Crime scene: A completely normal case

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title A perfectly normal case
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company
Bavarian radio
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 818 ( List )
First broadcast November 27, 2011 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Torsten C. Fischer
script Daniel Wolf
Rochus Hahn
production Andreas Bareiß
Gloria Burkert
music Steffen Kaltschmid
camera Hagen Bogdanski
cut Dirk Göhler
occupation

A completely normal case is the title of the 60th crime scene crime novel with Miroslav Nemec and Udo Wachtveitl as the superintendent Batic and Leitmayr . The report produced by Bavaria Fernsehproduktion GmbH for Telepool and Bayerischer Rundfunk was first broadcast on November 27, 2011. A man is found dead in a synagogue , which results in difficult investigations for Batic and Leitmayr, which require a lot of tact.

action

The 57-year-old Rafael Berger is found dead by the devout Jew Jonathan Fränkel on a landing in the Jewish Center in Munich . The word "MOSER" was written in the pool of blood surrounding it. The chief detective commissioners Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr are called. They learn from Martin Hirsch, a board member, that Berger was an entrepreneur in the furniture industry. He couldn't say why he went to the synagogue. Perhaps Rabbi Grünberg knew more. Berger recently lost his daughter Leah to suicide, she was very sensitive, a young person still searching. The young woman was given pastoral care by Rabbi Grünberg. Grünberg is extremely conscientious in everything he does. When the commissioners want to speak to Grünberg, they notice the slightly retarded Aaron Klein, who is sitting high up on a parapet that is dangerously deep. Aaron needs a fixed daily rhythm, if there are any deviations from it, he feels disturbed. Batic quickly manages to establish a connection with the young man. He says proudly that he is the Schammes , the rabbi's assistant, not everyone can do that, one has to be a believer. He tells Batic that it doesn't matter if someone dies, because then he is with God.

The commissioners learn from Michael Grossmann, like Berger's shareholder in the furniture company, that Leah suffered greatly from her father's capriciousness, which intensified after the death of his wife four years ago, and has therefore turned to religion. He refers to Jonathan Fränkel. Leah let the Frankels live in one of their houses for free. After Leah's death, her father demanded the rent for the past period and at the same time filed for eviction .

A surveillance video shows Berger, Grünberg and Fränkel, who has a criminal record for assault and drug abuse . Fränkel wanted Berger to withdraw the eviction action against the family. Miriam Fränkel takes the side of her husband, who denies having anything to do with Berger's death. Her husband is no longer the person he was at the time of his crimes. When the inspectors still want to take him to the police station, Fränkel flees to a nearby children's playground, where he is then handcuffed. Unfortunately he loses his kippah in the process . At the station, Batic told him that he was suspected of murder urgent and despite the Sabbath in pre-trial detention must remain. In an interview, Miriam Fränkel Batic tells that she didn't care much about religion before. At some point, however, she found Judaism and then met her husband Jonathan through Grünberg. When she first met him, she thought he was a hopeless case, but Grünberg believed in him and she loved her husband with all her heart.

When Batic and Leitmayr walk through the memory corridor with Rabbi Grünberg, which lists more than 4,500 names, he tells them that it is the job of a rabbi to appear unshakable to the outside world. Again and again he failed because of Berger, but he also failed to dissuade his daughter from Judaism. Leah was incredibly pure and thought a lot. He felt like a father to her. When Leitmayr Grünberg said that they had arrested Jonathan Fränkel, the rabbi only said that he would have to doubt his knowledge of human nature if Jonathan had committed a murder.

When photos appear in the newspaper that were shot by two young people during Frankel's arrest in the children's playground, it means trouble for the inspectors, as the newspapers open it up with the headline: "German police officer arrests Jewish fellow citizens." Even the lost one Kippah is mentioned. When the officers spoke to Claudia Schwarz from the Jewish Center , she only said that they should just forget that Frankel was Jewish and that they should treat this case as if it were a completely normal case.

From the autopsy report, the commissioners found that Leah Berger was three months pregnant when she jumped to her death. During a search of Leah's apartment, Batic finds a small diary of the young woman from which several pages have been torn out uncleanly. When the inspector notices noises and looks, he runs into Michael Grossmann, who seems to be looking for something in the apartment. He admits that he had a relationship with Leah of which he is not proud given his sick wife. Leah's father didn't know anything about it. Leah suffered badly from their relationship, which is why he ended it. When she told him about the child, he asked her to have an abortion, which she did not want. You reacted in panic.

During a further interrogation, Fränkel feels so cornered that he admits to having run into Berger when the man, who was talking more and more in anger, attacked him. He was stunned by himself, but Berger just laughed at him and congratulated him on the fact that he would now also get him because of bodily harm. Horrified at himself, he then ran away, but soon thought about it and found Berger dead on the stairs on his return.

Batic and Leitmayr summarize all the results of the investigation again and come to the conclusion that Aaron Klein must have lied. The young man, who stuck to his schedule so meticulously, claims to have been to the post office at the time he should have been sweeping. Using an unreal police ID given to Aaron , Batic gets him to play the game with him, pretending to be the suspect. Aaron says that Rafael Berger was a bad person and that he was to blame for Leah's death. He also says that Berger had a loud conversation with Rabbi Grünberg. When Batic asks Aaron to tell him the truth and admit that he wasn't at the post office, the latter yells at him that he is left-wing, would say he is his friend, but he is just trying to fool him. Angry, he pushes the inspector against the wall with full force, so that he goes to the floor bleeding, and runs up to the gallery. Leitmayr follows him and tries to reassure him. However, he cannot avert the misfortune, Aaron jumps and lands right in front of Batic's feet. The commissioners are stunned. Aaron is still breathing and comes to the hospital.

It turns out that Berger had come across the secret of Rabbi Grünberg, which his daughter had recorded in her diary, and wanted to blackmail him with it. Grünberg fell in love with a very beautiful woman at the time, and Aaron emerged from this relationship. When Rebecca, Aaron's mother, and her husband died in a bus accident, the rabbi had taken the boy into his home, but withheld his fatherhood. At the age of five, Aaron fell ill, which resulted in his disability. In a conversation, Grünberg admits that Aaron saw Berger threatening him, he assumed that the boy just wanted to protect him. When Aaron Berger overheard the phone call, he was so beside himself that he pushed him down the stairs. It was also he who then wrote “MOSER” on the floor with the dead man's blood. This is an old law that allows a Jew to kill someone if he harms another Jew or betrays him. These ancient laws were used by some to justify the murder of Rabin . Leitmayr advises Grünberg to finally take responsibility for his son, he said he was ready to do everything for his mother, so why not for him too? When the rabbi hesitated and said he couldn't do that, Leitmayr replied: "Nobody needs a rabbi who doesn't trust God."

Production and Background

The working titles of this crime scene episode were Murder in the Synagogue and A Quite Normal Murder . The Burkert Bareiss Production of TV60 Film acted as the production company . The shooting locations included the Jewish Center in Munich and the StuCafé on the main campus of the TU Munich .

Private things from the team: In this episode there is a competition for the best police officer of the year. In contrast to Leitmayr, Batic does not believe in this at all. Leitmayr finds out that he, Batic, Griesmayer and himself are ahead. Leitmayr definitely wants to choose Batic. In the end, my colleague Griesmayer wins the race.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of A completely normal case on November 27, 2011 was seen in Germany by a total of 8.39 million viewers and achieved a market share of 22.8% for Das Erste ; In the group of 14 to 49 year old viewers , 2.97 million viewers and a market share of 19.5% were achieved.

681,000 viewers and a 22 percent market share were achieved in Austria.

criticism

“'A completely normal case' leaves nothing out, from the pseudo-Hebrew Latin decorative letters that attractively obscure the names in the opening credits to the small adult education course on Jewish customs and traditions to the Dachau memorial site visit by Chief Inspector Leitmayr as the didactic final point. It is all the more impressive what a witty, evil film the screenwriters Daniel Wolf and Rochus Hahn as well as the director Torsten C. Fischer made of it for the Bavarian Broadcasting Company. "

- Judith von Sternburg : Frankfurter Rundschau

“The Munich crime scene inspectors Batic and Leitmayr are investigating in the synagogue. It's like watching a heap of events grow, at first perplexed, then tired. There is a lot of chatter, the plot hooks. "

“In this case, the title says it all: 'A completely normal case' is the name of the 'Tatort' episode from Munich. Unfortunately, you have to take that literally. The 60th episode of the Munich team Batic and Leitmayr is just plain crime thriller home cooking. And that in spite of an actually exciting topic: The investigation takes place in the Jewish community center. "

“In 'A completely normal case' [...] there is this great scene in which the chief of police urges special sensitivity in view of the political dimension of the case. And what is Leitmayr doing, this thoroughly Bavarian Catholic boy? Raises his face in profile, rolls his eyes meaningfully, and points to his big nose. Then he whispers that his grandmother's name was Rebecca - and his employer breathes a sigh of relief: Ah, very good, let the Jews settle this among themselves. This is what it feels like, anti-Semitism in its most polite form. It is great how confidently the people of Munich make their rounds through social problem areas - with robust humor and indestructible chutzpah. "

Web links

Individual evidence

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