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- In a criminal trial at the Berlin district court, in which the accusation of rape is being heard, it is one statement against the other - a seemingly insoluble dilemma, both legally and humanly, that has enormous explosive power. Because beyond the professional and private future of two people, it is about nothing less than the values and prejudices that define us as a society. It is a case of high public attention: the well-known TV presenter Katharina Schlüter and the industrialist Christian Thiede have had a secret affair that has lasted for years, and now they are sitting opposite each other in the courtroom as hostile parties. On the witness stand, Schlüter describes how what was initially consensual sex in Thiede's apartment turned into rape. But are circumstantial evidence sufficient? Experts and witnesses are questioned, and an unexpected turn of events doesn't make it any easier for the court to decide on credibility and truth.
- The story of Beauty and the beast.
- A student disappears on the beach during a graduation party and is found murdered the next morning. Kessler establishes a connection with a murder in Hamburg and begins to investigate.
- A German doctor was a successful contributor to Hitler's Germany. After WWII, he seeks to escape accountability. He meets a Polish-German-Jewish beauty, who was brutalized during the War, and rescues her from further violation. The two start a compelling journey together in another country. Instinctual killer sometimes becomes compassionate, caring, and passionate man. Quiet victim becomes a resistor. Is love found or momentary, passionate comfort? Is the doctor a good man after all, worthy of a woman's love? Has one ever reached a point of no return? Can true love grow from the ashes of soul and society? Are we ever free?
- Unterleuten - A village in the Brandenburg province 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. An investor plans to build a wind farm. This leads to conflicts between the villagers and the landowners.
- Der 78-jährige ehemalige Architekt Richard Gärtner möchte seinem Leben ein Ende setzen. Dies soll jedoch nicht im Ausland, sondern ganz legal mit der Hilfe seiner Hausärztin geschehen. Für Dr. Brandt kommt es aus persönlicher Überzeugung nicht infrage, ihrem zwar betagten, aber gesunden Patienten ein todbringendes Präparat zu besorgen. Richard Gärtners Fall wird exemplarisch vor dem Deutschen Ethikrat diskutiert. Strittig ist dabei nicht die Frage, welche Formen von Sterbehilfe für Ärzte straffrei sind, sondern ob Mediziner dem Patientenwunsch eines Lebensmüden gerecht werden müssen - egal ob jung, alt, gesund oder krank. Ethikrat-Mitglied Dr. Keller befragt die Sachverständigen und lässt so die unterschiedlichen Experten zu Wort kommen. Die Verfassungsrechtlerin Prof. Litten und der Anwalt von Richard Gärtner stehen Bischof Thiel und Ärztekammerchef Sperling dabei mit unterschiedlichen Meinungen gegenüber. Am Ende richtet sich die Ethikrat-Vorsitzende direkt an das Publikum: Soll Richard Gärtner das tödliche Präparat bekommen, um sich selbstbestimmt das Leben zu nehmen?
- Chief Inspector Maria Voss is called to a field in Brandenburg. The charred corpse of 15-year-old Bente lies there.
- Everything runs like clockwork for the Jens family: Hanna and Martin are extremely happily married, their son Paul is a bright, funny eleven-year-old boy. Professionally, too, things are going well: Both are employed in managerial positions in a Hamburg shipyard, Hanna in quality management, Martin in the development department. Everything is fine the way it is. And then it gets even better. Because completely surprisingly, Hanna is promoted to second managing director by junior boss Bernd Möller. A recognition that Hanna would never have dreamed of. And Martin is overjoyed, too, as he now sees the necessary funds for the development of his passion project, a revolutionary fuel cell, within reach with Hanna's support. Of course not all that glitters is gold. Because what Hanna didn't know, the traditional shipyard is on the verge of bankruptcy. Hanna has to go through a tough austerity course, which Martin's project also falls victim to. Sworn to secrecy by junior boss Möller, Hanna cannot confide in her angry, disappointed husband. Thick storm clouds are now hanging over the former picture-book family, which are becoming even darker because of Martin's widowed, headstrong father Willfried, who has temporarily moved in with them. For Willfried, the mere fact that not Martin but Hanna became boss is an impossibility; that she is now also - apparently - deliberately sabotaging his son, another sign of the completely wrong course of the modern world. Where will this all end? First of all, in a veritable marriage crisis of the former dream couple. While Martin seeks encouragement from a young colleague, Hanna wears herself out in her fight for the shipyard and slowly discovers that someone is playing the wrong cards in order to enrich themselves from the ruin of the shipyard. But it seems too late to try to save both the shipyard and their marriage.
- A king's harsh laws against trespass into the 'cursed forest' cause even his only son an heir, prince Johannes 'Hans', to be banished from court. The knave dwells I the forest, where he's taken under the wing of its magical protector, Eisenhans 'German 'iron Hans'). Having rendered strange services, he's sent off with a promise of help when he needs it and a prophecy all may end well if he once catches a golden ball, not unlike his favorite toy as a boy-prince. Grown up in poverty, self-reliant Hans reaches another king's castle and gets employed there, first as kitchen hand, after his 'gross' refusal to take off his cap (which hides his magically gold-covered hair) as gardener's assistant. As such he interests the headstrong princess, gets into trouble again, but returns as savior after the black knight, who already plagues his own royal family, threatens this realm with his armed band.
- Retired public prosecutor reopens an old murder case.
- Annabelle Martinelli, sex criminal lawyer, is said to represent two potential rapists in court.
- Grim, recently retired 'iron judge' Ernst Blessing lives alone with his dog since his only daughter left angrily 18 years ago. Suddenly he's informed she died in a car crash, which landed her husband, Turkish Kurd Baran Amedi, in hospital. Loner Ernst is now required to mind his grandchildren, which he didn't even know having, resourceful rebel Dilo and his brat sister Hewi. Both sides' prejudices and principles are tested in practice. When Dilo finally respects Ernst and wins his heart, Baran arranges for the kids' 'repatriation' with a backward uncle.
- Macabre women bodies are found in the dunes of Husum. The crime series bears the signature of the serial killer Eberhard Wernicke, who is in a psychiatric ward. Apparently there appears to be a copycat. Contacting Wernicke and the investigator at the time does not help the inexperienced police commissioner Ria Larsen and the murders continue. But then a man is killed and the question of the motive of the perpetrator arises.
- The planned construction of the wind farm divides the village community and the developments come to a head dramatically.
- Conflicts are piling up in the village of Unterleuten.
- König keeps passing an abandoned car on the way to work, so she has it towed to the scrapyard where a corpse is found in the trunk. The deceased may have been a blackmailer. Bukow presses König as to when her investigation of him will be over.
- Under control.
- The announcement of the wind farm is causing outrage among the majority of residents of Unterleuten. The owners of the properties in question, however, sense the big business.