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"Tatort" today from Münster: "Long live the king!" In a quick check

2020-12-13T17:35:44.060Z


Adult education center meets medieval market: The Münster »crime scene« about the brutal rule of the Anabaptists is sedate - maybe also because it was created under Corona conditions.


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Break from the Middle Ages: Vaddern and son Thiel (Claus D. Clausnitzer and Axel Prahl) fishing

Photo: Thomas Kost / WDR

The scenario:

Wooden dialogues in iron armor.

A showman family wants to organize the "Anabaptist Experience" at a castle - an open-air event in which the Anabaptist regime of horror in the cathedral of the 16th century is to be performed as a hands-on spectacle.

But before the performers can sing lamentations and cut off artificial limbs, the head of the family is found dead in knight armor in the moat.

During the investigations, Commissioner Thiel (Axel Prahl) and Professor Boerne (Jan Josef Liefers) try to outdo each other with their knowledge of the Anabaptists.

The highlight:

Adult education center meets medieval market.

In the crooked knight's castle backdrops, the investigators lecture, well, fun facts and historical data on the radical Protestant movement that plunged Münster into a gloomy excess until 1534.

But unfortunately, this dark excess is not embellished at all.

The otherwise morbid team of the Munster »Tatort« leaves unused all the templates for a black-humored unleashing that the Anabaptists have in store for the terror and piety of terror.

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Is the "moonwalk" coming soon?

Investigators are investigating the murder victim

Photo: Thomas Kost / WDR

The picture:

A skull in the hands of Professor Boerne.

It is a plastic dummy that is used by the theater troupe in a beheading scene.

The professor complains that the rags on the neck don't look like the head was actually chopped off.

He is right.

The dialogue:

Inspector Thiel comes back from the castle, where he had heard the relatives of the deceased head of the family, and is received by his new assistant Schrader:

Schrader: "How was the family?"

Thiel: »Headless.

Beheaded. "

The song:

"Bad" by Michael Jackson: Runs when Professor Boerne puts on the iron armor in which the victim died for investigative reasons.

The inevitable "moonwalk" that he performs with armor comes across as very rusty.

The review:

4 out of 10 points.

This Münster episode was shot as one of the first Corona »crime scenes« after the first lockdown under strict hygiene conditions - perhaps that's why the spectacle about the bloodthirsty Anabaptist times seems so aseptic.

The analysis:

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"Scene of the crime: Long live the king!",

Sunday, 8:15 pm, Das Erste

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Source: spiegel

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