Die Rosenheim-Cops

- Season 15

(2015)

Apprentice Yannik Rösner and supervising employee Karsten Kleinert discover in the stock shed the skull-smashed corpse of boss Stefan Stuckenthaler, who returned unexpectedly from his many Alpine prospecting trips to select perfect trees to cut up into perfect wood for musical instrument builders. His will splits the firm equally between wife Theresa and his equally unwitting other steady lover, Michaela Hellwig, who lives in nearby Kufstein. Theresa had an affair with Karsten, who also knew about a major client complaining recently about business fraud.

Innkeeper Sebastian Krillmeyer, who was playing the lead in his establishment's annual peasant theater performance, is fatally stabbed during the chaotic dress rehearsal, with a fake prop knife. His cousin Sandra Krillmeyer, who wasn't rewarded in the testament of his father after nursing him for months, now may inherit all from him, and is dating controller Felix Seitz alias site alias 'Falcke 01'. Sandra has an alibi, like play director Georg Lentz, who had another bone to pick. Hansen and Stadler also consider Sebastian's girl friend Rosalie Nützl, whom he cheated ...

Wilfried Haselbeck fell to his death from his sabotaged home balcony balustrade. Prime suspects are two handyman whose firms ail since his guide for Chiemgau rated them utterly incompetent, which they deny : sun screen installer Siegmund Reuter, and historical balcony restorer Stefanie Gundel, whom he repeatedly refused to pay for that very, allegedly shoddy balcony. The cops consult his former colleague, Alois Dumberger, who runs the competent commerce chamber, but fails to come clean about recent contacts and payments. Occupied elsewhere, chief Achtziger delegates ...

The precinct is surprised at the return of Sebastian König, who opted against his job in larger Nurnberg or the one his uncle prepared in state capital Munich in favor of Rosenheim. Grown more assertive, he impresses even Anton Stadler, whose turn it is to get left behind and guessing. Their first case is the murder of attorney Lydia Kühn, overrun by a car. *. It belongs to Max Haimhauser, a contractor who claims it carjacked unnoticed, with the number plates removed. Lydia's brother in law, senior car mechanic Josef Längerer, hated her major influence on his wife ...

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kaiser's corpse is found in the farmhouse he was to buy trough real estate agent Gerhard Hanslein from farmer Rainer Kastner by them together. Sebastian and Anton separately fund out he was dating precinct accountant Patrizia Ortmann's mother Gerlinde, who knew he changed his name from Roland Kerner being an accomplished marriage swindler, believing he was giving that up for her. The fat cash down payment was stolen. Stadler and König also consider marriage swindle victims like Herbert Günzel and dodgy dating agency manager Konrad Menge.

Notary Dr. Matthias Graf is found by wife Katharina Graf and assessor (deputy) Gernot Weiss in his office, skull fatally smashed with a Justice statue. His last, missed appointment the evening before was with foxy Marion Süßmayr, the wealthy local partner of former precinct interim Dirk Bergmann, who wanted to buy Graf's grand villa at Chiemsee. Gernot Weiss seems to lack both alibi and motive, as he aspired succeeding but has no written proof. Widow Graf -a former employee, still 'employed' to lure clients- now inherits everything, would have gone empty in case of an...

Reputed musical instruments dealer Martin Traunstein's right hand Nelly Bläule was finished by a blow against the stairs after a fall down the staircase in the home of businessman and major client Bernhard Kämmerer, from which dodgy ex-con counterfeiter Roman Westhoff tried to leave unseen. One of two violins Kämmerer bought from Traunstein, who invests in them as collateral for bank loans, proves a fake Stradivarius. Traunstein's back-office assistant and recently dumped lover, Krista Matthis, hoped for Nelly's job. Traunstein denies having known about Nelly's ...

In Rosenheim's Kurpark a jogger finds contractor Jochen Brandt's corpse, the evening before his "Tango am See" participation at the dance school run by the couple André and Laura Freund. They point the cops to his tango partner, ex wife psychiatrist Melanie Vogt who rejoined the firm and took him into her villa's guesthouse, believing he was finally getting out of financial trouble due to a major contract. André Freund may have killed out of jealousy over Brandt's affair with adulteress Laura Freund.

Popular GP Torsten Rathuber is murdered by saw-sabotaging his composite paddle on his aquatic sports club's latest kayak exploit. Hansen being booked for a police seminar, Korbinian Hofer must investigate partnered with delighted to return to field work chief Gert Achtziger. First suspect is sports shop owner Klaus Brandl, who as furious to be outvoted as club president in favor of Rathuber. Club treasurer Kerstin Wagner has her own secrets. Torsten's medical practice partner Richard Lackner fails to hide their recent brawl and previous judicial conflict, as the ...

In high summer, municipal counselor Franz Wagner's poisoned corpse is found in Father Christmas suit in the studio where he stood in for the ill planned model for a competition to present publicity images for Rosenheim's Japanese twin city Ichikawa. Photographer Clemens Wenzl and elected 'Christ child' Lisa Berger see no motive.Fresh widow Sylvia Wagner might have sought to avoid her inherited fortune being splits as the marriage crumbled, lacking a prenuptial. She had access to the poison, which was administered by vitamin capsule. Lisa Berger had an affair with the ...

Ganting's mayor Karl Schretzmayer hired PR-professional Lukas Beutner from Munich, who has a local apartment, as he atypically faces a rival for his reelection, but finds Beutner fatally skull-smashed in the town hall. Stockl was already there, as he pretended Achziger had agreed to 'lend her to him shortly' for his campaign. Schretzmayer tells Sven Hansen and Korbinian Hofer it must by his mayoral challenger, Diana Münzinger, spouse of brewer Thomas Münzinger , whose real estate project with inherited land he would never allow. Lukas Beutner may have blackmailed the ...

Innkeeper Jo Caspar proudly show Sven Hansen and Ortmann the Italian restaurant "Gasthaus am See" he is going to run as tenant of owner Toni Riedelsberger, but to their horror they find there cook Josef Schrattner skull-smashed. He recently bickered with boss Toni Riedelsberger and had an adulterous affair with waitress Lisa Breuninger but refused to get a divorce. Accountant Claudia Henning, Ganting mayor Karl Schretzmeyer's new anti-corruption officer, herself suspected of tax fraud, was also involved. Jo needs to wriggle out of his lease, as Schratter withheld ...

Large local forest owner and wood trader Rainer Brock fatally smashed with his motorcycle on his usual route into the sabotaged, normally open metal barrier bordering his brother Ewald's much smaller forest patch. Hansen and Stadler consider Ewald Brock held a grudge about the unequal inheritance, on account of their late father's disapproval of Ewald Brock's unprofitable eco-methods, he even joined activist group "Holzauge", whose president Petra Wied refuses to resign to the court ruling against her complaints concerning Rainer Brock's environment-unfriendly but ...

Leading Dirndl shop-owner and tailor Babette Feichtner was murdered in the third generation firm. Sven Hansen and Anton Stadler first suspect Babette's younger sister Evi Feichtner, who still feels cheated when bought out and recently denied a loan for her ailing rival shop. Husband Roland Feichtner, who adopted her name for commercial continuity but inherits nothing, fails to hide he was found out having an affair with regular model Nina Kerschbaumer, whom Babette furiously fired, and his secret account was accidentally discovered. A security video disproves a ...

Jonathan Pradler, the young owner of a lucrative chocolate firm, is found skull-smashed in his office. He inherited the father-founded company, at the expensive of two elder brothers, one being employed as marketing chief, the other running the affiliated chocolate restaurant. Jonathan recently dumped fiancée Lissy Garnbauer, daughter of production foreman Wolfgang Garnbauer, whom he recently gave notice. After reading the victim's journal and the crucial key card log, Hansen, Stadler and Miki work out all alibis and opportunities. Meanwhile the precinct buzzes about ...

Brewery owner Alfred Lockner's corpse is found by daughter and deputy Mareike, who unlike him wanted to modernize by designing original tastes. Her co-heir bother Timm already sold his share of late mother's half to regional big standard brewer Rolf Kuhlmey. Alfred's unfair supply contract provides local publican Charly Roth; who found him with Mareike, another motive. Constable Miki meanwhile won a trip to the Maledives in an Internet competition, just the type of potential scam HQ is campaigning against.

Bottle machines firm CEO Dr. Christian Schneiderhahn's skull is fatally smashed with a missing hammer in the villa he was buying from the heirs trough Korbinan's friend attorney Rainer Fischbach, none of his valuables at hand was stolen, but the home inventory yields a crucial surprise. Neighbour and unhappy employee Winfried Scheuner's wife Nicolette was assisting Christian comparing real estates, and started another (not so) secret affair.

Celebrity TV and Munich restaurant chef Jens Voigt is found poisoned by complimentary praline in the villa hired for a photo-shoot starring him by his endorsement sponsor, Leopold Thelen's mineral water. The team looks into the caterer, the photographers Mike and Sophie Brunner, who has access to him and chocolates while she had an affair with Jens, his surprisingly unhealthy, yet boosted finances, and even his manager, Hansens' 10 years ago Hamburg fiancee Esther Wilke. Meanwhile free tickets for a visiting London director's (not so) classical concert stir the ...

Local youngster Hans Plattner's corpse is found by a jogger in a pool, drowned, at first sight accidentally but he was dragged there after a fall that left him merely unconscious. He was partaking in a local brewery's treasure search, and brilliantly wrote short stories. His home is broken into, searching for cash. His arrogance tumultuous love-life provide additional suspects on top of actually two competitions. Meanwhile handsome Andreas Lorenz makes a painfully spectacular, yet charming entrance, only his stickler predecessor works him in most unpleasantly.

Local supermarket detective Otto Beck is found, fatally hit. Hansen's team checks out the staff, which he was secretly spying on by video camera, elaborating on a secret order by the manager, and thus found out about a secret affair between a couple he blackmailed. Max also finds a pile of suitcases from various owners in Beck's home.

Wolfgang Goetz's firm's chief aerodynamic designer Florian Riedinger dies from a fall while flying a para-glider he developed with Holger Weigel, which was sabotaged by line cutting in the workshop. The designers were secretly planning to leave and set up a rival company. Florian also had an affair with Jesscia, the wife of local prime customer Tobias Hanisch. Meanwhile Andi failed to follow procedure to take a day off due to perfect surfing weather, just now HQ stickler Felix Seitz drops unannounced for 'suggestions' about his accounting.

Peter Albert is presumably found murdered in the conference room where he was to conclude a major real estate deal with the main investor for a Hamburg bank. The widow however isn't one: his identity was stolen by incorrigible crook and womanizer Martin Liebig, picked up at the station by newly employed secretary Christiane Haeberlein. Hansen and Hofer find Liebig had a romantic date with adulteress Danielle Prager, which husband Helmut Prager discovered. After a comedy of office moving-induced errors, new precinct accountant Andy Lorenz discovers anomaly clues in the...

Just before the local beer queen pageant, finalist Natalie Prast, a gossip columnist, is found skull smashed, with illegal drugs but clean. Prime suspects are the most fanatical rival, and the organizers, a former drug trade convict and local brewer Martin Kerscher, possible motives include blackmail. 'Fake' culture attache Rupert Wagner meanwhile dates the competitor from the administrative precinct staff.

Julius Dallinger is found dead, apparently from a bike fall in the forest, in fact staged and sabotaged. He was visiting his home town, where hired, over-paid manager Gustl runs his family's furniture company, while he makes a living in the US downhill mountain-biking circuit. The cops team considers possible motives and suspects related to the furniture inheritance, fraud, competitive rivalry, infidelity and the victim's Californian wife.

Local trucker Mark Fuchs's corpse is found by foresters, behind the wheel in the forest, skull smashed, a failed staged accident due to an empty fuel tank. The shipping company's owner, with criminal record, and his son Thomas, now manager, pretend he returned empty from a car parts delivery to Italy. Widow Fuchs hides her recent affair, a forester his part in a long-term contraband plot. Meanwhile junior Andreas 'Andi' Lorenz's creative accounting saves the boss's beloved music academy from a tax office stickler.

Rich, semi-retired divorce lawyer Reiter's skull-smashed corpse is found at home by detached wife and heiress Elisabeth, whose own business is in trouble. His current client Ulrich Stegmüller was furious about an unfavorable court ruling they were appealing against, but it has twists for and involving his ex-to-be Sonja. Meanwhile publican Jo unwittingly sets up incumbent Sven against newcomer Anton, who both want the same boathouse.

Hansen worries less then the office about Korbinian (in a police seminar) being replaced by a Regensburg female interim, commissioner Verena Danner, who stays with her forensic college mate Dr. Sabine Eckstein. Biathlete Moritz Aschauer was fatally shot on the golf course of a Rosenheim club which was hosting a tournament. His buddy, Christian Bachhuber, points at championship rival Benedikt Reindl. Club physiotherapist Brigitte Schropp deals in doping, which she was blackmailed about. Aschauer had an affair with Bachhuber's girlfriend.

Rosenheim's leading chocolaterie "Praliné" owner Ralf Zauner was skull-smashed in it. Fiancée Marianne Barisch acts stunned. His talented employee Martin Richter created and produced every candy type, Zauner took credits and profits. Zauner's competitor Alois Krantz hated him for buying over Martin Richter and planning to buy and expand Krantz's rented premises. Hansen solves the case with Danner, whose planned short interim keeps being prolonged, even ministry controller Felix Seitz is on her HR case.

Local horticultural jury chairman president Paul Hieber's corpse is found in the prize dahlia border of Xaver Lippig, for years the bitter rival of neighbor Simon Mörtlbauer. The murder weapon is an expensive spade. In Hansen's absence, predecessor Tobias Hartl takes charge again. The competition provides possible motives, but also personal circumstances.

Animal conservationist Stefan Schönewald is killed in a wild river, due to his sabotaged kayak paddle, while observing beavers. Tobias Hartl and Danner look into the neighboring fruit growers, whose harvests are threatened by beaver lakes, notable Sepp Langenbach; Stefan's heiress girlfriend Giselle Marquard, whose father payed their bills, and environment official Julia Ried, who was his ex and ally in beaver conservation, and discover some surprising reports between he above, yielding potential motives.

Dirndl-designer Zenzi Schlickenrieder is fatally stabbed in her (work)shop shortly before a major fashion show. Hartl must investigate with still-stuck Danner. Prime suspects are life partner Ursel Jung, who may have found out about Zenzi's secret affair with popular model Barbara Sandner and Barbara herself, who wanted to break up but was threatened with publication of intimate pictures. Ex-con assistant designer Leonardo Ganzoli could no longer hide his criminal record.