Crime scene: abrasions

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Abrasions
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 589 ( list )
First broadcast February 13, 2005 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Niki Stein
script Niki Stein,
Frank Posiadly
music Ulrik Spies ,
Jacki Engelken
camera Arthur W. Ahrweiler
cut Corina Dietz
occupation

Abrasions is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The contribution produced by WDR under the direction of Niki Stein was broadcast on February 13, 2005 in the first program of ARD . It is the 30th case of the investigative team Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk and the 589th crime scene episode.

action

The driver is shot dead in a robbery on a money transporter . Thomas Jänsch, the perpetrator, escapes with the booty; his suspected accomplice has to be released again for lack of evidence. Shortly thereafter, Ballauf and Schenk received a mysterious mail item containing Thomas Jänsch's severed thumb. According to forensic medicine, the finger came from a dead person. The commissioners set off for Neu-Schaffrath, where the letter had been posted. The village was relocated because of an open- cast brown coal mine and so there are only a few residents in this area who defiantly oppose the relocation. The people are correspondingly inaccessible. The only contact person is the patrol officer Gernot Ackermann, who lives there and acts a bit as a liaison man.

When a young man from the village, fleeing from the two inspectors, fell into the lignite mine and had a fatal accident, the inspectors realized that he had been hiding something from them. Just as some villagers obviously know more than they want to admit.

After car keys and a weapon were found in the victim's belongings, on which Jänsch's fingerprints were found after a forensic examination, it is certain that the corpse and the alleged murderer are to be found in Neu-Schaffrath. After a major search, the hand that belongs to the severed thumb is found in the local cemetery. The main suspect is the butcher Lensen, who is the only one who owns a large cold store and whose hand was found in his family grave. At the end of the day, the car key also leads the officers to the car belonging to it, which is found in the Neu-Schaffrath quarry pond. As things stand, the car had a serious accident and the inspectors suspect that this was only noticed by the people who sit in the village pub every evening: Lensen and his son, who had an accident, Ackermann and the operator Alice Rausch. Instead of reporting the accident, they embezzled the suitcase with the money, frozen Jänsch's corpse and then placed it in the nearest official grave, where the police made it.

In the meantime, an observation of Jänsch's accomplice led to Jan Evers, who after the research ordered the rental car with which Jänsch had had an accident. Since he too came across Neu-Schaffrath and its residents in search of Jänsch and the money, he kidnapped the daughter of Alice Rausch and Gernot Ackermann. When handing over the money, Evers shoots Ackermann's brother, whereupon he is shot by Gernot Ackermann.

Ackermann's brother had sent his thumb to the police because Alice Rausch is his ex-wife and he feared that she would leave the village because of the new "wealth" and that he would then have lost her for good.

background

The real location of Neu-Otzenrath near Jüchen became the fictional location “Neu-Schaffrath” in the film. The scenes in the old town affected by the opencast mine were filmed in Otzenrath . In the scene in the old cemetery, the parish church of St. Simon and Judas Thaddäus can be seen in the background . In the episode it is mentioned that you can reach the fictional Schaffrath by car if you were to drive through the not yet excavated place of Holz .

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Abrasions on February 13, 2005 was seen in Germany by 9.43 million viewers and achieved a market share of 23.9% for Das Erste .

Reviews

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv rated this crime scene as a “cleverly built, clearly staged accomplice crime drama.” In addition, “there is always tension in the air. The atmospheric surroundings set the tone, the spoil heaps, the wild west demeanor of some villagers, the interior view of a broken community. Finally a WDR 'crime scene' with social down-to-earth adherence instead of penetrating message compulsion. "

“Unfortunately, director Niki Stein and his co-writer Frank Posiadly don't understand how to impress with the depressive flair of such a location. Police cars with blue lights zoom through the scene, and the camera can't get enough of corpses, sawed-off thumbs and animal meat. Excitement eats up the soul. "

- The mirror

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Werner Loose: A crime scene in the realm of lignite. Cologne commissioners shoot a television thriller in Neu-Otzenrath near Jüchen. Die Welt , September 5, 2004, accessed on July 3, 2014 : "WDR's new crime scene is being built in the realm of giant excavators."
  2. ↑ Commissioners investigate in Spenrath. The crime episode is not far from the real crime scene. Rheinische Post , April 5, 2004, accessed on July 23, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Abrasions. Crime scene fund, accessed on July 3, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Rainer Tittelbach: WDR “Tatort” by Niki Stein with social down-to-earth adherence instead of compulsory embassy film criticism at tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 15, 2016.
  5. ↑ TV preview . In: Der Spiegel . No. 6 , 2005, p. 154 ( online - May 2, 2005 ).
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