Miroslav Nemec (born 26 June 1954) is a German actor. Since 1991 he has played Inspector Ivo Batic in the Munich Tatort alongside Udo Wachtveitl.
Early life and education Nemec was born in Zagreb as Miroslav Strkanec. His father Milan worked at a bank and his mother Nina was a secretary. After his parents divorced, he moved to Bavaria at the age of twelve and was adopted by relatives in Freilassing. He went to school in Traunstein, where at fifteen he started band Asphyxia.
Nemec studied piano at Mozarteum in Salzburg. After qualifying as a music teacher, he trained as an actor in Zürich.
Career Stage From 1977 Nemec worked in theatre. He appeared at the Cologne Stages, the Bavarian State Theatre, and theatres in Essen and Munich. In 1992/93 he played Puck in Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Oper Frankfurt.
Television Nemec had his first television role in Die Wiesingers (1984), playing a son-in-law of a Munich brewery family. He appeared in Liebling Kreuzberg (1990), and had guest parts in Derrick and Der Alte.
Nemec first appear in Tatort in 1988, in an episode with Götz George. Three years later he took over the role of Inspector Ivo Batic in the Munich series. Their 100th, final, episode shown in April 2026.
Other work Nemec leads the Miro Nemec Band and still plays with his school band Asphyxia.
He wrote an autobiography, Miroslav – Jugoslav (2011), and two crime novels.
In 1994 he co-founded HAND IN HAND, a charity for war orphans in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, with Tatort colleagues Wachtveitl and Michael Fitz. It was dissolved in 2004.
Personal life Nemec was married in the 1980s and has a daughter. He has married in 2013 with Katrin Jäger. Their daughter was born in 2012.
Filmography Year Title Notes 1984 Die Wiesingers TV series 1985 Aktenzeichen XY … ungelöst 3 episodes 1988 Tatort: Gebrochene Blüten with Götz George 1989 Tatort: Der Pott with Götz George 1990 Liebling Kreuzberg 3 episodes 1991–2026 Tatort Munich series 1994 Der Salzbaron 5 episodes 2004 Das Traumschiff "Sri Lanka" 2013 Der blinde Fleck 2014–15 Dr. Klein 12 episodes
Awards 1997: Goldener Löwe (with Udo Wachtveitl) 2001: Bavarian Television Award for Tatort: Kleine Diebe 2002: Grimme Award for Tatort: Im freien Fall 2011: Grimme Award for Tatort: Nie wieder frei sein 2011: Bavarian Order of Merit 2012: Bavarian Television Award, Honorary Prize (with Wachtveitl) 2017: Bavarian Constitutional Medal in Silver
Publications
Miroslav - Jugoslav. Gerhard Hess Verlag, 2011. Die Toten von der Falkneralm. Albrecht Knaus Verlag, 2016. Kroatisches Roulette. Penguin Verlag, 2018.
References
External links
Miro Nemec Band