Wilsberg: The Bielefeld Conspiracy

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Episode in the Wilsberg series
Original title The Bielefeld conspiracy
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Eyeworks Fiction Cologne on behalf of ZDF
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 35 ( List )
First broadcast February 18, 2012 on ZDF
Rod
Director Hans-Günther Bücking
script Timo Berndt
production Anton Moho
music Dirk Leupolz
camera Hans-Günther Bücking
cut Zaz Montana
occupation

The Bielefeld Conspiracy is the 35th episode in the Wilsberg television series . It was first broadcast on February 18, 2012 on ZDF . The director was Hans-Günther Bücking , the script was written by Timo Berndt .

action

Nils and Karola are supporters of the Bielefeld conspiracy and are active in a group of ten called "The Analysts". They recorded a video at night showing men and trucks in the woods. Nils is convinced that they are now in danger because they are about to expose the Bielefeld conspiracy. He therefore visits Wilsberg in order to engage him as a private investigator and bodyguard. Wilsberg thinks Nils is a nut, but Nils manages to arouse Ekki's interest. Nils entrusts Ekki, whom he has known for years from the football team in the Münsterland village of Horsthausen, with his video camera with the recordings from the forest, as it is no longer safe with him. When Wilsberg and Ekki go to Erdel's apartment together at his insistence, Nils lies on the street in front of the house and is reanimated by Miriam Zubert. The arriving emergency doctors can only determine death, they suspect a heart attack .

Meanwhile, Manni Höch's office in the Bielefeld building department is broken into. Manni catches the masked intruder in the act, but he escapes undetected. Since nothing was stolen, the motive for the break-in remains initially unclear. All that remains of the intruder is a note with the name and address of Nils Erdel in Münster. Höch makes his way to Münster to tell his former classmate Wilsberg about the break-in in his office. The two inspectors then visit Anna Springer and are reluctant to persuade her to have Nils Erdel's body autopsied . The autopsy report reveals that he had received an injection whose active ingredient caused fatal increases in blood pressure and heart rate.

Wilsberg and Ekki gain access to Nils' apartment, where they not only find loads of medication, but also documents about the Bielefeld conspiracy. The two are surprised by Karola, who met Nils as a nurse in the psychiatry.

Overbeck is meanwhile also infected by the idea of ​​the Bielefeld conspiracy. He and Anna Springer go to Nils Erdel's apartment to look for the video recordings that Wilsberg spoke about. Dominik, who is also in Erdel's apartment to make his medication disappear, is surprised by Overbeck, injects a large amount of hallucinogenic liquid into his face and then escapes. As a result of this attack, Overbeck is in different unrealistic states for the rest of the episode.

At Nils' funeral in a forest cemetery, Ekki discovers two suspects who are watching the funeral from a distance. When he points this out to Karola, she takes flight and falls from a bridge to her death. Dominik denies online that he had anything to do with it. Wilsberg looks for Dominik in his caravan, which is parked in a hall in Münster's Haverkamp at the harbor, and discovers that Dominik had merchandising articles made on the subject of the Bielefeld conspiracy. Dominik does not believe in the Bielefeld conspiracy at all, but wants to capitalize on the beliefs of others. Karola had stolen the medication from the clinic for him, which kept Nils in an unstable state of madness, so that he would continue to fuel the conspiracy theory.

It turns out that the blue trucks featured in Nils' videos belong to Dralling Chemie. Years ago, the family who owned it, the Zubert, submitted an application to the city of Münster to build a sewage treatment plant for dioxins, which Manni had rejected at the time. The expert commissioned by Manni in this process, Dr. Ferdinand Grohe from the Institute for Soil Analysis, like Nils Erdel, also died recently. Like Erdel, he suffered a heart attack after breaking into his office. By Grohe's report threatened to fly up that the company Dralling years in the forests of their waste by Frank Albers dump was. Miriam Zubert tried to prevent this by having the report exchanged in Grohe's office. In addition, she had the barrels with the toxins removed from the forests at night. These were the trucks filmed by Nils Erdel.

Miriam Zubert was physically attacked by Albers years ago after her father, who had entered into the deal with Albers, refused to comply with his demands. Her own daughter took her to a boarding school and tried to protect Nils. Finally, Ekki and Manni, Albers' most dangerous witnesses, are locked in a silo in the Dralling factory, which he has filled with highly concentrated hydrochloric acid. When Wilsberg arrives, he is also threatened by Albers, but Commissioner Springer can arrest him immediately.

After the end of the case, Manni returns to Bielefeld, accompanied by Wilsberg and Ekki, where Ekki is convinced of the existence of the city - but the paternoster of the building authority continues to puzzle him.

background

Filming began in Münster and Cologne on May 3, 2011 and ended on July 7, 2011. On June 20, 2011, filming took place in Münster at the Stadtcafé near the town hall, and later it was filmed on Alten Steinweg. On June 21, 2011 the shooting took place at the port of Münster , further recordings at the Solder antiquarian bookshop in Frauenstrasse were still pending, so that the end of the shooting was planned for July 6, 2011. The pictures showing the police station were taken in the Bispinghof . The scenes that take place in Alex Holtkamp's office were filmed in the port of Münster. Furthermore, the Überwasserkirche and the Münster City Archives were filmed. Further recordings were made in Cologne. The scenes showing Nils Erdel's resuscitation attempts were recorded in front of the building at Ehrenbergstrasse 9 in Cologne, which is named in the film. Although the scene takes place in Münster, such an address cannot be found in Münster.

The movie premiere episode of the Bielefeld conspiracy took place in two sold-out performances in front of a total of 1000 people 16 February 2012 for the first time in Cinestar in Bielefeld , usually the theater performances are the Wilsberg consequences Cineplex Münster shown. Leonard Lansink , Ina Paule Klink , Roland Jankowsky , Wilsberg author Jürgen Kehrer and ZDF editor Martin R. Neumann were present at these performances . Two visits to the film set when shooting the next Wilsberg episode were raffled among the cinema-goers .

Two different cuts were produced. A 105-minute version was used for the cinema screenings, while a version 16 minutes shorter with 89 minutes running time was broadcast on television.

On November 22, 2012, the episode was released together with the 36th episode Halbstark of 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.

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.

The plot loosely ties in with the previous episode Wilsberg: For lack of evidence , from which Nils Erdel, played by Daniel Roesner , only appears again in a supporting role. To the 14th episode Angel of Death was Heinrich Schafmeister seen as Manfred Hoch in every episode, was transferred to the Office of Construction and Urban Development to Bielefeld to his role. Since the 15th episode unearthed , Oliver Korittke can be seen as Ekkehardt Talkötter in the investigation on Wilsberg's side. The 35th episode The Bielefeld Conspiracy is the first episode in which both Schafmeister and Korittke play. At the same time, this is the only episode so far in which Schafmeister appears without being seen in the opening credits of the series .

Hanno Friedrich was also seen in the role of Philipp Assmann in the 30th episode Bullenball .

The song at the end of the episode is Couldn't Get It Right by the Climax Blues Band .

On 2 September 2012, the result at the end of the tenth Celebrity Kellnerns favor of the promotion of cancer advice Münsterland to was Aasee Terraces public on a big screen showed the movie service Münster-country of the municipal press office, ZDF and the production company Eyeworks.

Others

The address and telephone number, which can be read on Höch's business card and on a letterhead, actually belong to the Bielefeld building authority.

Overbeck quotes the saying "The answer is out there somewhere" known from the US TV series X-Files - The Scary Cases of the FBI .

The running gag "Bielefeld" refers in this episode to the eponymous Bielefeld conspiracy , which, according to ZDF editor Martin R. Neumann, is "the highlight of our permanent Bielefeld homage".

In a scene in front of the entrance to the stairwell to Frank Alber's apartment, the names “Boerne” and “Thiel” can be read in the background by the doorbell signs . This is a hidden homage by ZDF to the crime series Tatort by ARD , in which the coroner Prof. Dr. Dr. Karl-Friedrich Boerne, played by Jan Josef Liefers , at the side of Chief Detective Frank Thiel, played by Axel Prahl , investigate in Münster. The two apartments in this series are also in a shared tenement house.

A Lancia Kappa Coupé can be seen in the final scene . Two specimens of identical construction except for the interior were used for the shooting; the one that had an accident has meanwhile been restored.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast was followed by around 5.77 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of around 17.7%.

criticism

The lexicon of international films judges the episode to be a “sedate, amusing crime thriller as part of a (television) series that thinks through a stubborn city rivalry with deadly consequences”.

Torben Gebhardt from quotenmeter.de is of the opinion that the episode is an "entertaining, albeit sometimes very silly TV film". The renewed appearance of Heinrich Schafmeister was rated positively, because "these scenes in which Manni and Ekki fight for the favor of their Wilsbergs are a real treat of the entire film and are worth watching". The play between Lansink , Korittke , Russek and Jankowsky is “as usual” and makes the episode “worthwhile”. "The guest stars play skillfully [...] and credibly." It was positively emphasized that the series does not claim to take itself "deadly serious" at all times, which is why after the more serious case, for lack of evidence, it is now again "easy and relaxed", nevertheless "entertaining entertainment" is offered.

According to TV Spielfilm , the "very confused episode that gets bogged down in silly theories" is based on a "confused script that too often loses its thread". One small consolation is: "After all: the final gag was really successful."

According to Rainer Tittelbach, this “weird case” is not a “classic crime thriller”, but a “playful, well-cast nonsense film”. The episode is the "most abstruse story since the Christmas special Oh you fatal ... ". “The story and the plot are equally crazy” and “anything but what you would call a well-rounded crime thriller”.

The West writes: "To be taken seriously" is not the "lousy entertainment", "but it is quite amusing".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry : Release certificate for the cinema (PDF file; 70 kB), May 19, 2012; Release certificate for TV (PDF file; 33 kB), October 10, 2012
  2. ↑ a b The Bielefeld conspiracy at crew united
  3. ^ Westfälische Nachrichten : Shooting in Münster: "Wilsberg" is investigating again , Münster, May 2, 2011
  4. ^ Münstersche Zeitung : Wilsberg: Too much Cologne in the Münster-Krimi , Münster, June 14, 2011
  5. ↑ Münstersche Zeitung : Münster-Krimi: First day of Wilsberg shooting begins without relaxation ( memento from 23 August 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Münster, Ralf Heimann, 20 June 2011
  6. ↑ Westfalen-Blatt : Bielefeld: Thomas Kramer moderates the "Wilsberg" premiere - ZDF journalist welcomes more than 1000 fans and Leonard Lansink  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Bielefeld, sb, January 24, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.westfalen-blatt.de  
  7. ^ A b Neue Westfälische : “Wilsberg” preview in Bielefeld , Bielefeld, Stefan Brams, February 17, 2012
  8. ↑ Westfalen-Blatt : Westfalen-Blatt brings "Wilsberg" to Bielefeld  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Bielefeld, Stefan Biestmann, January 24, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.westfalen-blatt.de  
  9. ↑ a b Cinestar Bielefeld: Wilsberg premiere ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 6, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cinestar.de
  10. ↑ Cinestar Bielefeld: Wilsberg premiere at CineStar , February 16, 2012
  11. ^ Westfälische Nachrichten : Television: "Wilsberg": Two crime novels and an Internet interlude , Münster, Meike Lorenzen, January 26, 2012
  12. ↑ Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung : Television: Manni from Bielefeld - ZDF combines two episodes of the Münster crime thriller “Wilsberg”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Münster, Tom Heise, January 24, 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.noz.de  
  13. ^ Der Tagesspiegel : ZDF Saturday thriller: Wilsberg interactive , Kurt Sagatz, January 28, 2012
  14. ^ Westfälische Nachrichten : Television: "Wilsberg": Two crime novels and an Internet interlude , Münster, Meike Lorenzen, January 26, 2012
  15. ^ Westfälische Nachrichten : Having a beer with Wilsberg: Celebrity waiters for the tenth time with Leonard Lansink , Münster, July 10, 2012
  16. ^ Westfälische Nachrichten : 35th Münster crime thriller: "The Bielefeld Conspiracy": Wilsberg Open Air am Aasee , Münster, August 15, 2012
  17. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : Wilsberg uncovered the “Bielefeld conspiracy” open-air , Münster, August 18, 2012
  18. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : Wilsberg waiter again , Münster, Münster, Martin Kalitschke, August 18, 2012 ( online )
  19. ^ City of Bielefeld: Building Office
  20. ^ Evangelisch.de : TV tip: "Wilsberg: The Bielefeld Conspiracy" (ZDF) , Topics / Media, Tilmann P. Gangloff, February 18, 2012
  21. ↑ a b tittelbach.tv : Series "Wilsberg - The Bielefeld Conspiracy"
  22. ^ The Bielefeld Conspiracy in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used
  23. ^ Quotenmeter.de : The Critics: "Wilsberg: The Bielefeld Conspiracy" , Torben Gebhardt, February 16, 2012
  24. ↑ TV feature film : Film review: The Bielefeld Conspiracy  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.tvspielfilm.de  
  25. ↑ The West : ZDF: Slammy "Wilsberg" episode on the trail of the "Bielefeld Conspiracy" , Hayke Lanwert, February 18, 2012
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