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Wilsberg
1995 - 2025 7.8 (20 votes) 1 Seasons
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Drama Crime
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ZDF
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Created By
Jürgen Kehrer

Wilsberg

Overview

Georg Wilsberg is an antiquarian in Münster. He used to be a lawyer but lost his license. Since then he has been working as a private detective. The always clammy Wilsberg urgently needs this income. In addition, he depends on the support of his friends, especially because of the car.

Top Cast

Leonard Lansink
Leonard Lansink

Georg Wilsberg

Rita Russek
Rita Russek

Anna Springer

Roland Jankowsky
Roland Jankowsky

Overbeck

Oliver Korittke
Oliver Korittke

Ekkehardt Talkötter

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1995)

Georg Wilsberg is an antiquarian in Münster. He used to be a lawyer but lost his license. Since then he has been working as a private detective. The always clammy Wilsberg urgently needs this income. In addition, he depends on the support of his friends, especially because of the car.

86 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Episode 1
1995-02-20

Münster. Private detective Wilsberg is given the task of solving a suspected murder. Since the case happened 16 years ago and was filed away by the police as a suicide, he initially approaches the investigation with little motivation.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 2: Episode 2
1998-05-25

Private detective Georg Wilsberg is looking for farmer Rabenalt's runaway adopted daughter Tanja. Immediately after he has brought the girl back, he receives a follow-up assignment from Rabenalt's son Karl-Hermann: Wilsberg is to track down a woman who is secretly involved with his father. Without knowing it, Wilsberg knows the woman he is looking for, because it is Ines, an old school friend who has just met him in Münster. He therefore suspects that this meeting was not a coincidence, but a calculated move. That same evening he receives a call from the desperate Tanja: her adoptive father has broken his neck in a fall down the stairs; her brother has been arrested on suspicion of having pushed him. Tanja herself is in hiding so that the youth welfare office cannot take her away. Wilsberg finds her in a barn and takes her to his antique shop...

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 3: Episode 3
1999-11-22

Private detective Georg Wilsberg is tasked with shadowing a client's wife and taking explicit photos of her in flagrante delicto. What begins as a harmless assignment develops into a mysterious murder case, because neither the client nor his wife are who they claim to be.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 4: Episode 4
2001-02-03

The Münster private detective and antique dealer Georg Wilsberg is commissioned by an insurance company to observe a car repair shop near the harbor. Recently, a suspiciously high number of accidents have been reported there. Wilsberg is supposed to take a closer look at the owner and find out whether he is staging the accidents himself.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 5: Episode 5
2001-10-20

Jutta Rausch, the Green City Treasurer of Münster, has received an anonymous threatening letter. As she is one of the supporters of a controversial construction project, her husband Jochen is seriously worried. He therefore hires private detective Georg Wilsberg as his wife's bodyguard. However, the wife is very stubborn and must not hear of a protector!

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 6: Episode 6
2002-04-13

When Georg Wilsberg drives to Havenbroich Castle to inspect a library, he is amazed when his former student love Maria suddenly appears. Maria, who has now become the mistress of the castle, proudly presents him with her son Steffen, who is about to marry the wealthy Edith Wagenfeld.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 7: Episode 7
2002-11-23

When the body of Pastor Hollein is discovered in the confessional during a church concert, the tranquil episcopal city of Münster has its perfect scandal. This time, the chaotic private detective Georg Wilsberg has to investigate a highly opaque case.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 8: Episode 8
2003-05-03

When the body of a young art student is found next to one of her works of art, everything looks like a murder of jealousy. But the chaotic private detective Georg Wilsberg discovers a completely different story. Sophie had to die because she knew too much.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 9: Episode 9
2003-10-18

Private detective Georg Wilsberg is commissioned to investigate the circumstances of a strange accident in which Manni's uncle was seriously injured. Little by little, the chaotic snooper uncovers a crime that almost went undetected.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 10: Episode 10
2004-02-14

Private detective Wilsberg is tasked with solving the murder of politician Kerstenbrock, who was recently accused in the press of sexually harassing an intern. Inspector Springer suspects the grieving widow. Did she kill her husband out of jealousy? During his investigation, Wilsberg comes across evidence that Kerstenbrock was no innocent lamb.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 11: Episode 11
2004-05-01

That's just what private detective Georg Wilsberg needed: Alex's father has announced his visit and wants to know what progress his daughter's university career is making. Alex has "briefly interrupted" her law studies and wants to earn a living in another way.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 12: Episode 12
2004-11-06

Joachim Rehmer, the head of the Münster building regulations office, is found dead on a railway track. Everything points to suicide, but his wife does not believe it was a suicide and hires the Münster private detective Wilsberg, who immediately begins the investigation.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 13: Episode 13
2005-03-05

The headstrong investigator Georg Wilsberg meets Katharina again, his great love from school days. While he himself occasionally struggles to make ends meet, she is now happily married to her husband Matthias, mother of two children and owner of a magnificent city villa. Wilsberg is plagued by self-doubt: Has he made the right decisions in his life?

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 14: Episode 14
2005-05-14

This time, the case seems very simple for the unorthodox private investigator: A young woman, Susanne Diepenbrock, commissions Georg Wilsberg to search for her missing sister Jessica. She suddenly disappeared and she cannot give a reason. But things are different with Wilsberg's best friend Manni.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 15: Episode 15
2005-11-19

Wilsberg in trouble: Tax inspector Ekki Talkötter has set up shop in the antiquarian bookshop and is making life difficult for Wilsberg.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 16: Episode 16
2006-02-04

The largest painting company in the city, Schlacke, undercuts almost every price offered by its competitors. Does the company employ illegal workers? Wilsberg is tasked with finding out.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 17: Episode 17
2006-03-05

Wilsberg is on his way home. Suddenly a young girl on her bike appears in the headlights. She slams on the brakes and there's a loud crash, but luckily no one is seriously injured.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 18: Episode 18
2006-12-02

Wilsberg had an accident and had to undergo an operation. This meant that he was confined to his sick bed, but his instinct for crime was by no means paralyzed.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 19: Episode 19
2007-02-17

Wilsberg is supposed to look after many pretty girls at a beauty contest. Someone is after one of the models and has evil plans.

Runtime: 88 min
Episode 20: Episode 20
2007-04-07

Attacks in Münster caused uproar in the church. The grave of a gardener was broken into. His bones were placed in the famous Anabaptist cages at the Lamberti Church.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 21: Episode 21
2007-05-27

After the inauguration party of Alex's new law firm, Wilsberg witnesses Alex's former classmate Maike Lehmann having a drunken accident on the way home.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 22: Episode 22
2008-01-12

Georg Wilsberg has a problem: A young Russian woman, living illegally in Germany, is found dead in a hotel room - murdered.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 23: Episode 23
2008-03-08

Alex's first case is about murder. Thomas Winter's wife has been strangled. Thomas is considered a suspect, but protests his innocence. Alex helps him escape.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 24: Episode 24
2008-04-26

This time it is Inspector Springer herself who needs Wilsberg's help. A young policewoman dies shortly before she was supposed to meet Anna. But that can't have been an accident.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 25: Episode 25
2008-12-27

Wilsberg goes to celebrate his 30th graduation anniversary, even though he hates such class reunions. Shortly afterwards, his old school friend is murdered, but his body disappears without a trace.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 26: Episode 26
2009-04-11

After a party, a woman is found seriously injured on the street. Ekki's car is parked nearby. Anna Springer arrests the hungover Ekki, but he refuses to make any statement.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 27: Episode 27
2009-04-25

Wilsberg is hired by Marie Kaiser to spy on her husband. The professor is cheating on her. When Wilsberg observes Kaiser, he is shot during lovemaking.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 28: Episode 28
2009-12-21

December 24th afternoon: Wilsberg buys a Christmas tree at the Münster Christmas market. At the same time, Ekki is bored at the Christmas party with his colleagues from the tax office.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 29: Episode 29
2010-03-20

Private detective Georg Wilsberg is commissioned by Torsten Schmitt to shadow his wife Elvira because of an alleged affair.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 30: Episode 30
2010-11-25

After a visit to the Bullenball, Michael Klarmann is shot. Ekki, who was standing right next to him, is injured. From then on, Ekki believes that he was actually the target.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 31: Episode 31
2011-04-09

When private detective Georg Wilsberg receives a call from Inspector Springer at night, he is shocked. There is a dead, naked callboy lying in her hotel room.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 32: Episode 32
2011-06-11

Ekki has an attractive new girlfriend: Denise. When she repeatedly talks about her ex-lover Lotze, Ekki becomes suspicious and asks Wilsberg to shadow Denise.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 33: Episode 33
2011-09-29

Ekki is burned out and is looking for distance and silence in the Melkwegen monastery. But Overbeck is also undercover in the monastery. And Wilsberg is investigating the murder of Cellarer Bertram there.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 34: Episode 34
2012-01-25

The son of the couple Melanie and Thomas Rensing has been kidnapped. Ekki is able to persuade Wilsberg to help his cousin's family, as they do not want to inform the police.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 35: Episode 35
2012-02-18

The Bielefeld running gag reaches its climax in this episode. A conspiracy theorist is murdered and Manni, who once moved to Bielefeld, reappears.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 36: Episode 36
2012-04-07

Georg Wilsberg is tasked with tracking down 17-year-old Marc, the son of his old school friend. He finds out that Marc is involved in drug deals - and worse.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 37: Episode 37
2013-01-26

One of Alex's clients is found dead after a meeting. Alex then disappears without a trace.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 38: Episode 38
2013-03-06

Ekki is about to move in with his steady girlfriend Silke. But shortly afterwards he is hit on by the pretty Charlotte. Ekki is ready for an affair.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 39: Episode 39
2013-08-31

Ekki has inherited his aunt's house and the field that goes with it. But this causes him a lot of problems. The corpse that he and Wilsberg find in the house is just one of them.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 40: Episode 40
2013-10-16

Richard Breiderhoff is accused of killing his wife. Meanwhile, Anna Springer has a blind date with Richard's brother. However, he has evil intentions.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 41: Episode 41
2014-01-08

Alex finds an amateur porn video of herself on the Internet. She immediately asks her godfather Georg Wilsberg for help before her boss finds out and her career is over.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 42: Episode 42
2014-03-01

This time, Ekki and his colleagues from the tax office are themselves being audited. But then irregularities in the operational processes are discovered and a colleague allegedly commits suicide.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 43: Episode 43
2014-03-22

Wilsberg has barely made a small profit from selling a rarity when two masked burglars steal the money. But Wilsberg doesn't let that happen.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 44: Episode 44
2014-12-17

Ekki can't believe it: The famous model Sonja Conrad is standing in his friend Wilsberg's antique shop and asks the detective for help. A stalker is supposedly after her.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 45: Episode 45
2015-01-03

Kamilla Marks, the owner of the Markshof Castle Hotel, is shot. Alex gets the suspect Enno Fellner as his client. He is said to have raped Kamilla years ago.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 46: Episode 46
2015-02-14

Wilsberg owes the tax office several thousand euros in back payments. On top of that, he is involved in a car accident in which a young hitchhiker dies.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 47: Episode 47
2015-04-11

Micki Hobelmeyer is acquitted in a rape trial. Wilsberg does not trust the verdict. He knows Micki from his student days and is not on good terms with him.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 48: Episode 48
2015-10-10

Overbeck has fallen victim to knockout drops. Wilsberg is tasked with finding out what happened last night and proving Overbeck's innocence.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 49: Episode 49
2015-11-28

Ekki causes trouble. He triggers a bomb alarm in the tax office. During the SEK operation, the male cleaner Hemidi is overpowered and a ticking toy is confiscated.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 50: Episode 50
2016-01-02

Lawyer Alex is representing her friend Ekki Talkötter in a damages lawsuit. Ekki slipped on spilled yogurt in the supermarket and tore a ligament.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 51: Episode 51
2016-04-16

Wilsberg is hanging around under a false identity with property developer Michael Lobland. He has everything Wilsberg doesn't have: a fancy car, a smartphone and money that needs to be invested.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 52: Episode 52
2016-12-17

Ekki is getting married. Wilsberg can't believe it. And he's supposed to be the best man. Despite his doubts about whether Kerstin Buckebrede is the right one, he can't say no to Ekki's request.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 53: Episode 53
2017-01-14

In the antique shop there is an old lady who doesn't know how she got there or where she lives. Wilsberg has a care problem. With skill he finds out that it is Hanni Haffner.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 54: Episode 54
2017-02-04

After a heated argument in a Münster bar, a young woman remains depressed at her seat. Wilsberg starts talking to her - and is amazed.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 55: Episode 55
2017-11-11

When high school graduate Emelie Boll disappears, wild speculation about the missing person case and the suspected perpetrator begins under the hashtag "woistemelie". Ekki Talkötter is the first to become the focus of the viral campaign: he was seen giving Emelie a ride in his car the evening before.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 56: Episode 56
2017-12-02

Ekki was offered a "tax CD" that allegedly incriminated everyone of importance and name in Münster. Wilsberg is supposed to help Ekki to check the credibility.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 57: Episode 57
2017-12-23

Wilsberg was actually looking forward to a Christmas party with Ekki, Alex and Anna. But that won't happen, as everyone has other plans or, like Anna, is "sick".

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 58: Episode 58
2018-01-06

Wilsberg has allowed Anna to persuade him to go on holiday to Norderney together. His enthusiasm is limited, especially when he finds out that Anna's goddaughter Merle is coming along.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 59: Episode 59
2018-03-03

Tax investigator Matthias Lehnhoff's birthday party comes to an abrupt end after an argument with his wife. Wilsberg and Ekki find Lehnhoff dead near the restaurant shortly afterwards.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 60: Episode 60
2018-09-08

Elena Warnetzki lives in an allotment colony, fishes food out of garbage containers and leads a life without television, computer, smartphone and, above all, without money.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 61: Episode 61
2018-11-03

Retirement - that could actually be a nice thing. But Paul Dietze - Wilsberg's friend - has nothing to celebrate. The hard-earned savings are gone.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 62: Episode 62
2019-01-12

Sister Christa, who takes care of the finances of her monastery, has invested money on the stock market and has shown a lucky hand: 1.5 million euros in speculative profits.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 63: Episode 63
2019-03-02

Wilsberg has a guilty conscience: his new client Britta Mantzke is found dead near the Aasee. Inspector Springer and Overbeck assume it was suicide.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 64: Episode 64
2019-11-02

Ekki is invited to Bielefeld for a friend's company anniversary. Wilsberg accompanies Ekki to see his friend Manni in Bielefeld. But the meeting doesn't happen.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 65: Episode 65
2019-11-30

Private detective Wilsberg falls victim to a burglary. Worse than the shock of the crime is that the money he had saved for his cruise with Anna Springer was stolen.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 66: Episode 66
2020-01-11

Ekki is invited to Bielefeld for a friend's company anniversary. Wilsberg accompanies Ekki to see his friend Manni in Bielefeld. But the meeting doesn't happen.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 67: Episode 67
2020-02-08

Wilsberg has to go to the island of Norderney - with Tessa Tilker, a lawyer colleague of Alex from Bielefeld, who needs his expertise in inheritance law.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 68: Episode 68
2020-04-18

Wilsberg's friend Ekki urgently needs help. Ekki's ex-girlfriend Silke Sestendrup introduces him to his daughter Hanna. Ekki is supposed to pay maintenance retroactively for the last six years.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 69: Episode 69
2020-11-28

Wilsberg and Ekki suddenly become entangled in a case of cyberbullying and fake news. It involves slander, paid lying campaigns and hurt feelings.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 70: Episode 70
2021-01-02

Finding evidence is Wilsberg's daily bread. But obtaining evidence to prove an employee's theft is not.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 71: Episode 71
2021-02-20

A voluntary social credit system is introduced in Münster. The surveillance that comes with it is not a thorn in the side of most people. Everyone takes part, except Wilsberg.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 72: Episode 72
2021-05-22

Private detective Wilsberg is asked to help the owner of a tailor shop who feels harassed by her landlord. Shortly afterwards, a neighbor in the shop is murdered in front of her eyes.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 73: Episode 73
2021-12-11

Detective Inspector Overbeck is supposed to give an explosive lecture to a select audience of experts. However, his presentation is interrupted by a mysterious threat.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 74: Episode 74
2022-01-15

The Münster police want to modernize and are considering including genetic genealogy in investigations. Overbeck's big moment seems to have come.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 75: Episode 75
2022-04-16

Wilsberg and Ekki are invited to lunch in a moated castle by lawyer Dr. Tessa Tilker. When another guest arrives, Tessa suddenly panics.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 76: Episode 76
2022-10-01

Meat manufacturer Thomas Heitbrink is accused of poor hygiene in the company. His lawyer Dr. Tessa Tilker instructs Wilsberg to find out who wants to harm the company.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 77: Episode 77
2023-01-07

When a young employee of a start-up has an accident in front of Wilsberg and Ekki, the question arises: was it an accident or was it murder?

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 78: Episode 78
2023-03-18

A dead journalist leads Georg Wilsberg into the world of influencers. And as if solving a murder wasn't enough, Wilsberg's friends also urgently need his help.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 79: Episode 79
2023-10-14

This episode is about the murder of a publisher who not only made friends with his publication. Wilsberg's friend Tessa Tilker therefore had a lot to do as the publisher's lawyer. And Chief Inspector Anna Springer feels a moral complicity in the death and turns to the private detective in her distress.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 80: Episode 80
2024-01-13

Private detective Georg Wilsberg is confronted with a murdered taxi driver. It soon becomes clear that the mysterious case goes far back into the city of Münster's past.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 81: Episode 81
2024-04-13

Private detective Wilsberg is supposed to find evidence that a family expert was manipulated. But before he can really investigate the matter, the psychologist falls victim to fatal shots.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 82: Episode 82
2024-05-11

Georg Wilsberg's friend Ekki Talkötter comes under suspicion of murder after a dead IT technician is found at Lake Aasee. Ekki had previously argued with him in the office.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 83: Episode 83
2024-10-05

Anna Springer is taking a break from her job to write a book about her experiences as a detective. Meanwhile, a young saleswoman is found dead in a delivery van at the Münster weekly market. Detectives Overbeck and Drechshage, who are representing Anna Springer in ongoing investigations, take over the case. René Rösch is soon suspected of having committed the murder. He has a relevant criminal record and a flawed alibi. Anna is under pressure to write her second book that is better than the first. At the same time, there are increasing signs that someone is after her. Could the threatening incidents possibly have something to do with the old criminal cases that Anna deals with in her first book? In her distress, Anna asks Wilsberg for help.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 84: Episode 84
2025-01-11

Disguised as a guest lecturer, private detective Wilsberg investigates a stalking case at the university. When a student dies, the homicide squad also gets involved in the case.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 85: Episode 85
2025-02-08

A murdered lawyer from her firm gets Tessa Tilker into trouble. During his research, private detective Wilsberg comes across details that soon put Ekki Talkötter in danger. Ekki is in an existential crisis. On the advice of his friends, he takes a break in a self-discovery retreat.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 86: Episode 86
2025-05-17

Wilsberg learns that Edgar wanted to meet with the whistleblower Frederik Meissner in order to obtain explosive material about a water price increase. During his research on behalf of Edgar's girlfriend Clara, Wilsberg soon comes across Meissner's body. Chief Inspector Anna Springer and her colleague Overbeck take over the murder investigation.

Runtime: 90 min

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