“Tatort” from Munich: Last flap for Leitmayr and Batic

End of an era: In Munich, the last flap for the cult “crime scene” with the Commissioners Leitmayr and Batic. The actors Udo Wachtveitl (66) and Miroslav Nemec (71) were in front of the camera for the last time in their parade rolls. During a break, eating for the crew “Time to Say Goodbye” boomed from the speakers.

There should still be a smaller shoot outside of Munich – but for Munich it was after 35 years of Leitmayr and Batic. “After that, I think, there is a little blues,” said Nemec in a break shortly before the last flap. “But we will be together, even after this blues. We two will be in Croatia – private.”

His colleague Wachtveitl added: “We take care of each other and support ourselves in retrospect for 35 really very nice years. It was an absolute stroke of luck.”

The farewell is not quite sudden and has been announced for a long time. “It is such a farewell in many small installments and that’s why it is not yet there a large shaft wave,” he said. “Not only we, but also our audience, could slowly get used to it. That means there was always something that happened for the last time. The other day the Kalli was surprised by a scene, so completely unpoken. In the middle of the camera, he pulled out three beer and said:” This is the last scene as a Kalli with you “.”

Ferdinand Hofer, who has played the assistant Kalli for years, will remain with the Munich “crime scene” and will in future form the new team of investigators together with Carlo Ljubek. From 2026 Ljubek will be seen as chief criminal commissioner Nikola Buvak.

Leitmayr and Batic say goodbye to the audience with the double episode “imperishable” after then 100 episodes. They start looking for a murderous phantom that sneaks through Munich rental apartments unnoticed. The time runs away, because – as in real life – retirement is getting closer.

The fact that the two go together seems to have always been agreed, they were too much connected over the years. “It is also very strange that we both have become so white – and relatively quickly,” says Nemec. And Wachtveitl adds: “But we agreed that. Hormonally synchronized.”

Her last case refers to her first, the episode “Animals” broadcast in 1991. For example, Leitmayr’s red Porsche returns from that time. One of the last scenes that Wachtveitl and Nemec shoot takes place in the same car that played a role in its first episode. This is how the circle closes.

They don’t reveal exactly how the commissioners come to an end. In advance, they wanted a departure that suits them and is not too dramatic. “We wished that they live, that is, that they enjoy life and therefore we said that it would not have to lead to death immediately, become lethal. But that is still the editors. And there can still be surprises,” says Nemec. “Of course, it could also play a role in such a role that we are really dead so that we don’t resurrect again,” says Wachtveitl. For safety reasons, so to speak.

The exact broadcast date for “imperishable” has not yet been determined.