Crime scene: men's boxer

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Men's boxer
Country of production Switzerland
original language Swiss German
Production
company		 SF
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 297 ( List )
First broadcast October 16, 1994 on SF 1 , Das Erste , ORF 2
Rod
Director Christian von Castelberg
script Martin Suter
music Andi Müller
camera Reinhard Schatzmann
cut Evelyne Naef
occupation

Herrenboxer is an episode of the crime series Tatort from 1994. The film was produced by Swiss television under the direction of Christian von Castelberg and is the fifth Tatort series produced by Swiss television . It's crime scene episode 297; it first aired on October 16, 1994.

Philipp von Burg ( László I. Kish ) solves the murder of a former professional boxer.

action

The bouncer and former professional boxer Alfred Grüninger is found murdered in his expensive penthouse, detective sergeant von Burg and his superior Gusti Stettler notice that one of the rooms is quite rustic and does not match the luxurious ambience of the rest of the penthouse. There you will find references to the young boxer Pepe "Lucky" Lopez, who meanwhile wants to speak to his girlfriend Anja de Wett, but she refuses to speak. Meanwhile, von Burg finds out that Grüninger's career obviously ended because of alcohol problems. Von Burg visits Jimmy Kohler's boxing cellar, which is very popular with the Bernese high society, who is shocked by Grüninger's death. He confirms that Grüninger and Lucky were friends. Gertsch found out that Grüninger was a candidate for the European Championship, but was burned. He was killed, but would have survived the fractured skull if he hadn't been lying undetected in the apartment for days. Various people's fingerprints, including Lucky's, were found on glasses in the penthouse. Von Burg and Gertsch told von Burg and Gertsch that the other people must have come later, that he did not meet them, and that he spent the rest of the evening in Jimmy's boxing cellar, who confirmed this.

In the red light bar where Grüninger had worked as a bouncer, the stripper Samantha told them that Grüninger had not earned much, the penthouse was a staff apartment. Anja seeks out Lucky, the two make up, Lucky tells her that her father and Fenner had made Grüninger his manager and that he could forbid the two to see each other. He was angry with Grüninger, and when she asked her whether he had committed something stupid, he didn't answer. In the meantime, National Councilor Pierre Fenner meets with his party friend Gusti Stettler and von Burg, Fenner says that he and his friend Hanspeter de Wett were Lucky's sponsors at Grüninger's on the evening of the crime, that they discussed Lucky’s training measures and the financing of the same, that Lucky was was also present the whole time. De Wett and Fenner then left, and Lucky had a conversation with Grüninger because of his ban on women. Fenner talks about Lucky's relationship with de Wett's daughter Anja. Von Burg seeks out Lucky and takes him to the station, he sticks to his version of the evening of the crime and asserts that Fenner and de Wett must have gone to Grüninger for him. When von Burg presented him with a key to Grüninger's penthouse, which was found there, he corrected his statement that he had actually met Fenner and de Witt at Grüninger's, but had been sent away by them. Jimmy persuaded him to make the false statement so as not to get the sponsors into trouble, and he had the key made as a second key on behalf of Grüninger. Meanwhile, Fenner asks de Wett how the unsuitable Grüninger convinced him to make him Lucky's manager, de Wett claims technical reasons.

Von Burg learns from the locksmith Seeger that Lucky Grüninger did not have a second key made there. When Grüninger's apartment is searched again, the case takes a turn. Grüninger apparently only lived in the back room of the penthouse and filmed high society sex parties from there with a hidden camera in the front part of the penthouse. Von Burg and Gertsch discover compromising footage of Fenner and other celebrities on a video in the camera, the officials conclude that Grüninger obtained his sudden position as Lucky's manager through blackmail. The next morning, the officials also find out that Grüninger, despite his low income as a bouncer, had recently bought the penthouse through the mediation of de Wett and Fenner's company. The officers show Fenner the video, who downplayed the video, but admits that celebrities often met in the apartment and had sex there. However, he was never blackmailed, nor did he know anything about Grüninger's purchase of the penthouse.

Von Burg and Gertsch visit Grüninger's sister in their home village, where the sister shows the officers a video system of her brother, on which he had always worked. She told the officials that de Wett had called her several times and wanted to buy all of Grüninger's videos, where the tapes were, but she did not know. After the officers are gone, the sister takes out the tapes and tries to call de Wett, but only reaches his daughter, she decides to send one of the tapes to Anja. Fenner meanwhile confronts de Wett, he feels used by de Wett to have brought high-ranking business people into the apartment as a decoy so that de Wett can blackmail them, Grüninger was made Lucky's manager by de Wett out of gratitude for his services. A figure found in the penthouse, whose counterpart had a drug death recently in her personal effects, the officers find her half-brother, it is Seeger from the locksmith, whom von Burg had recently asked about Grüninger's key. While Lucky is released from custody in good time before his fight, Seeger testifies that his half-sister had repeatedly needed money for her addiction. One day she was completely changed and less neglected, she had met an older man named de Wett and raved about the fact that he was fetching her from the street. Meanwhile, Anja receives the video from Grüninger's sister, where she sees her father with the girl who suddenly falls over dead, her father explains to her that she had come out of the bathroom and that she had apparently taken an overdose there, Grüninger then helped him to get the body out of the apartment so that it could be found in a different location.

Anja escapes from her father's house, meanwhile Seeger admits that he went into the penthouse with the duplicate key to confront Grüninger, but he was already dead. He didn't go to the police because he didn't want to be suspected of murder. At that moment, Grüninger's sister calls von Burg, she tells about the tapes and that she sent the one with the dead girl to Anja. The officers go to Lucky's boxing match and see Anja addressing Fenner, who wants to talk to Anja in private and begs her not to go to the police with the video. Von Burg and Gertsch speak to de Wett about the videotape, who admits he was blackmailed by Grüninger, but denies the murder. In the meantime, Fenner becomes rude towards Anja and demands the release of the volume. De Wett tells the officials that Fenner, who is very active in the National Council against drugs, can be seen on a tape with Eva Seeger and was also blackmailed by Grüninger with it, Fenner was also the last to leave Grüninger that evening. Anja believes von Burg is now in great danger, she has meanwhile handed the tape over to Fenner and promises not to make a statement to the police. Fenner doesn't trust her and pursues her. Fenner assures her that Grüninger's death was an accident, when she screams that he wants to kill her, at the last moment Lucky, who has just won his fight, hears his girlfriend's screams and can save her by knocking down Fenner. The officers arrest Fenner.

Background and audience rating

It is the second case for detective sergeant Philipp von Burg ( László I. Kish ); he has taken over his assistant Markus Gertsch ( Ernst C. Sigrist ) from his predecessor, detective sergeant Reto Carlucci ( Andrea Zogg ).

The first broadcast of Herrenboxer took place on October 16, 1994, the film was shot in Bern and the surrounding area, where the episode attracted 4.22 million viewers.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm rate this crime scene positively.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Men's boxer at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on February 8, 2016.
  2. ^ Tatort: Herrenboxer short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on February 8, 2016.
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