ZDF has retold the life story of former Bayern boss Uli Hoeneß in a docudrama. "Uli Hoeneß - The Patriarch" shows how a man completely overestimated himself. And that there was no one who said: Enough is enough. A Bavarian idyll. High above Bad Wiessee, right next to the "Freihaus Brenner" restaurant and surrounded by forests and cow pastures, Uli Hoeneß has a panoramic view of Lake Tegernsee from his house. We see a flashback with actors: the sausages are crispy, the grandson is just awake - a wonderful family day, you think. One of them is sitting inside and tapping away at the buttons on his pager. "Are you coming?" asks Florian Hoeneß. "Right away," grumbles the father. "You're gambling!" the son becomes angry. The mother wants a conflict-free barbecue day. "Just look at it," shouts the son. “He can’t do anything else.” Master of Tegernsee It is a haunting scene in the ZDF docudrama “Uli Hoeneß – The Patriarch”. It shows what an ex-banker in this film made up of original images and game sequences puts very aptly: “It’s this Master of the Universe feeling” that Hoeneß claimed for himself. And also this: “There was no one there who would have said: ‘Enough is enough!’” 50 pfennigs for the driver Of course, it is still crazy to see this today and to hear it again. How the initial 3.5 million euros in tax debt suddenly became more than 20 million in the courtroom. The same Hoeneß was allowed to take 50 pfennigs from the till for a good grade in his father’s butcher’s shop as a student. He had many good grades. “A Gscheidle”, as a customer of the butcher’s shop in Ulm called him. “A driver”, as he was later said about in football. Not a brilliant technician, but an alpha male. Butcher, stick to your pork halves! This film portrait is beautifully filmed and beautifully told. It shows that Hoeneß is a doer, even as a teenager. How he tells his father that sausage should be sold by the gram, not by the hundredweight. He did it. Today he owns a large sausage factory. But the sentence his father is said to have once said to him makes you sit up and take notice: "We only spend what we have." In other words: Butcher, stick to your pork halves! His son decided differently. The Swiss mountains, the Swiss accounts "The mountains in Switzerland are very beautiful," he is said to have told his colleagues as a young professional footballer. The black accounts are nicer. While the other footballers play cards and drink beer, Uli Hoeneß makes a lot more money out of money. The world of money is not good enough. "Everything will be fine," the FC Bayern president reassured his wife when the tax authorities came to their house early in the morning in 2013. The Hoeneß couple were still in their dressing gowns and slippers. "Shit," shouted the Hoeneß in the film when he was asked to find clothes for the interrogation and pre-trial detention in the bedroom. Shortly before that, Chancellor Merkel had tried to help Hoeneß. Because he was an interesting voice of the people. Someone who claimed "decency, attitude and personal responsibility". He helped. But don't contradict him! Uli Hoeneß donated a lot of money and helped many Bayern players privately. The film also says that he is a patriarch. "He helps you, you just mustn't contradict him." Unfortunately, the exceptional actor Thomas Thieme is not the right person to play Hoeneß. Too old, too fat, not agile enough. There are too many gaps between real scenes and game frequencies. We know the end. Prison. Sentenced to three years and six months. Annette Ramelsberger from the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" offers an explanation: Uli Hoeneß played on "terrain that he did not know" in court. It was, she says, "as if the footballer suddenly had to play water polo". It was a disaster.