Crime scene: The dream of the Au

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The dream of the Au
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavarian radio
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 677 ( List )
First broadcast October 21, 2007 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Tim Trageser
script Peter Probst
production Veith von Fürstenberg
music Andreas Weidinger
camera Eckhard Jansen
cut Susanne Hartmann
occupation

The Dream of the Au is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk was first broadcast on October 21, 2007 on ARD's first program. After 45 joint appearances with Batic and Leitmayr, it is the last case of Commissioner Carlo Menzinger.

The three commissioners investigate in the vicinity of a divided house community in Munich's Au district , whose conflicts have degenerated into suicide and murder.

action

The detective chief inspectors Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr are called to a tenement house in the Au that Batic has long been attracted to as a residential area. The body of the former janitor Grassl lies in the cellar. The dead man has severe head injuries, which for Leitmayr look like an "unrestrained fall" from the stairs, but which turn out to be a boot kick. When the investigators want to visit Grassl's Thai wife Malee and her son, the apartment is empty. The investigators instruct their colleague Carlo Menzinger to look for both of them.

From Gerti, who runs a small butcher's shop nearby, Batic and Leitmayr learn all the details about the tenants of the apartment building: from the professor shrouded in secrecy, the shared apartment around Pierre Traublinger and his revealing playmate Naomi, the chic wife von Helmstedt with the changing male acquaintances and from Konrad Strobl, the plumber who mourns his father and who has his workshop in the backyard. The profit-conscious owner Peter Bachinger also lives here in the house. The investigators learn from Grassl that he should have had a serious illness, which the family doctor later confirmed. Grassl had been suffering from severe mercury poisoning for years from working in a mirror coating shop.

In the evening, the investigators witness a house meeting, which is very busy. In the mostly luxury refurbished apartment building, there is nothing the tenants haven't argued about. In addition, the homeowner Bachinger quits one tenant after the other and considers the irascible Konrad Strobl to be the murderer of Grassl. He, in turn, does not leave a good hair to Bachinger, who he knows was in a serious dispute with Grassl and worked with him with unfair means to justify his termination. When Strobl beats up Bachinger and calls him a murderer, he is taken into police custody. There he rioted and suffered severe facial injuries, so that he had to be taken to the hospital. There he manages to escape unnoticed. When the investigators track down Strobl in his workshop, they surprisingly find Malee Grassl and her 9-year-old son. They had hidden here because they were afraid of Bachinger. Strobl is admitted to the hospital again, where he is now fixed to the bed. But he managed to convince the nurse to untie him. In an unobserved moment, like his father, he cuts his wrists.

While Batic and Leitmayr are now investigating Bachinger as well, the car he has just got into detonates in their immediate vicinity. Everything indicates that Strobl had installed the bomb. For him, Bachinger was to blame for his father's suicide and generated this bottomless hatred in him.

Pierre Traublinger, a tenant on the third floor, is the target of the investigation because Grassl had taken a friend of his to prison. During the interrogation, Traublinger admits that he met Grassl in the cellar on the evening of the crime and angrily pushed him down the stairs. He also kicked him in the face. However, his lawyer finds out that the fall and the kicks could only lead to death because Grassl's body was very weakened by his mercury poisoning. It turned out that Grassl had extremely high levels of mercury lately. In search of the cause of these increased values, Malee becomes suspicious because she went into hiding after her husband's death. He had treated her badly many times and was very jealous. Malee often had cream sent to her from Thailand that was not available in Germany. Investigators suspect that she used the cream containing mercury to poison her husband. However, she had got this cream for the butcher Gerti. So the investigators learn that Gerti was in love with Grassl. However, when he brought the Thai woman with him from vacation, a devilish plan grew in her: she mixed the mercury-containing cream into Grassl's favorite sausage.

Carlo, who had behaved strangely throughout the investigation, finally explains to his two colleagues that he resigned after 25 years of service. Due to a larger inheritance, he wants to change completely and emigrate to Thailand. While researching her case, he discovered his interest in this country.

reception

Reviews

"Particularly nice in the 'Tatort' carefully staged by Tim Trageser are the regular little irritations on the fringes that have little to do with the plot, which, apart from a real shock moment but not exactly turbulent story, give a pleasant playful moment."

- Tilmann P. Gangloff : Tittelbach.tv

“This case is pretty confused, even if it has great actors. In addition, all the facts are only told in retrospect, so that apart from the findings of the dead, not much happens. "

- Kathrin Buchner : Star

Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Der Traum von der Au on October 21, 2007 was seen by 7.75 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 21.3% for Das Erste .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tilmann P. Gangloff: Series “Tatort - The Dream of the Au”. In: tittelbach.tv. August 9, 2013. Retrieved July 14, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Kathrin Buchner: A terribly nice house community. Stern, October 22, 2007, accessed July 14, 2017 .
  3. ↑ The dream of the Au. Crime scene fund, accessed on July 14, 2017 .
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