Crime scene: baptism of fire

Episode of the series Tatort
Original title	Baptism of fire
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	MDR
length	88 minutes
classification	Episode 588 ( list )
First broadcast	February 6, 2005 on Das Erste
Rod
Director	Hannu Salonen
script	Andreas Pflüger
production	Jan Kruse
music	Karim Sebastian Elias Habib Benedikt Elias
camera	Andreas Doub
cut	Julia Oehring
occupation
Peter Sodann : KHK Bruno Ehrlicher Bernd Michael Lade : KHK Kain Michael Mendl : Martin Forssell Katrin Saß : Carolin Beck Maria Simon : Sabine Gerber Hans-Jochen Wagner : Lutz Gerber Caroline Scholze : Kerstin Fischer Mathias Herrmann : Mario Rehmer Annekathrin Bürger : Frederike Walter Nickel : Walter, forensic scientist Carmen-Maja Antoni : Superior Sister Antonia Julia-Maria Köhler : Ricarda Nowak Mila Bruk : junior broker Wolf Dietrich Rammler : caretaker Küf Kaufmann : Cook Guido Meyer : House residents

Baptism of Fire is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD , ORF and SRF . The film was produced by MDR under the direction of Hannu Salonen and first broadcast on February 6, 2005. It is episode 588 of the crime scene. For Chief Detective Bruno Ehrlicher and his colleague Kain , it is the sixteenth case they are investigating in Leipzig .

action

The body of a murdered woman is found on a disused industrial site in Leipzig. Your identity is not that easy to determine. The commissioners Ehrlicher and Kain find an inconspicuous pin with the initials LIC, which leads them to Leipziger Immobilien Consulting . So they find out that the victim is the employee Ricarda Nowak, who obviously took every opportunity to climb the career ladder and had a relationship with managing director Martin Forssell. Forssell, who only employs women, appears suspicious to investigators. He runs the company together with Carolin Beck, with whom he also built it up. Nevertheless, the investigators did not find any real motive. However, tensions are clearly noticeable within the company. Ricarda Nowak could have become too successful for someone because she was the absolute favorite when it came to new deals. For this, she had even secretly taken customer data from her previous company. Ehrlicher suspects that her colleague Sabine Gerber took this file away from her because otherwise she would have had no chance against her.

Bruno Ehrlicher has to feel firsthand which methods the LIC works with. His Frederike, attracted by an advertisement, bought a condominium from this company and now has to discover that she was shown a completely different apartment than she now owns. If Ricarda Nowak also worked with such methods, a motive for the crime should also be sought there.

After Martin Forssell repeatedly uses blackmailing methods to get “young blood” into bed, one day he is found dead on one of his love camps. On a surveillance recording, Sabine Gerber can be seen throwing a knife into the dumpster that turns out to be the murder weapon. She admits the act without further ado, but Ehrlicher has doubts. From Lutz Gerber, the inspectors receive a reference to a Marienstift where his wife grew up. There they question Superior Sister Antonia and find out that Carolin Beck is Sabine Gerber's birth mother. When asked about this, Sabine Gerber admits that she wanted to take on the murder for her mother because she had only just found her again. That was the only reason why she would have started at LIC so that she could finally be close to her. Carolin Beck then admits that Forsell was murdered because she wanted to protect her daughter.

The death of Ricarda Nowak cannot be clarified beyond doubt. Traces of blood from the victim in Forsell's apartment lead to the conclusion that they both got into an argument and that she hit her head against a heavy bronze bust and died in the process. Forsell would then have put them down on the industrial estate, but they can no longer ask him about it.

reception

Audience ratings

When it was first broadcast on February 6, 2005, the episode “ Baptism of Fire” was seen by 7.92 million viewers in Germany, which corresponded to a market share of 20.90 percent.

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv says about this crime scene: “Sodann and Lade don't give the crime thriller contours. Michael Mendl as a charismatic bastard also has a greater seduction potential for the viewer than the little men from the people who don't bludgeon everything with the moral club in this crime thriller. Author Andreas Pflüger obviously remembered the insight cultivated by Hitchcock that character pigs are more exciting heroes than good honest men. "

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm think: "Mendl as a bastard and a surprising finale tear it out this time." It is by far "no goosebumps thriller, [but] nonetheless entertaining."

Web links

• Crime scene: baptism of fire in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Summary of the plot of baptism by fire on the ARD website
• Baptism of fire at the crime scene fund
• Baptism of fire at Tatort-Fans.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on December 31, 2015.
2. ↑ Rainer Tittelbach: With Salonen, Sass, Simon & Mendl, the MDR “Tatort” no longer looks so old from the film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on December 31, 2015.
3. ↑ Peter Sodann and Bernd Michael Lade are looking for the murderer of a real estate agent. Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on December 31, 2015.

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