Crime scene: murder on Langeoog

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Murder on Langeoog
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Desert media for NDR
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 887 ( list )
First broadcast November 24, 2013 on Das Erste , ORF 2 , SRF 1
Rod
Director Stefan Kornatz
script Max Eipp
Stefan Kornatz
production Björn Vosgerau ,
Uwe Kolbe
music Stefan Will
Marco Dreckkötter
camera Bernhard Keller
cut Ulrike Hano (as Mücke Hano)
occupation

Mord auf Langeoog is a television film from the crime series Tatort . Stefan Kornatz 's film was produced for NDR and first broadcast on German, Austrian and Swiss television on November 24, 2013, after having premiered on October 3, 2013 at the Hamburg Film Festival.

It is the 887th episode in the crime scene series. Chief Detective Thorsten Falke , portrayed by Wotan Wilke Möhring , actually only wanted to spend a few days of vacation on Langeoog . When a dead woman is found there in the dunes, his stay turns out differently than planned. Together with his colleague, Detective Inspector Katharina Lorenz ( Petra Schmidt-Schaller ), who is coming in the context of a request for official assistance , they are both investigating their second case.

action

Chief Detective Thorsten Falke spends a short vacation on Langeoog, where his friend and ex-colleague Jan Katz and his wife Mimi live. The family also includes her baby and Mimi's traumatized brother Florian. When a half-naked dead woman is found in the dunes , next to whom Florian Meinders, also lightly dressed, is sitting and does not know what happened, this vacation takes a different course than Falke had hoped for. The chief detective Christine Brandner from Aurich , who is responsible for the case, starts the investigation together with her assistant. The victim, the Hamburg gallery owner Bella Goosen, was stabbed to death. There is no sign that she tried to defend herself.

Falke learns from his friend that Mimi's and Florian’s parents were in a fatal car accident six years ago. Florian was in the car. After that he was under psychological treatment for several weeks, but since then another therapy has been an absolute taboo subject . Katz asks his friend to investigate further. As part of a request for administrative assistance , Falke succeeds in sending his colleague Katharina Lorenz to the island for support. During the interrogations, Florian stubbornly remains silent on all questions.

During his on-site investigations, Falke found out that the late artist Hans Goosen, the man of the dead, regularly came to Langeoog in his studio in winter . He suffered from Parkinson's and is believed to have committed suicide. Lorenz, who has meanwhile arrived, brings more information from Hamburg. Bella was also a successful photographer. Lorenz uses her tablet computer to present various photographs of Bella that show Florian, whom she has repeatedly photographed in death poses. Shortly afterwards, Falke found out in the local restaurant of the former captain Helmut Reinders from Wattführer Tietjen that the victim and Florian had been seen together several times. Reinders adds that Tietjen and the "Gegge" called Gerhard Gerkan were in his restaurant on the night of the murder. He is said to have watched Bella and Florian in the dunes and then made fun of them in the restaurant.

It is now clear that both Bella and Florian had drugs in their blood. Florian denies using drugs. He just doesn't know what happened that evening, he can't remember. In the same breath, however, he admits he had a knife and remembers that Bella brought some wine. His statements contradict each other. What is surprising is his statement that they were not alone, someone came - a great man. Trying to find out more, Falke then looked around in Florian's room, where he found a book with the title: “ Jean Améry - Discourse on suicide: laying hands on yourself ” with written notes. Falke further investigates that Florian once attacked a colleague with a knife at his workplace in the Hotel Schmidbauer. In the boy's locker, the detective finds the knockout drops GHB Liquid Ecstasy , which are also known in the scene as "thigh spreader". Gerkan is said to have sold him this drug. When asked about it, he admits that Florian absolutely wanted the drops. So he sold them to him. But he hadn't put knockout drops in the couple's wine or anything else. When Brandner confronts Florian with this statement, he remains silent again. His problem is that he himself doesn't know what happened, which in principle also means that he trusts himself to do the deed, says Falke to Brandner. Lots of pictures on a stick found in Florian's room show that he and Bella must have been in love.

All of a sudden, a so-called old case comes into focus again. At that time, a certain Sibo Lücken is said to have killed his fiancée Maria Adolf in a similar way on Langeoog. He was convicted although he had always denied the act. He was released from custody four months ago. He has an alibi for the time of the Goosen case . It turns out that Maria Adolf was a schoolmate of Gerkan's. They met by chance in Oldenburg , claims Gerkan, nothing more. Half-burned jeans with blood stains can be found in the oven in "Gegges" dwelling. It was he who had put a dog's paw in Bella's mailbox. He only wanted to have sex with Bella, as did the captain, by the way. The blood on the pants came from the dog.

Florian, who was able to jump off board the ferry while going to the toilet when he was transferred to the mainland and was desperately wanted, suddenly reappears after a few days and collapses crying in Falke's arms after a few wrong ways. Happy that the boy is alive, he takes him to Mimi, who hugs him overjoyed. She had shown Falke out of her house after Florian disappeared. When Brandner comes with her officers to take him back into custody, Florian suddenly confesses the act.

Lorenz has a suspicion and speaks to Helmut Reinders, who admits that he met Maria Adolf a few times and had something with her. He needed money and she helped him out. Even then, he no longer had his captain's license, as he was involved in an incident with a dead person and several injured. Nobody should have found out about this on Langeoog. Maria suddenly wanted her money back and threatened, if he didn't pay, to make the “beautiful story of the stranded captain” public on the island. He couldn't let that happen. “You murdered Maria Adolf! What about Bella Goosen? “, Lorenz wants to know. “What you've done once isn't so difficult the next time,” Reinders replies. He owed her, his inn served as security and she wanted to ruin it. When Lorenz tries to arrest him, he overpowers her and drags her away. Falke, who followed Lorenz's footsteps, just barely sees Reinders leaving the port with his ship. Shortly thereafter, there is an explosion. Fortunately, his fear does not come true. Lorenz approaches him unharmed. Shortly afterwards, Brandner personally brings Florian back home. Reinders saw an opportunity to kill the woman who tried to ruin him, and Florian was the ideal scapegoat . The commissioner assures her Hamburg colleagues that the public prosecutor will reopen the gaps in the case. “It's good that you were here,” she says to Falke as she says goodbye.

background

Murder on Langeoog was filmed from April 25 to May 23, 2013 on Langeoog Island , in Lower Saxony and Hamburg . Björn Eggert and Daniel Buresch from NDR were in charge of production, and Donald Kraemer was the editor. Björn Vosgerau and Uwe Kolbe acted as producers . As the island's project manager, Peter Lübbe Wettstein from the Langeoog municipal administration stood up for the support of this crime scene episode and stood by the film team in an advisory capacity. Since Langeoog is car-free, electric tugs, carriages and bicycles had to be used as a means of transport for people and material for the filming there. The film had the two working titles Bloody Idylle and Dawn .

Nina Kunzendorf, who plays Commissioner Christine Brandner in this Tatort episode, only got out of the Frankfurt Tatort scene in April in her role as Commissioner Conny Mey after only five episodes , allegedly because the role was too "chubby" for her. Her partner Stefan Kornatz, who directed, reassigned her as a crime scene inspector - albeit in a deliberately brittle design that acts like a deliberate counterpoint to her popular Frankfurt inspector: without visible makeup, with a strictly parted short hairstyle and oversized horn-rimmed glasses .

After the festival premiere at the Hamburg Film Festival and before the first broadcast, Mord auf Langeoog was shown in the ARD cinema of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2013 and in the TV film competition of the Biberach Film Festival 2013.

reception

Audience ratings

This Tatort episode was watched by 10.74 million viewers in Germany, which resulted in a market share of 29.5 percent. Of these, 3.46 million were under 50 years of age, corresponding to a market share of 24.1 percent in the advertising-relevant target group.

criticism

TV feature film found: "Murder on a lonely island - always works".

Ponkie, Abendzeitung München , felt “annoyed by the endless squabble of competence”, which was once again made “the main problem of the film”: “But clouds, wind and grumbling about competence are rather boring for the full length of the 'Tatort' [sic] and feel look like frozen toes. "

Swantje Karich from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung was of the opinion that in the first deployment of Wotan Wilke Möhring as Inspector Falke there was "little room for improvement", on the second deployment, "he is now lost on Langeoog and in economical dialogues ".

Holger Gertz from the Süddeutsche headlined “Wollmützen im Wind”, was of the opinion that “Langeoog actually offers a good backdrop for the event []”, but came to the conclusion that “the story of the swing is missing”. At the end of his review it can be read: “The danger with every island crime novel is that the slow pace of life on the island takes its narrative momentum throughout the story. And although there are so many great people in this crime scene, some with great woolen hats, the whole thing is - as they say in the north - in the long run it is boring. "

Dominik Brück from Stern.de also joined the chorus of critics who spoke of boredom, but found words of praise for the collaboration between Falke and Lorenz: “The second case of the Hamburg 'Tatort' commissioners Falke and Lorenz demands from the audience much patience. The investigator duo seems out of place on Langeoog - but convinces as a team. [...] Even if the 'crime scene' is boring now and then, it creates the basis for further cases of the new investigative duo - next time hopefully back in Falke's hometown. "

Christian Buß from Spiegel Online found that “City Commissioner Falke” was experiencing an “investigative disaster” in “the dunes of the holiday island”. It is a 'crime scene' “between North German folklore and script insanity. [...] It's amazing how the plot is driven out of not only all force, but also all logic. A script emerged as if under a veil of fog: While writing, you apparently drove on sight, decided from minute to minute how things should go on. You look in vain for a story arc. "

Sven Sakowitz from the television magazine Hörzu was of the opinion that Wotan Wilke Möhring in his second case "a rough wind blows around the nose" and spoke of "coherent local color" and "widely spread narrative strands", in short : “Very convincing!” The Tatort episode received three out of three possible points for suspense, two for claim and “great” for the overall rating. The short review read as follows: “Atmospherically densely told crime case with strong images, short dialogues and torn characters. As brittle as life on the coast. The search for the perpetrator is extremely exciting - it's just a shame that the resolution is then told so hastily. "

The television magazine Gong was of the opinion that the case of a murdered artist “had one twist or two too many. But the unused front duo and a nice pinch of Nordic-bitter coastal colors easily make up for it ”. [...] The episode offers: “Gnarled Frisian types, atmospheric pictures, fine humor and a complex case.” The “strong guest role” by Nina Kunzendorf was also praised. The editors awarded four out of six points, which corresponds to the rating “good”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Crime scene: Murder on Langeoog at the Hamburg Film Festival 2013
  2. ^ Tatort: ​​Mord auf Langeoog (PDF; 2.0 MB) In: NDR press kit. Retrieved November 25, 2013.
  3. ^ Tatort: ​​Murder on Langeoog at tatort-fundus. Data result.
  4. ↑ a b Christian Buß : “Tatort” with Wotan Wilke Möhring: Moin, moin, you guys! In: Spiegel Online, November 22, 2013. Retrieved November 25, 2013.
  5. ↑ a b Tatort: ​​Murder on Langeoog - a melancholy touch. In: TV magazine Gong No. 47 of November 15, 2013, pp. 31, 45, 48
  6. ↑ Gerd Mägerle: This double crime thriller is well received by the audience. In: Schwaebische.de of November 3, 2013
  7. ↑ Filmfest Biberach: Tatort: ​​Mord auf Langeoog  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 26, 2013@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / einichtung.filmfest-biberach.de  
  8. ↑ Audience check Over 10 million people saw Langeoog-Tatort on tvtody.de. Retrieved November 25, 2013.
  9. ↑ Crime scene: Murder on Langeoog on TV feature film (with pictures of the film)
  10. ↑ Ponkie: Critique of the "Tatort" with Wotan Wilke Möhring Murder on Langeoog : That was the NDR crime scene. In: Abendzeitung, November 24, 2013. Retrieved November 25, 2013.
  11. ↑ Swantje Karich: “Tatort” episode Murder on Langeoog The sound of the sea as a screen saver. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine, November 24, 2013.
  12. ↑ Holger Gertz: NDR crime scene murder on Langeoog wool hats in the wind. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 24, 2013. Accessed November 25, 2013.
  13. ↑ Dominik Brück: "Tatort" criticism of boredom on Langeoog In: stern.de, November 24, 2013. Accessed November 25, 2013.
  14. ↑ Sven Sakowitz: Murder in the dunes - In his second case, Wotan Wilke Möhring has a rough wind around his nose. In: Fernsehmagazin Hörzu No. 47 from November 15, 2013, pp. 38, 52
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