The “Tatort” timetable is up until the New Year: There are popular teams, guest and episode stars to be seen – and the people of Munich are leaving the city.
For “Tatort” fans it is finally clear which highlights they can look forward to until the end of the year. This is the crime thriller timetable.
November 14th: “Tatort: The Cold and the Dead”, Berlin
In the new “Tatort” in Berlin, the two inspectors Nina Rubin (Meret Becker, 52) and Robert Karow (Mark Waschke, 49) look into the abyss of two families. You have to solve the murder of a young student using extraordinary means. Because parents want to protect their children – at all costs …
Actor Tan Caglar (41) will be seen for the first time in the role of the wheelchair-bound policeman Malik Aslan. It is also the penultimate thriller with Meret Becker as Commissioner Nina Rubin. Her last case with the working title “Tatort: The girl who goes home alone” will be broadcast in spring 2022. She will then be replaced by actress Corinna Harfouch (67).
November 21: “Scene of the crime: Murot and the principle of hope”, Wiesbaden
A series of murders shakes Frankfurt. Three men are shot in the neck, and there is no connection between the victims. Since there are two “non-Germans” and one homeless person, one suspects a perpetrator from the right-wing milieu at first. But Commissioner Murot (Ulrich Tukur, 64) from the LKA Wiesbaden has another suspicion. He believes that the two first murders were only intended to make the whole thing look like a series of murders, while the perpetrator was really only interested in the third victim: Jochen Muthesius, a former philosophy professor with whom Murot also studied.
The annual Murot crime thriller is coming up. And not only crime fans can look forward to the battle between the actors Ulrich Tukur and Lars Eidinger (45, “Tatort: Borowski and the silent guest”) in a leading role in the episode.
November 28: “Tatort: Masken”, Dortmund
Next up is Dortmund: 28-year-old Nicolas Schlüter (Daniel Kötter) does not come back from his morning jogging session: a car hit the police chief. Commissioners Peter Faber (Jörg Hartmann, 52), Martina Bönisch (Anna Schudt, 47), Rosa Herzog (Stefanie Reinsperger, 33) and Jan Pawlak (Rick Okon, 32) investigate in all directions – including at the police station in Dortmund-Hörde . There Bönisch meets an old friend from the police school, head of the watch, Katrin Steinmann (Anne Ratte-Polle, 47). As it turns out, in the weeks before his death, Schlueter had the doctor Dr. Johannes Oberschläger (Simon Böer) in his sights, who teaches men in his seminars how to appeal to as many women as possible.
According to the screenwriters Arnd Mayer and Claudia Matschulla, the crime thriller is about those “‘masks’ that people put on in order to meet the expectations of friends, work colleagues and our entire area of life”. Only with a few people do you let go of your mask. Ideally, it is possible in the family, with the partner. “But sometimes not there either.”
December 5th: “Police call 110: Hermann”, Brandenburg / Poland
Chief Detective Adam Raczek (Lucas Gregorowicz, 45) is called to Słubice, where the body of a civil engineer was found while disposing of building rubble. The investigation leads him to a construction site in Cottbus. The victim worked there for Karl Winkler (Sven-Eric Bechtolf), who is renovating an entire block of houses as part of a large building project. At first it is unclear where and why the woman died. What is certain is that her apartment in Frankfurt (Oder) was searched shortly before her death.
In the only “Polizeiruf 110” of the rest of the year, Chief Detective Raczek investigated after Olga Lenski (Maria Simon, 45) had resigned. Probably in the next Brandenburg-Poland crime thriller, actor André Kaczmarczyk (35) will join as an additional commissioner.
December 12th: “Tatort: And the night always wins”, Bremen
The body of a brutally murdered man is found in the harbor. Inspector Liv Moormann (Jasna Fritzi Bauer, 32) and BKA investigator Linda Selb (Luise Wolfram, 34) find out that the deceased was a doctor with great ideals. The policewomen meet suspects who all have a lot to hide. The crew of a freighter anchored next to the crime scene are also persistently silent. This is the mission for the Dane Mads Andersen (Dar Salim, 44), who tries to get on the freighter and get more information. But he can neither convince the captain nor the crew – the situation escalates and Andersen is in serious danger …
The thriller by director Oliver Hirschbiegel (63, “Der Untergang”) is the second case of the still quite new Bremen team. So one of the exciting questions is: Can Moormann, Sleb and Salim win a place in the hearts of “Tatort” fans?
December 19: “Tatort: Miracles always happen”, Munich
The investigation into a murder case leads the Munich commissioners Ivo Batic (Miroslav Nemec, 67) and Franz Leitmayr (Udo Wachtveitl, 63) to Dannerberg in the foothills of the Alps. Most recently, the dead auditor had to do there in a nunnery. The godly life, however, only seems contemplative at first glance. The evidence that the caretaker of the monastery was involved in the act quickly grew. But what is the motive? No less irritating are two ambassadors from Rome who are carrying out their own investigations parallel to Batic and Leitmayr. Do the nuns want to cover up their own misconduct? And do other wondrous secrets lurk behind the monastery walls?
When this thriller is broadcast, it will be just six weeks since the Munich team investigated between dream research and the orchestral world in the heart of Munich. So now it’s back to the country. Among other things, the commissioners in “Tatort: Free Land” (2018) moved to the east of Lower Bavaria on the Czech border. Another special feature: the future Berlin investigator Corinna Harfouch can be seen in a leading role in the episode; She plays sister Barbara in the Munich crime thriller.
December 26th: “Tatort: Everything is coming back”, Göttingen
Commissioner Charlotte Lindholm (Maria Furtwängler, 55) travels privately from Göttingen to Hamburg to meet secretly with a man in a hotel. But he is dead when she arrives – and Lindholm urgently suspect. Was the murderer one of the Udo Lindenberg doppelgangers who are currently populating the hotel because of a casting? Lindholm does not trust her fellow police officers in Hamburg and continues to investigate on her own. In doing so, she comes across clues that the murder may have been a trap. An act of revenge on the Commissioner?
In the thriller on Christmas Day – this time also a Sunday – by cult director Detlev Buck (58, “Bibi & Tina”), a very special guest star will be seen: musician Udo Lindenberg (75) plays himself. Anne Ratte is also among others -Polle (see “Tatort: Masken”) as Jana Zimmermann and “Sommerhaus der Stars” participant Jana Pallaske (42) as Uschi in the cast – Buck also slips into the role of Einstein.
The year 2022 begins with two question marks
The New Year’s thriller, which falls on a Saturday (January 1st) this year, is still a big secret – and so is the first regular Sunday thriller of the New Year on January 2nd, 2022.