Wilsberg: death of a hostess

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Episode in the Wilsberg series
Original title Death of a hostess
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 11 ( list )
First broadcast May 1, 2004 on ZDF
Rod
Director Manfred Stelzer
script Ulli Stephan
production Micha Terjung
music Nikolaus Glowna
Siggi Mueller
camera Tomas Erhart
cut Bernd Schriever
occupation

Death of a Hostess is the eleventh episode in the Wilsberg television series . The film is based on the novel of the same name by Jürgen Kehrer . It was first broadcast on May 1, 2004 on ZDF . Directed by Manfred Stelzer , the screenplay was written by Ulli Stephan .

action

Private detective Georg Wilsberg receives a lucrative contract. He is supposed to find out for businesswoman Juliane Kuhn why her father, the textile manufacturer Kuhn, has been behaving so strangely recently and why he has withdrawn from working together in the family business.

While observing the old man, Wilsberg is supported by his friend Manni. In the late evening they both go for a beer, but when they want to drive home, a woman's body lies in Manni's car. Lea Danninger, a young woman who works for a hostess service , where Alex recently took a job. Lea's boyfriend Rudi turns to Alex for help because he doesn't know what to do without his girlfriend. Alex got the idea to hire Wilsberg to find out with whom Lea had recently met. While searching through her schedule, Alex finds regular entries for ..... Erwin Kuhn, which makes Wilsberg curious. Since Alex wants to find out what Lea had done for the old man as part of her hostess work, she quickly steps in for her colleague. To her surprise, all she has to do is read to Kuhn from a book. When his son Jost comes to visit him unexpectedly, he understands the situation completely wrong and adjusts Alex after their visit. Fortunately, Wilsberg is nearby and can intervene.

The next day Juliane Kuhn appears and explains to Wilsberg that he has completed his assignment and that it is now over. Wilsberg suspects that he may have already found out too much, because the small Kuhn empire came about through the expropriation of Jewish company owners in the Third Reich . In addition, the murder of the hostess has not yet been solved. Wilsberg thus continues to observe and follows Erwin Kuhn. He discovered him in a retirement home, where he did not visit anyone directly, but instead addressed Julika Roth, one of the residents, disguised as the gardener. According to Wilsberg's research, this is the daughter of one of those Jewish families who had lost their fortune in Kuhn's favor and were deported . The fact that Erwin Kuhn was madly in love with Julika in his younger years hadn’t helped her.

Wilsberg finds out that the murder ultimately has nothing to do with this old family history, but only with the younger one. Jost Kuhn met Lea when she came from his father. He befriended her, but when one day she had only raved about his father and just laughed at him, he had lost his nerve and choked until she was finally quiet.

After his son was arrested and Julika Roth rejected Erwin Kuhn when he proposed marriage to her after 50 years, the old man shoots himself.

background

Death of a Hostess appeared on DVD along with the episode Fatal Friendship from Polar Film .

The running gag "Bielefeld" refers in this episode in minute 25 to a branch that Wilsberg's client owns in addition to other shops.

criticism

The TV Spielfilm editorial team gave the crime thriller a "thumbs up" and said with praise: "Quite coherent."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of release for Wilsberg: Death of a hostess . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ TV Spielfilm : Film review at TV-Spielfilm.de accessed on December 13, 2016.
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