Crime scene: hunting season

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Hunting season
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 BR
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 797 ( List )
First broadcast April 10, 2011 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Peter Fratzscher
script Peter Probst
production Veith von Fürstenberg
music Sebastian pill
camera Thomas Merker
cut Vera van Appeldorn
occupation

Jagdzeit is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by Bavaria Fernsehproduktion GmbH for Telepool and Bayerischer Rundfunk was first broadcast on April 10, 2011.

Batic and Leitmayr are investigating a murder case, in which they have to deal with the gap between rich and poor in a socially critical manner.

action

Gerd Zach, until recently the deputy head of personnel at the food manufacturer Konserven-Koller, is shot with his own rifle at a gas station on the way to the hunt. Suicide can be ruled out because it wasn't a close-range shot.

The 13-year-old Vanessa "Nessi" Bürger, who lives with her depressed, alcoholic mother, witnesses the murder. Batic and Leitmayr initially fail to get the disturbed child to make a statement. So she is protected as a witness around the clock to be on the safe side. With a lot of empathy, Leitmayr wins the trust of the girl who grows up in a world of poverty, intimidation and violence.

Batic and Leitmayr inform Mrs. Zach of the death of her husband. Then they drive to the canning machine, but they cannot meet any of the management because they are all on the driven hunt , to which Gerd Zach was also on the way.

The investigators question Rudolf Kandler, who threatened and assaulted Zach some time ago. They learn from him that Zach was the main initiator of the “Kana” charity, which provided food to the needy. After he was fired, he had to look after himself there. During the search of the "Kana" camp, police officers seized a folder containing a suspicious list. It looks as if Zach had taken money into safekeeping from the Hartz IV recipients in order to secure it for them from the authorities. Now in dire financial straits himself, Zach may have embezzled the money. Thus, anyone who received money from Zach is a potential suspect. He had received the largest sum from Rudolf Kandler. After the phantom image that was made with Nessi's help resembles him, he is arrested. The investigators, however, have doubts about Kandler's guilt, since Nessi had a problem with him and possibly wanted to deliberately incriminate him.

Xaver Heintel, a freelance photographer, comes under suspicion. Out of gratitude he helped Zach with "Kana", but recently stopped working there. He also takes care of the citizens with remarkable concern by giving them presents and very often asking about Nessi. Investigators search Heintel's apartment and discover a very intimate photo of Mrs. Zach. They find out that she was his mistress. While Batic and Leitmayr are looking for Heintel, he appears at Nessi's mother and becomes very intrusive when he asks about Nessi. Fearing that he might harm her daughter, Ms. Bürger stabs him with scissors.

After Nessi no longer has to be afraid of Heintel, she finally confirms him as the murderer of Zach. In the end, the investigators manage to prove Ms. Zach's complicity and arrest her. She commissioned the murder to prevent her financial ruin through her husband's life insurance.

background

Jagdzeit was filmed under the working title “Just a Girl” in and around Munich. It is the last crime scene that the editor Silvia Koller , who died in December 2010, looked after and in which she also played. Koller (actually just her hand) appears briefly as the chain-smoking senior manager of the canning factory.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast on April 10, 2011 was seen by a total of 8.90 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 25.2 percent for Das Erste ; In the group of 14- to 49-year-old viewers , 2.70 million viewers and a market share of 18.5% were achieved.

Reviews

“'Jagdzeit' is a successful reminiscence of the socially critical 'crime scene' of the old school. Largely well-dosed mixture of moody commissioners and 'heavy' topic. Terse dialogues, not the usual television noses and loving memory of editor Silvia Koller, ”summarized Rainer Tittelbach on tittelbach.tv .

"What could have been a cheap contrast program between rich and poor turns into an ambiguous, if risky and not always stylish game with cultural classifications in 'Jagdzeit' [...]," said Spiegel-Online . The film occasionally vacillates between "misery reportage and social grotesque" and draws some characters in a very clichéd manner, but it is unmistakable that "the heart of the maker beats for the disenfranchised".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Working title , tatort-fundus.de, accessed on August 15, 2013.
  2. ↑ Thilo Wydra: Hartz-IV-Krimi - The only witness . tagesspiegel.de, April 9, 2011, accessed August 15, 2013.
  3. ↑ Andreas Markhausen: Bavarian "Tatort" leaves private behind . quotenmeter.de, April 11, 2001, accessed August 15, 2013.
  4. ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Series "Tatort - Jagdzeit" . tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 20, 2012.
  5. ↑ Christian Buß : poverty "crime scene" from Munich. Hoho in Hartz-Hausen . Spiegel-online, April 8, 2011, accessed February 20, 2012.
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