Crime scene: secondary business

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Secondary business
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SDR
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 120 ( List )
First broadcast January 11, 1981 on ARD
Rod
Director Bruno Voges
script Peter Scheibler
production Werner Sommer
music Wolfgang Dauner
camera Dietrich Lehmstedt
cut Dorrit Dörr
occupation

Sideline business is the 120th episode of the Tatort television series . By the South German Radio result produced for the first time on 11 January 1981 at the First Channel of ARD broadcast. For chief detective Eugen Lutz ( Werner Schumacher ) it is the eleventh case. It's about the theft of valuable equipment from a company and the death of an employee.

action

Richard Ihmig, recently promoted from simple warehouse worker to administrator, is visibly overwhelmed with his new position and is therefore being returned to his old position with significantly lower pay by his boss Joseph Hanke. The young family man Ihmig, who recently built a semi-detached house with his brother-in-law, the company's authorized signatory, Manfred Broser, is now under considerable financial pressure. In desperation, he steals two amplifiers from the warehouse at his old post and is watched by his colleague Gerd Reindl. He speaks to him about the theft and shows understanding. In the evening, beaming with joy, he told his wife Käthe that he had found a well-paid sideline job to solve the financial problems. Shortly thereafter, a fully loaded company truck was stolen from Reindl in the middle of downtown Stuttgart. Reindl claims to Lutz, who was entrusted with the case, to have locked the truck when he was briefly fetching cigarettes. In the evening, Ihmig meets with Reindl for the “part-time job” he has arranged. Reindl presents the astonished Hhmig with the stolen truck with the expensive goods, which he had hidden in a shyn before he reported it was stolen. Hesitatingly agrees to help Reindl remove the stolen goods.

At home he proudly shows his wife the money supposedly honestly earned as an expatriate. The next morning the police found the empty company truck empty in a forest. Lutz then looks around the company's warehouse, Hanke is not happy about that. Lutz finds out that the stolen goods were worth around DM 300,000. In the meantime, he tells his wife that he could settle the matter with the bank and that the bank will help them. In the evening, Ihmig goes back to his "part-time job", Reindl pulls him into a break-in on her employer's company building. When he learns that Reindl is stealing tickets for more goods, he and Reindl have an argument, he knocks him down, while getting out of the window Reindl falls and remains unconscious, he escapes alone. Shortly afterwards, Hanke entered his company premises at night. He confides in his brother-in-law Manfred Broser, he tells him about the break-in and that Reindl is dead. Out of consideration for his sister, Broser does not call the police, but lets him tell him the entire history in peace. The next morning Reindl is found dead on the company premises, Lutz is investigated. Strangle marks are found on Reindl's corpse and also that he must have been involved in a fight shortly before his death. Wagner finds out that Reindl's partner, Helga Dalf, deals in electrical appliances, while Lutz's forensic medicine department informs Lutz that Reindl must have been strangled after his non-fatal fall.

Lutz informs Hanke and Broser that Reindl was murdered, Hanke reacts nervously. Broser tells him about the murder of Reindl, he assures him that he has nothing to do with the murder. Broser encourages him not to let anything show, Broser guarantees him an alibi. Lutz seeks out Helga Dalf, who reacts dismayed to the death of her partner. She talks about their mutual plans for the future and that she thought that Lutz wanted to arrest Reindl. She admits that he was actually trading electrical appliances under her name, and that she had no idea about the business. She suspected that Reindl was trading in stolen devices. He had an accomplice in Hanke's company, with whom he had had problems lately. In the warehouse of Reindl's trade, Lutz and Wagner find some of the goods reported as stolen, the difference to the devices stolen by Hanke strikes Lutz as strange. Lutz finds out that the devices on the list of stolen goods would not have fit in the truck. Lutz accuses Hanke of insurance fraud, who denies the allegations, Broser refuses an immediate inventory with reference to the operational sequence. But he agrees that an inventory would be possible within 24 hours. In the meantime, he confesses to his wife that he was involved in the burglary and that she would like to speak to Broser, but he drives into the company late in the evening, still stressed. Lutz learns from his IT expert that the theft of devices without the ticket can be covered up until the next inventory. Since Broser is responsible for both accounting and IT, he has every opportunity to cover up theft.

Lutz and Wagner rush to the company with Hanke and meet Broser there, who is supposed to be working overtime. Lutz arrests Broser for the time being because he is manipulating the tickets and the IT system. Meanwhile, he has decided to face the police. Broser claims to Lutz that he wanted to repay the money to his boss, but was prevented from doing so by Reindl, who would have continued the thefts on his own. At that moment, he appears at Lutz's and admits that he was there for the break-in, but that he has nothing to do with Reindl's death. He tells Lutz and Wagner that Reindl had stolen tickets. He thought Reindl was dead, and also told the officers that he had told Broser about the incident. Lutz then accuses Broser that he is under urgent suspicion of murder. Broser immediately incriminated his brother-in-law Ihmig and stated that he had confessed to the murder. Broser fetched the tickets from Reindl's corpse according to Hhmig's confession. Since Reindl did not die at the time of the break-in, but later, Broser finally confesses that he murdered Reindl because he wanted to continue blackmailing him with his knowledge of the manipulations.

Audience and background

When it was first broadcast, this episode attracted 16.97 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 46%. The episode was filmed in and around Stuttgart between August 4 and September 13, 1980.

criticism

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm rate this crime scene as mediocre and comment: "The pulse never goes above 100 beats".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tatort: ​​Secondary business data for the 120th crime scene at tatort-fundus.de
  2. ^ Tatort: Ancillary business short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on July 25, 2015.
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