Scene of the crime: The story of the evil Friederich

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The story of the bad Friederich
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Hessian radio
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 983 ( List )
First broadcast April 10, 2016 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Hermione Huntgeburth
script Volker Einrauch
production Dominik Diers
music Christine Aufderhaar
camera Sebastian Edschmid
cut Silke Franken
occupation

The story of bad Friederich is a television film from the crime series crime scene of ARD , ORF and SRF and the third case of the Frankfurt investigators Janneke and Brix . The report produced by Hessischer Rundfunk under the direction of Hermine Huntgeburth is the 983rd Tatort episode and was broadcast for the first time on April 10, 2016 on Erste , ORF 2 and SRF Zwei.

action

Chief Inspector Anna Janneke is overtaken by her past. Twenty years ago, as a police psychologist, her report made a major contribution to Alexander Nolte being sentenced to life imprisonment as a murderer. He has since been released from prison after rehabilitation that was judged successful. The psychologist Helene Kaufmann looks after him and has started a relationship with him. Nolte wants to contact Janneke, but tries in vain to reach her by phone and hopes to get her attention by stabbing homeless Martin Busche in the station district.

In fact, Janneke and Brix are tasked with solving the case. The commissioner quickly comes to the conclusion that there is no motive for this murder, but that someone here consciously only wanted to kill. Inevitably, she thinks of Nolte, whose early release she cannot understand. She is convinced that it is not re-socialized, but still dangerous to the community. Despite this premonition, she looks for Nolte in his apartment. He is slightly arrogant and explains to the Commissioner that he is convinced that he is connected to her. He would not have a deeper relationship with any person, because ultimately she would have crept into his soul and sucked it out. He resents her for breaking all contact after he was convicted.

Janneke worries Nolte's attitude and her colleague Brix can convince himself of the rather strange and intrusive behavior of Nolte when he appears at the police headquarters without being asked and wants to inquire about Janneke. The commissioner is not there, however, but is currently interviewing Roland Burmeister, in whose dental laboratory Nolte had got a job. She is surprised to find that Nolte has not shown up for work for a few days. She wants to warn Burmeister and his staff about Nolte, but he ignores her advice and instead accuses her of preventing a former criminal from returning to society.

On the same day, Nolte lies in wait for the commissioner and indicates that he wants to make a confession. She makes the mistake and takes Nolte into her apartment. After he becomes intrusive, she arrests him. She lets Brix take over the interrogation, who takes the opportunity to convince himself of Nolte's destructive desire for self-affirmation. Nevertheless, nothing concrete can be brought forward against Nolte and he is released again.

That same evening Janneke found her Persian cat dead in front of her apartment door and there was another dead person who was brutally slain. Janneke is convinced that Nolte is the perpetrator and that he basically wants to hit her with these acts, because the new victim is a man with whom the inspector recently had a rendezvous . Without knowing it, Brix is ​​now also in danger, because Nolte is determined to kill him too. He enters Brix's apartment and wants to wait for his victim. However, there he meets Brix's landlady Fanny, so that he leaves the house without having achieved anything and see the psychologist Helene Kaufmann. In the meantime she has doubts about Nolte's sincerity and she calls Brix, who gave her his business card . Nolte is already in Kaufmann's apartment and hears this. Furious, he tries to strangle her. However, Kaufmann can draw a pistol and shoot Nolte.

background

Filming began on April 19, 2015 and ended on May 23, 2015. The filming took place on 26 days in Frankfurt am Main and the surrounding area.

The film title was chosen based on the story of Struwwelpeter , which, along with the doctor and psychiatrist Heinrich Hoffmann, also came from the pen of a Frankfurt native.

The title Asche zu Asche von Rammstein from 1995 was used as a frame-forming film after the opening credits and before the ending credits . In addition, the Rondo in A minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from 1787, interpreted by Artur Rubinstein, can be heard when Alexander Nolte is visited by Anna Janneke in his apartment. Likewise, with the aria by Johann Sebastian Bach from the Goldberg Variations of 1741 in the interpretation by Rosalyn Tureck , classical music was set. Further film music was composed by Christine Aufderhaar and recorded by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra .

The audio description for the film was produced by HR itself. The speaker is Peter Veit.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of the story of evil Friederich on April 10, 2016 was seen in Germany by 8.50 million viewers and achieved a market share of 23.4% for Das Erste . In the group of 14- to 49-year-old viewers , 2.73 million viewers and a market share of 20.7% were achieved.

In Austria 600,000 viewers were reached and thus an average range of 8% and a market share of 20% were achieved.

In Switzerland, 355,000 viewers over the age of three watched the first broadcast of the episode, giving it a market share of 19.4%. In the group of 15 to 59 year old viewers, 198,000 viewers were counted and a market share of 18.7% was measured.

criticism

According to Jens Szameit from Teleschau Mediendienst, the story of the evil Friederich is a “parabolic crime scene that offers the Austrian Nicholas Ofczarek a very large stage for villains. The film and theater actor with the penchant for extremes is formally in the dazzling demons role. He rages and threatens fucks and murders, charmiert and manipulated " With this episode was " in the eternal hit list of the worst crime scene Psychos " after verdict Szameit "the recently returned" quiet guest "Kai Korthals from Kiel has become a real competitor" . The result is a “real exclamation mark” for the young investigator duo , at the same time “in a good tradition of the Hessischer Rundfunk is to illuminate the roots of evil more daringly than is the order of the day at the other ARD broadcasters” . Szameit feels reminded of the episodes Das Böse (2003), Because they are böse (2010) and Es ist böse (2012), all of which were also commissioned by Hessischer Rundfunk . The episode represents a “just as morbid as daring piece” , which was “philosophically charged and relieved of a merely realistic description of things” by the script and direction and at the same time is an “artificial, but by no means theatrical thriller” , “that creates the trick that Letting villains shimmer without relegating the commissioners to secondary characters ” , instead the investigators “ take on a lot of shape in these 90 minutes ” .

Lars-Christian Daniels von Filmstarts calls the story of the bad Friederich an "exciting" crime scene that relies on "scary moments" that are "reminiscent of the works of the" Master of Suspense "  Alfred Hitchcock " and "the icing on the best crime scene so far Represent “of the year 2016” . "Given the high entertainment value" of Hermione Huntgeburth's directorial debut in the Tatort series, Daniels hopes for more episodes under her direction. But Daniels also found words of praise for the script, which is "a pleasantly stringent, clear story and an unpredictable villain who lives out his bloody fantasies and perverted daydreams right in front of the viewer's eyes and puts his stamp on the 983rd" crime scene "" . Daniels drew a comparison with episode Borowski and the return of the silent guest , because the "linchpin of the captivating film" are the encounters between Janneke and Nolte, whereby the "dazzling theater actor [...] does not play the role of the ostensibly elegant rage to hide from Eidinger's Korthals ” . Nolte will “ let the spectators run down the spine” so that “not a minute of idle time creeps in in this crime thriller” . “These goosebumps sequences are accompanied with atmosphere by the Hessischer Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra” , whereby the “recurrent staccato strings” are reminiscent of Hitchcock's works Psycho (1960) and Vertigo - From the Realm of the Dead (1958). The mixture with the sounds of Rammstein , on the other hand, seems rather "clumsy" . “Thanks to the high-tension final third” , the episode succeeds in becoming the investigators' best case to date. Daniels judged the episode to be “a gripping and heavily staged psychological thriller, which will get their money's worth for casual and regular viewers” , and awarded four out of five possible points.

Petra Noppeney from Westfälische Nachrichten compared Nicholas Ofczarek's role as Alexander Nolte with Lars Eidinger's role as Kai Korthal from the Tatort episodes Borowski and the silent guest (2012) and Borowski and the return of the silent guest (2015), “whose weakness is for toothbrushes in strange apartments as the peak of the feeling of disgust ” in the episode of the story of the evil Friederich as a “ fine rib villain ”was pictorially “ quoted ” . Nicholas Ofczarek “shone as a highly intelligent, outwardly serious, internally unscrupulous perpetrator” . “But many of the twists and turns” of the plot “were either known or simply seemed unlikely,” said the “Alexander sexually devoted psychologist” or his one-night stand with the investigator, which is why the episode left an “ambivalent feeling” .

Detlef Hartlap , editor-in-chief of prisma , felt reminded by Nicholas Ofczarek's play of Orson Welles in The Third Man from 1949. "He gives the" Tatort: ​​The Story of Bad Friederich "a new dimension of the uncanny that goes beyond Lars Eidinger in the two Kiel episodes of" Borowski and the silent guest "" , Hartlap sums up. "When it comes to death, this Frankfurt crime scene, where people have already died in whole family associations, is more economical than the slaughter that we" with Mia san now where it hurts "in Munich or at Möhring's Federal Police" in the episode Wrath of God " got to see ” . Hartlap also found words of praise for Ursina Lardi , she “plays very well again” . In summary, the result is “a crime scene with quality” .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The story of the evil Friederich in the Tatort fund, accessed on April 10, 2016.
  2. ^ Tatort: ​​The story of the evil Friederich at crew united
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Teleschau Mediendienst: The story of bad Friederich: Ein arger Wüterich , Jens Szameit, accessed on April 10, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Filmstarts : Filmkritik , Lars-Christian Daniels, accessed on April 10, 2016
  5. ↑ a b c d Westfälische Nachrichten : Tatort: ​​The Story of Bad Friederich (ARD) - Ambivalent Feeling , Media / Seen, Petra Noppeney, April 11, 2016
  6. ↑ a b c d Summary of the plot of The Story of Evil Friederich on the ARD website , accessed on April 10, 2016.
  7. ↑ Christine Aufderhaar : Music. 2017, Retrieved November 23, 2017 (audio samples).
  8. ^ Tatort: ​​The story of evil Friederich in the audio film database of Hörfilm e. V.
  9. ↑ a b Meedia : Total / 14 to 49 years , Top 20: the TV ratings for Sunday, April 10, 2016, accessed on April 12, 2016.
  10. ↑ Medienforschung ORF , data from Sunday, April 10, 2016
  11. ↑ a b Swiss radio and television : SRF 1 - April 10, 2016 ( memento of the original from April 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF), Mediapulse TV panel - German-speaking Switzerland, Overnight, people three years and older, accessed on April 13, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.srf.ch
  12. ↑ a b c d e prisma : A murderer at large , Sunday at the “Tatort”, Detlef Hartlap , April 9, 2016 - April 15, 2016, No. 14/2016, p. 21
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