Eberhofer Collection

'Die, you pig!'. The words are emblazoned on the wall of school principal Höpfl's home for all the villagers to see. Soon after, this very man is found lying dead as a doornail on the train tracks. Franz Eberhofer, the local policeman in the sleepy Lower Bavarian province of Niederkaltenkirchen, suspects murder. And the prospect is one that does not entirely displease him, as this backwoods offers very little excitement other than the fantastic meals with his cooking-obsessed Grandma or the constant stress with his Beatles-loving Dad. He is supported by Rudi Birkenberger, now a department-store detective but previously with Franz in the Munich detective squad until both were suspended. The Höpfl case gets even more tangled when a second corpse is found, that of a drug-addict hustler with whom Höpfl had been in contact. Franz must also cope with the fact that his Susi is having an affair and he thinks the lover is the Thai offspring of his estranged brother, who is supposed to be their babysitter.

Village gendarme Franz Eberhofer is as white as his grandmother's winter potato dumplings. He first has to digest the sight of the dead Neuhofer son. As if out of the blue, a construction container had come loose from the crane and buried the unfortunate man right under it - right in front of their own front door. The police officer, who was transferred to his hometown of Niederkaltenkirchen, doesn't really believe it was an accident. After all, after 15 years of service in Munich, he has an unerring instinct for crime. With the help of his friend and former colleague Rudi Birkenberger, who now works as a private detective, Eberhofer finds out that the container's suspension has been tampered with. But nothing more. In the village, the matter is clear anyway: really bad karma. Because the father of the dead man died in an accident. The community, especially the male part, prefers to deal with a new face than with murder theories: The exciting Mercedes, recently moved into the abandoned villa on the edge of the forest, wraps everyone around its finger. Also Eberhofer. Unfortunately, his duty as a policeman distracts him from his flirtation with Mercedes: Mother Neuhofer is found hanged. Now only son Hans is left of the long-suffering family. But instead of sinking into grief, he recently drives an expensive sports car. No wonder that Eberhofer's mistrust is reawakened.

Crime comedy centering around a German village policeman who has to hunt down an escaped killer in his hometown in the backwoods of Bavaria while also chasing after his girl friend who has run off to Italy with another man.

Franz Eberhofer, still drunk, is woken up the morning after a lavish police wedding by a heavily armed special forces commando, who unfortunately cannot be chased away by Grandma's broom. His colleague Barschl has been found dead with a knife in his back.And unfortunately the murder weapon, Franz's pocket knife of all things, can be identified without a doubt because his name is engraved on it. The fact that the deceased is Franz's unloved boss and declared arch enemy doesn't make things any better. It's good that his old hippie father has come up with a nice alibi for him. But Franz has to investigate himself. Luckily his friend Rudi Birkenberger is on hand to help him solve the delicate case. Franz also has a lot to do in his private life. His dad has been seething with jealousy ever since his grandmother's childhood sweetheart, the eccentric Paul, turned up and took over the house. And that's not all: because Paul can't stand anything else, his grandmother only cooks semolina dumpling soup. Things also get tricky for Franz when he narrowly misses a marriage proposal from his girlfriend Susi.

Provincial police officer Franz Eberhofer is exposed to new, nerve-wracking pressures: He is "transferred to Munich as a penalty". For him, that means shared accommodation with his idiosyncratic buddy Rudi and his adversary Thin Lizzy as boss. No wonder Franz wants to go back to Niederkaltenkirchen. The greatest challenge awaits him there: Karl-Heinz Fleischmann, formerly the pimply "Fleischi" and now a successful businessman, has reappeared and is getting to work on his Susi. This time there is no way out: Franz owes his eternal on-off girlfriend the long overdue marriage proposal. Luckily, a woman's corpse is soon found in dad's trunk, which leads Eberhofer back home and to grandma's cooking pots. Franz does the clarification as casually as ever, he better lets Rudi try the laxative effect of sauerkraut, but when it comes to carrying out a proper marriage proposal to Susi, he reaches his limits.

"Feelings always suck." Lower-Bavarian village police officer Franz Eberhofer internalized this deeply-felt wisdom long ago. That is why he suffers only moderately when his girlfriend Susi distances herself. Even in the event of the neighboring Mooshammerhof burns down, Eberhofer does not break out into unrest. Even the fact that an attractive woman from Munich was killed in the fire does not irritate Franz. What really throws him off balance is that the doctor attests that his lifestyle is hazardous to his health and puts him on a strict diet: lots of vegetables, and no more red meat--certainly no more meatloaf. Tough conditions for the following murder investigation, which involves a new hotel or jealousy. Suspicious figures include Ms. Grimm, the victim's mother, a gay couple, and local soccer god Buengo. Unfortunately, Susi tasked Eberhofer with looking after their toddler Pauli for a while, which hinders police work. Worse, self-appointed private detective Rudi Birkenberger rushes to the rescue to advise on nutrition, education, and investigation without being asked. Can Franz get through this whole dilemma without those strengthening liver meat rolls?

The deeply relaxed days at the Eberhofer-Hof are finally numbered: The idyll is to be thoroughly optimized with a new semi-detached house. Eberhofer's long-term friend Susi, along with Franz's hated brother Leopold, of all people, is pushing ahead with the construction in order to unite the two families in a happy semi-detached house with a shared sauna, and it's always cheaper. In addition to Franz, his dad's plans also go against the grain and he protests against the "gentrification of his farm" by quickly occupying the construction crane. Eberhofer's only haven of peace, his dog Ludwig, also worries him because of increasing old age. Luckily, a new murder case soon frees the policeman Franz from the domestic chaos. The slain jogger turns out to be the village webcam girl Simone, who also counted two of Eberhofer's friends among her customers: the butcher Simmerl and the always love-mad heating engineer Flötzinger. He has just rekindled his affair with "der Beischl", which is why he now lives in constant fear of her boyfriend, who is the boss of the local rocker gang. The Simone case would be a good opportunity for the Eberhofer/Birkenberger dream team to work, but unfortunately the proven investigator duo broke up in a car accident. Well, only a few of Rudi Birkenberger's bones are broken. But Rudi, although he is officially considered cured, is still in a wheelchair, blames Franz for the accident and now wants all-round care at the Eberhofer-Hof. When a second corpse finally appears, Rudi's ambition is finally aroused, because of all things, the SOKO around Thin Lizzy (Nora Waldstätten) doesn't want the dream team to leave the field under any circumstances.

Provincial police officer Eberhofer has to save the gambling addict Lotto Otto from collecting money and clarify the murder of his mother.

"What's for dinner?" - "Nothing." A bombshell at the Eberhofer farm: Grandma is on strike. After what feels like 2000 cakes and even more roast pork, bread dumplings and cabbage, Grandma decides to stop caring for the family. Pure chaos. Papa Eberhofer, Franz, Leopold and Susi should finally learn to look after themselves. Now, of all times, Susi temporarily takes over Niederkaltenkirchen's town hall as deputy mayor and uses her newfound power to reduce Franz's position to half-time so that he can look after his son Pauli in the future. This action touches Eberhofer's masculinity. Fortunately, it doesn't take long before a crow picks up a human ear and a missing person case that was actually stuck unexpectedly develops into a complicated murder case that brings Franz and Rudi together again as a dream team of investigators in top form.