Wilsberg: Against the current

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Episode in the Wilsberg series
Original title Against the current
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Eyeworks Fiction & Film on behalf of ZDF
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 39 ( List )
First broadcast August 28, 2013 on ZDFneo
Rod
Director Michael Schneider
script Eckehard Ziedrich
Khyana el Bitar
Matthias Keilich
production Anton Moho
music Dirk Leupolz
camera Andreas Zickgraf
cut Jörg Kroschel
occupation

Against the Current is the 39th episode in the Wilsberg TV series . The first broadcast took place on August 28, 2013 on ZDFneo , on August 31, 2013 the episode was shown on ZDF . Directed by Michael Schneider , the screenplay was written by Eckehard Ziedrich , Khyana el Bitar and Matthias Keilich .

action

Wilsberg, the electricity in his apartment was turned off because he repeatedly failed to pay his bills due to financial bottlenecks. Ekki has every reason to be in a better mood. He inherited the house and a few hectares of farmland from his old great aunt Margarete Schuhmacher in Havixwinkel, around 30 kilometers from the gates of Münster in the Warendorf district. During the first inspection of the house, the two found the body of the farmer Hans Habich and a silver chain with a ram as a pendant. When the two of them examine the farmer's body, they are surprised by their neighbor Ulla Falkenberg. This informs the village police officer Heinrich Brandstetter, who holds Ekki and Wilsberg for the murderers of Hans Habich and takes them into custody. Only after the notified colleagues Anna Springer and Overbeck from the homicide squad in Münster arrived, Wilsberg and Ekki were released for lack of evidence.

At a citizens' meeting in Havixwinkel, the two found out that the different farmer operated a biogas plant in the rural village with which he could have supplied the entire village with electricity. The Münsterland power plants MKW, which own the power grid, have something against the power supply by the farmer. The farmer's death comes in handy for MKW's regional manager, Oliver Brandstetter, a childhood friend of Ekki's, who apparently has a relationship with the young widow of the wealthy farmer Habich. Wilsberg and Ekki listen carefully and start the investigation.

But not only the body found in the inherited house posed problems for Ekki. His neighbor Ulla tries by all means to avoid Ekki assuming the inheritance. During one of his childhood summer stays with Aunt Marga, Ekki encouraged Ulla to jump from the hayloft of a barn. The young girl suffered injuries on her left foot, which today brought her a disability pension, but neither a job nor a husband. Since Ulla cared for the deceased for 20 years until her death, she believes she has a moral right to the building. After all, according to Ulla's statement, the various promised her the house and the property on her deathbed. When Ekki informs her that Ulla will not inherit the house and that she and Ekki will now be neighbors, she curses him and his house, which knows many dark secrets.

Opposite the young widow Charlotte Habich, Ekki and Wilsberg obtained access to the house of the deceased farmer under the pretext of a tax investigation. In the premises, Wilsberg discovers the silver necklace he found at the scene of the crime on the neck of a friend of the widow's and concludes that the alleged perpetrator must have come from the location.

Ekki remembers the curse cast by Ulla when the stain of blood he had painted reappears on the wall at the landing where farmer Habich died. When one of the rotten stairs breaks under Ekki's weight, he sees this as a bad omen and actually doesn't want to keep the house anymore. While they spend the night in the house, Ekki hears noises and discovers Oliver Brandstetter in the hallway who has gained access to the house with a key. Ekki takes this key from him and puts it in front of the door.

The next day Ekki, Wilsberg and Alex inspect the field belonging to the house together. The dusty and stony wasteland seems completely unsuitable for agriculture. The value of the land also seems to be manageable as building land, as the village is very rural and there is no development plan for the property. Since the cost of renovating the house is estimated by a specialist at around 50,000 euros, Ekki decides to donate the house and property to his neighbor Ulla. He has Alex draw up a deed of gift for the house he has inherited, which he throws Ulla in the mailbox.

Wilsberg and Ekki go to the MKW, where Ekki again pretends to investigate for tax fraud. While Ekki in an emotional conversation asks Oliver Brandstetter to hand over the supply contracts concluded between MKW and the municipalities in the region, Wilsberg is already taking the contracts in the neighboring area. Alex can't find any illegal passages in the contracts. However, it is noticeable that all contracts have the same three signatures from Oliver Brandstetter, lawyer Rahn and Edwin Laux. It is also noticeable that almost all municipalities in the region have concluded supply contracts with MKW, but not Havixwinkel.

Alex accuses attorney Rahn of betraying his client because he did not act in their favor, but in the interests of MKW. Under the renewed pretext of tax investigations, Wilsberg takes the contract versions drawn up for the municipalities. When comparing with the versions of the MKW, Wilsberg notes that there are significant differences in the documents. If the MKW were prepared to pay the farmers in the region 48 euros per square meter of their land to set up wind farms , the contracts of the municipalities only speak of 36 euros per square meter. Brandstetter, Rahn and Laux have made the difference, which adds up to almost five million euros in each of the five villages with over five hectares .

It turns out that Ulla Falkenberg was given the prospect of Oliver Brandstetter that MKW would build a wind farm on Margarete Schuhmacher's field, provided that Hans Habich would sell his biogas plant, which was built for two million euros, to MKW. Habich was then called by Ulla into Margarete Schuhmacher's house at night, where she pushed him off the stairs to his death. She had previously killed Margarete with wine poisoned by arsenic , as an exhumation shows. Ulla is then arrested.

Alex discovers that the donation of the building and land to Ulla Falkenberg is not legally binding because Ekki forgot to sign the deed of donation. Finally, Wilsberg and Ekki find out what goal Oliver Brandstetter was pursuing during his nightly visit to Margarete Schuhmacher's house. He tried to take the embezzled money of almost five million euros, which he had hidden in an aluminum suitcase under the rotten stairs.

After Ekki's superior Grabowski goes to the press with the money he has found, which he celebrates as a successful manhunt by the Münster tax office, the MKW fulfills all the demands of the village residents so that they are self-sufficient with the biogas plant of the farmer Habich .

background

The film was shot in Münster , Cologne and Oberembt . Filming began on August 14, 2012 together with the filming of the stallion parade . On August 14, 2012 and the following day, shooting took place at the Solder antiquarian bookshop in Frauenstrasse. Further pictures were taken at the mirror tower between Überwasserkirche and Domplatz , which show Wilsberg and Alex taking a walk, during which Wilsberg receives the deed of donation for the house he inherited from Ekki from his godchild. The scenes that take place in the stairwell in front of the Rahn law firm were filmed in Stadthaus I in Münster. In Münster, the shooting ended on August 21, 2012 after one week.

At the end of September 2012, the scenes that take place on and in the house he inherited from Ekki were filmed on Tollhausener Strasse in Oberembt . This brick house was ideal for filming because it was empty with all the furniture after the death of the residents. The mayor's office for the shooting was set up in the local community center, while a police station and post office were installed in the courtyard next to the church. The grave used for the exhumation was created especially for the filming on a piece of lawn in front of the church. The interior photos were taken in Cologne. The end of filming for the episode was planned for the period from October 15, 2012 to October 20, 2012.

Rolf Kanies was already seen in 2001 in the episode Wilsberg and the murder without a corpse , Matthias van den Berg in 2006 in the episode Death on Prescription and Godehard Giese in the episode Doctor Games in 2009 , but all three played different roles in the earlier episodes than in Gegen the stream .

Trivia

The running gag "Bielefeld" appears when Ekki talks about the vacation visits to his great-aunt: "My Italy was Havixwinkel!" Wilsberg replies: "Well, better than Bielefeld!"

In this episode, the first written reference to Overbeck's first name Lars appears, including a fictitious address, when a letter from his electricity supplier is briefly shown at 8:08 am.

Open air performance at the Aasee

At nightfall of the 11th Celebrity Kellnerns was in favor of cancer advice Münsterland to the under on 1 September 2013 Lake Aa terraces in collaboration with the film service Münster.Land, the ZDF and Eyeworks Fiction & Film result against the current under shown in the open air.

reception

Audience ratings

790,000 viewers saw the episode Gegen die Strom when it was first broadcast on August 28, 2013 on ZDFneo , which corresponded to a market share of 2.8 percent. The broadcast on ZDF on August 31, 2013, parallel to the free TV premiere of the movie Rio , reached 5.14 million viewers and thus achieved a market share of 19.6 percent and the day's win among the total audience.

criticism

According to the verdict of the Lexicon of International Films , the episode Against the Current is a "fussy, sometimes quite amusing (television series) crime thriller with pleasantly relaxed actors". "Ekki is a hit - the rest is just poor", is the conclusion of the TV Movie editorial team .

Rainer Tittelbach judged that the episode was “not a big hit in terms of dramaturgy and comedy - but the small Wilsberg-typical details make“ Against the Current ”a really successful Saturday night thriller that comes across as a bit different than usual and yet the popular ZDF series as a ritual celebrates ". “The story lives on the one hand from the animosities from childhood, which last a lifetime, on the other hand from the investigations abroad”, while Eva Löbau's play is “as usual convincing” in its “multi-layered victim role”. Overall, Tittelbach awarded 3.5 out of 6 possible stars.

According to the opinion of the TV Spielfilm editorial team , the case is "spectacular as a disconnected cable." "The weird joke of earlier Wilsberg films probably got stuck in the transformer", the film critics speculate and assess, "Private detective Georg Wilsberg is under little tension". Their conclusion is: "The air is out, please recharge your batteries!"

According to the opinion of the TV Today editorial team, the episode is a “tolerably amusing 20-volt crime thriller”. Eva Löbau plays her role “weird”. The film is "sometimes very funny, but as a comedy it should be funnier than as a crime thriller". The editors awarded one of three possible points.

Tilmann P. Gangloff judged for the Frankfurter Rundschau that the film offered “great pleasure” and “a sympathetic mixture of well-known and surprising elements”. The film title is kept "deliberately ambiguous", the plot shows "usual bizarre features". “With the appearance of the village sheriff”, played by Rolf Kanies, “director Michael Schneider interspersed the plot more and more, but pleasantly casually with Western elements”. The film scores points with “cherished habits”, which include the regular cast and “which the authors repeatedly give opportunities to go it alone”, “Roland Jankowsky as Chuck Norris von Münster, with an admirably stoic expression , regularly provides the most beautiful appearances of this kind this time, too, the inevitable faux pas emerged. ”. "On the other hand, the plot was reasonably unpredictable," said Gangloff. His conclusion is: “In addition to the lovingly designed figures, above all the limping neighbor who was wonderfully embodied by Eva Löbau,“ Against the Current ”also delighted with various amusing staging elements. The fact that Jankowsky always provides a slapstick insert is just as much a part of the construction kit as the obligatory mention of Bielefeld. But the fact that Schneider used horror films to spread a bit of horror proves the stylistic range of the Wilsberg crime novels, and so "Against the Current" was, as always, a great pleasure. "

According to Harald Suerland of the Westfälische Nachrichten, “The Munsterland Schmunzelkrimi” tells “a good story”. "The familiar characters" are supported by "beautifully invented and well-played characters", including "Ulla brilliantly embodied by Eva Löbau". In Upstream , it therefore also constitutes "more than a pun crime".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Münstersche Zeitung : “Stallion Parade”: Wilsberg is shooting from Tuesday in Münster , Münster, Alexandra Pipos, August 8, 2012
  2. ↑ a b c filmstiftung.de: Wilsberg - Stallion Parade; Wilsberg - Against the Current ( Memento from October 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 8, 2012
  3. ^ A b c Westfälische Nachrichten : Wilsberg-Dreh in Münster: Seed theft, murder and an inheritance with obstacles , Münster, August 14, 2012
  4. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : Pretty much best friends: Wilsberg stars Korittke and Lansink get along brilliantly / Two new episodes are currently being shot , Münster, Münster, Martin Kalitschke, August 16, 2012 ( online )
  5. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : Shooting for new episodes: “Wilsberg” is investigating again , Münster, Martin Kalitschke, August 9, 2012
  6. ↑ a b c d Rundblick Elsdorf: Wilsberg determined in Oberembt , Oberembt, mos, September 28, 2012
  7. ↑ Against the current at crew united
  8. ↑ bertedetektiven.de: private detective Wilsberg - episode: Against the current , accessed on March 1, 2014
  9. ↑ GIG-online.de: Gala (Münster) , Alexandra Mai, in: GIG, No. 327, August 2013, p. 58
  10. ↑ Hello Münster: Cabaret artist is no mental arithmetic - But: Fortunately, the eleventh celebrity waiters at Aasee only get smooth sums , tips / dates, Münster, flo, August 25, 2012, p. 10
  11. ↑ buy + save: celebrities are swinging the tablet again ( memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), July 25, 2013
  12. ↑ krebsberatung-muenster.de: Charity events: Wilsberg's celebrity waiters on September 1, 2013 at the Aaseeterrassen , accessed on August 27, 2013
  13. ↑ Münsteraner Bote: Leonard Lansink meets Wilsberg ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2016 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. , Münster / Events, Gudrun Bruns, August 22, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.muensteranerbote.de
  14. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : Celebrity waiters at the Aasee: "Ober" Lansink asks to table , Münster, Karin Völker, 22 August 2013
  15. ↑ Münster am Sonntag: Celebrity waiters and crime thriller premiere: Today at Lake Aasee , Tips, Dates & Events, September 1, 2013, p. 4
  16. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : Against the current: Wilsberg crime thriller in the open air is decided by Promi-Kellnern , Münster, August 31, 2013
  17. ^ Westfälische Nachrichten : Leonard Lansink on crime thrillers and politics: "Wilsberg" has already voted , Münster, Martin Kalitschke, August 31, 2013
  18. ↑ quotenmeter.de: Primetime check: Saturday, August 31, 2013 , Manuel Nunez Sanchez, September 1, 2013
  19. ^ Against the Current in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used
  20. ↑ TV Movie : Wilsberg ( Memento from August 28, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on August 27, 2013
  21. ↑ a b c tittelbach.tv : "Wilsberg - Against the Current" series , August 8, 2013
  22. ↑ a b c TV feature film : film review , accessed on August 27, 2013
  23. ↑ a b c d TV Today : Wilsberg: Gegen den Strom ( Memento from August 31, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on August 31, 2013
  24. ↑ a b c d e f Frankfurter Rundschau : TV review - "Wilsberg: Against the current" - great pleasure , Tilmann P. Gangloff , September 1, 2013
  25. ^ A b c Westfälische Nachrichten : Wilsberg: Against the Current (ZDF) - More than Kalauer , Media, Harald Suerland, September 2, 2013

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