Overview
- All eight episodes were made available to stream on ARD‑Mediathek on 10 September 2026 and Das Erste began airing episodes 1–4 on Saturday, 19 September with episodes 5–8 scheduled for 25 September.
- The fifth season is the announced series finale and relocates the story to January–February 1933 to dramatize Adolf Hitler’s appointment as Reichskanzler and the events that lead toward the Reichstag fire.
- The season keeps a crime thread at its centre: Charlotte Ritter pursues a series of murders of former front‑line soldiers and a missing wartime file that several factions view as politically explosive.
- Volker Bruch and Liv Lisa Fries return as Gereon Rath and Charlotte Ritter, the original creative trio of Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries and Henk Handloegten reunited the main cast, and new faces join the ensemble.
- The show closes its decade‑long saga with high production values and wide reach—ARD reports large Mediathek view numbers and the series has sold internationally—framing the finale as a cautionary portrayal of democratic collapse and its human costs.