Crime scene: Eulenburg

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Eulenburg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 MR
length 86 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 353 ( List )
First broadcast March 2, 1997 on ARD
Rod
Director Sylvia Hoffman
script Sylvia Hoffman
music Martin Haas
Robert Sattler
camera Armin Alker
cut Beate Gottschall
occupation

Eulenburg is a television film from the crime series Tatort produced by Hessischer Rundfunk (HR) and broadcast for the first time on March 2, 1997 in the program Das Erste . It is the 353rd episode of the crime scene and the 16th case of the chief detective Edgar Brinkmann, embodied by Karl-Heinz von Hassel . This time Brinkmann and his team are dealing with the murder of a Frankfurt speculator.

action

The Frankfurt investment advisor Konrad Bohländer, who has recently also been active in show business, has a dispute with his business partner Vera about holding an event in the Alte Oper. The conversation is interrupted by a phone call that calls him outside the opera, where he is shot by two masked motorcyclists. The next morning there was an article in the local press that suggested that Brinkmann's assistant Alice Bothe had already found the trail of the murderers. Brinkmann's superior Dr. Marbach is indignant about the article and instructs Brinkmann to keep her out of the case and to investigate alone with Robert Wegener. Bothe shows Brinkmann directions and a fuel receipt that she found in the victim's car, Brinkmann does not believe there is a lead, Bothe drives there on her own, although deducted from the case. Brinkmann and Wegener go to Bohländer's living and business premises; on his answering machine they find a message from a Schmiedinger, as well as a letter from Schmiedinger, but no man by that name lives in the hotel, he had booked a room but had not arrived . Vera tells the officials that she inherited and invested her money in Bohländer's company. He needed the money because he was heavily in debt. With his death she now gains more influence in the company, she does not know a Schmiedinger. The officials are looking for Bohländer's tax advisor Dr. Riedl, she is an old student friend of Bohländer, his high debts resulted from the fact that he had speculated on real estate deals.

Alice Bothe follows the directions to the old villa "Eulenburg" in Rüdesheim, which serves as a home for asylum seekers. Bothe is approached by local police officers there because an arson attack has recently been carried out on the home, she is taken to the police station by the officers, she does not identify herself as a colleague, but claims to be a journalist. Bothe learns that the home was guarded around the clock, but the attack could not be prevented. Bothe also learns that the villa belongs to Patrick von Dohmen, who rented it to the city on condition that asylum seekers be accommodated there. Bothe is introduced by Dohmen, who indicates that he actually wanted to build condominiums on the property, but he was not allowed to demolish the villa for monument protection reasons. When Bothe returns to her car, she finds her tires stabbed, while Brinkmann finds out that Bohländer regularly made transfers from his business account to an E. Burg in Switzerland. Brinkmann and Wegener visit Bohländer's fellow students from Harvard, and Schmiedinger is also listed as a partner in a management consulting firm, and officials learn that he has been dead for two years. Then Brinkmann and Wegener go to Bohländer's friend Tex Lindström, who is unimpressed by their friend's death. Her much older husband Nico knew about the relationship and approved it. Nico told the officials that a man named Schmiedinger had called them the day before and wanted to speak to Bohländer. Meanwhile, Alice Bothe does not get her car from the workshop in time, she accepts Dohmens' offer to stay with him. When Alice is briefly alone, she is approached by young villagers on motorbikes who had stabbed the tires because they wanted to talk to Alice, they assert that they had nothing to do with the arson attack on the home. Von Dohmen notices that Alice has talked to the young people and learns that she is a police officer.

Through a phone call with her ex-boyfriend who works for the press, Alice learns that the murderers on Bohländer Rüdesheimer had license plates and asks him to notify her colleagues immediately. The next morning von Dohmen urges a conversation with Alice, who does not want to meet with him, but agrees when he threatens to tell her superior about her going it alone. Brinkmann and Wegener go to the hotel because Schmiedinger is said to have stayed there by now, but they find the room empty except for a little luggage. Brinkmann realizes that it is some kind of diversionary maneuver. The head of the Rüdesheimer Kripo, Oertel, calls Brinkmann indignantly to complain about Alice Bothe's going it alone, Brinkmann learns that his assistant had investigated in the Villa Eulenburg and brings this immediately with Bohländer's ominous transfers to "E. Burg ”in connection with Switzerland. He also learns that von Dohmen is the owner of the villa, meanwhile Alice drives to the meeting point, but instead of Dohmen the motorcyclists appear there and follow them. When one of the motorcyclists had an accident, Alice went to the motorcycle and discovered that the injured person was von Dohmen's sister Claire, Patrick von Dohmen then threatened her with a gun. Alice says on the head that von Dohmen had tried to set the asylum seekers' home on fire because of the bad investment; he had written threatening xenophobic letters himself to divert suspicion. Von Dohmen admits this, only Bohländer, who had invested in the property, could not come to terms with the loss of money due to the failure of the planned construction project on the property. When the injured Claire tries to shoot Alice, Brinkmann, Wegener and their local colleagues arrive and arrest the siblings. Brinkmann has meanwhile found out that Bohländer threatened to publicize the arson attack if he did not get his money back, so he had to die.

Audience and background

The first broadcast of Eulenburg on March 2, 1997, Das Erste had a market share of 21.0 percent and was seen by 7.24 million viewers in Germany. The episode was shot in Frankfurt, Rüdesheim and the surrounding area.

criticism

TV Spielfilm rated the film as mediocre and judged: "Routine" crime scene "with local color".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Audience ratings at tatort-fundus.de. Retrieved March 12, 2016
  2. ↑ "Short review of Eulenburg in TV feature film"
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