He was one of us – a new Germany

In Germany radio, the national anthem is heard at each “end of the day,” in this “crime scene” it runs at the beginning. Not the rattling version of the brass band, which is famous for football matches, but just the gentle strings version, which can be heard on the radio. There are pictures of the trip through the Lower Saxony province-pretty hazy, go into quite picturesquely abgerockte Salzgitter (camera: Alexander Fischerkoesen). In the language of the conference speech policy might say: The “Tatort: ​​Burnt” (NDR Editors: Donald Kraemer, Christian Granderath). Known to his state-supporting role

The result is remarkable, because it is reality based: the death of Oury Jalloh, a 36-year-old man from Sierra Leone, of the Dessau police custody came in 2005 to death by in the brig – intoxicated, scans and fixes – to to have lit a flame-retardant mattress with a lighter and burned himself with it. The scandal, the means of death and his ridiculous statement, glides quietly and requires good physical condition; the doubts of supporters, activists and the media holds the legal assessment of the case after the first acquittal in 2008 continues to maintain.

And now reaches up to the high office of the German television community. The fact that the “scene” of Oury Jalloh gives history attention and thus prolongs the doubt is to his credit. That he has the misfortune to run against the very rare, only conceivable competition program (a football match, which is also to what goes on), is taken into account, hopefully when the obsessive look at the odds on Monday morning.

Man but may at the proper distance from the event (ten years) also realize how long the scandal needs to penetrate into consciousness. Where he is still not arrived completely, as evidenced by the fact that this is actually wholly owned template (a real case of still awaiting its resolution) is not purely taken by subsequent viewers cohort transferee Günther Jauch: If a thematically follows the fictional talk show ever has made sense, but then here.

But “Günther Jauch” mutters rather for the thousandth time the mantra (“Let us create that?”), which orchestrates the backlash to Angela Merkel for weeks. What then to do with “Burnt”, insofar as the film in spite of the old case as precisely to fit into the present seems like a rare result. Because – strangely enough? – Running the reenactment of the real story of the confrontation of notorious “concerned citizens” (here: the policeman of the Salzgitter coalfield) and a public morality beyond (the foreign commissioners); Hawk and Lawrence carry the film through so serious expression as Helmut Schmidt in the so-called German Autumn.

At first glance, the case is boring and uneventful, because, as was the case Borowski Barschel investigations, television him of course not can solve. The story (writer: Stefan Kolditz, directed by Thomas Stuber) integrates the truth in their conventions, which presents a young dandy as perpetrators at the end (Julius field Meier), who should have graduated with the murder an initiation ritual in the police group, as but confesses as individual perpetrators and then kill.

It is interesting in this implementation two. Firstly Falkes beats it turns in pursuit of alleged tractor, which as panini pictures Collecting Djibril Bani (Ibrahima Sanogo) acting surprising and implausible for a “crime scene” commissioner (Til Schweiger Figure possible exception). In order to be labeled something that the film can not explain: racist contempt. The Ausgerastetsein indicated a tangle of (that hawk not so much better than the Corps at the station) and is interested in a kind of Damascus because Hawk is because of his bad conscience for reconnaissance of the murder.

On the other hand the film precisely not for this so elusive racism, for a tradition of ungewusstem feeling and thinking, in which so much empathy is lost that a person like you and I can always be thought of only in groups and categories.

In this case that would be the appeal of this “crime scene” was: to find a clever tale of something that is so difficult to grasp and yet so powerful that it produces fear and paranoia as far as murder. Instead there »Burnt” the “anxious” police room, the (“We are at war, the world is broken”) are likely to speak to Pegida-Hatern and Dikursputschisten from the heart and be rewarded at the end with a homily by Falke are with their front Rhetoric .

This “scene” would give the refugees a face, according to the accompanying PR of ARD, which has even brought the film for one day (September 30), to the movies. At the same time gets Ibrahima Sanogo, who plays the victim, like any other black actors in the film in the press release for the episode not have its own credit, his role name is written not mentioned a single time (if I wrote the last name correctly, is therefore not certain). This is called the way “institutional racism” of the film in the wrong way is talk once

A crazy idea that belongs Botho Strauss:.

 “Previously, all no longer knew, that’s home, now”

A record with which you can rüssieren on standing parties:.

 “I’m a good cop”

Something for the grave stone.

 “And he could sew really great.”