In 2024, two new “Polizeiruf 110” films and 15 “Tatort” crime thrillers will be released. These include the last Frankfurt case with Janneke and Brix, Lena Odenthal’s 80th appearance and Dagmar Manzel’s farewell in Franconia.
The time has come, new “Tatort” and “Polizeiruf 110” episodes are coming to ARD. The first new Sunday crime thriller after the 17-week summer break is a Viennese rapper “Tatort” called “Deine Mutter” (September 15, 8:15 p.m.).
Before the summer break, which began on May 20 (Whit Monday) after the broadcast of a Black Forest “Tatort”, 17 “Tatort” crime series and 5 “Polizeiruf 110” crime series had already been broadcast on Das Erste this year, including the second case of the Halle team Koitzsch and Lehmann (Peter Kurth and Peter Schneider), which started in 2021.
An overview of the first broadcasts scheduled until the end of December – as things stand, there are 15 “Tatort” and 2 “Polizeirufe”. The order until Christmas is not yet finalized, because programming is only planned about six weeks in advance.
Vienna/ORF:
Sometimes there are three Austro “Tatorts” a year, sometimes two – in 2024 there will be two. In the second case (September 15th) an aspiring Viennese rapper is found dead – there are many suspects. Title of the hip-hop “Tatort”: “Deine Mutter” (the working title was “Hurenkind”).
Black Forest/SWR:
In the case “Ad acta” (September 22), Tobler and Berg (Eva Löbau and Hans-Jochen Wagner) ask themselves why the stepfather and boss of a murdered lawyer is so unwilling to help solve the death.
Frankfurt am Main/HR:
“It’s so green when Frankfurt’s mountains bloom” is the name of the last (and 19th) case of the team Janneke/Brix (Margarita Broich and Wolfram Koch) on September 29th. Matthias Brandt plays a psychologist and HR promises a spectacular ending.
Wiesbaden/HR:
The 13th case of LKA investigator Felix Murot (Ulrich Tukur) takes us back to the 1940s. It’s about a wanted war criminal. “Murot and the 1000-year Reich” (on October 20th according to HR) is of course not a classic here and now story.
Franconia/BR:
The tenth case since 2015 is the last for the character Paula Ringelhahn. Actress Dagmar Manzel is leaving the team. “In ‘Trotzdem’ the suicide of a 25-year-old prisoner triggers a series of deadly events in Nuremberg,” the BR outlines the story.
Ludwigshafen/SWR:
“Your Right” is Ulrike Folkerts’ 80th appearance as Lena Odenthal (in 35 years – for Lisa Bitter as Johanna Stern it is the tenth year). The case raises the question of whether a fired call center employee committed a murder attempt.
Stuttgart/SWR:
According to SWR, expected to be released in November, Lannert and Bootz (Richy Müller and Felix Klare) in “Let her go” are dealing with the death of a woman who left her home village, her family and her fiancé for a life in the big city. Her own fault?
Munich/BR:
In their 96th case (after the 100th, as we all know, it’s all over), murder investigations lead inspectors Batic and Leitmayr (Miroslav Nemec and Udo Wachtveitl) into a NATO maneuver with countless soldiers, civilian extras and heavy equipment.
Kiel/NDR:
In “Borowski and the Eternal Sea,” Klaus Borowski and his colleague Mila Sahin (Almila Bagriacik) are faced with a mysterious series of suicides by women on the beach in Kiel. It is the (42nd and) second to last case involving Axel Milberg. There will be two more in 2025.
Münster/WDR:
In the second case of the year, “You only die twice” (the working title of the 46th Münster “Tatort” was once “The Curse of the Grave Mask”), the most popular team has to deal with the corpse of a lawyer that has been pierced by the ancient spear of a warrior sculpture. Inspector Thiel (Axel Prahl) and Professor Boerne (Jan Josef Liefers) agree: This was not just a tragic accident.
It is the second to last case with Mechthild Großmann as public prosecutor Wilhelmine Klemm. The actress with the distinctively deep voice recently announced that she will be leaving after the two films in 2025.
Dortmund/WDR:
In “Made in China”, Faber and Herzog (Jörg Hartmann and Stefanie Reinsperger) meet a confused, blood-stained woman with a knife in an Asian shop who claims to have killed someone, but apparently doesn’t remember anything.
Cologne/WDR:
Ballauf and Schenk (Klaus J. Behrendt and Dietmar Bär) are dealing with a corpse in front of an Eros Center. A young man fell out of a window on the seventh floor. In the crime thriller “Seventh Floor” the detectives are investigating on this very floor, which houses a hairdressing salon, a nail studio and rooms for women who provide certain services.
Hamburg/NDR:
In “Silence,” Falke (Wotan Wilke Möhring) spends a break in a remote monastery. On his last night, which Falk celebrates with his roommate, a fire breaks out. Pastor Otto dies. Was he murdered?
Zurich/SRF:
The second Swiss crime thriller of the year with Grandjean and Ott (Anna Pieri Zuercher and Carol Schuler) will probably be released in December. “Fährmann” is set in the run-up to Christmas. It is about a serial offender who is causing trouble in the banking scene.
Radio Bremen:
In “Silent Night,” Moormann and Selb (Jasna Fritzi Bauer and Luise Wolfram) are on holiday duty. A captain lies shot dead in his room. He and his husband had taken in a Filipino sailor for the holidays. A robbery and murder?
Which teams from “Tatort” will not return until 2025
The “Tatort” teams from Saarbrücken, Berlin and Dresden will no longer have any new cases in the ARD program in 2024 and will not return to the screen until 2025.
It is also taking time for NDR investigator Charlotte Lindholm (Maria Furtwängler), who was transferred from Hanover to Göttingen in 2019 as a punishment for her lack of teamwork skills and is now likely to be allowed to return to the capital of Lower Saxony.
These “Polizeiruf” thrillers are still scheduled for 2024
The Rostock duo from NDR, Böwe and König (Lina Beckmann and Anneke Kim Sarnau), are already through for this year, as are the “Polizeiruf” teams from MDR, including Claudia Michelsen as Doreen Brasch in Magdeburg.
Munich/BR:
The third case of Cris Blohm (Johanna Wokalek) and Dennis Eden (Stephan Zinner) was directed by crime veteran Dominik Graf. “Beyond the Law” is about the murder of an amateur porn actor and legal pitfalls.
Brandenburg/RBB:
In the crime thriller “Waterways”, a Polish student is found dead in a canoe on a canal. Detectives Vincent Ross (André Kaczmarczyk) and Karl Rogov (Frank Leo Schröder) investigate along the old waterway that the victim was researching.
Source: Stern
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