Crime scene: transit to the afterlife

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Transit to the hereafter
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company
SFB
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 69 ( List )
First broadcast December 5, 1976 on German television
Rod
Director Günter Gräwert
script Günter Gräwert , Jens-Peter Behrend
production Heinz Janell
music Klaus Doldinger
camera Horst Schier ,
Holger Eichhorn
cut Friederike Badekow
occupation

Transit into the afterlife is a consequence of the ARD crime series Tatort . The episode produced by the broadcaster Free Berlin (SFB) was first broadcast on December 5, 1976 on ARD. It is the second crime scene with Commissioner Schmidt, who has to solve a death on the transit route from West Berlin to the Federal Republic of Germany.

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Horst Bremer stands in a back yard in Berlin-Kreuzberg and observes a resident of the apartment building there, the waitress Erika Marquart. He even follows her to the supermarket and back home, jotting down the names of her neighbors and calling her from the phone booth without answering. Together with his accomplice Martin Poll, he also visits the restaurant where she works, but the two sit separately and communicate in secret. The next day, Poll secretly takes photos of Erika Marquart. Horst Bremer visits the restaurant again in the evening and this time seeks a conversation with her. While Poll is developing the photos of Erika, he receives a visit from Inspector Schmidt and his assistant Hassert, who asks him about a Hagemann murder case, in which Poll was probably involved. He pretends to be done and doesn't know too much, in order to get rid of the officers quickly. Shortly afterwards you can see Horst Bremer and Erika Marquart, who obviously got closer to each other very quickly. Bremer can report to Poll that Erika owes her boss to the amount of DM 5,000. Bremer also gives Poll the measurements of Erika.

Meanwhile, Erika is in love with Bremer, who has entered into a love affair with her. Erika finds a photo of a woman at Bremer's home, he claims it is Gisela, his brother's fiancée, and claims that the story behind it is “not so funny”. She would live in the GDR and would not get an exit permit. His brother was going to suffer a lot, so he would find a way to get her over. Bremer explains the plan to Erika. Since his brother had only been in the West for two years and was not allowed to go to the GDR, he would go to the GDR with a woman who looked like Gisela. A second car with a friend drives behind. At a rest stop, Gisela would then take the place of the West German woman and Bremer would drive her and the identity papers of the West German woman across the border to Bavaria. The West German woman was then supposed to drive across the border in the accomplice's trunk. It is safer to take two cars, if you get caught, Bremer and Gisela are already in the west, and the woman in the trunk could then tell you that she came from the toilet at the rest area and that her driver simply drove away with her papers. Bremer's accomplice would then have taken her in the trunk to help her out of the predicament on the GDR transit route. Since a check by the GDR border guards in such a case would have shown that the woman in the trunk really comes from West Berlin or the Federal Republic, she would have no punishment to fear. He indicated that he had a girl, but she was already asking for 7,000 DM instead of the agreed 5,000 DM, and she would have done something like this a few times and Bremer feared that she might be exposed. With this trick, Bremer Erika gets to take part for 5,000 DM, as was planned by Bremer and Poll.

In the following days Erika practices driving in the trunk with Bremer in order to get used to the circumstances on the day of the escape. Erika even dyes her hair blonde because Gisela has blonde hair. In addition, she updates her photo in her ID card accordingly so that Gisela looks similar to the photo. Erika says goodbye to her boss, she has taken two days of vacation under the pretext of going to West Germany for a funeral. At the Dreilinden border crossing, Bremer and Erika meet Poll, who is going through the transit route in another car and who is supposed to take Erika into the trunk at the rest area. You pass the border crossing to the GDR without any problems and make your way over the transit route to Hof. The trip goes so far without incident and they are well on schedule. But then they are stopped by the People's Police, a West German car has broken down and the People's Police instruct Bremer to provide breakdown assistance. He has no choice but to obey this request, which disrupts the escape aid schedule significantly. While he has to provide roadside assistance, he sees Poll, who drove with a delay, pass him. Meanwhile, Gisela waits for her escape helpers at the agreed resting place. Bremer has finally finished the breakdown assistance and Bremer and Erika rushed to continue the journey. Bremer can finally drive to the rest area just a few meters behind the breakdown point to pick up Gisela. However, due to the delay and the presence of the People's Police, Poll had to continue driving immediately in front of the rest area. Bremer therefore decides to hide Erika in his own trunk, but just at that moment a Trabant arrives at the rest area so that Erika has to get back into the passenger cell. Bremer wants to hide Erika in the trunk at a later rest area. This mishap gives Erika and Gisela the opportunity to talk. Bremer tries to stop the conversation, but he cannot prevent Erika from finding out that Gisela is not the fiancée of Bremer's alleged brother, but that he neither knows Bremer nor one of Bremer's brothers privately. Erika realizes that it is a commercial escape aid and feels used.

Bremer can stop at another rest area to hide Erika in the trunk. Since she no longer wants to participate in the escape plan, he offers her more money. But because she is too injured, she wants to get out and runs away from Bremer. Bremer tries to catch her. Erika falls unhappily, hits her head and is dead on the spot. Bremer hides the corpse in a makeshift concrete tube on a construction site right next to the rest area and continues the journey alone with Gisela. Gisela is shocked by the incident, which she observed from the car, but has no choice but to continue the escape despite the circumstances with Bremer. Bremer takes Erika's body from her handbag before continuing, as it contains the identity card that Gisela needs to flee. A West Berlin family who arrived at the rest area immediately after Bremer continued his journey found Erika's body, but did not contact the People's Police, apparently out of fear of reprisals or suspicion. Bremer, unmoved, instructs Gisela to memorize the data from Erika's identity card precisely so that the rest of the process at the border can take place without interference. Gisela is shocked by Bremer's cold-bloodedness and wants to break off the attempt to escape. But Bremer blocks and says the plan must now be carried out. To make sure that Gisela comes with him, he takes Gisela's handbag. You can then cross the border into West Germany without any problems. Poll and Bremer meet again at the rest stop right across the border. Bremer reports to Poll what happened. Gisela is now with Poll, he wants to accommodate her in a Munich hotel, until the matter is resolved, she should assume the identity of Erika Marquart. She refuses, but Poll explains that she has no other choice.

Bremer looks for the mastermind behind the commercial escape aid, who also says that there would be no problems as long as they had an "Erika Marquart". In the meantime, the West Berlin police received a telex from the GDR authorities that a corpse was found on the transit route, which apparently came from the Federal Republic or West Berlin according to the clothes and which may have fallen victim to a violent crime. Meanwhile, Gisela plays the gangster game and pretends to be Erika Marquart. Meanwhile, Schmidt and Hassert are investigating; Schmidt remembers having seen Erika Marquart's face before. But there is no missing person report that fits the dead person, unknown to the officials. In the photo laboratory of the police headquarters, Schmidt suddenly remembers the photos he saw at Poll, he and Hassert then rush to his apartment, which is also his studio, but they don't meet anyone there, since Poll is in Munich with Gisela. A neighboring business owner told Schmidt that Poll went on vacation in a rental car. He wanted to be back a long time ago, but is obviously still on the way. His own car is said to be broken, but a check by Hassert reveals that Poll's car is working. Hassert checks the rental car companies and finds out that Poll has taken a rental car but has not yet returned it, even though the agreed loan period has been exceeded by days. The car was finally returned in Munich. Schmidt and Hassert can determine a connection between Poll and Horst Bremer, who also took a rental car on the same day, but returned it as planned two days later.

The officials look to Horst Bremer, who says he drove to Munich with the rental car, but the officials have determined that 600 kilometers are missing on the clock. Bremer becomes entangled in contradictions when he claims to have gone on vacation to Munich with his girlfriend, Erika Marquart. He had a fight with his girlfriend, whereupon she drove on with Martin Poll, while he turned around just across the border and drove back to Berlin. Bremer is visibly nervous about this information. Schmidt contacts his colleague Veigl, who is supposed to check and arrest Poll. Veigl and Lenz drive to the hotel where Poll and the alleged Erika Marquart stayed, there they learn that the two have already left. Schmidt and Hassert speculate that a person Erika Marquart, if she was the corpse, must have died on the transit route and another East German woman must have left her place. In this way they can correctly pick up the scent of the case and suspect professional help to escape. They verify the identity of Erika Marquart, as the unknown body is to be transferred to West Berlin the next day. Meanwhile, Horst Bremer is being reprimanded by the mastermind behind the escape assistance. He could not use witnesses. Meanwhile, Schmidt and Hassert visit Erika Marquart's boss. He also reports on the debts that Erika had with him. He reports that the amount was transferred to him from Munich and that the debts have thus been paid. He wondered why she didn't come back but had transferred the money. He reports that Horst Bremer picked her up before her vacation. She was so in love with him that she even had her hair dyed for his sake. He also got a message on a typewriter that she has found her great love and happiness and will not be back. The officers show the boss the photo of the corpse, which he immediately recognizes as Erika Marquart.

Shortly afterwards, Hassert informed Schmidt in a meeting about the issue of escape aid that Bremer had disappeared without a trace. Hassert finds out that Bremer flew to Munich. He suspects that the East German woman who currently lives as Erika Marquart is about to be murdered because she is an unwelcome witness. He instructs his colleague Veigl to shadow Bremer, but not to arrest him. Veigl and his people shadow Bremer from the airport, Schmidt arrives from Berlin, he reports to Veigl that Gisela's life is in great danger. The next day, Poll drives Gisela from Munich to a village where he wants to hide her. He agreed with Bremer that he should kill her there. Veigl, Lenz and Schmidt follow Bremer. Poll tells Gisela that she should report to the authorities in the village, which is right on the border, as a GDR refugee. Meanwhile, Bremer pulls out his gun to kill Gisela, and Poll sets it down at the agreed point where she is supposed to fall victim to Bremer. Bremer sees Gisela and aims at her with his gun. At the last moment, Commissioner Schmidt can intervene with Veigl's company car and arrest Bremer. Veigl determines that the weapon is an Eastern model, so Bremer and his accomplices wanted to fake a shooting by GDR border officials, but Schmidt, Veigl and Lenz got in the way. Only now does Gisela realize that her life was in great danger.

Audience ratings

When it was first broadcast, the episode achieved a market share of 44.00%.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Release certificate for crime scene: Transit into the hereafter . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. Investigations on the transit route on Morgenpost.de
  3. Tatort: ​​Transit into the Hereafter on tatort-fundus.de, accessed on 23 August 2014.