Tatort

- Season 53

(2021)

In the middle of the day, a money messenger was murdered in cold blood in front of a jewelry store in downtown Weimar. Kira Dorn and Lessing accidentally become witnesses and pursue the perpetrator. Lessing is injured in an exchange of fire in the cave and the perpetrator escapes. The dead messenger is Ludgar Döllstädt, managing director of the security company "Geist Security". While Kurt Stich is convinced that the act is a robbery, Kira suspects more behind it: Lessing had stopped the murder victim a few days earlier with Maike Viebrock, a department head of the ...

In the exclusive Hotel Rheinpalais, a woman is found hanged in her room. On the surface everything points to suicide. The chief inspectors Ballauf and Schenk have doubts: For them it looks like a brutal execution. First testimonies indicate a connection between the 60-year-old victim Kathrin Kampe and the owner of the hotel Bettina Mai. When the suspicions against Bettina Mai intensify and her arrest is imminent, she brings Inspector Schenk into her power and flees with him as a hostage .

Four weeks ago, the members of the Ostfildern Oasis building community moved into their building and the foundation has to be re-excavated due to a sealing problem. An even bigger problem emerges: an unidentifiable female corpse. Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz try to find their way between group meetings and expressions of feelings by the residents in order to obtain clues about the identity of the dead. They encounter the idealistic dream of living together as well as the conflicts that appear between the apartment owners when they become aware that one of them...

When the investigative journalist Imke Leopold asks Thorsten Falke for help in solving a supposedly illegal real estate deal on Norderney, he initially reacts skeptically. When Imke is the victim of an attack shortly afterwards, which she survives only by luck, Falke regrets his hesitation and asks Julia Grosz to investigate with him on the island. Does the attack have anything to do with a large-scale construction project that was waved through due to the approval of some local politicians on the island? The lawyer and broker based on the island, who arranged the ...

During an operation on the banks of the Dresden Elbe, the paramedic Tarik Wasir is suffocated in the vehicle with a plastic bag. His young colleague Greta Blaschke can no longer help him. Investigators Karin Gorniak and Leonie Winkler as well as commissariat manager Schnabel are investigating in all directions. The rioting patient Arnold Liebig, from whom the health insurance company has cut benefits, is just as suspicious as Greta's colleague Hagen Rigmers, who seems to be hiding something and threatens his colleagues. A short time later, a second attack was carried ...

When the committed "Rock gegen Rechts" concert organizer Tillmann Meinecke was found shot, the suspicion of an attack was obvious. Meinecke saw herself threatened by the right-wing extremist scene and had applied for police protection, including from Lena Odenthal. His death triggers a manhunt, which Ludger Reents is online. Reents shoots Police Chief Superintendent Katja Winter during a police check and is arrested while his girlfriend Hedwig Jörges escapes. Reents is a member of a right-wing extremist organization. He actually had Meinecke in his sights and was at ...

After a fire in the basement of the Gerberzentrum, a high-rise housing estate in Dortmund, the charred body of a young woman is found. The new member of the Dortmund homicide squad, Rosa Herzog, quickly realizes that the victim was slain. There are also indications of attempted rape. During the investigation, the team is confronted with racism, police violence and fake news.

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The battered body of a young woman is found on a wasteland near a popular club in Kiel. The video surveillance of the club soon supplies Klaus Borowski and Mila Sahin with a suspect: Mario Lohse. The intimidated outsider regularly watches misogynistic videos in the internet forum of the so-called "pick-up artist" Hank Massmann. Since Lohse cannot provide a valid alibi, Borowski and Sahin decide to make a temporary arrest. But Borowski soon notices signs that make the crime appear in a completely different light: In the immediate vicinity of the crime scene, he thinks ...

Ella flees from her abusive husband and tries to go into hiding with no money and no friends. The homeless Monika takes Ella under her wing and shows her how she survives on the street. But Ella leaves Monika alone when she meets Axel in a fast-food restaurant and finds shelter in his small apartment. The next morning, the one who promised her protection is dead. Commissioners Ballauf and Schenk start the investigation.

The discovery of a dead person in a desolate residential area is reported anonymously in the early hours of the morning. Jana Gruber was overwhelmed and brutally killed in her house. Circumstances suggest that the woman worked as a prostitute and that she had a child. But the nursery is orphaned, there is no trace of the child, a ten-year-old boy. The anonymous caller is identified and, surprisingly, there is an act related to him: Gustav Langer used to often come into conflict with the law and had known the victim - as a suitor - for a longer time. But is he Jana's ...

The student Jessi (18) has a date. But not in the disco, she goes to the nearby forest on the outskirts. A short time later she is dead. First, a carbon arrow hits her in the thigh, then a knife stab straight into the heart. When a jogger found the body the next day, it showed, among other things, bite marks and a twig in its mouth. The Saarland team of investigators around the chief inspectors Leo Hölzer and Adam Schürk is faced with a riddle, because the branch in the mouth indicates an old hunter's custom. Is it a ritual crime? First of all, the commissioners ...

A kiosk operator in Ludwigshafen is brutally slain. It looks like robbery - if it weren't for coins in the dead man's windpipe. A signal for Lena Odenthal and Johanna Stern that there could be a private motive for the deed. Her investigations are focused on two customers of the kiosk. Anton Maler looks charming, takes care of his sick ex-girlfriend and is so overly accommodating to the inspectors that he looks suspicious again. Jannik Berg, on the other hand, was not only seen with the possible murder weapon, he tried to evade the police officers and sowed distrust of...

The Federal Police are investigating Russian arms dealers who, as alleged manufacturers of agricultural machinery, have built up a perfect entrepreneurial facade. Julia Grosz, who has just been promoted to chief inspector, is in charge of the operation. When the undercover agent died shortly before the mafia-like structures were discovered, the whole operation seemed to have failed. But the arms dealer Timofejew has a niece, Marija, who works for the LKA and distanced herself from her family years ago. In order to prevent the complete failure of the operation, Grosz ...

The suspicious fall of the stairs of the 78-year-old industrialist widow Elisabeth Klingler calls the inspectors Franziska Tobler and Friedemann Berg on the scene. Klingler had just announced an amendment to her will for her daughter, her son, her granddaughter and the notary: the family villa should go to her carer Elena Zelenko after her death. A shock for their children, who react with vehement indignation. It was only when their mother was dying that Gesine and Richard found out that Elisabeth Klingler and Elena Zelenko had secretly married. Unlike their niece ...

No cell phone, no papers, no clothes: a naked male corpse is found in a moorland area. Thanks to Prof. Boerne's instinct, of all things, the young man's identity is quickly clarified: It is Maik Koslowski: vegetable farmer, nude model and advocate of free love. He was also the leader of group seminars such as "Sexuality and Tantra" or "Drumming and Ecstasy". During their research on the Erlen farm with the adjoining trailer park, Thiel and Boerne encounter cackling geese, curious alpacas and confusing network of relationships. In order to bring light into the darkness...

A summer in Vienna. It is hot. Too hot. Bibi jogs through the forest and quite by chance runs into a senior official from the Ministry of the Interior. A little later the man is dead. Moritz Eisner, who is due to start a long-awaited project at Europol and the EU anti-corruption agency OLAF in The Hague in a few days, decides to take on this case. But is it even a case? The ministry is pushing for the cause of death to be presented as a simple heart attack. Apparently there was no outside influence, and the traces of the doping agent in the blood of the deceased do ...

Five-year-old Mike has disappeared. For three days, his separated parents think that their son is with the other, respectively, until the mistake is discovered. Now the mother angrily suspects the father, the father the mother. But where is Mike really? What truth does the forest hide behind the house where the boy often hid when his parents quarreled? Did Mike run away this time? But how far can a five-year-old get on his own? Or was he not alone at all? What is Mike's connection to 17-year-old Titus, who feels persecuted and whose fear drives him all the way to ...

The Bremen police are on the alert: shortly after the birth, Sophie Völkers' baby is kidnapped from the clinic, many officers are involved in the search, and the police are almost exhausted. A young man is found dead in front of an abandoned industrial building. At first glance, it looks like he's leaning on death. Who should take on this case? And is there a connection between the two cases? In the tense situation, the Dane Mads Andersen has to do it again, although he is actually already sitting on his suitcase and is on his way back to Copenhagen. Liv Moormann ...

Eviction in Berlin: Otto Wagner and his family had to leave the apartment on a cold November morning. After Ceylan Immobilien took over the tenement house, it was demented bit by bit. Old appointments are no longer valid and so the moving company from Axel Schmiedtchen ensures a quick, swept-clean handover. Recently the house was still a symbol of the famous "Berlin mix". Now Gülay Ceylan, the boss of the small family business, wants to renovate the house in a luxurious way so that it can later be converted into condominiums. But there is resistance. Four tenants in ...

In the middle of the day, Frederick Seibold is struck down by four people masked with dog heads on a golf course near Frankfurt. When he comes to in a dark basement hole, the two Frankfurt chief inspectors Anna Janneke and Paul Brix are already entrusted with his case: Frederick's ex-girlfriend, Bille Kerbel, had received a cut finger that she took straight to the police. Konrad Seibold, Frederick's father, a well-to-do business lawyer, does not see the point of paying a ransom, as he believes his son Frederick himself is behind the kidnapping. Janneke and Brix are ...

Susanne Elvan met her husband Tarek, a convicted violent criminal, through a penpal portal while he was in custody. The wedding took place before his release. When Susanne was found murdered, Tarek was only recently at large. The case seems clear. But when assistant Norbert Jütte sees that the murderer has tied a belt over his victim's eyes, the case takes an unexpected turn: Jütte is convinced that he has had something to do with the murderer before .

Alarm in Kiel: In the event of an uprising in the forensic clinic, the murderer of women Kai Korthals manages to escape from security custody. Korthals, who crept and killed numerous women in their apartments, became Borowski's personal nightmare six years ago when he kidnapped his fiancée Frieda Jung. At that time the inspector managed to free Frieda, but his relationship broke up. Commissioner Mila Sahin wants to hunt down Kai Korthals by all means. But is Borowski ready to face his adversary again? In Kai's cell there are letters from admirers: Apparently, numerous...

Sudden cardiac arrest at the age of only 29: Anna Schneider collapses in broad daylight on the street in front of her café. The Dresden investigators Gorniak and Winkler convince their boss Schnabel to start the investigation into this mysterious death, although the forensic doctor Jonathan Himpe wants to rule out poisoning. They found out that Anna Schneider had recently filed a criminal complaint against an unknown stalker. In addition to the psychological distress, the victim has recently suffered severe physical pain. Every touch, no matter how small, made her ...

The gas station attendant is shot dead in a gas station in Mainz - the second and this time fatal attack within two weeks. The only witness is the blind law student Rosa Münch, who still lives with her parents and longs for a life beyond the overprotective control of her father. Ellen Berlinger and Martin Rascher investigate the traces of the two perpetrators and follow the indications of the blind: the smell of an expensive perfume, the voices of suspects, the details heard and felt by Rosa at the crime scene. The commissioners want to put the vulnerable Rosa under ...

After the release party for her debut novel, 19-year-old author Luise Nathan is found dead. Everything looks like a suicide at first. Publishing director Roland Häbler and editor Marvin Gess are reproaching each other: Could Luise not withstand the high pressure of expectations? Luise's book, which is about the socially disadvantaged teenage girl Luna, is a sensation in her eyes. Luise's mother Friederike, councilor for social affairs, on the other hand, cannot imagine that her strong daughter would commit suicide. The Frankfurt chief inspectors Anna Janneke and Paul ...

Following a bizarre confession to a murder that may have taken place only in the confessor's dreams. One of the main themes of this psycho drama is performance pressure under which brilliant musicians struggle, ending in self destruction.

Weekend in Berlin: in search of an unforgettable night, party-goers and party-goers roam the wintry streets. A young woman finds a suitable date in the couple Dennis Ziegler and Julia Hoff via a dating app. The next morning, a body is found near Dennis' apartment. Her face is disfigured so that identification seems impossible. A missing person report and a subsequent DNA comparison reveal to inspectors Nina Rubin and Robert Karow that the dead woman is the medical student Sophia Bader. When Rubin and Karow deliver the news of death to Marianne and Helmut Bader, the ...

Murot investigates a series of murders including his former philosophy professor who lived below a bridge as a homeless person when he was killed. Murot suspects the prof's estranged children were keen to inherit their parental fortune.

The 28-year-old Nicolas Schlueter does not come back from his morning jogging session: A car hit the police chief. Schlueter was about to be promoted, he was popular at the police station and had good friends, his wife Simone is expecting their first child. There does not seem to be any evidence of a murderous motive or a suspect. And the bruises that Schlüter suffered a few days before his death, according to Simone Schlüter, can be traced back to a riding accident. Peter Faber, Martina Bönisch, Rosa Herzog and Jan Pawlak investigate in all directions - including at ...

A man's body is found in the harbor. Liv Moormann and Linda Selb find out: The dead man was a doctor - and what a doctor. A do-gooder, a Samaritan, someone who treated the poor of the city pro bono, a helper with great ideals. And now he lies here, executed, on a dusty harbor quay - run over and with his skull broken. What is the secret behind the brutal act? Whose anger and hatred has discharged here? At first no motive is recognizable, the traces in the area of the deceased run into the void. Moormann and Selb continue to investigate meticulously and find a number ...

The auditor of a nunnery in the foothills of the Alps is found murdered. The Munich commissioners Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr investigate the apparently contemplative life of the godly nuns.

Commissioner Charlotte Lindholm travels privately from Göttingen to Hamburg to meet secretly with a man in a hotel. But he's dead when she arrives - and Charlotte Lindholm is an urgent suspect.