Crime scene: dead people don't need an apartment

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The dead don't need an apartment
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavarian radio
length 77 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 34 ( List )
First broadcast November 11, 1973 on German television
Rod
Director Wolfgang Staudte
script Michael Molsner
production Peter Tügel , Peter Hoheisel
music Pop group "18 Karat Gold"
camera Michael Ballhaus
cut Engelbert Kraus
occupation

Dead do not need a home is the 34th TV film of the crime series Tatort . Produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk, the episode was broadcast for the first time on November 11, 1973 on ARD's first program. This is the third case of Commissioner Veigl, portrayed by Gustl Bayrhammer . The result is the gentrification of parts of Munich city center and the poisonous death of an old woman.

action

In Munich, demonstrations are taking place in more and more parts of the city due to the ongoing gentrification . Josef Bacher, who has been released from the youth detention center in Hamburg, is returning to his family after years in his hometown. The reception from his mother Nadja is cool. She works as a successful photographer . Joseph's sister, who has recently been divorced from her Spanish husband, has also returned to her mother with her two children. The Bachers and Erwin have to move out of their house soon, because this too is to be demolished and replaced by a new building. Josef Bacher reports that after his release from prison he had work in Bremen, but now it has ended and he wants to stay in Munich permanently. When he realizes that his mother is not welcoming him, he quickly says goodbye. His stepfather Erwin Kempf, who is friendly towards the young man, reproaches Nadja for being so negative towards her son, she admits that she doesn't like her son because he reminds her so much of her divorced husband. Erwin thinks it was a mistake to have put Josef in a home at the time. He goes out to Josef, who is still sitting in the stairwell and doesn't know where to go, and offers him money, but Josef refuses. Josef tells Erwin that he has a well-paid job in Munich, but that it is nothing illegal. Erwin advises his stepson to go back to Bremen and not do any nonsense.

Josef Bacher's new employer is the wealthy landlord Pröpper. He warns Josef that the job is not safe, but Bacher dares to do the job. Pröpper quarters Bacher as a subtenant with the old Mrs. Altmann. His first assignment leads him to the Mandl family, where he is supposed to repair a heating boiler, which amazes the Mandls because Pröpper wants to throw them out and demolish the house. Ms. Altmann is not at all enthusiastic about her new subtenant, but agrees because Pröpper offers her a cheap apartment in one of his new buildings after the demolition. Ms. Altmann is interested in marrying Mr. Hallbaum, who is about the same age, but, as she learns from Mr. Hallbaum's grandson Jürgen, she has grown up a competitor in Ms. Kreipl. The next morning at seven o'clock, Bacher begins his “work”. He knocks the plaster off the walls, supposedly because the walls needed to be reinsulated. Mandl complains to Pröpper because, instead of repairing the boiler, Bacher sabotaged it so that the landlords can no longer do the dishes. Pröpper pretends not to have a craftsman who could help. When Bacher wanted to enter the bar, Mandl furiously banned him from the house . Hallbaum's grandson asks his grandfather why he is looking for a two-room apartment with Frau Altmann, because where should he stay then? Hallbaum then explains to his grandson that he should live with his mother in the future. He thinks that the mother's volatile nature would already subside if her son, who had previously lived with his grandfather, would live with her.

When Mr. Hallbaum and his grandson return to the house, there are police and a large crowd there because Ms. Altmann was found dead in her apartment. Veigl meets her attending doctor in the apartment, who reports that Ms. Altmann called him the day before and complained about an upset stomach. The next morning he would therefore have gone to her and had the caretaker open the apartment. There he found Frau Altmann dead. Veigl realizes that Ms. Altmann wanted to make a phone call, but couldn't do it anymore. Ms. Altmann has been poisoned, and in the sugar bowl, forensics detects a powder that doesn't belong there. Because of these circumstances, Veigl and his assistants rule out that she poisoned herself . In front of the assembled house community, the Mandls and the other tenants suspect Pröpper and Bacher of having killed Ms. Altmann. The Mandls later tell Veigl that they have been running the restaurant for twenty years as a tenant from Pröpper, but that he persuaded them to terminate the lease by promising them that they would get the entire ground floor for their restaurant in the new building. After they terminated the lease , he informed the Mandls, with reference to a hidden clause, that he was not building himself, but was selling the property to an insurance company, so that the Mandls had no premises for their restaurant. Lenz and Brettschneider question all tenants in the house one by one. Jürgen Hallbaum tells his mother and her friend about the survey. He says that he is very happy that Mrs. Altmann is dead because Mrs. Kreipl has more money and he therefore hopes that she will marry his grandfather so that they can rent a larger apartment and take him in too. His mother and her sister, however, are not on good terms with Mrs. Kreipl. The friend of Jürgen's mother says that the Hallbaum sisters are finally rid of the Altmann, now they should also see that they get rid of the Kreipl.

Veigl asks the Bachers, he asks why the son doesn't live with them. Ms. mother refers to the cramped living conditions. Erwin remarks that his stepson would have a good job in Munich at Pröpper "with a bonus". Veigl pricks up his ears and notes that ten days ago another older woman was found poisoned in a redevelopment area in Bremen. Böck in Bremen takes action at Veigl's request and supports the investigation from Bremen. He is looking for the nephew of the woman who was poisoned ten days ago, a Mr.Singer, and asks him again. He shows him a photo of Josef Bacher, but he pretends not to know him. He asks singer where he got the money for his expensive sports car. His girlfriend interferes in the conversation and says that the singer has inherited the money. When Böck notes that the dead woman was murdered, she claims that he told her that the old lady died of heart failure. Böck says that there was no money in the old lady's account and he hypothesizes that the lady, like many of her contemporaries, probably kept the money in the apartment because she mistrusted the banks. Singer is caught and tries to escape. After a car chase, he is arrested for the murder of his aunt. It is therefore clear that this case is not related to the death of Ms. Altmann.

Veigl asks Pröpper about his work and payment for Josef Bacher. Pröpper pretends that he acted out of a social conscience and wanted to help a convicted person with rehabilitation . He denies that he wanted to knock out the tenants with Bacher's help, if Bacher really killed Frau Altmann, he must have "misunderstood" something. However, he admits that he would pay Bacher DM 1,000 for every "successful case". Veigl visits the Hallbaum family the next day, while grandfather Hallbaum announces that he and Mrs. Kreipl are going to get married and that they will order the contingent the next day. Veigl asks Ms. Kreipl about her relationship with Ms. Altmann. She testifies that they had a bad relationship and that she wanted to clean it up the evening before her death. When she came to visit, Pröpper was leaving. Ms. Altmann and Ms. Kreipl had spoken out and had tea together. Veigl pays attention because he only found a teacup. They wouldn't have taken sugar with their tea . Bacher, who is again entrusted with harassing work against the tenants, tells Veigl how much he suffered in the home where his mother had given him. When he wants to drink a beer in the Mandl's restaurant during his break and Rudi Mandl wants to throw him out, Bacher suddenly pulls a gun. Brettschneider, who happened to be there, disarmed Bacher, but the gun was not loaded. Bacher warns Mandl that he would have to kill him, otherwise he would keep coming back.

Jürgen Hallbaum asks Veigl why he doesn't lock Bacher up and why he doesn't stop the renovations. Veigl tries to explain to him that there is nothing he can do about it. Jürgen Hallbaum goes to Bacher and insults him as a criminal, Bacher tells him that he also knows that he has been to Ms. Altmann's apartment. Bacher sends him brusque. Rudi Mandl follows Bacher and attacks him on the banks of the Isar and knocks him down. Jürgen Hallbaum finds Bacher trying to stand up and climb the stairs on the bank. Jürgen says that he has now got what he deserves. When Bacher says he will tell Veigl what he knows, Jürgen pushes him down the stairs, so that Josef Bacher falls fatally on the back of the head. Jürgen runs away. He runs into the Mandls' restaurant, where he learns that the fall was fatal for Bacher. Rudi explains that he has nothing to do with it. The coroner reports that the blows to the face were not fatal. An elderly couple testifies that they saw a boy run away, the description they give Veigl matches Jürgen. Veigl goes to the Mandl restaurant and asks about Jürgen. He informs Rudi Mandl that he no longer considers him suspicious. He writes out Jürgen Hallbaum for a manhunt because he ran away. A police patrol watches the boy as he runs towards a weir on the banks of the Isar. Jürgen climbs into the weir and threatens to jump. Veigl tries to pull him away from there. The boy confesses that he killed Bacher because he wanted to reveal that he also poisoned Ms. Altmann. Veigl explains to him that he has a chance since he is not yet of criminal age and promises to help him. Jürgen Veigl then gives his hand and lets him save him.

particularities

The film was shot under the working title Sanierung from June 28 to mid-July 1973 in Munich.

When it was first broadcast on November 11, 1973 by ARD , the episode achieved a market share of 47.00%.

The dead do not need an apartment caused massive criticism from the broadcasting council of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation of the "brutal and inhuman representation" by the landlord Pröpper ( Walter Sedlmayr ). The episode was then banned from repetitions for 19 years until 1992 and only repeated after a change of director.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: dead people do not need an apartment . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2010 (PDF; test number: 122 371 V).
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Staudte - actor, director . In: CineGraph - Lexicon for German-Language Films, Lg. 20, F 28
  3. ↑ "Dead people don't need an apartment" at tatort-fundus.de
  4. ↑ "Poison cabinet consequences" at tatort-fundus.de
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