Crime scene: LU
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | LU |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWR |
| classification | Episode 966 ( list ) |
| First broadcast | December 13, 2015 on Das Erste |
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| Director | Jobs Christian Oetzmann |
| script | Dagmar Gabler |
| music | Dieter Schleip |
| camera | Jürgen Carle |
| cut | Martina Butz-Kofer |
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LU is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by Südwestrundfunk is the 966th episode of the crime scene and was first broadcast on December 13, 2015 on ARD's first program. The Ludwigshafen investigator duo Odenthal and Kopper is investigating their 54th joint case.
The title of the episode is the official license plate number of Ludwigshafen am Rhein , which also corresponds to the first name of the role played by Jürgen Vogel , the money collector Lu Wolff.
action
The alleged contract killer Sergej Radev Nikolov is found dead in Ludwigshafen. He had been involved in the murder of a chemist in town 15 years ago. Johanna Stern first examines the case from 1999 in more detail. She meets Dr. Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper. Mark Moss, about to be promoted to the chemical plant where the murder occurred 15 years earlier.
While Johanna Stern believes Moss' statements, Lena Odenthal doubts his credibility. During her investigation, she runs into the same man several times.
While Mark Moss is being observed in front of a hotel, Odenthal and Kopper notice that a few seconds after Mark Moss has left the hotel, a man wearing a parka is following. Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper suspect a connection, which is why they split up: Kopper follows Moss and Odenthal the man in the parka.
As he goes into an underpass in Ludwigshafen Central Station, he points a gun at a man who is walking in front of him. At the last moment Odenthal prevents him from being shot. When the man in the parka flees, she follows him and notices as she passes that the man who was to be shot is the one she has already run into several times. Lena Odenthal is unsuccessful in her chase; the man in the parka escapes.
At first she seems to have lost the person threatened, but sees him shortly afterwards and arrests him. When she interrogated Lu Wolff that evening in the Presidium, it turned out that he had committed several crimes up to 1998. During the interrogation of the man it turns out that he was a collector of money, but that he has given up this activity due to increasing brutality regarding the orders. Lena Odenthal also notes that Lu Wolff has a scar on the left side of his face, which must have been created after 1998, when the last photos were taken of him. She orders new photos to be taken.
Lena Odenthal suspects a connection with the events of 1999. The next day she has to justify herself to Mario Kopper: Johanna Stern told him that Odenthal flirted with Wolff when he was questioned. Stern thinks Wolff is the main suspect and wants to observe him. While the observation failed, Odenthal asked Charlotte, the former operator of a scene club in Ludwigshafen. This is not very cooperative, but she says that Lu Wolff's debt collector job from 1999, which involved a large sum of money, got out of hand and his assistant Michi got a handicap. She also learns that the scar on Lu Wolff's head was caused by this assignment.
Lu Wolff visits Michi and promises him that he will take care of Mark Moss. First he shoots the man in the parka who was about to shoot him in the underpass. So the person who did the "dirty work" for Mark Moss is now dead.
Lu Wolff arranges for Michi to be moved from the standard hospital to a luxury villa. Shortly after Wolff's departure, Mark Moss appears at Michi's and pretends to be his brother in front of the nurse. Shortly afterwards, Odenthal and Kopper arrive at the same time as Lu Wolff in front of the villa. An exchange of fire ensues: Michi shoots Moss with a weapon that Lu Wolff had already slipped him in the Standard Clinic, and Moss then shoots Lu Wolff. Kopper then shoots Moss in the stomach one more time. Both men die.
With his shot at Moss, Michi takes revenge on Moss: It is his fault that Michi is disabled because his partner kicked and hit him at the time, so that his face was deformed.
background
The film was shot from April 8, 2015 to May 12, 2015 in Ludwigshafen, Baden-Baden and Karlsruhe.
A large part of the episode takes place on Berliner Platz in Ludwigshafen in the so-called “cake box”, a round department store building that was inaugurated in 1960 and which was empty at the time of shooting and was demolished in 2015 after the shooting was completed. The film was shot around Berliner Platz in Bismarckstrasse, including the Shisha Lounge Moda, as well as Bahnhofstrasse and the adjacent pedestrian zone. The Europa Hotel on Ludwigsplatz , Ludwigshafen Central Station with its miniature railway system in the entrance hall and the Best Western Hotel near the station were also set in scene.
The "Rhein-Neckar-Chemiewerk" is a fictitious company, and according to SWR spokeswoman Annette Gilcher, the film was shot in an oil refinery in Karlsruhe and a chemical plant in Rheinmünster . The scene that takes place in the garden with a large gas boiler in the background was filmed in Baden-Baden. The scene in the Ludwigshafen Maudach nursing home was recorded in Bühl .
In the run-up to the first broadcast of the episode LU , Ulrike Folkerts, who has been a detective at the crime scene for 26 years, announced in the talk show 3 after 9 on Radio Bremen that she would want to investigate the crime scene for a long time: "I will be Miss Marple " . Should her role of Lena Odenthal be retired, she would like to open up the old cases.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of LU on December 13, 2015 was seen by 9.47 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 26.2% for Das Erste . This made the crime scene the winner of the day on German television that evening.
In Austria 606,000 viewers were reached and thus an average reach of 8% and a market share of 20% were achieved.
The SwissAward was broadcast on SRF 1 , which is why the crime scene was shown differently on SRF two . In Switzerland, 310,000 viewers over the age of three watched the first broadcast of the episode, giving it a market share of 14.9%. In the group of 15 to 59 year old viewers, 170,000 viewers were counted and a market share of 13.4% was measured.
Reviews
The episode “belongs to the best of 2015” , judges the editorial staff of Prisma . Jürgen Vogel convinces with “wonderfully concentrated play” , the portrayal of Ulrike Folkerts was “believable” . In addition, “a third leading actor is convincing: the city of Ludwigshafen” , which is presented by cameraman Jürgen Carle “as a hybrid of hell and departure into the architecture of the 21st century” and as a “place where violence and drugs in every concrete and Nesting vacant lots ”is staged. The appearance of Ingrid van Bergen as "retired puff mother" could compensate for the fact that the "cat war" between Lena Odenthal and her colleague Johanna Stern would have "become even more beautiful with better dialogues" .
Instead of “puzzling the audience” , “[the case] simply resolved too quickly,” said Sascha Martens from the Westphalian News . The "secret hero" played by Jürgen Vogel was "by far the most interesting figure through his biography" . The "shared scenes with Commissioner Odenthal [...] were among the best moments due to the crackling tension between the two," said Martens happily. “Unfortunately, the overdrawn, slick antagonist Dr. Mark Moss [...] almost like a caricature ” and many dialogues sounded “ strikingly artificial ” , so that statements by investigator Johanna Stern “ looked like sentences from a textbook ” . "There have been better episodes from Ludwigshafen" concludes Martens.
“The plot on two time levels [...] doesn't always work out completely, but there is something about the way the bird floats through the city as a ghost of a lost Ludwigshafen. [...] And so Vogel leads to a concrete blues reminiscent of Nick Cave, Rowland S. Howard and the Birthday Party [...] his rather damaged Lu strolling through the rather unsightly corners of the BASF metropolis; through the deserted pedestrian tunnel system under the main train station, for example, or through an equally deserted, rundown shopping center. "
“Jürgen Vogel is of course wonderful, you can also show the back of the Mephistophelian head nicely if the story has a hangover. Unfortunately, it always has, the pictures are just a facade, and worst of all is the catfight that Commissioner Lena Odenthal […] has had to fight with her nerdy colleague Johanna Stern […] for a few episodes. [...] And so that those who have fallen asleep after a quarter of an hour can also notice the lines of conflict (which can sometimes be a mercy), they are painted over with the widest brush. "
Web links
- Tatort: LU in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the act of LU on the ARD website
- LU at the crime scene fund
- LU at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Prisma : LU, a place like hell , i.e., December 12, 2015 - December 18, 2015, No. 50/2015, p. 19
- ^ Scene of the crime: LU at crew united
- ↑ a b c d e f tatort-fundus.de: Filming locations: The city has become more recognizable , Kai Tobie, accessed on January 3, 2015
- ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : Commissioner in a flirtatious mood: In her 63rd case, "Tatort" investigator Lena Odenthal has to do with various men , media, dpa , Jasper Rothfelds, December 12, 2015
- ↑ a b Westfälische Nachrichten : "I will become Miss Marple": Ulrike Folkerts wants to investigate the crime scene for a long time , media, dpa , December 7, 2015
- ↑ Sidney Schering: Primetime-Check: Sunday, December 13, 2015.quotemeter.de , December 14, 2015, accessed on December 14, 2015 .
- ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : Almost 9.5 million see crime , media / ratings, dpa , December 15, 2015
- ↑ Medienforschung ORF , data from Sunday, December 13, 2015
- ↑ Swiss Radio and Television : SRF 1 - December 13, 2015 ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Mediapulse TV panel - German-speaking Switzerland, Overnight, people three years and older, accessed on December 19, 2015
- ↑ a b Swiss radio and television : SRF two - December 13, 2015 , Mediapulse television panel - German-speaking Switzerland, Overnight, people three years and older, accessed on December 19, 2015
- ↑ a b c d e Westfälische Nachrichten : Tatort: LU (ARD) - Artificially sounding dialogues , media / seen, Sascha Martens, December 14, 2015
- ↑ Christian Buss: Mucki- "crime scene" with Jürgen Vogel. The charm of a wrecking ball. Spiegel Online, December 11, 2015, accessed on December 12, 2015 : "Rating: 6 out of 10 points"
- ↑ Holger Gertz: Not just clichéd, but silly. Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 11, 2015, accessed on December 12, 2015 .
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