Crime scene: perpetrator and victim

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Perpetrator and victim
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SWF
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 158 ( List )
First broadcast May 27, 1984 on ARD
Rod
Director Ilse Hofmann
script Peter Hemmer
production Dietrich Mack
music Andreas Koebner
camera Karl Kases
cut Bernd Lorbiecki
occupation

Perpetrator and victim is the 158th episode of the Tatort television series . By the Südwestfunk result produced (SWF) was first on 27 May 1984 at the First Channel of ARD broadcast. For Chief Detective Hanne Wiegand ( Karin Anselm ) it is the fourth case. It's about the death of a pharmaceutical industrialist and the rape of a young woman a few months earlier.

action

A car sinks into a lake, and the same evening the police are called to Ute Bernett's apartment after the residents heard screams from the apartment. After the officers did not find anyone in the apartment, but found traces of blood, Wiegand and her new assistant Klose were called to the apartment. Wiegand asks Ute Bernett, who has meanwhile returned to her apartment, but she is not very cooperative and refuses to give any information about the dispute, explaining the traces with a nosebleed. Since Ute does not file a criminal complaint, Wiegand and Klose cannot officially investigate, but they still think about the case the next day. While Wiegand sees Ute as a traumatized victim who cannot talk about the crime, Klose can imagine that Ute could have done something to the attacker and took him away that night. Wiegand learns that half a year earlier Ute had filed a complaint against unknown persons for rape in Karlsruhe, where she had lived before moving to Baden-Baden. Shortly afterwards, Wiegand and Klose are called to the shores of the lake in which the car had been sunk the night before. The body of the keeper, Jürgen Ruperti, owner of the Sanapharm company, is found in the car during the recovery. The traces show that there must have been another person in the car, who must have escaped from the car after it fell into the lake.

Rupterti's widow Birgit tells Wiegand that she last saw her husband at noon the previous day and that she had no contact with him after that. She doesn't know anything about his business or private contacts. When Wiegand visits Ruperti's company, she is astonished to find that Ute Bernett is an employee at Sanapharm. Rupterti's managing director Günther Husemann states that his boss was an exceptionally good driver and that he did not have a business appointment the evening before. Klose has now established that the description of the perpetrator, which Ute Bernett had given the police at the time, applies to Jürgen Rupterti, but Bernett had assured the police at the time that he was after an anonymous letter stating Ruperti as raping Ute not been the rapist. When asked by Wiegand, Husemann stated that Ute's hiring was his decision, that it was selected purely on the basis of her qualifications, and that Rupterti had no influence on the personnel decision. The autopsy has meanwhile shown that Rupterti must have been hit on the back of the head before his accident and must have lost consciousness. On the accusation of Wiegand, Ute denies again that Ruperti had anything to do with the rape at the time, she also had no private contact with her boss, at the time of the crime she went for a walk. Meanwhile, Klose finds out by questioning the neighbors that Rupterti was actually with Ute Bernett on the evening of his murder, apparently she had the argument with him. She then also admits to Wiegand that Ruperti was the rapist in Karlsruhe, but she doesn't want anything to do with his death. After the rape, she specifically looked for the position in his company and applied there.

Ruperti had thrown his victim's job off course; he confessed to the rape of his wife. Birgit then contacted Ute and asked her what she was doing with her job in her husband's company. Birgit asked Ute not to file a complaint so as not to destroy her family. Ute assures Wiegand that she was not the sender of the anonymous letter at the time. On the evening of his death, he came to her apartment and thanked her for not betraying her and asked her forgiveness. He even spoke of a possible divorce from his wife, but later attacked her again. Klose asks Birgit, she denies that her husband wanted to divorce her, she also had nothing to do with the anonymous letter to the police, she accuses Husemann of having an eye on Ute and writing the letter that Ute had also benefited professionally from her husband's arrest. Klose then shadows Husemann and discovers that he is actually chasing after Ute after work. Ute then tells Wiegand that she was actually out with Husemann once, because Husemann didn’t give up, and that at the end of the evening he assumed that she was having a relationship with Ruperti when Ute turned him down. Thereby he found out from Ute that Ruperti had raped her, when he then also harassed her, Ute tore herself free and went into her apartment.

When asked about his evening with Ute the next day, Husemann Wiegand confesses that he was the sender of the anonymous letter to the police, and denies that he was involved in Ruperti's death. Wiegand and Klose interrogate Ute again to ask about Ruperti's visit to her on the evening of the crime, she repeats that he had apologized for the rape. When he became intrusive again, Ute called Birgit Rupterti in his presence and told her that her husband was harassing her, Ute, then Ruperti ended the conversation and beat Ute bloody. Wiegand interrogates Birgit Ruperti, who denies that she intercepted her husband in front of Ute's apartment and caused the fatal accident on the way back, saying that she was indifferent to her husband's relationship with Ute. Shortly afterwards, Husemann speaks to Ute at the company, when she tells him that she knows about his stalkings during his jogging laps in front of her house and indicates that footprints from jogging shoes have been found at the crime scene, Husemann drives home and wants his jogging shoes Throw in the garbage when Klose, who was alerted by Ute, intervened and took Husemann with his shoes to the crime scene. There Wiegand Husemann reveals that Ute's suggestion with the footprints at the crime scene was a bluff that he fell for, but that he betrayed himself with his reaction to want to dispose of his running shoes immediately. Husemann then confesses that he got into Ruperti's car out of jealousy and was waiting for him when he noticed it in front of Ute's house on the evening of the crime. Husemann confronted Ruperti during the drive about his relationship with Ute, when Ruperti wanted to throw him out, Husemann hit him with a heavy object in affect, so that Ruperti caused the accident and died while Husemann was able to escape from the car.

Audience and background

When it was first broadcast, this episode attracted 15.77 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 43%. The episode was shot in and around Baden-Baden between August 15 and September 21, 1983.

criticism

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm rate this crime scene positively and comment: “The intelligent way to hunt criminals”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tatort: ​​perpetrators and victims data on the 158th crime scene at tatort-fundus.de
  2. ↑ Tatort: Perpetrators and victims short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on December 8, 2015.
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