Overview

• The episode “Tod einer Nonne” is scheduled for Saturday, 23 August at 20:15 on Das Erste and will also stream in the ARD Mediathek.
• Karla Lorenz investigates the death of a German nun officially labeled a suicide after a video surfaces that points to sexual abuse and a possible concealment reaching toward the Vatican.
• Natalia Wörner frames the story as socially urgent, citing years of advocacy for victims of sexualized violence and condemning the church’s structural handling of abuse cases.
• Rome’s pervasive Catholic setting becomes a narrative obstacle as Lorenz’s confrontational style clashes with the city’s conservative milieu and the Vatican’s hierarchy.
• This marks Wörner’s eighth installment in the series and her second Rome case, with Clelia Sarto returning as Commissioner Ricarda Motte and Susanne Wuest portraying the abbess.