Crime scene: Bienzle and death in the dough

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Bienzle and death in the dough
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SWR
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 525 ( List )
First broadcast March 2, 2003 on First German Television
Rod
Director Hartmut Griesmayr
script Felix Huby
production Brigitte Dithard
Michael von Mossner
music Joe Mubare
camera Hans-Jörg Allgeier
cut Katja Habermehl
occupation

Bienzle and Death in the Dough is an episode of the crime series Tatort . The first broadcast of the report produced by Südwestrundfunk took place on March 2, 2003 on First German Television . It is the 525th episode of the film series and the seventeenth with the Stuttgart inspector Ernst Bienzle .

action

Inspector Bienzle is on his way back from a conference and stops early in the morning at the village baker Grabosch in the Swabian Alb to buy some fresh pretzels. Since he leaves his wallet in the bakery, he has to go back again. When he enters the bakery, he finds the master baker dead with his head in the bread dough.

Since Commissioner Bienzle is already on site, he is immediately commissioned by the LKA to take over the case. The local police officer, who initially seems overwhelmed, helps set up a makeshift office. During his first interviews, he learns that there was a lot of strife in the family. Kathrin Grabosch is twenty years younger than her husband, which naturally leads to differences. Grabosch's son Mike didn't get on well with his father either. Shortly before his death, the master baker found out that his wife had a lover. Kathrin Grabosch admits that she quarreled with her husband in the bakery and even hit him with an iron bar. She then left and is sure that her husband would still have been alive. She accuses her stepson, whom her husband allegedly wanted to disinherit.

During his investigation, Bienzle comes across discrepancies between the cone brothers, to whom the master baker was one. There are also attacks on the other members in quick succession. When gravel pit owner Hannes Riebenschlag was shot, Bienzle suspected the farmer Andreas Körner, who had to cede his lease to Riebenschlag and had threatened him for this reason. But after Alfons Keck is shot off his motorcycle and dies, this theory no longer fits. Based on some evidence, Bienzle finds the solution through the doctor's daughter Maruschka Steinborn. She was recently raped by the Kegel brothers during a group party while she was doing the catering. Out of shame, she hadn't spoken to anyone except her father - not even her boyfriend. The doctor had tried to file a complaint, but had not gotten away with the prosecution, so he had now taken matters into his own hands. When Clemens Steinborn also wants to shoot the pharmacist, he is caught and arrested by Bienzle with the help of his colleague. For him, however, the murder of Grabosch is not solved, because Steinborn declares that he has nothing to do with it, after all, Grabosch was the only one who did not participate in the rape.

Bienzle finds out that Manfred Grabosch wanted to report his cone brothers after he learned that Hannes Riebenschlag is his wife's lover. When Riebenschlag found out about this, he went to Grabosch in the bakery early that morning and suffocated him there in the bread dough.

The village policeman has to expect disciplinary proceedings because he obstructed the investigation or even tried to cover up the cone brothers - because he wanted to join the illustrious group himself.

production

Filming location in Loffenau

The shooting of Bienzle and Death in the Dough took place in May and June 2002 in Stuttgart , Loffenau , Reichental , Karlsruhe and the surrounding area.

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast on March 2, 2003 attracted 9.65 million viewers (27.1 percent market share). This makes Bienzle and Death in the Dough the most successful Tatort premiere of 2003.

criticism

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv says: “'Tatort' veteran Hartmut Griesmayr tells the two stories with a lot of serenity, but sometimes gets too involved with the village background. Especially towards the end, when the drama should come to a head, this thriller mutates into a cracking peasant theater. And when Bienzle, of all people, has a very temperamental outburst for his standards, Dietz Werner Steck blends in seamlessly with these performances. But Huby's glances into the village abyss seem very authentic; and clean clans like the gentlemen from the bowling club are everywhere. "

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm state that this time "there would be peace [...] the tension". "Author Felix Huby provides insights into human abysses in the province."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Start of shooting for the crime scene “Bienzle and Death in the Dough” . SWR press release of May 22, 2002, accessed on April 2, 2014.
  2. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff: Dietz Werner Steck, Rita Russek, Felix Huby. Bienzle investigates the province at tittelbach.tv, accessed on March 2, 2016.
  3. ↑ BTV-Krimi.Dietz Werner Steck investigates Swabian calm. Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on March 2, 2016.
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