Crime scene: The King

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The king
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 MR
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 96 ( List )
First broadcast February 11, 1979 on ARD
Rod
Director Dietrich Haugk
script Hans Kelch
production Wolfgang Völker
music Hermann Thieme
camera Werner Hoffmann
cut Birgit Bosboom
occupation

The King is a television film from the crime series crime scene of ARD and ORF . The film was produced by HR and first aired on February 11, 1979. It is the 96th episode in the crime scene series, the eighth and last case for Inspector Konrad ( Klaus Höhne ), who is supported by his assistant Robert Wegener. Konrad and Robert investigate a murder of a bestselling author.

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On the occasion of the opening of the Frankfurt Book Fair, the publisher Walter Schermann presents his star author Peter Hüttner, who presents his bestseller and at the same time announces the publication of a new book entitled “The King”. Hüttner, whose books are almost always based on fictional acts, keeps a low profile and only says that his new book will have a "hot" topic. After the small party that followed, Hüttner tied up with the young Gaby Möhlmann. The editor of the publishing house Dr. Offenbach does not like this, whereupon there is a small argument between Hüttner and Offenbach. Since Hüttner wants to drive the car drunk, Möhlmann takes the key away from him. Nevertheless, Hüttner later disappeared with his car. The next morning two teenagers found Hüttner dead in his car. He was killed at close range between midnight and 2 a.m. with a shot in the heart. Since Hüttner lived in Munich, Inspector Lenz and a colleague visit his widow, the actress Christa Hüttner, to bring her the sad news, but it has disappeared. The officers search the villa intensively with the housekeeper and finally find Christa Hüttner tied up and gagged in the house.

Konrad asks the publisher Schermann at the book fair, who tells Konrad about Hüttner's flirtation with Gaby Möhlmann and about the fact that Hüttner often met women without his wife's knowledge. Meanwhile, Christa Hüttner testifies in front of Lenz and his colleague that the attacker came from behind and she did not recognize him. The attacker apparently broke into the villa to steal documents from her husband's new book. Schermann tells Konrad that Hüttner was working on a fictional novel about an arms dealer called "The King", which was supposed to describe his business and become an entertaining bestseller. Hüttner had carried out research, the first information about the project had reached the public, and the journalist Gaveck in particular seemed informed when he asked. Konrad and his assistant Robert Wegener visit the wealthy Frankfurt businessman Königsmann, who is also called "The King" by his friends. This says that he knew Hüttner, that he often got weapons for him because Hüttner was a hobby shooter. He is unsuspecting and shaken by Hüttner's death. Hüttner would have found out about the arms trade from Königsmann, but he deals in many things. Königsmann is cooperative, he considers the title of Hüttner's book to be a bad taste, but he does not hold it against Hüttner. Since Königsmann can name high-profile witnesses for his alibi, the officials say goodbye. Königsmann then instructs his people to keep him informed about the police investigation.

While the officers went to the lecturer Dr. Drive Offenbach, Königsmann's men spy on them. Dr. Offenbach says that he went to the country to recover from the argument with Hüttner. The Dr. Offenbach's known research materials were harmless in nature. Dr. Offenbach worked as a ghostwriter for Hüttner at times, but now wanted to make it big as an author himself, so there was a dispute between the two men. A pistol that Dr. Offenbach illegally received from Hüttner is being confiscated by the officials. Schermann, meanwhile, benefits from Hüttner's death, as interest in his book has increased enormously. Wegener questions Hüttner's ex-wife von Cramer, who also works as an editor at the Schermann publishing house, but she is buttoned up. She also received a gun from Hüttner, but thrown it away after the separation. At the Frankfurt Book Fair, Konrad and Wegener meet their colleague Chief Inspector Marek from Vienna, who is privately at the book fair. For the Hüttner murder case, he advised Konrad that the more women involved, the simpler the case, because a man always knows when a woman is lying. The ballistic examination of the weapons collected so far shows that Hüttner was not shot with any of them. Christa Hüttner travels from Munich, Konrad asks her about the attack in her house, but she can't remember anything. Konrad travels to Amsterdam, where Hüttner stayed in the course of his research. In Hüttner's hotel he receives a reference to the Karena company, which Hüttner is said to have been to, which turns out to be a brothel. The brothel operator gives a reference to Mosler from Frankfurt, a man close to Königsmann.

Dr. Offenbach is meanwhile attacked in his apartment in Frankfurt, a masked man wants information from him about Hüttner's unpublished book. The stranger asks him specifically whether a certain type of weapon plays a role and warns that it would be better if the book did not appear. Meanwhile, Wegener seeks out Gaby Möhlmann, who says she has had a relationship with Hüttner for a year. Königsmann did not get to know her. Meanwhile, Christa Hüttner visits Königsmann, who is shocked by Hüttner's death. Königsmann asks her about the robbery and whether documents were stolen, but she cannot answer the question because she does not know anything about his research. The wife of the publisher Schermann receives an anonymous call, the caller pretends to know where Mrs. Schermann was on the night of the murder, he announces that he will contact her again. When Konrad asks Ms. Hüttner again, the anonymous caller calls there as well, Konrad has this given to him and recognizes his assistant Robert Wegener by the voice. When Konrad confronted him, he said he wanted to test the reactions of the various suspects. Because of the reactions, Wegener suspects Offenbach and Ms. Schermann. Konrad meets with Ms. Schermann, who wants to give him important information. She was not at home the night Hüttner was murdered. At the time of the crime she was with Dr. Offenbach together. She felt compelled to make this admission by Wegener's anonymous phone call.

Meanwhile, Schermann wants Dr. Offenbach finishes Hüttner's book, offers him a lot of money and is named as a co-author because he wants the book to appear as Hüttner's legacy as far as possible on the murder trial, if the murderer is found, which is supposed to boost sales. When Schermann and Offenbach leave the publishing house, a stranger shoots Schermann, but Wegener is of the opinion that the killer didn't really want to kill him. The shooter who shot Schermann is later in Königsmann's villa, where he is shot by his people. The police can identify him as Enrico Morosoni, an internationally wanted professional killer. Before the police arrived, King Morosoni had slipped photos of himself. Königsmann shows himself to be cooperative towards Konrad and wants to help him, but Konrad makes it clear that he mistrusts Königsmann and considers the whole story with the killer to be made by Königsmann in order to mislead the police. Konrad is called to the presidium, Ms. Hüttner was summoned because the police have new information. The Bavarian colleagues found a petrol station operator near Nuremberg, where Ms. Hüttner had refueled on the night of the murder. In the end, she confesses to having been to Frankfurt and watching him meet with another woman. She confronted him, Hüttner told her that in every other woman he would find what she could not give him. He was drunk and took out a gun and held it out to him. He provoked her until she finally pulled the trigger. Ms. Eglmayr, Hüttner's housekeeper, then tied and gagged Ms. Hüttner the next morning in order to simulate the attack on Ms. Hüttner. Königsmann arranges a good lawyer for Christa, with whom he is in love, so that she is sentenced to only four years imprisonment for manslaughter in a minor case. Dr. Offenbach does not finish Hüttner's book.

Audience ratings

This episode achieved a market share of 63.00% when it was first broadcast.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm judge this crime scene as "home cheeks, without the right bite".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Tatort: ​​The King . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ "The King" at tatort-fundus.de
  3. ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on December 7, 2014.
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