Wilsberg: Murder and Concrete

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Episode in the Wilsberg series
Original title Murder and Concrete
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 51 ( List )
First broadcast April 16, 2016 on ZDF
Rod
Director Hansjörg Thurn
script Sandra Lüpkes
Jürgen Kehrer
production Sabine de Mardt
Anton Moho
music Fabian Römer
Steffen Kaltschmid
camera Uwe Schäfer
cut Ollie Lanvermann
occupation

Murder and Concrete is the 51st episode in the Wilsberg TV series . The film is based on the Wilsberg character by Jürgen Kehrer . It was first broadcast on April 16, 2016 on ZDF . The director was Hansjörg Thurn , the script was written by Sandra Lüpkes and Jürgen Kehrer.

action

Anna Springer is annoyed with her landlord, Michael Lobland, because she has had to do without heating for days and simply no craftsman shows up to repair the damage. That's why she hires private detective Georg Wilsberg to take a closer look at her landlord. In addition, Wilsberg poses to Lobland as an investor "Achim Tewes" who wants to invest in his new luxury apartments, which he is currently planning to build. But also militant activists of the so-called FIM (“Freihafen Initiative Münster”) are mobilizing against the building lions because they want to save the old industrial port, where this luxurious residential and office district is to be built, from demolition. With great media interest, a raid is carried out on the opponents of the project and drugs are found. Mesut Kaharasan is certain that someone has put the drugs on them in order to have legal recourse against them. That same evening an explosive device explodes in a warehouse occupied by him and his colleagues in the old port area.

After the fire is extinguished, the corpse of Lobland's assistant Tom Riese is found in the hall. Oliver Maass, the head of the Customs Operations Command, insists on investigating because the fire could be an act of concealment by the drug dealers, which he would be responsible for apprehending. But when one of the new builders is found dead, it seems logical to Commissioner Springer that Lobland is behind it to avenge the death of his assistant. Anna now asks Wilsberg to withdraw, so as not to be considered biased as Lobland's battered tenant.

Shortly afterwards, Lobland's wife is kidnapped and a ransom of 2 million euros is demanded. Lobland is appalled because allegedly he has invested all of his capital in his construction project and has no cash at all. Nevertheless, he is willing to pay and hires Wilsberg as a money messenger when he finds out that he is in fact a private detective and not an investor. Although the delivery of the ransom is monitored by the police, everything goes wrong. The kidnapper realizes that he is about to be tricked and flees with his hostage. In the case of a second claim, customs investigator Oliver Maaß will hand over the money. Only now do the investigators find out that he is playing the wrong game and working with Helen Lobland, who wants to secure her company share before her husband goes bankrupt because his luxury apartment project threatens to fail. The kidnapping was a plan B after neither the fake drug discovery in the warehouse nor the explosion led to the goal of being able to start building new luxury apartments quickly. Maaß had switched sides and eliminated all those who knew him. Lobland's assistant had to die because he happened to be there when the incendiary device was ignited in the hall.

Helen Lobland shoots Oliver Maaß shortly before she is arrested, but is then arrested by Overbeck's unerring intervention. In her anger, she threatens to burden her husband so that she does not have to go to prison alone. The old industrial port is thus saved from demolition for the time being.

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The song at the end of the episode is We Have All The Time In The World by Louis Armstrong .

Murder and Concrete appeared on DVD along with the episode In Faithfulness and Faith of Polar Film .

The running gag "Bielefeld" in this episode at the end of the 30th minute refers to a folder with the inscription: "Bielefelder Chaussee 35", which Wilsberg discovered in Lobland's office and which affects the house in which Anna Springer lives.

reception

Audience rating

When Mord und Beton was first broadcast on ZDF on April 16, 2016 , the film was seen by a total of 6.99 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 22.8 percent.

criticism

Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv acknowledged this 50th Wilsberg case: even if the title would sound “unimaginative and more like a synopsis”, “but in the context of the series […] 'Murder and Concrete' is certainly closed the best ten episodes ”. "The unusually action-packed, powerful and also dramatic story [...] is a worthy anniversary event."

The TV Spielfilm editorial team gave the thriller a “thumbs up” and said with praise: “In contrast to many humorous predecessors, the screenplay by the authors Sandra Lüpkes / Jürgen Kehrer [...] is surprisingly serious.” And the critics state: “ 'Wilsberg' fans have to be strong today! "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Audience rating at wn.de, accessed on February 5, 2017.
  2. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Lansink, Korittke, Russek, Ohrt, Kehrer, Thurn. A partial anniversary that sits film criticism at tittelbach.tv, accessed on February 5, 2017.
  3. ↑ TV Spielfilm : Film review at TV-Spielfilm.de accessed on December 20, 2016.
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