Wilsberg: The kidnapping

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Episode in the Wilsberg series
Original title The abduction
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Eyeworks Fiction & Film on behalf of ZDF
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 37 ( List )
First broadcast January 26, 2013 on ZDF
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Director Dominic Müller
script Eckehard Ziedrich
production Anton Moho
music Dirk Leupolz
camera Stephan Schuh
cut Jens Müller
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The kidnapping is the 37th episode in the Wilsberg television series . It was first broadcast on January 26, 2013 on ZDF . Directed by Dominic Müller , the screenplay was written by Eckehard Ziedrich .

action

Alex Holtkamp meets with her client Horst Fahrenbrink, a well-known rapist who is physically harassing her in his car. The two petty criminals Ochs and Russ unintentionally come to Alex's aid, shoot Fahrenbrink in the underground car park and force Alex to take a jaunt through Münster. Fahrbrink is later found dead in his car by Wilsberg. Alex, however, has disappeared without a trace, only her handbag is found at the crime scene. Wilsberg and Ekki fear that Alex may have been kidnapped. In their search, the two initially orient themselves on the only trace available, an Indian figure that Alex received from her client, gave away to Wilsberg and sold by him to a second-hand dealer for 20 euros.

From the window of an apartment building, on the ground floor of which is Diana's Bar, Ekki falls the corpse of Russ at his feet. In the deceased's apartment, Overbeck finds one of Alex's women's shoes. He sees his theory of the murderous lawyer confirmed. As simple as the solution to the case seems to him up to this point, the search for the service limousine of the undercover LKA officer Peter Krupp turns out to be difficult. He had borrowed this vehicle for the masked ball of the Münster police, but it was stolen from him at the ball by Russ, who pretended to be an employee of the park service team. So Commissioner Anna Springer has to take care of the clarification of the two murders, while Wilsberg and Ekki are still on the trail of the alleged kidnapper.

Wilsberg's niece Alex Holtkamp has been lying tied up and gagged for hours in the trunk of the vanished limousine, which Russ has parked in an abandoned garage after a failed attempt to escape. During the search of Diana Markowitz's apartment, which is located above her bar, Ochs, Russ' accomplice, is also found dead. Both were murdered in revenge by Diana, who was in love with Horst Fahrenbrink. In his room in her apartment there are four other Indian figures in which Fahrbrink has hidden a large amount of cocaine. Peter Krupp, the undercover LKA officer, wants to run away with the material and the key to Diana's garage, in which he suspects more drugs. However, this fails due to the fierce resistance from Alex when Krupp opens the trunk of his car.

background

The film was shot in Münster and Cologne . Filming began on April 17, 2012 along with the resulting loyalty test . Filming was scheduled to end on June 22, 2012.

In April 2012, the film was shot over three days in Höhenberg on the corner between Weimarer Strasse and Geraer Strasse. Large parts of the exterior shots were taken in Cologne, including in Rembrandstrasse, where the Rembrandt Eck was used as the location for Diana's bar. The scenes in front of and in the junk shop were created across from this inn. In addition, the film team spent 14 days in Münster and the surrounding area for the shooting. The meeting between Krupp and Wilsberg am Aasee was recorded on May 21, 2012 . The recordings showing the police headquarters were filmed in the Bispinghof in Münster , as in the previous episodes . The scenes showing the tax office were also created again in Stadthaus 1, from where the viewer is granted a view of the Peace of Westphalia Square and the back of the town hall . In addition, several scenes were recorded with a view over the roofs of Münster. The film was shot on Frauenstrasse and in the Solder antiquarian bookshop, where the Wilsberg antiquarian bookshop can be found in the film.

On May 23, 2012, the film team was invited by Ursula Nelles , the rector of the Westphalian Wilhelms University , to the botanical garden in Münster, where scenes for the episode had been recorded five days earlier at the back of the palace five days earlier show the masked ball of the police with the castle, which in the film represents a hotel, and the botanical garden as a backdrop.

Premiere at the Cineplex in Münster

The film celebrated its premiere on January 17, 2013 in the Cineplex Münster with three screenings in front of a total of more than 1,500 spectators, with the screenings from Filmservice Münster-Land of the municipal press office, ZDF, the Münster film theater companies and the production company Eyeworks Fiction & Film in the presence of actors Leonard Lansink , Oliver Korittke , Roland Jankowsky , Vittorio Alfieri and Alexander Schubert as well as the filmmakers of the production, including director Dominic Müller , cameraman Stephan Schuh , Martin R. Neumann from ZDF , producer Anton Moho from Eyeworks. The guests of the premiere included viewers of the Münster celebrities, such as Wilsberg inventor Jürgen Kehrer with his wife Sandra Lüpkes , illustrator of the Wilsberg comic Jörg Hartmann , Götz Alsmann , Lord Mayor Markus Lewe , Münster Marketing Director Bernadette Spinnen and Lansink's wife Maren Muntenbeck. This was followed by a premiere party.

Arved Birnbaum was already seen in the episode Deadly Friendship in 2004 .

The scene in which Roland Jankowsky in the role of Overbeck at the police masked ball wears an NYPD police uniform and other people can be seen disguised as cowboys, Indians and sailors, pays homage to the YMCA music title of the Village People , which subsequently can be heard. This scene, which can be found in the credits , takes place at a 1970s party in the fictional Village disco , named after the Village People in the film. The actors appearing in this scene are earlier in their characteristic outfits at a confrontation to see where an undercover agent to be identified by the witness Diana Markowitz.

The names of Alex's two kidnappers are Ochs and Russ. Patrick Ochs and Marco Russ are two football professionals who moved from Eintracht Frankfurt to VfL Wolfsburg in 2011 - the year before the episode was produced .

The running gag "Bielefeld" refers in this episode to a newspaper article in the local press that discovered the title Stolen Inca treasure in Bielefeld - Bielefeld tax investigators find stolen Inca treasure • Still no trace of the man behind the art theft, which Ekki pointed out from his superior Grabowski becomes.

reception

Audience ratings

7.01 million viewers saw the episode Die Entführung when it was first broadcast on ZDF , which corresponded to a market share of 21.5 percent. With viewers between 14 and 49 years of age, the broadcast reached a market share of 9.9 percent with 1.17 million viewers. In terms of reach, the episode was the day's winner on German television, although at the same time Sat.1 broadcast the free TV premiere of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Journey on Dawn and Germany Seeks the Superstar by RTL .

criticism

The kidnapping is a "varied (TV series) crime thriller from Münster, which equips the lovingly irrelevant plot with surprising twists," judges the editors of the lexicon of international films . The editorial team of TV Spielfilm notes that "coincidence is strikingly often helping the Wilsberg clan". The result is an episode that contains "surprising twists" and is designed as "weird fun". As a result, “spoonful-tragic figures and ironic wit” again ensure “entertaining entertainment”.

The editors of the Westfälische Nachrichten speculate that with the Wilsberg episode, ZDF wanted to "make up for what the ARD screwed up with the last Münster" crime scene: The miracle of Wolbeck ", in which only relatively few recordings in Münster and Münster -Wolbeck were shot. She is happy that the episode shows "many impressions of Münster - and even aerial photos of Münster". This opinion is shared by Johannes Loy from the editorship of the Westfälische Nachrichten, who was “fed up with Münster pictures”, particularly welcomed the aerial photos and also drew a direct comparison with the crime scene episode “The Miracle of Wolbeck”. The story of the kidnapping seems “harder than usual” and so it is “not easy for the audience to see Alex suffer in the trunk”. The masked ball and Overbeck's full-length mission in US police uniform are successful ideas that provide “variety”. However, a "somewhat opaque and difficult to memorize case" emerged. This opinion is shared by the editorial staff of the Münsterschen Zeitung , which states that the kidnapping is a "confused case".

The result is a "crime scene about incompetent petty criminals, about police officers who are in no way inferior to them, and an Indian figure from an Inca raid," says Rainer Tittelbach. The viewer receives a knowledge advantage that "he can use with relish without having the full perspective". "Dry, depressive-laconic dialogues" as well as "a strong Sabine Orleans ", whose "suicidal melancholy [...] represents a successful contrast to the crazy, densely constructed plot", ensure that the conversation remains "entertaining". So the episode is "no screaming, but solid comedy (structure) craft and as a thriller, as the films in the series are often: not really exciting, but quite entertaining". Tittelbach awarded three and a half of six possible points.

Jürgen Overkott from the editorial team of Der Westen is happy about “pretty shades of gray instead of flat black and white painting” and considers the episode “unusually good”, which fits well into the “lovable anarchic series” and “with fresh dialogues in dusty scenarios “Know to wait. This “exchange of words, which cleverly balance on a fine line between pure slapstick and dry joke”, is thanks to screenwriter Ziedrich. Ziedrich "plays cleverly with [...] retro gags - right up to the successful final punch line". Overkott also praises Korritke's portrayal, who has been seen in 23 episodes since 2005 as a “congenial television partner” Lansink. The plot of the episode is "completely constructed, but consistently told".

Tilmann P. Gangloff writes for the joint venture of Protestant journalism that it is “a damn fine line on which Eckehard Ziedrich and Dominic Müller are walking with this new case for the private detective Georg Wilsberg from Münster”. The plot of the episode is "completely constructed" and "the game with chance again and again to extremes". With its various "allusions and cross-references" the film shows "sometimes parodic traits", but at the core remains "primarily a thriller". According to Gangloff, Eckehard Ziedrich wrote "the scripts for some of the best" Wilsberg "thrillers, such as call girls , The Anabaptists , Filmriss , Oh du födliche ... , Danger in Delay and Tote Hose . It is “impressive how wonderfully one cog in Ziedrich's script engages in the other.” The implementation has also been “extremely carefully designed”, to which “the extraordinarily coherent sound structure” contributed by the composer Dirk Leupolz, who in 2012 already had the two episodes for lack of evidence and the Bielefeld conspiracy accompanied by music.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Münstersche Zeitung : In Münsterland and Cologne: shooting start for new Wilsberg episodes , Münster, dpa , April 17, 2012
  2. ↑ a b c The kidnapping at crew united
  3. ^ Westfälische Nachrichten : Premiere of the 34th Wilsberg in the Cineplex , Münster, January 20, 2012
  4. ↑ 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
  5. ↑ presseportal.de: “Sex and Crime” in Münsterland: ZDF is shooting two new “Wilsberg” episodes , Mainz, ots
  6. ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger : Film works: Münster in the Germania settlement , Höhenberg, April 26, 2012
  7. ^ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger : Background: Filmstadt Köln , kaz, April 26, 2012
  8. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : ZDF is shooting with Leonard Lansink at the marina: Private detective Wilsberg looking for clues in Fuestrup , Greven, Peter Sauer, May 11, 2012
  9. ↑ Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität : Press release upm: Thanks for free university marketing - the Rectorate welcomes the Wilsberg team in the Botanical Garden , Münster, upm, May 24, 2012
  10. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : Kurt Eiterig can be seen on Saturday: With Wilsberg in front of the camera , Reckenfeld, Roland Böckmann, January 24, 2013
  11. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : Premiere on January 17th in the cinema: Corpses line Wilsbergs Weg , Münster, December 22nd, 2012
  12. ^ Münstersche Zeitung : Neuer Wilsberg: Premiere in the Cineplex - first performance on January 17th , Münster / Stadtleben, Münster, December 22nd, 2012
  13. ^ Münstersche Zeitung : Cinema premiere: New Wilsberg crime thriller is shown in the Cineplex , Münster, January 10, 2013
  14. ↑ a b Westfälische Nachrichten : Premiere in front of 1500 spectators in the Cineplex: The star of the “heute-show” is Wilsberg's villain , Münster, Martin Kalitschke, January 17, 2013
  15. ↑ a b c Münstersche Zeitung : Wilsberg premiere in the Cineplex , Münster / Nachrichten, January 18, 2013
  16. ↑ a b Cineplex : Cinema premiere Wilsberg - Die Entführung , accessed on January 29, 2013
    Cineplex : Extras Review: Cinema premiere: Wilsberg: Die Entführung im Cineplex , In: KINO aktuell , Filminfo No. 4, January 24 - 30, 2013 , P. 58
  17. ↑ Münstersche Zeitung : New thriller in the cinema: A "bad guy" celebrates double Wilsberg premiere ( memento of March 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Münster, Kirstin Oelgemöller, January 18, 2013
    Münstersche Zeitung : Not Hollywood, but still a beautiful premiere : New Wilsberg case in advance in the Cineplex , Münster / Stadtleben, Münster, Kirstin Oelgemöller, January 19, 2013
  18. ↑ a b GIG-online.de: Wilsberg-Premiere , in: GIG, No. 321, February 2013, p. 58
  19. ↑ a b c d e f tittelbach.tv: "Wilsberg - Die Entführung" series , January 12, 2013
  20. ↑ a b c d e f The West : ZDF: "Wilsberg" celebrates the 1970s - for 18 years , Mainz / Münster, Jürgen Overkott, January 25, 2013
  21. ↑ a b c d e f g Joint venture of Protestant journalism : Tip of the day: “Wilsberg: Die Entführung” (ZDF) , Tilmann P. Gangloff , January 26, 2013
  22. ↑ a b c quotenmeter.de: Primetime check: Saturday, February 26, 2012 , Manuel Nunez Sanchez, January 27, 2013
  23. ^ The kidnapping in the lexicon of international filmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used
  24. ↑ a b c TV feature film : film review
  25. ^ A b Westfälische Nachrichten : What about Alex? - In the new "Wilsberg" she comes under the control of a kidnapper , Medien, January 26, 2013
  26. ^ A b c d Westfälische Nachrichten : Wilsberg: The kidnapping - Alex in the trunk , media / seen, Johannes Loy, January 28, 2013
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