Tatort Mittelmeer

The number of legal violations and human rights abuses is increasing; in ten years, almost 30,000 people have drowned: The Mediterranean is not only a crime scene, but also a mass grave. "Tatort Mittelmeer" (Crime Scene Mediterranean) is a staged reading presented annually at various theaters. To mark its tenth anniversary, the Berlin sea rescue organization SOS Humanity is bringing the event back to its founding city.


This November, it will once again be at the Deutsches Theater Berlin.


Well-known actors, including those who have played Known as TV investigators from Tatort, Polizeiruf 110, and Sörensen, they focus on the Mediterranean as a crime scene:

Meret Becker, Ulrike Folkerts, Nina Kunzendorf, Peter Kurth, Eva Löbau, Bjarne Mädel, Heike Makatsch, Hans-Jochen Wagner, and Mark Waschke from SOS Humanity will read recorded accounts of rescued people and rescuers, as well as documentation of violations of the law in the Mediterranean.


The Tatort Mediterranean reading aims primarily to amplify the voices of those who are rarely heard: people on the run.


The reading will be accompanied by music from the Palestinian-Syrian pianist Aeham Ahmad, who received the International Beethoven Prize for Human Rights in 2015.



SOS Humanity is committed to a world in which everyone's human rights are respected. SOS Humanity stands for humanity at sea and on land. Since 2015, the association has been committed to ensuring that no one drowns while fleeing and that everyone is treated with dignity.



The staged reading "Tatort Mediterranean" is intended to draw more attention to the humanitarian catastrophe that has been ongoing in the Mediterranean for years and to provide an opportunity to collect donations for the life-saving missions of the rescue ship "Humanity 1" as well as for the financing of an additional rescue and observation vessel, the sailing ship "Humanity 2."




Tatort Mediterranean is an event organized by the civilian sea rescue organization SOS Humanity in cooperation with the Deutsches Theater Berlin.