Wilsberg: Bielefeld 23

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Episode in the Wilsberg series
Original title Bielefeld 23
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Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Warner Bros. ITVP
on behalf of ZDF
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 66 ( List )
First broadcast January 11, 2020 on ZDF
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Director Dominic Müller
script Stefan Rogall
music Stefan Hansen
camera Ralf M. Mendle
cut Sebastian Bonde
occupation

Bielefeld 23 is the 66th episode in the Wilsberg TV series . The film is based on the Wilsberg character by Jürgen Kehrer . Directed by Dominic Müller and the script was written by Stefan Rogall . The first broadcast took place on January 11, 2020, in the Saturday evening program of ZDF .

content

Wilsberg has to go to Bielefeld to help his friend Manni Höch: As head of the building department, he rioted under the influence of drugs in a meeting about the controversial "Bielefeld 23" project. The newspaper "Bielefelder Blick" had previously spread false information about the project and put it in danger, which puts construction company Hellwarth in trouble. Wilsberg believes that the drugs were instilled in Manni and wonders whether the attack is directed against Manni personally or against the project. However, the Bielefeld commissioner Drechshage refuses to investigate.

Merle started studying psychology in Bielefeld . To keep Overbeck busy, Anna sends him to take care of Merle, but she lets him down. In the editorial team of the “Bielefelder Blick”, Wilsberg discovers that Merle's article, who earned her studies at “Blick”, was written under a pseudonym . She relies on an external source. Wilsberg and Ekki suspect that the misinformation was passed on by Manni's colleague Margot Becker, who is against the project, and they steal their computer at night. Merle then discovers an e-mail with an appointment at the Sparrenburg . They watch the meeting, where Margot Becker is threatened by three men, but is able to defend himself with a stun gun and escape.

When Manni is also accused of bribery - a large amount has been received in his account, of which he knows nothing - he is taken into custody and Drechshage takes on the case. Margot Becker is missing for a short time, and murder is suspected until she answers and exonerates Manni. Becker now accuses Hellwarth of wanting to push the project through at all costs and to have put the thugs on her in order to get her criticism out of the way.

Ekki learns from Manni's secretary Ines Dorn that Lückewille, the gatekeeper of the building authority, could have administered the drug to Manni. He searches his cell phone and finds one of the three attackers from Sparrenburg, Björn Tilker, and his address as a friend. Drechshage also finds out about Overbeck, they arrive there at the same time, but Tilker escapes and is only overwhelmed by Drechshage's assistant Nguyen Thuong Nhi in a theatrical martial arts show . Lückewille gives him an alibi, and Tilker is released again.

Now Lückewille is shadowed by Overbeck and Drechshage on their own. They are overwhelmed by Tilker and locked in Lückewille's car, Ines is kidnapped as a hostage and later scapegoat . Manni and Becker talk about it and discover that Ines is together with Hellwarth and that he was informed about all the building authority internals, but when Wilsberg confronts him, it turns out that Hellwarth is being blackmailed by Tilker - to put him under pressure , Tilker attacked the construction project with Lückewille's help. They drive together to the handover date. In a garage there is a spectacular showdown in which the police and Ines can free themselves, Lückewille is overwhelmed by Wilsberg and Tilker von Drechshage.

particularities

Alex and Anna are not involved in the case in this episode because Anna is on a cure and Alex is at a lawyers' congress. For the first time, both female main characters from the series are missing at the same time.

The episode was filmed in Bielefeld in October 2018. You can see u. a. the Breite Strasse, the old town hall , the Haus des Handwerks, the Klosterplatz, the Kiskerbogen in the Mauerstrasse and the Sparrenburg .

Running gags

  • The Running Gag Bielefeld is unnecessary in this episode, as it mainly takes place in Bielefeld.
  • Merle reacts annoyed to every encounter with one of the Münster characters, as she suspects that Anna is being supervised.
  • Overbeck receives repeated calls from Anna. During these phone calls, he loses sight of the shaded people every time.
  • The Bielefeld investigator Drechshage, who appeared in episode 64 written on the face, proves to be as bumbling as Overbeck in the Wilsberg area - he is regularly outpaced by his assistant. In this episode, he and Overbeck vie for who the cooler cop is, and shower each other with sarcastic humiliations.
  • The name "Bielefeld 23" contains a double allusion. On the one hand, reference is made to the controversial Stuttgart 21 project . On the other hand, the number 23 is used as an homage to the trilogy of novels “ Illuminatus! “ To be understood by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson , in which the number is the code for a world conspiracy and plays a major role. That it was not chosen by chance, or only because the year 2023 was not long away when the film was first broadcast, is shown by the fact that the "23" appears again and again in the film as a running gag - especially in fade-ins, which show the place, the date and the time at which the respective action takes place: It is always so and so clock and 23 minutes (in one case also 22 minutes, but the display suddenly jumps to "23" with the typical sound of a folding number watch) around).

reception

Audience rating

When it was first broadcast on January 11, 2020, the film was seen by a total of 6.36 million viewers and achieved a market share of 20.8 percent.

criticism

  • tittelbach.tv is enthusiastic: As is so often the case with “Wilsberg”, it is the many small and politically incorrect details that are the greatest fun in this episode […] Apart from that, “Bielefeld 23” is an extremely successful mixture of crime thriller and comedy; In between it gets really exciting thanks to cleverly used thriller effects and corresponding music (Stefan Hansen).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ZDFtext - page 445. Retrieved on January 12, 2020 .
  2. ↑ tittelbach.tv , accessed on January 15, 2020
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