Crime scene: party friends

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Party friends
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 NDR
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 345 ( List )
First broadcast October 27, 1996 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Ulrich Stark
script Detlef Mueller
production Studio Hamburg film production
music Klaus Doldinger
camera Manfred Ensinger
cut Birgit Levin
occupation

Party Friends is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk and broadcast on ARD for the first time on October 27, 1996. It is the crime scene episode 345. For detective chief inspectors Paul Stoever, played by Manfred Krug , and Peter Brockmöller, played by Charles Brauer , it is the 29th and 26th case in which they investigate.

action

The act at the center takes place in the state politics of Hamburg . The aspiring politician Dr. Rolf Hancke would like to succeed the resigned Senator Priebek as party state chairman. In a confidential conversation at the country estate of the former state chairman and grand seigneur of the party, Eberhard Sudhoff, Hancke gets his support: He should use his influence with the delegates so that they elect Hancke.

Hancke uses the petty criminal Hans-Otto Schirmer for "research work". Schirmer had broken into Priebek's apartment. Since that slump, Priebek has been a broken and sick man and has withdrawn from politics. A short time later, Schirmer offers the tabloid "Nachtkurier" some photos with pictures of naked boys and indicates that they were taken by a well-known politician. The editor-in-chief Wöring accepts Schirmer's offer to give him more photos for a payment of 30,000 marks - and to give him the name of the politician.

While Hancke and Sudhoff are talking to each other, Schirmer is shot in front of Hancke's house when he throws bills for informant activities into the mailbox. Commissioners Stoever and Brockmöller start the investigation and question Hancke when he appears in front of his apartment just a short time after the crime. When the police checked Hancke's alibi at Sudhoff the next day, Sudhoff lies and gives a time frame for the conversation that would have allowed Hancke to be at his apartment at the time of the crime. Hancke then confronts Sudhoff, but the latter lets him down as ice.

In the course of their research, Stoever and Brockmöller learn that the man who was shot led a double life: In addition to his official address on the run-down farm of his partner Ina Klopsch, there was also a sophisticated apartment in the Milky Way in Hamburg-Pöseldorf : Apparently, Schirmer had achieved some prosperity. As the commissioners find out, the apartment was financed by Hancke. On the farm, Brockmöller learns from the son of Schirmer's former partner, Jan, that Schirmer was hiding loot from a burglary on the farm: It was the loot from the burglary at Senator Priebek: The ex-senator's wife identifies a watch on the first view. During a conversation with the ex-senator and his wife, the commissioners learned that Priebek suffered a heart attack after the burglary and that for this reason he withdrew from politics.

Stoever and Brockmöller take the editor-in-chief of the "Nachtkurier", Wöring, into prayer again because they suspect that he is still in possession of the compromising nude photos. In doing so, however, they make a crucial mistake: They mention that the photos were probably stolen during a break-in. Wöring sticks to his statement to the police officers that he does not have the photos. After the commissioners have left, he immediately gives a research assignment: The editors should find out which prominent politician has been broken into in the past few weeks, which does not cause much trouble. Three reporters then go to Priebek and confront him with the facts until he admits that the photos were taken. The next day, the front page reads: “Senator a. D. a moron! ”, Photos included.

In an interview with Priebek, the commissioners find out that the burglar Schirmer obviously wanted to steal the photos first and foremost and that he was only secondarily interested in valuables. Two days after the break-in, Schirmer contacted Priebek and asked for 500,000 marks, otherwise he would pass the photos to the press. In a confidential conversation with Sudhoff, the latter advised him not to go into the blackmail and instead to resign from all offices.

The party employee Doris Scholte, who is also Sudhoff's partner, explains to Stoever that Hanna Priebek must have known about her husband's inclinations, which is why she only feels contempt for her husband. Instead, she had amused herself with many changing acquaintances, "her affairs were party talks." Only because of her status awareness as a "Ms. Senator" is she still with her husband. In Schirmer's Pöseldorfer apartment, Stoever finally found a reference to a woman visiting: a kimono. The suspicion falls on Hanne Priebek. When Stoever and Brockmöller confront them with the item of clothing, Hanna Priebek denies that it is hers. It was only when her husband came over and confirmed that he had given her the kimono that the whole hatred between the spouses became apparent: Hanna Priebek admits the relationship with Schirmer. In the course of her many visits to that Pöseldorfer apartment, she also told him that there were photos of boys in a certain cupboard in the Priebek house. After Schirmer got hold of the photos, his interest in Hanna Priebek quickly waned. In that luxury apartment in Pöseldorfer, Hanna Priebek found Schirmer's pistol, took it, searched, found and shot him.

For the aspiring Dr. Hancke came to the end of his political ambitions when Stoever and Brockmöller were able to prove to him on the basis of an invoice that Hancke Schirmer had deliberately targeted the wife of his party friend Priebek. Sudhoff, whom the functionary is warmly disliked, thanks the two commissioners for their help - and thus confirms an idea that Brockmöller had already had: that Sudhoff had only used them for a political intrigue.

Production notes

It was first broadcast on October 27, 1996. The ARD broadcast achieved a market share of 25.05 percent with 9.01 million viewers. As in many other episodes, the actors Manfred Krug and Charles Brauer also appear in this episode as a singing duo: While observing a house in their car, they sing an old tune to me .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.tatort-fundus.de: Party friends , accessed on July 4, 2013.
  2. ↑ www.tatort-fundus.de: The songs from Krug und Brauer , accessed on July 5, 2013.
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