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Leitmayr (Udo Wachtveitl, left) and Batic (Miroslav Nemec): Cops in the carnival misery
Photo: Peter Nix / BR
Tinsel trickles in puddles of water, cleaning vehicles sweep streamers from the asphalt.
This "crime scene" tells less about the excesses of the carnival season in Munich than about the leftovers and headaches that remain from these excesses.
Always at the front of the rest ramp: the investigative duo Batic (Miroslav Nemec) and Leitmayr (Udo Wachtveitl), chasing after a woman dressed in Little Red Riding Hood who is involved in a death.
Silke Weinzierl (Nina Proll), the woman in the slightly slipped red, is a kind of kamikaze optimist and fortune hunter who, even after a number of failed business ideas and eviction from her apartment, does not want to give up her belief in a grandiose future and is now looking for men in the hustle and bustle of carnival where she finds a place to sleep until better times come.
The "sausage star" should fix it
Among other things, Weinzierl has already messed up its own cosmetics line.
And in the apartment that her landlady just kicked her out of, there are still piles of boxes with an invention called "Sausage Star," which she actually wanted to present in the start-up show "The Lion's Den."
Maschmeyer never called, but the insolvency administrator got in touch.
Batic and Leitmayr fish the homeless, drunk Little Red Riding Hood off the bar counter and leave her in a cell to sober up.
The night before, Weinzierl is said to have kissed an elderly man who was later found dead on a stairway on the banks of the Isar.
But after the hangover coffee at the station, Weinzerl plunges back into the tinsel fray.
The inspectors also have to chase after the woman again because, in her unshakable belief in a better future, she appropriates a suitcase of money that belongs to people who are better off not getting in their way.
The post-party plot comes to nothing
This "crime scene" is in a difficult position. Because the carnivalesque and comatose state of emergency was already the basis for a series of "crime scenes" in which the alcohol-fueled escape scenarios were artfully taken to the extreme.
Jan Bonny, for example, used the 2020 Black Forest episode "I cried in a dream" as the background for the stirring story of an ex-prostitute who is thrown back on herself in the uninhibited hustle and bustle of the others.
And as early as 2015, Marvin Kren created a brilliant hidden object picture of the debauchery and gaffes for the Munich team with »The Last Wies'n«.
Christine Hartmann's new Munich episode "Kehraus" (here, too, "Wies'n" author Stefan Holtz co-wrote) has to lag behind such expansive drunken tableaux because it is deliberately kept in the leaden day-after mode.
Unfortunately, the »Tatort« team (co-author: Stefan Betz) did not succeed in formulating the post-party plot into a strong psychogram.
Just as the anti-heroine keeps escaping the inspectors, the audience can't quite get hold of her either.
Which, among other things, has to do with the fact that in the gray hangover Munich, so that it doesn't get too boring, a massive crime story is suddenly built, which is about Dutch gangsters and South African gold.
A bit oversized compared to Weinzierl's escapism.
We would have preferred to find out more about what the ominous Wurststar invention is all about.
Rating:
4 out of 10 points
"Tatort: Kehraus",
Sunday, 8:15 p.m., The First
