Crime scene: The Schimanski case

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The Schimanski case
The scene of the schimanski.svg case
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 252 ( List )
First broadcast December 29, 1991 on ARD
Rod
Director Hajo Gies
script Axel Götz
Thomas Wesskamp
production Frank Tönsmann
Veith von Fürstenberg
music Dieter Bohlen
Against the Wind
sung by Bonnie Tyler
camera Michael Faust
Hans Zinner
cut Rolf Basedow
Felicitas Lainer
occupation

The Schimanski case is a television film from the television crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF .

The film was produced by WDR and broadcast for the first time on December 29, 1991. It is the 252nd episode in the crime scene series, the 29th and last with Inspector Schimanski .

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In a flashback, Schimanski tells how he lost his job in a short time: It all begins with Schimmi celebrating with his Italian friends on a campsite on the Ruhr . There he met and fell in love with Corinna. When she is threatened by the ominous vehicle painter Pfeiffer at night, Schimanski interferes and gets into a fight with him. His beloved jacket breaks and he demands compensation from Pfeiffer in his workshop the next day . Pfeiffer also gives him this in the form of banknotes, each of which has a special characteristic. What Schimmi does not suspect is that the industrialist Bissinger overheard the conversation in the painted car.

When Schimanski visits his office in the district, he tries to appease his disgruntled colleague Thanner with the money (Schimmi had borrowed the caravan from his sister and not cleaned it). Thanner informs him on the side that her boss Jahnke is waiting for him, who accuses Schimmi of bribing officials . Pfeiffer had reported to the police station and claimed that he had known the inspector for a long time and that he was being blackmailed because he had allegedly caught a criminal offense. In this description, Pfeiffer mentions that he handed over the last installment to Schimanski at the campsite. This is angry and checks his account balance at the bank, where the director tells him that he has received a large sum. Thereupon his apartment is examined, in which Thanner finds more money.

Schimanski is said to be arrested, but tricked Jahnke, Schäfer and Thanner and made his way to State Secretary Zech based on a TV report he saw Corinna. Corinna is his wife and is actually called Nora Zech. Schimmi tries to sneak into the property and is caught by a guard. Jahnke and Thanner are already there, and Schimmi would like Nora to confirm the events of the night at the campsite. Nora says, however, a variant that fits Pfeiffer's version, so that Schimmi is further burdened and is now faced with the choice of resigning or being transferred to Frankfurt an der Oder . Schimanski gives notice without further ado, reports to the employment office and takes a job in a supermarket .

One evening, Nora waited in Schimanski's apartment and swore to him that she had lied because she was under pressure from Pfeiffer's clients. She threatened her husband to leave him to put him under pressure, because she found out that her husband has bribes in Switzerland . He then put Pfeiffer on her so that she could not report him. She asks Schimanski for help, and as he hopes that this will also solve his own case, he sets out to eavesdrop on Zech, which proves his suspicion that Zech is being lubricated by the industrialist Bissinger. He also overhears a conversation that gives an indication of a Baroness von Massen-Hallberg. Unexpectedly, Schimanski receives a job offer from this baroness, which his ex-boss Koenigsberg has kindly arranged for him and which Schimanski accepts with pleasure.

The baroness gives a reception and wants Schimanski to work as a bodyguard for her that evening . Unexpectedly, he also met State Secretary Zech there, along with his wife and the industrialist Bissinger. The undercover inspector Palu from Saarbrücken also turns up, who Bissinger has long wanted to prove money laundering. Zech threatens Schimanski to keep himself out.

When Schimanski tries to find Pfeiffer, he is already dead, and he flees from Thanner, who was called to the workshop with Hänschen after an anonymous call. Since Schimanski escaped, Bissinger sets the killer Pohl on him, with whom he has a nightly duel. During the interrogation, Pohl claims to be a harmless sales representative and that Schimanski attacked him. Since Schimmi cannot prove the opposite and no one believes his story, his former colleagues now consider him “crazy”. However, Hänschen discovers that Schimanski is really in danger as a target of a conspiracy.

Schimanski is determined to “interfere” with Zech and Bissinger's plans in order to prove his innocence. He takes the baroness into his trust and learns that Bissinger wants to invest in a property that belonged to the baroness. Schimanski is clear that Bissinger wants to launder illegal drug money in this way. When the baroness leaves him alone in her villa to secure evidence against Bissinger with Nora at the Sparkasse, Pohl appears and wants to execute Schimanski. Fortunately, Palu notices the intruder and shoots him.

The baroness and Nora couldn't get anything from the bank. Schimanski comes up with the plan to force Zech to confess at a press conference with blank pages. The plan succeeds and the State Secretary confesses to having been blackmailed in order to create false reports that should enable Bissinger to invest in the baroness's property.

After Schimanski has cleared up the economic fraud, Jahnke offers him to return to the police service, but he no longer wants and floats over Duisburg with a kite. He repeatedly shouts the word "shit".

Background and Succession

The Schimanski case marked Götz George's last appearance as Commissioner Horst Schimanski in the crime scene series. The last episode was cast with actors who had already played prominent roles in earlier Schimanski episodes, including actors like Brigitte Janner ( Duisburg-Ruhrort , Zweierlei Blut ), Norbert Steinke and Gerd Silberbauer ( Moltke ).

Eberhard Feik could be seen here as usual at Schimanski's side, although a week earlier he had taken over from the former police officer Fuchs as the new head of the criminal police at Police Call 110: Thanner's new job in Berlin .

In 1997 Götz George took up the role again in the spin-off Schimanski , in which he no longer portrays a police officer, but a man who is used by his colleagues for unconventional cases. In the new episodes he got a steady girlfriend, who was a minor component in "Tatort". The Thanner actor Eberhard Feik had died in 1994, so this role was also allowed to die in the first episode. Only Hänschen ( Chiem van Houweninge ) returned a little later as a former Interpol investigator. His boss Königsberg was subsequently also left to die, Schimanski has to suffer .

Jochen Senf has a guest appearance as the Saarland crime scene commissioner Max Palu.

Soundtrack

Dieter Bohlen again delivered the song Against the Wind . It was sung by the singer Bonnie Tyler .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of release for the crime scene: The Schimanski case . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
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