Crime scene: Saarbrücken, on a Monday ...

Episode of the series Tatort
Original title	Saarbrücken, on a Monday ...
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	SR
length	89 minutes
classification	Episode 2 ( list )
First broadcast	December 13, 1970 on German television
Rod
Director	Karl-Heinz Bieber
script	Johannes Niem
music	Joachim Ludwig
camera	Leander Loosen
cut	Barbara Weiland
occupation
Dieter Eppler : Peter Liersdahl, chief detective Manfred Heidmann : Schäfermann, chief detective Eva Maria Meineke : Irene Hartmann Horst Naumann : Dr. Günther Hartmann Erik Schumann : Gerd Dietz Ellen Frank : Mrs. Helgesheim Barbara Schmidt : Melanie Resch Eva Christian : Eva Konalsky Wolfgang Lukschy : Director Jochum Wolfgang Weiser : Fechner Richard Lauffen : Capitaine Elisabeth Neumann quarter : Mrs. Böhler Arthur Brauss : Georges Gardentier, Sergent Willy Harlander : Gas station attendant

Saarbrücken, on a Monday ... is the second TV film in the crime series Tatort and the first to be produced by Saarland Radio . It was first broadcast on December 13, 1970.

action

Commissioner Schäfermann is transferred from Ludwigshafen to Saarbrücken and works there with Commissioner Liersdahl. Since Liersdahl investigates rather unconventionally and Schäfermann represents a model of correctness, the collegial relationship between the two is not always easy.

Irene Hartmann finds out that her husband, Dr. Günther Hartmann, a mathematician in a steel mill, transfers money to his subordinates, the data processor Eva Konalsky, and spies on her every month. She observes how Eva and Gerd Dietz, an old college friend and recently a colleague of her husband, exchange envelopes in front of the main train station . She makes allusions to Dietz and her husband. After Eva receives a mysterious phone call, she disappears from her workplace without a trace.

The commissioners initially suspect Eva's friend Sergeant Georges Gardentier, a missile specialist in the French army , because after he had recently informed Eva that he did not want to marry her, there had been a heated argument. With the assistance of French colleagues, you are also investigating in France. There they learned that Eva , who came from the GDR , had been expelled from France on the basis of a vague suspicion of espionage . When Irene Hartmann is found shot dead on a French country road, her husband comes under suspicion.

Finally, Schäfermann and Liersdahl find out the truth through the interplay of their very different methods: Dr. Hartmann found Gerd Dietz and Eva Konalsky, both of whom he had known for years from Mainz , for their jobs. Hartmann and Eva were a couple seven years ago - even before Hartmann met his future wife - and they have a child together, which Irene Hartmann did not know. Eva had a letter from Hartmann in which he admitted his paternity and blackmailed him with it and with the wedding ring she had stolen. He asked his friend Dietz to give Eva 30,000 DM in exchange for the letter and the ring, but Eva bluffed and handed over an empty envelope. Since she still had a second letter that contained a reference to the fact that Dietz had murdered Eva's great love Holger Schmidt in Mainz nine years earlier - before he left for the Foreign Legion - she also tried to blackmail Dietz, whereupon he killed her. Because Irene Hartmann sniffed into Dietz's past, he shot her too. He visits Hartmann in the steelworks and threatens to kill him too. A scuffle ensues, with Dietz falling into the glowing pig iron and killing him .

background

According to the ARD , the plot is based in part on an actual criminal case that occurred in Saarland . The shooting took place in the spring of 1970 in Saarbrücken, on the German-French border between Naßweiler and Freyming-Merlebach and in the Völklinger Hütte . Saarbrücken, on a Monday ... was not written and shot specifically for the crime scene . Since the decision to create this new crime series was made by ARD in the late summer of 1970, the individual broadcasters initially contributed television films that they had already shot.

reception

When it was first broadcast on December 13, 1970, an audience rate of 65% was achieved. The reviews in the daily press varied. In the Badische Zeitung it was said:

“The latest 'Tatort' contribution proves that lively tension can be created through supercooled objectivity. […] Dramatic climaxes are skilfully shifted towards the middle and towards the end, and even the solution leaves enough room for thought. […] The camera contributes to objectification in its own way. She prefers light or bright white backgrounds in dialogue scenes and has a weakness for spatial effects. "

The Westfälische Nachrichten was also positive :

“'Saarbrücken on a Monday' was exciting. Exciting because it was possible to think along with it. Also exciting because the story was composed based on an authentic case and thus seemed realistic. Exciting not least because it was filmed on original locations. That made the Tatort episode different from the ARD crime series on Friday evening. "

The reviewer of the Augsburger Allgemeine came to a different conclusion :

"[...] then ARD shouldn't be surprised to see their latest Sunday evening tickle offered under the heading 'frustration' rather than 'tension'. Even if the first contribution in the crime scene series was not met with approval, the second certainly did not improve the image of the new crime series. "

The evening newspaper judged: "What is served here as exciting 'home-style cooking' is really not enjoyable." The book's weaknesses were criticized in the Saarbrücker Zeitung :

“Incidentally, the script (Johannes Niem) is crocheted together according to an allegedly tried and tested pattern: Many suspects, several motifs to choose from, including the evil Ostagents. Ambiguities and inconsistencies. [...] After the NDR [...] the Saarländischer Rundfunk has now also neglected to offer more than the hackneyed game of hide-and-seek about random and interchangeable crooks, small and large. "

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung criticized the "pale characterization" of the characters in the script.

The performance of the director was also judged differently. While the Hamburger Abendblatt said: “The direction made some amazing blunders”, the evening praised the director: “The direction Karl-Heinz Biebers was objectivity appropriate to the environment. He succeeded well. "

More than 40 years after the film was made, Kurt-J. Heering and Silke Porath found it to be remarkable that in Saarbrücken, on a Monday ... an uncomplicated cross-border cooperation between the German and French police was shown, at a time when the Franco-German friendship was still in its early stages. "In this respect, the makers of the episode were way ahead of their time."

Web links

• Crime scene: Saarbruecken, on a Monday ... at the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Crime scene: Saarbrücken, on a Monday ... at filmportal.de
• Summary of the action in Saarbrücken on a Monday ... on the ARD website
• Saarbrücken, on a Monday ... at the crime scene fund
• Saarbrücken, on a Monday ... at Tatort-Fans.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Tatort: ​​Saarbrücken on a Monday , on: programm.ard.de, accessed January 11, 2013.
2. ↑ "40 years of the crime scene" , on: one day, current events on Spiegel online, accessed January 12, 2013.
3. ^ Rüdiger Dingemann: Tatort. The encyclopedia. Knaur, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-426-78419-8 , p. 43.
4. ↑ UM: The critic says , in: Badische Zeitung (Freiburg) from December 15, 1970, quoted from: Press comments on "Saarbrücken, on a Monday ...". Saarländischer Rundfunk, Saarbrücken 1970, p. 7.
5. ↑ Saarländischer Rundfunk , in: Westfälische Nachrichten, Münster, from December 15, 1970, quoted from: Press comments on "Saarbrücken, on a Monday ...". Saarländischer Rundfunk, Saarbrücken 1970, p. 13.
6. ↑ kdh: Tatort frustrated , in: Augsburger Allgemeine from December 15, 1970, quoted from: Press comments on "Saarbrücken, on a Monday ...". Saarländischer Rundfunk, Saarbrücken 1970, p. 6.
7. ↑ rs: Tatort - Saarbrücken on a Monday , in: AZ of December 15, 1970, quoted from: Press comments on "Saarbrücken, on a Monday". Saarländischer Rundfunk, Saarbrücken 1970, p. 6.
8. ↑ abu: The usual game of hide- and- seek , in: Saarbrücker Zeitung of December 15, 1970, quoted from: Press comments on "Saarbrücken, on a Monday ...". Saarländischer Rundfunk, Saarbrücken 1970, p. 2.
9. ↑ CM: Typical perpetrator , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of December 15, 1970, quoted from: Press comments on "Saarbrücken, on a Monday ...". Saarländischer Rundfunk, Saarbrücken 1970, p. 5.
10. ↑ en: Tatort Saarbrücken , in: Hamburger Abendblatt of December 15, 1970, quoted from: Press comments on "Saarbrücken, on a Monday ...". Saarländischer Rundfunk, Saarbrücken 1970, p. 10.
11. ^ KH: Teufels-Kreis , in: Der Abend, Berlin-W edition, from December 14, 1970, quoted from: Press comments on "Saarbrücken, on a Monday ...". Saarländischer Rundfunk, Saarbrücken 1970, p. 11.
12. ↑ Kurt-J. Heering, Silke Porath: 111 reasons to love »Tatort«. A declaration of love for a very special crime series. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86265-172-6 , p. 75.

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