Crime scene: dream house

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title dream house
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 NDR
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 414 ( List )
First broadcast May 30, 1999 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Ulrich Stark
script Raimund Weber
production Studio Hamburg film production
music Klaus Doldinger
camera Wolf Siegelmann
cut Inge Bohmann
occupation

Traumhaus is a television film from the crime series Tatort on ARD and ORF . The film was produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk and was first broadcast on May 30, 1999. It is the crime scene episode 414. For the detective chief inspector Paul Stoever , embodied by Manfred Krug , it is his 36th case, the detective chief inspector Peter Brockmöller, represented by Charles Brauer, is investigating his 33rd case. The murder of a local journalist, who leads the commissioners on the trail of a building fraud that is accompanied by a family tragedy, needs to be investigated. The main guest stars of this episode are Ulrich Mühe , Susanne Lothar , Peter Sattmann , Marion Breckwoldt , Krystian Martinek and Gustav Peter Wöhler .

action

The real estate agent Gunnar Engelhardt praises the couple Friedel and Hanna Hebbel for a single-family home "in the best location and at fair conditions," he says. He guarantees them rapid construction progress and urges them to conclude a contract because there are other interested parties. Friedel Hebbel gives himself a jerk and a contract is concluded. Later the couple toast their “dream house”. When Hebbel arrives at his company the next day, he experiences a nasty surprise. His supervisor, Sponge, tells the completely disconcerted man that the company has to part with him because of a drop in orders. Hebbel cannot change his mind when he tells him that he has just bought a house, is a sole breadwinner and that his wife is pregnant again. At home, Hebbel doesn't tell his wife about his dismissal.

Three weeks later, the body of local reporter Hans Joachim Hoffmann is found. From a colleague, the journalist Linda Meyer, the investigating detective chief inspectors Paul Stoever and Peter Brockmöller learn that "Hajo" was well known to many local greats, for example the mayor Willi Ralf Fromm, on whose property the body was found has been.

During their investigations, Stoever and Brockmöller come across the name Friedel Hebbel. When they question the man, he gives them a plausible explanation for his phone call with Hoffmann. In the meantime, Hanna Hebbel has found out about her husband's dismissal through a call from a Ms. Schneider demanding the return of a company cell phone. When she asks him about it, he just says that she shouldn't worry, that he already has work that is very similar to his previous one. He works for a newly founded company Metanet. Werner Braune, who had also received a notice from his former employer, is also employed there.

Further investigations reveal that Hoffmann's account contains DM 100,000, the origin of which is unclear. The commissioners also find out that the building area on the "Heuberg" was only designated as a residential area some time ago. Luise Fromm inherited the property from an old lady. Less than four weeks after their death, 80,000 square meters of fallow land were converted into building land, which made the Fromms richer by many millions overnight, so to speak. The commissioners suspect that Fromm gave “Hajo” 100,000 DM for singing praises of the mayor, as researched newspaper articles revealed. Hoffmann knew the true background such as abuse of office , corruption , infidelity , inheritance fraud, but did not report truthfully, but wanted to collect. Mayor Fromm admits that Hoffmann wanted money from them, but didn't get it. He adds that if the inspectors had been to the Heuberg, they would surely know that the Alsterland GmbH of a certain Gunnar Engelhardt had cheated 24 house builders out of a huge fortune. There were already bankruptcy proceedings against Engelhardt, which were discontinued due to lack of funds .

In the meantime, Hoffmann's car has been seized; in addition to the fatal bullet, a newspaper was also found in it with a circled advertisement: Wohnidylle Klingenthal - A dream come true! Building plots and houses, offered by the real estate and real estate company Riemenschneider since 1899 . When Hebbel went to his building site the next day, he met a man who tortured himself telling him that the excavators would no longer come, Engelhardt was a fraud, all of their money was gone and the realtor was making a good life for himself. When Hebbel points out that the company is long-established and has existed since 1899, he only means that Engelhard bought the name from a small company in order to pretend to be serious. When Hebbel is callously brushed off by an employee on his financing bank, he drives into the forest and digs out a pistol. Then he seeks out Engelhardt, who is just about to pack everything up and run away. He wants his 223,000 DM back, he demands. A shot is fired - Engelhardt falls to the ground and Hebbel runs away in horror.

Friedel Hebbel found out from Werner Braune that they had to take a short break because there would be difficulties with a veterinarian who wanted to call in the veterinary office. Shortly afterwards, Hebbel is arrested and interrogated. The officers also tell him that he is at least liable for the illegal antibiotic orders he has signed. "Sparkasse Holstein has taken over the financing for many of these poor devils," says Brockmöller. Due to a court order, Brockmöller has access to all data related to the construction project. There you also come across the name Friedel Hebbel, a pharmaceutical representative whom you had already visited at the beginning of the case.

It was by chance that Hanna Hebbel found large quantities of Resabol cough syrup in the trunk of her husband's car. With the help of her friend Brigitte, she got suspicious of information on the password-protected floppy disk. What she has to read there worries the pregnant woman deeply. Her husband is said to be part of the antibiotic mafia. Hanna sets out in a rush. Friedel Hebbel has now administered sleeping pills to his children. When Hanna comes home worried, she is surprised that the children have already fallen asleep. She confronts her husband with the floppy disk. "Please tell me that you have nothing to do with Hoffmann's death," she begs him. “It's all much worse,” he replies, “I killed Engelhardt too, it's all over”. Hanna sees the sleeping pill packs open and hurries to her children. Her husband follows her with a pistol, he wants to shoot her. Hanna manages to knock him over. Suddenly Stoever and Brockmöller are in the room. Hebbel admits that Hoffmann had tracked him down and wanted to meet with him. He quickly noticed that Hoffmann would not have spared him even if he had unpacked. As a result, there was an exchange of words and a scramble and a shot from Hoffmann's weapon was released. He didn't want that, and he only wanted his money back from Engelhardt. The commissioners have to take him away. Hanna and the children are standing at the window when he gets into the police car.

reception

Audience rating

When it was first broadcast on May 30, 1999, the episode Traumhaus recorded 9.06 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 31.01 percent.

criticism

TV Spielfilm said: “The duo is singing As Time Goes By - and it seems almost too relaxed. Leisurely fall, solidly unwound. "

The TV magazine Hörzu judged: “A solid Hamburger Fischkopp food, but not a 'crime scene' to shiver along with. Instead of single-mindedly investigating, Manfred Krug and Charles Brauer were more like two crime-hunting singing brothers who would even use maggots from pathology for fishing. "

Günter H. Jekubzik from the online film magazine Filmtabs said that it could have been “a gripping, harrowing crime thriller from the planning point of view”, but primarily disagreed with the fact that Raimund Weber's material also contained other topics, such as a dead man Journalists and his research into a drug scandal and, above all, “the investigators played by Manfred Krug and Charles Brauer with the urge to do a solo show”, which also made the “well-known haunting game of Ulrich Mühe and Susanne Lothar as the Hebbel couple out of place”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Data on the crime scene: Dream house on the tatort-fundus.de page
  2. ^ Tatort: ​​Traumhaus on the TV feature film page (with pictures of the film). Retrieved July 27, 2020.
  3. ↑ Crime scene: dream house . In: Hörzu , number 24 of June 11, 1999, p. 32.
  4. ^ Tatort: ​​Traumhaus on the filmtabs.de site. Retrieved July 27, 2020.
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