Crime scene: sale

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Sale
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavarian radio
length 83 minutes
classification Episode 88 ( List )
First broadcast May 21, 1978 on German television
Rod
Director Wilm ten Haaf
script Konrad Sabrautzky
production Harald Vohwinkel
music Hans Posegga
camera Luy Briechle
cut Margret Sager
occupation

The sale is the 88th episode in the crime series Tatort . Produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk, the episode on 21 May 1978 in the first program of the ARD broadcast for the first time. This is the tenth case of Chief Inspector Veigl, portrayed by Gustl Bayrhammer . The episode is about the murder of the department manager of a department store during the winter sales.

action

In the midst of the tumult of the winter sales of a Munich department store, one of the employees, Manfred Spränger, is murdered with a knife in the back, the knife is still in the back of the victim. The managing director Haslauer tells Veigl that Spränger had only been transferred from Hamburg to the Munich branch half a year before, as a department head he had to crack down on the neglect of his predecessor. His predecessor Rothermund had been fired for manipulation with the suppliers. Lenz and Brettschneider found out that Spränger was not exactly popular with the employees because of his severity. Veigl seeks out Rothermund, who says he was fired because the department store chain wanted to save the company pension. He had been banned from the house some time ago because he had attacked Spränger after he had been fired, but he had apologized for the incident. His doctor's office, which is located near the department store, cannot confirm his alibi, he had his appointment only after the crime and had appeared drunk.

The employee, Ms. Seidl, told Veigl that Spränger recently had a visit from a young woman in the department store. Alma Spränger tells Veigl and Lenz that she wanted to talk to her son on the day of the crime because he wanted to deport her to an old people's home after she had given him her house, but she had lost heart. After his death, she found a loan agreement in his files; he had granted Eva-Maria Wagner a loan. Veigl seeks out the lady, she was a colleague of Spränger in Hamburg, he was friends and moved to Munich shortly after Spränger. Wagner had borrowed the money from Spränger because she didn't know anyone else in Munich and the move had cost her a lot of money. She has an alibi from her son Uwe for the time of the crime, but her daughter Petra not, she has been missing for some time. Frau Seidl can identify Petra Wagner as the girl that Spränger had visited in the department store. Meanwhile, when Veigl asked, Rothermund testified that he was in the porn cinema, the information can be confirmed by the cashier there. Lenz finds out from Angermann, the rector of the vocational school where Eva-Maria Wagner works, that her contract could not be extended for financial reasons and that she will soon become unemployed. Veigl then considers Ms. Wagner to be suspicious, while Lenz suspects Ms. Spränger. Ms. Spränger confirms to Veigl and Lenz that Petra Wagner had lived in their house for almost three months, but Ms. Spränger didn't know anything more about Petra. The girl suddenly disappeared overnight, for which Manfred Spränger had blamed his mother, so she wanted to go to a retirement home.

Eva-Maria Wagner finally confesses to Veigl and Lenz that she knew about the relationship between Petra and Spränger, that contact had already been close in Hamburg, but she had no idea at the time that a relationship could develop between the two, only after that When the daughter moved to Spränger, the relationship had become clear to her, and Spranger's loan had nothing to do with the relationship. Mrs. Draxel, Mrs. Spranger's housekeeper, visits the officers and tells them that she has taken Petra in for a few days because she felt sorry for her. Her nephew got to know Petra on the occasion, so that Petra now lives with him. Veigl and Lenz go to the young man and ask Petra there. Petra has no alibi for the time of the crime. After the separation from Spränger, she did not return to her mother because her relationship with her was ambivalent. Her mother had also been with Spränger before and continued to dream of marrying Spränger, even after the relationship between Petra and him began. Petra Spränger only went to the department store to return a watch he had given, otherwise they would not have had any contact after the separation. During a routine check, Veigl finds out that Ms. Spränger withdrew her registration for the old people's home three days before the murder of her son, so she now appears to Veigl as an urgent suspect. When Veigl presented his findings to Frau Spränger, she told him that she hadn't brought herself to leave her house, that she wanted to talk to her son, but he had been dismissive to her since Petra's disappearance. On the way to see her son on the day of the murder, she then lost courage so that she turned back and did not speak to him.

Meanwhile, Uwe Wagner, Petra's brother, has attempted suicide and is in the hospital, where Uwe Veigl tells that his sister was pregnant by Spränger and asked him for money, but he simply sent his sister away. His suicide attempt has nothing to do with the case. Veigl looks for Petra again, who is about to leave her friend Heinz. She told him the day before about the pregnancy and, because of his reaction, has now ended the relationship. Heinz Brücken, on the other hand, says that he had a violent argument with Petra the night before the murder because Petra wanted to go back to Spränger. He then went to Augsburg and returned to Munich the next day for the theater performance in which he took part as an actor. Petra casually tells Veigl that her mother recently applied for a job at the department store where Spränger worked after being fired from school. Veigl finds out that Eva-Maria Wagner had applied on the day of the murder at the time of the crime, the conversation turned out negative because she had seemed confused. When Veigl and Brettschneider visit Mrs. Wagner, she is about to commit suicide by jumping out of the window, but Veigl can save her. She confesses to Veigl that she was lonely and humiliated by Spranger's relationship with her daughter. On the day of her application, she found out from her son that Petra von Spränger was pregnant. When her application was confirmed negative, she could no longer bear the renewed humiliation and stabbed Spränger.

Audience and background

When it was first broadcast, the episode achieved a market share of 53.00%. The episode was shot in February and March 1978 in Munich and the surrounding area.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm rate this crime scene positively.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sale at tatort-fundus.de
  2. ↑ Tatort: Final sale short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on June 13, 2015.
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