Crime scene: royal children
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Royal children |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Radio Bremen (RB) |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 756 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | February 7, 2010 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thorsten Näter |
| script | Thorsten Näter |
| production | Radio Bremen film production |
| camera | Achim Hasse |
| cut | Elke Schloo |
| occupation | |
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Königskinder is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by Radio Bremen and first broadcast on February 7, 2010. It is the 756th crime scene episode. For detective chief inspector Inga Lürsen it is the 21st case in which she is investigating, and for detective inspector Stedefreund the 16th case that he is supposed to solve together with Inga Lürsen.
action
When the chief detective Inga Lürsen came home that evening, she was greeted with a storm by Paul, her daughter's little dog. Helen left her mother with a letter and a key. The Commissioner is quite upset about her daughter's behavior. At the same time, Sonja and Markus Mesenburg sleep together, while hooded burglars use a crowbar to gain access to the entrepreneur's house and disconnect the electricity supply, which is secured by a code . They storm into the rooms, tie up Mesenburg and his wife and ask about the valuables. They do not want to admit Mesenburg's explanation that these are secured outside of the house in a safe deposit box of the bank because there have been more break-ins in their area recently. You choke Sonja Mesenburg. The entrepreneur manages to free himself from his handcuffs , reach for a weapon and shoot one of the intruders. The other two escape.
When Lürsen in the police station finds out that her colleagues knew that her daughter wanted to leave, she is so upset that she falls down the stairs and hits the back of her head. Her colleague Nils Stedefreund insists that she be examined in the hospital. Stedefreund goes alone to the Villa Mesenburg, from which the break-in was reported. There he meets his colleague from the moral department, Bernd Petermann. The dead Sonja Mesenburg was his sister. The three were at the police school together. During this time Sonja and Stedefreund were a couple.
Inga Lürsen has since learned from the doctor Adrian Plöger that she was lucky when she fell off the stairs, that she could have been dead or paraplegic . Back in the police station, Stedefreund tells his colleague about the dead Sonja. Officials determine that it was the fourth break-in in the area in two months. The burglar who was shot is Timo Zeschnig, who has had multiple criminal records. Zeschnig was employed some time ago in the Mesenburg company, where Sonja Mesenburg was HR manager. He was released from her because of irregularities.
Bernd Petermann, the brother of the dead, puts Jelena Tiburski under pressure, Zeschnig was her pimp . Lürsen wants to know from Mesenburg why he didn't tell her that he knew the man he shot. It is possible that it was an act of revenge , which would also explain why the perpetrators in this attack were much more brutal than in the other three break-ins. Markus Mesenburg refers the commissioner to Edith Siemers, his personal assistant. Lürsen learns from Siemers that Sonja Mesenburg was not particularly popular in the company. In contrast to her husband, she would always have "let the boss out". In contrast to the Mesenburgs, who always had money, she came from a rather small family. Sonja Mesenburg wanted “her piece of the cake”, which is why she broke up with Nils Stedefreund overnight 10 years ago. When Stedefreund later spoke to Bernd Petermann, who was deeply affected by the loss of his sister, he said he went away back then to forget Sonja, how could it have worked if they had seen each other every day. Edith Siemers appears in Petermann's apartment as a surprise to Stedefreund. The inspector knows her from before, she was with Petermann at the time. Later she tells the inspector that Sonja has changed a lot in the last few years and has not been the same for a long time. Since everyone always made her feel special, she would have started treating people from above at some point. In reality, however, she never got over the separation from him, she mourned him and let her husband feel every day that he was not the right person for her.
Inga Lürsen happened to meet her doctor Adrian Plöger while strolling on the beach, which resulted in an invitation for a glass of wine. Since they both enjoy each other, they spend the night together. A man is caught in the port who wanted to sell some of the booty from the break-ins. Since Stedefreund cannot reach his colleague by phone, he drops in in person and sees with a smile that she was in the shower with her doctor. The homeless man who had a watch from the raids with him is Rüdiger Wilke. He doesn't want to say where he got the watch from. He has an alibi for the time of the crime. When further investigations reveal that Zeschnig received another call from the Mesenburg company four months after his termination, Lürsen questioned Mesenburg again without any result, while Stedefreund and Karlsen want to talk to Wilke. However, he runs away when he sees Petermann, who is now also in the port area. Obviously he's scared of him. The commissioner later had a serious word with Petermann that he should stay away from the witnesses with immediate effect, his credit had been used up.
Jelena Tiburski makes an ominous phone call and lets the called party know that she is an accessory to his little business. Timo Zeschnig told her that the "cops" were after her, which is why she had to disappear. So she needs money. Inspector Stedefreund speaks to Edith Siemers again. She tells him that Sonja treated her husband badly and that she disgusted him in the presence of others. He put up with it because he really loved her. She herself had slept with Mesenburg once because she was so terribly sorry for him and was so alone. When Jelena Tiburski meets the stranger she called, he quickly pulls out a knife and stabs. The young woman dies. Shortly afterwards, Stedefreund sees Wilke, who in turn wants to flee. When he is caught, he says that Petermann messed him up like that. Stedefreund realizes that his friend at the time wanted to catch the perpetrators himself and only faked a collaboration. In fact, Lürsen and Stedefreund surprise Petermann when he stumbles on the suspicious men. When the commissioners want to intervene, a fight ensues, as a result of which the two men can flee into a car and dash away. Then a sudden bang, they went under a crane. Both are dead instantly.
In the course of further investigations it turns out that Zeschnig committed the break-ins against payment, the stolen valuables were not touched. Lürsen tells Mesenburg and Edith Siemers their theory that there must be someone who hated Mesenburg and his wife even more than Zeschnig. Lürsen wants to set a trap for both of them and says by the way that the witness Jelena Tiburski is still alive and one hopes that she will soon come to. The inspector herself lies in the hospital bed as "Jelena". Stedefreund hides behind a screen in the room. After some time has passed, Markus Mesenburg comes into the room in a white coat and tries to suffocate the alleged Jelena Tiburski. He tells officers that his wife humiliated him for years and that if he got divorced, he would have had to give her half of his property under the prenuptial agreement. He strangled Sonja and shot Zeschnig and also stabbed Jelena Tiburski. All three deserve it, he says without any awareness of injustice. When the officers want to take him away, an incident occurs: Petermann, who has meanwhile also arrived at the hospital, shoots his brother-in-law. Lürsen gets into the line of fire and is pushed out of the line of fire by Plöger, the doctor in this hospital, where he himself gets a shot in the chest. The inspector later sits at his sick bed.
Production notes
The shooting of the film took place from June 4th to July 2nd, 2009 in Bremen and Bremerhaven . Director Thorsten Näter, for whom this is already his seventh crime scene with the Bremen investigation team Lürsen / Stedefreund, was already nominated for the Grimme Prize for one of the productions . He also composed the music for royal children .
The director Näter explained the choice of the title by saying that it should not have given an indication of what happened in the film. Rather, it should be reminiscent of the old folk song " It was two royal children ", which expresses the longings of people who could not come together.
reception
Audience rating
The crime scene episode Königskinder saw 8.94 million people when it was first broadcast on February 7, 2010, which corresponds to an audience rate of 23.90%.
Reviews
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv sums up his criticism as follows: “Lürsen falls down the stairs and falls in love. Stedefreund is personally involved in a robbery. In the 'Tatort: Königskinder', the inspectors' hormone levels get mixed up and a colleague gives Dirty Harry. Exciting, rock solid robber pistol from Bremen. ” TV feature film says:“ What a shame. After seventy captivating minutes, a resolution follows that is simply outrageous. "Conclusion:" Clever plot, unclever finale. " Dieter Bartetzko from the FAZ says that" The 'Tatort Königskinder' [...] is one of the little bravura pieces. . It is worth seeing, for example, how shyly Inspector Lürsen flirts with her doctor. Those who [can] enjoy scenes like these [will] overlook a number of inconsistencies until the surprising end. "
Web links
- Crime scene: King children in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Königskinder on the ARD website
- Royal children at the crime scene fund
Individual evidence
- ^ Tatort - Königskinder at prisma.de. Retrieved January 5, 2013.
- ↑ "Königskinder" - Tatort slapstick with Sabine Postel In: der westen.de from February 2, 2010 - Henrik Lerch. Retrieved January 5, 2013.
- ↑ Data on the crime scene episode Königskinder at tatort-funduns
- ↑ series "Tatort - Königskinder" at tittelbach.tv. Retrieved January 5, 2013.
- ^ Crime scene: Königskinder at tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved January 5, 2013.
- ↑ On TV "Tatort" Please don't look at me like that In: faz.net. on February 7, 2010 by Dieter Bartetzko. Retrieved January 5, 2013.
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