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| Tatort | |
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| Starring | Boris Aljinovic Dietmar Bär Meret Becker Elisabeth Brück Hansjörg Felmy Ulrike Folkerts Maria Furtwängler Götz George Stefan Gubser Jörg Hartmann Andreas Hoppe Klaus J. Behrendt Harald Krassnitzer Manfred Krug Jan Josef Liefers Eva Mattes Oliver Mommsen Richy Müller Axel Prahl Dominic Raacke Sieghardt Rupp Anna Schudt Devid Striesow Simone Thomalla Ulrich Tukur Mark Waschke Martin Wuttke Wotan Wilke Möhring and others |
| Theme music composer | Klaus Doldinger |
| Country of origin | West Germany (1970–1990) Germany (1990–present) Austria Switzerland |
| Original language | German |
| No. of seasons | 50 |
| No. of episodes | 1,252[1] |
| Production | |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | Das Erste |
| Release | 29 November 1970 (1970-11-29) – present |
Tatort ("Crime Scene") is a German-languagepolice procedural television series that has been running continuously since 1970 with 30 feature-length episodes per year, making it the longest-running German TV drama. Developed by the Germanpublic-service broadcasting organizationARD for their channelDas Erste, it is unique in its approach in that it is jointly produced by all of the organization's regional members as well as its partneringAustrian andSwiss national public-service broadcasters, whereby every regional station contributes several episodes to a common pool.
As a result of this, Tatort is a collection of different police stories where different police teams solve crimes in their own cities, with uniqueness in architecture, customs, and dialects of the cities being a distinctive part of the series. Often, the city, not the police force, is the real main character of an episode. The fact that local stations each produce a small number of episodes per year has enabled longer episodes (approximately 90 minutes), which in turn allows each episode to exhibit greater characterisation than other weekly TV dramas.
The first episode was broadcast on 29 November 1970. Episodes are broadcast on ARD's main channelDas Erste, on Sunday evenings at the prime viewing time of 8:15 pm (just after the 8 pmTagesschau news) around three times a month. Reruns are often shown by various regional ARD stations and on foreign broadcasters. Alongside the member stations of the ARD, the national Austrian broadcasting corporationÖsterreichischer Rundfunk joined the production pool in 1971 and aired the program on itsORF 2 channel. Switzerland'sSchweizer Fernsehen joined the collection from 1990 to 2001 and again in 2011. It distributes its episodes through its channelSRF 1 and Play SRF streaming app.
The seriesPolizeiruf 110, which was produced byEast Germany'sstate TV broadcaster as a counterpart to the West GermanTatort and has a similar regional production approach, is still produced by ARD's regional broadcastersMitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR),Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB),Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) andBayerischer Rundfunk (BR).Polizeiruf 110 shares the Sunday night prime time slot onDas Erste withTatort.
The main feature ofTatort is that all participating regional TV stations jointly produce it. Each of the eleven companies involved (the nine German regional TV channels orLandesrundfunkanstalten that together formARD, plusORF in Austria andSRF in Switzerland) produces its episodes. Each station usually features more than one team of inspectors in different cities in its region, depending on the size of the producing broadcaster. Each of the roughly 20 active teams appears one to three times each year. Nearly every Sunday, a new episode from a different city premieres onDas Erste; old episodes are often shown through all participating stations as part of their standard programming. The series shares this concept with its former East German counterpartPolizeiruf 110, which is produced as four additionalTatort investigator teams aired under a different series name and opening credits by some regional broadcasters, primarily those that evolved from East German state television.
EveryTatort episode features a different team of inspectors in another city. Combined with the fact that the episodes are 90 minutes long, almost movie-length, and rarely more than 30 episodes in one year, this makes for a cultural phenomenon closer to a string ofmade-for-TV movies than a typical police series.
This pooling concept was mainly due to the nature of thepublic broadcasttelevision channel ARD, which is jointly operated by all of Germany's regional publicLandesrundfunkanstalten. The 9 regional public broadcasters collect broadcasting fees in their region of Germany (each region comprising one or more federal states), each with multiple radio stations and a regional TV station.Das Erste is produced as a joint national channel with standard national programming. Each regional broadcaster is responsible for parts of the programming, unlike in the US with itsnetwork affiliate system. Usually, one to three broadcasters produce one TV programme in cooperation. WhenTatort was developed as a series of weekly feature film-long local crime stories, the stated concept was used to distribute financial and organizational efforts.
Apart from the unique joint-pooling system, the series is also characterized by the episode length of around 90 minutes, which allows for more in-depth and psychological fleshing out of the characters. Although almost all episodes feature the investigation of ahomicide, it is never just a simple case ofwhodunit. Often the episode length allows for the crime to be shown in all its aspects, with equal attention focused on the perpetrators and the victims as on the inspectors. On several occasions, the actual police work is just a side note in the story, as the main plot might focus on how one of the persons involved deals with the crime and its aftermath. Episodes also deal with social and political issues.
With the national broadcasting corporations of Austria and Switzerland participating, the episodes ofTatort are currently set in various cities of Germany,Vienna, andZürich. Initially, each of the participating member stations limited their episodes to one team of investigators in one city: for ease of production, this was mostly the city the broadcast station was in, but over the years, some stations broadcasting over a large regional area haveTatorts playing in several cities. Notably, theWDR (based inCologne) has three teams of investigators each playing in Cologne,Münster, andDortmund. Episodes are either produced by the station's production facilities or filmed and often written by outside production houses on behalf of the station. This sometimes leads to situations where, for instance, aTatort set inThuringia is produced inBavaria, with only a handful of scenes shot 'on location' in the town in which the story is supposed to be set in. Consequently, minor roles are sometimes played by actors or extras that do not have a matching regional accent.
A similar concept of independently filming and then pooling episodes was used from 1988 to 1992 in the seriesEurocops, jointly produced by several national European TV stations.
Tatort has not found wide distribution in non-German speaking countries, but some episodes were distributed as stand-alone mini-series. Notable examples were theHorst Schimanski episodes which were shown in Finland in the late-1980s and onTV4 in Sweden in 1992, and the 2013 series starringTil Schweiger andFahri Yardım in Hamburg was shown on the BritishChannel 4 under the titleNick's Law.
In 2023, the American-based international television streaming serviceMHz Choice signed a deal withWDR andRadio Bremen for the rights to 250 of their episodes. English-subtitled versions of the current Dortmund (2012–present) and previous Bremen (2001–2019) teams' episodes are currently in production. That streaming service also has a selection of subtitled older episodes of the current Berlin, Cologne,Göttingen,Kiel, Munich, andWeimar teams from previous deals.[2]
Gunther Witte, dramatist and TV head atWDR (West German Broadcasting Cologne) developed the series against initial resistance.[3] Witte and his successors have ensured that one or two detectives are at the center of every story, and the cases are shown from their perspective; they are usually members of a team, and their lives are also included.[3]
In January 2008, a similarly produced series of radio dramas calledARD Radio Tatort was introduced; new episodes are aired monthly by regional radio stations, but not simultaneously.
In 2012, more than 100,000 people participated in the first and only online game linked to the SWRTatort production, "Der Wald steht schwarz und schweiget."[4]
In January 2014,Tatort received the 50thGrimme Award.[5][6]
The show is still aired on Sundays at 8:15 p.m. in Germany and Austria and 8:05 p.m. in Switzerland. About 30 episodes are made each year. By May 2018, 1055 episodes had been produced, plus 13 made in Austria and shown only there. Episode nr. 1000 was broadcast on Sunday, 13 November 2016.
The episodes of some series ofTatort, such as the discontinued series aboutSchimanski, played byGötz George, have become cultural icons.
The opening sequence of each episode has essentially remained the same throughout the decades except for slight changes.Klaus Doldinger composed the title music withUdo Lindenberg on drums.[7]
At the same time the ARD was starting itsTatort format, theDDR had its own police procedural/crime show calledPolizeiruf 110 ("Police dial 1-1-0"). The series premiered in 1971, less than a year after the firstTatort. It, too, was apolice procedural with various teams of investigators in different cities of the DDR. Still, in contrast to the West, only a tiny part of their cases involved actual homicides. The psychology of the perpetrators and the victims was also more prevalent. The series continued through the 1970s and 80s and even survived theWende, continuing until 1991.
In 1990,Polizeiruf practiced its brand ofGerman reunification with episode 142,"Unter Brüdern" [de] ("Amongst Brothers"), a crossover with theTatort investigatorsSchimanski and Thanner (this was co-produced with ARD and a medley of the two series themes were used in the opening intro). Until 1991, the series continued more or less independently for 11 more episodes until episode 153 (22 December 1991), again a crossover, in which Kommissar Thanner becomes the team's superior. Also in 1991, as part of the unification, the DDR's television companyDFF was split into theMitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) andOstdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg (ORB), while the television stations in the new state ofMecklenburg-Vorpommern would be operated as part of theNDR.
As MDR, ORB, and NDR were all partners in the ARD, they were expected to start producingTatort episodes as well. However, seeing the popularity ofPolizeiruf 110, it was decided that the stations would contribute to theTatort pool but that its episodes would keep the name ofPolizeiruf 110 and their own title music and intro. Still, they would be broadcast over all ARD stations on Sunday evening just like (or instead of) the 'western'Tatort.
Reorganising took one and a half years, but on 13 June 1993, the now MDR restarted the series inTatort format. This first episode was set inLeipzig, just as in 1991. However, today's episodes produced by the MDR are specified inMagdeburg, while those produced by NDR are set inRostock. The ORB (and later ORB's successor,RBB) has its episodes headed by the same team of investigators but take place in various cities inBrandenburg. In addition, Bavarian BroadcastingBR produces bothPolizeiruf andTatort episodes, both set inMunich. Like the original, the BavarianPolizeiruf episodes focus more on the psychology of the crimes and more on crimes other than homicides. Over the years, several other 'western' local broadcasters tried to producePolizeiruf episodes as a sort of 'alternative Tatort' alongside the regular ones. However, all of them stopped after a few episodes.
On 15 May 2015, RBB aired the 350th episode ofPolizeiruf 110, the 197th episode of the new format.
In 2013, seeing thatThuringia was so far the only federal state in Germany that had neither aTatort nor aPolizeiruf set in one of its cities, the MDR ordered two newTatort series, set inErfurt andWeimar, respectively.Bavarian companies produce both for the MDR.
As 1-1-0 is the speed dial code for police/emergency dispatch in Germany, but not in Austria,Polizeiruf 110 is broadcast in Austria asPolizeiruf 133.
There have been over 1100 episodes of Tatort, from November 1970 up to the beginning of January 2020[8] these have been the product of a dozen broadcasters, based around various lead investigators. While some (about 30) have been featured only once or twice, several investigators have featured in multiple episodes. There are 22 current investigative strands,[9] and three have been the subject of over 70 episodes.
| Year | Broadcast Station | Lead Investigator | Actors | City | Number of Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970–1982 | NDR | Paul Trimmel | Walter Richter | Hamburg | 11 |
| 1970–1973 | SR | Liersdahl and Schäfermann | Dieter Eppler | Saarbrücken | 2 |
| 1971–1973 | WDR | Kressin | Sieghardt Rupp | Cologne | 7 |
| 1971–1986 | SDR | Eugen Lutz | Werner Schumacher | 8 different towns inBaden-Württemberg | 16 |
| 1971–1979 | HR | Konrad | Klaus Höhne | Frankfurt | 8 |
| 1971–1978 | NDR | Finke | Klaus Schwarzkopf | Kiel and other places inSchleswig-Holstein | 7 |
| 1971–1983 | ORF | Viktor Marek | Fritz Eckhardt | Vienna | 13 |
| 1971–1972 | SFB | Erwin Kasulke | Paul Esser | West 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 | West 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 (1978),Lutz Moik (1981-1983) | Frankfurt | 3 |
| 1978–1979 | SFB | Matthias Behnke | Hans-Peter Korff | West Berlin | 2 |
| 1979 | NDR | Nagel | Diether Krebs | Braunschweig | 1 |
| 1979–1985 | NDR | Delius | Horst Bollmann | Hamburg | 3 |
| 1980 | HR | Sander | Volkert Kraeft | Frankfurt | 1 |
| 1980 | WDR | Paul Enders | Jörg Hube | Essen, Frankfurt | 1 |
| 1980–1982 | NDR | Jochen Piper | Bernd Seebacher | Bremen | 2 |
| 1980 | WDR | Willy Kreutzer | Willy Semmelrogge | Essen | 1 |
| 1981–1985 | SFB | Friedrich Walther | Volker Brandt | West Berlin | 6 |
| 1981–1988 | SWF | Hanne Wiegand | Karin Anselm | Baden-Baden,Karlsruhe,Mainz | 8 |
| 1981 | NDR | Greve | Erik Schumann | small town inSchleswig-Holstein | 1 |
| 1981 | NDR | Beck | Hans Häckermann | Lübeck | 1 |
| 1981–1991 | WDR | Horst Schimanski and Christian Thanner | Götz George andEberhard Feik | Duisburg | 29 |
| 1981–1987 | BR | Ludwig Lenz | Helmut Fischer | Munich | 7 |
| 1982 | HR | Werner Rolfs | Klaus Löwitsch | Frankfurt | 1 |
| 1982 | NDR | Nikolaus Schnoor | Uwe Dallmeier | Bremerhaven | 1 |
| 1983 | NDR | Ronke | Ulrich von Bock | Hamburg | 1 |
| 1984 | HR | Rullmann | Hans-Werner Bussinger | small towns inHesse | 1 |
| 1984–2001 | NDR | Paul Stoever and Peter Brockmöller | Manfred Krug andCharles Brauer | Hamburg andNeuwerk | 41 (with Brockmöller: 38) |
| 1984–1986 | ORF | Hirth | Kurt Jaggberg | Vienna | 3 (+ 6 only ORF) |
| 1985 | HR | Reinhold Dietze | Klaus Löwitsch | Frankfurt | 1 |
| 1985–2001 | HR | Edgar Brinkmann | Karl-Heinz von Hassel | Frankfurt | 28 |
| 1985–1989 | SFB | Hans Georg Bülow | Heinz Drache | Berlin | 6 |
| 1986 | BR | Siggi Riedmüller | Günther Maria Halmer [de] | Munich | 1 |
| 1986 | ORF | Lutinsky | Miguel Herz-Kestranek | Vienna | 1 (only ORF) |
| 1986-1988 | ORF | Pfeifer | Bruno Dallansky | Vienna | 3 (+5 only ORF) |
| 1987–1988 | SDR | Georg Thomas Schreitle | Horst Michael Neutze | Stuttgart,Führstadt | 3 |
| 1987 | BR | Karl Scherrer | Hans Brenner | Munich | 1 |
| 1988–2005 | SR | Max Palu | Jochen Senf | Saarbrücken and other places inSaarland | 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, Mario Kopper, and Johanna Stern | Ulrike Folkerts,Andreas Hoppe, andLisa Bitter | Ludwigshafen | 75 (with Kopper: 57, with Stern: 16) |
| 1990 | DRS | Walter Howald | Mathias Gnädinger | Bern | 1 |
| 1991-2017 | BR, MHz as "Tatort: Munich" (USA) | Ivo Batic, Franz Leitmayr (and Detective Sergeant Carlo Menzinger until 2007) | Miroslav Nemec,Udo Wachtveitl andMichael Fitz [de] | Munich | 90 (with Menzinger: 45, two of them together with Faber) |
| 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 andBernd Michael Lade | firstDresden, laterLeipzig, one episode inCologne as well | 45 (two of them together with Ballauf and Schenk) |
| 1992–1997 | WDR | Bernd Flemming, Detective Constable Max Ballauf and Detective Constable Miriam Koch | Martin Lüttge,Klaus J. Behrendt andRoswitha Schreiner | Düsseldorf | 15 (with Ballauf: 9) |
| 1992–2007 | SDR,SWR | Ernst Bienzle and Detective Sergeant Günter Gächter | Dietz Werner Steck andRüdiger Wandel | Stuttgart | 25 |
| 1993–2002 | DRS | Philipp von Burg and Markus Gertsch | L.I. Kisch andE.C. Sigrist | Bern | 9 |
| 1995 | HR | Leo Felber | Heinz Schubert | Frankfurt | 1 |
| 1996–1998 | SFB | Ernst Roiter and Detective Constable Michael Zorrowski | Winfried Glatzeder andRobinson Reichel | Berlin | 12 |
| 1996 | ORF | Max Becker | Klaus Wildbolz | Vienna | 1 |
| 1997 | ORF | Paul Kant and Jakob Varanasi | Wolfgang Hübsch andJohannes Nikolussi | Vienna | 2 |
| 1997 | NDR | Lea Sommer | Hannelore Elsner | Hamburg | 2 |
| 1997 - 2006 | WDR, MHz as "Tatort: Cologne" (USA) | Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk | Klaus J. Behrendt andDietmar Bär | Cologne, two episodes in Leipzig as well | 84, (respectively two of them together with Ehrlicher/Kain and Saalfeld/Keppler) |
| 1997–2019 | RB | Inga Lürsen and Detective Constable Nils Stedefreund | Sabine Postel andOliver Mommsen | Bremen,Bremerhaven | 39 (with Stedefreund: 34) |
| 1999–2014 | SFB,rbb | Till Ritter and Robert Hellmann, later Felix Stark | Dominic Raacke andStefan Jürgens, laterBoris Aljinovic | Berlin | 37, (with Hellmann: 6, with Stark: 31, the last episode only with Stark) |
| since 1999 | ORF, Tubi as "Murders in Vienna" (USA) | Moritz Eisner and Bibi Fellner | Harald Krassnitzer andAdele Neuhauser | Vienna and other places inAustria | 52 (with Fellner: 28) |
| 2001–2008 | NDR | Jan Casstorff and Eduard Holicek | Robert Atzorn,Tilo Prückner | Hamburg | 15 |
| 2002–2010 | HR | Fritz Dellwo and Charlotte Sänger | Jörg Schüttauf andAndrea Sawatzki | Frankfurt | 18 |
| since 2002 | NDR, MHz as "Tatort: Lindholm" (USA) | Charlotte Lindholm and Anaïs Schmitz (since 2019) | Maria Furtwängler andFlorence Kasumba | firstHanover, laterGöttingen and small towns inLower Saxony | 29 (with Schmitz: 3) |
| 2002-2016 | SWR | Klara Blum and Kai Perlmann | Eva Mattes andSebastian Bezzel | Konstanz and other places aroundLake Constance | 31 (with Perlmann: 27) |
| since 2002 | WDR | Frank Thiel and forensic doctor Prof. Karl-Friedrich Boerne | Axel Prahl andJan Josef Liefers | Münster | 41 |
| since 2003 | NDR, MHz as "Tatort: Borowski" (USA) | Klaus Borowski, Sarah Brandt (2010-2017), Mila Sahin (since 2017) | Axel Milberg,Maren Eggert (2003-2010),Sibel Kekilli (2010-2017),Almila Bagriacik (since 2017) | Kiel | 38 (with Brandt: 13, with Sahin: 7) |
| 2006-2012 | SR | Franz Kappl and Stephan Deininger | Maximilian Brückner andGregor Weber | Saarbrücken | 7 |
| since 2008 | SWR | Sebastian Bootz and Thorsten Lannert | Felix Klare andRichy Müller | Stuttgart | 28 |
| 2008-2015 | MDR | Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Keppler | Simone Thomalla andMartin Wuttke | Leipzig | 21 (two of them together with Ballauf and Schenk) |
| 2008-2012 | NDR | Cenk Batu | Mehmet Kurtuluş | Hamburg | 6 |
| since 2010 | HR | Felix Murot | Ulrich Tukur | Wiesbaden and other places in Hesse | 10 |
| 2011–2015 | HR | Frank Steier and Conny Mey | Joachim Król andNina Kunzendorf | Frankfurt | 7 (with Mey: 5) |
| 2011–2019 | SRF | Reto Flückiger and Liz Ritschard | Stefan Gubser and Delia Mayer | Lucerne | 17 (with Ritschard: 16) |
| since 2012 | WDR | Peter Faber, Martina Bönisch, Nora Dalay (until 2020), Daniel Kossik (until 2017), Jan Pawlak (since 2018) and Rosa Herzog (since 2021) | Jörg Hartmann [de],Anna Schudt,Aylin Tezel,Stefan Konarske,Rick Okon andStefanie Reinsperger | Dortmund | 22 (with Dalay: 17, with Kossik: 10, with Pawlak: 11, with Herzog: 4, two of them together with Batic and Leitmayr) |
| 2013–2019 | SR | Jens Stellbrink | Devid Striesow andElisabeth Brück | Saarbrücken | 8 |
| since 2013 | NDR | Nick Tschiller and Yalcin Gümer | Til Schweiger andFahri Ogün Yardım | Hamburg | 6 |
| since 2013 | NDR, Walter Presents as "Inspector Falke" (USA 2017-2021) | Thorsten Falke and Katharina Lorenz (2013-2015), Julia Grosz (since 2016) | Wotan Wilke Möhring andPetra Schmidt-Schaller,Franziska Weisz | Hamburg and other places inNorthern Germany | 17 (with Lorenz: 6, with Grosz: 11) |
| 2013–2014 | MDR | Henry Funck, Maik Schaffert and Johanna Grewel[10] | Friedrich Mücke,Benjamin Kramme andAlina Levshin | Erfurt | 2 |
| 2013–2021 | MDR, MHz as "Tatort: Weimar" (USA) | Lessing and Kira Dorn | Christian Ulmen andNora Tschirner | Weimar | 11 |
| since 2015 | rbb, MHZ as "Tatort: Streets of Berlin" (USA) | Nina Rubin and Robert Karow | Meret Becker,Mark Waschke | Berlin | 15 |
| since 2015 | BR | Paula Ringelhahn and Felix Voss | Dagmar Manzel,Fabian Hinrichs | Nuremberg and other places inFranconia | 8 |
| since 2015 | HR | Anna Janneke and Paul Brix | Margarita Broich,Wolfram Koch | Frankfurt | 15 |
| since 2016 | MDR, Walter Presents as: "Dresden Detectives" (USA) | Karin Gorniak, Henni Sieland (until 2019), Leonie Winkler (since 2019) and Peter Michael Schnabel | Karin Hanczewski,Alwara Höfels,Cornelia Gröschel andMartin Brambach | Dresden | 13 (with Sieland: 6, with Winkler: 7) |
| since 2016 | SWR | Ellen Berlinger and Martin Rascher (since 2018) | Heike Makatsch andSebastian Blomberg | Freiburg, thenMainz | 4 (with Rascher: 3) |
| since 2017 | SWR | Franziska Tobler and Friedmann Berg | Eva Löbau,Hans-Jochen Wagner | Freiburg and other places inBlack Forest | 8 |
| since 2020 | SR | Adam Schürk and Leo Hölzer | Daniel Sträßer andVladimir Burlakov | Saarbrücken | 4 |
| since 2020 | SRF | Isabelle Grandjean and Tessa Ott | Anna Pieri Zuercher andCarol Schuler | Zürich | 3 |
| since 2021 | RB | Liv Moormann, Mads Andersen and Linda Selb | Jasna Fritzi Bauer,Dar Salim andLuise Wolfram | Bremen | 3 |
Last update: 22 Jul 2023
SomeTatort episodes from the 1980s and 1990s included songs that subsequently became quite well known, and two of them reached the top of the charts:"Faust auf Faust (Schimanski)" byKlaus Lage from theTatort movieOn the Killer's Track [de], and "Midnight Lady" byChris Norman, written byDieter Bohlen, which appears on the episode"Der Tausch" [de].Some random selected soundtracks:
| Artist | Title song | Episode | Year | TV station |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Can | "Vitamin C" | "Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street" | 1973 | WDR |
| Tangerine Dream | "Das Mädchen auf der Treppe" | "Das Mädchen auf der Treppe" [de] | 1982 | WDR |
| Tangerine Dream | "Daydream/Moorland" | "Miriam" [de] | 1983 | WDR |
| Warning | "Why Can The Bodies Fly" | "Peggy hat Angst" | 1983 | SWF |
| Jil Anderson | "Without You (Baby, Baby)" | "Haie vor Helgoland" | 1984 | NDR |
| Mark Spiro | "Winds Of Change" | "Das Haus im Wald" [de] | 1985 | WDR |
| Patricia Simpson | "Dreams In The City" | "Nachtstreife" | 1985 | ORF |
| Die Toten Hosen | "Verschwende deine Zeit" | "Voll auf Haß" | 1987 | NDR |
| Sandra | "Stop For A Minute" | "Salü Palu" | 1988 | SR |
| Roger Chapman | "Slap Bang in the Middle" | "Einzelhaft" [de] | 1988 | WDR |
| Klaatu | "Woman" | "Tödlicher Treff" [de] | 1988 | SDR |
| Bonnie Tyler | "Against The Wind" | "Der Fall Schimanski" [de] | 1991 | WDR |
| Wolf Maahn | "Cool" | "Der Mörder und der Prinz" | 1992 | WDR |
| Markus Küpper | "Sie hat Schluß gemacht" | "Ein ehrenwertes Haus" | 1994 | MDR |
| Ben Becker | "Alter Mann" | "Falsches Alibi" | 1995 | MDR |
| Rammstein | Asche zu Asche | "Die Geschichte vom bösen Friedrich" | 2016 | HR |
