These thrillers await viewers in the New Year

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In 2020 the “crime scene” turned 50. So now he is in his prime, as some would say. What spectators can expect in the new year – an overview by team, what is going on at the “Tatort” 2021.

?? Weimar: The New Year starts with the thriller “The fine spirit” with Nora Tschirner and Christian Ulmen. In the middle of the day, a courier from the security company Geist Security is murdered in front of a jewelry store. According to MDR, nothing is as it seems in this case. The station emphasizes: “The” Tatort “Weimar will pause production in 2021 due to corona-related rotational shifts.” It will not continue until 2022. One does not want to reveal more about the spirit at first.

 Cologne: Three Cologne crime novels are coming – cases 80 to 82 of the duo from the Rhine. In the film “The Death of Others” (January 10th) Commissioner Freddy Schenk (Dietmar Bär) is taken hostage by a suspicious hotel owner, the second film (“You should burn”) leads into the world of the homeless and their struggle for survival. after a woman was set on fire under a bridge in her sleep. According to WDR, the third film will only come after the summer break.

?? Munich: Munich investigators Batic and Leitmayr (Miroslav Nemec and Udo Wachtveitl) have been working for the Munich “Tatort” site for 30 years. Her first case was seen on January 1, 1991. According to Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), her three crime novels for the second half of 2021 will not be shot until spring and summer. The already wacky “Kehraus” case, in which there were delays due to Corona, should be kept for the 2022 carnival period.

?? Stuttgart: In the thriller “This is our house” (January 17th) by director Dietrich Brüggemann, Heinz Rudolf Kunze plays among others. Lannert and Bootz (Richy Müller and Felix Klare) are confronted with a building community in whose pit a corpse is found. The second Stuttgart crime thriller in 2021 is about a secretly recorded video: Is that consensual sex or rape?

?? Hamburg & surroundings: The Falke and Grosz team (Wotan Wilke Möhring and Franziska Weisz) determined at the beginning of the year on the basis of dubious real estate deals on the North Sea island of Norderney. The second case after the summer is about Russian arms dealers.

?? Dortmund: Stefanie Reinsperger is new to the WDR team in the Ruhr area. In her role as Rosa Herzog, she will investigate alongside Peter Faber (Jörg Hartmann), Martina Bönisch (Anna Schudt) and Jan Pawlak (Rick Okon). The first case with her is about racism, police violence and so-called fake news.

?? Bremen: In spring – probably Whit Monday (May 24th) – the new Bremen team starts: Jasna Fritzi Bauer (31) and Dar Salim (43). According to Radio Bremen, the first case is about a kidnapped baby. Bauer plays Liv Moormann from Bremerhaven, who wants to prove herself to the homicide squad. Salim plays the Dane Mads Andersen, who works as an employee in the police service with limited powers. The team also includes Luise Wolfram (33), who has already participated in some episodes of the old Bremen “Tatort” as a headstrong BKA investigator Linda Selb. The second case for the end of 2021 is scheduled to be shot in April.

?? Münster: In spring, in the 39th “crime scene” with Thiel and Boerne (Axel Prahl and Jan Josef Liefers), a dead person is found in the moor. It quickly becomes clear that it is the corpse of a vegetable farmer who, as an advocate of free love, also gave tantra seminars. Thiel asks his “Vadder” (Claus D. Clausnitzer) to ask around undercover in the municipality. The 40th Münster “crime scene” since 2002 is planned for the second half of the year.

  Zürich: In the Swiss “Tatort” in spring, the second case from Zurich, the owner of a chocolate factory is murdered. The case leads Tessa Ott back to the rich district where she grew up and from which she preferred to flee. According to SRF, the second Swiss case of the year will then lead into the avant-garde art scene.

?? Dresden: The eleventh case of the Saxony team, entitled “Rescue so close”, is about the murder of a paramedic during an operation. Filming was interrupted at the end of March due to Corona and then ended in autumn. The further Dresden case in 2021 is about a stalker – the case may touch the past of Commissioner Karin Gorniak (Karin Hanczewski).

?? Saarbrücken: The second case of the new Saar commissioners Schürk and Hölzer (Daniel Sträßer and Vladimir Burlakov) with the working title “The Lord of the Forest” was filmed from June instead of April and, according to SR, will be shown on Easter Monday (April 5th) in the first.

?? Kiel: The NDR calls him one of the “scariest murderers” in the “Tatort” story, Kai Korthals played by Lars Eidinger. “The silent guest” has already challenged Commissioner Klaus Borowski (Axel Milberg) twice. That was seen in 2012 and 2015. In the third thriller, he manages to escape from the psychiatry where he received fan mail from women. Are these admirers in danger now? Before that, there is another case entitled “Borowski and the Fear of White Men” – probably on March 7th on the occasion of International Women’s Day on March 8th.

?? Wien: There are two Austro “crime scenes” again. In one case (working title “Conspiracy”) a ministry department head dies while jogging, a strange real estate deal comes to light and Moritz Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) is suspended because he messes with the wrong people. In the other case (working title “The Wet Nurse”) Krassnitzer and Adele Neuhauser are dealing with a dead prostitute, a missing child and a serial killer.

?? Frankfurt am Main: According to HR 2021, two new thrillers with Janneke and Brix (Margarita Broich and Wolfram Koch) are in the program. In one case, the son of a business lawyer is kidnapped from a golf course. In the other case, a young writer dies. Does the 19-year-old’s debut novel provide any clues?

?? Berlin: In the second quarter, the case of “The Third Skin” comes about when a Berlin apartment building is rented out, and in the autumn the film “Devil’s Child”. After the two cases, Meret Becker is still in front of the camera for a “crime scene”, according to RBB. The last case with her should be seen in spring 2022. In the autumn of 2022, Robert Karow (Mark Waschke) investigated a single case. In spring 2023, the first Berlin “Tatort” will come with Corinna Harfouch at Waschke’s side.

?? Wiesbaden: Lars Eidinger is also here when it is (working title) “Murot and the principle of hope”. In this case, Ulrich Tukur investigates the death of a former philosophy professor, with whom his character Felix Murot also studied and who last lived on the street after a family tragedy.

?? Ludwigshafen: A case called “Hetzjagd” is about a murder in which a man from the right-wing scene comes under suspicion, whose girlfriend gets help from the girlfriend of the murdered man. The second Lena Odenthal “Tatort” with Ulrike Folkerts is about the murder of a kiosk owner.

?? Schwarzwald: In the case of “What we inherit” (according to SWR in spring) with Tobler and Berg (Eva Löbau and Hans-Jochen Wagner), the patriarch of an entrepreneurial family falls down the stairs just as she has announced a change of will to her family. The housekeeper is supposed to inherit. A second case is planned for the end of 2021.

?? Franken: In mid-March 2020, shooting for the film “Where’s Mike?” Was interrupted due to corona. So that the connections work seasonally, the missing ten days of filming were not made up until November in Bamberg and the surrounding area. The crime thriller is about a missing five-year-old. For three days, his separated parents thought that their son was with the other. Now the mother suspects the father and the father suspects the mother. It is the seventh Franconian “crime scene” with Dagmar Manzel and Fabian Hinrichs.

?? Göttingen: Charlotte Lindholm (Maria Furtwängler) and Anaïs Schmitz (Florence Kasumba) have in their case – according to NDR only after the summer break – to do with the rape and murder of the student Mira. Is there a serial offender behind it?

?? Mainz: The shooting of the third “crime scene” with Heike Makatsch has been completed, according to SWR, even if it was postponed due to corona. The film will probably only come out in the second half of the year. Ellen Berlinger (Makatsch) and her colleague Martin Rascher (Sebastian Blomberg) investigate the case of a gas station attendant who was shot dead. Does the blind witness Rosa Münch (Henriette Nagel) know more than she says?

?? Hamburg: As of the end of 2020, a new Hamburg “Tatort” with Nick Tschiller (Til Schweiger) and Fahri Yardim (Yalcin Gümer) is under development, according to NDR: “A shoot is currently not scheduled.”

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