Crime scene: end of performance

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title End of performance
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavarian radio
length 93 minutes
classification Episode 99 ( List )
First broadcast May 6, 1979 on German television
Rod
Director Georg Marischka
script Hans Riesling
production Peter Hoheisel
camera Hermann Reichmann
cut Christina Heinle
occupation

The end of the performance is the 99th episode in the crime series Tatort . Produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk, the episode was broadcast for the first time on May 6, 1979 in the first program of ARD . It is the twelfth case of Kriminaloberinspektor Veigl, portrayed by Gustl Bayrhammer . The episode is about the murder of a young theater actress and a young man close to her.

action

In a Munich theater ensemble, the young Andrea Bäumler plays alongside her former lover, the well-known theater actor Carl Liebold, who is the star of the ensemble. Möhlendorff makes a scene for theater employee Florian Fritsche after a performance because he has been getting on better and better with Andrea lately. Toni Inninger, the friend of Andreas' cousin Johanna Prasch, gains access to the discotheque that night, where part of the theater company is celebrating and indicating that they are in trouble. The next morning, Fritsche finds Andrea Bäumler murdered in her apartment, she was strangled. Liebold tells Veigl that their relationship had ended a long time ago, that their relationship was rather loose and therefore ended because she turned to younger people in Munich. However, Andrea was not the reason for the divorce from his wife Karin, he only met Andrea after the separation, he has an alibi through his ex-wife.

Johanna gets caught up in contradictions with her testimony, Veigl can identify her friend, for whom she has given a false name, as the convicted Anton Inninger. Meanwhile, Inninger gets a fake passport from a friend, expecting money from a big coup. Meanwhile, the officers find Inninger's fingerprints in Andreas' apartment, so that this is the focus of the investigation. When Lenz and Johanna inquired about Inninger in the discotheque and whether he was there on the night of the murder, Klaus, a friend and accomplice of Inninger, flees in order to evade police control. While on the run, Klaus is hit by a car and seriously injured, in his apartment Veigl and his team find weapons and a fence deposit as well as documents for a forged passport for Inninger. Johanna visits the Liebold ensemble after work and pretends not to know where to stay, so he offers her quarters in his guest apartment for the night. Veigl interrogates Klaus, who is lying in the hospital, who denies that the stolen goods belong to him, and he also wants nothing to do with the murder of Andrea Bäumler, he has not seen Inninger for over a week. Klaus Veigl accidentally reveals that Inninger had called him from Freilassing so that the police can find him in a hotel there, but Inninger can escape at the last moment.

The next day Toni Inninger is found dead in his car on a forest path, he has died of carbon monoxide poisoning, Veigl rules out suicide. The autopsy reveals that there were sleeping pills in Inninger's blood, and there are no fingerprints from Inninger's in the car. Nevertheless, Veigl cleverly launches the press that Inninger committed suicide in order to lull the perpetrator into safety. In the meantime Johanna has finally settled down with Liebold, he has even transferred shares to her. Lenz notices that the travel bag that witnesses had last seen with the living Inninger has disappeared, but the officers find Florian Fritsche's number in Inninger's phone book. Fritsche told Veigl that he knew Inninger through Johanna, and that Inninger told him on the night of the murder that he was afraid of being drawn into something he had nothing to do with, which he obviously had meant the death of Andrea Bäumler. When Liebold learns from the officers that they want to question him after the evening performance, he becomes nervous and plays with Johanna what they want to say to the officers so that they do not find out that he killed Inninger. Liebold discovers that Johanna had taken Inninger's travel bag in order to blackmail Liebold with it. Johanna swears that she loves Liebold, but he knocks her down in the garage, where his car is running with the engine running.

He takes a confession in which he confesses the murders of Andrea Bäumler and Toni Inninger, before he also wants to part with sleeping pills. Since he was frustrated that evening because his divorced wife no longer wanted him, he drove to Andrea's house drunk. There he tried to get closer to her physically, but she also rejected him and mocked him until he strangled her in an affect and drunk. Inninger had seen him come out of the house and two days later tried to blackmail him for DM 100,000, later increasing the amount to DM 200,000. On Johanna's advice, Liebold removed Inninger by anesthetizing him with the help of Johanna and then poisoning him with the discharged exhaust gases. While Veigl and his team rush to Liebold's house because he did not appear in the theater, Johanna comes to and can free herself from the garage, in the house she finds Liebold dead. She finds the cassette with Liebold's confession, which also incriminates her, and destroys it before the officers arrive. She claims that he killed her cousin and Inninger and wanted to kill her too. The officers find traces of the destroyed cassette and a written confession that Liebold has begun, but which does not list Johanna's perpetration. Veigl therefore has to refrain from arresting Johanna, despite the further evidence in the form of the shares that Liebold had transferred to Johanna.

Audience and background

When it was first broadcast, the episode achieved a market share of 57.00%. The episode was shot in January and February 1979 in Munich and the surrounding area.

criticism

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm rate this crime scene as mediocre and comment: "For friends of comfort".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ End of the presentation at tatort-fundus.de
  2. ↑ Tatort: End of the performance short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on June 17, 2015.
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