Vienna Blood – Die letzte Séance" als deutschsprachige Free-TV-Premiere - tv.ORF.at". tv.ORF.at (in German) . Retrieved 9 January 2020. Very happy, naturally. Novelists are unaccustomed to reaching an audience of millions in one evening. The idea of Max finding his way into so many homes in a single 90-minute episode was very exciting. This story takes place in a very interesting part of European history. I think we’re in a very interesting period right now, to top it all we were shooting 200 kilometres away from a disgusting war, senseless like most wars are senseless. Our story takes place before the eruption of the First World War with the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and a rise of fanatic nationalism. But at the same time a beautiful new era developed in the arts which freed itself from the classical form of music and paintings. To set your story in that period is very fertile for the imagination. I came to Vienna to study science. I was told this city was more enlightened. I see little evidence in the way I’ve been treated here. I ask you plainly - do you think I’m insane?”

Darkness Rising: (Liebermann Papers 4), Century, ISBN 978-0099519744; U.S. title: Vienna Secrets, Random House, ISBN 978-0812980998 We have a certain kind of chemistry and it’s really great. Everything we do in dialogue together is brilliant. As we proceed with our relationship as actors it gets more and more detailed, and with the routine comes lots of fun also. The Max and Oskar scenes are my favourites!When we first met him, Max was on the path to marry vivacious Clara, but meeting Amelia Lydgate changed all that. Max’s attraction to the dark side of the human brain impacts both on his interest in Vienna’s criminals and his relationships. The deeper Max journeys into other people’s madness, the less he’ll know himself. Oskar Rheinhardt, Police Inspector - Juergen Maurer My on-screen family are lovely both on and off-screen. I knew of Conleth a bit through mutual friends before we filmed and it was so fun getting to know and work with him. Amelia I’ve always admired as an actress and it was so great to have her as my mum. Charlene was just the bonus cherry on top, and she’s a giggle too. I think we make a really good unit. Oskar Rheinhardt (40s) is a half-Slovak Police Inspector with something to prove to his superiors. Oskar is more a doer than a thinker and has a strong physical presence. Despite being occasionally irritated by Max’s discursive approach to crime solving, Oskar is savvy enough to know that Max’s intuitions will help his career prospects. Understanding Obsessions and Compulsions: A Self- Help Manual, Sheldon (London), ISBN 978-0859696524

It's always great to reacquaint with the family. We don't always see each other in between filming but when we re-start it's like we never stopped. It's immediately a lot of talking, a lot of joking. There's just a very easy rhythm between us. 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?”

Character Profiles

He also is very good at playing the piano, and loves the musical evenings that he and Oskar Rheinhardt (a friend) have together. Oskar is a lyrical baritone, that happens to be a Detective Inspector; he also has two young daughters and is married. It is Oskar that gets Max involved in the cases, mainly when a suspect is interviewed. Max allows the person being interviewed to betray themselves with certain unconscious processes. Every slip, inflection, and every dream has a meaning that will reveal something that would otherwise be hidden. Our first episode focuses on this precinct of the hotel, which is somewhere we have never been before. Equally, the final episode of the second series is also set in a place we have never been to, and we enter the monastic world. A murder takes place in a monastery and that gives us a whole new aspect of Vienna and a different lens through which we can see the city. There are new worlds to explore and that makes it very exciting.

If you enjoy the show it might also be worth reading the books. There are seven in total, opening with Mortal Mischief[called A Death in Vienna in the US. Is there a trailer?When I started the second series I wanted it to be the same but different. I wanted people to tune in and feel comfortable and familiar with the characters and the central relationship with Max and Oskar, to recognise it and to feel they were getting more of the same. At the same time, I want to serve them up something different and we did that in two ways. 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. Having just set up his own private practice, we find Max experimenting with Freud's new talking cure and various psychoanalytic techniques. But he’s also still at the hospital, where he works with patients, more interested in the mind than the body. And he still has a relationship with Oskar that he carries through from the first season.