Scene of the crime: bar acquaintance

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Pub acquaintance
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 NDR
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 45 ( List )
First broadcast November 10, 1974 on ARD
Rod
Director Jörg-Michael Baldenius
script Hans Drawe ,
Rudiger Humpert
production Dieter Meichsner ,
Günter Handke
music Rolf Kühn
camera Frank A. Banuscher ,
Wolf Wiedenroth
cut Wolfgang Skerhutt
occupation
Shooting at Kiel Central Station

Kneipenfreundschaft is a German television thriller from NDR and was broadcast on German television on November 10, 1974. It is the 45th episode in the crime series Tatort and the first case of Chief Inspector Brammer, played by Knut Hinz . Brammer is involved in the murder of an old widow.

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Commissioner Brammer, a passionate hobby musician, attends a concert by Udo Lindenberg and his panic orchestra before moving to Hanover the next day, where his new office awaits him. After work he moves into his new room with a wealthy widow who is happy to have a policeman in the house. Meanwhile, beer driver Hermann Kohltasch is sitting in his local pub and has the landlady call the old widow Anna Schmidt to make an appointment with her. He has a relationship with the much older woman, which her stepson and his wife do not like to see. However, he fails to make an appointment with her for the weekend because she wants to leave. The next morning Marga Höfer, the wealthy owner of a men's outfit shop, comes back from a trip surprisingly earlier and catches her husband in bed with the much younger saleswoman of her shop, Miss Waller. She reminds him that without her he would have ended up in the gutter, he can no longer hear these reproaches and feels degraded to a puppet. When she announces a divorce, he kills her favorite bird to threaten her. Inland boatman Ossi Lörring is in a bad mood and wants to go to the pub, his girlfriend Eva Meinert follows him.

Meanwhile, Brammer is preparing for his debut and happily reports to his wife on the phone that he likes his new job. Meanwhile, Brammer's new assistant, Henkel, is also sitting in the bar, frustrated, because his new department head Brammer is much younger than him. He had given himself hope in Brammer's position. All other colleagues are looking forward to working with Brammer. In the middle of his debut, however, Brammer is called to his first assignment, an older woman has been found dead in the park. The woman was strangled with a stocking, the offense occurred one to three hours earlier. The woman's wallet is empty, but the dead woman wears expensive jewelry, which does not fit in with a robbery. The dead person is Anna Schmidt. Her lover Hermann found out about the murder in the newspaper the next day and looked upset. Brammer and his colleagues ask around, they learn that Ms. Schmidt has led an unsteady life since the death of her husband, often met with significantly younger men and was mainly in pubs where she got to know these men. Inland boatman Ossi is woken up by his boss and his girlfriend, he is suffering from the aftermath of a night of partying. Meanwhile, Höfer tries to stay with his lover Waller because his wife has thrown him out. Brammer asks Schmidt's stepson, who says that he doesn't know why she was inclined to alcohol and male acquaintances after his father's death. She says these pub acquaintances came from a bad background. He often referred these men away when Anna Schmidt took them to her room.

Meanwhile, Hermann Kohltasch searches his room in the gazebo he and his mother live in for jewelry and cash and quickly leaves the gazebo. Henkel interviewed the landlady of Anna Schmidt's favorite bar and asked her about Ms. Schmidt's contacts the last time she went to the bar.She reported, among other things, about a bargee and his girlfriend who had been to the bar several times and who had contact with Ms. Schmidt that evening. In addition, a man she does not know by name was sitting at the bar. The description fits Mr. Höfer. The landlady reports on a dispute between the husband and wife Schmidt. The two knew each other and Höfer wanted money from her. But she refused him this. After the argument, the man looked distraught and just stared in front of himself. Brammer finds out from his son-in-law that he had bought her a condominium that she should move into next month to avoid further conflicts. He will inherit DM 100,000 invested in his company. He has an alibi for meeting a friend that evening. Meanwhile Eva discovers scratches on the hand of her friend Ossi, but he refuses to answer the question where he got it from. Höfer sneaks around his wife's house, he sees her with a man, obviously a lawyer, with whom she is discussing the terms of the divorce. Meanwhile Kohltasch breaks into a trailer.

Henkel and a colleague visit Ms. Kohltasch in her gazebo, where she lives with her son. In his abandoned room they find the empty money box and traces of blood on the sheets. The officers take the sheet to the KTU. Kohltasch himself is in the broken-in caravan, obviously in fear of the police. He didn't show up for work either. Between Ossi Lörring and his girlfriend Eva, there is a disagreement because she often has to think of her two children, whom she left with her ex-husband in order to be able to go on the barge with Ossi. Brammer and his colleagues question the dead man's stepson again; according to witness statements, he is said to have beaten his stepmother more often. He is also said to have tried to incapacitate her and put her in a home. Horst Schmidt then refuses to testify and protests his innocence. Shortly afterwards, Brammer found out in the pub that the man described by the landlady, who had argued over money with Mrs. Schmidt, was a Mr. Höfer. Meanwhile Höfer seeks a lawyer and asks him for help. He is no longer allowed to enter his wife's house by injunction. Meanwhile, a hunter watches the fugitive Kohltasch as he enters the broken-open caravan with purchases.

Meanwhile, Brammer and Henkel visit the Höfer's shop to speak to Mr. Höfer. However, Ms. Waller can only tell them that neither he nor his wife are in the shop. They will then be called to the campsite after the hunter reported his observations. Since Kohltasch is not in the trailer, Brammer and Henkel lie in wait. Meanwhile, a lock keeper gives police officers a hint about Ossi Lörring and his girlfriend, which could match the officers' personal description. He tells the officers which ship they are sailing on and when they will moor again. Brammer and Henkel meanwhile manage to arrest Kohltasch. Kohltasch stated in his interrogation that he was afraid of the police because he knew Anna Schmidt and was out with her a few times. But it had nothing to do with her death. In the meantime, Höfer is stopped in front of his wife's house by two officials who want to take him to the presidium for a few questions, but Höfer fled. Kohltasch becomes entangled in contradictions during his interrogation. However, he can name a witness who drove him home. When asked why he was afraid of the police, he replied that he had brought Anna Schmidt home more often and he feared that he would not be believed. But since he has no explanation for the traces of blood on his bed sheet and could have reached the crime scene from home on foot, Kohltasch is temporarily arrested.

A resident of the park reports as a witness named Jacob who claims to have seen Mr. Schmidt while driving around the park in his car. When asked how he knew it was Schmidt, he replied that he used to work as an unskilled worker at Schmidt, but that he had been thrown out because he had asked for a raise. He had only now realized that his observation could be important. Henkel seeks Mrs. Höfer, she suspects her husband to be with Miss Waller. He asks her if he knew Anna Schmidt, but she doesn't know anything about it. Eva Meinert disembarks and leaves Ossi after raping her the night before. Kohltasch's statements regarding his last meeting with Anna Schmidt have been checked and identified as untrue. Kohltasch says he was afraid of the police because he had already thought that they could see a motive for murder in the factual axis, that Anna had put him more often lately. He and Anna did not have a sexual relationship, she was too old for that. However, it turns out that the blood on the sheet comes from Kohltasch himself, so he is released home. Meanwhile, Henkel visits Höfer at his girlfriend's house. He states that he wants to become self-employed and that he has therefore won Mrs. Schmidt as a partner. Suddenly she refused him the money. He knows nothing about Frau Schmidt's murder.

Henkel visits Horst Schmidt to check Jacob's information. Ms. Schmidt gives her husband an alibi, the car was in the workshop at the time, which turns out to be correct, so Jacob's statements are refuted. Now the officials consider Jacob himself suspicious and have him watched. Ossi, who has meanwhile been able to bring Eva back, is in Kiel with his boss's ship, so Brammer and Henkel visit their Kiel colleague Finke. Meanwhile, an officer asks the innkeeper about Höfer, who confirms that Höfer was there on the evening of the crime. However, he stayed there until two or three o'clock, so that this could well be the perpetrator. Brammer and Henkel go on board the “Albatross” and ask the captain about Ossi Lörring. Assistant Batke from Brammer's team in Hanover makes a discovery while studying files and immediately alerts Finke. Lörring's friend Eva Meinert told Henkel that she called her children from the phone booth and that her boyfriend talked to Ms. Schmidt outside. Suddenly both were gone. Of course, Lörring does not tell Brammer about it and claims that he was only waiting for his girlfriend. Then he went away alone. He hadn't seen Ms. Schmidt again. Ms. Meinert says that she was then in another pub so that he has no alibi. He was looking for her and then hours later they went back to the ship together. Finke visits Brammer and Henkel on the ship and tells him what Batke has found out in Hanover. Finke demonstrates to Brammer that Ms. Schmidt was murdered with a "mast throw", a sailor's knot. Brammer confronts Lörring, who continues to deny the murder. Brammer arrests Lörring. At the local appointment, Lörring is cornered even more, because he is the only suspect who has anything to do with shipping. Henkel also confronts him with the fact that he had often strangled his girlfriend when she hadn't wanted to like him. Meanwhile, Höfer is thrown from her apartment by his friend Miss Waller because of the suspicions.

Brammer and Henkel pinched Lörring even more, after all he would become more violent when he was drunk, and that was the case on the night of the crime. When he realizes that his girlfriend has left him and he will never see her again, he finally confesses to the murder of Anna Schmidt. He did it out of aggression, because she had exchanged tenderness with him at first, but then no longer wanted to. He strangled her with his bare hands, he later used the stocking to help, and he only took the money to make it look like robbery. Then Loerring flees headless. Before Brammer and Henkel can catch up with him, he leaves the park, runs onto the main street and right in front of a truck. Lörring dies immediately.

Audience and special

The episode achieved a market share of 68.00% when it was first broadcast. This was the first case that played in Lower Saxony. Thus, all federal states at that time except for Rhineland-Palatinate have been the scene of crime scene cases to date. Udo Lindenberg and his panic orchestra have a guest appearance, Lindenberg plays himself as a musician who is obviously friends with Brammer.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pub acquaintance on tatort-fundus.de, accessed on July 26, 2014.
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