Director: Heinz Schirk
Script: Oliver Storz
Principal Cast: Hansjörg Felmy, Karin Eickelbaum, Alexander Kerst, Monica Bleibtreu
Murder in a hotel room. Hotel guest Maurer arouses the suspicion of Commissioner Haferkampf when he claims to have noticed nothing unusual from his adjacent ‘love den’ at the time of the crime. Cloaked in the murder
subplot, the story explores the foul rot behind the façade of bourgeois affluence. This episode of WDR’s longrunning "Tatort" series is considered one of the best and was last repeated in 1994.