Sun, Mar 8, 2015
Lower Austria, in the late 1960s. A young man goes fishing at night on the Thaya, the border river to what was then Czechoslovakia. Shots are fired, but the authorities in the socialist neighboring country deny an incident at the border. The man does not return home. Decades later, his son Max, a journalist, rolls up the story again. At the same time, the body of a 45-year-old Czech named Radok is being fished from the Thaya. An accident? For Moritz Eisner and his colleague Bibi Fellner, the strange case that saves them from dealing with boring mountains of files is just right. While the chief inspector finds out that Radok was murdered, his colleague takes an involuntary bath in the river. The reporter Max pulls her out of the ice-cold water and lets the astonished inspector into the research about his missing father: At the time of the Prague Spring, the Czechoslovak secret service lured refugees from the republic into a trap with a fictitious border. The insidious plan only worked thanks to the cooperation of young Austrians, who played an inglorious role in it. Apparently Radok wanted to hold the former collaborators accountable. Was that why he had to die?
Sun, Apr 12, 2015
What the French call "Petite Mort" ends fatally in a forest near Nuremberg. Christian Ranstedt, married and father of two children, professor at the University of Erlangen and respected citizen of the city of Nuremberg, was killed by two shots in the head at close range while making love in his car. When the police arrive, both car doors are open. The driver's seat with the dead Ranstedt is pushed back far. The person who was in the car with him has disappeared. Nothing indicates their identity. Ranstedt's wife Julia believed her husband at the university. For her and her two children, a world suddenly collapses that seemed indestructible. Why was Christian Ranstedt murdered? Why in such a spicy moment? And how come whoever was in the car with him survived?
Sun, May 31, 2015
A wine shop near Münster is the only clue at first. 25-year-old Luiz Benaso had taken a taxi here the day before his death. Now he was found murdered in an old slaughterhouse. Inspector Frank Thiel and his colleague Nadeshda Krusenstern, who has just been promoted to inspector, take over the investigation. In the meantime, Professor Karl-Friedrich Boerne has announced a visit from overseas. His hereditary uncle Gustav von Elst from Florida comes to Münster. When he accidentally found out about Luiz Benaso's murder, he was shocked: apparently he had an affair with the young South American. Does he know who might have had a motive for killing his lover? Apparently Luiz had offered the Schosser wine shop a case of very valuable champagne for sale on Gustav's behalf.
Sun, Jul 5, 2015
A Nigerian youth is found stabbed under a bridge in Lucerne. Commissioners Reto Flückiger and Liz Ritschard assume, based on the first indications, that it is a matter of settling accounts in the drug milieu. The young man was already well known to the police: Ebi Osodi was a so-called UMA - an unaccompanied minor seeking asylum. He came to Switzerland without his parents and has been caught dealing several times. For the new police chief Mattmann it is clear that this case should be closed as soon as possible. After all, the delinquent Ebi would have been deported immediately if he had reached the age of majority. But the more the chief of police pushed for efficiency, the more Reto Flückiger and Liz Ritschard became interested in the fate of the boy. And when the dark-skinned Jola, another underage asylum seeker from Nigeria, becomes the focus of the investigations, Ritschard and Flückiger realize that the young woman must be the key to the case. But investigations keep getting stuck. And more than once Flückinger has to ask himself whether what he sees is real or just a hallucination. Because according to medical findings, severe migraine attacks are the reason for his increasingly severe headaches and this also causes partial shifts in perception.
Sun, Sep 6, 2015
It is an execution on the open road: in Lucerne, a sniper kills two Albanian car dealers with headshots. Shortly thereafter, the next murder follows the same pattern. This time the victim is a trustee. The murder weapon is the same - Reto Flückiger and Liz Ritschard are dealing with a serial offender. And they realize that the seemingly randomly chosen victims have one thing in common: they all committed crimes for which the judiciary has never held them accountable. The two Albanians crippled a young man, and the trustee killed a mother and her child during an insane overtaking maneuver. In tranquil Lucerne, a bloody campaign of revenge is obviously going on. And there are many more potential victims, because the overburdened Swiss judiciary and a new criminal law are ensuring that numerous other crimes are being put on the back burner. Reto Flückiger and Liz Ritschard do everything they can to stop the self-proclaimed avenger before more people die.
Sun, Sep 20, 2015
The crime scene of Miroslav Nemec's and Udo Wachtveitl's 70th case is the Oktoberfest: Munich in a state of chaos. But not everyone who falls off a beer bench at this crime scene is drunk. A case, in which Batic and Leitmayr have to deal with the complete and utter confusion and complexity of trying to work at the world's biggest fair. Once again they find support from the head of operative case analysis, Christine Lerch (Lisa Wagner). Directed by Marvin Kren ("Rammbock", Tatort: "Kaltstart") and written by Stefan Holtz and Florian Iwersen ("Milchgeld. Ein Kluftingerkrimi"). Ferdinand Hofer is part of the team as assistant Kalli, as well as Gerhard Liebermann as Radtke and Robert Joseph Bartl as coroner Dr. Steinbrecher. Co-starring Gisela Schneeberger as beer tent proprietor Moosrieder, Andreas Giebl as her late husband, Mavie Höbinger as an Oktoberfest waitress and Leo Reisinger as the kitchen chef. The broadcast is planned for the Oktoberfest 2015 in ARD. "Die letzte Wiesn" is the first Tatort commissioned by the Bayerischer Rundfunk for Wiedemann and Berg Television.
Sun, Oct 11, 2015
In a small town in Lower Saxony, federal police officers Thorsten Falke and Katharina Lorenz are tailing an African asylum seeker who is suspected of dealing in forged passports for a gang of smugglers. During the arrest that followed, a violent physical altercation ensued between Falke and the suspect. The alleged smuggler is taken into police custody overnight to be interrogated the next day. In the morning, Falke and Lorenz learn that an accident happened during the night and the man died under circumstances that are still unclear. Falke starts investigating on his own with Lorenz.
Sun, Oct 25, 2015
A rapist and murderer is released from prison after having served his term of 15 years. The day after, he is found murdered in a trash bin. The two commissars in Stuttgart know where to look for suspects: im the parents of Mareike, whom the murder victim abducted, abused and killed so many years ago.