Tatort
Ballauf - 54 - Ihr Kinderlein kommet
S2012 · E14Times reflect the original schedule reported by the data source and are converted to your time zone. Streaming availability may vary by country.
Episode details
- Original air date
- Your local date and time
- Status
- Aired
- Season / Episode
- 2012 / 14
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Original network/platform
- Das Erste
- Data last checked
Overview
Traces of 15-year-old Anna Römer, who was reported missing in Leipzig, are found in a car in a Cologne scrapyard. For the chief inspectors Max Ballauf (Klaus J. Behrendt) and Freddy Schenk (Dietmar Bär) it is obvious: There is a connection with the murder of Sarah Stellwag. Both girls disappeared in Leipzig and turned up again in Cologne. At the same time and in an unknown place: Peter Bransky is doing Anna Römer's hair and make-up – exactly like the photos of the girls that adorn his vanity mirror. What is he planning to do with Anna? And what about thosegirl in the photos happen? When three girls' bodies are fished out of the Rhine, the investigators' suspicion that they are dealing with a serial offender is confirmed. The intervals at which he strikes are getting shorter and shorter. Ballauf and Schenk have a maximum of two to three days to find Anna Römer alive. In this situation they receive support from their colleagues Saalfeld (Simone Thomalla) and Keppler (Martin Wuttke) from Leipzig. There, the four had already investigated together in the case of the missing girls. A race against time begins...
About the show
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 2 in Austria, and SF1 in Switzerland. The first episode was broadcast on November 29, 1970. The opening sequence for the series has remained the same throughout the decades, which remains highly unusual for any such long-running TV series to date. Each of the regional TV channels that together form ARD, plus ORF and SF, produces its own episodes, starring its own police inspector, some of which, like the discontinued Schimanski, have become cultural icons. The show appears on DasErste and ORF 2 on Sundays at 8:15 p.m. and currently about 30 episodes are made per year. As of March 2013, 865 episodes in total have been produced. Tatort is currently being broadcast in the United States on the MHz Worldview channel under the name Scene of the Crime.
Open show