Crime scene: death of a girl

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Death of a girl
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 NDR
length 86 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 246 ( List )
First broadcast August 4, 1991 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Jürgen Roland
script Horst Bieber
production Studio Hamburg film production
music Michael Gajare
camera Klaus Brix , Sönke Hansen
cut Anja Cox , Tatjana Schöps
occupation

Death of a Girl is a television film from the crime series Tatort on ARD and ORF . The film was produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk under the direction of Jürgen Roland and first broadcast on August 4, 1991. It is about the crime scene episode 246. For the detective chief inspector Paul Stoever ( Manfred Krug ) it is the 15th case. For his colleague Peter Brockmöller ( Charles Brauer ) it is the 12th case in which he is investigating.

action

Fifteen-year-old Ulrike Jahn made an appointment with the much older Thomas Bading, a colleague of her father's. But since she actually wanted to spend the Sunday afternoon with her friend Michael, she cancels him beforehand as a matter of decency. The afternoon is not going as Bading expected. Ulrike discreetly rejects him, but Ulrike's classmate Silke Rupp is waiting at his front door. He takes Silke into his apartment, but when she goes to the bathroom and wants to listen to the radio there, it ends fatally for her because the device falls into the water. Bading worriedly calls his friend and work colleague Manfred Meissen for help. It scares him that the press and police would cause a scandal if they found out that he was dating teenagers. So they bring the body out of the apartment and put it in a field. When a farmer finds her there, he calls the police. Stoever and Brockmöller then investigate and want to investigate the death, which, according to the pathologists, was possibly just a misfortune. However, since murder cannot be ruled out either, the investigators research the victim's surroundings.

The inspectors learned from schoolmates that Silke Rupp had always met older men. She's only been with one lately, though. Stoever and Brockmöller quickly find out that this is Thomas Bading. When they want to find him in his apartment, they find him lying there dead on the floor. To find out who could have killed Bading, Brockmöller goes to the Bading shipyard, which is run by Johannes Bading, the victim's father. He describes his son as a spoiled child who always wanted everything and would have ruined everything. The work colleagues knew that Thomas Bading had always amused himself with young girls, so the investigators have his apartment examined forensically and there are indications that Silke Rupp must have died in this apartment.

When Ulrike's parents were questioned, contradictions emerged, so the daughter should be brought in for clarification. Unexpectedly, Ulrike's mother makes a confession. She testifies that she did not like Bading spending so much time with her daughter and giving her expensive gifts. She wanted to confront him and would have gone to see him in his apartment. In an argument, she would have beaten him until he fell dead. The investigators notice immediately that this statement cannot be true. They question Ulrike and she admits that she went to Bading because she wanted to ask him what would have happened to her friend Silke. She was in his bedroom with him when the doorbell rang and her mother suddenly appeared. She had insulted him and accused him of his many love affairs, so Bading threw them out of the apartment again. She had overheard it and was so angry that she would have taken a glass carafe and slammed it until he stopped moving. However, there are still unanswered questions about this confession, because, according to the forensic technician, fingerprints were removed from the carafe, although Ulrike credibly assures that she did not wipe it off. In addition, the time at which the dead man's clock stopped due to the fall does not match the time of death. There was a difference of three hours between them.

As Stoever and Brockmöller find out, Badings is missing a six-figure sum in the company's coffers and the senior boss wants to leave the company to Manfred Meissen since his only heir is no longer alive. This then moves into the focus of the investigators and they confront them with the facts. So in the end it turns out that he found Bading still alive in his apartment on the floor and took the opportunity to get rid of him. He thought that with his knowledge of the circumstances of Silke Rupp's death he had Bading in his hand and could thus cover up the embezzlement in the company, but Bading did not want to participate.

background

Death of a Girl is the first of four Stoever Tatort films directed by Jürgen Roland .

criticism

TV fiction called Death of a Girl "a murderous hunt with a moving finale."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: death of a girl . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2009 (PDF; test number: 118 870 V).
  2. ↑ Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on November 17, 2014.
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