Crime scene: death makes you inventive

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Death is inventive
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SFB
length 83 minutes
classification Episode 174 ( List )
First broadcast November 10, 1985 on German television
Rod
Director Rolf von Sydow
script Detlef Michel
production Horst Borasch
music Jürgen Franke
camera Rolf Liccini
cut Friederike Badekow
occupation

Death makes inventive is an episode of the ARD crime series Tatort . The episode produced by the broadcaster Free Berlin (SFB) was first broadcast on November 10, 1985 on ARD. It is the first crime scene with Chief Detective Bülow, who has to pursue the revenge plan of a prematurely released prisoner.

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Chief Detective Bülow returns to his old office in West Berlin after the death of his wife after eight years in Hamburg. His former superior, Chief Detective Stegmüller, had him come because Gerhard Maschke, who Bülow had once arrested for a fatal hostage-taking in connection with a robbery, has now been released because of a fatal cancer. The Maschke case was Bülow's last case before he was transferred to Hamburg. Maschke had a lot of bad luck in life and was employed as a night watchman in the company of his wealthy brother Klaus. According to the file, he took his brother and his wife hostage at the time, prepared a dummy bomb on his brother's yacht and forced him to hand over the entire contents of his safe. Meanwhile, Maschke's sister-in-law, who was tied up and gagged on the yacht, suffocated while trying to free herself from the gag. On the way to the airport, Gerhard Maschke had a car accident so that he could be arrested.

A few days ago the police received an anonymous letter that Maschke was up to something. In contrast to his colleague Leuschner, with whom he was working on the case at the time, Bülow takes the letter seriously and believes Maschke wants revenge on him and Leuschner. Bülow shadows Gerhard Maschke and then visits Klaus Maschke in his Dahlem villa, but only meets Klaus' new wife Bettina, who tells him that she met her husband about five or six years ago. Bettina shows Bülow a letter that Gerhard Maschke sent her husband after he was released. Bülow then visits Klaus Maschke on his yacht, Klaus Maschke is no longer interested in his brother and the whole matter, Gerhard Maschke has not been his brother since the fact. While Bülow reads from the formulation of Maschke's letter to his brother that he is up to something, Leuschner dismisses Bülow's assumptions as speculation. Bülow points out that Gerhard Maschke always protested his innocence at the time and claimed that his brother had called him in, gave him the money and asked him to bring it to Switzerland for him. Leuschner recalls the evidence that they had found at the time, and that Bülow also considered them to be solid.

On behalf of Bülow, his young colleague Öllerink observes how Maschke gets a gun and the next day spies on the extremely wealthy jeweler Uwe Neudörfer and his wife on the balcony of their house. Gerhard Maschke noticed that he was being monitored by Öllerink. This causes Bülow to distance himself from his theory that Maschke wanted to take revenge on the officials, rather he seems to be planning a new coup. Bülow secretly searches the gazebo in which Maschke lives. In addition to a map of the city on which a jetty at Wannsee is marked, he also finds parts for building a dummy bomb, so it looks as if he wants to repeat the act from then. Öllerink has also found out that Maschke has booked a flight to Caracas in three days, Bülow and his team don't have much time to prevent the attack.

Bülow visits Neudörfer in one of his shops to warn him of the impending attack. Neudörfer is dismayed and reports to Bülow and Leuschner that a customer wants to meet him at home to offer him jewelry. The meeting is supposed to take place on the evening of the day after next, i.e. on the evening when Bülow and his team assume Maschke's planned time for the attack. Bülow can persuade Neudörfer to play the decoy for Maschke. Then he goes to Maschke and admonishes him not to commit anything stupid.

Two days later, a number of undercover investigators took a camouflaged position in front of the Neudörfer's house, Bülow and Leuschner were waiting with colleagues in the house to catch Maschke in the act. Maschke leaves his gazebo, watched by officials, and takes the bus towards the city center, where he visits a restaurant. While Bülow is rushing towards the city center, Maschke calls the Leuschner, who is still waiting at the Neudörfer's, from the pub and says that he had tricked them because they had tricked him, Maschner, back then. Next to Maschke is Leuschner's new friend Anita Herboldt, who now triumphantly introduces herself to him as Maschke's daughter Corinna, Maschke had put her on Leuschner. When police officers enter the restaurant shortly afterwards, father and daughter Maschke have already disappeared. Leuschner realizes that it was Maschke himself who wrote the anonymous letter to the police to lure them on Maschke's trail. Meanwhile, Maschke seeks out his brother Klaus and his wife Bettina in order to get his brother's money the way Klaus told the police at the time and put his brother in prison for eight years. Gerhard points out that the bomb is real this time and tells him on the head that he himself killed his wife back then and blamed it on him.

When Klaus is clearing his safe in the house to hand over the money to Gerhard, he suddenly changes his mind and directs Klaus back to the jetty. Gerhard gets his brother, who thinks his wife is in mortal danger, to confess the deed in front of him and Corinna, who is waiting there. Unnoticed by Klaus, Bülow, who was appointed by Maschke and Bettina, who has long since been freed, overheard Klaus' confession that Bülow has Klaus Maschke arrested for the murder of his first wife. The bomb, like then, was a dummy. When Bülow wanted to apologize to Gerhard Maschke, he turned down the apology.

Background and audience rating

When it was first broadcast, this episode was able to reach 23.58 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 60%. The episode was filmed in West Berlin between June 19 and July 27, 1985.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm rate this crime scene as mediocre.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tatort: ​​Death makes inventive data for the 174th Tatort at tatort-fundus.de
  2. ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on March 2, 2015.
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