Crime scene: class reunion

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Class reunion
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 752 ( List )
First broadcast January 10, 2010 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Kaspar Heidelbach
script Jürgen Werner
production Sonja Goslicki
music Manuel Römer ,
Arno Steffen
camera Clemens Messow
cut Hedy Altschiller
occupation

Class reunion is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The film, produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and directed by Kaspar Heidelbach , was broadcast on January 10, 2010 on ARD's first program. It is the 45th case of the Cologne team of investigators Ballauf and Schenk and the 752nd crime scene episode.

action

The Cologne building contractor Franz Tarrach is found hanging on a chain upside down on a bridge over the Rhine. He was previously executed with a targeted shot in the head, so that the investigators suspect a contract killing. Schenk also found out very quickly that Tarrach carried out fraudulent accounting on a large scale and had also employed illegal workers. Due to an anonymous tip, the customs authorities were already on his track and Tarrach was about to make a confession. His colleague Klaus Michalke obviously didn't like his boss very much and when it became known that Michalke was about to be fired, that made him suspect.

In the meantime, Max Ballauf has a few days off because he was invited to a class reunion for his Abitur class from Essen . There he meets his old childhood sweetheart Katja Dorn, with whom he still seems to get along well. Although she is married, they both spend the night together. The next morning, Katja's husband, who also belonged to the high school class, is found dead in a hotel room. Apparently he was killed with a statue from the room. Due to the fact that Ballauf had amused himself with his wife, he comes under suspicion of murder. However, the investigating commissioner from Essen also considers Katja Dorn to be suspicious, because she could well have incorporated Max Ballauf into her murder plot. Obviously Ballauf also had a hand-to-hand argument with Dorn, which allowed blood splatters to get on his clothes, which is now his undoing.

Schenk quickly finds a connection between Tarrach and Dorn and is surprised to find his colleague at the scene of another murder. Apparently, Dorn, as the head of a Tarrach foundation, had countersigned excessive bills for a joint project in order to share the additional profit. Schenk goes to Essen to continue his investigations there and at the same time to stand by his colleague's side.

Ballauf investigates in parallel on his own to prove his innocence. First he looks around Dorn's foundation and meets Bettina Hartmann there, whom he has known since school. She can't imagine that her boss should have done dirty business, but she knows about love affairs that Dorn had from time to time. So also with his assistant Julia Gerber, who says that she had ended the affair some time ago because she plans to go to Hamburg. Schenk now receives the information that the fingerprints of Antanas Broos have been found on the chain with which Tarrach was hung on the bridge. When he was arrested, he was shot and his brother, who failed to escape, admits that they had been given the task of eliminating Tarrach. They would not have committed a second murder and they would not have known their employer either.

Thus, the connection to the Essen murder appears in a different light. There was no “execution” here, but rather an affect . The hotel employee remembers that Dorn had ordered a bottle of champagne for his room late at night. At this point, Katja Dorn was already in Ballauf's room. Ballauf tries to find out who Dorn might have expected that evening. For him, only Julia Gerber comes into consideration, because he knew his schoolmate and he could not imagine that Dorn would have ended the relationship so easily. He goes back to Gerber and she admits that she hit Dorn in the affect and fatally injured him with the statue. He just didn't want to let her go and threatened to make sure that she wouldn't get any more employment in Hamburg.

Schenk can find out that Dorn's deputy Bettina Hartmann had betrayed her boss and that she was behind the falsified bills. When Tarrach just didn't want to stop, even though the customs investigation was on his heels, he was only supposed to get a lesson to end the fraud. She didn't want Broos to kill him.

background

The class reunion was produced by Colonia Media on behalf of the WDR . The shooting took place in Cologne, Essen , the Zeche Zollverein , the settlement Margarethenhöhe , at the Baldeneysee , in Oberhausen and in the Gasometer Oberhausen .

reception

Audience ratings

When it was first broadcast on January 10, 2010, the episode “ Class Reunion” in Germany was seen by 9.59 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 24.30 percent.

Reviews

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv assesses soberly: “King chance rules this Cologne 'crime scene' from Essen, which is based on a not new, but always effective initial idea. Constructed crime thriller, uninspired direction, small actors at amateur theater level. Still entertaining and convincingly cast in the main roles. Karoline Eichhorn is once again best in class! "

At Kino.de , Tilmann P. Gangloff comes to the conclusion: “Without showing off, Werner incidentally throws in various research results, such as how fraud works in construction. But the greatest attraction is, of course, the fact that the investigator is being investigated, especially since Angelika Bartsch embodies the Essen criminal investigation colleague in a very humorless manner thanks to her caustic smug dialogues. Various moments of amazement are also nice, for example when Ballauf stands next to the dead thorn and Schenk from Cologne calls his mobile phone. But best of all was the WDR's idea of relocating a 'crime scene' to Essen for the first time since the days of Hansjörg Felmy as Commissioner Haferkamp (1974 to 1980). "

Kathrin Buchner at Stern.de says: “Unfortunately, she had to share the audience's attention with various supporting characters who are sketched like stencils: the savvy assistant, the frustrated career woman, the Romanian hit man. But they remain just extras, screenwriter Jürgen Werner links too many storylines together. Sex, revenge, greed for money - the whole repertoire of human instincts is cannibalized as motive for murder. "

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm judge: "Somewhat constructed, but humorous case."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Location and audience rating at fundus.de, accessed on October 21, 2014.
  2. ^ Rainer Tittelbach : Film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on October 22, 2014.
  3. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Film review at kino.de, accessed on October 22, 2014.
  4. ↑ Kathrin Buchner: Not salmon, not kebab at stern.de, accessed on October 22, 2014.
  5. ↑ Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on October 22, 2014.
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