Tatort – Erika Mustermann

by Antonia Gronau | Sep 19, 2025

Tatort – Erika Mustermann

The seemingly random death of a delivery driver in Berlin leads investigators Robert Karow and Susanne Bonard into a complex case of identity theft, illegal employment, and organized crime. The deceased was living under a stolen identity—his backpack, a crucial piece of evidence, has disappeared.
The trail leads to the Federal Printing Office, the “Fort Knox” of German documents. There, the driver Tomas Rey is said to have not only delivered food, but also been involved in a coup involving highly sensitive documents. Migrants like him are exploited by a network of identity forgers who use real data and state-of-the-art techniques to produce perfect fake passports.
Insider help and gaps in surveillance lead Karow and Bonard to a security employee: Annika Haupt, Tomas’ partner. Is she an accomplice or a victim?
The case shows how migrants are caught between hope and exploitation—and how even the most secure institutions can be infiltrated. “Tatort: Erika Mustermann” sheds light on murder, identity trafficking, and the dark side of a globalized world.

Credits

Cast: Corinna Harfouch, Mark Waschke, Tan Çağlar, Annett Sawallisch, Henry Morales, Alberto Wolfgang Bischof, Hannes Wegener, Andreas Schröders, Frederik von Lüttichau, Ben Hartmann, Magdalena Wiedenhofer, Ajay Paul, Leonie Krieg

Screenplay: Dagmar Gabler
Director: Torsten C. Fischer
Cinematography: Julia Daschner, Andreas Köhler
Music: Jessica de Rooij
Editing: Martin Rahneri
Sound: Magnus Pflüger
Costume Design: Anne-Gret Oehme
Production Manager: Stefan Hiller
Producer: Philipp Goeser
Producers: Martin Lehwald, Marcos Kantis
Editor: Verena Veihl (rbb)

Year of production: 2025

Ostfriesenfluch

by Antonia Gronau | Mar 17, 2025

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Ostfriesenfluch

In a blooming rapeseed field, the carefully arranged body of a woman is discovered. Her husband is in shock—she had left him and their children for young Linus Wagner, his former student. But Linus claims she had been locked up by her husband. Then he flees.

Shortly afterward, packages containing the victims’ clothing appear, while more women go missing. Their partners receive similar packages. Were the women abducted, or did they choose to disappear? Klaasen and her team are on the trail of a serial offender who systematically destroys families.

When a child is finally kidnapped, the situation spirals out of control. A discovery from the past leads the investigators to the right track—sparking a desperate race against time.

Credits

Cast: Picco von Groote, Christian Erdmann, Barnaby Metschurat, Kai Maertens, Marie Schöneburg, Wolf Bachofner, Christian Ahlers, Andreas Euler, Niels Bormann, Elzemarieke de Vos, Harry Lampl, Lea Willkowsky, Sebastian Klein uvm.

Script: Dörte Franke
based on a novel by: Klaus-Peter Wolf
Director: Stephan Lacant
DOP: Willy Dettmeyer
Composer: Dürbeck & Dohmen
Editing: Dirk Grau
Sound: Torsten Lenk, Guido Oberkirch
Costume: Carla Sanfleber
Production Management: Richard Mellert
Producer: Simon Grohe
Producers: Martin Lehwald, Marcos Kantis (Schiwago Film)
Commissioning Editor: Silvia Lambri (ZDF)

Year of production: 2023

Photos: © ZDF / Sandra Hoever

Ostfriesennacht

by Antonia Gronau | Aug 27, 2024

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Ostfriesennacht

A murderer is on the loose in East Frisia. One who kills women in vacation homes. They all have one thing in common: they all had a tattoo of a so-called power animal, which has been removed and is nowhere to be found at the crime scenes. Is the murderer keeping the artwork as a trophy or does he have other plans for it?
While Rupert uses his private contacts to lure the main suspect out of the reserve beyond official investigation methods, Ann Kathrin Klaasen tries to save her husband Frank Weller from disaster.
He has a bad feeling because his daughter has a new boyfriend, an old acquaintance whom he deeply dislikes. When his daughter also gets such a tattoo, Weller digs deeper. And he finds what he is looking for! The new lover could well be the psychopathic serial killer he is looking for. Even though Jule declares her father to be paranoid and Ann is also skeptical, he is firmly convinced that he has to rescue his daughter from the clutches of a serial killer. He risks everything to do so and his relationship with his daughter is put to the test. To make matters worse, the BKA also gets involved, because the series of murders didn’t just start in East Frisia…

Credits

Cast: Picco von Groote, Christian Erdmann, Barnaby Metschurat, Kai Maertens, Marie Schöneburg, Wolf Bachofner, Sofie Eifertinger, Lydia Maria Makrides, Matthias Koeberlin, Miguel Abrantes Ostrowski, Hanfried Schüttler, Nina Schmieder, Dennis Schigiol, Nora Buzalka, Zeyin Aly et al.

Screenplay: Johannes Fabrick
Based on the novel by: Klaus-Peter Wolf
Director: Johannes Fabrick
Director of Photography: Helmut Pirnat
Composer: Hansjörg Kohli
Editing: Simon Blasi
Sound: Torsten Lenk, Guido Oberkich
Costume: Teresa Grosser
Production Management: Richard Mellert
Producer: Simon Grohe
Producers: Martin Lehwald, Marcos Kantis (Schiwago Film)
Commissioning Editor: Silvia Lambri (ZDF)

Year of production: 2023

Photos: © ZDF / Sandra Hoever

2 Friends

by Antonia Gronau | Feb 2, 2024

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2 Friends

A few years have passed again when old friends Patrick and Malte meet up again.

Patrick turns up unexpectedly at Malte’s mobile home, which is parked on a cliff by the Baltic Sea in the middle of a deserted restricted area.
That evening, a concert by the band in which Vincent, Patrick’s son whose biological father is Malte, is due to take place nearby.

Patrick reminds his friend of the old vow that Malte will stay away from Vincent. The son should never find out that Patrick is not his real father.

But then Patrick makes a discovery that makes him abandon his plan to keep Malte away from Vincent.

Over the course of a day, a night and a morning, the two friends, who are both at late turning points in their lives, explore what expectations they still have, what they are prepared to risk and, above all, what is left of their friendship.

Credits

Cast: Justus von Dohnányi, Ulrich Matthes

Screenplay: David Ungureit
Director: Rick Ostermann
Camera: Ralph Kaechele
Composer: Stefan Will
Editing: Silke Franken
Production design: Christin Busse
Costume: Sabine Keller
Sound: Stefan Soltau
Production management: Marten Riese
Producers: Schiwago Film (Marcos Kantis, Martin Lehwald)

Commissioning Editor: Jörg Himstedt (HR)

Year of production: 2023

Ostfriesenschwur

by Antonia Gronau | Feb 2, 2024

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Ostfriesenschwur

A fisherman discovers a dead body in the mudflats. At the same time, blackmailers deposit samples of biological warfare agents in a newspaper. This calls Inspector Ann Kathrin Klaasen onto the scene.

The drinking water throughout East Frisia is to be poisoned. The samples found are genuine, and what nobody realises is that the two cases are directly connected. During the investigation, her former boss, Ubbo Heide, becomes Ann Kathrin’s target. What does he know?

The investigation unearths a supposed triviality. Is the murderer of Ann Kathrin’s father, Wolfgang Steinhausen, still on the loose.

Credits

Cast: Picco von Groote, Christian Erdmann, Kai Martens, Barnaby Metschurat, Marie Schöneburg, Wolf Bachofner, Christian Ahlers, Andreas Euler, Charlotte Crome, Bernd Hölscher, Alexander Hörbe, Anja Knauer, Niklas Kohrt, Maximilian Dirr, Julia Brand, Jörg Tapper, Klaas Schramm, Daniel Fries and many more

Screenplay: Ulla Ziemann
Based on the novel by: Klaus-Peter Wolf
Director: Stephan Lacant
Camera: Willy Dettmeyer
Composer: Dürbeck & Dohmen
Editing: Dirk Grau
Production design: Stephan Schoenberg
Costume: Carla Sanfleber, Marylin Rammert
Sounddesign: Torsten Lenk
Production Management: Richard Mellert
Producer: Simon Grohe
Producers: Schiwago Film (Martin Lehwald, Marcos Kantis)
Commissioning Editor: Silvia Lambri (ZDF)

Produktionsjahr: 2023