Crime scene: murder behind the dike

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Murder behind the dike
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 NDR
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 363 ( List )
First broadcast December 25, 1996 on NDR
Rod
Director Olaf Kreinsen
script Raimund Weber
production Studio Hamburg film production
music Klaus Doldinger
camera Randolf Scherraus
cut Inge Bohmann
occupation

Mord hinterm Deich is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk and first broadcast on December 25, 1996 on NDR and on June 8, 1997 on Erste. It is the crime scene episode 363. For the detective chief inspectors Paul Stoever ( Manfred Krug ) and Peter Brockmöller ( Charles Brauer ) it was the 31st and 27th case in which they investigated.

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Commissioners Stoever and Brockmöller are working on the case of a body of water that was fished four months ago from a harbor basin in Harburg and whose identity is still unclear. While a coroner is making a facial sculpture with the help of which the population is to be asked for information about their identity, the 18-year-old high school student Dagmar Holst is murdered in the Hamburg part of the Altes Land ; she was strangled in the garden of the fruit farm, which her father runs with his daughter after the death of her mother.

The investigators are following several leads. The suspicion falls one after the other on Dagmar's father, who Brockmöller briefly suspects of an incestuous relationship with his daughter, on the unemployed Tomko, who has been flashed several times from the adored Dagmar, and on the German teacher Warringa, the Dagmar with the classmate Sevda she hated Yilmar secretly took a peck on the cheek. However, all suspicions prove to be unfounded. There is only a very intensive teacher-student relationship between Warringa and his model student Sevda.

It remains unclear for the inspectors where Dagmar Holst actually got the expensive camera with telephoto lens from, until “colleague chance” plays into their hands. The investigations into the case of the corpse in the water revealed that the dead person was investigative journalist Jochen Gründel, who worked as a freelancer. And it was Jochen Gründel who was, as Sevda Yilmar reported to the perplexed police officers, in a relationship with Dagmar Holst until a few months ago.

The commissioners determine that Gründel had been working on a story about the brothel scene in rural areas. Apparently he had come across something which, after some research, did not remain hidden from the police; The wife of sports teacher Dehart is the owner of a brothel chain that is represented in the Altes Land, among other places. She had taken over the brothel chain from her first husband and continued to run it at the express request of her husband. In this way, the proceeds helped to finance the upscale lifestyle of the teacher - several cars, large house, leased hunting. He also has ambitions for the office of mayor.

The commissioners finally bring to light bit by bit what happened in the supposedly ideal world in the shade of the apple orchards. Father Holst didn't think much of Gründel, whom he viewed as a seedy figure and a danger to his daughter. He shot the journalist with his shotgun and sank the body in the harbor basin. When Stoever and Brockmöller discover that Dagmar Holst had a sexual relationship with their sports teacher Dehart, the motive for murder in the other case becomes clear to them: jealousy and possible damage to reputation. The teacher himself is out of the question as the perpetrator, as he was attending a conference at the time of the murder. His wife Britta, however, did not have an alibi for the time in question and finally gave in to the interrogation. She confesses to the murder.

Production notes

The screenplay by Raimund Weber is based on the novel “Tödliche Teestunde” by Theodor J. Reisdorf , which originally took place in East Friesland and was “relocated” to the Alte Land by Weber. It was first broadcast on Christmas Day 1996 on NDR, followed by Tatort on ARD on June 8, 1997. With 8.68 million viewers, the ARD broadcast achieved a market share of 28.08 percent.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.tatort-fundus.de: Murder behind the dyke , accessed on July 4, 2013
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