Wilsberg: The fifth estate

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Episode in the Wilsberg series
Original title The fifth estate
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Cologne film production
on behalf of ZDF
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 54 ( List )
First broadcast February 4, 2017 on ZDF
Rod
Director Hansjörg Thurn
script Stefan Rogall
production Sabine de Mardt
Anton Moho
music Stefan Hansen
camera Uwe Schäfer
cut Ollie Lanvermann
occupation

The fifth estate is the 54th episode in the Wilsberg television series . The film is based on the Wilsberg character by Jürgen Kehrer . It was first broadcast on February 4, 2017 on ZDF . The director was Hansjörg Thurn , the script was written by Stefan Rogall .

action

Private detective Georg Wilsberg witnessed a dispute when he was sitting alone in a pub that evening. He offers the young woman his help and starts talking to her. He learns that Nina Kröner works as a freelance journalist, but before he knows it, she is killed in front of his eyes. He immediately begins to investigate on his own. He wants to look around the dead woman's apartment and unexpectedly meets a woman who pretends to be Nina Kröner's landlady and who says goodbye very quickly after Wilsberg's appearance. The detective finds clues that indicate that Nina Kröner is in a relationship with local politician Benjamin Frehse, who is currently campaigning for a new investor to take over a hospital network. But it was precisely this development that the journalist had just researched and she wanted to make her findings available to the anti-lobby organization “Lobby Scan”, whose head is Carl Brinkhoff, with whom Nina Kröner had argued before her death. According to Brinkhoff, however, she had got scruples and did not pass on her documents to him.

For Wilsberg this opens up a clear motive for the murder and he concentrates on the "Agency Teerhagen Consulting", which is the main opponent of "Lobby Scan" and supports and promotes the politician Benjamin Frehse in his work. This is where some threads come together, because Wilsberg recognizes the independent and socially critical blogger Johanna Rothenburg, who used to be chief secretary at Teerhagen, as the woman who posed as the landlady. Alex, on the other hand, is supposed to file a defamation suit against “Lobby Scan” on behalf of Teerhagen, the owner of the agency . As part of the collaboration with the slippery Lutz Teerhagen, Alex realizes that he is a tough strategist and that Benjamin Frehse only uses him for his goals. He told her that real success needs to be built and that you have to set the course for that - sometimes years in advance so that you can take advantage of opportunities whenever they arise. Since Alex cannot reconcile this with her basic attitude and her sense of justice, she quits her job.

Meanwhile, Wilsberg is witnessing how fanatically Carl Brinkhoff fights for his goals of educating people about what politics simply decides and wants to sell to citizens as "meaningful". The new investor is accused of disregarding safety standards as a concession to safeguard the jobs of the ailing hospital group. In a public event, Brinkhoff was brutalized against Benjamin Frehse and Wilsberg considered him - so furious - capable of murder.

Shortly after this incident, Frehse was blackmailed and asked Wilsberg to deliver the money. When he told his alleged friend Teerhagen about it, he gave him the order to push everything to Wilsberg and to inform the police. With this, Teerhagen hopes to have enough time to track down the real blackmailer, who is the blogger, and to take away the research material she stole from the murdered journalist's apartment.

Wilsberg comes to the realization that Nina Kröner has uncovered more than just the machinations of the investor in her research. Evidence suggests that Teerhagen and a Maximilian Sydow, who is known as a cold-blooded killer, but has not yet been convicted, were entangled. Wilsberg is able to convince Johanna Rothenburg to go to the police with the incriminating material, but when they want to get the documents, they are attacked by Teerhagen's henchman Sydow. Rothenburg is killed in the process, but Wilsberg escapes. Undeterred, he goes to Frehse and Teerhagen, who have just learned that their investor has withdrawn and are accordingly annoyed. Frehse recognizes that Teerhagen has lied to him permanently in order to manipulate him in his own way and it is also clear to him that he is responsible for the death of his girlfriend, but he is not able to break away from him. When the police called, he continues to burden Wilsberg. Unfortunately, there is still no evidence against Teerhagen that he had everything removed that stood in the way of his friend Frehse's political career. However, Wilsberg is certain that something will be found in the journalist's research material. Nevertheless, in the end, Teerhagen has Sydow murdered so that this witness can also be eliminated.

background

The fifth estate was filmed in 2015 in Cologne , Münster and the surrounding area.

The running gag "Bielefeld" in this episode refers in minute 38 to the place where Marion Brinkhoff studied law.

The song at the end of the episode is I Ride Alone by Lee Clayton .

The fifth estate appeared on DVD along with the episode The Supervisor of Polar Film .

reception

Audience rating

When The Fifth Violence was first broadcast on ZDF on February 4, 2017 , the film was seen by a total of 7.18 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 22.7 percent.

criticism

Ulrich Feld wrote in the Frankfurter Neue Presse : “There is little joke this time, the winking comfort and privacy of the characters is largely left out. But you don't miss them either, the crime thriller elements are too well developed for that. "" The unusual, [intelligently nested] structure [of various flashbacks] requires a certain amount of concentration. "

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv said: “With 'The Fifth Power', the series finds its way back to its former strength thanks to a clever dramaturgy and appealing staging: Stefan Rogall's script surprises with many unexpected twists, Hansjörg Thurn's direction ensures such a great inner one It is exciting that the film can even do without the usual crime elements, with the exception of the thriller entry. "

This time the editors of the Westfälische Nachrichten let Harald Suerland assess the crime thriller and the latter came to the conclusion: “Actually, the episode could also have been called Kommissar Zufall, because how title hero Wilsberg was involved in the murder of the journalist, how he met her colleague, how long before the police came across the politician Frehse and the lobbyist's wife - that went way beyond the bounds of plausibility. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ZDF crime series "Wilsberg" will be continued at prisma.de , accessed on March 2, 2017.
  2. ^ A b Tilmann P. Gangloff : Lansink, Korittke, Gundelach, Tarrach, Rensing. The story of film criticism babbles relaxed on tittelbach.tv, accessed on March 1, 2017.
  3. ↑ "The fifth violence": Sex, murder and high politics at fnp.de, accessed on March 1, 2017.
  4. ↑ Harald Suerland: Film review at wn.de, accessed on March 1, 2017.
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