Crime scene: the king of the gutter
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | The king of the gutter |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
MDR |
| length | 86 minutes |
| classification | Episode 995 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | October 2, 2016 on Das Erste |
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| Director | Dror Zahavi |
| script | Ralf Husmann and Mika Kallwass |
| production | Nanni Erben, Quirin Berg, Max Wiedemann |
| music | Dürbeck & Dohmen |
| camera | Gero Steffen |
| cut | Fritz Busse |
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The King of the Gutter is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The contribution produced by MDR was broadcast on the first on October 2, 2016 . In this 995th crime scene episode, Dresden investigators Sieland, Gorniak and Schnabel investigate their second case.
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Three homeless people watch a man being thrown over the parapet of a bridge by two others. They seem to have known the survivors well, but their inconsistent information does not really help the emergency doctor who is called. You pose as his "security". Peter Schnabel informs his two colleagues Henni Sieland and Karin Gorniak that the victim is Hans-Martin Taubert, the head of the “Berberhilfe” company, which supports the homeless in reintegrating into society. Hansi, Platte and Eumel describe the course of the evening: They drove with Taubert to the noble Italian, where Taubert met with a "tie wearer". They watched what was going on from the counter and got some drinks from a guy. He had a noticeable tattoo on his right forearm. Suddenly Taubert disappeared. The commissioners go to the Italian restaurant. The landlord confirms that Taubert was a regular there, but not that he was seeing anyone, but that he was arguing with the homeless. Meanwhile, Schnabel seeks out Taubert's brother, whom his accident leaves unaffected.
Taubert's employee Nico Reimann presents threatening emails that are said to have increased in recent times. He characterizes Taubert as more eccentric than depressed. In his office there should have been a dispute between Taubert and his "Security" because of their participation in an authentic play that his competitor Schleibusch is staging. Then there is an attack on Taubert in the hospital. His brother and Hansi accuse each other. Wiebke Lohkamp from the Fraud Department points out that Hajo Taubert borrowed € 50,000 from his brother a long time ago for his fitness studio, which was also the reason for recurring disputes. Thanks to his business model, which is based on lucrative accommodation for homeless people, single parents and refugees, Hans-Martin Taubert was able to easily access the amount. In Taubert's gym, the man with the eye-catching tattoo appears in a commercial: Thomas Springer. He can be found in the ensemble of Schleibusch's play, but cannot later be clearly identified by the three. However, in the past he had threatened tenants on behalf of a debt collection company. This is precisely what Hajo Taubert manages. With this information, Hans-Martin Taubert confronts Schleibusch and accuses him of having the Elbe settlement evacuated in order to quarter social cases there.
Finally it turns out for the police that Hansi, Platte and Eumel were mixed into the drink at the Italian KO drops by Thomas Springer and that the "tie wearer" was Mr. Schleibusch. He gave Luigi money for his silence. The three homeless people recognized this a long time ago and went to Springer's theater. In the headlock of Platte, he finally confesses the murder committed on behalf of Schleibusch, whereupon Hansi pulls out a jackknife and stabs Springer with it. With a malicious smile, Schleibusch appeals to the police on his lawyer, who also has a word to say. While the homeless are shown shackled in the police car, he will apparently get away.
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  Filming and performance locations other filming locations |
The film was shot in Dresden from November 19, 2015 to December 18, 2015, the recordings were made at the harbor bridge , at the former location of the Dresden State Operetta in the Leuben Inn , in the fictional criminal investigation office in the former curtain factory in Breitscheidstrasse and of Dresden Neustadt . On December 16, 2015 the film was shot in the New York Fitness gym at Bautzner Strasse 47. In the immediate vicinity of the Elbe , recordings were made on the Brühlsche Terrasse , where the Ludwig Richter memorial was used as a backdrop and the homeless Platte intones the title Die Internationale with his barrel organ. Station 1 of the Elblandklinikum Meißen was also used as a backdrop, where head physician Dr. Martin Wolz, head of the neurological clinic, appeared as an extra. For the recordings, a doctor's room was redesigned as the backdrop for the intensive care unit.
In the autumn of Dresden's Johannstadt , an empty department store on Dürerstraße served as a canteen and mask for the film team, which was torn down after filming. The post-production also took place in Dresden.
The name of the company (Berberhilfe) can be understood as an allusion to the meanwhile insolvent social profit company Treberhilfe Berlin .
The play listed is The Beggar's Opera .
The audio description for the film was produced by the MDR itself. The speaker is Thomas Dehler .
reception
Audience rating
The first broadcast of Der König der Gosse on October 2, 2016 was seen by 7.74 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 23.9% for Das Erste . In the group of 14 to 49 year old viewers , 2.20 million viewers and a market share of 19.8% were achieved.
In Austria, 577,000 viewers were reached, an average reach of 8% and a market share of 19%.
In Switzerland, 375,000 viewers over the age of three watched the first broadcast of the episode, giving it a market share of 20.3%. In the group of 15 to 59 year old viewers, 196,000 viewers were counted and a market share of 18.1% was measured.
Reviews
Florian Blaschke judged for prisma that the episode The King of the Gutter was "a great emotional thriller between murder and morality" . There are “two versions of everything” - “statement against statement” . "Above all, this crime scene thrives on the balancing act between flippancy and serious subject" , writes Blaschke. “The script” does not leave “the roles sympathetic without a fight” , because “they all have weaknesses and dark sides” , so that “the authors have staged a great game of vanity, everyday racism and emotions” , which “above all Höfels, Hanczewski and Böwe ” concerns. Thus “the viewer oscillates for 90 minutes between fascination, rejection and emotion - and in the end remains alone with a very unique tragedy” , summarizes Blaschke, “just like the main characters” .
The dpa correspondent Simona Block praised the episode, in which director Dror Zahavi created "a special tension" with "flashbacks in which situations are told from different perspectives with contradicting tenors " . The sequence moves "between social misery and wealth, corruption and arrogance of power" and "nothing is what it seems" . As in the first episode, In one fell swoop from the team of investigators, the two police officers received “undesirable female reinforcement” , this time by “a colleague from the fraud department” , played by Jule Böwe . The "exchange of blows" between Alwara Höfels and Karin Hanczewski "contributes to the few funny scenes of the Dresden" crime scene "which, in contrast to the premiere, takes place in a sad, lonely, dark world" , where "the light is sparse and the atmosphere cool ”was chosen.
Iris Janda from the Westfälische Nachrichten was happy about an episode that featured “ situation comedy ” , although at times “the police officers' interest in investigating the attempted murder faded into the background” . “Right at the forefront in terms of entertainment value were undoubtedly the fresh dialogues between Chef Schnabel and his two» Battle Amazons «, which in places were in no way inferior to the sayings from» Doctor's Diary «,” summed up Janda.
“The problem of the Dresden 'crime scene': While the two young investigators are shown with the utmost seriousness in their excessive demands as a single mother and as a life partner in need of love, the homeless are released to be bungled. Against the background of the current xenophobic events in Bautzen and Dresden, this Saxon social joke seems particularly brazen. Now the filmmakers can't do anything for the programming, but their 'crime scene' is a debacle either way. "
“The whole misery of this mélange of cartoon characters in a pseudo-critical environment shows itself in Martin Brambach as the eternal boss of the women's trio. The poor man, as well as he plays it nicely, should now, together with his folk music ringtone, stand for the overwhelmed old white men who cannot really keep up with today's times and who no longer understand the world. As modern as this film tries to be, in the end it shows one thing in a painful way: that those responsible at MDR simply cannot keep up with today's times and no longer understand the world. "
Web links
- The King of the gutter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of The King of the Gutter on the ARD website
- The king of the gutter in the crime scene fund
- The king of the gutter at Tatort-Fans.de
- Press kit ( memento from October 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 4.49 MB) of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk
Individual evidence
- ↑ Crime scene: The king of the gutter at crew united
- ↑ a b c d Peter Anderson: Tatort Elblandklinik. In: Sächsische Zeitung Meißen, December 18, 2015.
- ↑ Heiko Nemitz: Dresden is embarrassing itself with this “crime scene”! , on tag24.de ( Dresdner Morgenpost ), March 1, 2016.
- ^ Anton Launer: Tatort im Fitness-Studio , neustadt-ticker.de, December 16, 2015.
- ↑ Do- gooders with bad intentions. ( Memento from October 30, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Sächsische Zeitung , October 1, 2016.
- ↑ Luisa Schlitter: The film set is simply being dredged away: Dresden crime scene torn down! , in: Bild Dresden, March 30, 2016.
- ↑ KK: Building is now going on where the crime stars fed , in: Dresdner Morgenpost , October 1, 2016.
- ↑ Axel Weidemann: "Tatort" from Dresden: The flying chocolate cake is resting , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 2, 2016.
- ↑ Crime scene: The king of the gutter in the audio film database of Hörfilm e. V.
- ↑ Sidney Schering: Primetime Check: Sunday, October 2, 2016.quotemeter.de , October 3, 2016, accessed on August 2, 2017 .
- ↑ a b total / 14 to 49 years , top 20: the TV ratings for Sunday, October 2, 2016, at Meedia , accessed on October 3, 2016.
- ↑ Medienforschung ORF , data from Sunday, October 2, 2016.
- ↑ a b Swiss radio and television : SRF 1 - October 2, 2016 ( memento from October 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), Mediapulse television panel - German-speaking Switzerland, overnight, people three years and older, accessed on October 6, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c d e Florian Blaschke: Testimony against testimony , Sonntag am Tatort, in: prisma , October 1, 2016 - October 7, 2016, No. 39/2016, p. 23.
- ↑ a b c d Simona Block: Investigations under the bridge: Second "crime scene" from Dresden "The king of the gutter" indulges in dark colors , media, in: Westfälische Nachrichten , October 1, 2016.
- ↑ a b Iris Janda: Tatort: The King of the Gosse (ARD) - situation comedy , media, in: Westfälische Nachrichten , October 3, 2016.
- ↑ Christian Buß: "Tatort" from Dresden: Dirt, beard, sweatpants, the homeless is ready. In: Culture. Spiegel Online , September 30, 2016, accessed on August 2, 2017 : "2 out of 10 points"
- ↑ Heiko Werning: TATORT: Women in Dresden! The daily newspaper , March 4, 2016, accessed on May 23, 2017 : “[...] my tip to the MDR for the next time: just make Bernd the bread to the inspector! It can only get better."
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