Crime scene: vicious circle

Episode of the series Tatort
Original title	Vicious circle
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	MDR
length	89 minutes
classification	Episode 577 ( List )
First broadcast	October 31, 2004 on Das Erste
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Director	Hans-Werner Honert
script	Fred Breinersdorfer Hans-Werner Honert
production	Jan Kruse
music	Andreas Hoge
camera	Jürgen Heimlich Frank Buschner
cut	Margrit Schulz
occupation
Peter Sodann : KHK Bruno Ehrlicher Bernd Michael Lade : KHK Kain Marie-Lou Sellem : Antje Lischinski Thomas Schmauser : Stefan Mayer-Lischinski Lisa Martinek : Rita Faulhaber Matthias Freihof : Nico Röckmann, agitator Annekathrin Bürger : Frederike Walter Nickel : Walter, forensic scientist Simone von Zglinicki : Public Prosecutor Mitterer Reinhard Straube : Hilpert, Protection of the Constitution Natascha Hockwin : Melanie Wolfgang Boos : Hermann Walldau Adrian Topol : Peter Wichmann, neo-Nazi Christoph Schlemmer : Mark Michael Rabbit Liv-Juliane Barine : Witness Michael Christian

Teufelskreis is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD , ORF and SRF . The film was produced by MDR under the direction of Hans-Werner Honert and first broadcast on October 31, 2004. It is the crime scene episode 577. For detective chief Bruno Ehrlicher and his colleague Kain , it is the 17th case in which they are investigating in Leipzig .

action

The commissioners Ehrlicher and Kain are called to the Völkerschlachtdenkmal after the neo-Nazi Linhard Banzhaff was killed with a blow to the larynx and pushed from a great height. His comrades consider the artist Mayer-Lischinski, who was once friends with Banzhaff, to be the perpetrator and hunt him down. He should atone for the death of their comrade. But the police are also looking for Mayer, whom they suspect in his studio, but cannot find him there. But everything there was devastated by the neo-Nazis.

Meyer is now looking for shelter with his ex-wife, Pastor Antje Lischinski. He explains to her that he had a fight with Banzhaff to prevent him from unfolding a banner with right-wing extremist content at the Monument to the Battle of the Nations. He wouldn't have killed him. When the investigators find him in the church, he flees and is discovered by the neo-Nazis and persecuted again. But Cain is faster and arrests Meyer before his pursuers reach him and possibly kill him. During the interrogation, he protests his innocence.

Ehrlicher finds various signs that Banzhaff had worked as an undercover agent. His best friend Peter Wichmann also had doubts about Banzhaff's loyalty to his comrades. When he looks around his apartment, he finds large amounts of cash and documents, which he hands over to the police, as Banzhaff asked him for it if something should happen to him. With these materials, Ehrlicher finally has something in hand to confront his colleagues from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. Since the beginning of the murder he has repeatedly ascertained their activities but has never been able to prove it. Her colleague Rita Faulhaber was at the Völkerschlachtdenkmal at the time of the crime, which resulted from the evaluation of surveillance recordings. More honestly, she and her supervisor confronted Hilpert and criticized the inadequate agreement with one another. Faulhaber admits that Banzhaff was her informant and had provided her with valuable information so that for some time the neo-Nazi scene has been very effectively undermined. At the time of the crime she was at the memorial to hand over his fee. Honestly, it is possible that Nico Röckmann, the head of the neo-Nazis, had observed this and that it led to a femicide . Faulhaber can corroborate this suspicion and gives the inspector material that proves that Röckmann was at the memorial at the time of the crime.

Röckmann is arrested but does not admit the murder. Ehrlicher and Cain are convinced that the evidence they find will be enough to convince the judge.

reception

Audience ratings

When it was first broadcast on October 31, 2004, the episode vicious circle in Germany was seen by 6.98 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 22.90 percent.

criticism

Volker Müller from the Berliner Zeitung writes about this crime scene: “In the cunning cooperation of the criminal investigation agency and constitutional protection officials, [the perpetrator] is convicted. Far from it, who would now assume that the viewer would be bored with such a transparent investigation fable. The film captivates in a completely different way than through the over-saturating, exhausted puzzle and confusion game of a search for a criminal. The author Fred Breinersdorfer, director and co-author Hans Werner Honert, an excellent ensemble of experienced and talented young actors and last but not least Jürgen Heimlich's camera with its narrative qualities penetrate the right-wing radical scene with oppressive explorations. "

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm only gave this crime scene a medium rating and wrote: “A dead undercover agent - still slack, man!”.

Web links

• Crime scene: vicious circle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Summary of the plot of the vicious circle on the ARD website
• Vicious circle in the crime scene fund
• Vicious circle at Tatort-Fans.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on December 15, 2015.
2. ↑ Volker Müller: The third man at the Berliner Zeitung , accessed on December 15, 2015.
3. ↑ The inspectors Kain and Ehrlicher investigate on the right margin. Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on December 15, 2015.

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