Tatort and Wilsberg: ARD and ZDF show great fun from Münster!

Created: 2022-01-14Updated: 2022-01-14, 4:31 p.m

By: Katja Kraft

Murder in Münsterland: Chief Inspector Thiel (Axel Prahl, left) and Professor Boerne (Jan Josef Liefers) are investigating at the crime scene.

© Thomas Kost

ZDF shows "Wilsberg" on Saturday, ARD on Sunday a new "crime scene" with Thiel and Boerne.

So both thrillers from Münster.

Murderous entertainment from Westphalia guaranteed.

All of Germany is looking to Münster this weekend. Whole Germany? Well, maybe not 83 million right away. But the Westphalians will win 15 to 20 million on Saturday and Sunday. When it says on both days: Film off for great fun from Münster. ZDF starts this Saturday at 8.15 p.m. with a new episode "Wilsberg". In "Genes don't lie" the Westphalian hobby investigator Georg Wilsberg (Leonard Lansink) goes on genealogical research. More precisely: genetic genealogical research. With this modern method, the Münster police want to find fresh leads in unsolved murder cases. But they initially lead to Ekki Talkötter (Oliver Korittke), of all people, Wilsberg's good friend. The evaluation of the DNA analysis revealed a 25 percent match between the perpetrator's DNA and Ekki's genome.Could a sibling unknown to him be behind the murder? It goes without saying that Wilsberg, in the Munster manner, immediately gets on his bike and starts looking for possible relatives.

In the bicycle city of Münster, Wilsberg (Leonard Lansink) also uses the bike.

© ZDF

Family ties are also the starting point of the thriller that ARD shows the next day from 8:15 p.m.

Then the most popular detective duo in the "Tatort" series goes on the air: In "The Devil's Long Breath", Chief Inspector Thiel (Axel Prahl) worries about his father (Claus D. Clausnitzer).

The old man is in the hospital.

Diagnosis: brain tumor, inoperable.

Out of grief and fear of having to announce his fate to the terminally ill, the son prefers to get drunk first.

But the next morning he has more than a film tear.

He can neither remember what happened, nor does he understand why he is constantly confronted with flashbulb scenes, like flashbacks from a drug intoxication.

And then, in a piece of forest in the middle of Münsterland, which Thiel seems to have visited during the night, he and Boerne (Jan Josef Liefers) accidentally discover a corpse.

Coincidentally, that of a man who Thiel once put in jail through his investigations.

And Vaddern's car is only a few meters away from where the body was found.

A few coincidences too many?

Magnificent scenery: the Prinzipalmarkt in Münster.

© Friso Gentsch

Both films thrive on the raw charm of the Westphalian city, about which it is said: “You know you're in Münster when it rains or the bells ring.

If both happen at the same time, it's Sunday.” Or if you're watching a highly entertaining crime thriller.

Pumpernickel butterken and eggnog provided and the film weekend can begin.