Crime scene: Bienzle and the champion

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Bienzle and the champion
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SDR
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 394 ( List )
First broadcast August 23, 1998 on First German Television
Rod
Director Dieter Schlotterbeck
script Felix Huby
music Jörg-Peter Siebert
camera Marc Liesendahl
cut Christiane Hegemann
occupation

Bienzle and the Champion is an episode of the crime series Tatort . The first broadcast of the contribution produced by Süddeutscher Rundfunk under the direction of Dieter Schlotterbeck took place on August 23, 1998 on First German Television . It is the 394th episode in the film series and the eighth with the Stuttgart inspector Ernst Bienzle.

action

The professional boxer Piet Michalke observes late in the evening as his best friend Rico Rottmann loads the lifeless body of a man onto his pickup and drives it away. This man was found hanged at the Neckar lock the next day. Forensic doctor Kocher recognizes him as the bank manager Constantin Wanner and rules out suicide.

Michalke can't remember anything the next day, just as he very often has to admit to memory lapses, which he has suffered from since a boxing accident and which are caused by a bruised brain . Nevertheless, he is certain that he will get back in the ring at some point and is training doggedly to achieve this goal. Rico Rottmann always stood by him in these difficult times, something he would never forget.

Inspector Bienzle is doing research in the bank to find out more about the victim. The bank employee Dr. Haussmann is shocked by Wanner's death and knows that he is currently planning a fun center and has worked a lot with foreign investors. The failure of Wanner gives real estate expert Herbert Frank the opportunity to meet with investors without Wanner's mediation and to handle the deal directly. Bienzle asks Frank about it, but he refuses to cooperate.

Jaco Riewers, owner of a bar where boxers meet regularly after training, knows about Rico Rottmann's not very clean business. He was negotiating with Wanner to move his boxing camp into the new fun center. After Jaco indicated that he wanted to blackmail Rico, he was found shot dead in his pub the next day. One of the employees accuses Michalke of having seen the two of them quarrel the day before. During the search of Michalke's room, a pistol is found that later turns out to be the murder weapon. Michalke himself cannot remember anything. Under hypnosis, Bienzle tries to activate memory and learns that Michalke Jaco and a second man had seen a man loaded onto a pickup truck. Since Rico owns such a car, which has since been reported as stolen, Bienzel's investigations focus on the boxing camp operator. After the car is found, Wanner's DNA can be secured. According to the research, the box camp property belonged to Herbert Frank, who had such leverage to get Rico to clear Wanner out of the way for him. Coincidentally, there are surveillance recordings at the lock showing Rico Rottmann as the driver of the pickup.

While Inspector Bienzle is on his way to the boxing camp, Rottmann lets Michalke fight again, contrary to all warnings from the doctors. Bienzle is clear that Rottmann wants to eliminate the boxer as a witness. After Michalke went down and did not regain consciousness, Bienzle wanted to arrest Rottmann for three murders. However, he shot himself with a pistol without further ado.

background

The crime scene episode Bienzle and the Champion takes place in the boxing environment. The professional boxer Dariusz Michalczewski was used for a supporting role. Rock singer Chris Thompson also has a guest appearance at a boxing event.

reception

Audience rating

The audience rating for Bienzle and the Champion when it was first broadcast on August 23, 1998 was 7.38 million viewers and thus 23 percent for Das Erste.

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv considers this crime scene to be: “Better thought than done.” Because even if it is “an unusually action-rich 'crime scene” for “Swabian standards”, it appears “from today's perspective [as] getting used to Macho crime thriller about false friendships between men, which exposes its style and its message far too clearly not only for today's conditions. "Tittelbach also quotes the director Dieter Schlotterbeck, who says of this crime scene himself:" I think that this crime thriller is not so acc It is normal, as we are used to from Swabian 'crime scenes', that it is environmentally safe and that it has a little more action than before. "

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best possible rating (thumbs up) and said: “Clear victory on points! Free the ring! ”With the guest appearance of the ex-light heavyweight world champion Dariusz“ The Tiger ”Michalczewski, the crime scene was also“ competently ”occupied.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Tittelbach : Dietz Werner Steck, Ben Becker, Felix Huby. Haudrauf without reminder at tittelbach.tv, accessed on March 2, 2016.
  2. ^ TV thriller from the boxing milieu in Stuttgart. Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on March 3, 2016.
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