Crime scene: The Glockenbach secret

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The Glockenbach secret
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavarian radio
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 423 ( List )
First broadcast October 3, 1999 on Das Erste
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Director Martin Enlen
script Friedrich Ani
music Dieter Schleip
camera Klaus Merkel
cut Ulla Möllinger
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The Glockenbachgeheimnis is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk was first broadcast on October 3, 1999 on ARD's first program. The Munich investigator duo Batic and Leitmayr are investigating their 23rd case.

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Superintendent Carlo Menzinger leads a busload of Japanese from Tokyo, who are staying with the Munich police officers to exchange experiences, through the Glockenbachviertel in Munich, where 16 people have been murdered in the past. But even now a dead person is found in Westermühlbach , whose life was violently ended. The stroller Paul Rochus discovers the body late in the evening and is disturbed. The detective chief inspectors Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr ask him and other passers-by with the help of a Polaroid photo whether they know who the dead person is. A little girl thinks she recognizes him and sends her to the “Jasmin” café. The waitress Doris Schellenbaum recognizes the rich heir Leonard "Lenny" Martens in the man in the photo, describes him as a selfish, emotionally cold customer and also knows where he lives. The investigators found nothing suspicious in his room. Residents of the house who are questioned appear to be quite closed. The architect Feuerberg had a dispute with him because he did not want to sell a piece of land to him. Leitmayr, who grew up in this area and knows his way around, knows where to find Feuerbach. The architect envisions a “Munich of the future” and says that he has been working on his “Glockenbach project” for 10 years. He cannot produce an alibi for the time of the crime.

Leitmayr takes another look around the stream at night and meets Frieda Helnwein, the owner of the café. She tells him that Feuerbach has already paid severance payments to all tenants of the house that Martens owned and that Feuerbach wanted to buy. Leitmayr calls in Batic, who immediately has a special connection to Frieda, who even speaks Croatian. The next morning Paul Rochus appears in the café and talks to Frieda Helnwein and Doris Schellenbaum. Rochus lives with his old mother, who is quite dominant, and regularly comes to the café for breakfast. The three are friends, and he was even engaged to Frieda once. Frieda Helnwein goes to Batic on the presidium to invite him to dinner and mentions that Paul knew Rochus Martens. First, Feuerbach is arrested because he has a motive. The officials look around his apartment and find the bank's notices of attachment, which reinforces their suspicions, especially since Martens has no heirs and it is therefore possible to buy his house.

Batic and Leitmayr visit Paul Rochus at his workplace in the wholesale market. You experience him, who previously seemed shy and inhibited, as an angry, decisive employee. Then they go to Paul's mother and ask about Paul and Martens. Paul, who is supposed to be cutting overtime, suddenly appears and sends the officers away with the remark that his mother is sick and needs rest. He is indignant, behaves suspiciously and is then appointed to the presidium .

Batic visits Frieda in her apartment and talks about herself. They spend the night together. In a conversation with his colleague, Leitmayr is almost a little jealous of his new luck. Doris Schellenbaum also reproaches Frieda when she tells her about the night with Batic. She believes their friendship is endangered. Investigators find out that Martens was gay , as was Paul Rochus. They often played the piano together in the “Jasmin” café and were also a couple. Rochus writes a guilty admission and wants to hang himself. Leitmayr is able to stop him and learns that Martens had humiliated him and wanted to tell his mother everything. He couldn't let that happen because his mother should never know. So he would have beaten him up and put his head under the water. The investigators realize that this statement cannot be true because the corpse was dragged to the water and not slain on the spot. The analysis of the course of the old underground passages of the brook and the grinding marks found at the crime scene lead to Frieda Helnwein's house. Doris and Frieda are now worried because Rochus did not appear in the café for breakfast. Doris goes looking for him and Ivo goes to Frieda and tells her about Paul's confession and so she confesses to him that she and Doris could not have endured how he was bullied by Martens and how she and Doris saw Martens knocked unconscious by Paul dragged to the creek and then pushed it underwater. Doris and Frieda are reminded of earlier times when they held tests of courage as children, during which one of their little friends drowned. The women are taken away and a very sad Inspector Batic remains behind.

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Das Glockenbachgeheimnis on October 3, 1999 was seen by 7.96 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 23.05% for Das Erste .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of release for the crime scene: The Glockenbach secret . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2009 (PDF; test number: 119 652 V).
  2. ↑ The Glockenbach Secret. Crime scene fund, accessed on June 8, 2018 .
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