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A story about of one of the darkest periods in German history, an era in which the belief in occult forces was widespread. In Bamberg, witch hunts were fostered by a greedy and delusional Bishop Prince and reached their peak around 1630. This Bamberg ruler used the witch trials to purge his political enemies and enrich himself with their goods. Almost 1000 innocent men, women and children became his victims. BURNING SOULS deals with the era seen through the eyes of Johanna Wolff, a pharmacist's daughter, and the young physician Cornelius Weinmann. To save the innocent, he and a few courageous men revolt against the Bishop Prince.
Three friends from Floridsdorf – separated by 40 years and with lives that couldn't be more different – meet on an evening that will change their future destinies forever.
In Krawutzi Kaputzi, characters from Austrian children's television in the 1970s and 1980s make a comeback. Johannes Glück has written a play that shows the lives of the characters in Meidling (a district of Vienna) two decades after their great television careers.
The manufacturer Xaver Frey is forced into bankruptcy by his bank and decides to commit suicide in a sleeping car from Vienna to Venice. There he encounters the sleeping car attendant Horak, who is about to retire and who uses every legal and illegal means to prevent his suicide.
Kampl wants to bring love and inheritance matters into the right hands. His grandson Gabriel has plans about what's best for himself.
The performances of the composer and violin star Niccolò Paganini in the first half of the 19th century must have made a deep impression. With his demonic egocentricity, Paganini became famous and very rich. He became even richer thanks to the secret contents of a wooden box that accompanied him, well concealed, inside his private carriage on his travels through Europe.
Erich „Rickerl“ Bohacek is a likeable loser who on the one hand tries to build up a music career and on the other still wants to be a good father for his little son.
Vienna, 1920. The Austro-Hungarian Empire has collapsed. Peter Perg returns home from the Great War, after years of captivity. But the Vienna he comes home to is nothing like the place he once knew. The new Austrian Republic thrives on social and artistic freedom, but anti-democratic movements and unemployment loom overhead. A stranger in his hometown, his life takes a turn for the worse when one of his former comrades is murdered. Suddenly the mysterious killings of veterans are mounting. Personally connected to the victims, Perg decides to bring the killer to justice. He finds an ally in the cool-headed forensic doctor Theresa Körner, with whom he has a deeper, shared history. Their investigation leads them into the darkest corners of the city, as they confront a brutal and systematic killer and intrigues from within the police force. But when the killer’s net closes around Perg himself, he faces the moral dilemma of his life.