Crime scene: Odin's revenge

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Odin's revenge
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 84 minutes
classification Episode 569 ( List )
First broadcast July 11, 2004 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Hannes Stöhr
script Hannes Stöhr
production Anke Scheib
music Florian Appl
camera Andreas Doub
cut Anne Fabini
occupation

Odin's Revenge is a television film from the crime series Tatort . It is the 28th case of the investigative team Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk and the 569th crime scene episode. The report produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Colonia Media was broadcast for the first time on July 11, 2004 on Das Erste .

action

The neo-Nazi Michael Wimmer was shot in the street from about 300 meters away. He was involved in an arson attack on a Turkish family that occurred four years earlier and in which the parents of siblings Ayda and Özgur Aydin were killed. Torsten Schrader, another neo-Nazi, is also shot while Ballauf and Schenk are still investigating. He was also charged with involvement in the arson attack, but was acquitted for lack of evidence. The investigators seek out Astrid Gehrmeier, Torsten Schrader's friend, who has already been informed of her friend's death. She also belongs to the neo-Nazi scene and one of the suspects of the arson attack. Before Ballauf and Schenk can question her, she takes flight.

While Schenk is looking around Schrader's girlfriend's apartment, Ballauf wants to interview Ayda Aydin. There he witnesses and falls victim to a neo-Nazi attack on the restaurant that Ayda Aydin runs. Ballauf is injured and taken to hospital, but the next day he is able to investigate again. Schenk has since the Protection of the Constitution on and asks for contact with an undercover agent to inside information from the get neo-Nazi scene. On the one hand, they absolutely want to find Astrid Gehrmeier, who may be in mortal danger, and of course the perpetrators who beat Ballauf. When they meet with the undercover agent "Olaf", he too is of the opinion that the murders can only have something to do with the arson attack. And he is convinced that the main culprit, Kurt Keller, is also capable of having people killed while in prison.

Schenk asks Özgur Aydin, who is currently serving in the German Armed Forces and is familiar with the use of large-caliber firearms. Since he was in Afghanistan at the time of the crime and has only just returned, he is out of the question as a perpetrator.

One trace leads to the lawyer Helmut Hartmann, chairman of the neo-Nazi party NRA, who represented the two neo-Nazis who were shot at the fire trial. Apparently Astrid Gehrmeier is hiding with him, who is also one of his clients. The investigators manage to question the wanted person through the undercover agent “Olaf”. She is very repellent, but Ballauf and Schenk get the impression that something is wrong with the undercover agent "Olaf". At another meeting with him, he again portrays Keller as the main suspect. They have the undercover agent observed and wiretapped. Since he has good contact with Hartmann, he could help them collect incriminating material against him. During the surveillance, Ballauf and Schenk witness a meeting between "Olaf" and his client Ute Meier-Brinkmann from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. She finds out and complains about how to proceed. She swears by her undercover agent. For them he is the only one who can help stop Hartmann on his radical path. With his help, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution succeeds in securing a delivery of weapons that Keller has organized from prison for his violent liberation and "Olaf" is now offering Hartmann to appear and arrest Hartmann. With that the main task of undercover agent "Olaf" is done and he should be called out of the neo-Nazi scene. Equipped with a new passport and a visa for Mexico , he is supposed to leave the country and go into hiding. The goal for which he actually went through all the hardships.

Ballauf and Schenk find out that "Olaf" was exposed as an undercover agent by Michael Wimmer and Torsten Schrader. His goal of being able to leave Germany was thus in danger, which he did not want to risk under any circumstances. They manage to find his target range and a projectile of the murder weapon and arrest “Olaf” before departure.

background

The film was shot from March 11, 2003 to April 10, 2003 in Cologne and the surrounding area. In order to write the script as authentically as possible, the author Hannes Stöhr researched a dropout organization for neo-Nazis.

reception

Reviews

The Berliner Zeitung thinks this crime scene is worth seeing and writes: “With this crime series from Cologne, director and screenwriter Hannes Stöhr [...] delivers an exciting, realistic case with good personal drawings. With a brilliant Barbara Rudnik as a sly constitution protection officer. "

Der Spiegel takes a more critical view of Odin's revenge: “The crime thriller is little interested in the psychology of people; the solution of the complicated case seems more important than the way there; the terrible right-wing extremism is portrayed harmlessly on film. "

At Zeit online , Feridun Zaimoglu comes to the conclusion: “We turned down the invitation to a lavish party to see this film. It was the right decision."

Lars-Christian Daniels from "How was the crime scene?" finds cheerful moments despite the serious subject: “Director Hannes Stöhr, who also wrote the screenplay for Odin's revenge, exaggerates the tough dog Ballauf wonderfully and makes it clear early on that despite the serious subject, one can laugh out loud again and again - as it is Belongs to a Cologne 'crime scene'. Another example of this is Freddy's memorable appearance as a skinhead with sunglasses and a bomber jacket, which makes it clear to the Cologne inspector how much fear such an appearance spreads among passers-by. "

The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm judge this crime scene: "Right-wing violence, consistently put into the picture."

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Odin's Revenge on July 11, 2004 was seen by 8.88 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 27.3 percent for Das Erste .

Trivia

This time KHK Schenk drives a 1970 Chevrolet Kingswood Estate as a company car .

"Company car" from KHK Schenk

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Location and audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on August 30, 2014.
  2. ↑ Background to "Odin's Revenge" at tatort-fans.de accessed on August 30, 2014.
  3. ↑ Crime scene criticism  ( 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. Retrieved from berliner-zeitung.de on August 31, 2014.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www3.berliner-zeitung.de  
  4. ↑ Film review "Odin's Rache" at spiegel.de, accessed on August 31, 2014.
  5. ↑ Feridun Zaimoglu In Cologne's "Tatort" from 2004, the inspectors Max and Freddi are looking for the murderer of two neo-Nazis at zeit.de, accessed on August 31, 2014.
  6. ↑ Lars-Christian Daniels So was the crime scene: Odin's revenge at wiewardertatort.blogspot.de accessed on August 31, 2014.
  7. ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on March 31, 2014.
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