Pfarrer Braun

- Season 1

(2003)

Guido Braun, a hedonistic reverend from Bavaria, is once more transferred by his irate bishop for repeated venturing in 'criminalizing' (sleuthing), in this case worsened by toying with the seal of confession to get his headstrong housekeeper's knavish son Armin out of prison. This time he's posted as curate in the mainly Lutheran northern isle Nordersand, a poor parish, unappealing to him or his company. Barely settling in, Braun suspects the sudden death of rich wheelchair widow Helene Groenewold to be a murder, seeking a motive in her local ornithology foundation's...

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Grudgingly, father Braun's gang takes up his now post, a parish in the predominantly Protestant Harz region. He's fascinated by the archaeological dig in the Bangeroder Stiftskirche and befriends charismatic Restaurator Manuel Castelnuovo, who helps him dodge a diet, but dies from mysterious poison. Braun duly mistrusts Geiger's ability to work it if it has anything to do with the dug-up provost's tomb curse, or with Egyptian artifacts and a virus, so he digs into various parishioners past and present.

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Grateful bishop Hemmelrath posts father Braun in an idyllic rose-growing Rhine town. His maid and her son seem to find love there. Braun smells murder when the local Baron Falkenberg and his sons seem to be suffering the fatal results of a course which would see their family extinct and the castle fall to another. Braun wins his bet with police commissioner Geiger to finds the motives for recent and older events to come up with a surprising key suspect.

Shortly after father Braun arrives in his new parish Pfaffenberg, a Catholic stronghold in the former Saxon GDR part, the grand rectory, alas object of several tours a day, becomes a crime scene as Spanish guide Rosa is murdered and suspicion falls on her lover, Czech colleague Matje, whom Braun grants church asylum. Local police, ex-GDR, refuses so examine other angles and cocky but clumsy commissioner Geiger can't handle them, so Braun takes the case, assisted by devout acolyte Johannes Kurig. They find alternative motives, establish opportunity and set a trap. .

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To cash a huge legacy from a late millionaire whoa admired Braun as a detective, the bishop grudgingly posts him in the ailing Catholic parish of her Saxon birth town in the former GDR, dominated by hostile Lutherans. She also left a secret letter requesting he investigates the suspicious death of her late husband, founder of the hotel that made their family fortune. A new murder follows.

Bishop Hemmelrath transfers Pfarrer Braun to Franken, for a 'real Bavarian' like him a renegade region as it left the 'free state'. The parish town, Kurdorf, boast a miraculous bleeding and weeping Jesus-image carved in a cliff, which becomes a pilgrimage site. Braun stumbles onto the corpse of local reporter Manuel Kullmann, which has stigmata. Shortly after, the Vatican fact finder's corpse is also found. Braun mistrusts the votive exploitation and preacher, proves the miracle fake and discovers more local secrets.

Father Braun must rush to the death bed of countess Marietta of Junkersdorf in Frankenland, diverted from his housekeeper Margot's modest farmer inheritance, shared with a country stepsister. But the aristocrat expects to be betrothed to butler and recently re-found youth love Max, mainly to spite her gold-digging kin. Braun finds himself in a wasps nest including the majordomo Butzke, who falls to his death, and shortly after the suspiciously dying groom, while the countess offers forensic help. Braun digs into older secrets.

Father Braun had his doubts about the honor to supervise as celebrant the professing of novices in a posh female Benedictine nunnery, feeling lady abbots are never to be trusted, even before crime strikes. Lurking around the abbey, private detective Hermann Rammstet photographed Braun's naughty 'altar boy' Armin's romantic meetings with novice Anna, but spying one such night on Armin, Braun discovers Rammstet's knife-pierced corpse at the monastery wall. Braun is declared sole prime suspect, costing 50.000 Euro bail while the ambitious state attorney and his assistant...

Father Braun is transferred as curate in Potsdam's St. Cassian parish. Local rabbi Chaijm Seelig is absurdly the prime suspect of the blunt murder of a gentile gardener whose corpse is found in the synagogue. The victim's firm Kruschke bitterly rivals Jewish colleague Adam Grün's but secretly worked on re-breeding a priceless extinct black tulip, which ties to a Dutch murder. Discovering heirs from the rival families, both after the monumental Sansouci royal palace garden contract, have secretly fallen in love, priest and rabbi support such reconciliation key, yet ...

Curate Braun to a protestant stronghold in Havelland. In The his Lutheran counterpart, pastor Lehmkuhl, dies from eating a poisoned pear past-out to the faithful in traditional honor of the town's legendary, alas missing ancient pear tree, crucial to a local developer's hotel project. Braun finds out about the Lehmkuhl family's dark secrets and the tree, thus crossing the monsignor's mission to negotiate about the potentially lucrative old church.

Braun is transferred to Saarland wine village St. Florian, which is dominated since long by semi-secret society of seven hereditary winery 'queens'. Fishing, he discovers the corpse of drowned old wine grower Konz. The villagers' prime suspect is millionaire Rose Assmann, who left to marry a GDR citizen and presumably stole part of its missing state funds. Geiger and Brauns also dig into her claim to the town's by far most prestigious winery, which belonged to her family until her communist 'treason'.

Bishop Hemmelrath transfers father Braun to St. Florian, a poor parish in the Saarland's derelict mining region. The local 'Palomas' men choir is linked with the keeping of pigeons, who also deliver quite some love - (to Braun's maid Margot) and other notes. Shortly after, chorister Adolf Zwickel and a local Casanova suspiciously fall to their deaths. Meanwhile the bishop's ambitious deputy, monsignor Mühlich, traced to the parish the pigeon which delivered a ransom note for a huge, precious, obviously stolen church treasure, so he's sent to pay it discretely. Only ...

Bishop Hemmelrath hopes to pose as a missionary to the Protestant north by having a late curate on an Ostee island canonized. He sends Braun there as new parish priest. Alas, he soon finds there was a murder committed in the sleepy town, which now gets a scandal press. It all relates to a lost son returning to his father after a dark GDR episode.

Luxurious bishop Hemmelrath urgently needs more income, but the new electronic donation system isn't yielding serious money. The only exception is a female donor in father Braun's new parish, a fashionable spa near the Polish border. Vicar Mühlich identifies her as an industry heiress using a fake name and is dispatched to help Braun get half a million Euros out of her. In the spa, petty ex-con Klaas Wittek is killed during a nightly motorbike ride by a hidden cable. Commissioner Geiger has to handle the case jointly with his Polish colleague Stanislaw Kowalsky, as ...

Bishop Hemmelrath's sycophantic deputy Mühlich's seminary friend died of a cardiac arrest in his parish, a castle outside Passau. It's only the first of several, each corresponding to an original Grimm brothers rhyme about the seven dwarfs. Mühlich arranges for Braun to be named to that parish and enlists his retainer Armin to train him in martial arts, supposedly as episcopal bodyguard. The victims include banker Zapf and a museum director, both involved in a grim intrigue about the priceless original Grimm manuscripts, which ruthless thieves are after while rivaling...

Bishop Hemmelrath lost a fortune, like many private persons, in bad investments trough Bernie Blumenfeld, alas donations of the faithful. So he and monsignor Mühlich send delighted Braun as new curate to Bernie's Bavarian home town. The prelates soon check in the town's hotel after hearing Blumenfeld was found dead in the historical torture room, part of the luxury rest home, where some near-ruined investors tried to extract the whereabouts of the money. Braun sends his housemaid in, posing as a new pensioner guest. Home nurse Margarete Halfinger is murdered too.

Bishop Hemmelrath hastily sends father Braun to the Bavarian home village of concert violinist Bridget Murrag after the Stradivarius, part of the cathedral treasure, she has on loan, was stolen from her artist's lodge. Police commissioner Geiger enjoys the ride, counting on Braun to crack the case. Bridget, a career bitch who planned to move to England, drag her boy along and dump him i a boarding school instead of letting devoted father and grandfather apprentice him as string instrument maker, is murdered shortly after, strangled with a harp string.

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