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Tatort
Sign in to save'''''' ("Crime Scene") is a German-language police procedural television series that has been running continuously since 1970 with 30 feature-length episodes per year, making it the longest-running German TV drama. Developed by the German public-service broadcasting organization ARD for their channel Das Erste, it is unique in its approach in that it is jointly produced by all of the organization's regional members as well as its partnering Austrian and Swiss national public-service broadcasters, whereby every regional station contributes several episodes to a common pool.
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★ 6.2Tatort 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 in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
- Aired
- 1970–2026
- Seasons
- 57 · 1338 episodes
- Status
- Returning Series
- Network
- ORF 1, Das Erste, SRF 1, ORF 2
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
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Key facts
- Television.image
- Tatort Logo.svg
- Television.image_class
- skin-invert
- Television.starring
- Boris Aljinovic Dietmar Bär Meret Becker Elisabeth Brück Hansjörg Felmy Ulrike Folkerts Maria Furtwängler Götz George Stefan Gubser Jörg Hartmann Andreas Hoppe Klaus J. Behrendt Harald Krassnitzer Manfred Krug Jan Josef Liefers Eva Mattes Oliver Mommsen Richy Müller Miroslav Nemec Axel Prahl Dominic Raacke Sieghardt Rupp Anna Schudt Devid Striesow Simone Thomalla Ulrich Tukur Udo Wachtveitl Mark Waschke Martin Wuttke Wotan Wilke Möhring and others
- Television.theme_music_composer
- Klaus Doldinger
- Television.country
- West Germany (1970–1990)Germany (1990–present)AustriaSwitzerland
- Television.language
- German
- Television.num_seasons
- 50
- Television.num_episodes
- 1,252
- Television.runtime
- 90 minutes
- Television.network
- Das Erste
- Television.last_aired
- present
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 90
- Official website
- www.tatort.de
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- Tatort
- number of seasons
- 56
- number of episodes
- 1268
- hashtag
- Tatort
- start time
- 1970-11-29
- social media followers
- 243647
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- Concept
- History
- Features
- In East Germany
- Table of broadcasters
- Soundtracks (selection)
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
'''''' ("Crime Scene") is a German-language police procedural television series that has been running continuously since 1970 with 30 feature-length episodes per year, making it the longest-running German TV drama. Developed by the German public-service broadcasting organization ARD for their channel Das Erste, it is unique in its approach in that it is jointly produced by all of the organization's regional members as well as its partnering Austrian and Swiss national public-service broadcasters, whereby every regional station contributes several episodes to a common pool.
As a result of this, Tatort is a collection of different police stories where different police teams solve crimes in their own cities, with uniqueness in architecture, customs, and dialects of the cities being a distinctive part of the series. Often, the city, not the police force, is the real main character of an episode. The fact that local stations each produce a small number of episodes per year has enabled longer episodes (approximately 90 minutes), which in turn allows each episode to exhibit greater characterisation than other weekly TV dramas.