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 (11)
1. Episode 1
8.5Aired 21 January 1990 • 90 min
2. Episode 2
10.0Aired 18 February 1990 • 90 min
3. Episode 3
7.0Aired 16 April 1990 • 90 min
4. Episode 4
4.5Aired 13 May 1990 • 90 min
Jochen Bähr, department head in a pharmaceutical company, is found shot dead in his boat early on a Sunday morning. At the crime scene is his young son Thomas, who is in shock and unable to speak. Schimanski, who needs the boy's statement, tries to break his encapsulation. He has initial success - then Thomas is kidnapped under the eyes of the inspector.
5. Episode 5
7.0Aired 4 June 1990 • 90 min
6. Zabou
8.0Aired 28 July 1990 • 90 min
Schimanski is investigating the drug mafia. The trail leads to a luxurious club where political celebrities, the wealthy and the demimonde meet. But suddenly he is standing in front of Zabou. He knows her from before, when she was still a child, his girlfriend's daughter. Back then he was like a father to her. But what is she doing here now?
7. Episode 7
8.0Aired 4 August 1990 • 90 min
8. Episode 8
7.0Aired 2 September 1990 • 90 min
This time the crime scene is an Italian restaurant in Duisburg. Schimanski happens to witness an armed robbery of the landlord Giovanni Salvatore. He intervenes and experiences a fiasco: his girlfriend Renate is pushed into the line of fire by one of the gangsters and dies. Knowing that he has killed an innocent person, he puts down his weapon. Thanner joins the manhunt for the two perpetrators and pays dearly for it: Schimanski finds him unconscious, with serious injuries, after a car accident.
9. Episode 9
9.0Aired 28 October 1990 • 90 min
A murder in connection with illegal art trading leads - shortly after the fall of the Wall - to the first East-West contacts in the field of crime. Schimanski and Thanner investigate together with their popular colleagues Fuchs and Grawe from East Berlin: paintings owned by the GDR, which were extorted from museums and private individuals in the course of obtaining foreign currency, were put aside by former Stasi employees after the fall of the Wall and are now to be sold to the West via the old channels. The police suspect the Düsseldorf-based art dealer Schrader to be the key figure.
10. Episode 10
7.0Aired 11 November 1990 • 90 min
11. Episode 11
7.5Aired 9 December 1990 • 90 min