Overview
- ZDF announced on Sunday that “Stralsund – Dunkle Tiefen” will air on television at 20:15 on October 31 and will be available in the ZDF‑Mediathek from October 24.
- Alexander Held, who died on May 12, 2026 after a short illness, made Karl Hidde his own for 16 years across 27 Stralsund films and this episode will be shown posthumously.
- The new case centers on the death of a local fishery owner whose body is found in a net and involves close‑knit community tensions and a trainee who becomes a focus of suspicion without revealing the outcome.
- ZDF emphasizes that the episode gives Hidde a personal arc with health problems, self‑doubt and farewell moments, and the network has said it will continue the related series München Mord after airing a Held episode on August 22.
- The scheduled broadcast both closes a long‑running chapter for viewers who have kept up with the series—recent episodes drew about 5.44 million linear viewers—and raises questions about how ZDF will steer the franchise going forward.