Filming begins on the fourth season of the ORF crime series with new team members including Alexander Pschill, Miriam Hie and Damyan Andreev in June
Vienna (OTS) – “Soko Linz” is still on air today, May 28th, 2024, and on Tuesday, June 11th (for the season finale in a double episode), at 8:15 p.m. on ORF 1 and 24 hours in advance on ORF ON Law and Order Season 3 Episodes. Behind the scenes, preparations for supplies on the series front are already in full swing. TV Commissioner Katharina Stemberger can look forward to new support in the investigative work when filming for the fourth season of the ORF crime series begins in June: Linz-born actress and cabaret artist Angelika Niedetzky and former “Soko Donau” inspector Michael Steinocher are strengthening this Team at the crime hotspot in the Upper Austrian capital, which also includes audience favorites Alexander Pschill, Miriam Hie and Damyan Andreev. Ten new episodes with heart, brains and humor – expected to appear on ORF 1 in 2025: “Soko Linz” fans can see exciting new personalities in the fourth season – from the main cast to the episode roles, in which young talents are featured alongside Austrian audience favorites will be seen – and we can also look forward to even more local color and Austrian humor – lots of emotion, new locations that depict the Upper Austrian landscape even more clearly, and new stories included.
Shortly before the start of filming for the fourth season, Katharina Stemberger, Michael Steinocher and Angelika Niedetzky were met on Monday, May 27th by ORF program director Stefanie Groiss-Horowitz at the ORF media campus in Vienna in the presence of, among others, ORF television film director Katharina Schenk and producer Florian Gebhardt said goodbye to the first joint “Soko” mission in the direction of Linz.
ORF program director Stefanie Groiss-Horowitz: “Ideal addition to the Linz investigative team”
“It starts in Linz – and I wish the entire team good luck with the filming. The ‘Soko Linz’ has established itself excellently with our audience in recent years. In the new season we are now relying even more on local color and Austrian humor. For me, the Upper Austrian-born Angelika Niedetzky and the ‘Soko’ experienced Michael Steinocher are the ideal addition to the Linz investigative team.”
Katharina Stemberger: “Nice mix of familiar and new”
“I’m looking forward to working with my two new colleagues. They are simply sweet, which in this case means very likeable, and team players – I think that’s great.” And further: “In contrast to his predecessor, with whom Joe got along well, her new boss is not without and rather special. She also meets an old friend and there is a very special chemistry there.” The fourth season will be “a nice mix of familiar and new. ‘Soko Linz’ remains ‘Soko Linz’ – but with changes: new filming locations, even more Linz, even more Upper Austria.”
Angelika Niedetzky: “Back to my hometown”
“For my role there is not only a lot of tension, but also emotions. So there’s a bit of heart and romance added to the crime thriller. The shoot is very personal for me and a coming home again because I was born in Linz and grew up there. At the age of 45, I am now returning to my hometown and can act in a leading role there. There is actually nothing more beautiful.” Also: “Really beautiful places in Linz were chosen as filming locations. I’m really looking forward to the team and get along well with everyone – harmony and fun in the background are half the battle.”
Michael Steinocher: “There will definitely be a lot of insults”
“My character is a major and relatively strict. I’m really looking forward to filming – I’ve already met the team and it’s really great. The colleagues are simply great. There will definitely be a lot of insults in the new season – and the production will be even more Austrian.”
“Soko Linz” for streaming
The new episodes of the third season of “Soko Linz” are available to stream on ORF ON 24 hours before and afterwards on TV.
The fourth season of “Soko Linz” is a co-production by ORF and Gebhardt Productions supported by Fisa+, Fernsehenfonds-Austria and the state of Upper Austria.