Tatort

- Season 54

(2022)

The morning after an insurance company's Christmas party, an employee lies dead in the foyer. Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz reconstruct the evening.

The manager Josef Micklitza found a body with a gunshot wound in the Dortmund harbor area late in the evening. The dead man is his financial advisor Claus Lembach.

Inspector Thiel wakes up in a hotel room and has lost the memory of last night. His former boss is found dead nearby.

Chief Inspector Leo Hölzer and Chief Inspector Pia Heinrich find the body of Cora Reuters in a villa in the best residential area.

Carolin and Moritz Seitz were once known as a successful couple of actors. But today she is considered the wife of a murderer: four years ago, Moritz Seitz was convicted of killing the former theater star Thore Bärwald after an excessive New Year's Eve party. Now Ole Stark turns himself in to the police. He is also an actor and claims to be the real killer. The public prosecutor's office cannot initiate new investigations, but they give Ballauf and Schenk a week to find out what is true about the story that is being served to them.

Former police officer Benno Rose was stabbed. Before his death, he had tried several times to contact Sara Manzer.

Feline Wagner disappeared a year ago, a friend reported her missing at the time. Now her body is found by chance in a burial forest while preparing for an urn burial. A dispute at the site distracts Faber: It can hardly be overheard that inspector Bönisch and the KTU specialist Sebastian Haller are already fighting their private quarrel on duty again. Observing that Martina Bönisch's emotional life is a burden on herself and her work does not leave Faber indifferent. Rosa Herzog and Jan Pawlak contact the Ihle funeral home: the gravesite was reserved here a few days ...

Carnival in Munich. The body of a 70-year-old man is found on a staircase on the banks of the Isar. A first trace leads to "Irmis Stüberl", where the man apparently had an argument with a costumed carnival guest. The most important witness of the argument is a "Little Red Riding Hood", who is clearly too drunk to be questioned that evening. Batic and Leitmayr therefore take it with them without further ado. Silke Weinzierl, as "Little Red Riding Hood" is called, is very annoyed the next morning. She obviously slept really badly in the detox cell. No, she doesn't know ...

What starts out as a "normal" murder investigation continues to spread: the shopaholic Magnus Rosponi is found dead in his apartment. But neither his happy bowling friends nor Silke Haller, who recognizes a youth heartthrob in the dead man, can explain why the popular man had to die. Instead, Professor Boerne finds a strange, small object in the corpse. Thiel discovers amorous entanglements at the same time. And when the protection of the constitution appears in the shady characters Muster and Mann, it becomes absurd. Apparently, Thiel and Boerne stabbed a wasp's nest...

In an abandoned factory building, cosmetic surgeon Beat Gessner came across the corpse of his son Max, wrapped as if in a cocoon. Tessa Ott and Isabelle Grandjean discovered that the corpse not only had tattoos on the face, but also on the cornea of the eyes. The shocked father reports that he has not had any contact with his son for a long time. Initial investigations lead the inspectors to a sectarian artists' commune. This is led by the charismatic Kyomi. Her "disciples" are exactly like the deceased Max: shaved head, tattoos on the face and cornea - an incredibly ...

Falke and Grosz are entrusted with a delicate task under strict discretion: 17-year-old Juan Mendez has disappeared from a fine boarding school where celebrities and elites from business and politics have their children educated. Juan's father is the ambassador of an authoritarian country whose president is about to pay a state visit to Germany. The questionable despot is known for having members of the opposition and journalists arrested and tortured. While Juan's girlfriend Hanna has the worst fears, his best friend August suspects that the boy just wants to avoid ...

Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk are on duty on the banks of the Rhine in the early morning. A man's body was washed up here. He was a mechanic on board a pleasure boat and apparently involved in a fight shortly before his death. When Chief Inspector Schenk contacts the captain of the "Agrippina", the case takes a dramatic turn: on board the ship that has just cast off is Daniel Huberty, a former high school teacher, who is now threatening: "I will take the ship in blow up if you don't comply with my demands." He demands justice. It did not exist in the court case when ...

Eisner and Fellner are called to a crystal clear case: two bodies and a perpetrator who alerts the police himself and waits for the investigators at the crime scene. Murder weapon, motive and factual confession included. Murder out of jealousy, a paraded husband who lost his nerve. Everything could have gone so "smoothly" if the country's most cunning lawyer hadn't taken on the defense of the accused and obtained an acquittal. Shortly thereafter, the lawyer himself ends up on the autopsy table - and the acquitted disappears without a trace. To top it all off, Inkasso ...

In the middle of the night, a young couple calls the police. In a forest on the outskirts of Frankfurt, the two discovered a woman's body. But when chief inspectors Anna Janneke and Paul Brix arrive, the body is gone. A car registered to Maria Gombrecht was observed near the suspected crime scene. Although the car has also disappeared, massive traces of blood indicate that Maria was the victim of a crime. Confronted with this fact, the husband Ulrich Gombrecht and the two daughters Kristina and Judith continue to cling to the fact that Maria is in France for a fast ...

The young IT specialist Lukas Keller is brutally murdered near his sports club for no apparent motive.

Nine-year-old Marlon is found dead at his school. He was pushed down the stairs and shows signs of a previous fight. Lena Odenthal and Johanna Stern soon noticed that this death caused ambivalent reactions at school: Marlon's conspicuous behavior made him an outsider who pushed his teachers, his own parents and also those of his classmates to their limits. It is depressing for the detectives that in Marlon's surroundings there is almost more relief than sadness about his death. Lena and Johanna are all the more dependent on Marlon's only friend Pit and his only adult ...

A headless male body is recovered from the Spree, whose identity is difficult to establish. A little later, Nina Rubin is being followed by a young woman. Julie Bolshakov tells the detective that she witnessed a murder and asks Rubin for police protection. She knew the dead man from the Spree, he had revealed to her that her husband Yasha is a leading member of the Russian mafia in Berlin. Rubin decides to help the young woman and tells the detective director. Julie wants to be included in a witness protection program if she can produce incriminating material about ...

A woman's body is found in her wedding dress

A wife initially disappears without a trace from her house, which was obviously broken into. Traces of blood suggest the worst. Her husband Simon Fischer called the police, but then left the house. Gorniak, Winkler and Schnabel initiate a large-scale search for Kathrin Fischer. The desperate Fischer himself quickly becomes the focus of the investigations: the traces in the house were manipulated, apparently the break-in was faked - but the forensic technicians found older remains of blood ... Neighbors and colleagues give different information, but there are ...

When Julia Grosz' friend Ela, who infiltrated Hamburg's left-wing autonomous scene as an undercover investigator, disappears without a trace, Grosz goes in search of her. Under a false identity, she enters the hedonistic, liberal milieu in which her friend seems to have lost herself.

Alois Meininger is released from prison after more than 30 years in prison for murder. Shortly thereafter, he commits another murder and goes into hiding. Ivo Batic and Leitmayr try to get help from his former therapist - but he is now suffering from dementia.

Bibiana Dubinski, best ager, wealthy and determined to enjoy life for as long as possible, dies of insulin shock. Her close friend Charlotte Mühlen, less wealthy but recently happily in love with young Hannes Petzold, inherits the villa and fortune. Two friends in the so-called prime of life, one rich, the other heiress, plus a 30-year-old ex-con who is ensnaring the heiress - is it experience, instinct or a fallacy that all the alarm bells are ringing for Ellen Berlinger? She is convinced that a crime has happened and suspects Hannes Petzold. But the evidence is not ...

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