Meilke – Geeint in Mord und Schwur
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| Country of origin | Mascylla |
| Original language(s) | Hesurian |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 5 (list of episodes) |
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| Running time | 55–58 minutes |
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| Original release | December 10, 2019 |
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Meilke – Geeint in Mord und Schwur is a Mascyllary true crime documentary television miniseries released on December 10, 2019, by the streaming platform Prism as a Prism Original production. The miniseries was developed by Jan Kienmann and co-written by Annette Krug-Weihe, Christian Borsich and Gabriela Hollfeld. Meilke portrays and disects the assassination of then Prime Minister Michael Meilke on 19 March 2000 in Lannbrück and the political decisions and life of Meilke leading up to the assassination. As a five-part limited documentary series, it features previously unreleased evidence, memos and audio tapes, interviews with politicians, witnesses and experts, and the main theories surrounding the perpetrator's motive and third party intervention.
Premise
Meilke – Geeint in Mord und Schwur details the assassination of Prime Minister Michael Meilke on 19 March 2000 in central Lannbrück with a pipe bomb and land mine hidden in near proximity to his parked limousine. He, and 13 other individuals are killed in the detonation, and the initial perpetrator Heinrich Glöcker flees the scene before secondly returning days later to take an omnibus hostage with a bomb vest. His following cause for suicide and initial motive of the assassination were never fully uncovered and are the focal point of contemporary speculation and theories. The official investigations conclude with Heinrich Glöcker being made responsible as the lone perpetrator, while others suspect involvement by an alleged generation of the Revolutionary Garrison, far-right extremist terror cells, former spies of Cuthland-Waldrich, and a purposeful cover-up by illegitimate elements of the Mascyllary government itself.
Episodes
| No. | Title | Directed by | Original release date |
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| 1 | "Märtyrer" ("Martyr") | Jan Kienmann, Annette Krug-Weihe | December 10, 2019 |
| 2 | "Kapitalist" ("Capitalist") | Jan Kienmann, Annette Krug-Weihe | December 10, 2019 |
| 3 | "Herrscher" ("Sovereign") | Jan Kienmann, Annette Krug-Weihe | December 10, 2019 |
| 4 | "Verräter" ("Traitor") | Jan Kienmann, Petra Walden | December 10, 2019 |
| 5 | "Opfer" ("Victim") | Jan Kienmann, Christian Borsich | December 10, 2019 |
Starring
Actors of the fictional re-enactment scenes include:
- Winfred Sczendecka: Walther Rathen
- Tobias Kloß: Oberstmajor
- Ines Franken: Gera Ahrinth
- Otto Walle: Josef Herbst
- Franz-Theodor Jens: Heinrich Glöcker
Interview partners for the miniseries:
- Adolf Mayer, former RG member
- Roland Austerlitz, former anti-terror expert at the DSA
- Jan Keilberth, former Minister of Defense of the Realm
- Peter Glüssen, police reporter and journalist
- Bruno Clasburg, attorney of the the Mascyllary High Court of the Realm
- Felix Liebkarr, personal assistant to Michael Meilke's staff
- Paul Schwarzbach, former Imperial Police officer
- Moritz Rodler-Beck, chairman of the Assassination of Michael Meilke Investigations Board
- Peter-Georg Hoffmann, former Minister of the Realm
- Heinz Rudolph, former far-right terrorism undercover agent of the DSA
Production
The documentary miniseries is a production by DominoEntertainment under the developing guide of Jan Kienmann also serving as its writer and director. Principal shooting was scheduled between January 2018 and June 2019 in Königsreh and Langquaid, and post-production was finished by October 2019. The main directors and show runners are Jan Kienmann and Annette Krug-Weihe, with additional directors Petra Walden and Christian Borsich. Apart from the fictional re-enactments and taped interviews, archive material from more than 37 archives, including the Adwhinischer Rundfunk, Globus News, ARF, ENS and material from the Maskillisches Rundfunkarchiv, were used in the series. Originally, the wife of Michael Meilke, Hildebrandt Meilke, was planned to participate in shooting as advising member and interview partner, but passed away in August 2019 amidst production.