Crime scene: Stuttgart flowers
Stuttgart Blossoms is the 28th episode of the Tatort television series . The premiere of the South German Radio result produced on April 1, 1973 at the First of ARD . For Chief Detective Eugen Lutz ( Werner Schumacher ) it is his third case. It is about the spread of counterfeit money and two deaths in connection with this case.
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The old graphic artist Eckstein forged 100 DM notes in his workshop .
The appearance of false 100 DM notes in Karlsruhe , Mannheim and Heidelberg is reported on television . Commissioner Lutz, from the LKA's counterfeit money department , reports that twelve flowers have already been seized. These can only be distinguished from real banknotes by the lack of a security strip.
Hoyer drives his girlfriend to work. He then obtained from Hepp in its newspaper printing house , works in the Eckstein also in a subordinate position, printing plates for 100 DM notes from. On the way from there he had an accident in his car and was hospitalized. The police searched the vehicle involved in the accident and found the twelve printing plates (clichés) for 100 DM notes in Hoyer's suitcase. Meanwhile, two men are notified by phone. One of the two, Wildner, promises to take care of the car first and then the apartment. Wildner breaks into Hoyer's apartment, searches it and takes some money - a few hundred - and papers. The other of the two men pretends to be Hoyer's brother in the hospital and tries to find out his whereabouts.
The police put the found 100 DM printing plates in connection with the already known series of counterfeit money A21. At the same time, the accident car was destroyed by arson before the police could inspect it a second time. Expert Lauresch from the BKA can determine that the printing plates were faulty and had obviously been corrected. He suspects this is also the reason for the transport of the printing plates from the chemograph to the printer. Lutz knows that the A21 series printer must be different from the Hepp printer.
In this context, Commissioner Brauchle mentions another series, the “Stuttgart Blossoms”. These 100 DM forgeries are not printed, but painted (!) And have deliberate errors, such as “Deutscher Fußballbund” or “Deutsche Bundesbahn” instead of “Deutsche Bundesbank”, “Hundred false marks” instead of “Hundred German marks”, or “ Who imitates brandy "instead of" Who imitates banknotes ". From this series never more than two hundred appeared a month, but that for over 8 years.
The alleged brother Hoyer and Wildner show up at the hospital and want to see Hoyer. However, the police find out that he has no brother. Lutz then gives the order to have Hoyer guarded in the hospital. Shortly afterwards, the two men from the hospital turn up at Hepp's print shop, beat him up, kidnap him and give his boss his keys. When Eckstein comes to work the next morning, he sees the vandalism that the two men have committed in the printing plant and alerts the police. She finds traces of blood at the crime scene. Lutz suspects a connection between the kidnapping and the counterfeit case. He interrogates the employees of the printing works, including Eckstein. So he learns that only Hepp and Eckstein have the know-how to produce clichés in this print shop. Lutz then interrogates Hoyer's fiancée Gaby. This says that you have no idea what he does for a living. Meanwhile, old Eckstein is clearing away evidence. Lutz assumes that Hoyer wanted to take the printing plates to a print shop in Bergheim. Glöckle checks the two printing works in this part of town, but finds both unsuspicious.
Meanwhile, an unknown male corpse is found in Bavaria, presumably strangled. The corpse is identified as the print shop owner Hepp. A witness testifies to have seen a taxi from Stuttgart at the place where Hepps' body was found on the night in question. Munich inspector Veigl discovers that he is on a wanted list and informs Lutz. When checking the Stuttgart taxi drivers, one of them, Wildner, picked up a gun and was arrested. Old Eckstein speaks to a boy who is supposed to change a forged 100 DM note in a bank for small bills. The man at the bank counter recognizes the forgery, but Eckstein has already fled when the bank clerk looks in front of the bank.
In the meantime, Hoyer has died in hospital.
Lutz and Brauchle are sure that the old man deliberately sent the boy to a bank so that the flower, which has only a six instead of a seven-digit serial number, can be identified as such. Lutz tests whether the wrong serial number could be a telephone number. Indeed, this is the telephone number of the prison print shop in Bergheim. The correctional officer Jauch, who is the supervisor of this prison printing plant, is arrested while attempting to hand over several bundles of forged 100 DM bills to the alleged brother Hoyers.
Lutz knows that the old corner stone made the “Stuttgart Blossoms”, including the last one with the six-digit serial number with which he, as an informant, put the police on the right track in the case of the A21 series. Lutz indicates that he does not intend to punish Eckstein.
Special features and audience rating
The Swabian folk actor and comedian Willy Reichert , who died at the end of 1973 at the age of 77, had his last television role in this film.
Stuttgart Blossoms is the first crime scene case that takes place in Stuttgart. Dietz-Werner Steck , who played the Stuttgart crime scene inspector Ernst Bienzle twenty years later , can be seen as a patrol officer.
The counterfeit money painter Eckstein had his model in the Munich graphic artist Günter Hopfinger , who had been exposed as "Rembrandt Flowers" shortly before.
When it was first broadcast, this episode attracted viewers with a 71% market share.
Web links
- Stuttgart flowers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Stuttgart Blossoms on the ARD website
- Stuttgart blossoms in the crime scene fund
- Stuttgart blossoms at Tatort-Fans.de
- Chief Detective Eugen Lutz data on the investigator
Individual evidence
- ↑ Crime scene: Stuttgart flowers data on the seventeenth crime scene at tatort-fundus.de
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