Crime scene: shooting star
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Shooting star |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
ORF |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 974 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | February 7, 2016 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michi Riebl |
| script | Uli Brée |
| production |
Markus Pauser Erich Schnindlecker |
| music | Thomas Rabitsch , Jakob Rabitsch , Siggi Haider |
| camera | Richi Wagner |
| cut | Alexandra Loewy |
| occupation | |
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Shooting Star is a television film from the crime series Tatort , which was first broadcast on February 7, 2016. It is the 974th episode in the series, the 37th case of the Austrian investigator Moritz Eisner and the thirteenth case of the Eisner / Fellner investigative team.
action
Shortly before the finale of a casting show, music manager Udo Hausberger is found strangled in his house. Initially, the investigators assume an autoerotic suicide accident until a document is found in the victim's throat.
Hausberger's wife Angelika takes the whole situation very calmly; the two seem to have conducted their relationship with great (sexual) openness, because Angelika Hausberger has a younger man at her side in Benny, who acts as her secretary, but is also referred to by others as a "toy boy".
The investigators lead further clues to the singer Aris Graf, who is given the greatest chance of winning the casting show "Sing Your Song" and whose mother, who manages him, does not speak well about Hausberger. The text for the final song, with which Aris wants to win the show, does not come from himself, as is publicly known, but from Vera Sailer. She was victorious on a previous show and is now deeply depressed . The investigators look to Vera, who seems visibly dissatisfied that her song should just be burned like that, but Hausberger had the rights to it and there was nothing she could do about it. As long as it worked and the odds were right, everything was okay, when it didn't work that way anymore, he dropped her like a hot potato and like many others before her. The investigators find out that Vera wrote the song for her child, who was not allowed to be born because Hausberger did not want it. That's why the song meant a lot to her. However, they can no longer ask Vera about it, since she has made another suicide attempt and dies a little later. In her grief, her mother speaks to the investigators and explains to them that her daughter had called her when she put the note in the neck of the host and now feared that he would die and that she could no longer prevent it.
background
The film was shot in Vienna from April 21, 2015 to May 19, 2015.
The film title shooting star is an allusion to the music business, in which the "burning up of hopes and passions in order to be able to achieve meteoric ascent" has its permanent place.
The track Gone by Rafael Haider can be heard below.
The audio description for the film was produced by the ORF itself. The speaker is Stefanie Müller.
Adele Neuhauser and Harald Krassnitzer were critical of the increasing time pressure in the production of crime scene episodes. Neuhauser, for example, told Closer magazine : “ To be honest, I think 21 days is borderline. We are pressed into a time window in which it is becoming more and more difficult to maintain the quality. ” Her acting colleague Krassnitzer agreed with her and explained: “ We therefore meet before filming and discuss the books. ” In addition, in view of the growing The number of investigative teams said, “I think it's a bit exaggerated that every small town now has a team” , but admitted at the same time, “but it seems to be working” . Krassnitzer added, "The really good couples also prevail" .
reception
Reviews
Author Stefanie Will from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung praises the crime scene and writes: “One plus point in this case: The Viennese 'crime scene' with abuse and verbal battles is back. The dialogues are perhaps a bit too much turned towards sex, but entertaining by the rather sad case. It's basically a criticism of casting shows and the beautiful appearance in the music business that people with big dreams can suck up, wring out and spit out again as an empty shell. The end is also very emotional and misses the last blow again. Do not miss!"
Roger Tell from tittelbach.tv also thinks: “Pointed dialogues with a density that are seldom found in German crime novels are offered in the 14th case of ORF commissioners Moritz Eisner and Bibi Fellner. The 'Tatort - Shooting Star', at the same time a themed thriller, is dedicated to the trendy casting shows, shows the mendacious game about dreams and wishes of young talents, cleverly embedded in an exciting crime story. In just under 90 minutes, the author Uli Brée condenses the mechanisms and types of this genre, emphasizing and exaggerating, is sometimes cynical, sometimes evil, sometimes striking, sometimes differentiated. Only sometimes do you have the feeling that fewer aspects would have been better. "
Detlef Hartlap , editor-in-chief of prisma , described the episode shooting star as a “ screwball comedy the likes of which you rarely get to see on this broadcasting slot” and which is initially characterized by “wonderful lightness” . Hartlap compared the murder case, which was initially incorrectly interpreted as an autoerotic death and which the producers described as fictitious, with the death of Michael Hutchence . The two Viennese crime scene investigators are "now also an old couple" , albeit "without sex" , but "all the more intense" . Screenwriter Uli Brée took this as an opportunity to have the protagonists see a sex therapist to clarify the case. Moritz Eisner explains to him that his relationship with his colleague Bibi Fellner is “purely professional” , which Bibi confirms “with a slight hint of disappointment” and the therapist regrets. After that, “the investigations begin to drift into too small parts” “and the magic is gone,” concludes Hartlap.
Christian Schmidt from the Westfälische Nachrichten compared the murder case with the death of actor David Carradine . In the style of a casting show, which deliberately refrained from naming Dieter Bohlen , the episode “got just a little further” according to Schmidt . “The fact that the classic crime thriller, with well-known media criticism, still deserved a second round was due to the game played by Harald Krassnitzer and Adele Neubauer,” summarizes Schmidt.
"In the overall rather conventionally knitted story, the sometimes cheeky, sometimes a little trying back and forth between Krassnitzer and Neuhauser is the icing on the cake," writes the German Press Agency .
“Bibi and Moritz have now been trained to be cuddle inspectors. They worry about their rusty sex life and, above all, court each other hard, on the operetta-like tour, and practically continuously at the beginning. Not a good sign. For those who know about the crime scene with a penchant for comparison and synonym: Vienna will be Münster. "
“Roaring cars, dirty sex, cheap pop music: The current 'Tatort' from Vienna is unrestrainedly filthy. Wonderful. "
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of the episode Shooting Star on February 7, 2016 was seen by 9.40 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 25.2% for Das Erste .
In Austria, 1,136,000 viewers were reached, an average reach of 16% and a market share of 33%. This means that around twice as many viewers tuned in as is usual for other episodes in Austria, since it is an Austrian production.
In Switzerland, 487,000 viewers over the age of three watched the first broadcast of the episode, giving it a market share of 24.5%. The group of 15 to 59-year-old viewers counted 274,000 viewers and measured a market share of 22.9%.
Web links
- Crime scene: shooting star in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Summary of the plot of shooting star on the ARD website
- Shooting star at the crime scene fund
- Shooting star at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Crime scene: shooting star at crew united
- ^ A b Westfälische Nachrichten : Death after the casting show: In the new "Tatort" from Vienna, things are going to be intense in several ways , Medien, dpa , February 6, 2016
- ↑ Crime scene: shooting star in the Hörfilm database of Hörfilm e. V.
- ^ A b c d e Westfälische Nachrichten : Investigative teams in every small town? - The Viennese "Tatort" actors see the abundance and the time pressure critically , media, dpa , February 4, 2016
- ↑ Author Stefanie Will: Massive criticism: This case shows the ugly grimace of the show industry at focus.de , accessed on February 23, 2016.
- ↑ Roger Tell: Krassnitzer, Neuhauser, Uli Brée, Michi Riebl. A bit of fun is a must at tittelbach.tv , accessed on February 23, 2016.
- ↑ a b c d e f prisma : “They would have fit together so well” , Tatort am Sonntag, Detlef Hartlap , February 6, 2016 - February 12, 2016, No. 5/2016, p. 22
- ^ A b c Westfälische Nachrichten : Tatort: Sternschnuppe (ARD) - Just got ahead , media / seen, Christian Schmidt, February 8, 2016
- ↑ Holger Gertz: When love rusts. In: Media. Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 5, 2016, accessed on February 6, 2016 .
- ↑ Christian Buß: The new "Tatort" from Vienna in a quick check. Spiegel Online , February 7, 2016, accessed on September 1, 2018 : "7 out of 10 points"
- ^ Tobias Ott: Primetime-Check: Sunday, February 7, 2016.quotemeter.de , February 8, 2016, accessed on February 8, 2016 .
- ↑ Medienforschung ORF , data from Sunday, February 7, 2016
- ↑ a b Swiss radio and television : SRF 1 - February 7, 2016 ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF), Mediapulse television panel - German-speaking Switzerland, Overnight, people three years and older, accessed on February 9, 2016
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