Wilsberg: Dead mouth

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Episode in the Wilsberg series
Original title Mouth dead
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Eyeworks Fiction & Film on behalf of ZDF
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 42 ( List )
First broadcast March 1, 2014 on ZDF
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Director Martin Enlen
script Georg Piller
Tilmann Warnke
production Sabine de Mardt
Anton Moho
music Dieter Schleip
camera Philipp Timme
cut Monika Abspacher
occupation

Mundtot is the 42nd episode in the Wilsberg TV series . It was first broadcast on March 1, 2014 on ZDF . Directed by Martin Enlen , the screenplay was written by Georg Piller and Tilmann Warnke .

action

Ekki has to struggle with the working atmosphere of his employer and a noticeable number of irregularities in the tax office. Too often conscientious colleagues who showed too much commitment during the tax audit of influential Münster residents were sent by the boss to the medical officer or transferred to the post office under pretexts to be silenced.

Meanwhile, Wilsberg is plagued by existential worries. He has acquired an expensive manuscript from the 17th century that he plans to sell to the city of Münster. After a meeting of the culture committee, the city council announced that it could not provide any money for the writing. As a result, Wilsberg cannot sell the document, but faces bankruptcy. Mr. Kaiser, a research banker in the debt collection department of Wilsberg's house bank WebBank24, visits the antiquarian to seize his entire book inventory because Wilsberg cannot pay his debt of 5,000 euros and is already in arrears with three installments. The Teutoburger Bank refuses to issue Wilsberg a loan in order to be able to settle his loan at WebBank24.

Meanwhile, Commissioner Anna Springer is pleased that she was able to win the entrepreneur Christa Sieland as a sponsor for the Münster Police Sports Association, who made it possible to purchase new sports and fitness equipment. However, these have been kept under lock and key by customs for four weeks. In addition to Sieland, Alex Holtkamp, ​​who works as a lawyer for Sieland, will be present at the opening ceremony. Sieland puts Alex on the chief finance director Müntemeyer, who is also chairman of the culture committee, in order to obtain the necessary import permits for the sports equipment from China.

In order to give their boss a lesson, Ekki and his colleague Detlef lock the only entrance to the tax office with a chain and padlock. As they leave the building, they witness how Yvonne Kleining dies after falling out of her office window in the courtyard of the tax office. Since the entrance is locked, the police officers called to Commissioner Anna Springer and her colleague Overbeck suspect that the alleged murderer is still on the premises of the tax office. No culprit was found when the tax office was searched. Because the police do not see any reason to assume third-party negligence, the case is treated as a suicide from the window of the office of the dead.

Ekki does not share the officials' assessment. He is of the opinion that his pretty colleague, who had repeatedly rejected his advances, was well on the way to uncovering large-scale tax fraud. It is immediately clear to him that she did not kill herself, but was killed. His doubts about the suicide theory advocated by the police are further heightened when Ekki encounters his boss cleaning the deceased's office. Ekki suspects that Koch is trying to cover up his tracks and believes the chief officer is the culprit. With the help of Detlef, Ekki finds out that Yvonne deleted a data record shortly before her death at 5:48 p.m. The file with the tax number 43/421/285 falls within Yvonne's area of ​​responsibility, but cannot be found in her office. While searching for the file, Ekki witnessed a phone call that revealed that Koch had left the missing file to an unauthorized person.

In the meantime, his long-time friend Wilsberg has illegally taken Mr. Kaiser’s delivery van with his books into his possession, making his own situation even more difficult. He visits his goddaughter Alex to ask her for the 5,000 euros he needs. Alex waves it away, but her client Christa Sieland offers to put in a good word for him at the Teutoburger Bank. During his conversation with the bank director Passlick, Wilsberg discovered the missing tax file on the premises of the Teutoburger Bank, which contains records of Christa Sieland. Passlick had these handed over to him by the head of the tax office, Koch.

In Anna Springer's office, Ekki catches a glimpse of the wristwatch that had come to a standstill after his colleague's fatal fall, the dial of which shows 17:42. When Ekki announced that a tax file had been deleted under her user name six minutes after Yvonne's death, the commissioner pricked up her ears and resumed the investigation into suspected homicide. Springer has tax office manager Koch and bank director Passlick summoned. In an interrogation, Koch admits that he took Christa Sieland's tax file during the lunch break, before Yvonne died in the evening hours of the same day. He also states that he met with Passlick at Club Rose in the city center, where he handed over the file because he was blackmailed with pictures showing him with women for sale. Passlick stated that he only wanted to take a look at the tax file, but did not return it as agreed. Before Springer can continue the interrogation, she is interrupted by her supervisor, who excuses the two influential men from their interrogation.

Wilsberg attaches himself to Passlick's heels and follows him to Sieland's private estate. There, through the large window fronts of the building, he witnesses how Sieland acquires her tax file from Passlick for 3.5 million euros. She then signs a loan termination agreement for the same amount. She then shreds the tax files of her agricultural machinery company with a shredder. Shortly thereafter, Sieland is visited by Ekki, who presents her with a confiscation order and takes the documents from her bookkeeping, as she is accused of a tax offense.

Passlick brings Wilsberg into his power and locks him in his basement, where he ties and gags him. He explains to Wilsberg that although he had a brief affair with Yvonne Kleining, whom he had met five years earlier at the carnival, he did not want to accept that the murder of Yvonne was attached to him. Despite the financial crisis, Sielands Landmaschinen GmbH showed increasingly larger profits, which made the banker skeptical. He then contacted Yvonne to get an insight into Ms. Sieland's tax documents, which, however, denied him access to the financial documents. He then approached Müntemeyer, whom he believed to be Yvonne's murderer.

Wilsberg sends Ekki a text message to warn him about Müntemeyer, but he is already in Ekki's office. When Ekki receives the text message, Müntemeyer forces him to leave the building with him through an escape door. However, Ekki joins the banister with handcuffs. While the two wait for Müntemeyer's accomplice Sieland, Müntemeyer tries to convince his employee of the virtue of his deeds. Thanks to the tax fraud made possible by Müntemeyer, Christa Sieland was able to reorganize her company, act as a sponsor of the Münster Police Sports Club and, ultimately, Müntemeyer was even able to put money aside for his old age while the banks can write off the loss. Ultimately, according to Müntemeyer's account, nobody was harmed. Yvonne Kleining was scared after she was contacted by Passlick. Therefore, Müntemeyer met with Kleining after work at the tax office to have Christa Sieland's tax documents disappear. Because Koch had in the meantime taken the file and it could not be found in Yvonne's office, Müntemeyer pushed his colleague out of the window to prevent her from testifying against him. He then deleted the digital tax records about Sieland at Yvonne's workplace.

Anna Springer and Overbeck, who have now resumed the investigation, can arrest both Müntemeyer and his accomplice Sieland and free Ekki. Commissioner Springer succeeds in getting Mr. Kaiser to exchange the seized books from Wilsberg, which he wanted to use to pay off debts at the price of waste paper, for the sports equipment of the police sports club as scrap metal, as these cannot be used due to the lack of a TÜV seal. Kaiser goes into this deal and Wilsberg gets his books back. The manuscript can finally be sold by Wilsberg to the police headquarters, where it is hung.

background

The working title of this episode was Death in the Tax Office .

The film was shot in Münster and Cologne . Filming began on April 16, 2013 along with those of the episode Naked on the Net .

Shooting at the Solder antiquarian bookshop
Shooting at the port of Münster

The shooting took place in Münster on eight days between May 6, 2013 and May 16, 2013. The Solder antiquarian bookshop was closed on May 6, 2013 and the following day for filming in Frauenstrasse. The shooting took place on May 8, 2013 at Hawerkamp , Roestbar Zwo on the corner between Martini- and Hörsterstrasse and in the Marrying store opposite, where a photo shop was set up for the shooting. On May 15, 2013, the shooting took place at the Münsteraner harbor with the Rhenus and Flechtheim stores as a backdrop and at the Prinzipalmarkt . This resulted u. a. on Hafenweg 18-20 the golfing scene in the lawyer's office, in which the combined cycle power plant can be seen in the background. The customs warehouse was set up for filming at Mittelhafen 42-44. The scenes that take place at the Münster police station were - as in most of the previous episodes - filmed again at the Bispinghof . The branch of Sparda-Bank Münster at Königsstrasse 51–53 was used for the photos showing the “Teutoburger Bank” . The scenes in Christa Sieland's private estate were filmed in the building at Annette-Allee 4 on the corner of Himmelreichallee in the direct Aasee location. Finally, further shooting took place until June 24, 2013 in Cologne.

The cinema premiere took place in Bielefeld on February 16, 2014 . After the consequences of The Bielefeld Conspiracy and the Loyalty Test , this was the third time that a premiere was held in Bielefeld. The cinema premiere of Mundtot was, however, a matinee for the first time . In addition to around 500 spectators, the main actor Leonard Lansink , his wife Maren Muntenbeck and Roland Jankowsky were also present.

On March 1, 2014, the episode Mundtot was broadcast on ZDF . On March 5, 2014, ZDFneo showed the episode.

Rainer Laupichler was already in the 28th episode of Wilsberg: Oh you deadly ... in 2009 , but played a different role there.

In the episode Mundtot , Vittorio Alfieri is not part of the cast, although he has always played Ekki's supervisor and the action of the episode is located in the Münster tax office. In the previously broadcast episode Nackt im Netz and the subsequent episode Das Geld der Others , Alfieri took over his usual role as Ekki's superior Grabowski.

In the fictional tax office in Münster, Mundtot can now be seen a paternoster . In fact, there is such a paternoster in the listed building of the regional tax office in Münster . The same paternoster was already seen in the 35th episode The Bielefeld Conspiracy . It was also already in the sequence The Bielefeld Conspiracy in Ehrenbergstraße in Cologne rotated. In the following, Mundtot , Yvonne Kleining's apartment can be found in this street.

At the beginning of the episode, you can hear a conversation between Ekki and the chief officer, Koch, about the game "Funny Birds". This is a reference to the game Angry Birds .

In the scene in which Overbeck hangs up a wanted poster bearing Ekki's portrait, an outdated RAF wanted poster from the 1980s can be seen on which Henning Beer , Sabine Callsen, Wolfgang Grams , Birgit Hogefeld , Andrea Klump , Barbara Meyer , Horst Ludwig Meyer , Christoph Seidler, Sigrid Sternebeck and Inge Viett are advertised to be searched.

Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss in the version by Eumir Deodato can be heard on Ekki's escape from his chief officer Koch across the hallway of the tax office . The end credits of the episode are accompanied by Keep The Light On by Billy Ray Cyrus .

The running gag “Bielefeld” falls in this episode during a reprimand from Chief Finance Director Müntemeyer to the tax office manager Koch: “Your administration has long been a thorn in my side. In 98 in Bielefeld, I last saw such a badly managed department. "

reception

Audience ratings

5.98 million viewers saw the episode Mundtot when it was first broadcast on ZDF , which means that the episode was the winner of the day with a market share of 19.3% in terms of both quota and reach. A market share of 11.1% was achieved among the young audience.

criticism

Tilmann P. Gangloff stated, "The script takes on a hot topic with the subject of corruption in the public service", "However, this whimsical pleasure for fans is not that sure of genre, pitch and cast". Oliver Korittke plays a bigger role in Mundtot compared to other episodes in the series , but he has by no means given up on the "dry humor". This doesn’t detract from the series’s “crime comedy”, even if “slapstick interludes”, which the script calls for, “are actually not necessary” and merely help to withhold “veritable thrillers” from the audience. Likewise, Udo Schenk's role was created “one-dimensional” and thus cannot be compared with “ Thomas Loibl's fine game”. Ultimately, “the film benefits from the fact that Oliver Korittke can show his Ekki from another side”. Gangloff awarded the episode three out of six possible points.

Rupert Sommer wrote for teleschau - der mediendienst, that the “allusive script humor” was the result of a series of corruption in the public service that addresses “issues that are currently very popular”. In addition, "fans of the boldly told Saturday night classic [...] will be happy about running gags such as the busy debt collection entrepreneur that appears again and again or the teasing around the traditional Bielefeld mention", especially since "the usual puns are not missing". Sommer speculates that "if you don't know what to do with the dry" Wilsberg "humor, this time you might react particularly strange," because the episode is a film "that shuffles around and has bad things next to the grotesque in the" Stromberg "- Office atire style simply juxtaposed ”. Korittke's role is "particularly prone to clamor", who "has to keep the wide open gawking eyes ready for almost every camera take", which is why the script "more and more often makes him look like he might actually look in a number of years - like Didi Hallervorden " .

According to the TV Spielfilm editorial team, the episode is a “TV crime story far beyond the gimmicky limit”. In the “confused crime comedy, in which successful gags are balanced with embarrassment”, the plot is “sometimes funny, mostly just silly”, but “Wilsberg fans will love it”, the editors conclude their judgment and give a neutral overall assessment .

The editorial staff of Prisma shares the opinion that Mundtot is a "typical Wilsberg case". This is "routinely staged and, as always, well played". Nevertheless, the editors only awarded two out of five possible points.

According to Ute Schwarzwald from DerWesten.de, Mundtot was “not entirely convincing”, but there were “bright spots in the“ Münster crime ”. Thomas Loibl is "the best man in the film" and set "highlights" with his play. Likewise, “I like the quirky medical officer” played by Leslie Malton . As a result there was “one or the other successful gag”, but she seemed “from Ekki's hairstyle to the paternoster not only out of date, but also strangely undecided”. In order to be able to be “taken seriously”, the “characters are too overdrawn and the jokes too flat”, on the other hand it should have been dispensed with “explaining the few good punch lines in a lengthy way” in order to be able to pass as “satire”. In addition, many details are "foreseeable" or subject to clichés, so that the result is ultimately "honest fare".

Johannes Loy from the Westfälische Nachrichten wrote that the episode contained "a bit of gossip". According to his assessment, the case developed "so confused that many viewers probably soon gave up trying to find the background in a concentrated manner" and "switched off quite quickly in this confusion of tax evasion and murder". Although "a few lively confusion scenes with Leslie Malton as a crazy psychologist" provided entertainment, the "criminal investigation" was neglected in the episode and "the line from comedy to slapstick was quickly crossed".

"The Wilsberg crime thriller wasn't even on the level of a caricature," said Franz-Josef Brinkhaus, head of the Münster city center tax office, to the Westfälische Nachrichten . "In view of the bizarre and sometimes absurd events", Brinkhaus emphasized his disappointment, "there was not even an effort to incorporate" the everyday life of an authority "into the fictional story". The presentation was “not particularly credible” and “the attempts at corruption were rather clumsy”, because “in reality everything is much more subtle,” Brinkhaus clarified. Therefore, Brinkhaus counts the episode among the "not so good films" of the television series.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ bludau-net.de: Wilsberg: Episode overview , accessed on January 7, 2014
  2. ^ A b c Westfälische Nachrichten : Mysterious Death of a Tax Officer: Start of shooting for two new episodes of the ZDF cult crime series “Wilsberg” ( online ), Münster, Münster, April 18, 2013
  3. ↑ a b mouth dead at crew united
  4. ^ A b c d Westfälische Nachrichten : Wilsberg's books seized: Two new episodes of the ZDF crime series are filmed in Münster / "Heimspiel" in the Antiquariat ( online ), Münsterischer Anzeiger, Münster, Ralf Repöhler, May 8, 2013
  5. ^ Westfälische Nachrichten : Premiere of the 34th Wilsberg in the Cineplex , Münster, January 20, 2012
  6. ↑ 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
  7. ^ A b Münstersche Zeitung : Two new crime episodes: Spicy sex video on the net: Wilsberg has to help Alex ( Memento from May 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Münster, Frank Reinker, April 18, 2013
  8. ↑ roestbar.de: Wilsberg im Haus , accessed on May 14, 2013
  9. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : Bold attack on Oeding-Erdel: perpetrators flee without prey / three injured by irritant gas / numerous witnesses on the Prinzipalmarkt , Münsterscher Anzeiger, Münster, Ralf Repöhler, May 17, 2013
  10. ^ A b c Westfälische Nachrichten : Wilsberg: "Mundtot" in Bielefeld , Münster, Menschen, da, February 19, 2014
  11. ↑ a b Westfälische Nachrichten : Crooked business in Münster's tax office: Wilsberg episode “Mundtot” on Saturday on ZDF , Münster, March 1, 2014
  12. ↑ a b quotenmeter.de: Primetime check: Saturday, March 1, 2013 , Manuel Nunez Sanchez, March 2, 2014
  13. ↑ Münstersche Zeitung : Best rate on Saturday: Wilsberg attracts more viewers than Pilawa  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Münster, March 3, 2014@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.muensterschezeitung.de  
  14. ^ Westfälische Nachrichten : Wilsberg suggests EWG , dpa , Medien, Menschen, March 3, 2014
  15. ↑ a b c d e f tittelbach.tv : "Wilsberg - Mundtot" series , Tilmann P. Gangloff, accessed on February 25, 2014
  16. ↑ a b c d Stimme.de: Wilsberg: Mundtot  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Panorama & Kultur, Rupert Sommer, accessed on February 25, 2014@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stimme.de  
  17. ↑ a b TV feature film : film review , accessed on February 25, 2014
  18. ↑ a b c Prisma : Filmkritik , accessed on February 25, 2014
  19. ↑ a b c d e f DerWesten.de : ZDF crime thriller: "Wilsberg" and Mr. Kaiser from the debt collection department , Essen, Ute Black Forest, February 28, 2014
  20. ^ A b c Westfälische Nachrichten : Wilsberg - Mundtot (ZDF): Something much success , media, seen, Johannes Loy, March 3, 2014
  21. ^ A b c d Westfälische Nachrichten : " Reality is much more subtle": The head of the tax office could not do much with Wilsberg crime ( online ), Münster, Münster, Klaus Baumeister, March 5, 2014

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