TV series
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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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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Episode 1
Directed by Michael SchneiderWritten by Andreas SchlüterGuest stars Andreas Hoppe, Ulrike Folkerts, Julischka Eichel, Adrian Topol, Britta Hammelstein, Matthias Ziesing, Christian Redl, Stefan Rudolf
Episode 2
Ballauf and Schenk investigate a publishing house after a young consultant is murdered.
Directed by Herwig FischerWritten by Dagmar GablerGuest stars Tessa Mittelstaedt, Oleg Zhukov, Claudia Michelsen, Klaus J. Behrendt, Dietmar Bär
Episode 3
Directed by René HeisigWritten by Susanne SchneiderGuest stars Eva Mattes, Sebastian Bezzel, Justine Hauer, Ursina Lardi, Andreas Pietschmann, Johann von Bülow, Samuel Weiss, Katrin Bühring
Episode 4
Directed by Jochen Alexander FreydankWritten by Christian Heider, Christiane HütterGuest stars Lale Yavaş, Friedrich Mücke, Ludwig Trepte, Constantin von Jascheroff, Martin Kiefer, Robert Gwisdek, Julia Jäger, Torsten Michaelis
Episode 5
A witness at the center of Lursen's investigation is in danger of becoming the next victim.
Directed by Thorsten NäterWritten by Thorsten NäterGuest stars Sina Monpetain, Dagmar Menzel, Ulrich Matthes, Anna Maria Mühe, Janek Rieke, Felix Ellerhorst, Ronald Kukulies, Henriette Cejpek
Episode 6
Directed by Buddy GiovinazzoWritten by Clemens Schönborn, Meike HauckGuest stars Simone Thomalla, Martin Wuttke, Kai Schumann, Franziska Walser, André Hennicke, Nadeshda Brennicke, Renate Krößner, Hilmar Eichhorn
Episode 7
Directed by Nils WillbrandtWritten by Nils WillbrandtGuest stars Mehmet Kurtuluş, Peter Jordan, Michelle Barthel, Stephan Bissmeier, Godehard Giese, Bibiana Beglau
Episode 8
Eisner teams up with a new partner to investigate a series of murders of young people.
Directed by Wolfgang MurnbergerWritten by Uli BréeGuest stars Tanja Raunig, Harald Schrott, Aglaia Szyszkowitz, Josephine Bloéb, Rasa Weber, Rony Herman, Christian Weinberger, Harald Krassnitzer
Episode 9
The high-stakes game of professional soccer proves fatal.
Directed by Nils WillbrandtWritten by Harald GöckeritzGuest stars Benjamin Sadler, Fritz Roth, Luk Pfaff, Alexander Simon, Jens Schäfer, Alexander Held, Maria Furtwängler
Episode 10
Directed by Patrick WinczewskiWritten by Dorothee SchönGuest stars Eva Mattes, Sebastian Bezzel, Justine Hauer, Benjamin Morik, Oliver Stein, Karin Giegerich, Marek Erhardt, Matthias Freihof
Episode 11
Directed by Florian FroschmayerWritten by Dinah Marte Golch, Gerhard RekelGuest stars Boris Aljinovic, Ernst-Georg Schwill, Dieter Mann, Julika Jenkins, Kirsten Block, Lucy Ella von Scheele, Thomas Scharff, Ursina Lardi
Episode 12
The 32-year-old Tini Bürger only knows one boss: the devil alcohol. Since her husband Lassnik died in a car accident two years ago, she has been alone with her daughter Nessi. Depression keeps her in front of the television. Her 13-year-old daughter organizes the household, the cooking, and cares for her "alleged grandmother" for a few euros. Early one morning, Nessi witnesses a man being shot dead at a gas station. What exactly did Nessi see?
Directed by Peter FratzscherWritten by Peter ProbstGuest stars Antje Widdra, Laura Baade, Katja Bürkle, Matthias Heidepriem, Angela Ascher, Jens Atzorn, August Schmölzer, Pia Hänggi
Episode 13
Directed by Zoltan SpirandelliWritten by Jan Hinter, Stefan CantzGuest stars Carolina Vera, Maja Schöne, Johanna Janssen, Jakob Höhne, Birthe Wolter, Guntbert Warns, Christoph Jacobi, Jasmin Gerat
Episode 14
Thiel and Boerne investigate the murder of a prominent local businessman. [Münster]
Directed by Matthias TiefenbacherWritten by Magnus VattrodtGuest stars Axel Prahl, Stephan Schad, Lambert Hamel, Michael Wittenborn, Victoria Trauttmansdorff, Ulrike C. Tscharre, Henriette Confurius, Udo Thies
Episode 15
Directed by Lars KraumeWritten by Lars KraumeGuest stars Joachim Król, Nina Kunzendorf, Gerd Wameling, Arnd Klawitter, Vicky Krieps, Justus von Dohnányi, Philip Koch, Frederick Lau
Episode 16
Directed by Florian BaxmeyerWritten by Christian JeltschGuest stars Matthias Brenner, Michael Pink, Florence Kasumba, Ulrike C. Tscharre, Daniel Lommatzsch, Arnd Klawitter, James Faulkner, Maryam Zaree
Episode 17
Eisner and Fellner investigate when a naked man is found dead in a shopping cart.
Directed by Harald SicheritzWritten by Uli BréeGuest stars Tanja Raunig, Dessislava Urumova, Simon Schwarz, Harald Krassnitzer, Adele Neuhauser
Episode 18
A normal weekday. The chief inspectors Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr are called to the outskirts of Munich. Max Lasinger is waiting excitedly in a glass shop behind the front building, where he confesses he had seen light and wanted to catch a "burglar". When he attacked, he lashed out, but was it self-defense? And will his dementia make his confession untrustworthy?
Directed by Christian GörlitzWritten by Pim Richter, Daniela MohrGuest stars Johanna Gastdorf, Günther Maria Halmer, Kai-Peter Malina, Vesela Kazakova, Jürgen Tarrach, Sarah Masuch, Oliver Mallison, Anian Zollner
Episode 19
Directed by Johannes GrieserWritten by Andreas KnaupGuest stars Simone Thomalla, Martin Wuttke, Peter Benedict, Claudia Michelsen, Günter Junghans, Uwe Preuss, Jörg Hartmann, Stephanie Schönfeld
Episode 20
Directed by Uwe JansonWritten by Jürgen WernerGuest stars Andreas Hoppe, Peter Espeloer, Ulrike Folkerts, Brigitte Zeh, Pheline Roggan, Susanne-Marie Wrage, Michael Lott, Stefan Konarske
Episode 21
Directed by Markus ImbodenWritten by Nils-Morten OsburgGuest stars Sabina Schneebeli, Andrea Zogg, Sofia Milos, Stephanie Japp, Ursina Lardi, Peter Wyssbrod, Mona Petri, Christoph Gaugler
Episode 22
Eisner is sent to Tyrol to track down a construction magnate's killer.
Directed by Erich HörtnaglWritten by Felix MittererGuest stars Alexander Mitterer, Hilde Dalik, George Lenz, Mustafa Nadarević, Krista Posch, Max von Thun, Branko Tomović, Harald Krassnitzer
Episode 23
Ballauf and Schenk dive deep into the life of a Cologne district after a landlady is murdered.
Directed by Mark SchlichterWritten by Mario GiordanoGuest stars Tessa Mittelstaedt, Edgar Selge, Klaus J. Behrendt, Dietmar Bär, Juliane Köhler, Joe Bausch
Episode 24
Written by Thomas Freundner, Hans Gerd Müller-WeltersGuest stars Andreas Hoppe, Peter Espeloer, Ulrike Folkerts, Corazon Herbsthofer, Florence Kasumba, Wolfgang Michael, Vincent Redetzki, Petra Zieser
Episode 25
A murder investigation leads Thiel and Boerne to a Münster tennis club.
Directed by Franziska MeletzkyWritten by Thorsten Wettcke, Chris SilberGuest stars Axel Prahl, Judith Engel, Alain Blazevic, Tobias Diakow, Katja Heinrich, David Halina, Peter Trabner, Artus-Maria Matthiessen
Episode 26
Köln. Ballauf and Schenk must solve an act of sabotage with deadly consequences.
Written by Karl-Heinz KäferGuest stars Tessa Mittelstaedt, Luise Berndt, Mišel Matičević, Klaus Schindler, Ole Puppe, Kirsten Block, Tom Schilling, Kai-Peter Malina
Episode 27
A young woman has disappeared without a trace and her boyfriend, a beat cop, is convinced she was murdered.
Directed by Stephan WagnerWritten by Sascha ArangoGuest stars Sibel Kekilli, Jan Peter Heyne, Sibylle Canonica, Dirk Borchardt, Karolina Lodyga, Samuel Finzi, Axel Milberg, Thomas Kügel
Episode 28
Directed by Nicolai RohdeWritten by Jürgen Pomorin, Birgit Grosz, Stephan BrüggenthiesGuest stars Carolina Vera, Johanna Janssen, Jakob Höhne, Johannes Allmayer, Hans-Werner Meyer, Julika Jenkins, Nina Gummich, Thomas Huber
Episode 29
Directed by Thomas BohnWritten by Thomas BohnGuest stars Eva Mattes, Sebastian Bezzel, Justine Hauer, Benjamin Morik, Oliver Stein, Hannes Jaenicke, Jonathan Müller, Annika Blendl
Episode 30
Directed by Heiko SchierWritten by Heiko SchierGuest stars Boris Aljinovic, Ernst-Georg Schwill, Robert Gwisdek, Rebecca Immanuel, Sven Lehmann, Christopher Gareisen, Eva Bay, Rike Eckermann
Episode 31
Two seemingly unrelated cases bring Germany and Sweden together to catch a serial killer. In Kiel, a man jumps into a bathing lake - and is impaled by bamboo sticks. For Borowski and Sarah Brandt, it is initially not clear whether it is the act of a madman who accidentally finds his victims. Or did someone want to punish the dead?
Directed by Christian AlvartWritten by Michael ProehlGuest stars Sibel Kekilli, Mavie Hörbiger, Magnus Krepper, Sebastian Weber, Axel Milberg, Thomas Kügel
Episode 32
Directed by Lars KraumeWritten by Lars KraumeGuest stars Joachim Król, Nina Kunzendorf, Gerd Wameling, Inka Friedrich, Stephan Grossmann, Benno Fürmann, Rüdiger Kling, Arnd Klawitter
Episode 33
Franz Leitmayr and Ivo Batic are in an internal competition for "Policeman of the Year". Then the phone call: a dead man in the new Jewish synagogue, presumably outside their jurisdiction. The public prosecutor begs them to be sensitive in their inquiries in the Jewish community, but the investigators approach the case like any other.
Directed by Torsten C. FischerWritten by Rochus Hahn, Daniel WolfGuest stars André Jung, Florian Bartholomäi, Alexander Beyer, Annika Blendl, Jörg Hartmann, David Zimmerschied, Ulrike Knospe, Hans-Jürgen Silbermann
Episode 34
Directed by Justus von DohnányiWritten by Daniel NockeGuest stars Thomas Thieme, Claudia Michelsen, Tobias Langhoff, Alice Kessler, Ellen Kessler, Matthias Scheuring, Jürgen Rißmann, Devid Striesow
Episode 35
Charlotte delves into the secrets of a man found murdered in the countryside.
Directed by Roland Suso RichterWritten by Eoin Moore, Ulrike MolsenGuest stars Benjamin Sadler, Inka Friedrich, Michaela Caspar, Janina Stopper, Christian Beermann, Hanna Scheibe, Maria Furtwängler
Episode 36
Directed by Lars BeckerGuest stars Mehmet Kurtuluş, Peter Jordan, Anna Bederke, Ken Duken, Martin Brambach, Tristan Seith, Murali Perumal, Martin Brambach
Episode information updated Aug 1, 2026
Manfred KrugPaul Stoever
Ulrike FolkertsLena Odenthal
Axel PrahlFrank Thiel
Michael FitzFred Grimm
Charles BrauerKessenich
Tessa MittelstaedtFrau Ungewitter
Eva MattesDr. Kispert
Annalena SchmidtMrs. Keller
ORF 1Austria
Das ErsteGermany
SRF 1Switzerland
ORF 2Austria
ARDGermany
ARD DegetoGermany
