After 7 years: Popular "Tatort" commissioner surprisingly leaves the show
Created: 06/24/2022, 16:34
By: Sina Alonso Garcia
Since 2015, Andreas Leopold Schadt has been working as a TV commissioner in the Franconian "crime scene".
Now the actor surprisingly announced his departure from the ARD series.
Nuremberg – While the last crime scene before the summer break is approaching, fans of the
ARD
series have to cope with another bad news: After around seven years, Andreas Leopold Schadt says goodbye to the Franken crime scene.
"I wasn't that happy with my assignment," he explains his decision in an interview with
Bayerischer Rundfunk
.
The size of his role has varied significantly in each film.
In the future he wants to dedicate himself to new challenges: "I'm on the go for everything, of course also in front of the camera.
I have a few formats, do a lot of advertising and just let me surprise you a bit.
And I'm also available for all Franconian formats."
Schadt will not be replaced in the Nuremberg crime scene team for the time being.
From the start, the roles of Sebastian Fleischer and colleague Wanda Goldwasser (Eli Wasserscheid) were designed as second-line investigators.
In the foreground were always the inspectors Felix Voss (Fabian Hinrichs) and Paula Ringelhahn (Dagmar Menzel).
Andreas Leopold Schadt gets out of Franken-Tatort – “Butcher is irreplaceable as a guy”
The actors of the Franken crime scene: Andreas Leopold Schadt, Eli Wasserscheid, Dagmar Manzel and Fabian Hinrichs.
© Daniel Karmann/dpa
There are various reasons why Fleischer will not be replaced – on the one hand, the core team with the three remaining commissioners is probably still big enough.
And: "As a guy, Fleischer is irreplaceable anyway.
He's too prominent for that," says BR Tatort editor Stephanie Heckner.
Fleischer appeared in a total of eight Tatort episodes in and around Bamberg, Nuremberg, Fürth, Würzburg and Bayreuth.