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Scene of the Crime : Season 56
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Air date: 01 Jan '25 - 36 episodesTatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF 2 in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland. The first episode was broadcast on November 29, 1970. The opening sequence for the series has remained the same throughout the decades, which remains highly unusual for any such long-running TV series up to date. Each of the regional TV channels which together form ARD, plus ORF and SF, produces its own episodes, starring its own police inspector, some of which, like the discontinued Schimanski, have become cultural icons. The show appears on DasErste and ORF 2 on Sundays at 8:15 p.m. and currently about 30 episodes are made per year. As of March 2013, 865 episodes in total have been produced. Tatort is currently being broadcast in the United States on the MHz Worldview channel under the name Scene of the Crime.
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List of Episodes (36)
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1. Episode 1
01 Jan '25Paul is kidnapped in the street. An attentive neighbor is killed by the kidnapper before she can give a statement. The parents receive a ransom demand, but detectives Lena Odenthal and Johanna Stern determine that it is a diversionary tactic. The case is strikingly similar to a kidnapping nine years ago, in which Swen, who was nine years old at the time, was released after months of captivity, apparently unscathed, but the perpetrator has not yet been identified. Swen seems to have survived the
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2. Episode 2
05 Jan '25Collecting debts is his job. And Fabian Pavlou is very good at it. He is considered one of the most successful field staff at the international company Correct Inkasso. But now Pavlou was brutally attacked on his way home. When the inspectors Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk arrive at the crime scene, there is no trace of the victim. Did one of the debtors the debt collection manager recently dealt with take revenge - or did he see no other way out? For example, there is the tax clerk Stefanie
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3. Episode 3
12 Jan '25In a rental property in Kiel, Klaus Borowski and his colleague Mila Sahin find 40-year-old insurance clerk Andrea Gonzor shot dead on her bed. Andrea Gonzor had apparently invited people to an erotic party that evening. Numerous traces of semen around the dead woman indicate that the victim had apparently had several sexual partners that night. There are traces of alcohol and tranquilizers in her blood, but there is no evidence of a sexual crime. Borowski and Sahin delve into the world of sex
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4. Episode 4
19 Jan '25Sebastian Bootz is among the guests at a film premiere in Stuttgart when the screen suddenly goes black and a man and a woman threaten the audience with guns. Panic breaks out, several people manage to flee, shots are fired - and a security guard lies dead on the ground. When Sebastian Bootz grabs his gun to stop the hostage takers, he is threatened and shoots the man. But the perpetrators are not deterred. Bootz is disarmed and, along with the remaining guests, becomes hostage of the two
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5. Episode 5
26 Jan '25Saarbrücken, deep in the night. An explosion shatters the silence. Sleepless Chief Inspector Pia Heinrich is the first on the scene: a security guard was killed in a brutal robbery of an armored car. When Chief Inspectors Leo Hölzer and Adam Schürk arrive, they are presented with a disturbing scene left behind by a massive explosion. What does the number sprayed on the street mean? Does a trail lead to an internationally wanted criminal gang in neighboring France? Chief Inspector Esther
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6. Episode 6
02 Feb '25Janusz disappears during a high school graduation party. Marlin, a classmate, calls the police to report him dead before he himself is run over on a country road. Since evidence suggests a violent crime, Leonie Winkler, Karin Gorniak and their boss Schnabel from the Dresden Criminal Investigation Department begin searching for the student and investigating. His classmates remain silent - no one claims to have seen or heard from Janusz again.
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7. Episode 7
16 Feb '25In broad daylight, a man is shot dead from a great distance by a sniper in the center of Berlin, near the Friedrichstrasse subway station. Susanne Bonard and Robert Karow are under pressure - and under observation: Preparations are underway for a major state visit to Berlin and the Senator for the Interior is worried about the murder. Public Prosecutor Taghavi demands that the matter be clarified as quickly as possible.
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8. Episode 8
02 Mar '25An unknown dead woman is found in a derelict military vehicle. Leitmayr, Batic and Hammermann discover that a vehicle is missing from a nearby army base. The dead woman was obviously employed as a "civilian on the battlefield" for a NATO maneuver that is currently taking place. Together with Military Police Officer Jennifer Miller, the detectives not only find the crime scene, but also another dead person on the premises. Given the maneuver, the police have little time to solve the murder case.
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9. Episode 9
09 Mar '25Techno, ecstasy and party, party, party: In the 1990s, Christian, Meike and René were part of the scene and celebrated above the rooftops of Cologne in the legendary "Colonius". It has been around 30 years since the three last saw each other. Now they are brought together by inspectors Ballauf and Schenk after their former friend, the former scene photographer Alex Schmitz, was found murdered in his apartment. He was also a regular at the "Colonius" - has his past caught up with him? A trail on
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10. Borowski and the Head of Medusa
16 Mar '25With only days left until his retirement, Borowski uncovers a chilling case linked to a dark house. As he investigates, he's stalked by a killer who anticipates his every move, all while racing against time before his career ends.
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11. The big fear
23 Mar '25It's hot, it's crowded – pregnant Nina and her husband Sven are under stress as they board the cable car that will take them from the summit to the valley. During the ride, Nina gets into an argument with one of the passengers. This escalates into a scuffle. When the gondola arrives at the valley station, the man is dead.
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12. Siding
30 Mar '25Ira Klasnić wants Rosa Herzog and Peter Faber to investigate a fatal hit-and-run. But it quickly becomes clear that there may be more to the story. The victim, Angela Herrig, is the ex-girlfriend of suspected clan member Lorik Duka. Did he have a score to settle with her? According to Dr. Greta Leitner's autopsy report, the driver must have hit her head-on at high speed. Suddenly, an old acquaintance appears on the scene: Ira Klasnić has called in Inspector Daniel Kossik from the State
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13. Fiderallala
06 Apr '25Chief Inspector Frank Thiel and Professor Karl-Friedrich Boerne are confronted with a student case that puts their professional and personal relationships to the test. After a party at the Münster Medical Faculty, where Chief Inspector Frank Thiel and Professor Karl-Friedrich Boerne were also celebrating more or less wildly, the body of student Chris Haffmeister is discovered. He died from a mysterious stab wound. During the autopsy, forensic pathologist Boerne quickly determines that Chris
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14. Knife
13 Apr '25At Chef André Brauer's Viennese gourmet restaurant "Efeukron," knives are sharpened every day—literally for cooking, but also proverbially for each other. While the well-heeled clientele dines in refined style, a toxic working atmosphere and military morals prevail in Brauer's kitchen: If someone in the "brigade" falls, the next person in the hierarchy moves up! When the egomaniacal boss is found stabbed to death in front of his home after a drinking session with his team and without his
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15. Madness
21 Apr '25A knife attacker kills two people in Hanover under the cover of a dense crowd. The nationwide investigation team, including Chief Inspectors Thorsten Falke and Anaïs Schmitz, faces a difficult task: There is no trace of the perpetrator. And there is a danger that he will strike again. To gather possible clues, the decision is made to use the innovative software KROISOS. After a comprehensive data analysis, the program quickly presents a likely perpetrator: the mentally ill René Kowalski. His
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16. Zugzwang
27 Apr '25The world's top chess players gather for a tournament in the Alps: seven men and one woman. The "Queen," Natalie Laurent, is brilliant, provocative, and possibly a cheat, which has earned her many enemies in the male-dominated world of chess. When Laurent's second falls to her death from the roof of the luxury resort, many hypotheses arise: Was a misogynist at work? Was a complicity being silenced? Or did she take her own life? During the ongoing tournament, Leitmayr, Batic, and Hammermann must
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17. As long as you breath
11 May '25When a body washes up on a beach on the Weser River, Bremen investigators Linda Selb and Liv Moormann are faced with a mystery. Initially, there are no clues as to the body's identity. In the course of their investigation, the detectives not only encounter stalking perpetrators and victims, but also explosive investigative research and toxic addictions. Meanwhile, Rani Ewers is living a nightmare: Her ex-boyfriend Marek Kolschak is lurking everywhere for the single mother and her daughter Mia
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18. We can't be grasped!
01 Jun '25There is unrest in Vienna's city center: An angry protest march attempts to storm the government district, leaving one demonstrator dead in the street: Jakob Volkmann, a front-row participant. Major Bibi Fellner and her colleague Moritz Eisner take over the delicate murder investigation.
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19. Fire
09 Jun '25Meike Gebken is found dead. She had been living in a women's shelter with her young daughter for four weeks. But what is the motive for the crime? To find out, Rosa Herzog goes undercover in the women's shelter.
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20. Rapunzel
15 Jun '25Vanessa Tomasi is hanging from a treetop – one side of her long blonde hair has been shaved off! In a nearby bunker. Detectives Grandjean and Ott, along with public prosecutor Wegenast, find the body and discover traces of a horrific.
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21. I see you
14 Sep '25The discovery of a body raises questions: The man, missing for two years, was buried two meters deep in the earth in the floodplain near Nuremberg. Andreas Schönfeld, a 37-year-old bicycle dealer at the time of his death, was considered friendly and popular with his neighbors, yet Franconian investigators discover that he had no close friends. Chief Inspector Felix Voss - in his first case without his long-time partner Paula Ringelhahn, but strongly supported by Wanda Goldwasser and his current
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22. Ventricular fibrillation
28 Sep '25Several people died of cardiac arrest almost simultaneously on a Saturday morning in Zurich and the surrounding area. The cause was electric shock from implanted defibrillators (ICDs), whose manufacturer had fallen victim to a cyberattack. Hackers are demanding a ransom in the hundreds of millions of euros for a digital key that will get the company's computers working again! Detectives Isabelle Grandjean and Tessa Ott are under extreme pressure as reports of further deaths keep coming in.
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23. Darkness
05 Oct '25Frankfurt Commissioners Hamza Kulina and Maryam Azadi encounter unexplained murders in the archives of old police cases and discover links to a former serial killer who led a seemingly normal life.
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24. Seven Sleepers
12 Oct '25After running away from the youth home “Seven Sleepers”, 16-year-old Lilly is found dead in a lake. Her boyfriend Pascal is missing. Investigators Winkler and Schnabel are encountering conflicting statements in the home – and another crime is about to happen soon.
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25. Last harvest
26 Oct '25In the Altes Land region, Romanian farmer Victor, a temporary farmer, was beheaded. Local police officer Olaf Gerke assumes it was a fatal accident involving agricultural machinery. But Charlotte Lindholm doesn't quite believe this. Following her instinct, she rents a vacant room on the organic farm where the victim last worked. Little by little, she delves into the complex psychological profile of the farming family and uncovers toxic relationships between them.
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