Crime scene: the last Oktoberfest

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The last Oktoberfest
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavarian radio
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 956 ( list )
First broadcast September 20, 2015 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Marvin Kren
script Stefan Holtz ,
Florian Iwersen
production Quirin Berg ,
Max Wiedemann
music Gerd Baumann ,
Johannes Brandt
camera Moritz Schultheiss
cut Susanne Hartmann
occupation

The last Wiesn is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk is the 956th episode of the crime scene and was first broadcast on September 20, 2015 on ARD's first program. The Munich investigator duo Batic and Leitmayr are investigating their 70th case.

action

Like every year at Oktoberfest , Munich is in a state of emergency. To avoid this, Franz Leitmayr wants to leave the city for Italy. On the way to the main train station, he comes across an Italian man lying on the ground in a subway station, who is apparently suffering from the aftermath of his festival visit. Since he could easily be robbed in this helpless state, Leitmayr tries to persuade him to move on, but in vain. Leitmayr then sticks the drunk's wallet deeper into his clothes.

The next day the Italian is found dead, choked on his vomit and with Leitmayr's fingerprints on his wallet. Batic calls his colleague in Italy, who immediately returns to Munich. The two begin to investigate at the Oktoberfest and discover that the Italian named Pandrelli was last seen in the Amperbräu . The waitress Ina Sattler can still remember Pandrelli well, while the tent host Kirsten Moosrieder and her assistant Georg Schemberg are not particularly impressed by the police presence in their Oktoberfest tent. Leitmayr learns from Ina Sattler that she only served Pandrelli two “real Maß ” because he did not appear particularly drinkable, and after that only alcohol-free beer. The coroner Dr. Steinbrecher found that the man only had 0.7 per mille in his blood. According to the investigation, he was pumped full of GHB , also known as liquid ecstasy , a party drug that leaves its victims willless and helpless.

The following evening, more victims of the drug are noticed, and it becomes clear that a serial offender is up to mischief and mainly young men mixes the liquid in the beer. Especially in connection with alcohol this can lead to serious damage to health. In the crowd of thousands of party-goers and a large number of Amperbräu employees, anyone could pour the drug into the beer unnoticed. The head of the operational case analysis , Christine Lerch, believes in a lone perpetrator who thereby acts out his suppressed aggression. Although Batic and Leitmayr are pushing for the Amperbräu to be closed, prosecutor Maurer cannot bring himself to do so under pressure from the Munich authorities. The two commissioners, who are trying with a group of officials to monitor what is going on in the hustle and bustle of the marquee, have the personal details of all individual visitors who did not appear in costume recorded. Nevertheless, in the course of the evening, several young men had to be treated by the emergency services again, who apparently had been administered the drug.

In the meantime, the restaurant manager Korbinian Riedl is in his sights, who has had to deal with his grumpy widow since the death of the old Wiesenwirt Moosrieder. This changed a lot after the death of her husband, and not only for the better, as Riedl thinks. When he was the last to lock the marquee early in the morning, he was attacked, raped and shaved by two masked men on the way home. It later turns out that this attack was an act of revenge by his boss, since Riedl had a relationship with her deceased husband. She wants to replace Riedl with her assistant Schemberg and had hired two men from the security service to give her employee a lesson.

Leitmayr, who got closer to the waitress Ina Sattler and her son in the course of the investigation, discovered that the single mother was put on record three years ago because of an accident involving drugs. In tears, she confesses to him that she got into trouble with the youth welfare office and had to give her son to a foster family for a few months. Leitmayr initially withholds this from Batic.

The next evening men are poisoned with GHB again in the marquee, and this time one of them dies, whose dose was four times higher than that of the previous victims. Lerch remembers a similar incident with GHB poisoning in a disco in Landshut . In the files, a man named Arthur Gränsel is mentioned, who Batic also noticed in the Amperbräu . The incidents in the disco had stopped when Gränsel moved to Munich. The police storm Gränsel's apartment and find a small laboratory there, as well as Gränsel himself, who is lying naked and dead in bed. Lerch suspects that he wanted to determine for himself when the matter was over and that he poisoned himself. Dr. Steinbrecher explains that his death occurred about 24 hours ago, so that Gränsel cannot be the murderer of the last Amperbräu dead.

Ultimately, Leitmayr finds the decisive lead. The dead person from the previous evening was called Radtke and was head of department at the youth welfare office , which at the time was also responsible for the deprivation of custody of Ina Sattler. Leitmayr looks for her in her apartment, where she confesses the truth to him: Radtke had blackmailed her back then and demanded sex from her so that she could get custody back. But it didn't stop at just one time. When he recently refused to stop the supervision of Sattler by the youth welfare office, she saw, since no one would have believed her, no other way out than to poison Radtke with the GHB overdose so that this victim would also be assigned to the serial offender. Little did she know that at the time of the last case of poisoning, he was dead himself. Leitmayr has no choice but to watch how Ina Sattler is led away by the patrol officers.

background

The film was shot in Munich from September 2, 2014 to October 2, 2014. The scenes in the tent of the fictional Amperbräu were filmed in Winzerer Fähndl .

The music for the film included the titles breathless through the night by the German pop singer Helene Fischer , a compliment from Sportfreunde Stiller and the drinking song Ein Prosit der Gemütlichkeit for the acoustic background to the scenes playing in the Oktoberfest tent, and Eye of the Tiger by Leitmayr in the beatings scene Survivor . The first-mentioned song was already part of the soundtrack when the episode Behind the Mirror was first broadcast the previous weekend. In addition, excerpts of the music from the opening credits of the crime series Tatort can be heard during the episode .

reception

Reviews

“'The last Wiesn' is not a 'crime scene' that pretends to completely clear up the great mystery of the Oktoberfest. In amazement and shuddering people look at the effectiveness of the Oktoberfest and the measure, which is stronger than per thousand figures can express. "

- Christian Buß : Spiegel Online

“The humor of the people of Munich is as pleasant as usual, the case is unusually simple - the plot lacks a second level. [...] You can follow the action very well. Anyone who thinks this is a good Munich crime scene has never seen a good Munich crime scene. "

- Holger Gertz : Süddeutsche Zeitung

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of The Last Wiesn on September 20, 2015 was seen by 10.6 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 30.9% for Das Erste . This made it one of the 20 most watched TV shows of 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tatort: ​​The last Oktoberfest at crew united
  2. ↑ BR shoots "Tatort" at the Oktoberfest . In: evening newspaper . September 18, 2014, ISSN 0177-5367 , p.   1 .
  3. ↑ Christian Buß: Oktoberfest "Tatort". The collective drinking order. In: Spiegel Online . September 18, 2015, accessed on September 18, 2015 : "Rating: 8 out of 10 points"
  4. ↑ Holger Gertz: Murder in the marquee. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. September 18, 2015, accessed September 19, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Manuel Weis: Primetime check: Sunday, September 20, 2015.quotemeter.de , September 21, 2015, accessed on September 21, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Jens Schröder: The TV year 2015: No winner in the station top ten, Münster “Tatort” defeated all football games , meedia.de from January 4, 2016, accessed on January 5, 2016.
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