Crime scene: The Reinhardt case

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The Reinhardt case
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 905 ( List )
First broadcast March 23, 2014 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Torsten C. Fischer
script Dagmar Gabler
production Sonja Goslicki
music Fabian Römer ,
Steffen Kaltschmid
camera Holly Fink
cut Benjamin Hembus
occupation

The Reinhardt case is a television film from the crime series Tatort . It is the 59th case of the Cologne team of investigators Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk and the 905th crime scene episode. The contribution produced by WDR was broadcast on March 23, 2014 in the first program of ARD . The premiere was on September 29, 2013 at the Hamburg Film Festival .

action

The chief inspectors Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk are called to a villa in which three children are burned. They find their mother completely disturbed but relatively unharmed outside the house. She can't remember anything and responds to the news of death with a breakdown. In the days before, there were several arson attacks in this area.

Since Ballauf and Schenk have had to do without their assistant since Franziska's tragic death, they are supported by their new colleague Tobias Reisser. In the meantime, he has established that the children's father, Gerald Reinhardt, has long since disappeared without a trace and lost his job as an aerospace engineer at Cologne Airtech two years ago. He is therefore considered a suspect and may have used the arson attacks in the Cologne area, which have occurred for some time, for his own purposes. At the same time, the search is on for a suspect who bought two large canisters of petrol at a petrol station on the night of the crime and who was noticed through surveillance recordings at the petrol station.

The coroner finds that the children died of carbon monoxide poisoning and finds narcotics in their blood. All evidence suggests that Gerald Reinhardt actually let the family down. Neighbors of the Reinhardts testify that days before the fire they saw a woman “sneaking” around the house.

Karen Reinhardt is released from the clinic and tries to come to terms with the death of her children. She still can't remember anything, not even that her husband has been unemployed for a long time. It is clear, however, that the family has been financially bad since the family became unemployed. Ballauf and Schenk discover that Karen Reinhardt had an abortion two years ago, but that she is still pregnant because of her amnesia. While they are questioning Karen's neighbor Iris Fries, they receive news that the suspected arsonist Heller has been found. He is immediately interrogated, but there is insufficient evidence to keep him in custody.

Ballauf and Schenk discover a trace of Gerald Reinhardt that leads to the Netherlands and are able to track him down there. He now lives with another woman and is brought to Germany and interrogated. He claims to have known nothing about the misfortune with his children. His Dutch wife, Marijke Steen, is on vacation in Mallorca and knows nothing about his German family. She is expecting a child from him. Ballauf and Schenk keep Reinhardt in custody because they are of the opinion that he has sufficient reasons to want to get rid of his old family. When asked why he left his family, he said that his wife did not want to cut back financially, but that he could not have afforded it. He wanted to start over, what he had achieved with Marijke.

The new assistant Tobias Reisser researches Marijke Steen and finds out that she didn't go to Mallorca, but to a friend in Bonn. Ballauf and Schenk immediately go to her to question her. It makes a very dismissive impression and is entangled in contradictions. There is also a sleeping pill in her coat pocket. Investigators confront them with the fact that they know that she has secretly sought out Gerald Reinhardt's family after being seen by neighbors. So she admits that she found out that Gerald has a family in Germany and that she only wanted to see them once. She talked to Gerald about it, but he immediately got angry. When asked about the tablets, she says that she got them from Reinhardt. He is questioned and has no answers to the investigators' allegations. They match him up with his wife, Karen. During this conversation it turns out that Karen Reinhardt, desperate to no longer live up to the demands of her children and to have lost her husband forever, gave the children a sleeping pill and set the house on fire. Then she went to the basement to hang herself, but this failed.

Due to the risk of suicide, Karen Reinhardt remains in inpatient psychiatric care. The arsonist Heller can ultimately be convicted of the other arson attacks.

reception

Reviews

“We see: a bourgeois existence lies in ashes here, but we don't really learn how it came about. The script needed a little more polish. This 'crime scene' is a piece of hard work. The smile seems to be over in Cologne for the time being. "

- Christian Buß : Spiegel Online

“'The Reinhardt Case' is not an off-the-peg thriller, neither in terms of subject nor in staging, and certainly not with a view to the actors. Susanne Wolff (' Mobbing ', ' Dreileben ') merges completely with her role. The actress, who has been part of the ensemble of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin since 2009 , shows the suffering of Karen Reinhardt in all its facets. "

- Kurt Sagatz : Der Tagesspiegel

“'The Reinhardt Case' by director Torsten C. Fischer and author Dagmar Gabler leaves no room for platitudes in the Cologne-Sülz price range. Nobody laughs. No Spusi person kills the mood by thinking in dialect about where the weapon is. The Reinhardt family's apartment is burned out, three children are dead. You can see the charred hands, like frozen shadows they hang over the soot and smoke living area. "

- Holger Gertz : Süddeutsche Zeitung

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Der Fall Reinhardt on March 23, 2014 was seen by 11.29 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 30.0% for Das Erste .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b crime scene: The Reinhardt case. In: Filmfest Hamburg. Filmfest Hamburg gGmbH, accessed on March 23, 2014 : "Screening on October 3rd"
  2. ↑ Christian Buß: Gloomy Cologne "crime scene". Descent into the family grave. In: Culture. Spiegel Online , March 21, 2014, accessed March 23, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Kurt Sagatz: Ben Becker and Susanne Wolff shine in Cologne's "Tatort". Der Tagesspiegel, January 1, 2014, accessed on January 1, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Holger Gertz: Tragedy without sausage and consolation. Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 23, 2014, accessed on March 23, 2014 : “In the past, the cases from Cologne were too often stranded at the snack bar. A sip of thin beer, a thin joke, another piece of sausage. "
  5. ↑ Sidney Schering: Primetime check: Sunday, March 23, 2014.quotemeter.de , March 24, 2014, accessed on March 24, 2014 .
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