'''Tatort''' (''Crime Scene'') is a long-running
German/
Austrian, former
Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of
Germany and
Austria. The show is broadcast on
ARD in Germany and
ORF in Austria. The first episode was broadcast on
November 29,
1970.
Each of the regional TV channels which together form the ARD, plus the ORF, produces its own episodes, starring its own police inspector (or team of inspectors), some of which, like the discontinued ''Schimanski'' (played by
Götz George), have become cultural icons.
The show appears on ARD on Sundays at 8:15 p.m. and currently about 30 episodes are made per year. As of mid-2005, about 600 episodes in total have been produced.
List of ''Tatort'' investigators (''Kommissare'')
| Year | TV-Station | Investigators | Actors | City | Number of Episodes |
|---|
| 1970–1982 | NDR | Paul Trimmel | Walter Richter | Hamburg | 11 |
| 1970–1973 | SR | Liersdahl | Dieter Eppler | Saarbrücken | 2 |
| 1971–1973 | WDR | Kressin | Sieghardt Rupp | Cologne | 7 |
| 1971–1986 | SDR | Eugen Lutz | Werner Schumacher | 8 different towns in Baden-Württemberg | 16 |
| 1971–1979 | HR | Konrad | Klaus Höhne | Frankfurt am Main | 8 |
| 1971–1978 | NDR | Finke | Klaus Schwarzkopf | Kiel | 7 |
| 1971–1987 | ORF | Viktor Marek | Fritz Eckhardt | Vienna | 14 |
| 1971–1972 | SFB | Erwin Kasulke | Paul Esser | Berlin | 2 |
| 1972–1981 | BR | Melchior Veigl | Gustl Bayrhammer | Munich | 15 |
| 1972 | SWF | Horst Pflüger | Ernst Jacobi | Baden-Baden | 1 |
| 1973 | RB | Walter Böck | Hans Häckermann | Bremen | 1 |
| 1973–1977 | SWF | Franz Gerber | Heinz Schimmelpfennig | Baden-Baden | 5 |
| 1974–1980 | WDR | Heinz Haferkamp | Hansjörg Felmy | Essen | 20 |
| 1974–1977 | NDR | Heinz Brammer | Knut Hinz | Hanover | 4 |
| 1975–1977 | SFB | Martin Schmidt | Martin Hirthe | Berlin | 3 |
| 1977–1984 | SR | Schäfermann | Manfred Heidmann | Saarbrücken | 4 |
| 1978–1980 | SWF | Marianne Buchmüller | Nicole Heesters | Mainz | 3 |
| 1978–1983 | HR | Bergmann | Heinz Treuke | Frankfurt am Main | 1 |
| 1978–1979 | SFB | Matthias Behnke | Hans-Peter Korff | Berlin | 2 |
| 1979 | NDR | Nagel | Diether Krebs | Hanover/former District Burgdorf | 1 |
| 1979–1985 | NDR | Delius | Horst Bollmann | Cologne | 3 |
| 1980 | HR | Sander | Volkert Kraeft | Frankfurt am Main | 1 |
| 1980 | WDR | Paul Enders | Jörg Hube | Essen, Frankfurt am Main | 1 |
| 1980–1982 | NDR | Jochen Piper | Bernd Seebacher | Bremen | 2 |
| 1980 | WDR | Willy Kreutzer | Willy Semmelrogge | Essen | 1 |
| 1981 | HR | Bergmann | Lutz Moik | Frankfurt am Main | 2 |
| 1981–1985 | SFB | Friedrich Walther | Volker Brandt | Berlin | 6 |
| 1981–1988 | SWF | Hanne Wiegand | Karin Anselm | Baden-Baden, Karlsruhe, Mainz | 8 |
| 1981 | NDR | Greve | Erik Schumann | small towns in Northern Germany | 1 |
| 1981 | NDR | Beck | Hans Häckermann | Hamburg | 1 |
| 1981–1991 | WDR | Horst Schimanski, Christian Thanner and "Hänschen" | Götz George, Eberhard Feik and Chiem van Houweninge | Duisburg | 29 |
| 1981–1987 | BR | Ludwig Lenz | Helmut Fischer | Munich | 7 |
| 1982 | HR | Werner Rolfs | Klaus Löwitsch | Frankfurt am Main | 1 |
| 1982 | NDR | Nikolaus Schnoor | Uwe Dallmeier | town close to Bremerhaven | 1 |
| 1983 | NDR | Ronke | Ulrich von Bock | Hamburg | 1 |
| 1984 | HR | Rullmann | Hans-Werner Bussinger | small towns in Hesse | 1 |
| 1984–2001 | NDR | Paul Stoever and Peter Brockmöller | Manfred Krug and Charles Brauer | Hamburg | 41, Brockmöller: 37 |
| 1984–1986 | ORF | Hirth | Kurt Jaggberg | Vienna | 3 (+ 7 only ORF) |
| 1985 | HR | Reinhold Dietze | Klaus Löwitsch | Frankfurt am Main | 1 |
| 1985–2001 | HR | Edgar Brinkmann | Karl-Heinz von Hassel | Frankfurt am Main | 28 |
| 1985–1989 | SFB | Hans Georg Bülow | Heinz Drache | Berlin | 6 |
| 1986 | BR | Siggi Riedmüller | Günther Maria Halmer | Munich | 1 |
| 1987–1988 | SDR | Georg Thomas Schreitle | Horst Michael Neutze | Stuttgart, Führstadt | 3 |
| 1987 | BR | Karl Scherrer | Hans Brenner | Munich | 1 |
| 1987 | ORF | Passini | Christoph Waltz | Vienna | 1 |
| 1988 | ORF | Pfeifer | Bruno Dallansky | Vienna | 1 (+4 only ORF) |
| 1988-2005 | SR | Max Palu | Jochen Senf | Saarbrücken | 17 |
| 1988–1989 | BR | Otto Brandenburg | Horst Bollmann | Munich | 2 |
| 1989–1996 | ORF | Michael Fichtl | Michael Janisch | Vienna | 8 (+1 only ORF) |
| since 1989 | SWF, SWR | Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper | Ulrike Folkerts and Andreas Hoppe | Ludwigshafen | 35, Kopper: 26 |
| 1990 | DRS | Walter Howald | Mathias Gnädinger | Bern | 1 |
| since 1991 | BR | Ivo Batic, Franz Leitmayr and Carlo Menzinger | Miroslav Nemec, Udo Wachtveitl and Michael Fitz | Munich | 41, Menzinger: 37 |
| 1991–1992 | DRS | Reto Carlucci | Andrea Zogg | Bern | 2 |
| 1991–1995 | SFB | Franz Markowitz | Günter Lamprecht | Berlin | 8 |
| 1992-2007 | MDR | Bruno Ehrlicher and Kain | Peter Sodann and Bernd Michael Lade | first Dresden, later Leipzig, one Episode in Cologne | 40, two of them together with Ballauf and Schenk |
| 1992–1997 | WDR | Bernd Flemming, Max Ballauf and Miriam Koch | Martin Lüttge, Klaus J. Behrendt and Roswitha Schreiner | Düsseldorf | 15, Ballauf: 9 |
| 1992-2007 | SDR, SWR | Ernst Bienzle and Günter Gächter | Dietz Werner Steck and Rüdiger Wandel | Stuttgart | 21 |
| 1993–2002 | DRS | Philipp von Burg and Markus Gertsch | L.I. Kisch and E.C. Sigrist | Bern | 9 |
| 1995 | HR | Leo Felber | Heinz Schubert | Frankfurt am Main | 1 |
| 1996–1998 | SFB | Ernst Roiter and Michael Zorrowski | Winfried Glatzeder and Robinson Reichel | Berlin | 12 |
| 1996 | ORF | Max Becker | Klaus Wildbolz | Vienna | 1 |
| 1997 | ORF | Paul Kant and Jakob Varanasi | Wolfgang Hübsch and Johannes Nikolussi | Vienna | 2 |
| 1997 | NDR | Lea Sommer | Hannelore Elsner | Hamburg | 2 |
| since 1997 | WDR | Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk | Klaus J. Behrendt and Dietmar Bär | Cologne, one Episode in Leipzig | 33, two of them together with Ehrlicher and Kain |
| since 1997 | RB | Inga Lürsen and Nils Stedefreund | Sabine Postel and Oliver Mommsen | Bremen, Bremerhaven | 12 |
| since 1999 | SFB, RBB | Till Ritter and Robert Hellmann, later Felix Stark | Dominic Raacke and Stefan Jürgens, later Boris Aljinovic | Berlin | 18, Hellmann: 6, Stark: 12 |
| since 1999 | ORF | Moritz Eisner, Susza Binder, Norbert Dobos and Renata Lang | Harald Krassnitzer, Loretta Pflaum, Alois Frank and Gundula Rapsch | Vienna | 19 |
| 2001-2007 | NDR | Jan Casstorff, Eduard Holicek and Jenny Graf | Robert Atzorn, Tilo Prückner and Julia Schmidt | Hamburg | 10 |
| since 2002 | HR | Charlotte Sänger and Fritz Dellwo | Andrea Sawatzki and Jörg Schüttauf | Frankfurt am Main | 7 |
| since 2002 | NDR | Charlotte Lindholm | Maria Furtwängler | Hanover and small towns in Lower Saxony | 7 |
| since 2002 | SWR | Klara Blum and Kai Perlmann | Eva Mattes and Sebastian Bezzel | Konstanz | 7 |
| since 2002 | WDR | Frank Thiel and Prof. Karl-Friedrich Boerne | Axel Prahl and Jan Josef Liefers | Münster (Westfalen) | 8 |
| since 2003 | NDR | Klaus Borowski | Axel Milberg | Kiel | 5 |
Standing: End of November 2005
The
GDR equivalent of ''Tatort'' is ''
Polizeiruf 110'', which today shares a time slot with ''Tatort''.