Series synopsis
Waldgericht - Ein Schwarzwaldkrimi is a German crime mystery television series that premiered on ZDF on January 4, 2021. It ended on January 5, 2021. It stars Jessica Schwarz, Max von Thun, Nadja Bobyleva and Rike Schmid.
The corpse of a fruit farmer is found in a meadow orchard. It was buried upside down, draped like a scarecrow. The spectacular staging of the murder leads Commissioner Maris Bächle and her colleague Konrad Diener to suspect a personal motive. While the black asylum seeker is quickly suspected as a perpetrator, the Freudenstadt inhabitants speculate behind closed doors about the involvement of earth spirits - of course, just for fun. However, when Konrad Diener's introverted 14-year-old son disap ...
Premise
The corpse of a fruit farmer is found in a meadow orchard. It was buried upside down, draped like a scarecrow. The spectacular staging of the murder leads Commissioner Maris Bächle and her colleague Konrad Diener to suspect a personal motive. While the black asylum seeker is quickly suspected as a perpetrator, the Freudenstadt inhabitants speculate behind closed doors about the involvement of earth spirits - of course, just for fun. However, when Konrad Diener's introverted 14-year-old son disappears without a trace in the forest during a school trip and reappears completely changed, but refuses to give any information about his whereabouts, Maris remembers how she was found in the forest as an 8-year-old. She had mysteriously survived there. With the help of the city archivist, the two investigators come across an old legend about forest spirits and an old place of execution in the middle of the forest. The forest court once met in this mystical place. Apparently it is active again.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Jessica Schwarz as Maris Bächle
- Max von Thun as Konrad Diener
- Nadja Bobyleva as Bernadette Ramsberger
- Rike Schmid as Claudia Diener
- Jeanette Hain as Pauline Frey
- Arved Friese as Emil Diener
- Bruno Eyron as Roman Frey
- Peter Prager as Christoph Bächle
Supporting cast
- Robert Schupp as Stefan Zabel
- David Zimmerschied as Andreas Zollner
- Bless Amada as Zikomo Sabaly
- Moritz Führmann as Henrick Butzbach
- Lorna zu Solms as Adolescent Pauline Frey
- Felix Jordan as Adolescent Roman Frey
- Alexandra Kamp as Ulrike Esslinger
Guest cast
- Jonas Walcher as Jonas Natterer
- Maximilian Wex as Thirty-Year-Old Christoph Bächle
- Vincent Reiß as Paul Diener
- Hartmut Volle
- Christian Koch as Johannes Schindelar
- David Liske as Frank Kläusle
- Rocco Brück as Hanno Heinzelmann
- Oana Solomon as Renate Ursarski
- Matteo Stenzel
- Noah Calvin
- Maximilian Anthony Hirschle
- Marie-Joelle Blazejewski
Episodes
This series spans 1 season with 2 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 2 | January 4, 2021 | January 5, 2021 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Episode 1 | January 4, 2021 |
| 2 | Episode 2 | January 5, 2021 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | ZDF |
|---|---|
| First aired | January 4, 2021 |
| Last aired | January 5, 2021 |
| Runtime | 178 minutes |
| Status | ended |