Schuss in der Nacht - Die Ermordung Walter Lübckes
On June 1st, 2019, around 11:30pm, the shoot which represents a turning point in the federal republic falls. In the hessian small town Wolfhagen-Istha, the district president of Kassel, Walter Lübcke, is murdered during this night, while, just a few meters away, the annual carnival is putting the locals into a festive mood. It is DNA-evidence on the clothes of Walter Lübcke which leads the investigators on June 15th, 2019, to his presumptive murderer: Stephan Ernst. The previously convicted right-wing extremist Ernst gets arrested by a SEK unit in Kassel. A first background check reveals: Stephan Ernst was known to the security authorities, but they did not have him on their radar for six years. Now he is back. And a person is dead. The docu-drama “Schuss in der Nacht” („Shoot in the dark“) tells emotionally, and simultaneously factually, how the deadly attack on Lübcke came to be. It tells about the first far-right motivated murder of a politician since the era of national socialism.
- Year: 2020
- Country: Germany
- Genre: Documentary, Drama, TV Movie
- Studio: AVE Publishing GmbH & Co. KG, HR, NDR, SWR, RBB
- Keyword: germany, right wing extremism, political documentary
- Director: Raymond Ley
- Cast: Joachim Król, Katja Bürkle, Konstantin Lindhorst, Robin Sondermann, Hagen Bähr, Hannah Ley
