Crime scene: The team

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The team
Country of production Germany
original language German
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 1115 ( List )
First broadcast January 1, 2020 on Das Erste
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Director Jan Georg Schütte
script Jan Georg Schütte
production Uli Aselmann ,
Sophia Aldenhoven
music Alex Komlew
camera Oliver Schwabe
cut Benjamin Ikes
occupation

The team is a German television film and the 1115th episode of the crime series Tatort , which was first broadcast on 1st January 2020 . The experimental chamber drama directed by January Georg Schütte was no set script as improvisation , as in 2017 at Ludwigshafen scene Babbel Dasch of Axel Ranisch . The Dortmund investigators Bönisch and Faber can be seen in their 15th case, this time without their colleagues Dalay and Pawlak.

action

In North Rhine-Westphalia four commissioners from different departments are victims of a series of murders. A fifth, Chief Detective Thiel from Münster , was injured in an attempted murder. The investigators are in the dark - a hot lead is missing and public pressure is increasing. In order to stop the series of murders, an investigation team is formed from seven commissioners, all of whom have been connected to the previous victims: Peter Faber and Martina Bönisch from the Dortmund homicide commission, Nadeshda Krusenstern from Münster, Marcus Rettenbach from Oberhausen , Franz Mitschowski from Aachen , Sascha Ziesing from Paderborn and Inspector Nadine Möller from Düsseldorf , whose husband is among those murdered. The Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Armin Laschet , seeks the investigators in the closed and heavily guarded conference hotel and asks for understanding for the unconventional measures that are necessary to solve the murders. Under the guidance of coaches Christoph and Martin Scholz, the commissioners take part in a team-building workshop where disputes quickly arise among them. During the lunch break, the group separates, during the break Krusenstern is killed shortly after a phone call with her colleague Thiel. This makes it clear that the serial killer must be among those involved, the group is being held in the seminar room. It turns out that Sascha Ziesing committed the series of murders in order to be transferred from Paderborn to another city and to become chief inspector. He is shot while trying to escape. He cannot escape the hotel complex and finally falls dead off the piano stool.

background

Filming

The film was shot in just two days on May 9 and 10, 2019 in a former hotel in Siegburg - Kaldauen . The former Waldhotel Grunge, once a four-star accommodation and a popular destination for day trippers, has been empty since 2003. It is occasionally used for exercises by special task forces (SEK) of the police - in the film it is also guarded and secured by the SEK.

With 24 cameras controlled by cameramen and twelve unmanned cameras, 212 hours of footage was produced, which the editor Benjamin Ikes condensed into 90 minutes of television film during editing . Another camera team on set filmed the filming of a documentary that was later broadcast. The interviews with the director and the actors for the making of were recorded immediately after the shooting ended. Jörg Hartmann said: “It was a tightrope walk. It was really not easy to cope with this whole ride, improvising for five and a half hours in one day. "

As Ben Becker revealed in the Making of, the epileptic seizure he was playing was improvised and not discussed with the production team in advance. The other actors, the first aiders and also the director Jan Georg Schütte could not have known in this situation whether it was a real medical emergency or not. Her reactions were, at least in part, marked by genuine concern for her colleague. Among other things, Schütte, of all people, addressed Becker lying on the floor with “Ben” and not with his role name (“Ben, are you okay?”).

characters

Only Peter Faber, Martina Bönisch and Nadeshda Krusenstern , three of the seven inspectors in the film, are actually crime scene investigators . Krusenstern is on the phone with her colleague Frank Thiel from Münster , but he does not appear himself. All other commissioners, including the murder victims, are not characters from the crime scene series. The actors performing them have all been involved in one or more crime scenes. Ben Becker had played a policeman in Death in the Chopper and The Palatinate from Above and Nicholas Ofczarek was the head of operations of a special commission in Operation Job and in the crime scene The Story of Evil Friederich the Psychopath. Friedrich Mücke , who had given Commissioner Henry Funck in two Tatort episodes from Erfurt , appeared in Das Team as Commissioner Ziesing, so bored by Paderborn that he becomes a murderer to get from the city to a big city - but plays in Paderborn no crime scene .

Director Schütte took on the role of the SEK head of operations in Das Team . Armin Laschet had a brief guest appearance in it , in which he played himself as Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia. Nadeshda Krusenstern ( Friederike Kempter ) from Münster- Tatort is murdered in The Team , but after that, at the end of 17 years with Thiel and Boerne, she has one last appearance in the episode Limbus , which will be shown in spring 2020.

reception

Reviews and reactions

"Those who enjoy acting themselves will be amazed to watch the improvisational skills of all these grandees [...] But no person develops a profound depth, and the first part in particular takes off before something happens to someone [...]", Holger Gertz writes in the Süddeutsche Zeitung and concludes: "The first crime scene of 2020 will not be the best crime scene of 2020."

Sylvia Staude points out in the online edition of the Frankfurter Rundschau that director Schütte, who incites well-known actors against each other, is “a specialist in shooting without a fixed script”: “The result is a bit strange and totally illogical: like Agatha Christie, there are people locked up and one of them has to be the murderer - but why should anyone lock up seven inspectors instead of letting them do proper research? ”The result is also quite a joke.

In an interview with Deutschlandfunk Kultur, the television critic Matthias Dell criticizes inconsistencies in continuity. A commissioner was murdered, although she was to appear in a later crime scene episode. “Before that, they didn't think about how to locate this particular episode within the 'Tatort' story.” Those responsible should realize that they have to be more careful with this format, he says. Schütte's improv method is out of place at the crime scene .

Dominik Göttker from derwesten.de describes it as a risk that the actors could “give themselves completely to their acting” without a fixed script and without fixed texts. The crime scene is one of the "most experimental and unconventional cases in the ARD series".

"That was not an advertisement for the Paderborn police", the author of the Westfalen-Blatt sums up because of the role of the Paderborn Commissioner Ziesing, who at best thinks the city is okay and feels pressured by his wife to move to a big city to strive. The journalist sees the motif of the musty, provincial Paderborn revived. He asks: “Is working in the Paderborn district really like a kind of punishment for a police officer?” A police spokesman assures that his colleagues work there voluntarily, “they are not transferred to a penalty”. There is no emigration; on the contrary, after completing their training, colleagues have made it a point to stay in the Paderborn district.

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Das Team on January 1, 2020 was seen by 6.94 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 18.4% for Das Erste .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The team. (PDF) In: press release. Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, December 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
  2. ^ Tatort: ​​The team at crew united
  3. ^ A b Bettina Köhl: "Tatort" in Siegburg: shooting in the Waldhotel Grunge. In: general-anzeiger-bonn.de. May 15, 2019, accessed January 3, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Making of "Tatort: ​​The Team". programm.ard.de, accessed on January 5, 2020.
  5. ↑ nuances . In: The team . presse.wdr.de, accessed on April 5, 2020, pp. 10–11 (press release, PDF).
  6. ↑ Nicole Riess: Why actor Friedrich Mücke was particularly excited when filming the New Year's crime scene. In: suedkurier.de . January 1, 2020, accessed January 4, 2020.
  7. ↑ Yuriko Wahl-Immel: The first crime scene of 2020 comes from Siegburg. In: general-anzeiger-bonn.de . December 29, 2019, accessed January 4, 2020.
  8. ↑ NRW Prime Minister Laschet plays with the "Tatort". In: wz.de. December 15, 2019, accessed January 4, 2020.
  9. ↑ Friederike Kempter gets out of the Münster "crime scene". In: Spiegel Online . December 23, 2019, accessed January 5, 2020.
  10. ↑ Holger Gertz: A murder will come. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. December 30, 2019, accessed December 31, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Sylvia Staude: His chewing gum drives you crazy. In: fr.de . January 3, 2020, accessed January 3, 2020.
  12. ↑ Improvisation without meaning. In: deutschlandfunkkultur.de . January 2, 2020, accessed on January 3, 2020 (Matthias Dell in conversation with Ute Welty)
  13. ↑ Dominik Göttker: Tatort (ARD): Hidden appearance - did you recognize HIM in a crime thriller? . In: derWesten.de . January 3, 2019, accessed January 3, 2020.
  14. ↑ Dietmar Kemper: The murderer from Paderborn. In: westfalen-blatt.de . January 3, 2020, accessed January 5, 2020.
  15. ↑ Niklas Spitz: Prime Time check: Wednesday, January 1st 2020. Quotenmeter.de , January 2, 2020 accessed on 2 January 2020 .
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