Spreewaldkrimi - Episode Guide

Dr. Til Desno is a doctor for plastic trauma surgery in Berlin and as a court expert responsible for the reconstruction of faces. When a mummified body is found in the Spreewaldmoor, he is commissioned to reconstruct its face. The dead man is a friend from Abiturzeiten – who said he was piled up in the West and had his friends for state security reveal – including til. Now – the friend was already dead at the moment of treason. Til's personal story and the story of his friends at the time must be rewritten. Til goes back to the Spreewald on the trip –. To the places of his youth and his secrets. In search of his past, his identity, his history.

In a side arm of the Spreewald Biosphere Reserve, Daniel Bartko's body, which is caught in a flap iron, is discovered in an empty barge. The opinion quickly prevails: Polish fur hunters were at work here. Criminal Commissioner Thorsten Krüger starts the investigation and learns that the Nutrias, a fur animal from South America, were introduced and bred to the Spreewald region in GDR times because of their coveted skins. Pathology proves that the percussion iron was only put on after Daniel Bartko's death. Daniel Bartko was married and Sorbe. His wife is pregnant. Daniel was a ferryman and to the annoyance of his traditional family not very attached to his Sorbian roots. Marriage to Tanja, a non-sorbine, daughter of the district forester, was an affront in the family's eyes.
Krüger falls in love with Tanja and assists her when Nutria skins are found in Daniel's shed. It turns out that Daniel did common cause with the fur animal hunters and that he wanted to leave his wife to share with his new love, the Polish Maria, to start a new life in Australia. After a deadly duel in the bog, Krüger convicts the real perpetrator.

Harry Ritter was imprisoned for 15 years for murder in a robbery at a jewelry store in Berlin. Now he returns to the Spreewald, his old home, – to secure the hidden prey from back then, and to reconcile himself with his son Matthias, who had broken off any contact with him.
Matthias has very different concerns: he investigates together with Commissioner Krüger in his first murder case as a public prosecutor. A private detective was found shot on the banks of a Spreewald Canal the day after Harry's release. The Dead is an old acquaintance: boar, a former accomplice of Harry. And then snake appears, the third from the then robbery trio, and demands its part of the captured jewels. Sociologist Sandra, who fell in love with Harry, wants to be with him far from old quarrels start a new life. And Mona, Matthias' wife, tries to reconcile her husband with his father Harry – especially since she finds the surprisingly returning Harry sympathetic and Mäxchen, the little son of her and Matthias, happily and proudly accepts his grandfather, who was previously unknown to him. Harry is torn between the bitter consequences of his criminal past and the dream of a new beginning in a loving family circle.

Commissioner Krüger senses the dark secret behind the idiosyncratic behavior of the young prosecutor. Old wounds break open. When Mäxchen disappears from the pumpkin ghost festival and the search in the nightly Spreewald is unsuccessful, Matthias is forced to ally himself with his father. Can Commissioner Krüger avert a disaster? 

Commissioner Krüger investigates two deaths that occurred at and in Lübbenau Castle. One dead man seems to have drowned in a flow in the suff, the other is allegedly died of heart failure in the hotel. But it soon turns out that the cause was snake venom in both cases.

Actually, he was almost gone: Commissioner Krüger ( Christian Redl ) finally wanted to leave the Spreewald. But there is one
Big fire in the Hotel Wotschofska. In the hotel ruin you can find the dead Tim Engel, who was killed before the fire. The Commissioner has to postpone the departure, investigations are pending.
What does the hotel owner Karsten Hellstein have to do with the matter? What is the relationship between him and Tina Engel ( Anja Kling ), the victim's widow? Is there a motif here? And what about Tina Engel, who is always stranger?

Midsummer in the Spreewald. The heat hits everyone. A man threw himself in front of a truck on a lonely country road. Intent to commit suicide. The unknown is covered in blood and needs to be operated on. A lot of foreign blood is discovered on his clothing. The man has obviously committed a serious crime, but is now seriously injured in an artificial coma and is not audible. His identity will soon be established: Gottfried Richter, most recently active as a package messenger in the impassable Spreewald, married, a daughter. Surveys and investigations result, that Gottfried Richter must have recently killed a person. But where and whom? Where are his wife and teenage daughter?
In a narrative typical of the „ Spreewaldkrimi ", this time it is not the perpetrator but the victim who is sought. Commissioner Krüger and his team follow the package messenger's path through the Spreewald. You come across a family drama. Low wages in the delivery service and the switch from wood to light metal when building a boat, important aspects are important for the plot. The producer and co-initiator of the series, Wolfgang Esser, brought the team of the first film back together for this sixth „ Spreewaldkrimi ": director Kai Wessel, cameraman Holly Fink, editor Tina Freitag, Mixer Richard Borowski and composer Ralf Wienrich – who this time even engaged the Babelsberg film orchestra for the score oscillating between classical and jazz. „ Spreewaldkrimi – Murderous heat ", like all others written by Thomas Kirchner, tells the story of a likeable outsider who becomes a murderer. Despite all the goodwill efforts, the married Gottfried Richter does not find his place in the Spreewald community. It is portrayed by Roeland Wiesnekker, his partner Christina Große.In addition to Christian Redl as Commissioner Krüger, Claudia Geisler, Rike Schäffer and Thorsten Merten can be seen as investigators. „ Murderous Heat " was invited to the TV Krimi Festival in Wiesbaden and to the festival achtung berlin.

A woman is recovered dead from a small lake in the Spreewald. Seemingly a suicide. She had lost her nine-month-old daughter in an apparently self-inflicted car accident five years ago and has suffered from severe school psychosis since then, causing her marriage to break up. But the autopsy reveals the use of toxic mushrooms. Commissioner Krüger researches with the psychotherapist of the dead. Has she been a victim of banned psycho-experiments? The insecure behavior and statements made by the therapist encourage Commissioner Krüger to investigate the exact circumstances of the car accident. He comes across another patient of the psychologist, a local politician with a promising career.
But what was the connection between the dead from the pond and the politician? The key to the truth seems to be the psychotherapist, whose medical ethics prevent clarification. Commissioner Krüger increases the pressure on the suspects – until a dramatic revelation occurs. The ZDF „ Spreewaldkrimi " series, produced by Wolfgang Esser, is available in German after six successfully broadcast films Crime landscape for sophisticated, mysterious-predicted films in which past and present penetrate dramatically. After „ Murderous Heat " about the failure of a male outsider, the internationally successful cinema director Sherry Hormann „ staged the dead in the pond ", a rather quiet tragedy of a traumatized woman.
In a psychologically exciting story, ( province- ) political mechanisms of power in the Spreewald microcosm destroy several lives. And that centuries ago. The melancholy-paint-like environment is not a guarantee of idyll. In addition to Christian Redl's stoic, mysterious Commissioner Krüger, Birge Schade's sensitive psychotherapist and Thomas Loibl's career-oriented local politician shapes Anna Maria's oppressive, dense game of this drama – about which the author of all seven Spreewald thrillers, Thomas Kirchner, says: „ There has never been so little Spreewald to see, but never felt so much Spreewald – in the figures. " The seventh Spreewald thriller „ The dead in the pond " is invited to the Hamburg Film Festival and the Biberacher Film Festival.

Commissioner Krüger is feverishly looking for three film students in the Hochwald. They wanted to make a film based on a Sorbian legend and the unexplained disappearance of two women. The students are initially swallowed up by the ground. What remains is your laptop, on which your filmed film scenes are stored. With these clips, Commissioner Krüger tries to clarify these two, widely divergent missing cases. Mirko, Laura and Dennis, the three film students, want to make a semi-documentary, semi-fictional film. To do this, they use the folk tale of Nix, a Aquarius who lives in the waters of the Spreewald with his wife, daughters and sons. Legends report that when the mermaid is hurt, he draws his victims to his wet realm. They never reappear.
Mirko found an old case, to which the film should build. Fifteen years ago, two young women disappeared inexplicably in the Spreewald. The students go on a search, interview locals and the then responsible commissioner, summon the legend and poke around in the old case, encounter interest, skepticism and open rejection. When Laura and Dennis find that their fellow student Mirko is the son of one of the two missing women, they themselves are in danger. But getting out of the Nix project is out of the question. His initially reluctant assistant Fichte and a Polish cleaning lady help Krüger to gradually see through the student's production and to recognize the connection. Krüger attaches himself to the trail of a suspect.
But then comes a fateful storm night. 

Mandy and her friend Georg die in an explosive attack in the high forest. Commissioners Krüger and Fichte' investigation initially led to Mandy's ex-boyfriend Timo. It is swallowed up by the ground. Timo and his best friend Karl went to the Bundeswehr and Afghanistan together. Karl died in an operation, Timo remained physically unharmed, but has since suffered from a post-traumatic stress disorder. Krüger meets Timo's mother Katrin, who is afraid for her son. Krüger is drawn to this woman because he knows her trauma and that her son from his own experience with his father, who came traumatized from the Second World War. At first, Krüger is convinced that Timo has now committed suicide – like Krüger's father, who shot his wife first and then himself.
But when he finds Timo and can penetrate the young man in the thicket of the Spreewald, he realizes that it was not Mandy who was the intended victim, but Georg. Now Timo should put the deed in his shoes and he should also be blown up to make it look like suicide.

In the tenth Spreewald thriller, Commissioner Krüger fights for the machinations of an energy cartel and for his life with a personal fault. Knut Hellstein stands at the door of Commissioner Krüger's caravan and asks him for his help. Working in the energy industry, he got into the gear train of her intrigue games. But Krüger has to recognize that Knut is not only a victim, but also an accomplice. Krüger promises to help Knut because he is still haunted by the personal feeling of guilt that he did not prevent the tragic suicide of Knut's father, Karsten Hellstein, at the time. Before Krüger meets an important informant, he is assassinated: his caravan is lit one night and burns out completely.
Krüger can just be saved from the flames by Fichte, but must be put in an artificial coma. The attack looks like an accident, but Krüger's team does not believe it and starts the investigation. Spruce and Marlene are slowly getting on the right track, while Krüger becomes „ conscious " in his coma dreams, whoever seeks his life. A race against time begins.

Tanja Bartko is accused of killing Malchow's lawyer – with a crossbow. Commissioner Krüger should clarify the course of the crime. But can he do that despite his old affection for Tanja? Tanja Bartko returned to the Spreewald with her son Daniel and her partner Holger Bingel to build a large hotel complex with an exclusive spa area on the inherited riverside property. They could even win over international investors. But there are difficulties with the building permit. Is there only sheer envy and resentment behind the alleged nature conservation reservations? A Polish investor registers claims for recourse, which are to be clarified in a hearing led by an English judge. But Tanja's lawyer is found dead on a weir, and her partner has disappeared.
An indictment is being brought against Tanja. Commissioner of all places Krüger, who fell in love with another case in Tanja years ago, is supposed to prove her guilt. To prepare the trial, Krüger and his team are trying to reconstruct what really happened. A commissioner in the conflict between law, truth and personal affection for a suspect of murder – and an idyllic, legendary region that is threatened by international tourism desires: The 11th staged by Jan Fehse. Spreewaldkrimi „ Deadly Homecoming " – again penned by Thomas Kirchner – has many facets, not least with the Sorbian Plon a flying lucky dragon.

While Commissioner Krüger withdraws into the Spreewald like a lonely wolf, Fichte tries to clarify the background of two accidents and the appearance of a gang of rockers. Two people die in quick succession during forestry work and a motorcycle accident. Fichte suspects a connection with the rocker gang „ Die Wölfe " that had just emerged from southern Germany. But he needs Commissioner Krüger for his investigation. But Krüger refuses, he is in a deep crisis of meaning. There is a break between the two investigators. While Fichte, together with the ambitious police candidate Luise Bohn, tries to solve the mysterious deaths, Krüger has gone deep withdrawn the forest. His hermitage is only disturbed by the hunter Drilling.
He wants to hunt down an immigrant wolf that tears sheep in the area. Krüger recognizes in the lonely animal a metaphor for the increasing loneliness and brutalization in society and for itself. Because Krüger has lost his intuition, which has so far helped him to solve his criminal cases. Spruce gropes in the dark. How the dead are connected and what it has to do with the anonymous patron who distributes money to social institutions in the Spreewald will remain a mystery for so long, until Krüger and Fichte have found a way to find side by side.

Frankfurt blogger Lukas returns to the Spreewald, his old home, at Lent. The morning after the big carnival party, he is found naked and dead in a field. He celebrated with his old youth clique in masks and costumes and commented very critically on everything for his followers on the Internet. Alcohol and drugs were involved. Is his death an unfortunate accident, was he murdered, or was it suicide? Digital and real traces mix. Fichte tries to gain access to the To create world of the dead blogger. Krüger traditionally investigates and hopes that his intuition will work again in real life.
Both struggle with the negative influence that social media can have on social coexistence and how awareness fades to take responsibility for their own actions. In this melancholic meditation on being lost in an orphaned province, Krüger tries to withdraw into private life and assist pathologist Marlene in the event of a serious illness.

Krüger retired from active service and the Spreewald after Marlene's death. One morning he finds the body of environmental activist Chris Wenzel on a lock. Fichte and the young criminal officer Luise Bohn, who returned home after her training, start the investigation. The dead man had made some enemies in the region as a water worker and opponent of the Cottbus Baltic Sea. Krüger lives in seclusion in his construction vehicle in the Spreewald and mourns for Marlene, who appears to him again and again in visions. With the help of legendary figures from the Spreewald, she sends him signs that he cannot interpret at first. Spruce, Luise and Krüger come in different tracks to the property of Jasmin and Gerald Heyse, which is located deep in the Spreewald.
The couple tried to cope with the tragic accident death of their six-year-old daughter Marie, who completely destroyed the life of the young family three years ago. Spruce remembers: A little girl drowned when she was hiding in a fish box while playing and it became a deadly trap. The commissioners suspect that Chris Wenzel may have died in this place. The „ Spreewaldkrimi – Dead Don't Mourn " is a multifaceted story about the loss. The typical nested „ Spreewaldkrimi " dramaturgy follows the theme of the farewell to the previous film.

A holiday home on the river is set on fire and destroyed. A politician is also murdered. Fichte, Luise Bohn and Krüger are looking for arsonists and perpetrators in different ways. They come across the patient Maja Wiechmann in a psychiatric clinic. She has a dissociative identity disorder, and surprisingly, both cases come together. A mysterious woman appears at Krüger's construction vehicle and warns him of a danger. On the same day, the body of Gernwart Voss, local politician of the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district, is found, who was responsible for distributing structural change funds. In the face of this crime, Krüger Luise Bohn and Fichte provide information about his mysterious one „ Warnerin ".
Luise and Fichte, however, follow the trail of a arsonist who lit a holiday home near the body. Krüger recognizes the mysterious visitor in Maja Wiechmann. He deals with the psyche of Maja, who according to her empathetic supervisor, psychologist Jenny Trumaschek, is divided into six different personalities. But now a 7th seems to be in the disturbed Maja. To have made person wide. Who is this 7. Person? When Fichte and Luise finally end up in the psychiatric clinic during their investigation into the Voss murder case, the 7th. Person for an unexpected turn and to clarify the two cases and their relationships.