Crime scene: the leather heart

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The leather heart
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SWF
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 124 ( List )
First broadcast May 3, 1981 on ARD
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Director Imo Moszkowicz
script Irene Rodrian
production Peter Schulze-Rohr
camera Imo Rentz
cut Bernd Lorbiecki
occupation

The Leather Heart is the 124th episode in the Tatort television series . By the Südwestfunk result produced (SWF) was first on May 3, 1981 at the First Channel of ARD broadcast. For Chief Detective Hanne Wiegand ( Karin Anselm ) it is the first case. It is about the death of a woman and the criminal liability of her husband.

action

The work-obsessed architect Gert Dieckmann is at work on a Friday evening, while his depressed wife Eva is looking forward to the Friday evening together and getting ready to go out. She is jealous and disappointed that her husband does not want to go out with her but rather wants to continue working. When he wants to send her to the disco alone, she assumes that he is having a relationship with his colleague Angelika Kesting and also holds that his failure and the help of her wealthy father for him are against him. The two of them quarrel and he hits her, causing her to take psychotropic drugs. When he tries to prevent her from doing so, an argument breaks out, during which she climbs onto the sill of the window and threatens to jump down to her death. He begs her to get down from the window ledge and talk, but she continues to provoke him by telling him how disappointed she is in living with him. When she slips off, he holds her tight, she continues to provoke him until he lets go, when she falls she rips a leather heart out of his woolen jacket. An elderly neighbor is watching the incident from her window. Chief Detective Hanne Wiegand is entrusted with the case and questions Gert Dieckmann, who is visibly shocked and who does not seem to have realized that his wife is dead. He is indignant about the questioning by Wiegand and feels cornered.

Dieckmann claims that his wife's death was an accident, that he did not know his wife despite 15 years of marriage. Forensics have found traces of the couple's argument in the apartment, and forensic medicine reports that the fall from the window was the cause of death. Dieckmann was not very popular in the house, neighbors report abuse by Dieckmann to the detriment of his wife. An anonymous male voice reported the observation, which suggests murder. Wiegand asks Dieckmann about the psychotropic drugs in the apartment and old cuts on Eva's arms, which indicate an earlier suicide attempt, Dieckmann reacts indignantly. When Eva's parents, the Weber couple, appear at the station, Mr. Weber reproaches his son-in-law and claims that he drove his only daughter to her death. Dieckmann admits that he was morally guilty. He is driven home by Wiegand, she makes it clear to him that she wants to help him if he is legally innocent. Dieckmann notices that one of the leather hearts that are sewn on both sides of the elbow sides of the sleeves is missing from the left sleeve of his wool jacket. Realizing that his wife must have torn the leather heart from his sleeve when he fell, he immediately went to the crash site and found it. When he wants to go back to the apartment, Wiegand stands in front of the door, who has forgotten her umbrella. Dieckmann tells her that he had to get some fresh air after the shock.

Dieckmann is now much more open-minded and invites Wiegand to coffee, he offers her to answer her questions. He tells her that he did not meet the demands of his wife and his parents-in-law because he refused to undertake commercial construction projects such as large estates that his father-in-law had built as a contractor. In addition, his wife needed a lot of attention that he could not give her, so that he could not satisfy her materially or emotionally. She had severe psychological problems and therefore tried to kill herself. He also told her about her argument that evening that he did not know whether she really wanted to jump or just slipped when she tried to threaten to jump. Finally, he tells Wiegand about a possible motive he might have had: life insurance for Eva in the amount of DM 300,000 had been taken out in his favor. The next morning Wiegand learns that Eva Dieckmann was intoxicated at the time of death and was under the influence of tablets. After the examinations, Dieckmann shouldn't have had a physical problem holding his wife and moving back into the apartment. In contrast to her assistants Simon and Brunner, Wiegand does not believe in murder, but she pricks up when her colleagues found not only prints on Eva's arms, which indicate that Dieckmann had held her, but also particles of fabric under her fingernails that were both woolen and as well as leather scraps. Wiegand visits Dieckmann again when he is about to sew the leather heart back onto his wool jacket.

Wiegand helps Dieckmann, who clumsily tries to sew the leather heart back onto the sleeve. She notices that the heart was torn off. Dieckmann tells her that this happened during the dispute over his wife's medication. Dieckmann's assistant Angelika Kesting comes to visit to discuss building plans with Dieckmann. She confirms to Wiegand that Eva was jealous of her, on the evening of her death she first denied her husband on the phone and later interrupted another phone call between her and Dieckmann. Shortly thereafter, the Webers turn up at their son-in-law, Weber again blames his son-in-law for the death of his daughter, but considers him to be an otherwise good guy who, however, has no business acumen. Nevertheless he is ready to appoint his son-in-law as heir, but Dieckmann refuses. Dieckmann drives with Wiegand to a construction site and shows her large estates that his father-in-law is building. Dieckmann is an idealist and a friend of ecological architecture, he does not want to have anything to do with large estates that destroy nature. He wasn't ready to betray his ideals for money, so he didn't start with his father-in-law.

Dieckmann then shows Wiegand the project he loves, he would like to renovate an old quarter and build condominiums there. Wiegand sees that Dieckmann has no money in this as a motive to get the money from his wife's life insurance. When she expresses her suspicion, Dieckmann tries to approach Wiegand, but Wiegand rejects him. Back in the office, Wiegand asks Simon and Brunner whether they noticed a leather heart in the apartment on the evening of the crime, but they didn't find one. However, Simon noticed that a leather heart on Dieckmann's cardigan had been torn off. Wiegand drives to Dieckmann again and asks him about the cardigan she would like to take with her to the laboratory. Dieckmann gives it to her without hesitation. Wiegand confronts him with the fact that the leather heart was not found in the bathroom on Eva's death night, and tells Dieckmann that she assumes that Eva only tore it off when she fell out of the window. She asks Dieckmann again what he was doing on the street when she returned to his apartment because of the umbrella. He sticks to his statement, but Wiegand confronts him with the fact that while sewing on she noticed that the heart was wet from the rain and was dried out. This and street dirt will be found in the laboratory. Dieckmann protests his innocence, he did not want to kill his wife, but finally he admits that he did not hold her in the fall, although he would have been able to.

Audience and background

When it was first broadcast, this episode attracted 19.73 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 54%. The episode was shot in and around Baden-Baden between July 29 and August 28, 1980.

criticism

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm rate this crime scene positively and comment: “Marriage crime thriller with feeling and a little idle”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tatort: ​​Das Lederherz Data for the 124th crime scene at tatort-fundus.de
  2. ^ Tatort: Das Lederherz short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on July 26, 2015.
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