Crime scene: sleep, child, sleep

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Crime scene: sleep, child, sleep
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 87 minutes
classification Episode 502 ( List )
First broadcast June 16, 2002 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Peter Fratzscher
script Jan Behind
Stefan Cantz
production Sonja Goslicki
music Martin Todsharow
camera Jörg Schneider
cut Vera van Appeldorn
occupation

Sleep, Child, Sleep is a television film by Peter Fratzscher from the crime series Tatort on ARD and ORF . It is the 502nd crime scene episode and the 20th case of the Cologne team of investigators Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk .

action

On a hot summer day, forest workers find a naked woman's corpse in the forest. When the police and inspectors Ballauf and Schenk arrive at the site, they are already expecting sensation-hungry reporters. The way in which the body was laid suggests a ritual murderer. The victim is the Polish au pair Halina Brzeziński, who has just been reported missing.

Ballauf and Schenk investigate by order from above together with the journalist Barbara Stein, who is supposed to report on the work of the criminal police in Cologne in order to improve the image of the homicide squad.

While the commissioners examine the victim's surroundings, the new "colleague" from the press archive presents the first hot lead. In similar cases 15 years ago, sex offender Willy Linnartz murdered two women and detained a third. The man was until recently in the penal system of a psychiatric institution and has been free for four months based on positive psychological reports.

The inspectors want to question Linnartz at his place of work, but he flees when the officers want to take him to the station. While the two pursue the fugitive on foot, Stein unceremoniously takes the investigator's car. The commissioners hear a shot and find stone in the badly damaged car that has hit a stone. Linnartz shot them. With a stolen cell phone, the gunshot wounded Linnartz asks on the answering machine of the psychologist who was treating him at the time, Dr. Judith Grünwald-Seitz, for help. At the police station it turns out that Stein pushed himself into the investigation for private reasons using her sister's identity. She is Linnartz's third victim, was able to escape and shot Linnartz. When Susanne Lämmerhirt notices that she has been exposed, she escapes and drives to the old water reservoir in which she was held at the time and recognized Linnartz as her whereabouts based on the background noise in the recorded call. However, due to the trauma suffered there at the time , she cannot climb into the vaults with her revolver. Linnartz is discovered there, but after his imprisonment he does not make a murder confession to the urging Schenk.

Ballauf and Schenk sit down with Dr. Grünwald-Seitz in connection. She is supposed to deal with Linnartz again, and at the same time give Susanne Lämmerhirt trauma therapy to her husband Dr. Markus Seitz in treatment, who is also a psychotherapist. But Linnartz committed suicide by cutting his carotid artery with a shard. This shows that he was left-handed, but the girl was strangled by a right-handed person. A disaster for the commissioners , because it is very likely that an innocent man is now dead and the murderer is still on the loose.

Forensic medicine also found that the au pair was pregnant. A relationship act is likely and the first suspicion falls on Halina's host father. Schenk takes another look around the family and it turns out that Halina had eating disorders and that Dr. Seitz was in treatment. He was against Halina wanting to bear the child, knew Linnartz 'case and used his murder ritual to set the police on the wrong track. Schenk is worried because they have just given him Susanne Lämmerhirt in care. When he visits his practice, he is out and about with a lamb shepherd. He wants to use confrontation therapy to treat her at the place of her martyrdom. After noticing Halina's second earring missing in Seitz's car, she tries to contact Ballauf on her cell phone, but has to break off the call and flee from Seitz to the vaults when he notices that she has exposed him. Seitz was able to briefly keep the commissioners coming in check, but in the end he was overwhelmed by Lämmerhirt, who thus successfully managed the confrontational situation.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Schlaf, Kindlein, Schlaf on June 16, 2002 was seen by 8.0 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 27.9 percent for Das Erste .

Reviews

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv is of the opinion: “'Sleep, Child, Sleep' is a diversely structured, exciting 'Tatort' from Cologne, which is above average in terms of craftsmanship, not least due to Jörg Schneider's excellent camera work. The film provides a contribution to the discussion about the rehabilitation of mentally ill offenders in a pleasantly unexcited way. "

TV Spielfilm says: “Rehabilitate or lock up? Against the background of this ongoing difficult debate, the Cologne team succeeded in creating a gripping crime thriller with surprising twists. ”Conclusion:“ The viewer stays awake here! ”

"A routinely multi-layered 'Tatort' (director: Peter Fratzscher, book: Jan Hinter, Stefan Cantz), which benefits from the duo's ability to face the seriousness of life in a lively manner."

- The mirror

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sleep baby sleep. Crime scene fund, accessed on July 14, 2020 .
  2. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff: Behrendt, Bär, Flemming, Samel, Hinter, Cantz, Fratzscher. Who is the victim, who is the perpetrator? Film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 15, 2016.
  3. ↑ Under pressure from the press, the police are looking for the murderer of an au pair girl. at TV Spielfilm , accessed on February 15, 2016.
  4. ↑ TV preview . In: Der Spiegel . No. 24 , 2002, pp. 138 ( online ).
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