn that Fellgiebel killed Zeller because he had annoyed him.

After listening to an old Zeller saxophone recording, Stoever and Brockmöller find an astonishing resemblance to the current number-one hit, The Other Life. You research the radio station and find out that Detlev Markowski is named as the composer. You ask him about it and he admits that he took over a few chords from Zeller because he supposedly no longer “grabbed” it.

For the murder of Bruno Fellgiebel, the convicted violent criminal Victor Schmidt can be convicted. After he managed to escape from custody, he led Stoever and Brockmöller directly to his client, the music producer Sven Planitz. He had acquired all the rights to the music from Markowski and wanted to bring Das Other Leben out big as a musical. Therefore he wanted to save himself any copyright disputes about it.

background

Play was produced by Studio Hamburg Filmproduktion on behalf of NDR . The singer Bill Ramsey and the North German presenter Carlo von Tiedemann have guest roles in this Tatort; Gottfried Böttger can be seen several times as a pianist.

reception

Audience ratings

When it was first broadcast on February 23, 1997, the episode was played out in Germany by 9.42 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 26.90 percent.

criticism

TV Spielfilm gave this crime scene a medium rating. She found it to be “very solid, but free of any surprises”, and came to the conclusion: “Unfortunately, every weird note does not work.”

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on November 7, 2014.
  2. ↑ Short review at tvspielfilm.de, on November 8, 2014.
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