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Scene of the Crime

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1970 –57 seasons · 1338 episodesReturning series
CrimeDrama
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Who's in it

Cast

The principal ensemble across the run of the series.

Manfred Krug

Manfred Krug

Paul Stoever

41 eps

Ulrike Folkerts

Ulrike Folkerts

Lena Odenthal

83 eps

Axel Prahl

Axel Prahl

Frank Thiel

48 eps

Michael Fitz

Michael Fitz

Carlo Menzinger

44 eps

Peter Espeloer

Peter Espeloer

Peter Becker

35 eps

Willy Semmelrogge

Willy Semmelrogge

Willy Kreutzer

24 eps

Chiem van Houweninge

Chiem van Houweninge

Hänschen

23 eps

Charles Brauer

Charles Brauer

Peter Brockmöller

40 eps

Rita Russek

Rita Russek

Hannelore Schmiedinger

26 eps

Tessa Mittelstaedt

Tessa Mittelstaedt

Franziska Lüttgenjohann

47 eps

Simone Thomalla

Simone Thomalla

Eva Saalfeld

23 eps

Boris Aljinovic

Boris Aljinovic

Felix Stark

30 eps

Dietz-Werner Steck

Dietz-Werner Steck

Ernst Bienzle

30 eps

Ernst-Georg Schwill

Ernst-Georg Schwill

Lutz Weber

29 eps

Eva Mattes

Eva Mattes

Klara Blum

33 eps

Tilo Prückner

Tilo Prückner

Eduard Holicek

23 eps

Justine Hauer

Justine Hauer

Annika Beck

22 eps

Sebastian Bezzel

Sebastian Bezzel

Kai Perlmann

29 eps

Jörg Schüttauf

Jörg Schüttauf

Fritz Dellwo

23 eps

Christian Tasche

Christian Tasche

Von Prinz

29 eps

Martin Wuttke

Martin Wuttke

Andreas Keppler

26 eps

Annalena Schmidt

Annalena Schmidt

Edith Keller

38 eps

Carolina Vera

Carolina Vera

Emilia Alvarez

23 eps

Karl-Heinz von Hassel

Karl-Heinz von Hassel

Edgar Brinkmann

39 eps

Martin Brambach

Martin Brambach

Peter Michael Schnabel

30 eps

Wolfram Koch

Wolfram Koch

Paul Brix

26 eps

Mark Waschke

Mark Waschke

Robert Karow

26 eps

Jörg Hartmann

Jörg Hartmann

Peter Faber

33 eps

Eberhard Feik

Eberhard Feik

Christian Thanner

32 eps

Wotan Wilke Möhring

Wotan Wilke Möhring

Thorsten Falke

27 eps

Dominic Raacke

Dominic Raacke

Till Ritter

39 eps

Adele Neuhauser

Adele Neuhauser

Bibi Fellner

40 eps

Axel Milberg

Axel Milberg

Klaus Borowski

46 eps

Bernd Michael Lade

Bernd Michael Lade

Kain

46 eps

Sabine Postel

Sabine Postel

Inga Lürsen

40 eps

Richy Müller

Richy Müller

Thorsten Lannert

38 eps

Lisa Bitter

Lisa Bitter

Johanna Stern

25 eps

Jürgen Hartmann

Jürgen Hartmann

Daniel Vogt

33 eps

Gustl Bayrhammer

Gustl Bayrhammer

Melchior Veigl

27 eps

Oliver Mommsen

Oliver Mommsen

Nils Stedefreund

34 eps

The Nutevio profile

TV DNA

How Scene of the Crime actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.

Signature profile

Scene of the Crime reads strongest on Character Depth, Tension and Emotional Weight.

Character DepthVery strong7.2

How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.

TensionStrong6.5

The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.

Emotional WeightStrong6.1

How much the series is designed to affect you.

SerializedPresent5.0

How much each hour depends on the one before it.

BingeabilityPresent4.6

How hard it is to stop after one episode.

Cliffhanger IntensityPresent4.5

How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.

SpectacleLight3.5

Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.

World BuildingLight3.5

The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.

HumourLight2.5

How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.

The story

What it's about

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.

The run

Seasons

57 seasons · 1338 episodes.

  • Official poster for Specials

    Season 0 · Complete

    Specials

    199522 episodes

  • Official poster for Season 1

    Season 1 · Complete

    Season 1

    19702 episodes

    6.4IMDb

    Best episode · S01E01 Episode 1

  • Official poster for Season 2

    Season 2 · Complete

    Season 2

    197111 episodes

    6.9IMDb

    Best episode · S02E01 Kressin and the dead man in the Fleet

  • Official poster for Season 3

    Season 3 · Complete

    Season 3

    197211 episodes

    8.2IMDb
  • Official poster for Season 4

    Season 4 · Complete

    Season 4

    197311 episodes

    8.6IMDb
  • Official poster for Season 5

    Season 5 · Complete

    Season 5

    197411 episodes

    7.9IMDb

    Best episode · S05E11 Episode 11

  • Official poster for Season 6

    Season 6 · Complete

    Season 6

    197512 episodes

    7.2IMDb

    Best episode · S06E05 Episode 5

  • Official poster for Season 7

    Season 7 · Complete

    Season 7

    197611 episodes

    6.8IMDb

    Best episode · S07E04 Episode 4

  • Official poster for Season 8

    Season 8 · Complete

    Season 8

    197713 episodes

    7.1IMDb

    Best episode · S08E04 School leaving certificate

  • Official poster for Season 9

    Season 9 · Complete

    Season 9

    197812 episodes

    7.5IMDb

    Best episode · S09E03 Episode 3

  • Official poster for Season 10

    Season 10 · Complete

    Season 10

    197913 episodes

    7.7IMDb

    Best episode · S10E03 Episode 3

  • Official poster for Season 11

    Season 11 · Complete

    Season 11

    198012 episodes

    8.3IMDb
  • Official poster for Season 12

    Season 12 · Complete

    Season 12

    198112 episodes

    7.3IMDb

    Best episode · S12E07 Duisburg-Ruhrort

  • Official poster for Season 13

    Season 13 · Complete

    Season 13

    198212 episodes

    7.3IMDb

    Best episode · S13E12 Kuscheltiere

  • Official poster for Season 14

    Season 14 · Complete

    Season 14

    19839 episodes

    7.1IMDb

    Best episode · S14E03 Miriam

  • Official poster for Season 15

    Season 15 · Complete

    Season 15

    198412 episodes

    6.8IMDb

    Best episode · S15E07 Two kinds of blood

  • Official poster for Season 16

    Season 16 · Complete

    Season 16

    198512 episodes

    7.4IMDb

    Best episode · S16E07 Schimanski - The House in the Woods

  • Official poster for Season 17

    Season 17 · Complete

    Season 17

    198612 episodes

    8.0IMDb

    Best episode · S17E03 Episode 3

  • Official poster for Season 18

    Season 18 · Complete

    Season 18

    198712 episodes

    7.8IMDb

    Best episode · S18E04 Episode 4

  • Official poster for Season 19

    Season 19 · Complete

    Season 19

    198814 episodes

    7.5IMDb

    Best episode · S19E08 Episode 8

  • Official poster for Season 20

    Season 20 · Complete

    Season 20

    198912 episodes

    7.1IMDb

    Best episode · S20E08 Blood trail

  • Official poster for Season 21

    Season 21 · Complete

    Season 21

    199011 episodes

    7.6IMDb

    Best episode · S21E04 Episode 4

  • Official poster for Season 22

    Season 22 · Complete

    Season 22

    199115 episodes

    7.1IMDb

    Best episode · S22E07 Up to your neck in dirt

  • Official poster for Season 23

    Season 23 · Complete

    Season 23

    199215 episodes

    7.5IMDb

    Best episode · S23E13 Death of a security guard

  • Official poster for Season 24

    Season 24 · Complete

    Season 24

    199318 episodes

    6.0IMDb

    Best episode · S24E02 Episode 2

  • Official poster for Season 25

    Season 25 · Complete

    Season 25

    199415 episodes

    7.4IMDb

    Best episode · S25E10 The woman on the street

  • Official poster for Season 26

    Season 26 · Complete

    Season 26

    199522 episodes

    7.9IMDb

    Best episode · S26E22 Episode 22

  • Official poster for Season 27

    Season 27 · Complete

    Season 27

    199627 episodes

    7.5IMDb

    Best episode · S27E05 Episode 5

  • Official poster for Season 28

    Season 28 · Complete

    Season 28

    199727 episodes

    7.4IMDb

    Best episode · S28E22 Welcome to Köln

  • Official poster for Season 29

    Season 29 · Complete

    Season 29

    199826 episodes

    7.4IMDb

    Best episode · S29E12 Köln - Iconoclasm

  • Official poster for Season 30

    Season 30 · Complete

    Season 30

    199929 episodes

    7.5IMDb

    Best episode · S30E09 Köln - Children of Violence

  • Official poster for Season 31

    Season 31 · Complete

    Season 31

    200029 episodes

    7.8IMDb

    Best episode · S31E14 Episode 14

  • Official poster for Season 32

    Season 32 · Complete

    Season 32

    200129 episodes

    7.5IMDb

    Best episode · S32E08 Episode 8

  • Official poster for Season 33

    Season 33 · Complete

    Season 33

    200231 episodes

    7.1IMDb

    Best episode · S33E17 Episode 17

  • Official poster for Season 34

    Season 34 · Complete

    Season 34

    200333 episodes

    7.8IMDb

    Best episode · S34E31 Don't say anything

  • Official poster for Season 35

    Season 35 · Complete

    Season 35

    200430 episodes

    7.4IMDb

    Best episode · S35E29 One Body Too Many

  • Official poster for Season 36

    Season 36 · Complete

    Season 36

    200535 episodes

    7.5IMDb

    Best episode · S36E18 Episode 18

  • Official poster for Season 37

    Season 37 · Complete

    Season 37

    200632 episodes

    7.0IMDb

    Best episode · S37E04 The Eternal Evil

  • Official poster for Season 38

    Season 38 · Complete

    Season 38

    200735 episodes

    4.6IMDb

    Best episode · S38E09 Episode 9

  • Official poster for Season 39

    Season 39 · Complete

    Season 39

    200831 episodes

    6.0IMDb

    Best episode · S39E13 Episode 13

  • Official poster for Season 40

    Season 40 · Complete

    Season 40

    200934 episodes

    6.0IMDb

    Best episode · S40E11 Descent into Hell

  • Official poster for Season 41

    Season 41 · Complete

    Season 41

    201035 episodes

    5.8IMDb

    Best episode · S41E28 Lindholm - The Last Patient

  • Official poster for Season 42

    Season 42 · Complete

    Season 42

    201136 episodes

    5.8IMDb

    Best episode · S42E07 Episode 7

  • Official poster for Season 43

    Season 43 · Complete

    Season 43

    201235 episodes

    5.8IMDb

    Best episode · S43E35 Episode 35

  • Official poster for Season 44

    Season 44 · Complete

    Season 44

    201336 episodes

    6.0IMDb

    Best episode · S44E08 Bremen - Puppet Masters

  • Official poster for Season 45

    Season 45 · Complete

    Season 45

    201436 episodes

    5.5IMDb

    Best episode · S45E30 Vielleicht

  • Official poster for Season 46

    Season 46 · Complete

    Season 46

    201540 episodes

    5.6IMDb

    Best episode · S46E14 Happy Easter, Falke

  • Official poster for Season 47

    Season 47 · Complete

    Season 47

    201637 episodes

    5.5IMDb

    Best episode · S47E03 Episode 3

  • Official poster for Season 48

    Season 48 · Complete

    Season 48

    201735 episodes

    5.6IMDb

    Best episode · S48E35 Wild Gobi

  • Official poster for Season 49

    Season 49 · Complete

    Season 49

    201837 episodes

    5.3IMDb

    Best episode · S49E28 Episode 28

  • Official poster for Season 50

    Season 50 · Complete

    Season 50

    201937 episodes

    6.0IMDb

    Best episode · S50E15 Episode 15

  • Official poster for Season 51

    Season 51 · Complete

    Season 51

    202036 episodes

    5.8IMDb

    Best episode · S51E04 Episode 4

  • Official poster for Season 52

    Season 52 · Complete

    Season 52

    202133 episodes

    5.7IMDb

    Best episode · S52E19 Newborn

  • Official poster for Season 53

    Season 53 · Complete

    Season 53

    202236 episodes

    6.5IMDb

    Best episode · S53E07 Love me!

  • Official poster for Season 54

    Season 54 · Complete

    Season 54

    202335 episodes

    6.1IMDb

    Best episode · S54E12 Nothing but the truth (1)

  • Official poster for Season 55

    Season 55 · Complete

    Season 55

    202432 episodes

    6.8IMDb

    Best episode · S55E28 Episode 28

  • Official poster for Season 56

    Season 56 · Complete

    Season 56

    202536 episodes

    7.0IMDb

    Best episode · S56E12 Siding

  • Official poster for Season 57

    Season 57 · Complete

    Season 57

    202616 episodes

    7.2IMDb

    Best episode · S57E09 Sashimi Special

Where the series peaks

Best Episodes

The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.

Still from Episode 28

S55E28

Episode 28

8.0IMDb5 votes

After the death of his colleague Grosz, Thorsten Falke is taking a break in the remote St. Joseph monastery when the parish pastor dies in a fire. Child pornography material is found in his estate, which confirms Falke and his colleague Eve Pötter's suspicion that the fire may have been set intentionally.

1 Dec 202490 min
Still from Episode 22

S33E22

Episode 22

7.9IMDb7 votes
20 Oct 200290 min
Still from Episode 3

S55E03

Episode 3

7.8IMDb5 votes

The opportunity of a lifetime comes to André Stamm out of nowhere. A comrade from his army days offers him a promising job at the investment company “Concreta”. Rocko Andersen made a lot of money from the company. A fancy car and an apartment above the rooftops of the city: André will soon be able to afford all of this. All he has to do is do what company founder Christopher Komann demands of his team: sell, sell, sell! Andre is ready for this. His wife Anja is currently expecting their first child. He wants to offer his family a prosperous life. And in fact: he wins new customers straight away on the job and earns big commissions. But a short time later, things at “Concreta” get completely out of control...

14 Jan 202490 min
Still from Under Fire

S55E24

Under Fire

7.6IMDb5 votes

During a traffic check on a country road, shots are fired in broad daylight - one police officer dies, a second is critically injured. Instead of helping their colleagues, two policewomen flee from the exchange of fire. Dresden police officers Winkler, Gorniak and their boss Schnabel take over the investigation. Under pressure, they coordinate a large-scale search for the perpetrator, who is able to go into hiding.

3 Nov 202490 min
Still from Duisburg-Ruhrort

S12E07

Duisburg-Ruhrort

7.5IMDb6 votes

The body of barge captain Heinz Petschek is found in the Duisburg inland port. He had been beaten and fatally stabbed. Chief Inspector Schimanski and his colleague Christian Thanner must solve this case.

28 Jun 198190 min

Recently aired

Latest Episodes

Still from Episode 22

S00E22

Episode 22

6 Apr 202645 min

Behind the series

Created by

Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.

The craft

Key Crew

Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.

Executive production

Writing

Direction

Cinematography

Music

Where to watch

Streaming

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