Miroslav Nemec

• Name — Miroslav Nemec • Birth Name — Miroslav Strkanec • Born — 26 June 1954 • Birthplace — Zagreb, Yugoslavia • Occupation — Actor • Years Active — 1977-present • Spouse — Katrin Jäger

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nemec was married in the 1980s and has a daughter. He has married in 2013 with Katrin Jäger. Their daughter was born in 2012.

• 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

Miroslav Nemec is recorded with the occupation film actor. Recorded as a citizen of Germany.