Crime scene: Cherchez la femme or The Spirits of Mummelsee

Episode of the series Tatort
Original title	Cherchez la femme or The Ghosts of Mummelsee
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	SWF
length	93 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
classification	Episode 27 ( List )
First broadcast	March 4th 1973 on German television
Rod
Director	Wilm ten Haaf
script	Dieter Waldmann
production	Gig Malzacher , Peter Wehrand
music	Rolf-Hans Müller
camera	Helmut Stoll , Immo Rentz
cut	Helmut Nentwig
occupation
Heinz Schimmelpfennig : Commissioner Gerber Gernot Endemann : Detective Assistant Wingart Gerhard Remus : Detective Assistant Metzger Klaus Schwarzkopf : Commissioner Finke Gert Keller : forensic doctor Rosemarie Fendel : Ella Kern Irene Marhold : Ilsemarie Lorenz Eva-Ingeborg Scholz : Martha Turowski Günther Ungeheuer : Klaus-Dieter Kladde Wolfgang Preiss : Friedrich von Ribnitz Paul Neuhaus : Horst Lüdecke Wilma Gatzke : Wilhelmine Below Bruno Vahl-Berg : Alwin Below Jens Weisser : Michael Niebüll Hans-Werner Bussinger : Karl Petersen Gerda Gmelin : Sister Trautlinde Lilli Holmer : Karen Brödersen Preben Marht : Ulrik Brödersen Toni Treutler : Anneliese Lachmann Wolfgang Borchert : Erwin Lachmann Sabine von Maydell : Gudrun Falk Christine Gerlach : Mrs. Falk

Cherchez la femme or Die Geister vom Mummelsee is an episode of the ARD crime series Tatort . The episode produced by Südwestfunk was first broadcast on March 4, 1973 on ARD. It is the first case with Commissioner Gerber from Baden-Baden .

action

A tour group, most of which comes from Kiel , is traveling by coach in the tri-border region between Germany, Switzerland and France. There are also two friends on the trip, Erna Kern and Martha Turowski.

When the tour group stops in a hotel at Mummelsee after a trip over the Black Forest High Road, most of the guests spend the evening in the hotel, a few are out and about . The fellow travelers talked about Ms. Turowski and Ms. Kern, who fell apart in a dispute over a man traveling with them, the representative Klaus-Dieter Kladde. Suddenly there is a scream, Martha Turowski is brought unconscious from the lake. However, attempts at resuscitation are unsuccessful and Ms. Turowski is dead.

Commissioner Gerber starts the investigation. He asks Mr. Kladde, who dismisses his relationship with Mrs. Turowski as an affair . The fellow travelers, however, state that Kladde first advertised for Ms. Turowski and then for Ms. Kern and promised marriage to both of them one after the other. The tour guide, Mr. Lüdecke, says that Mrs. Turowski locked herself in the bus toilet, rather drunk, shortly before her death and that he freed her from her predicament. The situation was clearly uncomfortable for her. The autopsy results while that Ms. Turowski drowned, but the concentration of alcohol in the blood is relatively low. There are also remnants of sleeping pills in the stomach .

Gerber also finds out that Mr. Kladde is usually in casinos . He also has a criminal record for fraud and marriage fraud. Mrs. Turowski had given him all of her money because he had told her he had business in France and wanted to start a new life with her in France. In addition, Mrs. Kern had given him a not inconsiderable amount of money because he had promised her the same. Gerber suspects that Kladde killed Mrs. Turowski because she found out that he betrayed her and wanted to report him. Mr. Kladde is arrested on suspicion of murder.

It turns out, however, that Ms. Kern had secretly administered the sleeping pill to her former friend so that she and Mr. Kladde could leave for France without Martha Turowski knowing about it. Meanwhile, the tour guide Lüdecke is found murdered in Mr. Brödersen's room. Kladde is then released because he is eliminated as a perpetrator. The young Herr Niebüll notifies Commissioner Gerber because his room has been broken into and his luggage ransacked.

During a trip to Hohenbaden Castle , Mr. Niebüll sees Mrs. Lorenz tampering with his photo equipment and trying to steal a film. Mrs. Lorenz flees and Mr. Niebüll follows. In the meantime, the hotel staff finds unused towels in the spring house by the lake. The teacher Mrs. Lorenz had asked for towels on the evening of the crime, as they would be missing in her room. She had previously hidden her own towels in her suitcase and in the spring house the following morning and asked for new ones in order to obtain an alibi . The hotel staff then notify the police, as this behavior makes Ms. Lorenz suspicious. She is a teacher in Kiel and started a relationship there with the tour guide Mr. Lüdecke, which the two successfully kept a secret from the tour group. During a shepherd's hour in the coach, the two were discovered by Ms. Turowski when she went back to the coach to get something out.

Mrs. Lorenz followed Mrs. Turowski to swear her to silence. Ms. Lorenz is in "better circles" in Kiel, and one of her students is also part of the tour group. But Ms. Turowski only mocked her and insulted her as a "whore". Thereupon Mrs. Lorenz hit Mrs. Turowski, and she fell into the lake. Mrs. Lorenz also murdered Mr. Lüdecke because he suspected that she had killed Mrs. Turowski. Mr. Niebüll had unsuspectingly photographed her at the spring house, so she wanted to steal the film from him on which the telltale negative can be seen.

Web links

• Crime scene: Cherchez la femme or The Spirits of Mummelsee in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Cherchez la femme or the ghosts from Mummelsee at the crime scene fund

previous episode February 4, 1973: A very common murder

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1. ↑ Release certificate for the crime scene: Cherchez la femme or Die Geister vom Mummelsee . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).