Jubilee "crime scene" from Münster: Boerne and Thiel investigate among the lunatics

Professor Boerne is standing in the middle of Münster in a blue Hawaiian shirt decorated with pink flamingos.

He slowly raises his finger to indicate to his colleague Thiel that he should be quiet.

A dog appears, gobs bananas, the confusion is perfect, and the suspense of the "crime scene" titled "Propheteus" would be set.

Kevin Hanschke

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As thin as the eponymous pun is, the story is unfortunately just as thin.

This "crime scene" has something to celebrate - Frank Thiel (Axel Prahl) and Karl-Friedrich Boerne (Jan Josef Liefers) finally celebrate their twenty-year service anniversary.

But of course there is another brutal murder that quickly ends the festival.

What is the purpose of the chip behind the ear?

Shopaholic bowling enthusiast and programmer Magnus Rosponi lies dead in his downtown apartment.

There are no witnesses to the crime.

Nobody can explain them.

Even Börne's assistant Silke "Alberich" Haller (Christine Ursprechen), who identifies Magnus as her childhood heartthrob, can't make sense of it.

From this point on, a web of absurdities unfolds.

"It was a completely normal murder investigation," says Thiel in one of the last scenes and adds: "initially".

Initially, many questions arise: where did Rosponi get so much money?

What does a chip behind his ear mean?

And what role do “aliens” play?

When examining the body, Boerne discovers a small object.

Inspector Thiel finds out that Rosponi belonged to a group of conspiracy theorists.

Its members are convinced that alien reptilians want to subjugate humanity.

So our two investigators immerse themselves in a milieu of conspiracy theorists and the New Right.

If this is an attempt by the "crime scene" to create a crime comedy reference to the scene of the Corona deniers, it fails miserably.

The characters presented appear woodcut-like.

And it's getting more absurd by the minute.

Boerne and Thiel not only fall in with Rosponi's crooked bowling friends who believe in reptiles and chemtrails, like Udo Kayser (Matthias Komm), but also get support from a Jack Russell Terrier who specializes in hunting down assassins and terrorists.

The only things missing are the two bizarre investigators named Muster and Man with Mushroom Head Hairstyle (Daniela Reichert, Melanie Reichert).

These two cartoons oscillate between the roles of secret agent and supervillain, constitutional friend and foe.

But first Boerne and Thiel are interrogated by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

This "crime scene" (directed by Sven Halfar) is about people who earn money with other people who believe in conspiracy theories.

It's about people who go crazy and become assassins.

This world does not stop at the two investigators.

Does Boerne, this actually rational "man of science", as he calls himself, believe in extraterrestrials?

When talking about reptiles, world domination and nanotechnology, it is not always clear what is real and what is fake and who is on which side.

Visually, too, this “crime scene” is surreal madness.

The camera (Timo Moritz) comes unusually close to Boerne.

The shots of the city are particularly aesthetic.

In some places the blurred images seem like a dream by Thiel or Boerne, a historical flashback or an LSD intoxication.

"Maybe you just smoked weed too much," says Thiel to his father (Claus Clausnitzer).

The timelines blur and make the chaos perfect.

At least the screenwriter Astrid Ströher, who is making her debut in the Münster "crime scene" with "Propheteus", has included funny dialogues in some places.

The Münster combo spanned the arc this time.

But when would she not have done that?

The thriller turns completely into slapstick.

But the "Tatort" version from Münster is ultimately loved by the audience and achieves the highest ratings.

Maybe you just have to read it as a grotesque comment on all the conspiracy theorists, anti-vaccinationists, preppers and freaks.

With a view to the role played by actor Jan Josef Liefers in real life in the #allesdichtmachen campaign, that is almost of the finest irony – behind the slapstick.

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