Crime scene: Whom credit is due

Episode of the series Tatort
Original title	Whom credit is due
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	NDR
length	90 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
classification	Episode 684 ( List )
First broadcast	December 23, 2007 on Das Erste
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Director	Angelina Maccarone
script	Angelina Maccarone
music	Jakob Hansonis Hartmut Ewert
camera	Judith Kaufmann
cut	Bettina Boehler
occupation
Maria Furtwängler : KHK'in Charlotte Lindholm Mehmet Kurtuluş : Attila Aslan Aylin Tezel : Selda Özkan Hilmi Sözer : Aka Özkan Ingo Naujoks : writer Martin Felser Torsten Michaelis : Stefan Bitomsky Meral Perin : Fatma Özkan Tobias Schenke : Max Schröder Hakan Can : Erdal Kara Azad Çelik : Galip Özkan Eva Löbau : Ms. Schmidt-Rohrbach Stephan Szász : Mr. Brock Kathrin Ackermann : Annemarie Lindholm Sabahat Bademsoy : Grandmother Annette Mayer : Course leader Dieter Okras : Dr. Poll Sesede Terziyan : Afife Kara Oda Thormeyer : Gynecologist Wolfgang Michalek

To whom honor is due is an episode of the crime series Tatort , which, when it was first broadcast on December 23, 2007, sparked protests by the Alevi community in Germany . By combining the Alevi faith with incest, the film took up a historical vilification of the Alevis by Orthodox Sunnis . The film by Angelina Maccarone is one of the rare fictional entertainment programs on German television in which Alevism is discussed in Germany. Chief Detective Charlotte Lindholm ( Maria Furtwängler ) from the LKA Hannover was involved in her 11th case.

The film is one of the so-called " poison cabinet episodes ", which means that it will not be repeated.

action

The 23-year-old Afife, a young German-Turkish woman of Alevi faith, is found dead. An initial suspicion of suicide by the homicide squad is weakened by the testimony of her sister Selda. Due to her pregnancy (nobody but her knows who the child's father is), she also sees herself in danger. The detective chief commissioner Charlotte Lindholm, who is entrusted with the investigation, now suspects an honor killing as a motive for the act. She takes Selda in first. During the investigation, Selda is also suspected, whereupon she bitterly leaves Lindholm's apartment. Selda tries to take her own life and by laying tracks to give the impression that she has been murdered. Since her father finds her in time, she survives, but loses her unborn child. The husband Afifes is suspected of being the father of Selda's child, but this turns out to be a fallacy after the autopsy of the child: Lindholm finds out that her own father abused Selda, is the father of her child and killed Afife because she wanted to report the incest .

reception

The use of the incest motif in a family of Alevi faith led to violent protests. It was also criticized that the abused Selda seeks refuge in an apparently stricter form of Islam and is therefore the only one in her family to wear a headscarf . In this context, the suspicion of the film being instrumentalized in favor of an Orthodox Sunni Islam was raised. To attempts by the Alevi Community of Germany to prevent the broadcast planned for the last day of the Islamic Festival of Sacrifice (this is the highest festival in Islam), the ARD responded with a reference to the fictionality of the plot before the broadcast, which is otherwise unusual for Tatort broadcasts.

On December 27, 2007, around 300 Alevis demonstrated against the film in front of the ARD studio in Berlin. The Berlin Alevite Community filed a criminal complaint on behalf of the umbrella organization AABF for sedition . On December 30, more than 30,000 Alevis demonstrated in Cologne against the broadcast of the film. The ARD signaled readiness to talk and the Berlin Alevite community agreed to withdraw the charge of incitement to hatred in the event of a public apology by the ARD.

Meanwhile, the Hamburg authors' association sees the Alevis protests as an attempt to enforce censorship in Germany . The author Barbara Frischmuth , on the other hand, expressed understanding for the outrage of the Alevis: “There has never been any talk of Alevis on television. Now all of a sudden and with such a reproach. One has to be careful when projecting this issue onto a family that is a minority. It is quickly generalized. ”The then Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier also warned:“ Scriptwriters and artists must know that respect, caution and caution are required for people's religious feelings, regardless of their beliefs ”, but called for moderation of around 700,000 Turkish Alevis in Germany, because the film did not deal with Alevism in general, but with an individual case. In media reports, the use of exclusionary ethnic clichés was criticized and Orthodox-Sunni advisors and poor research by the multi-award-winning Italian author and director were suspected as the reason for the script constellations and details that sparked protests.

Web links

• Where Credit is Due in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Who deserves credit in the online film database
• Summary of the story of whom honor is due on the ARD website
• Who deserves credit with the Tatort fund
• Who deserves credit at Tatort-Fans.de
• Karen Krüger: Interview with Barbara Frischmuth: The Alevis are very disappointed ; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 3/2008 of January 4, 2008, p. 40.
• CDU and FDP politicians support Alevis against NDR ; Die Welt , January 6, 2008
• Mark Terkessidis: How To Make Muslims ; Friday January 11, 2008

Individual evidence

1. ^ Francois Werner, Dominik Pieper: TATORTe in the poison cabinet: Forbidden fruits ; tatort-fundus.de, accessed on June 11, 2013.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Alevi Congregation Germany e. V .: YES to freedom of expression, the press and freedom of art, NO to violation of human dignity ; ( Memento of February 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Statement of the Alevi Congregation Germany of December 29, 2007; Retrieved June 11, 2013.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Sibylle Ahlers: Islam: Alevis see Tatort as an advertisement for Orthodox ; Die Welt, December 30, 2007
4. ^ ^{A b} Anne-Catherine Simon: "Incest-Tatort": victim of a propaganda lie ; The press, January 2, 2008
5. ^ Severin Weiland: ARD office Berlin: Alevis demonstrate against "incest" crime ; Spiegel Online , December 27, 2007
6. ↑ "Tatort" -Eklat: director defends incest crime ; Spiegel Online, December 27, 2007
7. ↑ "Tatort" -Streit: authors call for freedom of art ; Die Welt -Online January 3rd, 2008
8. ^ ^{A b} Karen Krüger: An interview with Barbara Frischmuth: The Alevis are very disappointed ; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 3/2008 of January 4, 2008, p. 40.
9. ^ Christian Gampert: Documented Propaganda: The exhibition "Jud Süß" shows excerpts from German propaganda films ; in: Kultur heute, Deutschlandfunk , January 1, 2008
10. ↑ Bernd Gräßler: Badly researched ; Deutsche Welle , December 28, 2007

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