{"id":1511,"date":"2015-01-23T16:37:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T15:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/?p=1511"},"modified":"2021-09-27T15:44:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T13:44:13","slug":"polizeiruf-110-der-kreuzwortraetselfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/1511\/polizeiruf-110-der-kreuzwortraetselfall","title":{"rendered":"Polizeiruf 110: Der Kreuzwortr\u00e4tselfall"},"content":{"rendered":"
Der Kreuzwortr\u00e4tselfall<\/strong><\/a> (1988)<\/p>\n

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Director: Thomas Jacob<\/p>\n

G\u00fcnter Naumann\t…\tHauptmann Beck
\nAndreas Schmidt-Schaller\t…\tLeutnant Grawe
\nWerner Godemann\t…\tMajor J\u00e4ger
\nHarry Merkel\t…\tEberhard Aust
\nWilfried Pucher\t…\tStaatsanwalt Ebert
\nPeter Borgelt\t…\tHauptmann Fuchs
\nTorsten Ranft\t…\tStefan Winkelmeyer
\nAnnette Gleichmann\t…\tKatrin Schr\u00f6der
\nKarin D\u00fcwel\t…\tSimone Herzog
\nG\u00fcnter Junghans\t…\tSiegfried Herzog<\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/em> After a young boy disappeared on the way from home to a local theatre a huge search is started. Known homosexuals are brought in for questioning but the case goes cold (quite literally). <\/p>\n

After quite heavy snow falls the body is found in a trunk beside train tracks. The only hint about the perpetrator is a filled-out crossword puzzle. A new crossword puzzle with similar words is put into the papers and a huge prize is offered to the winner. Also, every newspaper they can get their hold on is collected from the neighbourhood where the boy disappeared. <\/p>\n

Then – in a pre-computer era – tens of thousands of crosswords are analyzed in the slim hope of catching the murderer.<\/p>\n

My Opinion:<\/em> Historical background: This script was modelled after a real case that happened in East Germany in 1981. Back in the days when there were two Germanys, in West Germany there was (and is to this day) a very successful crime show called Tatort<\/em> (lit. “crime scene”). At some point the TV producers also wanted a show like this and thus Polizeiruf 110<\/em> (“for police, dial 110”) was born. Normally the cases are completely fictional but the real case behind this was rather extraordinary, so they made it into a script to honour the actual police officers who solved the case.<\/p>\n

For me personally it was also something of a special because many scenes were filmed close to where I was living and for a small boy it’s quite cool to see something on TV and say “hey, that’s just around the corner”. As a child I’ve been in that very theatre many times that was used in the episode.<\/p>\n

Looking at it from today’s point of view there are quite a few things you only notice with an adult’s eye. For example the behaviour towards homosexuals and that they were called in before it even was a murder case. The police knew who they were which nowadays only happens with actual sex offenders.<\/p>\n

All in all it’s quite a bit of nostalgia watching it today, seeing all the old East German cars and phones and everything.<\/p>\n

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