Crime scene: programmed for murder

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Programmed for murder
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavarian radio
length 96 minutes
classification Episode 213 ( List )
First broadcast December 11, 1988 on ARD
Rod
Director Konrad Sabrautzky
script Peter Hemmer
production Peter Hoheisel
music Gerold Altwirth
camera Hermann Reichmann
cut Elke Schmid
occupation

A television film from the crime series Tatort is programmed for murder . The report produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk was first broadcast on December 11, 1988 on ARD's first program. It is the first of two cases by Kommissar Brandenburg, played by Horst Bollmann, and the 213rd Tatort episode in total. Brandenburg has to solve the murder of a high-tech entrepreneur and his sister-in-law, as well as the robbery of microprocessors from his company a few weeks beforehand.

action

The detective chief inspector Otto Brandenburg, who has just been transferred to Munich, and his new assistant Santini are called to the villa of the high-tech entrepreneur Alfred Küpper, who and his wife were murdered, both were apparently surprised in bed and shot there. An anonymous caller called two hours ago because she had heard gunfire, but the couple were murdered the night before. Helmut Küpper, the dead man's brother, identifies the victims as his brother and sister-in-law; he was in Nice at the time of the crime. Helmut Küpper says goodbye, Alfred Küpper's housekeeper, Mrs. Stoschak testifies shortly afterwards that the lady of the house is not at home at all, she is in her weekend house on Tegernsee. When Brandenburg shows her the corpses, she identifies them as Alfred and Sylvia Küpper, although the latter is not his wife, but that of his brother Helmut. Sylvia always tried to get her brother-in-law to bed. The officers drive to Helmut Küpper, but do not meet him. Brandenburg and Santini go to Tegernsee to speak to Hella Küpper, but they don't meet her there either. The neighbor says that Hella Küpper said goodbye to her around noon because she wanted to go back to Munich, she was with her the evening before and could not leave because her son had parked the Küppers garage.

In the evening the officers noticed a man who was trying to break into the Küppers holiday home, it was Helmut Küpper. He says that he wanted to talk to his sister-in-law because he believes she caught and killed his brother and wife. Hella was his secretary, he had looked after her, but she had married his brother Alfred. He also says that his wife Sylvia cheated on him many times. Since Helmut Küpper's alibi seems to be correct, Brandenburg lets him go. The next morning, colleagues from the robbery department give Brandenburg and his colleagues information about the recent robbery of a driver from the Küpper company, during which microprocessors worth 1.2 million D-Marks were robbed. Apparently the perpetrator had a duplicate key to the car, the driver Bernd Struwe was checked by the police, but is considered reliable. When asked about it by the officials, Helmut Küpper explained that he saw no reason to talk about the attack, that the insurance company had compensated for the damage and that the case had been settled for him. The officials were able to determine that Alfred and Hella Küpper's phone last called a Steffi Neuhaus, Helmut Küpper says that she was a former apprentice at the company and that his sister-in-law got on very well with Steffi. Steffi now works for the company that bought the microprocessors. Brandenburg asks Struwe, who is buttoned up and refers to what he said to his colleagues, his personal description is very general.

Santini and Luginger go to see Steffi Neuhaus, but do not meet her. They notice a young man who also rings Steffi's doorbell, the officers write down the license plate when he drives away on his motorcycle. Brandenburg, who suspects that Steffi will lead him to Hella, lets Santini shadow Steffi, while Struwe meets with his friend Knuth Kramper, the young man in front of Steffi's apartment, and the two young men also want to get to Hella through her. Santini follows Steffi into a hotel, when Brandenburg and Santini knock on the door, they actually meet Hella Küpper as well as Steffi. Brandenburg accuses her of having found the bodies after their return from Tegernsee, of having called the police anonymously and then going into hiding. When asked by Brandenburg, she finally admitted that she had sensed that the murder attack was aimed at her as well as her husband, apparently the perpetrator did not know her and thought her sister-in-law was her. When Steffi is brought home from Brandenburg, Steffi reveals to him that her company, which was urgently dependent on the stolen microprocessors, received a "replacement delivery" shortly after the attack, from whom she does not know. Usually the delivery time is months, she told her friend Hella, who in turn informed her husband Alfred. Brandenburg now sees Hella and Steffi in danger, Steffi rejects police protection, nobody knows that she has the information. Shortly afterwards, Steffi is attacked in her apartment by the masked Struwe and Kramper, she is forced to reveal Hella’s whereabouts to both of them. Steffi recognizes the voice of her ex-colleague Struwe and speaks to him, the gangsters then strangle her. Shortly afterwards, the two appear at Hella's hotel, but she has already fled, a hotel employee sees the fleeing gangsters.

Meanwhile, Hella goes to Steffi's apartment and finds her body, Hella flees in a panic. In the meantime, Brandenburg and his team learn that the gangsters have fled with an enduro, even Kramper's machine, with which he was seen by Santini and Luginger in front of Steffi's apartment, is an enduro, Kramper is being wanted. Hella calls Brandenburg and informs him about the murder of Steffi. Brandenburg asks her where she is, but Hella is too scared, and in her fear she doesn't want to talk about the background to the attack either. The next day, Hella returns to her house to fetch things and go into hiding with her mobile home, a police officer secretly follows her. Brandenburg seeks out the boss, Steffis, who claims to have bought the microprocessors from a company in Monte-Carlo and the delivery was paid for with a check. Alfred Küpper had called him angrily the day before his death, because he suspected that it was the processors stolen from him. Brandenburg seeks out Helmut Küpper, who claims to have been in Nice to find out the background of the company that suddenly had the processors on offer. He suspects his dead brother to have been the mastermind himself, his brother was addicted to gambling. It is possible that his accomplices got cold feet and murdered him as a result.

Shortly afterwards, Hella, who trusts her brother-in-law, calls him and asks him for financial help so that she can escape. Helmut makes an appointment with her. Shortly thereafter, Kramper, who knows nothing about the manhunt against himself, calls the police, he found his friend Bernd Struwe dead in the shared racing car, who died of carbon monoxide poisoning from the exhaust gases introduced into the car. The gun lying next to the corpse is the murder weapon with which Alfred and Sylvia Küpper were shot, Kramper rules out a suicide of his friend. While Helmut and Hella Küpper meet and Helmut manages to shake off the police officer, Kramper confesses to Brandenburg. They were always jealous of Helmut Küppers' Porsche when he was on a business trip in Nice, so they stole it with a duplicate key and went on a tour where they accidentally drove a child to death. Küppers had returned home from the trip earlier and noticed the theft of his Porsche and the accident, after which he had it in hand. Helmut Küppers finally forced the two of them to fake the attack. Küppers collected the sum insured and sold the goods a second time to the buyer. When his brother suspected him, he forced Struwe and Kramper to kill Alfred and his wife. Because they had killed the "wrong" Mrs. Küpper, Küpper ordered them to also get rid of his sister-in-law. Kramper admits that he and Struwe killed Steffi, then Küpper lured Struwe into the deadly trap, Kramper did not show up for the meeting and therefore survived. Helmut and his sister-in-law drove their mobile home into a wooded area. Just as Hella discovers her brother-in-law, Brandenburg and his colleagues reach the vehicle and arrest Helmut Küpper. Brandenburg had not only shadowed Hella but also Helmut.

background

The film was shot from June to July 1987 in and around Munich.

criticism

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm rate this crime scene only mediocre and comment: "Crime programmed to standard".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Location and time of shooting at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on January 4, 2016.
  2. ↑ Tatort: Programmed for murder short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on January 4, 2016.
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