Crime scene: murder in the opera

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Murder in the Opera
Country of production Austria
original language German
Production
company		 ORF
length 78 minutes
classification Episode 129 ( List )
First broadcast October 18, 1981 on ORF and ARD
Rod
Director Wolfgang luck
script Fritz Eckhardt
production Helmut Pascher
camera Wolfgang Koch ,
Wolfgang Leutgeb
cut Hildegard Ohandjanian ,
Ingrid Hölzl
occupation

Mord in der Oper is an Austrian television thriller by and with Fritz Eckhardt from 1981, directed by Wolfgang Glück . It was created as the 129th episode of the crime series Tatort and was the eleventh crime scene case for Marek. This time Marek is dealing with a serial killer who murders women for sexual reasons.

action

For official reasons, Chief Inspector Marek and his assistant, District Inspector Wirz, go to the Vienna State Opera, where a performance of “Carmen” is taking place. While Marek and, to a lesser extent, Wirz, enjoy the performance and see Carmen being stabbed to death by the jealous Don José on stage, a real murder takes place behind the scenes in which the cloakroom of the leading actress, Lisa Kühn, is stabbed to death by an unknown person. While a police officer picks up a young man who is unauthorized behind the scenes, Marek and Wirz, who are about to leave the opera, are brought to the scene of the crime. The stranger is brought before Inspector Marek, the young man, who seems to have good manners, vigorously denies involvement in the murder. He claims that he was just looking for a toilet behind the scenes. When Marek wants to release the young man from questioning, he notices blood on his handkerchief, so that he arrests the young man. That night, Wirz went to see Mr. Kühn, the murder victim's husband, who was dismayed by the murder of his wife and was unable to explain the crime to himself. He has no alibi for the time of the crime.

The next morning the young man from a good family, Erik Homann, is released. Marek receives a reprimand from the Councilor for arresting a man from such circles. In front of his parents, Erik claims that he found the body while looking for a toilet and that he was so frightened that he wandered through the opera without orientation. Since Marek and Wirz assume a sexual murder, they let Inspector Berntner, who has been damaged by a tavern riot, rummage through the sex offender's file. Wirz thinks particularly of Siegfried Klosky, whom he believes to be responsible for the murder of Lisa Kühn. Klosky has only been released from prison two weeks, his whereabouts are unknown. Wirz seeks out Klosky's former girlfriend, who claims that she has no more contact with her ex, she was appalled and disappointed about his sex crimes. Berntner finds out from his fiancée, whom Erik Homann knows superficially, that he wants to fly to Düsseldorf despite the ongoing investigation. At the airport he also meets the chamber singer of the Vienna State Opera, whom Erik seems to know. Berntner, however, has no means of stopping Homann. Marek visits the murder victim's widower, Mr. Kühn, again. This states that the marriage was no longer particularly good, the couple had grown apart and Lisa had a lover, Ewald Berlinger, Kühn had come to terms with the relationship. He can give Marek the address, but otherwise doesn't know much about Berlinger.

Marek seeks out Ewald Berlinger, who, when asked by Marek, admits that he has a criminal record for violent crimes. He admits his relationship with Lisa Kühn, on the evening of the crime he drove the Homanns, for whom he works as a chauffeur, to the State Opera. Erik would have had a girlfriend among the actresses, but he excludes this as a murderer. Since Lisa was supposed to give him 3,000 schillings after the performance, but these were not found on the corpse, Berlinger speculates that the sex murder was only faked and that it was actually a robbery. Late in the evening, Wirz and a few colleagues manage to arrest Klosky when he tries to go to his ex-girlfriend and threaten him. The next morning, Resi Krametsreuther visits Wirz, her first marriage to a sex offender until he was convicted; years later he murdered a girl and was sentenced to twenty years in prison, but she saw him walking around free the day before. She promises Wirz to send him a photo of her ex-husband, under which name he now lives, she does not know. Marek visits the Homanns to apologize for Berntner's questioning of their son under pressure from the court councilor. He only meets Mrs. Homann, who is happy to be able to talk to Marek alone. She has been in a wheelchair since a car accident caused by her husband. She tells the surprised Marek that Erik was not entirely wrong in suspecting him. Since she has not been able to satisfy her husband's needs since the accident, he has had extramarital intercourse, she tolerates it. For two years, however, her husband has been in love with another woman, she is the chamber singer of the opera; her husband sent Erik from the box to tell her something. It was so embarrassing for the Homanns that their son had been picked up behind the scenes.

That night, another young woman's throat was cut in the street. The next morning, Wirz receives the letter with the promised photo from Resi Krametsreuther's ex-husband. Meanwhile, Marek learns that Klosky has hanged himself in his cell; Because of his imprisonment, he was no longer eligible for the previous night's murder. Wirz recognizes Lisa Kühn's widower in the man in the photo, he drives with Berntner and other officials to his apartment, but is overwhelmed by Kühn and threatened with a knife, Berntner is also overwhelmed by Kühn. He demands a getaway car and free exit. He killed the girls because of his sexual abnormality, Lisa Kühn had found out about it and wanted to go to the police, so she had to die. When Marek arrives at the scene and wants to go into the house, Kühn wants to shoot him, but a police sniper shoots Kühn at the last second.

Audience and production

Mord in der Oper achieved an audience of 14.98 million when it was first broadcast, which corresponds to an audience rating of 42.0%. Murder in the opera was the eleventh crime scene case involving Chief Inspector Marek. Fritz Eckhardt not only acted as the main actor, but also wrote the script. The film was shot in March and April 1981 in Vienna and the surrounding area.

criticism

TV Spielfilm rated the film positively and commented: "Despite the opera, a thriller of soft tones".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Murder in the Opera Audience at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on July 28, 2015.
  2. ^ Mord in der Oper Kurzkritik at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on July 28, 2015.
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