Actor
Ferdinand Hofer: Role as Kalli not dependent on bosses
The actors Udo Wachtveitl (lr) as Inspector Franz Leitmayr, Ferdinand Hofer as Kalli Hammermann and Miroslav Nemec as Inspector Ivo Batic. photo
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Ferdinand Hofer has been playing the role of Kalli Hammermann in Munich’s “Tatort” for around ten years. Will he remain an assistant to Commissioners Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr forever?
Actor Ferdinand Hofer (30) can imagine his “Tatort” role Kalli will continue to play even if the bosses retire.
“Of course it would be a shame if they were both gone, but that wouldn’t be the deciding factor for me to say that I no longer enjoy the character. That would only be the case if I saw that there was nothing for Kalli there is more to play for,” he told the German Press Agency in Munich.
Hofer has been playing the role of Kalli Hammermann – the young assistant to inspectors Ivo Batic (Miroslav Nemec) and Franz Leitmayr (Udo Wachtveitl) – in Munich’s “Tatort” for around ten years.
Kalli is promoted
“For me, Kalli is a role that I want to shape and equip. As long as I still feel the fire that there is still something to be gained, I’m happy to do it. And that’s – to be honest – not really “Depending on who else is in it. I also make other films and I don’t do that because XYZ is in it, but because I find the character particularly exciting.”
In the current episode “Queens” Kalli is promoted. “It’s just the way things go. The boy needed a higher salary level,” Wachtveitl told dpa. “But we remain the older ones and he remains the younger one. This distance will not change even through vigorous rowing. It will only change in the sense that we are certainly closer to retirement age than he is. But there is nothing to say about that yet.”
There are always rumors that Nemec and Wachtveil could be heading for their exit after more than three decades as “crime scene” detectives. “Queens” is already her 93rd case. After Ulrike Folkerts as Lena Odenthal in Ludwigshafen, they are the longest-serving investigators in the “Tatort” universe.
According to Wachtveitl, discussions are currently underway about what will happen next with the Munich investigative team. “They certainly won’t lead to us starting over again,” he told dpa. ““Queens” is number 93, two more have already been filmed and something concrete is being prepared,” said his colleague Nemec. “I can not say more about that.”