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Entertaining crime comedy – “Munich Murder” on ZDF
The inspectors Angelika Flierl (Bernadette Heerwagen, lr), Ludwig Schaller (Alexander Held) and Harald Neuhauser (Marcus Mittermeier). photo
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Disappointed love seems to have driven an indebted husband to his death. Or was it a crime? A case for the investigator trio Schaller, Neuhauser and Flierl.
A dead person at the foot of the Munich Angel of Peace. At first glance it looks as if the man is several meters from the parapet jumped to death. His wife tells inspectors Neuhauser, Flierl and Schaller that her husband wanted to move out – because of a new love.
That’s not the only thing that seems strange to the investigators: Who kills themselves when they’re newly in love? The trio comes across further inconsistencies, which can be seen in the new episode of the series “Munich Murder” with the subtitle “A saisonale G’schicht” on Saturday at 8:15 p.m. in the second.
For ten years, the actors Alexander Held, Bernadette Heerwagen and Marcus Mittermeier have formed the strange team of investigators who stick together as colleagues and hold their own against the arrogant and scheming boss Helmut Zangel (Christoph Süß). In this case too, he wants to see the files closed quickly. The commissioners are not deterred by this.
They track down the dead man’s lover. Klaus Niehoff (Florian Jahr) had fallen in love with the apparently wealthy entrepreneur Katrin Markgraf (Nina Kunzendorf). “He’s out of her league at all,” says Neuhauser about the relationship between Niehoff and Markgraf. Maybe she had rejected him and he couldn’t handle it. In any case, the entrepreneur reacts coldly when Neuhauser and Flierl give her the news of his death.
Inspector Schaller tries to reconstruct Niehoff’s last evening – garlic schnapps included. At a kiosk he learns that a motorcyclist was watching Niehoff. What does the unknown person have to do with the case? As it turns out, she is a private detective and not very forthcoming. During his investigative research, Schaller also gets closer to Katrin Markgraf. He poses as a wealthy widower and financial expert, which the entrepreneur immediately finds interesting. Schaller is about to cross a line.
The 18th case in the series – directed by Maris Pfeiffer and based on a script by Peter Kocyla – is also an entertaining crime comedy that thrives on the idiosyncratic characters of the inspectors: Schaller, who holds his team together and also empathizes deeply with the victims; Neuhauser, who approaches the cases pragmatically; and the compassionate, hopelessly romantic “Fräulein Flierl”, which is not nearly as naive as it seems.