“Queens” with Batic and Leitmayr

“Queens” is a crime scene with a lot of local color, a lot of humor and a serious topic.

On their 93rd case, Munich detectives Ivo Batic (Miroslav Nemec) and Franz Leitmayr (Udo Wachtveitl) end up in the Bavarian province. There the President of the Bavaria Association is ALMOST dead and it is not clear at first: Was it an accident, a suicide gone wrong or an attempted murder? Crime and entertainment works in this case, says our crime scene checker Simone Sarnow.

Commissioners from the Munich crime scene

Ivo Batic, played by Miroslav Nemec was born in Zagreb (Croatia) in the 50s. He grew up in a foster family and although he has no family, he is a full-fledged family man. Even though he rarely allows himself to be disturbed, he sometimes acts out more harshly as soon as he feels injustice. As a team of inspectors who have been working together for over 25 years, Leitmayr and he get along without saying a lot.

Franz Leitmayr is played by Udo Wachtveitl. He grew up as an only child in Munich’s Glockenbachviertel. He did not maintain good contact with his father, who had already died. He always spends Christmas time with his mother, who is still alive. The fact that his private life suffers because of his job can be seen in the many failed relationships, none of which lasted long. But he still likes to flirt and provoke. What sets him apart as a commissioner is his philosophical depth and his sense of justice.

Miroslav Nemec plays Ivo Batic

Ivo Batic watches the goings-on in the beer tent with mixed feelings.

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Miroslav Nemec was born Miroslav Strkanec in Zagreb (Croatia) in 1954. As a child of divorce from his biological parents, he was adopted at the age of twelve by his great-aunt and her husband. Nemec was attending high school at the time and, at the age of 15, founded a school band in which he still plays today. He began his theater career in 1977. Little by little he devoted himself more and more to working in front of the television cameras. So, after several appearances, he came to the Munich crime scene in 1991 as chief detective.

Udo Wachtveitl plays Franz Leitmayr

Franz Leitmayr tries to reach his friend and colleague Ivo Batic – who has forgotten that he also wanted to help with Kalli’s move.

Bavarian Radio

Udo Wachtveitl was born in Munich in 1958. His voice acting career began at a young age and he was still dubbing children’s films in the 1970s. After studying philosophy, he began studying law, but dropped out after the fifth semester. He has appeared in television films and series since the 1980s. In 1991 his path to the crime scene took him to Munich as Chief Inspector Leitmayr.

Munich crime scene: investigations in the Bavarian province

The Bavarian product queens meet once a year to advertise their products, their regions and of course themselves. This time in the (fictional) Gmeining. So the “Kempten Honey Queen” meets the “Bavarian White Sausage Queen” and the “Aichach Asparagus Queen”. Or, as the girls and their highnesses are called by the organizer of the whole thing, the former wine queen Sylvia (Veronica Verres): “milk”, “asparagus”, “flour” or “onion”.

Tatort Criticism Munich “Queens”: Photo shoot with the product queens in front of a screen with mountains. In the background Josef Gerling and in the foreground three product queens. (Photo: ard-foto s2-internal/external, BR / Odeon Fiction GmbH / Luis Zeno Kuhn) — Josef Gehrling (Wolfgang Fierek) and the Altöttinger Flour Queen (Corinna Blädel, left), the Tirschenreuther Teichnixe (Franziska Wagner, middle) and the Gunzenhausen Herb Queen (Corinna Grimmeißen) in the advertising film for the Bavarian Product Queen Day

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BR / Odeon Fiction GmbH / Luis Zeno Kuhn

Humorous case with a serious metoo background

Batic and Leitmayr try to find out why the president of the association, Josef Gehrling (Wolfgang Viereck), is fighting for his life with a hole in his head. This hole was created by a bolt gun that was actually intended to stun cattle. The forensic doctor can hardly say more, because Gerling is not dead, which somehow makes the doctor very nervous. The inspectors get help from the “onion”, or more precisely the “Nördlinger Onion Queen” Annelie, who is a police student in real life.

That all sounds pretty funny, and so are the dialogues. But the case itself has a very serious and classic Metoo background. Because Gerling has “asked” pretty much each of the queens for some sort of sexual favor in order for him to support them. The reference to the “Epstein” case cannot be overlooked.

Crime Scene Criticism Munich “Queens”: The inspectors stand in front of Sylvie. (Photo: ard-foto s2-internal/external, BR / Odeon Fiction GmbH / Luis Zeno Kuhn) — Franz Leitmayr (Udo Wachtveitl, back left) and Ivo Batic (Miroslav Nemec, back right) question Syvlie (Veronica Ferres) and Clemens Raupach (Max Rothbart).

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BR / Odeon Fiction GmbH / Luis Zeno Kuhn

Tatort review: A successful tightrope walk

So we have provincial clichés, dialogue gags like in “Münster-Tatort”, all accompanied by feel-good music from “LaBrassBanda” and then sexual assaults – all in one crime scene. This could go completely wrong, but somehow the team manages to stay on the razor’s edge they’re riding. For me it is a humorous crime story that entertains. 4 out of 5 moose.

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