“Crime Scene” and “Police Call 110”
What can we expect from Sunday thrillers in 2024?
With “Tatort: Avatar”, Annalena Schmidt and Peter Espeloer say goodbye to the Lena Odenthal “Tatort”, in which they played the secretary Ms. Keller and the forensic scientist Peter Becker for decades.
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This time the Sunday crime thriller opener in 2024 marked a farewell. But what else can fans expect from “Tatort” and “Polizeiruf 110”?
January 7th: “Crime Scene: Avatar”, Ludwigshafen
And in the next Sunday thriller it’s time to say goodbye again. Annalena Schmidt (72) played Mrs. Keller for 25 years, first as the detective’s receptionist, then as a co-investigator. And actor Peter Espeloer (63) played forensics expert Peter Becker in around 70 “crime scenes” for 25 years. Both characters say goodbye to their well-deserved retirement.
January 14th: “Crime Scene: Pyramid”, Cologne
Afterwards, a classic and good pyramid scheme crime thriller, which is told as a big flashback, is on the program. “When it comes to a criminal case, in addition to solving it, we are at least just as interested in how the crime occurred in the first place. Because the prehistory is where the drama lies, which exposes the human abyss or the need and desperation that lead to a murder,” they explain Screenwriters Arne Nolting and Jan Martin Scharf.
January 21st: “Crime Scene: Torn”, Stuttgart
Screenwriter Sönke Lars Neuwöhner explains what’s special about this crime thriller as follows: “Already in our Stuttgart ‘Crime Scene: The Man Who Lies’ [2018] we shifted the focus: away from the question of who the murderer was; to the question of what it really means to be considered the murderer.”
January 28th: “Crime Scene: The Curse of Money”, Saarland
In the new film by the four-piece from Saarland, the sensible Leo Hölzer (Vladimir Burlakov, 36) reaches his limits. “The special thing is that Leo sheds more and more of his supposed virtues and takes on characteristics of Adam [Schürk, Daniel Sträßer, 36] while he takes on responsibility and suddenly looks after his friend,” explains director Christian Theede.
February 4th: “Crime Scene: The Prodigy”, Munich
What follows is a prison crime film worth seeing that was filmed in the Landshut JVA. “I was particularly impressed by the reaction of the vast majority of prisoners, who were not only extremely disciplined, but also a little ‘proud’ of the filming,” reveals the head of the correctional facility, Andreas Stoiber, to the broadcaster.
February 11th: “Crime Scene: Ghost Tour”, Göttingen
With this crime thriller there is another farewell, the farewell to Göttingen as a filming location and the farewell to the Lindholm/Schmitz team. Both Commissioner Charlotte Lindholm (Maria Furtwängler, 57), who returns to the LKA in Hanover after six assignments outside, and co-investigator Anaïs Schmitz (Florence Kasumba, 47) remain in the “crime scene” cosmos.
Kasumba still has a crossover case – “Crime Scene: The Coldest Machine” (2025) – with federal police officer Thorsten Falke (Wotan Wilke Möhring, 56). It is not known whether she will then be the long-term replacement for the aforementioned Commissioner Julia Grosz. But there should be a replacement.
More goodbyes
For the team from Frankfurt am Main, Anna Janneke and Paul Brix, the last “crime scene” is also coming up this crime year. However, it is not yet known when that will happen. The finale for Wolfram Koch (61) and Margarita Broich (63) has the picturesque title “It’s so green when Frankfurt’s mountains bloom.”
The same applies to actor Rick Okon (34), he will also say goodbye to the Dortmund branch this year. His last film will be shown in spring 2024. Jörg Hartmann (54) and Stefanie Reinsperger (35) continue to investigate their roles as Peter Faber and Rosa Herzog as a duo.
It has not yet been possible to determine which “Polizeiruf 110” highlights fans can expect in 2024.