Crime scene: Murder is not a business

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Murder is not a business
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SDR
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 144 ( List )
First broadcast January 9, 1983 on ARD
Rod
Director Theo Mezger
script Felix Huby
production Bertram Vetter
music Jonas C. Haefeli
camera Justus Pankau
cut Hans Trollst
occupation

Murder Is Not A Business is the 144th episode of the Tatort television series . By the South German broadcast episode was first produced on 9 January 1983 preliminary program of the ARD broadcast. For Chief Detective Eugen Lutz ( Werner Schumacher ) it is the 13th case. It's about the murder of a young man and his involvement in extortion of protection money from innkeepers.

action

A farmer discovers the body of the slain Günther Happel in a mobile home parked on a forest path. It was apparently already dead transported to the place where it was found; Happel was officially reported at a campsite on the Cannstatter Wasen. When Lutz and Wagner look around the campsite, they notice Alfons Kehl, who asks about the dead person. Kehl told the officials that he had an appointment with Happel, and Kehl was surprised at his death. The commissioners learned from a colleague that Kehl was involved in extortion of protection money, mainly from foreign innkeepers, and that he had a criminal record for various offenses. A group of innkeepers around the Greek Costas and the Turkish Hasan Önökyl tried to defend themselves against the blackmail.

Lutz and Wagner seek out Horn, who is said to have been friends with Happel, who says he was a kind of father figure for Happel since he was in a relationship with Happel's mother for some time. Happel had contact with people who had a bad influence on him, like Kehl. This was Happels superior in a restaurant, Horn also confirms that Kehl had blackmailed Önökyl and Costas as well as other foreign innkeepers.

Önökyl is threatened by several men who smash his furniture. Lutz and his colleagues can arrest one of the protection racketeers. Önökyl's daughter Aischa identifies him as Mehmed Devecz, who remains silent during the interrogation. Aischa knows that Happel worked for Kehl, but has also heard that he wanted to break away from Kehl and take the side of the foreign hosts. Alfons Kehl has an alibi for the time of the crime through his boss Sakowsky, and Sakowsky claims that he was also a victim of the protection racket. From Horn, however, the commissioners receive a list of Happels' crimes allegedly committed by Sakowsky and Kehl. Aischa, who apparently knows something about the extortion of protection money, no longer makes any statements after she was threatened by Kehl

At the weekend, Sakowsky, who was startled by Wagner's visit to his restaurant, visits Lutz. On his accusation of knowing about his business through Happel's list, Sakowsky denies the murder and testifies that Happel only apparently sided with the innkeepers in order to seek personal gain. Önökyl saw through this and then killed Happel. Aischa confirms that Happel was in the Önökyl family restaurant that evening. Instead of taking their side, he suddenly asked for protection money himself. Önökyl then loudly threatened Happel to kill him and refused to pay.

Later that evening, Lutz happened to see Aischa going to Horn, whom she supposedly only knew briefly. He visits Horn and learns that Horn and Aischa have been friends since childhood and that he is giving her piano lessons. In contrast to Happel, she always stood by him, Happel was an unscrupulous intriguer. The next morning, Lutz received radar photos of Happel's mobile home from the night of the crime, which were taken near Sakowsky's restaurant because the speed was exceeded. At the wheel sits a dark-haired young woman who could be Sakowsky's employee Ann Strickler. Lutz sends Wagner to Sakowsky's restaurant, where he provisionally arrests Strickler and Kehl for aiding and abetting murder. In the meantime, Lutz has the radar photos enlarged and finds out that it was not Ann Strickler but Aischa who was photographed at the wheel of the mobile home.

Sakowsky, who is outraged because of Lutz's suspicions against him, kidnaps Aischa and tries to extract a confession from her. Meanwhile, Önökyl Lutz confesses to the murder of Happel, he shows Lutz the alleged iron weapon, although Happel was killed with a plaster object. While Lutz keeps an eye on Önökyl and follows him to Sakowsky, Horn seeks out Wagner, both of them drive to Sakowsky. Önökyl and Sakowsky mutually assert their innocence in Happels death when Lutz arrives. Shortly afterwards, Wagner, Horn and the reinforcements arrive. Meanwhile, Sakowsky assures Lutz that he is innocent, that he is doing business and that murder is no business. When Lutz identifies Aischa as the driver of Happel's mobile home based on the ring on her hand and wants to arrest her, Horn joins them and confesses to having killed Happel in an argument with a plaster figure.

Audience and background

When it was first broadcast, this episode attracted 11.26 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 33%. The episode was filmed in Stuttgart and the surrounding area, Ohmden, Kirchheim / Teck and Studio 1 of the SDR between June 7 and July 16, 1982.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm rate this crime scene positively and comment: “Exciting crime thriller, in which there is also human presence”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: Murder is not a business . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Crime scene: Murder is not a business Data on the 144th crime scene at tatort-fundus.de
  3. ↑ Crime scene: Murder is not a business Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on November 3, 2015.
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