Overview
- The summer break spans eleven weeks from June 29 to September 7, with the first post-hiatus crime episode airing on September 14 though it remains unclear whether it will be a Tatort or a Polizeiruf 110.
- Munich’s Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr will bow out after 100 cases in a two-part finale filmed this spring.
- Veteran Münster prosecutor Mechthild Großmann is set to depart by the end of 2025 after 23 seasons as Wilhelmine Klemm.
- In Kiel, a new all-female detective duo—Almila Bagriacik and Karoline Schuch—will take over following Kommissar Borowski’s spring finale.
- Frankfurt am Main will launch a cold-case-focused Tatort team led by Melika Foroutan and Edin Hasanović beginning October 5, 2025.