Crime scene: the death of the dancer

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The death of the dancer
Country of production Austria
original language German
Production
company		 ORF ,
BR
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 187a ( list )
First broadcast December 18, 1986 on ORF
Rod
Director Ernst Josef Lauscher
script Alfred Paul Schmidt
production Peter Müller
music Gerd Schuller
camera Volker Otte
cut Lotte Klimitschek
occupation

The Death of the Dancer is an Austrian television thriller by Alfred Paul Schmidt from 1986. It was written as 187a. Follow the crime series Tatort . It is one of the 13 episodes that were produced by ORF outside of the official Tatort series without ARD and only broadcast in Austria for the first time.

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The dance school owner Peinsack receives a visit from his competitor Mazuratti one evening in his dance school, who accuses him of copying his dance courses and then undercutting them in price. During the quarrel, the two of them also have a physical argument in front of witnesses when Peinsack throws his competitor out. During the dance lesson, Peinsack insults and humiliates his student Anna Berger. The next morning, Peinsack is found murdered in his car, he was killed with a targeted stab in the heart. Chief Inspector Pfeifer, who is replacing his colleague Hirth, who is on cure, is led by Dr. Putner entrusted the investigation. Pfeifer and Inspector Schulz visit the widow, who is separated from her husband and lives with her new lover, Ferdinand Morgenschab. She claims to have been at home with Morgenschab, whom she wants to marry, the evening of the crime. So far, she has not wanted to divorce her husband because no one has been able to agree on the property issue. When Morgenschab arrives, he can only confirm the mutual alibi with Ms. Peinsack's help. During the night, Mrs. Peinsack caught her husband's housekeeper, Mrs. Rebennig, breaking in. She claims that the murdered man still owes her household money, but she does not accept the amount of cash that Ms. Peinsack willingly offered. Mrs. Peinsack then deposited a firearm in her husband's safe.

Meanwhile, Pfeifer learns that the owner of the house in which Peinsack's dance school is housed, Egon Absenger, wants to have the house torn down and build a luxury hotel there; he wanted to get rid of Peinsack's dance school at all costs. In addition, Pfeifer and his assistants Schulz and Hollocher learn of the feud with Mazuratti. Pfeifer looks for him when the bailiff is with him, but Mazuratti's wife gives her husband an alibi. Pfeifer and Schulz go to see Egon Absenger, who reacts arrogantly and confidently to the officers, his mother, with whom he lives, gives him an alibi. Pfeifer later learns from Ms. Rebennig that Ms. Peinsack's and her partner's alibi is incorrect; he states that they went to a porn cinema that evening, and that he lied because he was embarrassed about this. The operator of the cinema can remember Morgenschab, but not Ms. Peinsack, Pfeifer tells Ms. Peinsack that he knows about her encounter with the housekeeper the evening before. Hollocher and Schulz ask the dance student Anna Berger where she was on the evening of the crime, she claims to have been at home, her friend Conny Haberl gives her an alibi, she plays down the insults caused by Peinsack. Next, Pfeifer tries to get Ms. Peinsack to confess by bluffing, but fails. When he still wants to arrest her, she presents her alibi, a married member of the National Council spent the evening with her, Pfeifer is back at the beginning of his investigation.

Shortly afterwards, Ms. Absenger found her son Egon dead, he was slain, Ms. Absenger told Pfeifer and Schulz that her son owned a gun because he felt he was being persecuted; on the evening of the crime a young man had visited her son. A smoky quartz that was on Absenger's desk and was probably the murder weapon has disappeared. Shortly afterwards, the officers learn that Mazuratti has disappeared without a trace, his wife has also revoked the alibi for the murder of Peinsack, and Mazuratti is put out for a search. Meanwhile, Hollocher can assign Conny Haberl to the phantom image of the young man created with the help of Ms. Absenger. The officials learn from a group of sandlers that Absenger has quartered in the Peinsack dance school in order to cower out his tenant that Conny Haberl has been working for Absenger for a long time. Haberl himself later denies this in a survey and states that he only carried out minor work twice for him. On the evening of the crime he wanted to ask Absenger for work again, but did not find him. Shortly afterwards, Mazuratti, the main suspect of the first murder, turns himself in. He willingly confesses and also hands over the alleged weapon with a knife, but Pfeifer remains skeptical. Hans Trummer, a friend of Conny's, discovers the smoky quartz in Anna's and Conny's refrigerator during a visit and steals it. When Trummer tried to move the stone to a jewelry dealer shortly afterwards, an employee recognized the smoky quartz as a possible weapon in Absenger's murder through a newspaper article and called the police. Trummer protests his innocence and tells the officials that he stole the stone from Conny Haberl. Since Schulz also saw the stone in his refrigerator during a visit and it was clearly Absenger's stone, Haberl was arrested.

While Pfeifer doubts Haberl's perpetration, Mazuratti's confession turns out to be unbelievable. Shortly afterwards, he revokes his confession and claims to have confessed in order to have peace from his creditors after being detained. Pfeifer suspects that Mazuratti is not telling him the full truth and keeps him in custody, even when shortly afterwards it turns out that his knife is out of the question as a murder weapon. In the second murder case, too, the alleged weapon, the smoky quartz, turns out to be false. When Pfeifer grabs Haberl again and makes it clear to him that he will help him if he tells the truth, Haberl finally explains that he was at Absenger that afternoon because he had renovation jobs for him. Since Absenger had no cash in the house, he gave Haberl the smoky quartz as a deposit. When Haberl came home with it, his girlfriend Anna was upset and made an appointment with Absenger. When he went to see Absenger in the office that evening because his girlfriend had not returned, he caught Absenger trying to rape Anna. Absenger took up his weapon and tried to shoot Haberl, but he took a paperweight and killed Absenger. When Pfeifer and Schulz visit Anna at work to confront her with what their friend said, she flees and tries to hang herself, the officers are able to prevent this at the last moment. At the local appointment at the scene of the crime, the traces soon reveal that it was not Haberl but Anna Absenger who must have killed, which she tacitly confesses.

Pfeifer ponders the first murder, Absenger was allegedly in the office with his mother the night before and did the tax return. A check at the tax office shows that this cannot be true, after all, Ms. Absenger confesses that she had lied and that her son wanted to talk to Peinsack again on the evening of the crime in order to be able to build the luxury hotel after all. This conversation escalated so that Absenger killed Peinsack.

production

The death of the dancer was the first Tatort case involving Chief Inspector Pfeifer, but only three of the eight episodes were official Tatort episodes of the ARD series. The rest of the production, as well as this, were the only ones of the ORF, this in co-production with the Bayerischer Rundfunk. These own ORF productions were only shown in Austria. The episode The Death of the Dancer was broadcast two weeks after it was first broadcast on January 1, 1987, for the first time and once by Bayerischer Rundfunk in Germany.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 13 special ORF crime scenes at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on November 11, 2015.
  2. ↑ The death of the dancer on tatort-fundus.de
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