#watching tatort saarbrücken with german subtitles

[discountrosaluxemburg]

damn there's a difference between textbook german and tatort german

[storm3326]

when do they kiss though..

[melikes-reads]

What if we were strangers but you saved me from bullies in high school?

What if we became the best of friends?

What if I saved you from your violent father?

What if you ran away for 15 years?

What if you came back into my life, unexpectedly?

What if I told you you're the centre of the world?

What if you told me: "Of your world, maybe"

WHAT THEN? WHAT THEN?

[thisisridiculois]

Am I going to have to work on my German just so I can watch the show my mutuals like

[loveyouhomex]

Red mit mir und egal was sogsch, I heb zu dir

I bin der der vor dir steht

I bin do wenn jeder geht

Wenn die koaner mehr versteht.

red mit mir -max von milland

[punchandspade]

🙂

[nerd-on-duty]

Tatort Saarbrücken (Spatort) English subtitles - 2024 edition (episodes 1-5)

For all international fans who want to watch Tatort Saabrücken (of annual tumblr trending fame) but don't speak German, fear not:

Send me a DM and I can send you a link for English subs :)

(Please do not send asks as I can't post them publicly and I've had the unfortunate experience of privately posted ones eating links or disappearing into the tumblr void, never to be seen again...)

For return customers: as of today (04 Feb 2024) the newest episode (#5 - Der Fluch des Geldes (FdG)) is now live! The Drive link is still the same and the ReadMe has been updated as well, so check that out for links and guides as always.

And as always: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL FAN PROJECT THAT I DO AS A HOBBY - PLEASE DO NOT POST THE LINK OR THE FILES PUBLICLY!

More info under the cut

You can pass them along to other people privately (though please also ask them not to post them and to let anyone else they'd like to share them with know as well!), but I really don't want any beef with the channel (which is publicly funded and can afford far fancier lawyers than me, who is none-funded and can afford no lawyers) because these are not official in any capacity nor do I want to leave anyone with the impression that these could be official. They're a simple homemade attempt at letting non-German-speaking fans participate in the epic highs and lows of Spatort because there currently are no official English subtitles. Any mistakes are entirely my own, I don't own any of the copyrights to Tatort or any of their characters or plots, yadda yadda.

That being said, if you notice any typos, translation errors, missing or out of date links or anything else, please do let me know so I can update the files accordingly!

As I've gotten a few messages this year apologizing for being late: if anyone sees this in the future - yes, this is still up to date. You can shoot me a message at any time of the year and I will get back to you as soon as I can (usually within 24-48 h). If you still haven't heard from me after a week (especially if there's still new posts coming in on the blog) feel free to poke me again - I promise I'm not ignoring you, I most likely just haven't seen the notification.

If you want to filter spoilers for the new episode in the meantime, block #spatort spoilers to avoid seeing them on this blog (I generally use this tag for posts related to new episodes in between the official release and uploading the subtitles)

[mindless-mars]

Heyyy I have a question, I've been meaning to get into Tatort Saarbrücken in order to better my German. What order should I watch the episodes in? The episodes aren't numbered on the ARD Mediathek website 😢

ohhh thanks for the ask and sorry for infecting you with the sad gay cop show hehe

So the order is

1. Das fleißige Lieschen

2. Der Herr des Waldes

3. Das Herz der Schlange

4. Die Kälte der Erde

5. Der Fluch des Geldes

And for the 6th one (which I think will be called Das Ende der Nacht) we'll have to wait another year 🥲

I'd advise you to turn on either German subtitles in the ARD Mediathek (bc sometimes the sound is shit and Germans also tend to mumble a lot) or ask @nerd-on-duty for the English subtitles (hope they're still active)

Also sometimes the ARD Mediathek takes the episodes down but you can find all of them here:

MediathekViewWeb

Have fun and welcome to Spatort world 🥰

[chaoslaura]

*crashes through the ceiling* Alright, I have to ask: was ist "Spatort"?!

Oh lord, I'm not sure I can properly explain this to someone non-German. I think I have mentioned it to you on insta once though.

So the german TV show is actually called Tatort (engl. crime scene). It's a crime show invented in 1970 with each episode being the length of a movie and having it's own plot which is completely solved in one episode and has mostly been watched by people our parent's age.

There's several police teams from several cities such as Berlin, Munich, Cologne which have their own show bascially but they are all played under the Tatort name and are alternately shown on TV with roughly 2 episodes per months.

Now Spatort is Tatort playing in Saarbrücken, a part of the show which has become very popular on German tumblr because the two dudes on the Team are some little meow meows with very high hurt/comfort potential because of tragic backstory and are So Gay for each other, it's a miracle the producers are still calling them collegues.

And for the name, the 'sp' in front of Tatort comes from the german word of shovel (dt. Spaten) which playes a significant role in mentioned tragic backstory.😅

I've also heard, somone has the episodes (4 so far) with english subtitles so if you're interested👀

[letsbealone-together]

Link to the subtitles by @nerd-on-duty

Hi! Sorry for this but I’m an American who has lived (and stans) Saarbrücken. Why is it trending on Tumblr 😭😭 My little German city is famous for what

Hi, I'm trying to explain it for you.

It's famous for it's Tatort.

"Tatort" is a weekly Sunday afternoon crime show (for boomers) that's been running since forever. Different teams investigate crimes in different cities.

The Saarbrücken team is quite young compared to the other teams and is (probably/hopefully/not canonically) quite gay and has a consistent dramatic backstory including the abusive criminal father of one of the main cops and a spade. There's so much personal drama and the crimes are just a small plot point to drive the character development. Here they are:

So far there have been 5 episodes and the latest aired yesterday.

Our fandom is crazy and super creative in terms of memes, fanfic, GIFs etc. so every year at the end of January it's wild when we're live blogging and processing the new episode.

You aren't the first one who's confused about all of this and it's really cool that we're able to trend our stupid German crime show every year and confuse unknowing Tumblr users.

There are some more detailed posts explaining the whole thing and I'm thankful if somebody could link to them in the comments.

I'm jealous that you've lived in Saarbrücken, you would probably spot some familiar places in the episodes, when you watch them.

Thanks for this ask, you can always come back if you need further information. ❤️

[piaheinrichgf]

Leo Hölzer/Adam Schürk - Wenn du mich lässt [Tatort Saarbrücken]

Hey, ich werd' dich lieben, auch wenn du's grad' nicht kannst Werd' für dich lügen, auch wenn du's nicht verlangst Ich würd' für dich kämpfen und wenn ich mich dabei verletz' Hey, ich werd' dich lieben, wenn du mich lässt 

for a version with German and English subtitles please watch here on YouTube

[m---resources]

Hello, thank you for your work, arrrrrr! I've been watching your uploads of tatort saarbrücken but the thing is, my german is not that good, do you happen to know where i could find subtitles (english or german) for them?

hey!

about the german subtitles, i took some time to look but was sadly only able to find dfl and dhds - i have added them to the same folder that the .mp4s are already in now! if any of you know where to find german subtitles for dhdw too, i would deeply appreciate any tips!

as for the english subtitles, @nerd-on-duty has actually translated all three episodes into english! they were so kind as to offer to help people who message them get the english subtitle files, so i would suggest you shoot him a dm! many thanks again for everything you do!!

[keravnous]

All ur reblobbing of the German jean jacket policeman and his leather jacket policeman boyfriend has made me want to watch this tatort saaurbrücken but a cursory Google tells me its 500000 seasons long - where do I start? :( and where can I watch with English subs because my German is not so great, if you know?

Hi Nonnie!

The first thing you need to know is, that the Tatort is not necessarily a coherent series, it consists of multiple teams from various bigger german cities, working on individual cases (except of a few times they don’t really meet/cross paths). So you don’t need to start at a certain point!

Those two, Adam Schürk (jean jacket boy) and Leo Hölzer (leather jacket boy) are the new team for the city of Saarbrücken (near the german-french border) and yesterday evening their second episode aired! It wasn’t as gay as their first one but still good, I won’t complain

The first episode “Das fleißige Lieschen” aired last year and is, according to @joe-thomas available on ardmedia with eng subs, eventhough I couldn’t change the subtitles from ger to eng. But that could’ve also just been me and my incompetence lol

The second episode “Herr des Waldes” is currently only available with ger subs, also on ardmedia!

Ep. 1: Das fleißige Lieschen

Ep. 2: Der Herr des Waldes

I really don’t know where you can find both episodes with eng subs but maybeee someone else can help you out?

Good luck and happy tatorting, love! 💖

Since the post gets quite a bit of attention, make sure to check the notes! There are a few tips/solutions for non german speakers! 💖

[storm3326]

As a German who loves Tatort, especially Saarbrücken, I screamed a little at your latest post :D l really love your art, so this was great to see 💛

100% agree with the sadness, hopefully we'll get 2 cases a year in the future. (I kinda assumed somebody would have subtitled the episodes already, but...) I'm rooting for your learning progress 💪

Thank you so much!😍

I planned to watch the first one and go for the second episode after I studied German for 3, 4 more months, but the final scenes made me super curious! So I watched all three while not knowing 99% of the words.

Oh, 2 cases a year sounds nice. I hope that happens! I think I'll try other ones while waiting for the next episode. It'll be fun watching it again in the future(future me I believe in you) to realize how wrong my guesses were. Thanks again 🥰🥰🥰🥰

[nerd-on-duty]

Tatort Saarbrücken (aka Spatort) english subtitles

For all international fans who want to watch Tatort Saabrücken (of annual tumblr trending fame) but don't speak German, fear not:

send me a DM and I can send you a link for the english subs. :)

(I normally respond within a day or two, so if you haven't heard from me a week after you sent your message, please feel free to send another one! Sometimes my DMs get a bit flooded and I don't see everyone, I promise I'm not ignoring you!)

As of today, the most recent episode (#4 - Die Kälte der Erde) is finished as well.

And for all the people who already have the link, it's in the same folder as the other ones.

(Btw, if you'd like me to make full CC versions as well, just send me a message and I'll be happy to do so!)

Also, this is your annual friendly reminder to please not post the link publicly :)

EDIT (24 Sep 2023): I am still active on here - if you'd like the link, simply shoot me a message! If you don't hear from me within a week or two feel free to send me a gentle reminder, I probably just opened the message and the notification indicator went away.

Also, if any of the episode links become inactive do let me know and I'll get on fixing it asap! :) So far I've always found alternatives, but since I don't personally check them every month I don't always notice right away if there's anything wrong with them.

If you want to filter spoilers in the meantime, block #spatort spoilers to avoid seeing them on this blog

[fagcrisis]

hii do u know where i can watch tatort saarbrücken?? preferably subbed im learning german. ive tried searching for a torrent and on streaming sites and i cant find it anywhere :-(

with german subtitles its on ardmediathek.de! just search for tatort saarbrücken it should show up (the first ep is called das fleißige liebchen) the subs on the first episode are atrocious but theyre fine on the other 2!