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Anniversaries are coming up for these three teams
The Cologne “Tatort” team is celebrating its 25th anniversary next year.
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The “Tatort” teams from Münster, Cologne and Dortmund will each celebrate an anniversary next year. This is what the fans can expect.
Eight thrillers for the anniversary. In the coming year the “Tatort” teams from Münster, Cologne and Dortmund will celebrate an anniversary. The Cologne commissioners Max Ballauf (Klaus J. Behrendt, 61) and Freddy Schenk (Dietmar Bär, 60) started their investigative work 25 years ago. Commissioner Frank Thiel (Axel Prahl, 61) has been investigating in Münster for 20 years with the support of Prof. Karl-Friedrich Boerne (Jan Josef Liefers, 57). And the Dortmund “Tatort” team around Peter Faber (Jörg Hartmann, 51) and Martina Bönisch (Anna Schudt, 47) has been with us again for ten years.
Eight films for the anniversaries
For all fans of the three teams, eight films are on the program in 2022, as WDR announced on Monday, six of them even in the first quarter. It starts on January 2nd with the “Tatort: Greed and Fear” from Dortmund. The 40th Münster “Tatort: The Devil’s Long Breath” follows on January 16. The thriller “Four Years” from Cologne will be broadcast on February 6th. On February 20th, the Dortmund crime thriller “Tatort: Love me!” The episode “Tatort: Propheteus” from Münster is on the program on March 6th. And on March 27th, the people of Cologne will investigate again in the “Tatort: Hubertys Vengeance”.
In addition, in the second half of the year there are also the Sunday crime novels “Right to whom right is due” (Münster) and “Die Spur des Blutes” (Cologne).
Three autumn birthdays
However, all three teams will not celebrate their specific birthday until autumn: The three WDR teams each solved their first cases in September / October. Ballauf and Schenk started on October 5, 1997, and Thiel and Boerne on October 20, 2002. Faber, Böhnisch and Co. started work on September 23, 2012. The WDR will celebrate the special birthdays with an extensive accompanying program that is currently still being planned.