“Tatort” from Münster: Prosecutor Klemm leaves | EUROtoday

It was the Nineteen Eighties and Didi Hallervorden “finally presented my own bike”. With that he drove backwards and forwards throughout the “Nonstop Nonsense” stage: “Look, without a hand.” Next spherical: “Look, without both hands.” Then a rumbling offscreen, Didi with the bent bike over his shoulder: “Look, no teeth.”

That’s about the place the Münster “crime scene” has arrived, by way of humor and this time even by way of plot. And it additionally begins within the eighties, albeit the century earlier than. A shot, a groan, a ultimate scrawl by the dying man – an inventor named Knut Hobrecht – on a development drawing that was shortly hidden and which has resurfaced within the current day and proves: Not solely was open-air composting invented by Anabaptists in Münster, but additionally the trendy two-wheeler, the protection low wheel pushed by a sequence on the rear wheel of the identical measurement, in 1882, which was a full two years sooner than John Kemp Starley from Coventry, who designed the design and establishing the trendy bicycle usually (the earlier fashions really appeared fairly humorous).

The Münster household enterprise Hobrecht Bicycles Limited, positioned within the metropolis harbor (which didn’t but exist in 1882), sensed a advertising and marketing coup when the drawing appeared within the basement. Based on the unique mannequin, the bike was shortly redesigned, and this very “First Bike” is now being offered to the general public at the beginning of the episode. Quite by probability, Professor Boerne (Jan Josef Liefers) and Inspector Thiel (Axel Prahl) are on web site, the previous as a result of a brief suspension of his driving license forces him to purchase a motorcycle (after which it needs to be the best one), the latter as a result of he occurs to be pedaling previous the manufacturing unit at that second on his rickety carrot and might’t resist the tempting buffet. So each of them witness how, beneath the pulled-away presentation blanket, no wheel in any respect seems, however a full-sized freezer – and in it the deep-frozen brother of the corporate patriarch Kurt Hobrecht Sr., who was thrown out of the corporate many years in the past after which grew to become wealthy with shady North Korea offers. (Hannes Hellmann). Anyone who thinks that is nonsense can look ahead to the reason of how the freezer ended up within the stage presentation.

The useless man wasn’t precisely widespread, as his housekeeper’s phrases gently counsel: “Such a stupid asshole, the old man.” What can be clear nearly right away: that the statements from Kurt Hobrecht and his three youngsters (Franz Hartwig, Karolina Lodyga, Simon Steinhorst), which by no means fairly match collectively, level to deeper disagreements within the household enterprise. So, regardless of the very neat fundamental thought, the plot comes alongside on supporting wheels, so to talk: a dynastic drama in its fundamental type. Sonnenschmuck directed it by director Till Franzen; Numerous it seems like an promoting video for the bicycle metropolis of Münster. There can be loads of toothless Boerne-Thiel humor, which isn’t made any higher by the truth that it’s self-ironicly commented on within the script by Thorsten Wettcke: “Professor, your bon mots were once on a higher level.” Or: “Humor from the last millennium. Congratulations.” It’s alleged to be humorous that Vaddern Thiel (Claus D. Clausnitzer) stubbornly calls these newfangled e-bikes “motor things”. Or that Boerne neighs when he sits on his bicycle horse.

What is definitely amusing is his response, formulated as a suggestion, to the “I could have taken sick leave” criticism from his gasping colleague on his junk bike: “I could give you a death certificate.”

Before you give one to this “crime scene”, it needs to be mentioned that the principle character of the episode has not been talked about but, as a result of this time it’s after all Wilhelmine Klemm, the general public prosecutor with the smoky voice, as a result of her actress, Mechthild Großmann, is leaving the “crime scene” after 22 years.

One would have anticipated a superb showdown, an episode that revolved solely across the gnarled widespread determine and ideally would have had one thing to do with Pina Bausch’s dance theater – Großmann’s formative interval. After all, Klemm’s wild previous, together with his dalliance with Vaddern Thiel, has already been mentioned earlier than (and even then it appeared fairly chatty). But Thorsten Wettcke sadly could not consider something apart from the reappearance of an excellent previous love, wrinkled photograph, ring and nostalgic bus included, as for those who have been within the ZDF Herzkino. The chain smoker wasn’t even allowed one final cigarette.

You do not should reinvent the wheel in a criminal offense thriller, however with such a tiredly informed and unambitiously downplayed episode, after just a few roughly profitable makes an attempt at at the least partial renewal, it turns into clear once more how well-versed the Münster “Tatort” crew is: Look, with out an thought.

The Crime Scene: The Invention of the Wheel runs on Sunday at 8:15 p.m. on Erste.