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With the 100th episode of the cult crime thrillerMunich “Tatort” duo says goodbye
Miroslav Nemec and Udo Wachtveitl at their last “Tatort” premiere.
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After 35 years it's over!
Miroslav Nemec (71) and Udo Wachtveitl (67) alias Batic and Leitmayr say goodbye to the “crime scene.” Her last case celebrated its premiere in Munich – a double episode entitled “Unvergänglich.” Then the actors brought 100 episodes of the cult crime series to television.
Munich commissioners say goodbye with a serenade
The inspectors thanked their audience with a serenade and summarized their 35 years of “Tatort” with their self-written song “On Sunday at a quarter past eight,” to the melody of Hans Albers’ “On the Reeperbahn at half past twelve at night.”
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“Life doesn’t change that much,” said Wachtveitl, who became famous as Inspector Franz Leitmayr. After all, he and Nemec (Commissioner Ivo Batic) have been doing something other than filming a “crime scene” for eight months of the year in the past decades – “and now it’s been twelve months.”
The two actors, who were also bid farewell by Munich Police Chief Thomas Hampel and two police horses, were pleased that they had gotten through these 35 years “without antics” and that the cases in their crime scenes had always been the focus of the stories and not the personal sensitivities of the investigators.
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“You’ve definitely cracked the billion”
The difference to his former colleagues can be seen “clearly in the color of his hair,” Hofer told the German Press Agency on the sidelines of the premiere at the Munich University of Television and Film (HFF): “black hair and no longer gray.”
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The cultural director of the Bayerischer Rundfunk, which is responsible for the Munich “Tatort”, Björn Wilhelm, calculated that the two as an investigator duo had reached around 814 million viewers since their first case in 1991 – and that only with the first broadcasts of their cases on Sunday evening on Erste.
With the repetitions there are even more. “You’ve definitely cracked the billion,” said Wilhelm. “You have made television history. That sounds big and it is big.”
That's why the two of them are like the title of their last case: “imperishable.” (fkl/dpa)
Sources used: dpa
