Is There Life After Tatort?

At the Actors Talk hosted at the Spa & Resort Bachmair Weissach, Miroslav Nemec revealed what matters more to him today than the best scripts—and even more than Tatort itself.
On 28 November 2025, Korbinian Kohler, owner of the Spa & Resort Bachmair Weissach, invited guests to the very first Actors Talk in the hotel’s ballroom. The evening’s prominent guest was star actor Miroslav Nemec, interviewed by Georg Seitz. Their conversation centred on Nemec’s profession, his biography, and the connection between the two. The acclaimed TV actor offered the audience deep insights into his life after 35 years with Tatort—and even treated them to musical interludes from his second career as a musician.

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Women Shape His Life

“I grew up in a matriarchy,” Nemec explained during the Actors Talk.
“My grandmother was a general; my mother and aunts were in charge. The men sometimes said something, but it wasn’t very important. I love women, and I often find it easier to talk to them than to men. I used to think I was choosing women—only later did I realise that they had always chosen me.”

Miroslav Nemec, born on 26 June 1954 in Zagreb, was sent to relatives in Freilassing at the age of eleven. His parents hoped he would grow up under better economic conditions than they could offer.

“You have one homeland, then you move to the next, and in the end you have none at all. You find yourself in no man’s land—that’s truly how I felt.”

This emotional back-and-forth left Nemec with a profound inner conflict. Decisions made by parents and relatives over his head created a deep mistrust of adults—experiences that would later serve him well as an actor.

“Acting is a profession that draws from the depths. Painful experiences, especially from childhood, help you. They let you cry, give you the ability to despair. My youth was hard, but it was also incredibly fruitful.”

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He Wanted to Be a Rockstar

After finishing school, Nemec moved to Salzburg to study piano, didactics and methodology at the Mozarteum. He completed his training as a specialist teacher but never pursued the profession—his acting career intervened. Music, however, remains a central part of his life. Nemec regularly performs solo programmes and plays with the Miroslav Nemec Band. For the music film Wonderbeats, in which he also appears, he composed all the songs. He continues to perform with Asphyxia, the band he founded with friends in Freilassing.

“We no longer play with long hair but with short. Yet deep inside we’ve stayed blues and rock musicians. Becoming a rockstar—that’s something I really would have liked back then.”

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His Final Tatort

“We decided to stop while people were still saying, ‘It’s a pity you’re stopping!’ If they were already saying, ‘It’s time you stopped,’ it would be too late.”

At the Actors Talk, Nemec looked back on 100 episodes of Tatort. Filming concluded for him in June. Episode 98 will air on 26 December on ARD, with episodes 99 and 100 to follow in spring 2026. Friendly rivalry marked the collaboration between Batic and Leitmayr—and likewise between Nemec and Udo Wachtveitl: both fought for the best scripts, for every line of dialogue, and to ensure the other did not end up with more text. Every line counted.

“Since the final take, a gentle melancholy has settled in. It feels strange when no new scripts arrive. I’m leaving Tatort, but that doesn’t mean I’ll be leaning back at home. I’ve always had the feeling that I’ll keep going.”

One hundred episodes—more than one hundred murders. Does constant confrontation with death make it a familiar companion?

“I think about mortality—and then I push the thought away,” says Nemec, father of three daughters. He attended the Talk together with his wife, documentary filmmaker Katrin Nemec.

“I have a family. We have a 14-year-old daughter, the middle one is 26, the eldest is 37, and I’ve become a grandfather. You want to be present for that. Of course, you think about what you’ll leave behind, how to arrange things for your descendants. But ultimately, I’ve chosen to live forward. I live in the now, and in what lies ahead.”

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On 26 December, ARD will air Tatort Munich: Verlangen starring Miroslav Nemec and Udo Wachtveitl. The duo’s final two Tatort episodes will follow in spring 2026.
On 25 and 26 December, Nemec and Wachtveitl will present their interpretation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at the Isarphilharmonie in Munich.
Starting 10 December, the Actors Talk from the Spa & Resort Bachmair Weissach will be available on YouTube: youtube.com/@actors_talk