  The status of dark matter search in Heidelberg is reviewed. After one year of
running the HDMS prototype experiment in the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory,
the inner crystal of the detector has been replaced with a HPGe crystal of
enriched 73Ge. The results of the operation of the HDMS prototype detector are
discussed. In the light of the contradictive results from the CDMS and DAMA
experiments the GENIUS-TF, a new experimental setup is proposed. The GENIUS-TF
could probe the DAMA evidence region using the WIMP nucleus recoil signal and
WIMP annual modulation signature simulataneously. Besides that it can prove
some key parameters of the detector technique, to be implemented into the
GENIUS setup and will in this sense be a first step towards the realization of
the GENIUS experiment.
