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 (35)
1. Episode 1
7.0Aired 2 January 2005 • 90 min
2. Episode 2
7.0Aired 9 January 2005 • 90 min
3. Episode 3
7.5Aired 16 January 2005 • 90 min
4. Episode 4
7.0Aired 30 January 2005 • 90 min
5. Episode 5
7.5Aired 6 February 2005 • 90 min
6. Köln - Ghost Town
8.0Aired 13 February 2005 • 90 min
The severed thumb of a fugitive cop killer comes to Max and Freddy in the mail, leading them to a deserted town. Directed by Niki Stein, 2005.
7. Episode 7
8.0Aired 6 March 2005 • 90 min
8. Episode 8
8.0Aired 13 March 2005 • 90 min
9. Shadow Wedding
9.0Aired 20 March 2005 • 90 min
On the day that Ulrich Wahl is called at home by his young Cuban lover Teresa, his fears are confirmed. Covered in blood and completely distraught, she begs him for help. There is a dead person in her secret love nest must go. Wahl feels compelled to act, else the fragile construction of his double life would shatter into pieces. The corpse that Chief Inspector Klaus Borowski confronts Ulrich Wahl with is not the dead man from his lover's apartment. It is a security guard who was found run over on a construction site by the entrepreneur Wahl. Borowski registers Wahl's cool response to the news. The security guard Bernd Ruda was run over with the car of Thorsten Brück, Teresa's husband. Brück also works for Wahl, but has now disappeared. When Wahl is then blackmailed, he confides in the inspector: someone blames him for the death of the security guard and is blackmailing him with it. But why is Wahl telling the commissioner about it?
10. Episode 10
9.0Aired 28 March 2005 • 90 min
11. Episode 11
4.6Aired 3 April 2005 • 90 min
12. Episode 12
7.0Aired 17 April 2005 • 90 min
13. Episode 13
7.0Aired 24 April 2005 • 90 min
14. Köln - Mine Games
10.0Aired 8 May 2005 • 90 min
One of the owners of a mine-removal nonprofit gets blown up during a jog, and his wife seems curiously unmoved. Directed by Torsetn C. Fischer, 2005.
15. Episode 15
8.0Aired 22 May 2005 • 90 min
16. The Sleeping Beauty
7.0Aired 29 May 2005 • 90 min
Following a celebration held in honor of the winner of a violin competition, music professor Karin Landauer embarks on an erotic liaison with the winner's brother. When she returns to the bedroom from the bathroom, she discovers the young man murdered. Now, her infidelity can no longer be concealed from her husband—an internationally renowned violin virtuoso. However, the husband is far more devastated by the fact that a 300-year-old Stradivarius—"The Sleeping Beauty," which belongs to his wife—has vanished from their apartment, than he is by his wife's adultery. [Eisner]
17. Bremen - Scheherazade
8.0Aired 5 June 2005 • 90 min
A notorious liar wants to convince the Bremen detectives of a 9/11 conspiracy theory.
18. Episode 18
6.5Aired 12 June 2005 • 90 min
19. Episode 19
10.0Aired 10 July 2005 • 90 min
20. Episode 20
10.0Aired 24 July 2005 • 90 min
21. The Devil from the Mountain
9.0Aired 7 August 2005 • 90 min
At the Ministry of the Interior, a German industrialist issues a threat: he will close his company's headquarters in Austria unless the murder of his wife—who was killed a year ago near their farmhouse in the Tyrolean mountains—is finally solved. Consequently, Moritz Eisner is dispatched to crack the case.
22. Köln - Frozen
10.0Aired 21 August 2005 • 90 min
A beloved figure skating celebrity and competition judge is found dead on the ice. Directed by Züli Aladag, 2005.
23. Episode 23
9.0Aired 28 August 2005 • 90 min
24. Episode 24
9.0Aired 25 September 2005 • 90 min
25. Borowski in the Underworld
10.0Aired 2 October 2005 • 90 min
A new case confronts Commissioner Borowski with grisly finds. In Kiel, the remains of human bodies appear in the sewers - teeth, hair, hip joints. They come from several bodies, and show clear traces of acid. Inspector Borowski and his colleagues are puzzled: where did the remains come from, how did they end up in the sewers, and how many people did they belong to?
26. Episode 26
9.0Aired 9 October 2005 • 90 min
27. Episode 27
9.0Aired 16 October 2005 • 90 min
28. Episode 28
8.0Aired 23 October 2005 • 90 min
29. Episode 29
7.5Aired 30 October 2005 • 90 min
30. Episode 30
7.5Aired 6 November 2005 • 90 min
31. Episode 31
7.0Aired 13 November 2005 • 90 min
32. Episode 32
3.3Aired 20 November 2005 • 90 min
33. Episode 33
10.0Aired 27 November 2005 • 90 min
34. Blowing Snow
6.5Aired 18 December 2005 • 90 min
After a snowstorm, a forester finds the very young Stefanie Thaller on the edge of an industrial park in the north of Munich: half naked and explored. Rarely have detective inspectors Franz Leitmayr and Ivo Batic faced a murder case with such poor information, and the father of the murdered man, Ludwig Thaller, a traveling salesman, is constantly breathing down the investigators' necks.
35. Episode 35
10.0Aired 25 December 2005 • 90 min