About this season
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.
Episodes (12)
1. Episode 1
7.0Aired 22 January 1989 • 90 min
2. Episode 2
8.0Aired 19 February 1989 • 90 min
3. The Pott
8.0Aired 9 April 1989 • 90 min
A pot of half a million marks - donations for workers who want to prevent the closure of their factory by occupying the factory - disappears after a brutal robbery; and shortly afterwards one of them, the union official Broegger, is murdered. The atmosphere in Duisburg is heated, speculation is spreading. Schimanski knows that the case must be solved as quickly as possible. But now, of all times, his friend and colleague Thanner has left him; he has gone to Bonn, to a branch of the BKA.
4. Episode 4
7.0Aired 14 May 1989 • 94 min
5. Episode 5
8.0Aired 28 May 1989 • 90 min
6. Episode 6
7.5Aired 9 July 1989 • 90 min
7. Episode 7
3.0Aired 30 July 1989 • 90 min
8. Blood trail
7.0Aired 20 August 1989 • 86 min
Two Polish truck drivers are brutally murdered by an Arab hit squad at a scrap yard in Duisburg. At the same time, the exiled Pole Leczek, scrapyard owner and pimp, is apparently to be executed. But the attack fails. Schimanski and Thanner, who both witness the attack, can't believe their eyes.
9. Episode 9
7.0Aired 1 October 1989 • 90 min
10. The New One
7.0Aired 29 October 1989 • 90 min
A brutal serial rapist has plunged Ludwigshafen into a state of terror. Young Detective Lena Odenthal of the Vice Squad faces her first major case, focusing her investigation on three men with prior convictions. When one of the attacks ends fatally - and Lena unexpectedly takes charge of the Homicide Division - she decides to set a trap for the perpetrator, unaware that in doing so, she is putting her own life at risk…
11. Schimanski - Katja's Silence
8.0Aired 3 December 1989 • 90 min
When a policeman is killed, Schimanski's investigation gets personal.
12. Episode 12
8.0Aired 27 December 1989 • 90 min