Claudia Kainberger

Anton gets confused when he visits Thea at home the first time. They recently had great sex. But now it seems weird that the flatmate Paula knows all about that night with Thea. What does she mean with "Geh Vau", he asks. "Fucking," answers Paula. When he's ready to head out for a concert of the feminist punkband "Schapka", Thea would prefer to stay at home with the handsome young man.

A new home, a promotion, a loving partner. Anna has everything she could wish for, and yet, the gradual inevitability of things begins to create a pressure within her that she can no longer bear. But where does Anna escape to when her life seems pretty much complete? Into housing complexes that swallow their residents like a beehive? Into labyrinthine furniture stores filled with endless room displays? Or into the life of a missing woman who looks just like her and works at an IKEA store?

John Gruber is in his mid thirties, an egocentric, living life in the fast lane and sparing no expense. But all of a sudden he is thrown off track by a cancer diagnosis and by the person who unwillingly delivers the news: Sarah, a DJane from Berlin, who is not his type at all. Feelings just aren’t Gruber’s cup of tea and now, without having asked for them, he has more than ever before…

A sleepy town in the Austrian countryside. Lenz works in a kitchen and Carina is a waitress. Lenz likes Carina, but she is dating Fabian, who has a car and a hot temper. The young people kill the small-town boredom by going out to a local bar on Fridays. One such outing will have serious consequences.

Alman-Avusturya sınırına yakın Alpler'de bir dağ geçidine konulmuş ve cesurca sahnelenmiş bir ceset bulunduğunda; araştırmak için iki dedektif gönderilir. Alman dedektif Ellie için bu, kariyerinin ilk gerçek mücadelesi olacaktır. Avusturyalı meslektaşı Gedeon ise, işindeki hırslarını kaybetmiş bir dedektiftir. Kısa süre içinde, pagan ritüellerini anımsatan kurbanlardan oluşan, daha fazla cinayetler oluşacaktır. Her şey daha büyük ve kötü bir planın parçası gibi görünür. Ellie, dengesiz katilin nedenlerini anlamak için, kendisini artan baskı altında bulacaktır. Bu baskı altındayken katili durdurabilecek mi? Cinayetler, Ellie ve Gedeon'u Alpler'deki karanlık vadilerde, katilin paranoyak dünyasındaki derinliklere götürecektir.

Murder by the Lake is a German-Austrian TV crime series that has been produced since 2014 by Rowboat Film- und Fernsehproduktion and Graf Filmproduktion in cooperation with the German television broadcaster ZDF and the Austrian television broadcaster ORF. The series is filmed and set in the adjacent towns of Bregenz, Austria, and Lindau, Germany, which are both located on the southeastern shore of Lake Constance.