The Black Forest crime scene “What we inherit” in the first strives painstakingly and constructively to maintain atmosphere and morality.
It is more difficult for capitalism in the ARD crime scene than outside in the world, where capitalist villains always have to carry their villainy openly with them and in front of them. If they are not murdered anyway in the course of the episode, they can rely on their eventual arrest. Or at least something annoying happens to them. Car towed away, girlfriend gone, bad press, something.
Let’s see how it goes this time. Capitalism is primarily represented by a pair of siblings in the Tatort: The firm sister, Jenny Schily, leads the family’s chocolate cherry factory rock hard and apparently successful into the future – the chocolate cherries seem to be exquisite, as evidenced by the sudden consumer behavior of Inspector Tobler, Eva Löbau (a good opportunity to now offer Christmas scraps from the side table). The good-for-nothing brother, Jan Messutat, makes money with windy deals (wasting a fortune: a typical trait for second and third generation Tatort capitalists).
Black Forest crime scene “What we inherit” (ARD): Inexperienced people get to know the word “unworthy of inheritance”
There is also an orphan niece, Johanna Polley, who can study leisurely in Berlin and appears to be very relaxed. In any case, she does not behave quite as impossibly towards the domestic servants as her aunt and uncle, who are admittedly challenged in their fundamental right, believed to be secure, as heirs and heirs to family property.
Here is a brief summary of the crime scene investigator Tobler on the overall situation (and on her colleague, the heir Berg, Hans-Jochen Wagner): “Heirs is always unfair. Only those who already had a lot and never had to do anything for it inherit a lot. ”Inexperienced people also get to know the word“ unworthy of inheritance ”here. But you have to do a lot for that.
“Tatort: What we inherit”, ARD, Sun., 8:15 pm.
In any case, the widowed old mother, Marie Anne Fliegel, married the elderly lady, Wieslawa Wesolowska, who has only been employed by her for two years, in a surprising, and incidentally touching, opening scene. Now the mother tells her children and granddaughter that the woman should inherit the villa. Rough words are spoken, fueled by conceit. The mother then falls unhappy, which complicates the inheritance matter. The new wife is also constantly under suspicion of murder. Unbelievable, on the other hand, she has something overly secretive.
Black Forest crime scene on ARD: Capitalism with a heavily burdened past
In the SWR’s Black Forest crime scene “What we inherit”, the police and the script by Patrick Brunken have their hands full in the following to clarify the background. The ambitious investment – it is a capitalism with a heavily burdened past – does not make it easy for Tobler and Berg to understand the problem. While director Franziska Schlotterer tries to put the atmosphere of a rich, but also sad family in the limelight and Brunken does not contradict them at all, there is at the same time an irritating flood of information.
This applies to family life, in which a lot remains mere assertion and goes nowhere, but especially to the progress of the case. Moments of silence are planned – the villa itself as the star of the evening, the wonderful happiness of the two old ladies, the thoroughly thoughtful upper capitalist – but they stand at right angles to a painstakingly constructed story.
There is a fine line between a laconically told tragic entanglement and a clumsily motivated storyline. One reason for this is the attempt not to avoid the familiar black and white, but then to undermine it. (Judith von Sternburg)
