Wilsberg: Doctor games

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Episode in the Wilsberg series
Original title Doctor games
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Cologne Film on behalf of ZDF
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 27 ( List )
First broadcast April 25, 2009 on ZDF
Rod
Director Hans-Günther Bücking
script Matthias Keilich
Khyana el Bitar
production Anton Moho
music Stefan Ziethen
camera Hans-Günther Bücking
cut Zaz Montana
occupation

Doktorspiele is the 27th episode in the Wilsberg television series . It was first broadcast two weeks after the previous episode, Der Mann am Fenster, on April 25, 2009 on ZDF . The director was Hans-Günther Bücking , the screenplay was written by Matthias Keilich and Khyana el Bitar based on the 2002 novel Wilsberg und die Dead Professor by Jürgen Kehrer .

action

Professor Günther Kaiser is head of the Institute for German Studies at the University of Münster . He is married to Marie Kaiser for the second time. She has doubts about his marital loyalty and gives Georg Wilsberg the task of monitoring her husband. Wilsberg positions himself on the roof of a neighboring building to the university, from where he has a good view of the head of the institute's office. He witnesses how Professor Kaiser tells his assistant, Dr. Kohlmann takes hold of the breast, but is turned away by this. When Wilsberg takes photos of Professor Kaiser and his student Ramona Liek, which show them having sex in the professor's office, a shot is fired. Professor Kaiser is hit between the shoulder blades and is dead.

Wilsberg brings Marie Kaiser the sad news of the death of her husband. During his investigation into the perpetrator in the closest circle of colleagues of the deceased, he meets Professor Varnholt, whom he represented legally a few years ago. At that time he still had the name Dieter Mertens before he took his wife's name, and as a member of the RAF he was accused of having shot a security guard while robbing a weapons depot. Wilsberg was able to successfully defend him in court, so that he was not convicted as a RAF member involved, but acquitted as a fellow RAF follower. He then took up his position at the German department at the university. Professor Varnholt does not believe in the subject of secret languages, which Professor Kaiser dealt with, and expresses disparagingly about it, although or precisely because Professor Kaiser helped, among other things, with the decryption of Stasi files at the Birthler authority in Berlin.

In the further course of the investigation, Wilsberg meets Dr. House which, according to its own statement , is dependent on a walking aid due to polio . He shares his interests in secret languages ​​with Professor Kaiser, with whom he completed his habilitation. Dr. Haus is primarily concerned with Masematte and now speculates on his chair after the death of his superior. The head of the institute is also vacant after the death of Professor Kaiser.

Meanwhile, the widow Marie Kaiser comes into the focus of the investigation and is asked by Commissioner Anna Springer for an interview at the police headquarters. She is represented by Alex Holtkamp as a lawyer and - much to Anna Springer's displeasure - accompanied by Wilsberg as her legal representative. Marie Kaiser claims to have been with the neighbor's dog Bruno at the Aasee at the time of the murder of her husband . When the questioning threatens to turn into an interrogation, Alex and Wilsberg break off the conversation with Anna Springer.

Miss Dr. Kohlmann asked Wilsberg to hand over the pictures he had taken, which she and Prof. Kaiser were showing, as she was afraid that her husband would divorce if he found out about her affair with her superior. Wilsberg cannot comply with this request, as his camera was confiscated by Commissioner Springer shortly after the fatal shooting at Professor Kaiser.

Daniel Kaiser, son from his first marriage, looks for his father's will in his house at night. Marie Kaiser fears that a burglar has gained access to her house and calls Wilsberg so that he catches the alleged burglar, or at least chases him away. After it turns out that it was Daniel Kaiser and that he handed over his house key, Marie asked Wilsberg to stay the night.

Marie Kaiser had three weeks ago her husband along with Ramona leech red-handed caught. Marie then commissioned Wilsberg to observe her husband to ensure that he had actually separated from Ramona as specified and that he was staying away from her. It gets even trickier when Ekki learns from Ramona that she used to be with Daniel before his father teased his son's girlfriend. Suddenly the two closest relatives of the victim have a motive for the act.

From Wolfgang Kohlmann, the husband of Dr. Viola Kohlmann, Wilsberg receives a phone call offering him important information. He will receive this at a meeting outside the city. Wilsberg is lured into a field by Wolfgang Kohlmann, where he ambushes him with a rifle. He asserts that he only wants to use the weapon to emphasize his demand for the photos that Professor Kaiser and his wife show. Kohlmann admits that he was aware of the sexual harassment of his wife by Professor Kaiser, which she endured for the prospect of a PhD position with a C4 professorship in Leipzig . Wilsberg snatches the gun from Kohlmann, fires furiously into the loamy soil and leaves the field. He later returns to the site to find the projectile and hand it over to the police for ballistic analysis. Since Wilsberg learns from Viola Kohlmann that she used to be an East Westphalian master rifle shooter, Viola Kohlmann and her husband join the already long list of suspects.

Alex Holtkamp finds out from a friend who works in the Birthler authority that Varnholt's RAF file disappeared from the authority when it was being processed by Kaiser. Wilsberg cannot rule out that Varnholt was blackmailed with the file by Kaiser, if the file should prove that Varnholt was not only a follower of the RAF, but that he himself fired shots at the security guard who was killed at the time. This blackmail could also explain Varnholt's resignation from the management of the institute two years ago, which Kaiser took over from him. This strong motive directs Wilsberg's suspicions towards Varnholt, who at the time of the crime was, however, holding a lecture to more than 150 students. However, he had left the classroom for about five minutes during the lecture, as some students confirm.

From Dr. Kohlmann finds out about Dr. Haus, that Wilsberg has broken into Professor Kaiser's office and then seeks Wilsberg in his second-hand bookshop. Wilsberg refuses to let him in, but informs him that he has found the proofs for his habilitation in Professor Kaiser's office and has brought them into his possession. At night, Dr. Back home and break into the second-hand bookshop. There he is caught by Alex. When she takes his crutch from him and calls the police, he runs over to her and takes the phone from her hand. He then admits that he pretended to be severely disabled at university in order to get a place at the chair and to advance his habilitation. However, Kaiser wanted to publish his book on Masematte as a separate work to support his own election as dean of the university. Overbeck takes Dr. House in custody. On this occasion he informs Wilsberg that the ballistic analysis has shown that the projectile with which Kaiser was shot came from the weapon of Wolfgang Kohlmann, after which he was already arrested.

Ekki meanwhile discovers that it is possible to ventilate from the storage room behind the lecture hall, in which Professor Varnholt had disappeared during the lecture, to get directly to the roof of the building, from where there is not only a good view of Professor Kaiser's office. but also a free field of fire. Professor Varnholt searches Kaiser's office for his files from the RAF times, which Kaiser had stolen in order to blackmail him. Wilsberg gets ahead of him and finds this in a book about encryption techniques . With the help of the stencil technique, for which he uses an abstract picture of modern art from Professor Kaiser's office, he also succeeds in deciphering the files and incriminating Professor Varnholt. Thereupon Professor Varnholt flees at the moment when Marie Kaiser appears in the office of her killed husband. Wilsberg informs you about the latest events. Suddenly a shot is fired. Marie, like her husband a few days earlier, is shot by Professor Varnholt through the window of the office. Varnholt had opened fire on Wilsberg in order to prevent the transmission of his incriminating findings, but inadvertently met Marie fatally. As a result, Professor Varnholt is arrested.

It turns out that in the murder of Marie Kaiser, Varnholt used the rifle from the weapons depot with which he had killed the security guard during the RAF. In the murder of Professor Kaiser, however, he used the rifle of Dr. Kohlmann's spouses so that the investigators would suspect them.

Meanwhile Marie dies in Wilsberg's arms. Dr. Haus clears his job after his wrong game is exposed, and Dr. Viola Kohlmann is appointed university professor.

background

The episode Doktorspiele is based on the novel Wilsberg and the dead Professor by Jürgen Kehrer , which - read by Rainer Gilljohann - was published in 2006 as an audio book on four CDs.

Filming began on October 14, 2008 and ended on December 15, 2008. At the end of October 2008, the film was shot in a café on Domplatz in Münster . Further recordings were made at the Solder antiquarian bookshop in Frauenstrasse, where the Wilsberg antiquarian bookshop can be found in the television series. The meeting between Wilsberg and his client Marie Kaiser was recorded in the Fyal on Geisbergweg in the immediate vicinity of the Domplatz. The recordings showing the police headquarters were shot in the Bispinghof in Münster. The joint excursion by Ekki and the student Ramona was filmed on Coconut Beach in the Münster harbor . The scene at the harbor was also filmed in which Wilsberg talks to Professor Varnholt at the Osmohallen during his running training. In addition, the film was shot at the Romansh seminar at Cologne University . The scene in which Ekki attends the German lecture shows exterior shots of the main building of the University of Cologne, which is located on Albertus-Magnus-Platz.

On September 15, 2010, the episode was released together with the 28th episode Oh du tödliche… by Polarfilm on DVD with an FSK-16 rating, while all previous DVD releases of the television series were given an FSK-12 rating. The episode Doktorspiele received an FSK-12 rating, but the double DVD has this higher age rating due to the FKS-16 rating of the second main film. In addition to the two main films, the DVD contains a making-of and a portrait of the city of Münster as bonus material. In 2010, the city of Münster gave this DVD to every citizen who registered with his primary residence in Münster.

The running gag Bielefeld refers in this episode on the endorsement of the baseball caps in the style of the logo of the television series Wilsberg wearing Ekki in different scenes, as well as the rhyme "Are you paying you me a lot of money, I do not go away from Bielefeld" which he gives for a shaking rhyme during a German lecture.

Frank Montenbruck , who was born in Münster and lives there, was the television series Stromberg known and occurs as a result Doktorspiele in a supporting role as a neighbor of Commissioner Anna Springer in the common stairwell of the apartment building on.

As a result, there are a striking number of allusions to real and fictional people as well as quotes from literary texts and films. Right at the beginning of the episode, Wilsberg speaks to Commissioner Springer about the film Blow Up , Overbeck adds the director's name in this scene. As in this 1966 film, Wilsberg accidentally photographed a murder. When Wilsberg first came across Dr. House meets, forbids these puns on Dr. House , especially since they both move around with the help of a cane. Dr. At this meeting, Haus assumed that Wilsberg was Münster's answer to Miss Marple . Later, Wilsberg is asked by Ekki if he would like to accompany him to the cinema to watch the British feature film Peeping Tom from 1959 together. While driving along the cathedral square in Münster, Wilsberg drops a quote from Franz von Assisi : “That the dog is my favorite, you say, oh, man, it's a sin. The dog is loyal to me in the storm, the human not even in the wind. ”Wilsberg acknowledges that Ramona Liek was initially the friend of Daniel Kaiser before she became his father's lover with the words“ Oedipus sends his regards ”. Wilsberg later spoke viciously of the “mother complex” to Anna Springer when Overbeck appeared behind her in the apartment, who had taken off his trousers to remove a coffee stain from them. Anna Springer wonders if her assistant Overbeck is emulating the CSI Miami series when he puts on his sunglasses and loosens the top buttons of his shirt before the two visit Marie Kaiser in her house.

Wilsberg comments on a phone call with Wolfgang Kohlmann to Marie Kaiser with the words "The boy spoke, the king ran" and uses a reference to "The boy came, the king called" from the ballad The Singer from 1783 by Johann Wolfgang from Goethe . A homage to Alfred Hitchcock's film The Invisible Third from 1959 can be found in the attack by a double-decker model airplane that Wilsberg encountered during his meeting with Wolfgang Kohlmann in the field. " Al Capone was only caught for tax evasion," Wilsberg remarks to Ekki, asking him to review Dr. Moving house. In addition, when resolving the case, Wilsberg makes use of an analogy from Edgar Allan Poe's work The Stolen Letter , Professor Varnholt searches for the file about him stolen by Kaiser in Professor Kaiser's office. This is hidden on the shelf in a book about secret languages ​​and a picture made of stencil technology can be used to decipher it, which is clearly visible on the wall. Just as obviously, the stolen letter is ultimately found on the thief's desk with Poe, where no one suspects it.

Several people speak of Masematte , a regional sociolect of the crooks from the slums of Münster , in several scenes , whereby these scenes are always underlaid with High German subtitles .

reception

Audience ratings

5.63 million viewers saw the episode Doktorspiele when it was first broadcast on ZDF , which made up a market share of 21.6%. The episode only had to admit defeat to the casting show Deutschland sucht den Superstar , which was followed by 50,000 more viewers.

criticism

Fabian Riedner from quotenmeter.de praised Lansink for his portrayal, which was "very good", as well as the two scriptwriters who "wrote an exciting case" and incorporated "really funny moments". Riedner ascribed a corresponding entertainment value to the actor Roland Jankowsky , who in his role Overbeck again "casually emulates " the main actor Horatio Caine from CSI: Miami when he "slowly puts his sunglasses up and down several times like the star of the series". Such moments were "incredibly well staged" by Hans-Günther Bücking . The script is “written quite well”, so that the thriller is “solved step by step”, only the dissolution, due to Wilsberg's personal involvement, means that the series cannot develop further through the episode. Riedner gave the episode a rating of 87%.

This opinion is shared by the Lexicon of International Films , which judges that the episode is a "humorously spiced (TV series) crime film about the antiquarian and private detective Wilsberg, who is once again directly affected."

The editorial staff of TV Spielfilm was of the opinion that the episode was "an entertaining case with Hollywood quotes, in which Masematte (an old Münster dialect) plays a key role". Doctor games is "not CSI, but smart, punchy and curious".

Tilmann P. Gangloff from kino.de states that doctor games are “an excellent and extremely tricky crime thriller that has suspects in abundance”. As a result, the film achieves “a complexity that almost goes beyond the scope”. At the same time, the script is “teeming with allusions and quotations”. Among the actors, Gangloff particularly emphasizes the interplay between Oliver Korittke and Sylta Fee Wegmann as well as "the wonderful performances by Overbeck", played by Roland Jankowsky .

Kurt Sagatz from the Tagesspiegel judged that doctor games were "an entertaining crime thriller that comes up with half a dozen suspects". He adds, "This episode contains all the elements that fans of the Münster crime novels love so much".

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Approval certificate for Wilsberg: Doktorspiele . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; August 2010 / April 2016; test number: 124 057-a V). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Doctor games at crew united
  3. ↑ Leon Scherfig: Nachrichten Münster: Celebrities celebrate in the Skaters Palace. In: Westfälische Nachrichten . Münster, October 19, 2008.
  4. ↑ Ostbevern: A dream came true. In: Westfälische Nachrichten. Ostbevern, October 31, 2008.
  5. ^ Klaus Baumeister: Münster: Introduction of the new tax costs 421,000 euros. In: Westfälische Nachrichten. Münster, December 29, 2010.
  6. ↑ Second residence tax: Those who register in Münster receive a DVD. In: Münstersche Zeitung . Münster, December 9, 2010.
  7. ↑ a b c d e TV feature film : film review
  8. ↑ a b c d e f g h i kino.de: film review
  9. ↑ a b c d e f g quotenmeter.de: The critics: "Wilsberg: Doktorspiele" , Fabian Riedner, April 24, 2009.
  10. ^ A b c Kurt Sagatz: ZDF crime thriller: Tödliche Doktorspiele. In: Tagesspiegel . April 25, 2009.
  11. ↑ a b Blickpunkt: Film : TV ratings: “Tatort” before “DSDS” and “Wilsberg” , Munich, April 27, 2009.
  12. ↑ a b producersallianz.de: Most viewed (TV) on the weekend: Tatort (absolute), DSDS (14-49 year olds) , April 27, 2009.
  13. ↑ a b kress.de: The kress -quote corner: "DSDS" swings into the home straight with a new record. , April 26, 2012.
  14. ^ Doctor games in the Lexicon of International FilmTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used
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