Crime scene: Freddy is dancing

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Freddy is dancing
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 934 ( list )
First broadcast February 1, 2015 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Andreas Kleinert
script Jürgen Werner
production Sonja Goslicki
music Daniel Dickmeis
camera Johann Feindt
cut Gisela Zick
occupation

Freddy Dances is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The contribution produced by WDR was broadcast on February 1st, 2015 in the first program of ARD . In this 934th crime scene sequence, the Cologne inspectors Ballauf and Schenk investigate .

action

Marita Gerber turns to her neighbor Max Ballauf because her son Daniel, a young musician, is missing. Max Ballauf, however, only referred them to the police missing persons office.

Finally, Marita Gerber finds Daniel's body on the banks of the Rhine with the help of her son's dog that ran up to her. An autopsy by the police reveals numerous lacerations and abrasions as well as chemical burns in the area of ​​the eyes and mouth. The cause of death, the coroner fixed internal bleeding.

Ballauf and Schenk contact Julia Koch, Daniel's ex-girlfriend. Although he has been homeless for a long time, he is still registered as Julia's roommate.

The investigators find a newspaper clipping from the hotel bar Seven Secrets in Daniel's rucksack, which had been handed in to the lost property office . The bartender actually remembers Daniel Gerber, who applied to be a pianist with him two weeks ago. But since his style of music would not have suited the restaurant, he asked Daniel to leave the house. On the same evening he also noticed three stockbrokers whom he had evicted from the house shortly after Daniel Gerber because of physical abuse.

Since one of the stockbrokers paid with his credit card, the investigators can quickly identify him as Tobias Krenz. He confirms the bartender's statement that he and his colleagues Oliver Kern and Jonas Stein had been to the Seven Secrets on the alleged night of the crime and then took a taxi to Point Five , a bar in the port area, which was the result of the taxi driver's statement covers.

In the later course of the investigation, Krenz also tells the inspectors that his colleague Oliver Kern wanted to react to Daniel, who was sitting in front of the hotel bar. When Oliver stepped on Daniel, he was bitten by his dog, but continued to step on Daniel undeterred. He ran away, and when he disappeared in a house in Cologne-Mülheim , the three stockbrokers assumed only minor injuries. They went back to Seven Secrets and got into a taxi to Point Five .

While searching through the files, Ballauf and Schenk find a record of a call from the night of the crime that could be related to the matter. An elderly couple saw a man covered in blood on their doorstep and called the police. When she arrived forty minutes later, the officers were sent away by a neighbor of the couple because the man had long since disappeared.

When the two inspectors arrive at the house in question, it turns out to be a kind of high-security wing with a self-closing steel door that seems almost impossible to get through.

The elderly couple, who called the police on the night of the crime, thought Daniel was a con artist and did not let him into the house. Nevertheless, the next day the stairwell was covered in blood, which the elderly lady mopped up. Nevertheless, the investigators found traces of blood on the banister and had them analyzed by the forensic team . They turn out to be traces of Daniel. The inspectors therefore suspect that one of the house residents opened the door for Daniel.

Art professor Claudia Denk claims to have been out on the night of the crime because of a business lunch. Her daughter brought her to the neighbor Katja Petersen beforehand.

Katja Petersen, author and translator, tells Ballauf and Schenk that she put Claudia Denk's daughter to bed on the night of the crime and then fell asleep herself, which is why she did not hear the intercom.

The ice hockey coach Günther Baumgart lives in the fourth apartment. First of all, because of his public focus career, he denies having noticed anything. However, based on the victim's cell phone, which was also found in the stairwell, it can be proven that Daniel tried several times to contact Günther Baumgart. He then admits that he discovered Daniel's talent at the piano some time ago and invited him to his home to play the piano. He made friends with Daniel, got him a cell phone and met with him several times. Since Baumgart had a visit from his wife, who lived in Munich, on the night of the crime, he did not open the door to the bloodied Daniel for fear of his wife recognizing him as homosexual.

After a further questioning of Claudia Denk by the investigators, Freddy, who has since become closer friends with Claudia, offers to take care of her daughter while she leaves her apartment because of a supposed business lunch.

When Claudia Denk leaves her apartment again the next evening due to a supposed business lunch, Freddy Schenk follows her and discovers that she works as a prostitute in a pub. Freddy confronts her and she replies that she sees herself forced into prostitution because her income alone is not enough to pay the rent for the apartment and she does not want to move. She claims that there was a suitor in her apartment on the night of the crime and that she did not let the police into the house so that she could continue to cover up her secret identity as a prostitute. However, Freddy Schenk finds a drawing in Claudia's daughter's room that shows her together with her mother, Katja Petersen and the blood-soaked Daniel, which indicates that the girl had opened the door in the belief that the mother had returned from the supposed business lunch .

Katja Petersen confesses that she woke up on the night of Daniel's bell. He had wandered through the stairwell and, while half asleep, she mistakenly recognized him as her ex-husband, who had often brutally beaten her. She had sprayed pepper spray on his face for fear of being attacked again by him , which also explains the burns on Daniel's face. Daniel then fell down the stairs and died. Together with Claudia Denk, she put the body in the trunk of her car. The two drove aimlessly through Cologne and disposed of the body on the banks of the Rhine.

In an epilogue, the viewer learns that the stockbroker Oliver Kern, who attacked Daniel, died of a wound infection caused by the dog's bite. Fearing that he would lose his job if he was on sick leave, he did not see the doctor for several days with the injury. The residents of the house community had been sentenced to probation for failure to provide assistance .

background

Colonia Media shot this crime scene under the working titles Dead Dreams , A Honorable House and Whipping Boy in Cologne and the surrounding area. Jürgen Werner wrote the screenplay based on an idea from Andreas Knaup , who has also written the screenplay for several crime scene episodes.

The entire WDR Funkhausorchester Köln was involved in the film , the conductor was Rasmus Baumann .

The film was shot from March 11, 2014 to April 10, 2014 in Cologne and the surrounding area. The premiere took place on January 27, 2015 at the WDR radio station in Cologne.

reception

criticism

“In its better moments, this episode is a fine piece on the subject of rescue and enslavement through art. In its worse moments, a pretentious panorama of the, well, coldness between people. "

- Christian Buß : Spiegel Online

Audience rating

The first broadcasts of Freddy dancing on 1 February 2015. seen in Germany 10.49 million viewers and a market share of 28.1% for the first .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Filming in the concert hall. In: Tatort Specials. Bayerischer Rundfunk, accessed on March 27, 2019 : "The WDR Funkhausorchester under the direction of conductor Rasmus Baumann plays itself."
  2. ↑ Crime scene: Freddy dances with crew united
  3. ^ Stefan Wirtz: Press event: Tatort from Cologne. Freddy is dancing. In: press lounge. WDR, January 16, 2015, accessed on July 27, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Christian Buß: "Tatort" with Freddy Schenk in love. 100 kilos of pure desire. In: Culture. Spiegel Online, January 30, 2015, accessed on July 27, 2017 : "Classical, disco, bossa: the" Tatort "from Cologne this time is musical and artsy."
  5. ↑ Timo Nöthling: Primetime check: Sunday, February 1, 2015.quotemeter.de , February 2, 2015, accessed on July 27, 2017 .
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