SOKO Leipzig / Season 5

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Season 5 of SOKO Leipzig
Original title SOKO Leipzig - Season 5
Episodes 25th
Country of production GermanyGermany Germany
First broadcast December 17, 2004 - December 16, 2005 on ZDF
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The fifth season of the German crime series SOKO Leipzig celebrated its premiere on December 17, 2004 on ZDF . The final was broadcast on December 16, 2005.

The episodes of the season were first broadcast on the Friday 9:15 pm slot. For the first time in the history of SOKO Leipzig , two episodes ( Die Tote aus Riga and Liebe und Tod in Moscow ) were produced in feature length (90 minutes instead of the usual 45 minutes of an episode).

The SOKO team is also investigating the episode Love and Death in Moscow for the first time outside of Germany . In addition to Leipzig, the location of this episode is also the Russian capital Moscow .

actor

Role name actor
Chief Detective Inspector Hans-Joachim Trautzschke Andreas Schmidt-Schaller
Chief Detective Jan Maybach Marco Girnth
Chief Detective Ina Zimmermann Melanie Marschke
Detective Superintendent Miguel Alvarez Gabriel Merz
Police chief Meike Schwarz Anne Arzenbacher
Forensic doctor Dr. Kathrin Conradi Margrit Sartorius

Episodes

No.
( total ) 		No.
( St. ) 		Original title First broadcast D Director script Prod.
Code
61 1 The dead from Riga (90 min.) December 17, 2004 Patrick Winczewski Jürgen Starbatty 63/64
A young woman's body is found. The dead woman is Vaira Punitis, who had worked as an au pair in Leipzig and returned to Latvia to have her child. But her child cannot be found. A struggle for life and death begins for the SOKO.
62 2 Homejacking January 14, 2005 Oren Schmuckler Hen Hermanns 65
Roland Musil, a successful entrepreneur is slain. At first, the act looks like a failed robbery by a pair of Polish thieves who may have stolen the Musil family's cars. The two deny the act, but then Chief Inspector Maybach and Chief Inspector Zimmermann are invited to dinner by Anja Musil. When lawyer Dr. Schäfer hits, the case seems to take a new turn and shock the pregnant chief detective deeply.

Guest actors: Anne Kasprik as Anja Musil, Adrian Topol as Moritz Musil, Anna Maria Mühe as Ronja Musil, Nina Juraga as Alena, Janusz Cichocki as Stanis Pajak, Florian Riedel as Zabor Rudzinski

63 3 Book madness January 21, 2005 Oren Schmuckler Heike Rübbert 67
The burned corpse of the bestselling author Sophie Trutz is found on a railway site. All traces point to a crazy fan, but the editor of the dead, Matthias Schleiz, could also have a motif, as well as fellow writer Jenny Kunst. The SOKO is groping in the dark until the investigators take a closer look at the area around the dead.

Guest actors: Peter Davor as Roland Krögl, Ole Doll as Matthias Schleiz, Julia Richter as Jenny Kunst, Melanie Blocksdorf as Sophie Trust, Doris Abeßer as Adele Winter, Peter Scholz as Christian Gaul

64 4th Risks and Side Effects January 28, 2005 Oren Schmuckler Dinah Marte Golch, Michael B. Müller 66
Several murders are committed in Leipzig with headache tablets poisoned with potassium cyanide. The pharmaceutical company and its lawyer rule out blackmail. Investigators focus on the victims' families but receive little information about the case. But suddenly a blackmail letter appears.

Guest actors: Ulrike Mai as Larissa Gollhardt, Gudrun Gundelach as Else Gollhardt, Luc Feit as Mr. Wolter, Tanya Neufeldt as Mrs. Brunner, Conrad F. Geier as Klaus Gollhardt

65 5 Fatherly love February 4, 2005 Oren Schmuckler Matthias Weidemann 68
Chief Detective Jan Maybach and his father Dr. Hans-Peter Maybach attend a cabaret premiere. The next day the author of this play, Renate Trauplitz, is found murdered. It turns out that the dead woman and her partner Lucas Reichelt wanted to expose a corruption scandal. The investigators suspect the Leipzig environment officer Werner König as the perpetrator, but they lack the evidence.

Guest actors: Gunter Schoß as Peer Sievert, Peer Jäger as Dr. Hans-Peter Maybach, Nicola Ransom as Renaute Trauplitz, Armin Dallapiccola as Werner König, Max von Thun as Lukas Reichelt, Susanne Schlenzig as Benita König, Vanessa Radman as Martina Scholz

66 6th Policewoman February 11, 2005 Christoph Eichhorn Roland Heep, Frank Koopmann 69
During a patrol in Grünau, the police officers Meike Schwarz and Kurt Unruh noticed a suspicious person. They want to catch him, but in the following exchange of fire, Kurt Unruh is killed. He was about to retire a day. His colleague is shocked and starts looking for the perpetrator alone. She clashes with Chief Detective Maybach several times. Meanwhile, Chief Inspector Trautzschke is looking for a replacement for Chief Inspector Zimmermann's maternity leave. The young police chief seems to be the perfect solution for him.

Guest actors: Otmar Richter as Josef Unruh, Thorsten Merten as Volker Hoss, Volker Bruch as Marco Hoss, Soraya Richter as Wibke Hoss, Toni Snétberger as Andy Sommerlick, Jonas Laux as Timo Axman, Jörg Simonides as Ingo Merschemke

67 7th Missing February 18, 2005 Christoph Eichhorn Eva Zahn, Volker A. Zahn 70
Melanie Sommer, the mother of a two-year-old daughter, is missing. Edwin Sommer, her husband, suspects the ex-boyfriend of the disappeared, Martin Ofterbeck. However, the husband doesn't seem to know too much about his wife. When it turns out that Melanie Sommer apparently led a double life, the case seems to tend in a new direction. Meanwhile, the heavily pregnant detective superintendent, Ina Zimmermann, sets out to find the solution to the mystery herself and has labor pains in the middle of the field assignment, which she accompanied despite being on duty in the office.

Guest actors: Renate Schroeter as Helga Sommer, Michael Lott as Edwin Sommer, Elena Uhlig as Melanie Sommer, Andreas W. Schwaiger as Martin Ofterbeck, Julia Blankenburg as Miriam Baumann

68 8th Top star wanted February 25, 2005 Christoph Eichhorn Markus Stromiedel 72
Erkan Hamidi stormed the studio during a casting for the TV show "Top-Star wanted!" He threatens the jury with a pistol and a shot is fired. Fortunately, nobody was injured, but when Chief Detective Trautzschke and Chief Detective Maybach arrive, the latter recognizes his ex-boyfriend Anja. She is one of the jury members and has been in Leipzig for some time, but has not contacted her son Benni. The next day, the jury chairman Thorsten Brandt is killed. At the scene of the crime, Jan Maybach finds his ex-wife's bracelet and pockets it because he wants to confront her personally with it. A mistake with grave consequences because he loses the trust of his colleagues.

Guest actors: Florian Fitz as Thorsten Brandt, Julia Jäger as Anja Maybach, Sylta Fee Wegmann as Veronika Lührs, Ralph Misske as Holger Lührs, Gudrun Gabriel as Katja Lührs, Özgür Özata as Erkan Hamidi

69 9 Florida March 4, 2005 Christoph Eichhorn Axel Hildebrand 71
Strange things happen in the retirement home of Chief Detective Trautzschke's mother. The old lady observes how residents keep disappearing, but the manager declines. The disappeared moved to Florida, she claims, but the detective chief inspector thinks the matter is strange and he starts an investigation.

Guest actors: Regine Lutz as Ursula Trautzschke, Hansi Jochmann as Magda Lenkeit, Werner Eichhorn as Herr Singer, Ulrich Simontowitz as Dr. Johannes Brenner, Dagmar Biener as Anka Grünberg

70 10 Made in china March 11, 2005 Sebastian Vigg Axel Hildebrand 74
Robert Shaw, an American investor, needs personal protection from the SOKO team: He plans to close the “Krüger” machine factory during his stay in Leipzig, but there are massive protests. When the entrepreneur receives a threatening letter with a death threat, the officers investigate the dead man. Suspects such as the interpreter Claudia Hansen and Jörn Schubert, the manager of the machine factory, and the dealer Serhat Argin, who looks similar to the one who delivered the letter, quickly move on. But when a bomb attack was carried out on Shaw despite stricter security precautions, Chief Detective Maybach noticed inconsistencies in his apartment.

Guest actors: Hartmut Becker as Robert Shaw, Frank Leo Schröder as Jörn Schubert, Ellenie Salvo Gonzalez as Claudia Hansen, David A. Hamae as Serhat Argin

71 11 Submerged March 18, 2005 Sebastian Vigg Roland Heep, Frank Koopmann 73
The SOKO investigators want to meet for a barbecue evening, but Chief Detective Maybach is a long time coming. He is blackmailed by a stranger: He is supposed to pick up Thorsten Haller, a man convicted of manslaughter, from custody, otherwise his colleagues will be shot by a sniper. After the prisoner was released, the investigation began and two suspects were quickly found: Katharina Haller, the wife of the freed man, and Arthur Sova, a colleague of Haller's work. When the diving shop owner Benno Gose is found dead, the inspectors track down a planned break-in that will lead them directly to Jan Maybach's blackmailer.

Guest actors: Klaus D. Mund as Thorsten Haller, Charlotte Bohning as Katharina Haller, Manuel Struffolino as Mirko Sova, Sven Riemann as Benno Gose, Dirk Heinrichs as Simon Kosslick

72 12 Thrill September 16, 2005 Dagmar of Chappuis Heike Rübbert 36
Tom Orth falls from a great height into the water of a Leipzig open-cast mine and drowns. Drugs are found in his blood. The friends Lea Auer, as well as Nic and Sven Wernicke, are suspected. Chief Detective Maybach investigates undercover as a beach volleyball player and determines that Nic is dealing with liquid ecstasy. The SOKO is on the trail of an investigation by the State Criminal Police Office of Saxony against the internationally sought-after Polish drug smuggler Smuda. But the planned access gets out of control and Jan Maybach's life is in danger.

Guest actors: Anja Knauer as Lea Auer, Volker Büdts as Nic Wernicke, Andreas Arnstedt as Sven Wernicke

73 13 The climbers September 23, 2005 Patrick Winczewski Matthias Weidemann 44
After a header duel in soccer training between Tomasz and Mike, the latter collapses dead. The emergency doctor calls the police and chief detective Trautzschke orders an autopsy. Poisoning comes to light when it turns out that player scout Harry Wessels was present and fled without further ado, Tomasz comes under suspicion because he and Mike were in the running for a contract. But the club boss Schmedtmann also seems suspicious, since a change would have involved a lot of money.

Guest actors: Kostja Ullmann as Tomasz Wagler, Christoph Quest as Dr. Herbert Wagler, Luis Lamprecht as Karl Schmedtmann, Frank Jacobsen as Harry Wessels

74 14th Love and Death in Moscow (90 min.) September 30, 2005 Michel Bielawa Roland Heep, Frank Koopmann, Jürgen Starbatty 79/80
When the daughter of Chief Detective Trautzschke, Leni, is murdered while doing research in Moscow, he travels to Russia. When he arrived at the airport, he met an old friend, Major Nina Aleschko, and began the investigation with her. When Leni is kidnapped, the SOKO investigators travel to her and a race for life and death begins.

Guest actors: Tatjana Blacher as Nina Aleschko, Ivan Shvedoff as taxi driver Usch, Hannes Hellmann as Nikolaj Dubinin, Günter Naumann as Hermann Deiritz, Vera Baranyai as Roxanna Dubinin, Karin Ugowski as Hanne Deiritz

75 15th Treasure hunt October 7, 2005 Patrick Winczewski Heike Rübbert 77
In an amusement park, the siblings Anna and Max Gröner are kidnapped by a man disguised as a pirate. The suspicion quickly falls on the father, who is living in divorce from the mother of the children, but the mother Cathleen Gröner also seems to be hiding something. The investigators are feverishly looking for the children and come across a long-kept family secret.

Guest actors: Karin Giegerich as Cathleen Gröner, Tim Wilde as Georg Brennecke, Patrick von Blume as Frank Holzer, Christian Koerner as Carsten Ambusch, Soraya Richter as Anna Gröner, Ludwig Zimmeck as Max Gröner

76 16 Musical sacrifice October 14, 2005 Patrick Winczewski Sebastian Andrae 78
The violinist Judith Derneburg is killed during an entrance examination in the Leipzig Gewandhaus. Suspicion falls on the dead man's competitors, but Judith's teacher, first violinist Günther Friedemann, also behaves strangely. He seems to have had a relationship with his student, and that would also have had a motive for his wife, the violist Cosima Friedemann. The investigators grope in the dark until the missing violin of the dead reappears and leads directly to the perpetrator.

Guest actors: Christopher Buchholz as Paul Castell, Robert Giggenbach as Günther Friedemann, Julia Heinemann as Cosima Friedemann, Cheyenne Rushing as Judith Derneburg, Katrin Kühnel as Suska Aghova, Yvonne Johna as Melanie Roth

77 17th Character assassination October 21, 2005 Patrick Winczewski Rainer Butt 75
Chief Detective Jan Maybach is being followed by journalist Martina Kessler. She wants information on a current case, but the investigator is tough. When the reporter is found murdered the next day, the chief detective comes under suspicion because he had wanted to speak to her that evening, but by then the chief reporter of a Leipzig newspaper was already dead. The media hunted down the investigator of the Leipzig SOKO and his colleagues have to find the culprit quickly. However, when it turns out that the only suspect has an alibi, the detective moves back into the focus of the investigation.

Guest actors: Norbert Ghafouri as Holger Ponik, Oliver Brandl as Bernd Küppers, Gerhard Haase-Hindenburg as Stefan Henscheid, Judith von Radetzky as Gabriele Kremer, Lara Beckmann as Nadine

78 18th The human factor October 28, 2005 Patrick Winczewski Nikos Ligouris, Claus Wilbrandt 76
The junior boss of a construction company, Henning Lindner, is murdered in his office. It looks like a robbery, but the trail of the Pole Dorota Gombrowitz, who lived in a cheap pension at the cost of the dead, points in a different direction. At the time of the crime, the dead man's mother had observed an unknown person, Janek Cybulski, a compatriot of Dorota Gombrowitz, on the company premises. However, the case takes a dramatic turn when investigators learn the real reason for Dorota being in Leipzig.

Guest actors: Petra Kelling as Barbara Lindner, Bernd Tauber as Manfred Lindner, Janine Kreß as Sandra Lindner, Malina Ebert as Dorota Gombrowitz, Christian Senger as Henning Lindner, Heribert Czerniak as Janek Cybulski

79 19th Four witnesses and one death November 4, 2005 Michel Bielawa Roland Heep, Frank Koopmann 84
When the innkeeper Rainer Oschmann is shot behind his counter, it seems to be an easy case for the SOKO, with the returned Superintendent Ina Zimmermann. Everything points to a robbery and when the suspect Klaus Mohn is found with the murder weapon, the investigators believe to have found the perpetrator. A mistake, as it later turns out: the deeper the investigators dig, the more confused the case becomes. In the end there are four witnesses with completely different statements.

Guest actors: Michael Kind as Rainer Oschmann, Theresa Scholze as Susanne Kilger, Astrid Meyerfeldt as Michaela Oschmann, Steffen Schortie-Scheumann as Klaus Mohn, Stefan Rudolf as Jürgen Lennartz, Henriette Zimmeck as Jasmin Oschmann

80 20th A happy family November 11, 2005 Michel Bielawa Axel Hildebrand 82
The two sisters Nathalie Hertz and Doreen Forster are poisoned with ketamine in the swimming pool . They drank from the same bottle, but while Nathalie survived, her sister dies. A suspect is quickly found: the veterinarian Dr. Gero Wernicke had an affair with Doreen and had access to ketamine, but Doreen's husband Stefan could also have acted out of jealousy. When the son of the dead, Dennis Forster, is found with ketamine, SOKO is puzzled. When the boy confesses to having put ketamine in a drinking bottle, the case seems to take a new turn.

Guest actors: Birgit Schade as Nathalie Herz, Marcus Mittermaier as Stefan Forster, Frederick Lau as Dennis Forster, Vincent Gröhe as Justin Forster, Tilo Keiner as Dr. Gero Wernicke, Jana Hora as Doreen Forster

81 21st The Japanese November 18, 2005 Michel Bielawa Eva Zahn, Volker A. Zahn 83
The Japanese Hajime Ohara is found murdered, and the trail leads the inspectors to a sushi bar. It turns out that the victim and the boss were engaged. The new friend of the bar manager Rainer Godowski comes under suspicion. Meanwhile, Detective Superintendent Alvarez has a visit from his exalted mother Désirée, who deported him to his grandparents as a child. When she interferes in the SOKO's investigation and her life is in danger, the policeman is visibly tense.

Guest actors: Beatrice Richter as Désirée Mönke, Ludwig Blochberger as Bernd Michels, Astrid Posner as Marie Streibitz, Igor Jeftić as Rainer Godowski, Harvey Friedman as Norman Webster, Tōru Tanabe as Hajime Ohara

82 22nd The white woman December 2, 2005 Michel Bielawa Hen Hermanns 85
A woman wrapped in white robes appears repeatedly at the scene of an accident. This time the doctor is Dr. Kai Westermann hit the tree that had already claimed several lives on the country road. The SOKO, in the person of Chief Detective Trautzschke, who was a friend of the police officer Karl Schanzer, was alerted. When traces of poison are found in the dead man's blood, the investigators are certain that there has been a murder case. Marie Zenz, who was insulted as a herb witch in the village, is also suspected, but then the white woman reappears. Chief Detective Trautzschke wants to end the spook for good.

Guest actors: Daniela Hoffmann as Frau Holsten, Lina Less as Lea Schroth, Veronika Norwag-Jones as Marie Zenz, Kristian Kiehling as Tim Holsten, Hilmar Eichhorn as Karl Schanzer, Michael Silbereisen as Dr. Kai Westermann, Robert Baier as an emergency doctor

83 23 The bog body December 9, 2005 Michel Bielawa Dinah Marte Golch, Michael B. Müller 81
The cosmetic surgeon Dr. Köster is electrocuted in his clinic. His wife Petra comes under suspicion, but she has an alibi, as does taxi entrepreneur Vera Rettenbach. She was operated on by the doctor, but things went wrong during the operation and she has been disfigured since then. When Petra Köster is shot, the case takes a turn and suspicions fall on taxi driver Tilo Bohrer, who could have acted as a contract killer.

Guest actors: Anouschka Renzi as Petra Köster, Peter Bond as Dr. Köster, Doris Plenert as Vera Rettenbach, Henning Peker as Tilo Bohrer, Christina Große as Jessica Bohrer, Simone Cohn-Vossen as secretary

84 24 Love is blind December 9, 2005 Michel Bielawa Hen Hermanns 93
When the single Karina Jaspers is suffocated, financial advisor Ralph Kessler is suspected, but his wife gives him an alibi. A struggle for the truth begins for the SOKO.

Guest actors: Gedeon Burkhard Ralph Kessler, Silvia Seidel as Susanne Kessler, Mila Bruk as Karina Jaspers, Leonie Brandis as Beate Brien, Andreas Borcherding as a lawyer

85 25th mortician undertaker December 16, 2005 Sebastian Vigg Heike Rübbert 87
A grave digger is found next to a desecrated grave in Leipzig's southern cemetery. The investigators are at a loss because several graves with the same ending number have been ransacked. Strange things also seem to be going on around the dead, to which the investigators have to find an answer. When a stranger, Mark Lux, appears at the deceased's funeral service, the team decides to take a closer look at the cemetery because the head of the cemetery seems to want to hide something too.

Guest actors: Horst Sachtleben as Konrad Knauer, Cordula Trantow as Anne Knauer, Stefan Gebelhoff as Mark Lux, Thomas Kügel as Mr. Schmidt

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