The Cologne New Year’s case “crime scene: protective measures” is history. And the first set the dates for six more Sunday thrillers. In two cases it becomes unusually familiar, in one the cruel family history of a commissioner is told. Two investigative teams have to do without previous colleagues. A cold case is also rolled up. These Sunday crime thrillers are up next.
It starts on January 8th with the Dresden crime thriller “Tatort: Totes Herz”, where Schnabel fans will be happy that the head of the commissioner (Martin Brambach, 55) survived the ordeal of his last case – the commissioners Karin Gorniak (Karin Hanczewski, 41) and Leonie Winkler (Cornelia Gröschel, 35) are too.
While working in the greenhouse, Patrick Teichmann (Nico Rogner) discovers the body of his mother-in-law Heike Teichmann (Tanja de Wendt). Garden worker Juri Novak (Alexander Schuster) flees, the murder weapon in hand, and is the first to be targeted by investigators Gorniak and Winkler. But the victim’s daughter, Nadine Teichmann (Kristin Suckow), is also a potential perpetrator. Because the inspectors experience a family business at the scene of the crime, which seems far removed from a peaceful coexistence of three generations under one roof. There is also no question of marital harmony between Nadine and her husband Patrick – they are about to separate. Events take a new turn when an important witness is eliminated and the autopsy reveals that Heike Teichmann suffered from Broken Heart Syndrome. She must have been in an emotional state of emergency recently. The detectives get to the bottom of the truth – which leads far into the past and has a shocking discovery in store for them…
The first case without Commissioner Martina Bönisch for Jörg Hartmann (53) as Commissioner Faber, the two remaining colleagues Rick Okon (33) as Commissioner Jan Pawlak and Stefanie Reinsperger (34) as Commissioner Rosa Herzog is “Tatort: You stay here” on April 15 .January on.
In Dortmund’s Westpark, Pawlak and Herzog are standing in front of a large pool of blood, but there is no body. However, Andreas Richter, the head of a Dortmund real estate company, is missing. With his business model, he has made a number of opponents in Dortmund in recent years: He buys real estate in the Kreuzviertel and transforms shared apartments into coveted luxury properties. In private, he is currently divorcing his wife Natalia Richter (Valery Cheplanowa). She also leaves no good hair on her estranged husband. While Commissioner Faber has not yet come to terms with the death of his colleague Martina Bönisch, is on sick leave and more or less living in his old Manta, Pawlak and Herzog come across Faber’s father Josef Faber (Wolfgang Rüter). Apparently he and Faber haven’t had any contact for decades. What happened between father and son and what does Josef Faber have to do with the case?
On January 22, they report the longest-serving investigator Lena Odenthal – played by Ulrike Folkerts (61) since 1989 – and her colleague Johanna Stern – played by Lisa Bitter (born 1984) since 2014 – with the crime thriller “Tatort: Lenas Tante” in Ludwigshafen back.
Lena Odenthal has to reconcile work and family: her aunt Niki Odenthal (Ursula Werner), a retired public prosecutor, sharp-tongued and assertive, arrives in Ludwigshafen for a visit. At the same time, Lena and Johanna Stern are dealing with the death of a nursing home resident who was killed by an insulin overdose. Herr Herrweg was over 90, the most you can inherit is obligations – who had a motive to kill him? The inspectors examine the residents of the home as well as the victim’s past. While Johanna would appreciate it if the sympathetic family doctor of the retirement home were not involved in the case, Lena strangely keeps getting the impression that Niki is also secretly involved in the investigation. Her aunt’s interest in the dead man’s past seems to be more than just family affection or professional interest. Nevertheless, Lena pushes away the thought that her aunt could be involved in the case. But the Herrweg case leads the detectives into the depths of German history, and Niki in particular has a lot of experience with that…
The TV evening on January 29th belongs to the Saarland chief inspectors Leo Holz (Vladimir Burlakov, 35), Adam Schürk (Daniel Sträßer, 35), Esther Baumann (Brigitte Urhausen, 42), Pia Heinrich (Ines Marie Westernströer, 36) and her new “Tatort: The Cold of the Earth”.
Saturday. Gameday. A Saar-Palatinate football derby keeps all the emergency services in Saarbrücken in suspense, including the investigators Holzer, Schürk, Baumann and Heinrich. Because after the game, a death is reported from the emergency room. Andreas Schneider (Nils Bannert) collapsed in the emergency room with a skull fracture and a stab wound and could not be saved. It quickly turns out that he spent the “third half” in a field match. But whether he also suffered the fatal injuries there remains unclear for the time being. Because as hostile as the hooligan groups are, they also agree that the biggest and common enemy is the police. Therefore, they confront the Saarbrücken team with silence and clarify their fights among themselves. Schürk also conceals certain truths. However, when his home is mugged because someone is looking for the millions from his father’s bank robbery, he has to inaugurate wood…
André Kaczmarczyk’s (36) first solo as Vincent Ross in the German-Polish border region will follow on February 5 with the thriller “Polizeiruf 110: The God of Bankruptcy”.
Antoni Mazur (Frank Jendrzytza) is found dead in a gravel pit about 500 meters from the Way of St. James, which leads directly through Brandenburg. The dead man, a Polish citizen, was apparently with many other pilgrims. The first to find the body is a policeman from the nearby Lebus police station, Karl Rogov (Frank Leo Schröder), who immediately takes over questioning the pilgrims. This support comes in handy for Chief Inspector Ross. It turns out that Mazur had massive financial problems and was facing bankruptcy proceedings. His wife Lina Mazur (Katrin Heller) reports on the enormous pressure that insolvency administrator Udo Schick (Bernhard Schir) and his debt adviser Jonathan Hütter (Godehard Giese) are said to have put on him. When it turns out that the insolvency administrator intercepted his daughter Maria Schick (Anna-Maria Bednarzik) on the pilgrimage shortly before Antoni Mazur’s death, he was suspected of a crime: What does the “god of bankruptcy” know?
On February 12, Black Forest investigators Franziska Tobler (Eva Löbau, 50) and Friedemann Berg (Hans-Jochen Wagner, 54) enter a cold case in the “Tatort: Below in the Valley” that remained unsolved more than a decade ago .
The Winterfeld family experienced a tragedy years ago when their daughter Rosa, still a teenager but already the mother of a daughter, disappeared without a trace. Now Rosa’s body is found near the Black Forest village. As before, Tobler and Berg are investigating. As in the past, Meike Winterfeld (Inka Friedrich) accuses Werner Tröndle (Aurel Manthei), who has been convicted several times. He’s served a prison sentence for other crimes and now lives in the village again, even though most people don’t want anything to do with him. Tobler and Berg reconstruct Rosa’s last evening, not only with the family, but also with Rosa’s friend Axel Leibing (Tonio Schneider) and her best friend Elif Topcu (Canan Samadi). Now grown up, the two are critical of this reconstruction. The investigators are still hoping for new insights. And indeed – with today’s adult perspective, the perception of the events shifts…
