Erwin Steinhauer

North Face tells the story of two German climbers Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser and their attempt to scale the deadly North Face of the Eiger.

The Alps, late 19th century. Greider, a mysterious lone rider who claims to be a photographer, arrives at an isolated lumber village, despotically ruled by a family clan, asking for winter accommodation.

Jan-Josef Geissler (Lars Eidinger) seems to have surprisingly found God. The man, once convicted of the murder of a young woman, presents himself as reformed and suddenly plans to study theology and become a priest, for which he seeks the support of the Church. The clergyman Ralf Remberg (Devid Striesow) is then tasked with verifying the sincerity of Geissler's motives to determine whether the incarcerated man is genuinely serious about the matter. However, the more Remberg delves into the case, the more he begins to question his own faith.

Lilly was a normal girl with a healthy sense of adventure. That is, until she finds a magical book, complete with a funny little dragon, "Hector". With the help of her new friend and the book, Lilly has the ability to time-travel and truly satisfy her adventure- lust!.

Kati, successful advertising manager, dreams of a family with Jonas, who has been her boyfriend since eight years. As he doesn't like the plan at all, they start an argument. Kati finally decides to go to her sister Luise on Christmas instead of flying to Mauritius with Jonas. This turns out to be a bad idea because she isn't the only guest Luise's family has to bear... Kati, successful advertising manager, dreams of a family with Jonas, who has been her boyfriend since eight years. As he doesn't like the plan at all, they start an argument. Kati finally decides to go to her sister Luise on Christmas instead of flying to Mauritius with Jonas. This turns out to be a bad idea because she isn't the only guest Luise's family has to bear...

In 1914 on a family estate, Oda helps a wounded anarchist, and as their illicit friendship deepens, a family turmoil erupts as the war closes in.

The events in Sarajevo in June 1914 are the backdrop for a thriller directed by Andreas Prochaska and written by Martin Ambrosch, focusing on the examining magistrate Dr. Leo Pfeffer (Florian Teichtmeister) investigating the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Trying to do his job in a time of lawlessness and violence, intrigues and betrayal, Leo struggles to maintain his integrity and save his love, Marija, and her father, prominent Serbian merchant. But the events of Sarajevo have set into motion an inescapable course of events that will escalate to become … the Great War.

SERVUS KARL is an evil fictional reflection of a milieu in the face of its downfall. The observation of a world at a standstill, and of its characters that want to break out of it.

1960's Siegheilkirchen, a small town in the Austrian hinterland is steeped in reactionary and ultra-Catholic attitudes. The son of a hard-working innkeeper and his wife, called Snotty Boy by all and sundry, is at odds with the narrow-minded confines of his home town. But his unstoppable talent for drawing gives him an outlet for his discontent.

Kati and Jonas have planned to get married secretly during their Christmas trip to Mauritius - but in the end, Kati's entire family gets wind of the plan and shows up at the airport to accompany them.

Thank you for Bombing accompanies three correspondents to their working place in conflict areas and gives an insight into their daily routine aside from cameras and satellite phones - somewhere between bombing alarm, laundry and Bach flower therapy.

Professor Karl Michaeli is a former star cellist and grantler , as he is in the book. After the death of his beloved wife Maria in 2014, the retired music professor lives alone in a three-room apartment in Vienna. To his displeasure, several foreign families are housed in his apartment building. The widowed, free-spirited apartment building owner Esther Polgar also houses refugees in his home. These are a special thorn in Karl's side.

A marriage couple find their daughter drowned in the pool house. At the hospital, the doctor refuses to give up and holds tightly to a remote hope of saving the girl.

Johannes has a comfortable life and stands to inherit the family-run hotel. Unfortunately, however, he is an inveterate people-pleaser and avoids conflict at any cost. His father’s last will and testament sparks a tragi-comic journey to sunny Greece – and the realisation that it is time to take control of his own life.

Jakob Kisch loves Impressionist art. Therefore, the coach driver leads a double life as a gentleman robber. However, during his final heist, his heart fails. Only thanks to his cunning does he escape—and the Monet was only a copy anyway. During preventative care at the hospital, he overhears Police Chief Fellinger engaging in corrupt dealings. Kisch's sense of justice is alarmed.

Agnes, the proud managing director of a renowned Viennese jewelery business, has been happily married to the jeweler Leo Wieland for 17 years. He designs for her the exclusive collections and proves her despite the obvious age difference - Leo is a lot younger than his wife - every day his great love. But everything changes when Agnes receives a devastating diagnosis from her doctor: lung cancer. By chance, the couple will one day get to know little Max and his attractive mother Vera. In the terminally ill Agnes matures a plan: Vera would be a perfect partner for Leo.

Germanus, a brave gladiator, witnesses the brutal murder of his brother, committed by another fighter. Since then, he will become his worst enemy, with whom he will fight in several fights, each more bitter. One day, Germanus discovers that his sister, also gladiator, maintains a passionate affair with the man who killed the brother of both, without her knowing anything about the crime

The married couple Carl and Vera Sylvester live far beyond their means. She is a regular customer at the Dorotheum art auctions, he puts up with Lilli, his lover, and has become addicted to gambling . Carl wants to use the business ruin to make a new start with his wife . He noticesnot that Vera has long since planned an infamous campaign of extermination against him .

Alfred Walch lives in Krems with his wife Anna and his three children Alexandra (17), Daniel (19) and Sonia (6). On Alexandra's 17th birthday, the town festival takes place in Krems. Two reasons to celebrate. The usual arguments between teenagers and parents about when to be home are inevitable. She persuades her father to let her stay longer. But Alexandra doesn't come back at this time either. The parents' initial anger towards their daughter gradually turns to worry and panic when it turns out that the girl was last seen in the harbor area, a shady neighborhood, where she had a violent argument with her supposed boyfriend, Moritz. When there is still no trace of Alexandra the next evening, Inspector Lenz and his colleague Lisa are called in. A large-scale search is launched without success. Alexandra remains missing...

A woman discovers that her husband is having an affair. She demands a divorce, her husband does not agree to it. She decides to sleep with ten men, then her husband will surely divorce her.

He's known as "Tyrol's Zappa" and a "real anarchist." Whether folk music, jazz or what's known as serious music, Werner "Preisegott" Pirchner has in a creative way greatly expanded upon the limited acoustic range of his homeland, enriching it with some unfamiliar sounds from around the globe. Whoever comes into contact with him, such as Josef Hader and Tobias Moretti, can sense the power of his music, lets it carry them away, and embraces it wholeheartedly.

Who invented "short lederhosen" first: the Tyroleans or the Bavarians? This is the question that Innsbruck resident Konstantin Zeller has to ask himself as he pursues a trademark dispute against a powerful Bavarian corporation in order to win back his ex-girlfriend Olivia. Unfortunately, Konstantin isn't actually a real lawyer, and Olivia is happily married.

Karl and Paula work as specialist divers in Vienna, while their former friend Fred runs a diving school in Croatia. While surveying Vienna's underground, Karl and Paula come across a system of catacombs in which they discover valuable burial objects and a mummified corpse with numerous tattoos. When Karl has an accident during his explorations, Fred is asked for help by Paula. Neither of them suspect what they will soon be involved in.

Rieke Schmidt is the pastor of the Protestant congregation of Nazareth Church in Munich-Bogenhausen. The unconventional minister is fully absorbed in her job, which is especially hard on her 19-year-old daughter Leonie. She has traveled to Munich from Helsinki during the short semester break to spend some time with her mother, but once again she has her hands full. Especially as she has a new colleague, priest Toni Seidl, whose charm is causing her a lot of turmoil. She also has to take care of the many worries in her parish, especially her best friend Petra Keller, whose daughter Jessica, Rieke's godchild, has leukemia...

After freakish atmospheric conditions force commercial pilot Andrea Schubert to ground her flight, she and her crew decide to investigate. To determine the nature of this new lethal storm system, they fly directly into its core in this thriller.

Hartmut has been with Erika for over 40 years, but his wife has Alzheimer's and their memories together are fading. When they both visit their granddaughter's dance club, they hear songs from the seventies. Suddenly Erika is moving to the beat of the music as if she had never forgotten a dance step. And although she then falls back into her own world, Hartmut finds new hope. If he could manage to turn back time, he could bring back Erika, the love of his life.

Sophie wants to marry Martin and change her traditional farm into a farm that produces biologically grown food (sheep cheese, ...) To be able to do that she needs a credit from the local bank. The bank manager sends his son to find out if the credit can be given, and it turns out that this son was a high school sweetheart of Sophie ...

Assistant Pastor Josef Mohr arrived in Oberndorf in 1818. In a time of political upheaval and economic hardship he writes a Christmas carol together with the teacher Franz Gruber. The main roles in Franz Xaver Bogners fictive history of the most famous Christmas song in the world "Das ewige Lied" play Tobias Moretti, Heio von Stetten and Erwin Steinhauer.

The film deals with questions that have long tormented us: Who was the first civil servant? How has the civil service developed over the course of history? What did Mr. Weber, Engineer Breitfuß, Ms. Knackal, and Mr. Claus do before MA 2412 existed? How did they meet? Why was MA 2412 actually founded? What if the EU decides to introduce a Europe-wide Christmas department? And what is the point of it all?

Simon Polt (Erwin Steinhauer) is no longer a gendarme. Arrived in retirement, he participates cheerfully in the Weinviertel on village life. When a corpse is found after a feast, his sense of right and wrong again becomes noticeable. The police do not see any third party debt. He sees it differently.

Several emblematic buildings in Vienna suffer from a series of explosions that destroy works of art of inestimable value, as well as generating a large number of victims. Detective Peter Bender will need the help of Lena, a student of art, discover the murderer, because it uses a hidden code in the symbolism of the boxes to convey a message.

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Ernst Stadler is a successful, award-winning chef with his own gourmet restaurant. His older brother Ludwig is also a chef, but is currently in prison. Adrian, the youngest of the three, is a nurse and gay. When their mother dies, they travel together to the funeral in Saxony-Anhalt. There they find a clue about Wickerl's biological father. They track down Ernst's father in Hungary. He had once abandoned his pregnant mother. Adrian is not a brother in the biological sense; he was adopted by his mother as a foundling. Nevertheless, they come to the conclusion: "And the three of us are still brothers."

In Austria 1955, the emotional story of a ten-year-old boy, Ben, who after the death of his mother tries to fulfill his dreams in post-war Europe, but faces many problems.

Alfons, the easy-going and extremely charming boss of "Betten Keilinger", can always rely on the loyalty of his secretary, the single Hannah Zorn: Tireless, creative, selfless, she has been at his side for many years. When he falls in love with the young designer Jette, he asks Hannah to be his right-hand woman and look after his neglected wife. Hannah, herself no stranger to Alfons' charm, gets caught up in a grueling relationship vortex - and not just her. But because Hannah has always been a very determined person, in the end Alfons has to fear losing everything: especially Hannah!

The art restorer Henriette Frey moves from Vienna to Krems to live with her friend, the musician Ferdinand Sternheim. At a vernissage, Ferdinand introduces her to the gallery owner Hartmut Ille, who proudly presents the up-and-coming painter and new star in the art firmament Hubertus Krajczik. But Krajczik's up-and-coming career soon comes to an abrupt end.

Vienna in 1931. Fanny, the daughter of a Vienna police trainer, meets the Chinese police officer Ma Yunlong, who is completing specialist training in Vienna. The shy acquaintance quickly turns into great love. Against the will of her parents, Fanny travels to China on her 18th birthday to marry Yunlong. At his side, Fanny begins a new life in the Middle Kingdom, which is characterized by deprivation and painful turns due to the multiple political upheavals.

A brown bear in the wild causes a sensation as a border crosser between Tyrol and Bavaria. Because Master Petz snatches many a lamb, repeatedly plunders beehives and prefers to visit garden inns to feast on the food and drink (including a pint) of the escaped guests, the alarmed people demand that the beast be shot down. After some initial bickering, this unpopular decision is also accepted at a political level, with Bavarians and Tyroleans alike hoping that the execution will be carried out by their neighbor.

A misunderstood youth is incorrectly placed in a mental hospital.

Four years have passed since the unsuccessful search of the "brothers" Ernst, Ludwig and Adrian Stadler ended after a common father with the determination: "I have three still brothers". Ernst has now acquired fame with a cooking program on television. He lives separately from Iris The mother of his twins. Ludwig operates a well -walking bourgeois restaurant. Adrian helps in the kitchen there and, because of a side jump by friend Michael, moves from the shared apartment to Ludwig into the mother's house. The ratio of the three fake brothers still shapes the ratio of the three fake brothers. When Adrian processes the experiences of the father search in a novel and develop between Ludwig and Iris tender gang, even the resilience of Stadlerscher family gang seems to have finally exceeded their limits and their lust for the argument have lost the unifying force.

After 16 rocky years, Friedrich and Nina Prantner lose jobs and peace. A surprise inheritance lands them a “luxury yacht” in Grado, in reality a rotting trawler. The chaotic family navigates one disaster after another, finds joy in Italian life, and awaits an even bigger surprise back home.

Joana and Valentin Dorek are a married couple going through a crisis. This prompts them to take a trial session with a couple’s therapist. In the therapist’s consulting room they start off with their standard programme: she won’t stop talking and he isn’t even listening. The broken communication between the couple is a real challenge for the therapist. He is almost at his wits’ end when his mobile rings and a surprising message brings chaos into their therapy session.

Much has changed for Simon Polt, a retired gendarmerie inspector. He's embarking on new career paths, and his future with his long-time girlfriend, Karin Walter, suddenly took on a completely new perspective. Polt has little contact with the police, who now watch over the small villages in the Wiesbach Valley—his only friend is Norbert Sailer, a law enforcement officer who's just his style. But the discovery of a stranger's body completely disrupts Simon Polt's quiet world: No one claims to have known the dead man, but some seem to know more about him than they're willing to admit to the police.

Michel, 18, prefers partying and riding his motorcycle to thinking about his future. The complete opposite of his father, who enjoys hunting, peace and quiet, and has already planned everything for his future, especially his son's. As they head out for yet another hunting trip, these differences of opinion become impossible to live with.

After a swimming accident in which her mother died and she herself nearly drowned, Gilda's mental development stopped at the level of a nine-year-old child.

It all starts with a mistake. The wealthy Polina finds a sleeping man in her hotel room, the business lawyer Friedrich. A mistake by the receptionist, he claims, and she believes him. He asks her to play for him in the casino. She is a lucky child. She plays and wins. Friedrich, who is accused of embezzlement, sees his mountain of debt melt away. But then his luck changes. Polina's losses soon threaten her own existence.

Gendarmerie inspector Simon Polt in the Weinviertel region finds it too much of a coincidence when crook Riebel is killed in a motorcycle accident and his friend Willi is found dead on the same day. But the residents of the otherwise peaceful Lower Austrian wine village make Polt's investigation anything but easy.

The film version of the same-titled book by Mark Twain. A young printer's apprentice imagines himself back in the days of Guttenberg, helping him to print the Bible. The next thing he knows he has conjured up a young spirit from the future who casts spells over striking printers and causes general mischief.

A tragicomic story about an old woman, who, to the horror of her son, is cooking up a meal in the middle of the night for her long-deceased friends. Fantasy, dream or reality? What is the difference? When people get old...

After the death of his partner, Adrian experiences a serious existential crisis. He decides to walk to Santiago de Compostela to come to terms with himself and his life. Against Adrian's will, his brother Ludwig joins him on the pilgrimage. And Ernst, who initially has no intention of going, is forced to leave Vienna for a while due to a scandal he caused. At first, it is not a particularly pious pilgrimage, but in the end, they stand on the beach of the Atlantic Ocean in Finisterre, where the world seemed to end for pilgrims of earlier times, enriched by many insights and (self-)discoveries.

A number of horrific murders of women take place in a big city. The police follows a lead to a young man named Jesse. The evicence is overwhelming and Jesse desperately tries to prove his innocence. Suddenly his girlfriend is in mortal danger.

After a nuclear war, what is left of society creates a special police force to ensure that it doesn't happen again. However, things don't go exactly as planned.

From one day to the next, Anna, a millionaire's wife from Hamburg, is left with nothing: her husband has absconded with a fraudulent loan and a young mistress. Anna returns to Vienna, where a wealthy friend leaves her her fruit stall at the famous Naschmarkt. However, the sleazy Charly also has his eye on the property. Only Bernhard, a former chamber singer, sticks by Anna, but he too is on Charly's payroll.

After the body of a young woman is recovered from Lake Mattsee, the two cops not only face a major professional challenge that takes them into the dark past, but also come into contact with Mattsee's dark history and reach their limits privately.

A village in Styria, Austria, 1945. A troop of the elderly, the lame, and the village idiots roams the woods. When the Nazis invade to collect metal for weapons, the church bell disappears.

Nothing can help. Leopold's cholesterol levels have finally broken through the sound barrier and it is his Steffi, of all people, whose cooking is to blame for everything, who has to put him on a strict diet. When Steffi's best friend Sophie is left without a husband and money overnight, the two of them draw the consequences. As "Dinner for Two", they want to conjure up exclusive gourmet menus in posh households for a lot of money - and get into some serious turmoil in the process.

Summer 1780: On the way to Salzburg Emanuel Schikaneder's theatre group gets held up in a small mountain village on the Austrian border due to a missing performance permit. In this village a dispute between mine owner Paccoli and the rebelling mine workers is escalating. The situation immediately inspires Schikaneder with the idea for a new play- but before long not only the mineworkers, but also Schikaneder's performers take to the picket line. This is because Schikaneder seems to care more about spending time with high society than his actors, who the Landlord refuses to feed until Schikaneder pays the outstanding bill. A hastily put together open air performance by the troupe leads to major disruption....

Real estate speculator Albert Hahn is found dead in his cellar. He died of fermentation gas poisoning. The doctor in charge assumes it was an accident. But Polt knows that the dead man was hated in the community. He suspects that the murderer wanted to make the death look like an accident. Many of the winegrowers had a motive. After a long investigation in the wine cellars, he discovers that all the cellars are connected by holes. Polt doesn't want to leave the feeling that it was a murder. As he drinks some wine with his friends, they all confess to the crime. They had all poisoned Albert Hahn with the fermentation gas together, but only one of them wants to take all the blame, as the rest have children and wives. He commits suicide and leaves a confession behind.