Scene of the Crime: Season 53

What Season 53 of Scene of the Crime

Season 53 Episodes

1. 

   53x01 Episode 1

   Jan 1, 2022 · 90 min

   Directing: Rudi Gaul · Writing: Katharina Adler · Starring: Jürgen Hartmann, Richy Müller, Felix Klare, Ursina Lardi

2. 

   53x02 Greed and Fear

   Jan 2, 2022 · 90 min

   The team investigate when the body of a man is found in the Dortmund harbor area.

   Directing: Martin Eigler · Writing: Sönke Lars Neuwöhner · Starring: Anna Schudt, Jörg Hartmann, Rick Okon, Stefanie Reinsperger

3. 

   53x03 The Devil's Long Breath

   Jan 16, 2022 · 90 min

   Total Blackout: Upon waking up, Commissioner Thiel cannot for the life of him explain how he ended up in this hotel room. And what are Professor Boerne and that giant plush koala doing sitting on the edge of his bed? But things are about to get even worse: A body has been found in the woods nearby. The victim turns out to be Thiel’s former boss from his days with the Hamburg Homicide Squad—a man he hasn't seen in years. Or has he? Professor Boerne is fascinated by Thiel’s amnesia and joins him in the search for clues. (Text: ARD)

   Directing: Franziska Meletzky · Writing: Thorsten Wettcke · Starring: Axel Prahl, Mechthild Großmann, Björn Meyer, Claus Dieter Clausnitzer

4. 

   53x04 Episode 4

   Jan 23, 2022 · 90 min

   Starring: Vladimir Burlakov, Daniel Sträßer

5. 

   53x05 Four years

   Feb 6, 2022 · 90 min · ★ 6.8

   Carolin and Moritz Seitz were once known as a successful couple of actors. But today she is considered the wife of a murderer: four years ago, Moritz Seitz was convicted of killing the former theater star Thore Bärwald after an excessive New Year's Eve party. Now Ole Stark turns himself in to the police. He is also an actor and claims to be the real killer. The public prosecutor's office cannot initiate new investigations, but they give Ballauf and Schenk a week to find out what is true about the story that is being served to them.

   Directing: Torsten C. Fischer · Writing: Wolfgang Stauch · Starring: Klaus J. Behrendt, Dietmar Bär, Joe Bausch, Thomas Heinze

6. 

   53x06 Sara's confession

   Feb 13, 2022 · 90 min

   After four years in prison for the manslaughter of her father, Sara Manzer wants to look ahead. She has support for her new life - primarily from her friend Marlene, who takes her into her apartment. Sara, who has turned from a party girl into a reserved woman as a result of her imprisonment, wants to shake off memories and reorient herself. But then the police show up at her door. A former colleague was stabbed and old files of her case were found on him. She reluctantly admits that she spoke to Benno Rose before his death. He had new insights into her old case that should relieve her. Sara insists she had nothing to do with Rose's death. Which doesn't stop the inspectors from investigating.

   Directing: Kai Wessel · Writing: Astrid Ströher · Starring: Eva Löbau, Hans-Jochen Wagner, Johanna Wokalek, Sophie Lutz

7. 

   53x07 Love me!

   Feb 20, 2022 · 90 min

   Feline Wagner disappeared a year ago and a friend reported her missing. Now her body is found by chance in a burial forest during preparations for an urn burial. An argument at the site distracts Faber: It's hard to miss the fact that Commissioner Bönisch and the KTU member Sebastian Haller are already having their private dispute on duty again. Observing that Martina Bönisch's emotional life is putting a strain on herself and her work doesn't leave Faber unmoved.Rosa Herzog and Jan Pawlak contact the Ihle funeral home: The gravesite was reserved here, a few days after Feline Wagner disappeared. It was paid for in cash by a man who gave a false name. Another murder victim is rescued, just a few steps away from the first. There was a year between the two murders - and soon twelve months have passed again...

   Directing: Torsten C. Fischer · Screenplay: Jürgen Werner · Starring: Sybille J. Schedwill, Anna Schudt, Jörg Hartmann, Rick Okon

8. 

   53x08 Episode 8

   Feb 27, 2022 · 90 min

   Directing: Christine Hartmann · Writing: Stefan Holtz, Stefan Betz · Starring: Miroslav Nemec, Udo Wachtveitl, Christian Ammermüller, Andrea Schneider

9. 

   53x09 Prophet

   Mar 6, 2022 · 90 min · ★ 5.0

   What begins as a completely "normal" murder investigation takes on ever wider ramifications: The shopaholic Magnus Rosponi is found beaten to death in his apartment.But neither his cheerful bowling friends nor Silke Haller, who recognizes the dead man as a teenage crush, can explain why the popular man had to die. Instead, Professor Boerne finds a strange, small object in the corpse. Thiel discovers parallel amorous entanglements. And when the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution turns up in the shady characters Muster and Mann, things get absurd.Apparently Thiel and Boerne have stirred up a hornet's nest and even attracted the attention of an assassin. But how is it all connected? And what's the story with the little dog that loves eating bananas?

   Directing: Sven Halfar · Writing: Astrid Ströher · Starring: Axel Prahl, Mechthild Großmann, Claus Dieter Clausnitzer, Christine Urspruch

10. 

    53x10 Episode 10

    Mar 13, 2022 · 90 min

    Starring: Carol Schuler, Anna Pieri Zuercher

11. 

    53x11 Tyrannicide

    Mar 20, 2022 · 90 min

    Falke and Grosz are entrusted with a delicate task under strict discretion: 17-year-old Juan Mendez has disappeared from a fine boarding school where celebrities and elites from business and politics have their children educated. Juan's father is the ambassador of an authoritarian country. The questionable despot is known for having members of the opposition and journalists arrested and tortured. While Juan's girlfriend Hanna has the worst fears, his best friend August suspects that the boy just wants to avoid the official celebrations of the state visit. Whatever the reason, Juan's disappearance puts the Bergsons, the teachers who run the school, in distress. The good reputation of the school is its most important asset. In the course of the investigations by Falke and Grosz, the boy's bodyguard comes under suspicion, especially when a blackmail letter appears: Juan's kidnappers are trying to free imprisoned opponents of the regime and journalists.

    Directing: Christoph Stark · Writing: Jochen Bitzer · Starring: Wotan Wilke Möhring, Franziska Weisz, José Barros, Arash Marandi

12. 

    53x12 Episode 12

    Mar 27, 2022 · 90 min

    Starring: Klaus J. Behrendt, Dietmar Bär

13. 

    53x13 Fair's Fair

    Apr 3, 2022 · 90 min

    Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) and Fellner (Adele Neuhauser) are called to a crystal-clear case: two bodies and a perpetrator who actually alerted the police himself and is waiting for the investigators at the crime scene—complete with the murder weapon, a motive, and a full confession. It appears to be a crime of passion—a cuckolded husband who simply snapped. Everything could have gone so "smoothly," were it not for the fact that the country's most cunning defense attorney had taken on the accused's case—and secured an acquittal. Shortly thereafter, the attorney himself ends up on the autopsy table—and the acquitted man vanishes without a trace. To top it all off, "Inkasso" Heinzi (Simon Schwarz)—an old acquaintance of Moritz and Bibi—shows up once again to put the pair's friendship to a grueling test.

    Starring: Harald Krassnitzer, Adele Neuhauser

14. 

    53x14 Borowski and the Shadow of the Moon

    Apr 10, 2022 · 90 min

    After an autumn storm, a skeletonized body is found under an uprooted oak tree. As Borowski suspects very quickly, it is the remains of his first friend Susanne. When Borowski was 16, he wanted to hitchhike Fehmarn with her for the legendary Jimi Hendrix appearance. After an argument, however, Susanne disappeared without a trace. Borowski had tried restlessly to clear up the disappearance. What was a grim assumption at the time is now suddenly bitter certainty when the forensic medicine Kroll unambiguously identifies the body. More resolutely than ever and without consultation with his colleagues, Borowski is pursuing the unexpected opportunity to face the perpetrator at the time after all these years. When Mila Sahin sees through this,she is shaken by the tragic fate of her colleague and initially covers him. But Borowski's constant going it alone finally forces her to involve her superior Schladitz.

    Starring: Axel Milberg, Almila Bağrıaçık

15. 

    53x15 Darkness

    Apr 18, 2022 · 90 min

    A young couple alerts the police in the middle of the night. The two discovered a woman's body in a forest on the outskirts of Frankfurt. But when the chief inspectors Anna Janneke and Paul Brix arrive there, the body has disappeared.

    Directing: Petra Lüschow · Writing: Petra Lüschow · Starring: Wolfram Koch, Zazie de Paris, Margarita Broich, Isaak Dentler

16. 

    53x16 Why

    May 1, 2022 · 88 min

    The young IT specialist Lukas Keller is brutally murdered near his sports club for no apparent motive.

    Directing: Max Färberböck · Writing: Max Färberböck, Catharina Schuchmann · Cast: Dagmar Manzel, Fabian Hinrichs, Eli Wasserscheid, Andreas Leopold Schadt

17. 

    53x17 Episode 17

    May 8, 2022 · 90 min

    Cast: Ulrike Folkerts, Lisa Bitter

18. 

    53x18 The Girl Who Goes Home Alone

    May 22, 2022 · 90 min

    A headless male body is recovered from the Spree, whose identity is difficult to establish. A little later, Nina Rubin is being followed by a young woman. Julie Bolshakov tells the detective that she witnessed a murder and asks Rubin for police protection. However, contact with Julie puts Rubin in a dilemma, because from now on she has to keep Karow out of the investigation so as not to endanger the young woman. Karow investigates the identity of the dead man, but senses more and more that his colleague is hiding things from him. Trust has been a thorny issue between the two from the start, and Rubin's behavior hurts Karow - especially since they've also become closer privately. All the more the old problem breaks out again. In her latest case, will Nina Rubin be able to free Julie from the clutches of her crime family?

    Directing: The Chau Ngo · Writing: Günter Schütter · Starring: Meret Becker, Mark Waschke, Bella Dayne, Tan Çağlar

19. 

    53x19 Love Frenzy

    May 29, 2022 · 90 min

    At first glance, the Bremen inspectors Moormann and Selb are dealing with the suicide of a mentally ill person. After a house fire, the tenant's body is found in her hermetically sealed bedroom. [Harbor Crimes.]

    Directing: Anne Zohra Berrached · Writing: Martina Mouchot · Starring: Luise Wolfram, Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Matthias Matschke, Aljoscha Stadelmann

20. 

    53x20 Cold house

    Jun 6, 2022 · 90 min

    A wife initially disappears without a trace from her house, which was obviously broken into. Traces of blood suggest the worst. Her husband Simon Fischer called the police, but then left the house.Gorniak, Winkler and Schnabel initiate a large-scale search for Kathrin Fischer. The desperate Fischer himself quickly becomes the focus of the investigation: the traces in the house were manipulated, the break-in was apparently faked - forensics finds older traces of blood... Neighbors and colleagues give different accounts, but there are indications that Fischer beat and terrorized his wife. Did he want to prevent her from leaving him, did he kill her and fake a kidnapping? Or did Kathrin Fischer secretly prepare the escape and stage the bloody act to incriminate her husband, because she can only be safe from him if he is in prison?

    Directing: Anne Zohra Berrached · Screenplay: Christoph Busche, Anne Zohra Berrached · Starring: Karin Hanczewski, Martin Brambach, Cornelia Gröschel, Amelie Kiefer

21. 

    53x21 Living in the Shadows

    Jun 12, 2022 · 90 min

    When Julia Grosz's friend Ela, who infiltrated Hamburg's left-wing autonomous scene as an undercover investigator for the LKA, disappears without a trace, Grosz sets out to look for her. Under a false identity, she goes into the hedonistic, liberal milieu in which her friend seemed to have lost herself.

    Directing: Mia Spengler · Writing: Lena Fakler · Starring: Jonathan Kwesi Aikins, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Franziska Weisz, Gina Haller

22. 

    53x22 Episode 22

    Jun 19, 2022 · 90 min

    Starring: Miroslav Nemec, Udo Wachtveitl

23. 

    53x23 Episode 23

    Jun 26, 2022 · 90 min

    Starring: Heike Makatsch, Sebastian Blomberg, Rainer Laupichler

24. 53x24

    53x24 Episode 24

    Sep 4, 2022 · 90 min

    Cast: Ulrike Folkerts, Lisa Bitter

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    53x25 Episode 25

    Sep 11, 2022 · 90 min

    Directing: Christine Repond · Starring: Carol Schuler, Aaron Arens, Rachel Braunschweig, Therese Affolter

26. 

    53x26 Episode 26

    Sep 18, 2022 · 90 min

    Starring: Richy Müller, Felix Klare, Susanne Heimberger

27. 

    53x27 Episode 27

    Sep 25, 2022 · 90 min

    Directing: Matthias X. Oberg · Screenplay: Lars Hubrich, Matthias X. Oberg · Starring: Barbara Philipp, Ulrich Tukur, Anna Unterberger, Thomas Schmauser

28. 

    53x28 The Gates of Hell

    Oct 2, 2022 · 90 min

    The death of a priest sends Moritz and Bibi into the world of exorcisms and the occult. [Vienna]

    Directing: Thomas Roth · Starring: Harald Krassnitzer, Adele Neuhauser

29. 

    53x29 Episode 29

    Oct 9, 2022 · 90 min

    Starring: Daniel Donskoy, Maria Furtwängler, Florence Kasumba, Mala Emde

30. 

    53x30 Episode 30

    Oct 16, 2022 · 90 min

    Starring: Isaak Dentler, Wolfram Koch, Zazie de Paris, Margarita Broich

31. 

    53x31 Episode 31

    Oct 23, 2022 · 90 min

    The chief inspectors Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk are called to a canal on the outskirts of the city. A 19-year-old drug addict has been murdered. It quickly turns out that the victim, Lara Krohn, became a street prostitute because of her addiction. Her best friend, Kim, who is the same age, suspects that Lara was killed by a customer.

    Directing: Tini Tüllmann · Writing: Arne Nolting, Jan Martin Scharf · Starring: Klaus J. Behrendt, Dietmar Bär, Roland Riebeling, Tinka Fürst

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    53x32 Episode 32

    Nov 6, 2022 · 90 min

    Starring: Eva Löbau, Hans-Jochen Wagner

33. 

    53x33 Episode 33

    Nov 13, 2022 · 90 min · ★ 5.7

    Directing: Janis Rebecca Rattenni · Writing: Benjamin Hessler · Starring: Axel Prahl, Mechthild Großmann, Claus Dieter Clausnitzer, Christine Urspruch

34. 

    53x34 Episode 34

    Nov 20, 2022 · 90 min

    Boulevard reporter Brigitte Burkhard is kidnapped in Dresden. Her masked captor gives the police a 24-hour ultimatum: 150 allegedly abducted children must be released, or Burkhard will die. When it becomes clear that the children do not actually exist, the investigation leads to a father who has been convinced that his daughter was kidnapped and has increasingly become consumed by conspiracy theories.

    Directing: Gregory Kirchhoff · Starring: Karin Hanczewski, Martin Brambach, Cornelia Gröschel

35. 

    53x35 Episode 35

    Dec 18, 2022 · 90 min

    Directing: Stefan Schaller · Writing: Erol Yesilkaya · Starring: Mark Waschke, Andreas Pietschmann, Jasmin Tabatabai, Dietrich Hollinderbäumer

36. 

    53x36 Episode 36 Season Finale

    Dec 26, 2022 · 90 min

    Starring: Miroslav Nemec, Udo Wachtveitl

Season 53 Cast

Axel PrahlFrank Thiel3 episodes

Klaus J. BehrendtMax Ballauf3 episodes

Dietmar BärFreddy Schenk3 episodes

Miroslav NemecIvo Batic3 episodes

Udo WachtveitlFranz Leitmayr3 episodes

Mechthild GroßmannWilhelmine Klemm3 episodes

Claus Dieter ClausnitzerHerbert Thiel3 episodes

Christine UrspruchSilke 'Alberich' Haller3 episodes

Björn MeyerMirko Schrader3 episodes

Jan Josef LiefersKarl-Friedrich Boerne3 episodes

Ulrike FolkertsLena Odenthal2 episodes

Wolfram KochPaul Brix2 episodes

Zazie de ParisFanny2 episodes

Harald KrassnitzerMoritz Eisner2 episodes

Adele NeuhauserBibi Fellner2 episodes

Isaak DentlerJonas2 episodes

Eva LöbauFranziska Tobler2 episodes

Hans-Jochen WagnerFriedemann Berg2 episodes

Wotan Wilke MöhringThorsten Falke2 episodes

Franziska WeiszJulia Grosz2 episodes

Lisa BitterJohanna Stern2 episodes

Anna SchudtMartina Bönisch2 episodes

Jörg HartmannPeter Faber2 episodes

Carol SchulerTessa Ott2 episodes

Where to Watch Season 53 of Scene of the Crime