Wilsberg: For lack of evidence

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Episode in the Wilsberg series
Original title For lack of evidence
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Eyeworks Fiction Cologne on behalf of ZDF
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 34 ( List )
First broadcast January 25, 2012 on ZDFneo
Rod
Director Hans-Günther Bücking
script Jürgen Kehrer
production Anton Moho
music Dirk Leupolz
camera Hans-Günther Bücking
cut Zaz Montana
occupation

For lack of evidence , the 34th episode of the television film series is Wilsberg . It was first broadcast on January 25, 2012 on ZDFneo and on January 28, 2012 on ZDF . The director was Hans-Günther Bücking , the screenplay was written by Jürgen Kehrer .

action

Wilsberg's friend Ekki comes from Horsthausen in the Münsterland . There he not only plays soccer in the old men’s team, but also his parents and his cousin Thomas Rensing with his wife Melanie and his son Max live in the tranquil place. Ekki knows the talented young player of the youth team from the local soccer club, where he works Nils Erdel trains.

When Ekki learns from Thomas that Max has disappeared and that he had received a ransom note demanding a ransom of 100,000 euros for the boy’s release, Ekki and Wilsberg set off for Horsthausen. After initial objections on the part of Thomas, the three men agree that Wilsberg should deliver the ransom. The handover of the money in the clearing agreed as the handover location fails, however, because Wilsberg is overwhelmed by the police officers around Commissioner Anna Springer after Melanie Rensing has called the Münster police without her husband's knowledge. After Commissioner Springer finds out who has gotten into the network, she lets Wilsberg go again.

Instead, the investigations by Springer and her colleague Overbeck focus on Wolfgang Schwendter, another citizen of Horsthausen. He was tried several years ago for child abuse . However, the case against him was dropped at the time for lack of evidence. This does not seem to be evident in the current case. A bloodied baseball cap was found behind his house. Examination of the evidence reveals that the blood was Max's. Without further ado Schwendter is in custody taken. Alex Holtkamp is assigned to him as public defender.

Meanwhile, Wilsberg continues to follow the trail drawn up by the ransom note. When Thomas receives another letter, Wilsberg and Ekki set a trap for the blackmailer. You deposit the rucksack with the requested cash in a trash can at a service area on the motorway. However, Ekki can not do his job of not taking his eyes off his bag because he is distracted by a former sandpit friend who speaks to him in the restaurant of the rest area. So he doesn't even notice how a motorcyclist takes the bag and drives away. Ekki spends the night with his old friend, while Wilsberg follows and can catch the motorcyclist who drives past him. It turns out that the second ransom note from Thomas and his work colleagues was faked. The two wanted to capitalize on the child's disappearance, as the joint venture is doing very badly financially.

After this turn, the evidence that it could actually be a case of abuse, and Wilsberg directs his focus on Max's soccer coach Nils Erdel. He believes in the existence of aliens , is a conspiracy theorist and has written his own website on the Bielefeld conspiracy . When Wilsberg tries to get Nils Erdel arrested, his brother Kevin confesses that Nils came out of the forest in the night with the missing boy wearing bloody clothes, but that he did nothing to him. In order to protect his brother, he then hid the clothes at Schwendter's house in order to direct suspicion to the local citizen, who was disreputable in the town. Since Nils mentions a certain part of the forest, which Kevin has forbidden him to enter, Wilsberg has Anna Springer carry out another search operation with a police unit in the forest. Max's buried body is found and the local pediatrician Dr. Identified Pale.

Alex Holtkamp is by no means happy that Schwendter has been assigned to her as a client. However, she represents him conscientiously, so that after the evidence placed by Kevin Erdel at his house, he is finally released again and then exposed to the sheer hatred of his fellow citizens. Wilsberg, called by cell phone, can put a stop to the angry mob and save Alex and Schwendter from the angry Horsthausen residents.

Wilsberg roams the area and, together with Ekki, gains access to Dr. Pale and find an asthma spray there that Melanie Rensing lost on her last evening visit to the hut. During the meeting she was sorry to have left her two children alone at home, so she drives back to town. Meanwhile, Max's sister had an asthma attack . Desperate, Max rides his bike to the doctor's hut, where he has already seen his mother and the doctor once. In the foggy night he is seen too late by the doctor driving home and run over. In order not to endanger his career, Fahle buries the boy and his bicycle in the forest and fakes the kidnapping. Melanie Rensing plays along so that their relationship does not come to light.

As soon as Wilsberg knows about the relationship between Melanie and the doctor, he confronts her until she confesses the events of the tragic night. Her husband, who overhears this conversation in secret, goes to Dr. Pale and try to strangle him in his practice. Ekki and Wilsberg can stop him at the last moment. The doctor is arrested.

Since Schwendter replied evasively to Alex's direct question about his guilt in the case twelve years ago, she has the stamp on the letter with which the boy was lured out of the house checked for saliva residues that were not yet detectable with the technology at the time have been. Their suspicions are confirmed, and so Schwendter is arrested after all.

background

The plot of the episode For lack of evidence takes place in the fictional village Horsthausen in the Münsterland , which was already mentioned in the episode Wilsberg: Filmriss . Scenes that take place in the center of the village were created in the historic town centers of Zons and Alt-Kaster . In May 2010 a 40-strong film crew shot in Zons, including in the restaurant “Zum Feldtor”, where Wilsberg barely escaped a fight in this episode. The scene in which Wilsberg can be seen sleeping on the bench of a bus stop was shot in front of the St. Martinus Church , with this bus stop being placed there especially for the shooting. The column on which Wilsberg can be seen waiting is the memorial on the church square of the Sankt-Georg-Kirche in Alt-Kaster. The scene in which Ekki failed to monitor the ransom at the rest stop was filmed at the rest stop in Bösensell . The film was also filmed in Cologne and Münster , where the few shots were taken on Hafenweg in Münster harbor , at the Solder antiquarian bookshop in Frauenstrasse and at the Überwasserkirche .

On 43 days of shooting, the episode For Lack of Evidence was shot in parallel with the episode Fresh Meat . Filming began on April 13, 2010 and ended on June 17, 2010. The working title of the episode was Dorfliebe . The production costs are estimated at 1.2 to 1.4 million euros.

Due to a lack of evidence , an outdoor demonstration took place on September 11, 2011 at the Aasee terraces. The episode was shown in the Cineplex Münster on January 20, 2012 before the TV premiere in the presence of the actors Leonard Lansink , Roland Jankowsky and Stephan Kampwirth as well as the producer Anton Moho , the ZDF editor Martin R. Neumann and the author Jürgen Kehrer . Around 1,600 viewers watched the premiere of the Wilsberg episode in three cinemas. At the premiere in the Münster Cineplex, Roland Jankowsky, who plays the police officer Overbeck in the TV series, held up a bloody stocking and asked the audience in the cinema: “Who knows this sock?” This appearance is based on a similar scene from the 27th Follow Wilsberg: Doctor games , in which Overbeck holds up a sock that Wilsberg has missed like a trophy.

With the consequences of Lack of Evidence and The Bielefeld Conspiracy , two ZDF television films were linked for the first time in terms of content through an interactive online offering in cross-media style. A similar project was started in 2011 under the name "eScript", in which viewers were given the opportunity to influence the plot of an episode.

Jürgen Kehrer , the author of the Wilsberg books who wrote the script for this episode, has a cameo as a forensic police officer. In 2004 Christoph Bautz took on a supporting role in the 11th episode Death of a Hostess . Stephan Kampwirth was already seen in the 15th episode Unearthed in 2005 , but played a different role there than in the episode For Lack of Evidence . Nadja Becker appeared in the 22nd episode, Filmriss , in 2008 , in which she also played another role.

On June 7, 2012, the episode was released together with the 33rd episode In the name of Rosi by Polarfilm on DVD with FSK-12 approval. In addition to the two main films, the DVD contains a making-of and a portrait of the city of Münster as bonus material.

The running gag "Bielefeld" refers in this episode to the Bielefeld conspiracy , which Nils Erdel mentioned and which will be discussed in the next episode, which is entitled The Bielefeld Conspiracy .

The saying “Where's the bus? - The bus with the people who are interested! ”, Said Commissioner Anna Springer, she mentioned Wilsberg and the murder without a corpse in the fourth episode .

reception

Audience ratings

Three days after the first broadcast on ZDFneo , 6.45 million viewers saw the episode on ZDF , which corresponds to a total market share of 20.5%. Among the 14- to 49-year-olds, 1.5 million saw the crime thriller, which is 13.2% of the market share.

criticism

The lexicon of international films judged the film to be a "humorous (TV series) crime thriller that tends to target the lynching mentality in a supposed provincial idyll".

The director Hans-Günther Bücking succeeds in “creating a tense atmosphere” and “telling the whole thing entertainingly with a pinch of dry humor”. Screenwriter Jürgen Kehrer “does without the usual plot twists and surprises with twists in unexpected places”. The cast was successful, "in addition to Lansink as Wilsberg, Rita Russek stands out as a police investigator from the ensemble". The rating of the quota meter was 80%.

Tittelbach ruled that for lack of evidence it was a "fairly seriously told case". It was "everything a little over-engineered", but basically a "passable crime case". Tittelbach awarded 3.5 out of 6 points.

The editorial team of TV Spielfilm saw "a little bit of crime thriller, a pinch of weird humor and well-cast supporting roles". In her opinion, the film is a "tricky case with brisk flirtations".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Wilsberg: For lack of evidence . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2012 (PDF; test number: 132 718 V).
  2. ↑ This website was available at http://www.101bielefeld.de.
  3. ^ A b c Neuss-Grevenbroicher newspaper: Zons, das Fernsehdorf , Dormagen, Desiree Linde, January 31, 2012, accessed on November 1, 2013.
  4. ↑ a b Westfälische Nachrichten : Homepage Topic 5: Wilsberg shoot: Vamp robs Ekki's mind , Bösensell, May 24, 2010.
  5. ↑ a b c For lack of evidence at crew united
  6. ^ Westfälische Nachrichten : Homepage Topic 3: ZDF is shooting new Wilsberg episodes , Münster, April 13, 2010.
  7. ^ Westfälische Nachrichten : Celebrity Waiters: Premiere of the new Wilsberg crime novel in September , August 19, 2011.
  8. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : Leonard Lansink is far from being tired of "Wilsberg": In 2012, four episodes will be shot / premiere in the Cineplex , Münster, Martin Kalitschke, January 20, 2012.
  9. ^ Westfälische Nachrichten : Television: "Wilsberg": Two crime novels and an Internet interlude , Münster, Meike Lorenzen, January 26, 2012.
  10. ↑ Tagesspiegel : ZDF Saturday thriller: Wilsberg interaktiv , Kurt Sagatz, January 28, 2012.
  11. ^ Westfälische Nachrichten : Television: "Wilsberg": Two crime novels and an Internet interlude , Münster, Meike Lorenzen, January 26, 2012.
  12. ^ Wilsberg: Death of a hostess in the online film database
  13. ^ Wilsberg: Unearthed in the online film database
  14. ^ Crew united : Nadja Becker
  15. ↑ a b tittelbach.tv: Series "Wilsberg - For Lack of Evidence"
  16. ^ A b Westfälische Nachrichten : Television: Wilsberg gets second highest quota after "Germany is looking for the superstar" , Münster, Meike Lorenzen, January 29, 2012.
  17. ^ For lack of evidence in the Lexicon of International FilmTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used
  18. ↑ quotenmeter.de: The critics: "Wilsberg: For lack of evidence" , Janosch Leuffen, January 23, 2012.
  19. ↑ TV feature film : Film review: Wilsberg: For lack of evidence

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