Crime scene: Mauerpark
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Mauerpark |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
RBB |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 815 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | October 23, 2011 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Heiko Schier |
| script | Heiko Schier |
| production | Joachim von Vietinghoff |
| music | Christopher Bremus |
| camera | Frank Lamm |
| cut | Ute Astrid Rall |
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Mauerpark is a television film from the crime series Tatort , which was first broadcast on October 23, 2011 on Erste . In his 31st and 25th case, the Berlin team of investigators Till Ritter and Felix Stark , played by Dominic Raacke and Boris Aljinovic , deal with the murder of a lawyer whose body is found in Mauerpark. The commissioners note that the lawyer did not have many friends and that some of them are even happy about his death.
action
The chief detective Till Ritter and Felix Stark are entrusted with the case of a murder in the Berlin Wall Park . The body of a man who was 49-year-old lawyer Simon Herzog was found there by the scrap yard owner Pollack. Pollack tells the inspectors that Lukas Vogt, who works for him and wants to interview the knight, is “a bit clumsy”, as he puts it, but otherwise a “good boy”. He goes on to say that he spent yesterday evening with Vogt. Simon Herzog was killed by a shot in the heart between 10 p.m. and midnight.
Ritter and Stark drive to Herzog's law office, where Herzog's employee tells them that he was last working on retrial and annulment proceedings against the subsequent preventive detention of child murderer Kurt Bach, and when Ritter asked, yes, he had received threatening letters. He collected it in a folder and was even proud of it. When asked, she told the commissioners that Karin Subotzik came to the office about two weeks ago. She could not accept that her son's murderer should be released after 15 years. The officers questioned the mother of the boy who was killed. She tells of how not only her marriage broke up at the death of her child, but her entire life. Ritter and Stark show understanding for their situation, even if Karin Subotzik is now suspect. An interview with Herzog's young lover Nadja Skrebber yields little clues. She emphasizes that Herzog was a man with secrets and that their relationship had existed for six months.
Pollack admits that he knew Herzog after all, that he had wanted to buy his junkyard from him as an agent of the “Second Chance” foundation , but offered far too little. Stark speaks to Ina Kilian, the charity lady and chairwoman of the foundation. When asked, she emphasizes that she was not a woman in Herzog's life. Lutz Weber, meanwhile, struggles with Lukas Vogt, who tells him in confused words that someone is trying to kill him, but is not concrete. After Weber left his office briefly, he told his colleagues Ritter and Stark about the abduction of the Kilian baby more than 20 years ago. Little Benjamin was the baby of Ina Kilian's twin sister Laura. The family paid the requested $ 2 million. The child, however, remained missing. Gregor Müller, the family caretaker, who received life sentences, was convicted of kidnapping and murder. Lukas Vogt has since left and only left the ominous message "G88".
In front of the house of the child murderer Bach, people demonstrate against his release. He feels that this is unfair, since he had served his sentence until the last day. He tells the inspectors that he shared a cell with Gregor Müller, the kidnapper of the "Kilian baby". Herzog wanted to know from him whether Müller had said anything about the whereabouts of the ransom. Ritter watches the old videos about the case and then visits Ina Kilian in her villa in Grunewald together with Stark . The family strictly followed the kidnappers' instructions, but there was no longer any sign of life. The kidnapping broke the heart of her sister Laura, too much suffering, too many drugs, and she died five years after the kidnapping. Laura never spoke about the father of her child. She and her sister grew up together with Simon Herzog and Gregor Müller. After his release from prison, Gregor Müller was employed by her foundation as a driver. Noticing Ritter's astonishment, she says that everyone deserves a second chance and that is also the credo of her foundation. A little later, Ritter von Müller wanted to know how he had dealt with the fact that Herzog had incriminated him heavily at the time, since he had given the tip to search his garage and the furnace in which remains of bones were found. Müller confirms that he was found to have $ 50,000. The kidnapper asked for dollars, not DM.
After an attack on Lukas Vogt took place, Ritter and Stark racked their brains about what the young man might have to do with the case. Ritter confronts Ina Kilian with the fact that her driver Müller is suspected of killing Simon Herzog and of having committed an attack on Lukas Vogt. He wants to know whether the name Lukas Vogt says something to her that she denies. Lutz Weber feels like scales, Nadja Skrebber's maiden name is Vogt. The inspectors go to her and she tells us that Lukas was found in front of a chapel and later adopted by her parents. The foundling of Gotha! The People's Police had once claimed that Luke's child Republic refugees was. Lukas felt that something was wrong because it couldn't be that you love your sister. She gives the commissioners an envelope that Herzog left with her. Inside is a photo of the GDR traffic surveillance, which shows either Laura or Ina around the time Benjamin was abandoned in a chapel in Gotha, not far from the city of Gotha. Ina tells the commissioners that over the years she has prayed that everyone would be spared this truth. Her sister was unstable, very different from herself. Motherhood had changed her, she had become depressed, started drinking and taking pills. She had problems loving her child. Müller would have gone through fire for Laura. Then she says that Simon was obsessed with the idea that he was the father of Laura's child. He told her that he had found a lead that led to a junkyard. She immediately had a bad feeling about it. Vogt asks the inspectors to let him speak to Ina Kilian in his fully wired and technically sophisticated dwelling on the junkyard. It is the only chance to find out the truth. Ritter and Stark are supposed to monitor him via video. Since the DNA analysis has meanwhile shown that Lukas is Laura's son Benjamin, the commissioners are grappling with as the situation can be dangerous. A code word is agreed upon which the commissioners intervene immediately. Due to a deal proposed by Vogt Ina Kilian, the charity lady actually appears in Vogt's home. He tells her about hatred and beatings and that he was beaten like a dog all through his childhood and Nadja, his own sister, should have paid for the fact that he loved her. He wants to know why she did that. She says that she couldn't stand it that suddenly he was the center of the world for Laura, which made her immensely jealous. She planned everything, was able to take him out of his cradle unnoticed, but then would not have managed to throw him into the water as planned. Just as the image transmission monitored by the inspectors suddenly stops so that they do not notice what is happening in the car, Müller appears on the scene. Vogt incites him and says whether he had never wondered who hid the $ 50,000 with him. He should finally wake up, Ina had always lied to him. Then he plays a cassette for him on which the voice of Ina Kilian can be heard demanding a ransom for Benjamin. While Ritter and Stark are still trying desperately to get into Vogt's dwelling, they hear a shot. When the door opens, Ina Kilian is lying in a pool of blood on the floor. Müller shot her.
As it turns out, the transmission was interrupted by Vogt himself. He is now the sole heir to the Kilian property. The anonymous tip to Herzog also came from him, he lured the lawyer to Gotha and had all the strings in hand until Herzog was suddenly found dead. His paranoid appearances were only camouflage, so he gave himself the fool's freedom to pursue his perfidious plan undisturbed. When he learns that his father is not Herzog, but Gregor Müller, he does not comment on it. He didn't want justice, says Ritter, but revenge. And in the end, his own father fell into the trap he carefully staged.
background
The film was produced by Von Vietinghoff Filmproduktion and Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) in cooperation with ARD-Degeto . The shooting took place from February 3, 2011 to March 4, 2011. In addition to Berlin , the shooting locations were also the neighboring Potsdam and its Babelsberg district . Rebecca Immanuel embodies the twin sisters Ina and Laura Kilian in a double role.
Mauerpark premiered on October 3, 2011 in the Babylon cinema in Berlin-Mitte .
The musical leitmotif of this Tatort episode is the retro soundtrack with the song Our Lips are Sealed by the Fun Boy Three .
The audio description of the film, spoken by Thomas Holländer, was nominated for the German Audio Film Award in 2012 .
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Mauerpark on October 23, 2011 was seen by a total of 8.26 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 22.3% for Das Erste ; In the group of 14 to 49 year old viewers , 2.59 million viewers and a market share of 16.6% were achieved.
In Austria, 672,000 viewers were reached and a 22 percent market share was achieved.
Reviews
Meedia.de was of the opinion that it was not easy to get involved in this crime scene:
“There are corpses, suspects and, in the end, a perpetrator as well. But otherwise everything is different: You have to get involved with the Berlin “Tatort” and like it - which is not easy this time. "
The Stuttgarter Zeitung criticized the "nested plot" and the lack of tension in this crime scene episode with the words:
“The all-too-intricate plot is staged in a gruesome way. It is snowing in the stairwell or suddenly the light goes out. But even if the pictures sometimes look as artful as still lifes, this crime scene has still not become exciting. "
Tobias Köberlein from the BZ complained above all about the completely "overloaded script" and explained:
“Oh, the Mauerpark. Seldom has it been seen so dreary […]. Berliners know the place more as a party and grill location than a green summer break with a flea market and adventure-hungry tourists. None of this was seen in this "crime scene". It was due to two things: the fact that it was shot in the middle of winter and the freezing cold story that went with it. Just bad luck that director Heiko Schier had to grapple with a completely overloaded script. It felt like it was about everything: child abduction, blackmail, sexual addiction, German-German history, gentrification and all kinds of Berlin clichés. "
Rainer Tittelbach, on the other hand, spoke of an "exciting and visually strong story" and a "convincing cast":
“A dead person on the grounds of the Mauerpark. The murder corresponds to a crime from 1988. The topography, strong characters and the time horizon are the parameters for Heiko Schier's exciting story. The dramaturgy is more circular than linear. The staging is atmospheric, at times associative and - despite all the dirty aesthetics - powerfully visual. Convincing cast, investigative detective agents, a great song. 10 years of Ritter & Starck. The 25th case confirms the upward trend in the RBB "crime scene". "
Alexander Gorkow from the Süddeutsche Zeitung particularly emphasized the "suggestive images, short dialogues and the brilliance of the actor Robert Gwisdek" in the role of Lukas Vogt:
“This crime scene from Berlin has it all […]: not exactly beautiful, but rather charged with damaged longing. The story about the dead lawyer Simon Herzog shines with suggestive images, short dialogues and the brilliant Robert Gwisdek, who plays a young eccentric. [...] A memorial is being erected here to the park that fell to the investors. But above all, this is a crime scene for the "leather jacket generation". She counted on the end of the world in the 80s, held her position in the fight and today is surprised that the end is only now coming. Dreadful. Nice. Look at it, drink a beer with it. "
Web links
- Wall Park in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Mauerpark in the online film database
- Summary of the plot of Mauerpark on the ARD website
- Mauerpark at the crime scene fund
- Mauerpark at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Tatort: Mauerpark General information at tatort-fundus.de
- ↑ a b Tatort: Mauerpark premiere and shooting days.
- ↑ a b Mauerpark: That was the Berlin “crime scene”. In: Axel Springer SE. BZ, October 23, 2011, accessed May 17, 2019 .
- ↑ Crime scene: Mauerpark in the audio film database of Hörfilm e. V.
- ↑ 10th German Audio Film Award 2012
- ↑ quotemeter.de : Tatort: Mauerpark Primetime-Check: Sunday, October 23, 2011 , accessed on October 24, 2011.
- ↑ Crime scene: Mauerpark data from Sunday, October 23, 2011.
- ^ Tatort: Mauerpark criticism at meedia.de
- ^ Tatort: Mauerpark criticism of the Stuttgarter Zeitung
- ↑ tittelbach.tv: "Tatort - Mauerpark" series . Retrieved October 24, 2011.
- ^ Tatort: Mauerpark criticism of the SZ by Alexander Gorkow
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