Vienna Blood: (Vienna Blood 2)

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We are just getting over the scandal of my son getting into trouble in his hospital for treating a patient outside the hospital rules, but apart from that we are doing okay business wise. Max’s engagement has just been broken off to Clara, who was an old family friend, so there are things to be mended by Mendel! Max’s crime solving technique draws on his psychoanalytic skills. Is there a similarity between the skills involved in detection and psychoanalysis?

I like to spend my evenings with the Lieberman family because they represent a very wholesome society and you can identify with them. They are the mensch part of our story and they bring humour and entertainment, humanity and wit.It’s a whole different side of life. And I think any father would worry about his son in this situation. But funnily enough, in these three films, Mendel gets involved a little more in Max and Oskar's work. It's a bit of a departure for him. Rodrigo Herrera Ibarguengoytia, VP Scripted Acquisitions & Co-Productions at Red Arrow Studios International says: “It’s such a pleasure working with MR Film, Endor Productions and the entire creative Vienna Blood team, who continue to outdo themselves each season with gripping new crime cases and more sumptuous locations that fans of the show have come to expect. We can’t wait to bring this much- anticipated new season to viewers around the world.” In the first season Max is very much a burden to Oskar - in the early episodes he has to look after this guy who keeps talking about the mind and psychology and Freud. In the second season their relationship has matured, and Oskar comes to Max to ask for help. There are probably two overarching themes to the series. The first is, anti-Semitism and the rise of a particular kind of German nationalism that eventually metamorphosed into the horrors of Nazism. There were lots of nationalists around in Freud's Vienna and lots of cults with some rather odd beliefs that actually Hitler was exposed to when he was down and out in Vienna and absorbed and eventually incorporated into his pernicious Nazi ideology. That's one of the overarching themes.

Each book in the series takes us to a different side of Vienna. In this second series we get monastic life, a high-class hotel and the world of imperial politics. What elements are you looking for when you decide on the settings of your books? I read a great deal of the literature associated with Freud's Vienna when I was writing the books, and I suppose he reflects a particular type that you find in the literature. There were many intense young men with romantic entanglements spending a lot of time in Vienna's famous coffeehouses, talking about philosophy, life, t When I write the viewer I imagine watching it is me. I write things that I enjoy and I would want to watch I think. I guess different writers write for different people but I don’t, I write stuff that I think I would enjoy watching. When I used to write plays, occasionally I used to write them with my mother in mind, because if I put swearing in she’d always complain. I was a playwright 15 years ago and if there was a lot of swearing in it, I could hear my mother’s voice saying "Stephen it’s not clever to swear" and I’d take some of the swear words out! But most of the time I just write for myself. Fortunately, Freud’s Vienna was made up of many worlds. I was spoilt for choice! The worlds of the opera house, the military academy, the palace, the hospital, and so on. And they really were like worlds in Freud’s time - not just places. The imperial court, for example, used its own dialect. We think of detective fiction as a genre driven by a big central character. But, in reality, almost all of the great fictional detectives operate in distinctive settings. You need a distinctive setting for a big character to get sufficient traction to move the story forward. Oliver Auspitz and Andreas Kamm, co-managing directors of MR Film,say: “It’s always amazing to produce such a successful series. What is added to Vienna Blood is the unique atmosphere that builds up over the seasons and is always spiced up with new thrilling cases. Under Robert Dornhelm’s direction, our outstanding cast once again draws us into the Vienna at the turn of the century, with all of its glamour and dark sides. Together with our great and loyal partners at Endor Productions, RASI and MovieBar as well as ORF and ZDF and various supporting institutions, we wish joyous and gripping hours with Max and Oscar to our worldwide audience!”The BBC teases: "With the discovery of a young seamstress murdered in a luxury fashion house, Max and Oskar begin to see that the glamour industry conceals dark and sinister truths.

Max's nephew suffers a breakdown after the drowning of a fellow cadet at a military academy. Max suspects foul play. [5] In the long term Clara is actually looking for love and somebody that takes her seriously as a human being.Love of family, I think… our age and sex and that’s about it. I’m Catholic, he’s Jewish. But I think the Jewish church is the mother church. Vienna Blood – Die letzte Séance" als deutschsprachige Free-TV-Premiere - tv.ORF.at". tv.ORF.at (in German) . Retrieved 9 January 2020. Vienna was a remarkable city. Every now and then through history, you find a city that excels. So you could look at, say, Florence in the Renaissance, or perhaps you could even say swinging London in the 1960s. But Vienna was one of those extraordinary examples where a city just illuminates the world with ideas and creativity. Thomas Oláh designs the costumes for Clara and it always feels like Christmas when I get invited to try them on. In Season One, Clara was kind of flirty, girlyish, the princess in the show. And then after what happened in the first season, we decided to make her a bit more grounded, a bit more like a woman. And in this season Clara has become more sophisticated. Clara now has costumes she can move in and work in and that helps people take her more seriously. But she always has a twist in her costumes. For example, a suit is blue but the cuffs are purple.

Fiery and defensive, Leah is particularly protective of her close friend Clara. Leah has a tendency to deliver criticisms of Max’s behaviour with lashings of sarcasm. Rachel Liebermann, Max’s mother - Amelia Bullmore My on-screen family consists of Conleth Hill, who plays my papa; Amelia Bullmore plays mamma and Matthew Beard plays the ‘one and only’ Max Liebermann. The Act of Living: What the Great Psychologists Can Teach Us About Finding Fulfillment, Basic Books, ISBN 978-1541673038 I think psychoanalysis is a bit of a burden in the sense that Max has the tools but there are still certain places he doesn't want to explore about himself psychologically. But a gift in that it's a skill that Oskar and the police department at that time don't have so he's able to make himself useful.Rachel really cares about reputation and she cares about their social standing, which Mendel does as well. It’s a very big deal for them to be accepted by Viennese society - the whole of society. And, of course, they have an important Jewish identity and go to worship at synagogue, but they really want to fit in. Each episode consists of two parts, [5] but numbering of episodes varies by country. In Austria, episodes are numbered by case (3 episodes per season) but in the USA by part (6 episodes per season). I think it's a sum of all its parts. I don't think there is just one essence. I always think of it as very unconventional. I attribute that to the very European elements to it. Maybe that's my Irish take on the whole thing, I don’t know. Talking cures and hysterics - exploring the darkness of men’s souls. Are you really sure what you’re getting into, Max? Is it really the career for a gentleman?” One of the things I love about the show, and I love about the novels, is that it is a melting pot of so many themes. And that reflects the fact that Vienna was a place of so many different cultures and so many different worlds.