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sinéad o'connor in the opening credits ohhhhhh im WINNING 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪 RAHHH 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

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what. Ich hab gerade Tatort Stuttgart "Scherbenhaufen" geschaut und. Was. Wie. Hä. Wieso sind die so. So schwul. Also. Äh. Freunde. Was ist da los bei Euch? Geht es Euch gut?

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Chaostheorie briefly reviews every Batic/Leitmayr Tatort

Number 25, the first Batic/Leitmayr Tatort of the new millenium, is another true classic. As the name suggests, this time the investigation focuses on Munich's famous Viktualienmarkt, a daily market for high-quality fresh produce and other groceries.

Ivo and Franz are investigating a case that is much older than normal: The skeleton found in a quarry near the city has been there for about 20 years, but it quickly turns out that the deceased had some kind of connection to the Königs, one of the families running a coveted market stall on the Viktualienmarkt.

Here we get to see Ivo's love for cooking and good food properly for the first time, as he prepares for the entrance examination to a fancy club of gourmet hobby cooks. Of course, Franz helps him study.

I like this! It's not particularly deep or incisive, but it's very entertaining. Ivo, Franz and Carlo are funny as ever. We get a rare Franz/Ivo hug. What more do you want?

Verdict in one phrase: Classic! Beginner watch? Yes, absolutely.

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I've watched a ton of 15-30-year-old Tatort in the past months and what I've noticed there is not so much explicit backsliding (Tatort München at least has honestly always been pretty to very progressive on social issues), it's more that the older ones take a stance much more frequently and more clearly. There's a lot more overtly political content in the older films (not party-political, but social issues).

And that is in the end a form of backsliding, too: They used to make more unequivocal political statements like "Racism is always bad", "Exploiting immigrants is bad" and even "Deporting immigrants is bad" because those were mainstream opinions that you expected a large majority of viewers to agree with. Now they're not! Now these are controversial, and if a Tatort espouses them, there will be public pushback. So the broadcasters have gotten much more careful.

(I'm not saying they make nothing political anymore, just less. Zugzwang and Königinnen are both about gender politics, for example, but that's also an area Germany hasn't yet slid back on as dramatically.)

watching 20 year old tv shows is all fun and games until you realize how far we’ve backslid on certain social issues

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WANTING WAS ENOUGH.

FOR ME IT WAS ENOUGH.

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Chaostheorie briefly reviews every Batic/Leitmayr Tatort

Number 24 is the final 90ies episode, and another one that I find very difficult to watch. This time it's because basically all scenes with the titular character Norbert are (intentionally) about 500 points above my personal cringe limit.

Norbert is a suspect in the murder case. He's really a sad, tragic figure; someone who has no friends and still lives with his abusive father. And then he loses his job because Franz and Ivo arrest him!

As he tends to do, Franz feels sorry for Norbert and treats him kindly a few times, which leads to Norbert thinking that they are now best friends.

So the film is both about Franz trying to somehow get back out of that situation, as well as actually solving the case, which is soon not only one, but two murders.

The murder case is a bit meh, but the Norbert plot is well-done and does exactly what it is supposed to!

Verdict in one phrase: I can't deal with that amount of cringe. Beginner watch? No.

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weil es sich ein paar gewünscht haben, hier noch die pia und esther version 🙂‍↕️

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Stau (2017)

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Die paar Tatorte die ich mir bis jetzt angeschaut habe und immernoch dabei bin finde ich alle super. Aber der Tatort München?! Die hitzköpfige Dynamik zwischen Batic und Leitmayr, wo man nie weiß wer von den beiden zu erst die Nerven verliert ist grandios. Ich habe keine Worte dafür. Manchmal wünschte ich, dass ich mit irgendeinem Tatort groß geworden wäre

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I can go forever, there are 97 films.

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Chaostheorie's Tatort stuff

Useful links:

How to find the Tatort you're looking for on Internet Archive (in German). Guaranteed success for everything up to 2014.

Chaostheorie briefly reviews every Batic/Leitmayr Tatort: Intro post, first review, all reviews

My Tatort fanfic on AO3

Feel free to message me/ send asks for anything Tatort München! Or anything else, really.

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Reaction sketch!🥐

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Meta post: Chaostheories briefly reviews every Batic/Leitmayr Tatort

Brief intermission at 23 reviews (after Das Glockenbachgeheimnis) to add a bit of explanation for the reviewing process:

As you can tell if you've been reading along, the reviews do not really have a fixed structure nor a definitive rating at the end, deliberately so. I write off the cuff. The elements that remain consistent are:

Verdict in one phrase: A snappy summary of my impression for people who don't want to read the wall of text that I often produce.

Beginner watch? This is really not a verdict on how good the episode is (though they're loosely correlated), but whether I think this could - based on individual interest - be one of the, like, first ~5 episodes someone who is not yet a fan might watch. Frankly, I'm not always confident in my judgement here and would love to get feedback on that. The question is basically: Would I conceivably show this to you if you've never seen a Batic/Leitmayr Tatort, or maybe just one or two?

While I think this is mostly unintentional (though definitely not always!), most of these films have some amount of queer subtext, sometimes a lot of it, and where they don't, they still easily lend themselves to a queer reading. I am reading them that way, and I do briefly comment on that in some form in most reviews.

All reviews are tagged #Chaostheorie briefly reviews every Batic/Leitmayr Tatort and with #ep: (respective episode name), so you can easily find past reviews.

The pictures in all posts come with image description in the alt text. Should I ever forget to do this, please message me and I'll fix it asap!

I posted the first review (Animals, 1991) on July 6th, 2025, which is nearly a month ago. Assuming I keep going at approximately this pace, I should catch up with the published episodes at the start of November.

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ran out of space in my ling notebook so i had to practice great vowel shift diagrams in my sketchbook sorry franz

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ich hab jetzt aich noch eins für miro gemacht yayy

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„Verstehe ich Sie richtig? Sie wollen auf eigenen Wunsch und gegen ärztliches Anraten entlassen werden.“ Tatort Frankfurt - Der Turm

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Reblog and put your comfort Tatort München episode in the tags