Zuagroast – a garden crime story

“Journalist Vera Horvath returns to tranquil southern Burgenland and joins Johanna’s ”Club of Green Thumbs” to combat her plague of snails. There she meets Eva, whose husband Paul is making her life a living hell with affairs and dubious business dealings. As Vera and Eva become friends, dark abysses reveal themselves behind idyllic facades – and it seems inevitable that a murder will take place.”

The first book in Martina Parker’s successful garden crime series is being made into a film and the legendary screenwriter Mike Majzen and I adapted the novel and wrote the screenplay for it.

Woman of the Dead 2

“Blum’s past catches up with her: When parts of another body are discovered in the coffin of a deceased person, Blum is once again targeted by the police and arrested. During interrogation, Blum is confronted with the news that her daughter Nela has been kidnapped. Blum is asked to hand over a video in exchange, which she doesn’t have! She is forced not only to evade the police and Inspector Wallner, who are tracking her down, but also to resist the machinations of the shady businessman Sarkissian. But Blum is prepared to do anything to save Nela.”

I was part of the Writers’ Room for season 2 of the globally successful series.

Chill out, Zeus!

The project is currently in development and I’m one of the screenwriters to write episodes.

Klimakrach

“Climate journalist Clara and flappy-mouthed hero Waldmar run the “Klimakrach” channel. Here they cover topics relating to environmental protection and sustainability. But the two don’t always agree with each other. Who is right and who is totally wrong, or are the causes of scientific phenomena a little more complex at the end of the day? Fortunately, they can also count on the support of the interactive children’s community. In addition, the graphic information, the clever database and the fact-oriented communication with experts help to clear up any misunderstandings and cross-thoughts.”

I was the story consultant for all the episodes of season 1.

PULLED PORK

“Detective Flo Kienzl, with the help of his foster brother and ex-con Eddi Notsch, tries to bring down corrupt pig farmer and mayoral candidate Benny Jagschitz, who not only has pigs in the barn, but skeletons in the closet and the Russian mafia in the hot tub.”

It was fun to be a script consultant for Andreas Schmied’s new crime comedy.

KMM – Audio Stories

For the KMM, one of the largest sound machine museums in Switzerland, I packed interesting facts about mechanical music automatons into short, exciting audio stories for children. These can now be listened to on adapted vintage telephones when touring the museum. I tell a story about a bird robot, let a ghost hunter investigate a haunted piano and reveal that music can also taste like chocolate.

Currently, four of my audio stories can be heard at the KMM.

Gustave and the Music Maschines

This short museum film uses unique archival footage (ca.1900-1930), charming humorous animation, photographic footage of the music machines from the KMM, and original sound machine music to tell entertaining and informative stories about the places, people, and peculiarities of these special music machines to the museum visitors.

You can see this short movie only at the KMM in Zurich.

Sigi – Pursuit of a Passion

15 years of SG SNOWBOARDS! To celebrate this occasion we brought a piece of SG history to paper. In form of a manga.

Read the story of Sigi Grabner’s first time on the thing called a “snowboard”. A magic moment that produced a passion of a life time. Inspired by true events!

I was responsible for the manga script and Sarah Foller for the illustrations. More episodes will follow.

Magic Animals

“There is a secret sanctuary in the clouds that is the home of the Magic Animals. Their mission is to watch over nature and animals, to help children around the world to protect their environment.”

For this new web series, I wrote all the episodes for season one. This web series was commissioned by Ferrero, and I was excited to be part of a project that dealt with environment issues and asked for solutions.

And as you can see in the trailer, the episodes look great!

Wenn Männer rocken

“The masculinity of a tug-of-war team is suddenly called into question by the media because of a meme. Now the men are doing everything they can to prove that they are real men.”

My first feature film script received the script development funding from the Austrian Film Institute.