Crime scene: Trimmel and Isolde
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Trimmel and Isolde |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
NDR |
| length | 93 minutes |
| classification | Episode 141 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | September 19, 1982 on ARD |
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| Director | Peter Weck |
| script | Friedhelm Werremeier |
| production | Rudiger Humpert |
| music | André Bauer |
| camera | Gert Thieme |
| cut | Annemarie Bremer |
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Trimmel and Isolde is a German television crime thriller by Peter Weck from 1982. It was created as the 141st episode of the crime series Tatort .
action
On September 30, 1981 the well-known Siegfried Matuschek conducted Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde in the Hamburg State Opera . Matuschek's daughter Isolde Bothüter and her lover, the Italian Valpone, are also in the audience. The next late afternoon, the Hamburg police received an emergency call from a woman - Isolde. She can hardly be understood, the call is traced and two policemen finally find Isolde seriously injured in her apartment. She was obviously dejected. Shortly afterwards, she died of her injuries in the apartment. Everything indicates that a record with Tristan and Isolde was playing loudly during the crime , so that neighbor Dalkow, even if he had been at home, could not have heard anything about the crime. Dalkow also confirms that Isolde heard Wagner constantly and very loudly. Therefore, her marriage to editor Klaus broke up. However, she found a music lover in Valpone. Valpone appears shortly afterwards in the apartment and is horrified that Isolde is dead. The investigators take him to the station for questioning, but Valpone has an alibi .
Paul Trimmel's investigators are surprised that Isolde's nine-year-old daughter Isolde has not yet come home. The evening is already advanced and investigator Karin Stiller is now meticulously searching the apartment. She finds Isolde in shock, locked in a storage room. When first asked who was last at her mother's, Isolde indicates by refusing to answer that her father is the one wanted. Isolde is taken to the hospital for observation. Here, in turn, the investigators are no longer allowed to question Isolde, as she was temporarily handed over to the care of the youth welfare office , which strictly forbids any contact with the daughter.
A witness comes forward who has seen a man leaving the apartment. The description could fit Klaus Bothüter. A neighbor had fetched 600 marks for the dead person from the savings bank on the day of the incident. The money was not found in the apartment, so the investigators assume robbery . Klaus had to pay Isolde high alimony . After the time of the crime he had dinner with his new girlfriend Marlies Effenberger, but had the bill written down, says the landlord Westphal. This brings Trimmel off his lead, according to which Klaus murdered for the money. Nevertheless, he subjects Klaus to an interrogation , at the end of which Klaus breaks down emotionally. Trimmel had accused him of the fact that the perpetrator had approved the death of the daughter, who could have suffocated in her prison. Klaus tries to explain why the perpetrator did not release the child after the crime or why he gave an anonymous indication of where the child is. When Klaus realizes that he could have betrayed himself, he turns off the interrogation tape and insults Trimmel.
Trimmel apparently lets him go, but shadows him in the process. Klaus knocks one of the two civilian policemen down and flees. He visits his daughter Isolde in the hospital and she welcomes him enthusiastically. She wants to know whether they are both going on vacation as planned. Trimmel appears and arrests Klaus. Klaus ' fingerprints on the murder weapon, a Wagner bust, and a cigarette butt from Klaus' favorite brand Parisienne in the apartment are clues that justify a murder charge. Klaus' environment does everything to clear his name. His newspaper Mittag presents Klaus as an innocent man, while Marlies Effenberger tries everything to be able to adopt Klaus Isolde . Klaus 'defense takes over Marlies' ex-boyfriend Schenkel.
At the trial it cannot be proven beyond any doubt that Klaus was the perpetrator. Although the evidence speaks for his act, all evidence can also be interpreted in his favor. Since Isolde makes use of her right to refuse to testify , she is out of the question as the main witness, especially since her relationship with her mother was bad. At the end of the day, a main motive for Klaus' innocence is the statement by the host Westphal that Klaus had the bill put down. According to the judge, he would not have done that if he had had money. Witness Westphal will not be questioned in court because he is injured in hospital. The verdict is acquittal . Because Siegfried Matuschek is noisy, the negotiation is interrupted.
During the break, host Westphal surprisingly comes to court. Photographer Gerber tells him that Klaus was acquitted, among other things because he had no money to pay for the meal on the day of the crime. Westphal reports that Klaus had 600 marks with him and even showed them to him and his girlfriend. Nevertheless, he had written down, as he had done before. In turn, he said nothing about the money when questioned because the police did not ask him about it. Gerber is shocked, but now he knows that Klaus killed Isolde. The reading of the verdict ends shortly thereafter. The judge closes the session with the words that if Klaus was guilty, he would have to agree this with his conscience until the end of his life. In front of the court, Klaus is greeted by Marlies and daughter Isolde. Isolde is happy that he can now spend the holidays with her.
production
Trimmel und Isolde is based on the crime novel Trimmel und Isolde by Friedhelm Werremeier, who also wrote the screenplay for the film. It was the third crime scene crime thriller after vacation murder and advertisement murder that Peter Weck directed. Weck was also privately friends with lead actor Walter Richter, who can be seen here in his eleventh and final Tatort episode as the main investigator Trimmel. Composer Uwe Röhl, at the time head of the music department at NDR, took on a small supporting role as conductor Siegfried Matuschek.
The shooting took place from October to November 1981 in Hamburg and the surrounding area. The costumes created Ingeburg Wolf , the Filmbauten come from Gerd dust . The film had its television premiere on September 19, 1982 on ARD and achieved an audience rating of 47% (16.28 million viewers).
criticism
The TV Spielfilm called the crime thriller “a must for Trimmel and Wagner friends”.
Web links
- Trimmel und Isolde at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Trimmel and Isolde at filmportal.de
- Summary of the plot by Trimmel and Isolde on the ARD website
- Trimmel and Isolde at the crime scene fund
- Trimmel and Isolde at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Weck: Is that it? Memories . Amalthea, Vienna 2010, p. 160.
- ↑ See Trimmel and Isolde on tatort-fundus.de
- ↑ 141/82 Trimmel and Isolde (NDR) . In: Rüdiger Dingemann: Tatort. The encyclopedia. All the facts, all the cases, all the commissioners . Knaur, Munich 2010, p. 111.
- ↑ See tvspielfilm.de
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