Episode 1
Episode 1
1h 30m8.5 / 10
Episode credits
Guest stars Manfred Krug, Charles Brauer, Joachim Bliese, Ursula Heyer, Siegfried W. Kernen, Marita Marschall, Christian Brückner, Christiane Carstens
TV series
Scene of the Crime
197057 seasons6.2 / 10
Tatort 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 in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
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Checked Sep 5, 2026
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Synopsis
Tatort 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 in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
Season 21 episodes
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Episode 2
Episode 2
1h 30m10.0 / 10
Episode credits
Directed by Heinz SchirkWritten by Heinz SchirkGuest stars Hans Peter Korff, Karin Baal, Loni von Friedl, Jale Arıkan, Liesel Christ, Maria Körber, Thomas Ahrens, Josef Baum
Episode 3
Episode 3
1h 30m7.0 / 10
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Directed by Urs EggerWritten by Urs Egger, Johannes BösigerGuest stars Marita Breuer, Fritz Lichtenhahn, Hannelore Elsner, Mathias Gnädinger, Andrea Zogg, Peter Arens, Nikolas Lansky, Katharina Schütz
Episode 4
Episode 4
1h 30m4.5 / 10
Jochen Bähr, department head in a pharmaceutical company, is found shot dead in his boat early on a Sunday morning. At the crime scene is his young son Thomas, who is in shock and unable to speak. Schimanski, who needs the boy's statement, tries to break his encapsulation. He has initial success - then Thomas is kidnapped under the eyes of the inspector.
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Directed by Peter CarpentierWritten by Chiem van HouweningeGuest stars Chiem van Houweninge, Christoph Bantzer, Rolf Becker, Gerhard Olschewski, Nikolai Bury, Heidemarie Wenzel, Eberhard Feik, Götz George
Episode 5
Episode 5
1h 30m7.0 / 10
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Directed by Martin GiesWritten by Martin GiesGuest stars Ulrike Folkerts, Nele Mueller-Stöfen, Jürgen Vogel, Heinz Hoenig, Michael Schreiner, Ulrich Gebauer, Hans-Günter Martens, Lorenz Weisz
Episode 6
Zabou
1h 30m8.0 / 10
Schimanski is investigating the drug mafia. The trail leads to a luxurious club where political celebrities, the wealthy and the demimonde meet. But suddenly he is standing in front of Zabou. He knows her from before, when she was still a child, his girlfriend's daughter. Back then he was like a father to her. But what is she doing here now?
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Directed by Hajo GiesWritten by Martin GiesGuest stars Hannes Jaenicke, Dieter Pfaff, Ralf Richter, Claudia Messner, Wolfram Berger, Gabriele Ausböck, Gerry Jochum, Martin May
Episode 7
Episode 7
1h 30m8.0 / 10
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Directed by Pete ArielWritten by Detlef MüllerGuest stars Manfred Krug, Charles Brauer, Franz Boehm, Diether Krebs, Heinz-Werner Kraehkamp, Hans Putz, Eleonore Weisgerber, Ronald Nitschke
Episode 8
Episode 8
1h 30m7.0 / 10
This time the crime scene is an Italian restaurant in Duisburg. Schimanski happens to witness an armed robbery of the landlord Giovanni Salvatore. He intervenes and experiences a fiasco: his girlfriend Renate is pushed into the line of fire by one of the gangsters and dies. Knowing that he has killed an innocent person, he puts down his weapon. Thanner joins the manhunt for the two perpetrators and pays dearly for it: Schimanski finds him unconscious, with serious injuries, after a car accident.
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Directed by Hans NoeverWritten by Uwe Erichsen, Hans Noever, Wolfgang HesseGuest stars Chiem van Houweninge, Nina Petri, Martin Halm, Renzo Remotti, Herb Andress, Renate Becker, Nellis Du Biel, Klaus J. Behrendt
Episode 9
Episode 9
1h 30m9.0 / 10
A murder in connection with illegal art trading leads - shortly after the fall of the Wall - to the first East-West contacts in the field of crime. Schimanski and Thanner investigate together with their popular colleagues Fuchs and Grawe from East Berlin: paintings owned by the GDR, which were extorted from museums and private individuals in the course of obtaining foreign currency, were put aside by former Stasi employees after the fall of the Wall and are now to be sold to the West via the old channels. The police suspect the Düsseldorf-based art dealer Schrader to be the key figure.
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Directed by Helmut KrätzigWritten by Helmut Krätzig, Veith von FürstenbergGuest stars Chiem van Houweninge, Peter Borgelt, Andreas Schmidt-Schaller, Susanne Bentzien, Ulrich Thein, Peter Aust, Walfriede Schmitt, Karl Knaup
Episode 10
Episode 10
1h 30m7.0 / 10
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Directed by Kurt JunekWritten by Peter ZinglerGuest stars Michael Janisch, Michael Bukowsky, Sieghardt Rupp
Episode 11
Episode 11
1h 30m7.5 / 10finale
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Directed by Hans-Christoph BlumenbergWritten by Charlie Bick, Erhard SchmiedGuest stars Konstantin Wecker, Matthias Fuchs, Udo Schenk, Edda Leesch, Mathias Kniesbeck, Gabriele Krestan, Barbara Krabbe, Jochen Senf
Episode information updated Aug 1, 2026
More about Scene of the Crime
Cast
Manfred KrugPaul Stoever
Ulrike FolkertsLena Odenthal
Axel PrahlFrank Thiel
Michael FitzFred Grimm
Charles BrauerKessenich
Tessa MittelstaedtFrau Ungewitter
Eva MattesDr. Kispert
Annalena SchmidtMrs. KellerProduction details
- Status
- Returning Series
- Series type
- Scripted
- Episodes
- 1,345
- Original language
- German
- Original title
- Tatort
Networks & production
ORF 1Austria
Das ErsteGermany
SRF 1Switzerland
ORF 2Austria
ARDGermany
ARD DegetoGermany
Themes
crime investigationcriminal investigationpolicepolice procedural
