In the new year, “Tatort” and “Polizeiruf 110” fans can expect more than 45 Sunday thrillers, interrupted by a summer break in which king football will once again rule the TV events. After the New Year’s crime thriller “Tatort: What Remains” with the tragic farewell of actress Franziska Weisz (43) as Inspector Julia Grosz in the Falke films, the next six crime thrillers have already been decided. This will continue in the coming weeks.
And in the next Sunday thriller it’s time to say goodbye again. Annalena Schmidt (72) played Mrs. Keller for 25 years, first as the detective’s receptionist, then as a co-investigator. And actor Peter Espeloer (63) played forensics expert Peter Becker in around 70 “crime scenes” for 25 years. Both characters say goodbye to their well-deserved retirement.
Afterwards, a classic and good pyramid scheme crime thriller, which is told as a big flashback, is on the program. “When it comes to a criminal case, in addition to solving it, we are at least just as interested in how the crime occurred in the first place. Because the prehistory is where the drama lies, which exposes the human abyss or the need and desperation that lead to a murder,” they explain Screenwriters Arne Nolting and Jan Martin Scharf.
Screenwriter Sönke Lars Neuwöhner explains what’s special about this crime thriller as follows: “In our Stuttgart ‘Tatort: The Man Who Lies’ [2018] we shifted the focus: away from the question of who the murderer was; towards the question “What it really means to be considered the murderer.”
In the new film by the four-piece from Saarland, the sensible Leo Hölzer (Vladimir Burlakov, 36) reaches his limits. “The special thing is that Leo has to shed more and more of his supposed virtues and acquire characteristics from Adam [Schürk, Daniel Sträßer, 36], while he takes on responsibility and suddenly looks after his friend,” explains director Christian Theede.
What follows is a prison crime film worth seeing that was filmed in the Landshut JVA. “I was particularly impressed by the reaction of the vast majority of prisoners, who were not only extremely disciplined, but also a little ‘proud’ of the filming,” reveals the head of the correctional facility, Andreas Stoiber, to the broadcaster.
With this crime thriller there is another farewell, the farewell to Göttingen as a filming location and the farewell to the Lindholm/Schmitz team. Both Commissioner Charlotte Lindholm (Maria Furtwängler, 57), who returns to the LKA in Hanover after six assignments outside, and co-investigator Anaïs Schmitz (Florence Kasumba, 47) remain in the “crime scene” cosmos.
Kasumba still has a crossover case – “Crime Scene: The Coldest Machine” (2025) – with federal police officer Thorsten Falke (Wotan Wilke Möhring, 56). It is not known whether she will then be the long-term replacement for the aforementioned Commissioner Julia Grosz. But there should be a replacement.
For the team from Frankfurt am Main, Anna Janneke and Paul Brix, the last “crime scene” is also coming up this crime year. However, it is not yet known when that will happen. The finale for Wolfram Koch (61) and Margarita Broich (63) has the picturesque title “It’s so green when Frankfurt’s mountains bloom.”
The same applies to actor Rick Okon (34), he will also say goodbye to the Dortmund branch this year. His last film will be shown in spring 2024. Jörg Hartmann (54) and Stefanie Reinsperger (35) continue to investigate their roles as Peter Faber and Rosa Herzog as a duo.
It has not yet been possible to determine which “Polizeiruf 110” highlights fans can expect in 2024.
