Wilsberg: Wilsberg and the murder without a corpse

Episode in the Wilsberg series
Original title	Wilsberg and the murder without a corpse
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production ; company	Cologne film production on behalf of ZDF
length	86 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
classification	Episode 4 ( list )
First broadcast	February 3, 2001 on ZDF
Rod
Director	Dennis Satin
script	Jürgen Kehrer
production	Anton Moho
music	Stephan Baader , ; Michael Kersting
camera	Klaus Liebertz
cut	Guido Krajewski
occupation
	Leonard Lansink : Georg Wilsberg; Heinrich Schafmeister : Manfred "Manni" Höch; Rita Russek : Commissioner Anna Springer; Roland Jankowsky : Overbeck; Ina Paule Klink : Alex Holtkamp; Rolf Kanies : Herbert Schering; Lucia Gailová : Katharina Schering; Manuela Alphons : Melanie Schering; Jörg Heinrich : Manstetten; Andreas Grötzinger : Katharina's friend; Jochen Kolenda : Tumbrink; Rainer Winkelvoss : Employee of Ms. Becker; Zsolt Bács : Heiner Geisbach; Ina Rudolph : Sigi Blisko; Christian Bergmann : Policeman; Kai Roloff : Thug; Barbara Magdalena Ahren : Mrs. Becker; Arno Kempf : Pickup driver; Thomas Hackenberg : Sascha Hülsmeier;

Wilsberg and the Murder Without a Corpse is the fourth episode in the Wilsberg television series . It was first broadcast on February 3, 2001 on ZDF . Directed by Dennis Satin , the screenplay was written by Jürgen Kehrer .

action

Wilsberg is commissioned by Mr. Manstetten from Münsterschen Versicherung AG to shadow Herbert Schering, the owner of a car repair shop based in the Münster harbor . He is suspected of faking night robberies on his clients' cars parked in his yard in order to capitalize on his vandalism insurance. Wilsberg borrows the car of his former classmate and good friend Manfred Höch and smashes a headlight to simulate an accident whose property damage is to be repaired at Schering. Wilsberg found that, contrary to the presumption of his insurance company, Schering did not want to deal with the insurance fraud he was offering. In the workshop yard, Wilsberg met Sigi Blisko, the landlady of the Pier House, a restaurant on the harbor, who took him back to town.

Höch, who works at the building department in Münster and is responsible for the approval process for the port project Kreativkai of Hafenbau GmbH, meanwhile meets with the architect of the port project Heiner Geisbach for a press conference at the port.

At night, Wilsberg watches over the car mechanic's yard and watches two men who gain access to the property in order to demolish Höch's car and other cars. He follows them to the office of the architect Geisbach, whose building Sigi Blisko is just leaving. In the office he finds Heiner Geisbach lying lifeless on the floor and realizes that he is dead. He then calls Commissioner Anna Springer and is, in turn, knocked down from behind. When Commissioner Springer arrives at the scene, Wilsberg cannot remember who knocked him down. In addition, the body Wilsberg talked about on the phone has now disappeared.

Manstetten releases Wilsberg from his investigation. However, this makes the private investigator prick up his ears, who now suspects an intrigue by Hafenbau GmbH against the workshop owner, since Schering does not want to sell his property and thus stands in the way of the implementation of the port project.

The architect's body reappears in the harbor basin, where it had been weighed down with a spare tire that was stolen from Schering's workshop.

With the help of Höch, Wilsberg succeeds in gaining access to secret documents of the port project from the safe of the planning department Tumbrink of the city of Münster, who is also Höch's superior, from which the presumed cooperation between the insurance company and Hafenbau GmbH emerges.

Wilsberg's investigations show that Schering's daughter Katharina was able to persuade the architect Geisbach to meet, at which she wanted to convince the architect to forego Schering's property. Geisbach, on the other hand, insisted on adhering to the contract, especially since the share of Schering's separated wife had already been transferred to him. Katharina knew this because she had found the document in Geisbach's safe when she was looking there for her father's debt transfer. After Katharina had strangled the architect, she called her partner so that he could help her to make the dead man disappear. To do this, the two of them fetched a pickup truck from their father's workshop, drove the corpse to the docks and weighed down the corpse with the car's spare wheel.

Katharina and her partner are arrested by Commissioner Springer.

production

Pre-production

In the episode Wilsberg and the Murder Without a Corpse , it was possible for the first time to participate in the creation of the script as part of the eScript project. The eScript team consisting of Tanja Dopieralski, Wolfgang Grundmann and Christoph Schykowski worked on the script. The eScript project received the Grimme Online Award in 2001, which was presented for the first time this year. The script for the episode Wilsberg: Last Way Out Mord was developed entirely on the Internet for the first time in 2002 as part of the eScript project , which was a first for German television.

Filming

Wilsberg and the murder without a corpse was filmed at 15 locations in Münster and the surrounding area. A 35-person film crew with five actors was guests in Münster on twelve days of shooting. The cost of hotel accommodation for the film crew amounted to 42,000 D-Marks during this period , and hotel costs of 10,200 D-Marks were incurred for the actors in the same period. At an expense rate of 46 D-Marks per day, a further 22,080 D-Marks were paid out to the participants. Additional costs of 5,000 D-Marks were incurred for extras, while 15,000 D-Marks were paid for motive rents and 3,000 D-Marks for fuel and taxi rides. 7,200 D-Marks were spent on food and catering, 1,000 D-Marks were paid for office rents and 500 D-Marks were used for telephone calls. The total costs of the twelve-day filming in Münster and the surrounding area thus amounted to 105,980 D-Marks.

There are various locations in the urban area of the city of Münster , which is mentioned 17 times in this episode. The intro of the film shows a garden café that was set up for the shooting at the rear of the Prince-Bishop's Palace in the immediate vicinity of the botanical garden . This is followed by recordings in Frauenstrasse at the Überwasserkirche , which show the Solder antiquarian bookshop, which in the film houses the Wilsberg antiquarian bookshop. Afterwards, scenes can be seen that were created at Rothenburg and show the Prinzipalmarkt in the background . The fictitious Münstersche Versicherung AG is located in the buildings there, in which the Münster arcades can be found today, from whose premises the St. Paulus Cathedral and the town house tower can be seen. Furthermore, the shooting took place at the port of Münster , which served with the backdrop of the Osmohallen, the Wolfgang Borchert Theater and the Flechtheim warehouse . In the immediate vicinity, film recordings of the Dortmund-Ems Canal and interior recordings in the Pier House restaurant were made. The corpse that Wilsberg finds in a building at Hafenweg 46, where Café Wolters is located, was also later found in the port basin of the Münster port. As in the previous episode Wilsberg and the Dead in the Lake , Manni's workplace can be found in the Münster District Court , which in the film again represents the town hall of the city. The interior shots, which show a paternoster elevator, were taken at the tax office for criminal tax matters and tax investigations in the regional tax office in Münster on the Hohenzollernring. Wilsberg and Sigi Blisko are also shown taking a walk in Kreuzstrasse in the Kuhviertel , with the Überwasserkirche and the Blue House, one of the oldest student bars in Münster, in the background. From here a chase starts, which Wilsberg takes with a garbage truck to the Aasee to the golden bridge, where the company building of the Westdeutsche Landesbausparkasse can be seen in the background . As in the previous episode, the scenes in which the film crew set up the police station for the shooting were filmed in the Bispinghof .

The port project on Kreativkai was actually implemented by the city of Münster at the time of filming. This is a transfer of the previous industrial use concept to a majority use by businesses with catering, entertainment and leisure activities as the primary focus.

As a result Wilsberg and murder without a body is Ina Paule Klink first seen in the role of Alex Holtkamp. Jürgen Kehrer can be seen in a cameo as one of the visitors to the presentation of the port construction project. Furthermore, Thomas Hackenberg in a cameo as Sascha Meier sleeve, to see the owner of the car rental fox.

The running gag "Bielefeld" refers in this episode to Wilsberg & Friends , a company for identity consulting and promotion based in Bielefeld, as the managing director of which Wilsberg poses to a committee of the port project that feeds in the Pier House. a. consists of Ms. Becker and Mr. Tombrink.

Broadcasting and Marketing

Wilsberg and the murder without a corpse was broadcast on February 3, 2001 on ZDF . Due to the high ratings of the previous episodes, the series received the prominent slot for the first time on Saturday evening during prime time .

On September 3, 2004, the episode was published together with the 3rd episode Wilsberg and the Dead in the Lake together by Polarfilm on DVD with FSK-12 approval. In addition to the two main films, the DVD contains a making-of and a portrait of the city of Münster as bonus material.

reception

Audience ratings

The episode Wilsberg and the murder without a corpse saw around 5.46 million viewers when it was first broadcast on ZDF, which corresponds to a market share of around 16.8%. On this Saturday evening, only Who Wants to be a Millionaire and the Tagesschau were followed by more viewers than the broadcast of the Wilsberg episode.

criticism

The lexicon of international films ruled that the film was a "routine (television) series crime thriller" .

The editorial team of TV Spielfilm was of the opinion that the film was a “shrewd crime thriller with Westphalian humor” and praised the “ shrewd story, which amused by relaxed sayings” .

Prisma awarded three out of five stars.

Individual evidence

↑ Clearance certificate for Wilsberg: Wilsberg and the murder without a corpse . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2004 (PDF; test number: 99 540 DVD).

↑ ^a ^b Wilsberg and the murder without a corpse atbtedetektiven.de

↑ ^a ^b Grimme Institute : Grimme Online Award 2001: Prize Winner ( Memento from January 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

↑ ZDF press release / eScript project: First script by amateur authors team / "Wilsberg - Last way out: Mord" on October 18, 2003 on ZDF. In: presseportal.de. October 18, 2003, accessed December 6, 2018 .

↑ ^a ^b Regional effects of film productions in the Münsterland ( memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 83 kB), Westphalian Wilhelms University , Institute for Settlement and Housing, Dipl.-Volksw. Frank Beermann, Münster, May 4, 2001, p. 13

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Regional effects of film productions in the Münsterland ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 83 kB), Westphalian Wilhelms University , Institute for Settlement and Housing, Dipl.-Volksw. Frank Beermann, Münster, May 4, 2001, p. 14f

↑ ^a ^b ^c Regional effects of film productions in the Münsterland ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 83 kB), Westphalian Wilhelms University , Institute for Settlements and Housing, Dipl.-Volksw. Frank Beermann, Münster, May 4, 2001, p. 20

↑ Federal Institute for Building, Urban and Spatial Research (BBSR) in the Federal Office for Building and Spatial Planning (BBR): Restructuring in the city harbor: Münster-Hafenviertel "Kreativkai"

^ Ministry of Transport, Energy and State Planning of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia: Waterway Transport and Port Concept North Rhine-Westphalia (PDF; 3.3 MB), 2004, pp. 75 and 90.