"Tatort" in the extended summer break

"Tatort" fans must now be very brave: The summer break of the cult mystery takes longer than expected. The new episodes will be aired four weeks later than planned. Reason for the shift are "production-technical delays," as spokesman "Spiegel Online" confirmed. Apparently, several episodes could not be completed on time. Instead of starting on 3 August with new episodes, it will not start again until 31 August. Then there is a reunion with the "crime scene" commissioners Eisner and Fellner from Vienna, who had some strong performances recently. By the end of the year, we can look forward to a total of 14 new cases. As long as the ARD shows - as usual in the summer break - old "crime scene" episodes in the repetition. We have four favorites that we would like to repeat in the extra-long summer break:

Life against life

It is no secret that we trust the former Hamburg "crime scene" investigator Cenk Batu (Mehmet Kurtulus). We would always choose to repeat his only six cases if we were spared a "crime scene" with Nick Tschiller. In "Life Against Life" from the year 2011 Batu slips in as a covert investigator in an organ dealer gang. As their driver, he gets the job to pick up the 14-year-old Amelie (Michelle Barthel), but the towers. Batu is torn: On the one hand, he has to keep his camouflage to convict the backers, on the other hand, he wants to provide the gang no further sacrifices. Exciting!

requiem

About the "crime scene" commissioner from Bremen like to be bitched. Lürsen (Sabine Postel) and Stedefreund (Oliver Mommsen) can also look back on a few very good cases. "Requiem" from 2005 is definitely one of them. Everything seems to indicate a very ordinary case: one finds a corpse and also a suspect. There are also clear traces. But then suddenly everything is completely different than expected and the commissars are the target. Lürsen and her daughter Helen are kidnapped. Stedefreund thinks his colleague fell victim to an attack while she is being held in a vacant hall - without the hope of escaping from her prison. Creepy!

A better world

Yes, we grieve next Batu also to the former Frankfurt "crime scene" investigators Frank Steier (Joachim Król) and Conny Mey (great: Nina Kunzendorf), who were unfortunately only allowed to entertain us with a handful of cases. In "A Better World" of 2011, the second case of the team, Mey worries about a young woman who may well be the victim of a revenge attack. But as long as nothing happens, the commissioners can do nothing. After all, one is a "murder and not the murder prevention commission," says Steier. For the investigators begins a cat-and-mouse game with the man who is after the young woman. In this deadly race against time we cheered until minute 90!

Never be free again

The "crime scene" commissioners from Munich are often underestimated. They deliver good cases almost consistently - and this is the most senior team in almost 25 years. Their first mission was Ivo Batic (Miroslav Nemec) and Franz Leitmayr (Udo Wachtveitl) on 1.1.1991. The alleged rapist and murderer Markus Rapp, believed by the two commissioners, to be in court in 2010 is "Never again free". After a spectacular trial, Rapp is surprisingly acquitted. Not only the commissioners doubt their belief in law and justice, the family of the victim breaks the acquittal, while Rapp - now at large - a visit to the victim. "Never again be free" was awarded the 2011 Grimme Prize in the category "Fiction".

Tatort - Spielverderber (May 2024).