Sternenfänger

German detective Sonja Schwarz decides against the offer to take over as head of the homicide division in Frankfurt. She moves with her husband Thomas to his hometown of Bolzano in South Tyrol. However, she hardly has a chance to get used to her beautiful new home. Instead, on her very first day, she finds herself involved in her first case involving a dead body and a car chase.

While Dr. Ellen Bischoff celebrates success in her career, her family life is not at its best. Once she quarreled with her father Anton and turned her back on the local dairy farm. But now Anton is in the hospital after a severe heart attack. Ellen returns home to keep the operation going. There she meets her childhood sweetheart Felix again, whom she never forgave that he cheated on her with her former best friend Karin. In addition, Ellen struggles with serious problems: The father's farm is highly indebted and should be auctioned. The situation seems hopeless.

A tricky case for Inspector Jury and his (ex-)aristocratic friend Melrose Plant: In Rackmoor, a picturesque Yorkshire harbor town, a woman dressed as a harlequin is murdered. The dead woman is said to be Dillys March, the adopted daughter of the extremely wealthy Colonel Titus Crael, who disappeared 20 years ago and has now unexpectedly returned. His son Julian Crael, however, believes she is an imposter. In his opinion, the woman pretended to be Dillys in order to gain access to Colonel Titus's fortune. Did Julian perhaps kill her?

Through the eyes of psychologist Thomas Meiberger, we examine the mental, social and psychological factors of how and why criminal acts are committed. Even in cases that seem unsolvable, Meiberger is able to follow a thread back to the suspect by interpreting the sequence of events, the victim's behavior and subtle details that are invisible to others.

Küstenwache is a German television series that tells the fictionalized adventures of a unit of Federal Coast Guard officers off the German coast of the Baltic Sea.

Jana Frank has everything under control professionally. As an organizer of flight attendant schedules, she tells her employees where to go. Family life is more difficult. Her daughter Marie is in the middle of puberty and hangs around at night with her grandpa Charly, who wants to beautify the city with plants and flowers in his old age. As a result, Jana is regularly woken up by the police to pick up her father from the station. When Charly decides to move to the country and buys a house, Jana meets the former landlord Thomas and falls head over heels in love.

Felix Hauser is the high-flyer par excellence in haute cuisine. He hosts a popular cooking show and his upmarket restaurant is frequented by hand-picked celebrities. A restaurant chain with branches in Tokyo and New York is in the pipeline. As he rushes from appointment to appointment in his convertible, he overlooks Frieda, a cyclist, who crashes into a ditch. The prudent farmer's wife is fuming with rage - not only because she has broken her ankle, leaving her with a lot of work to do on the farm, but also because the driver simply speeds off.

On his birthday of all days: Oskar Moedebeck, a long-serving sales manager, is demoted and put in front of a boss half his age. And this Raphael Bluhm also turns out to be the new neighbor with whom the staid Oskar had a run-in first thing in the morning. Oskar can't believe it, but Raphael is already making out with the single mother next door - Oskar's daughter!