Typical German? The “scene of the crime” comes into the cinema

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Typical German? The “scene of the crime” comes into the cinema

There is hardly anything the Germans so Holy, as of Sunday night: There will be “crime scene” looked. Now Til Schweiger’s TV-crime to the cinema. And turns up all the rules to – ten Holy “crime scene”rules.

He is fast, action-Packed, and moves on to the international stage – the new Til-Schweiger-Film “Tschiller: Off Duty”. Officially it is part of the “Tatort”crime series, as Schweiger plays as usual in television, the Hamburg Commissioner Nick Tschiller. Otherwise, everything is not a “typical crime scene”. Tschiller is in Moscow and Istanbul on the way – with a lot of Action. This is more reminiscent of James Bond than to the other German “crime scene”commissioners. The Exception: Götz George. The was as a “crime scene”-Commissioner Schimanski also a Draufgängertyp and the only one of it in front of Schweiger to the movies managed. That was in 1985.

This time, however, appears neither in the main title, in the title of the film, even on posters the for many Germans, almost sacred Fernsehwort “crime scene”. A clear violation of the sacred ten ” scene of the crime rules:

1. The Opening Credits

Sunday evening, 20.15 Uhr in Germany: following the news is heard – almost the worship is the same – a melody that everyone knows German and would prefer the same mitsummt. It is now the wonderful from the from the time of exposure to jazz music by Klaus Doldinger. For the first time in 1970, the first ever episode of the scene of the crime aired, she was since then only twice – and very carefully – modified. In a scherenschnittartigen graphics davonlaufenden legs of an Unknown – very old school!

One thing is clear: In Germany, the main title has long since achieved cult status. “Tschiller: Off Duty” is missing. While this is still the only real fixed point of each scene of the crime – and since 1970!

2. The Tradition

The called year you have to again melt on the tongue: 1970. For even longer runs in German television – maybe not a coincidence – the word to Sunday, each week a different pastor or another pastor speaks. The “crime scene” but this is the longest running crime series in the “German speaking area”. What is meant by: Austria (since 1971), and Switzerland (with interruption since 1991).

3. Local flavor

The only one there with the “scene of the crime” even to the movies created: Götz George

Every week plays the scene of the crime in a different Region of Germany. Once in Hamburg (Til Schweiger), once in Cologne, once in Berlin, but also in Saarbrücken and Ludwigshafen (in France, for example, plays as good as any Thriller, of course, in Paris or the cliché after infamous Marseille). So is the “crime scene” a figment of the German federalism: Each week has a other broadcaster in the ARD, the Highness. Time, the West German broadcasting (WDR), North German (NDR), times the Hessian (HR), etc, And of course, each transmitter of value on a lot of local flavor to spread. No Cologne “crime scene” goes by without Commissioner Freddi Schenk and Max Ballauf is still a Kölsch in’s currywurst stand on the Rhine to drink. During the Dortmunder investigator Peter Faber prefer to beer and chips at the Dortmund Harbor attacks.

4. The Takeaway

The Takeaway belongs to every crime scene as the ketchup on the fries. During the American colleagues of the CSI-crime fiction (the way there is in two places: Miami and Las Vegas), your cases, of course, in the evening at the Bar to discuss, go to the German commissioners to the Snack bar. Will eat anyway – and probably also the rather German – rarely shown. When it comes to food, then grumble, and the commissioners are happy about the mostly greasy, and quite inedible Ate their canteens. Most conversations, the investigators found, but already in a different place …

5. The Car

… of course: in the car! The favorite means of transportation of the Germans. While the münster-born pathologist Karl-Friedrich Börne, when the child of manual labourers Commissioner Frank Thiel as a haughty upper-middle class academics through the bottom is always sports car, preferably Klara Blum on lake Constance silver Mercedes models, the C-class. The US-classic cars of the Kölners Freddi Schenk regularly create variations in crime and the rather quirky Dortmund Faber drives a Saab 900. The message is clear: The car is part of the German soul.

6. The Commissioners

From Berlin via Dortmund to Munich: The “Tatort” plays every week somewhere else. Here the Berlin Commissars.

The commissioners differ greatly. But most of them are probably more anti-hero. They often are a single parent, beziehungsunfähig (similar to, maybe many Swedish investigators), not uncommon for crooked teeth or a small (or larger) paunch, with which you umbeholfen Suspects behind sprint. All the there would be in most of the French, Italian or American Krimireihen probably not.

A women’s quota has – without this ever so named in the “crime scene” for a long time now. About the same number of women as men determine, like in the mixed doubles. And: We see women beyond 40 in leading roles!

7. Twitter-Mania

International the German rather than the Twitter-skeptics. On time on Sunday at 20.15 clock set correctly los. Then breaks the Twitter tide los:

Soon it is followed in the German Twitter-account, then – at least in comparison to the American duration-twittering – again low tide.

8. The community television experience

At the latest since the 2006 football world Cup, the Germans have the “Public Viewing” is discovered (by the way, a typical German Anglicism like “Handy”, the one in English prefer not to use). And so for several years now, the Sunday night Thriller in the pack watched. Has become also a own subculture develops in which “the most iconic scene of the crime-pubs” to be replaced. Finally, it is a part of the fun – as well as the Tweet shows – excited about it, how bad just once again the punchlines, sitting like diagonally, the new Ermittlerteam compared to the old is, how innovative the Director is, or in fact about the mentioned social issue to discuss.

9. The social order

Matching to the Request of the public broadcaster in Germany, has also the “scene of the crime” as a social order, a critical social Dimension. And so, not infrequently issues such as prostitution, drug trafficking, racism, or the shoals of the German asylum policy that treated. Afterwards it is then often not only in the pub, via Twitter, or the couch weiterdiskutiert, but this is also institutionalized: In the following political talk show, formerly with Günther Jauch, today, when Anne Wants the true background will be discussed.

10. The scene of the crime-TÜV

Of course, the facts be checked once again – according to German Spießbürgerlichkeit. This applies not only to the facts in the “crime scene” – the so long not always agree (prosecutors take over for years, eager to tasks, which they in reality never would do), but also for the facts concerning the “crime scene”. And so, there is now also a thesis on the subject “Leichendarstellung in the scene of the crime” and, since 2010, a “scene of crime”-encyclopedia. No, what is meant is not wikipedia, but actually a printed book. Suitable to the good old Tradition. The listen to every case with “Tschiller: Off Duty” only once. Because Til Schweigers movies-crime scene may only be available in the next edition to be included.

The “mixed double” has always been part of the “crime scene”. Here, Nicole Heesters and Klaus Höhne as commissioners, 1977.