The hunter becomes hunted: On ORF-1 premiere Monday, February 24, 2025, undertaker Brünhilde Blum alias Anna Maria Mühe returns to the screens-more than ever to protect her family at any time. Because when her daughter is kidnapped Nela, the “dead woman” is ready for everything! Six new 45-minute episodes of the ORF/Netflix series event were shot in Tyrol, Lower Austria and Vienna in the first half of 2024. This time Daniel Geronimo Prochaska took a seat and staged-inspired by Bernhard Aichner’s bestseller trilogy-the continuation of the TV thriller series and Robert Palfrader, Michou Friesz, Yousef Sweid, Peter Kurth, Britta Hammelstein, Emilia Pieske, Hayal Kaya and Dominic Marcus Singer. The scripts wrote Barbara Stepansky, Marcel Kawentel, Timo Lombeck, Benito Mueller, Wolfgang Mueller and Mike Majzen.
ORF 1 shows the six new episodes weekly in double consequences at 8:15 p.m. and 9:05 p.m. – embedded in the new premiere day! Because since January 6th, exclusive first broadcasts of own and co-produced film and series highlights (for streaming on ORF on) have been opening the TV week of ORF 1. With new events such as “Hunyadi- promotion to power” or “Hundredthrenty” (AT), sequels of success series such as “Biester”, and “Days that As well as film highlights such as “The Uhudler conspiracy”, ORF 1 2025 ignites a red and white-red premiere fireworks.
The first two episodes can be seen 24 hours in advance on ORF ON (on Sunday, February 23), the new “dead woman” relay will be available worldwide on March 19, 2025.
Blum is obtained from its past
Easy parts of the Edwin Schönborn, which is considered missing and killed by Blum, appear in the coffin of an exhumed. Blum is targeted by the police again and while she has to spend the night in prison, her worst nightmare becomes true: her daughter Nela is kidnapped! In exchange for Nela, Blum is supposed to publish a video – one that she does not have at all. On the run from the police and the search for the video, Blum is ready to save her daughter’s life.
Director Daniel Geronimo Prochaska: “We pick up the fans of the first season – especially because Anna Maria Mühe is excellent again. It is again a family drama with a lot of action, excitement and many surprises, because the ‘Blum’ actually has no idea in the first two episodes why it gets in certain situations and what the opponents want from her – she has to find out first to find out to to save her daughter. “
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Totenfrau II/1: Ghosts of the past (Monday, February 24, 8:15 p.m., ORF 1 and Sunday, February 23, 8:15 p.m., ORF on)
In the cemetery, strange body parts packed in cellophan are found at a grave opening. Police chief Danzberger (Robert Palfrader) suspects that this belongs to the Edwin Schönborn, who has disappeared two years ago, the missing son of the powerful hotel manager Johanna Schönborn (Michou Friesz). With the help of the BKA officer Birgit Wallner (Britta Hammelstein), Danzberger starts the investigation. Undertaker Blum (Anna Maria Mühe) and her friendly employee Reza Shadid (Yousef Sweid) are the first to ask the macabre find.
Dead woman II/2: Hell on earth (Monday, February 24, 9:05 p.m., ORF 1 and Sunday, February 23, 9:05 p.m., ORF on)
Blum and Reza are interrogated by the BKA investigator Wallner. While Reza will soon be able to leave the police station, Blum ends up in the arrest cell. Lawyer Wagenchaub (Lucas Gregorowicz) bursts into the interrogation room and brings Blum terrible news: her daughter Nela (Emilia Pieske) has been kidnapped. Blum only stays 72 hours to free them from the violence of unscrupulous criminals. To do this, she should reveal where there is a video with an explosive content. However, Blum has no idea which video it should be about.
Dead woman II/3: You will burn (Monday, March 3, 8:15 p.m., ORF 1 and Monday, February 24, 8:15 p.m., ORF on)
Blum takes a data stick of the killed lawyer wagon show and checks his cell phone. She hopes to find a trace of her daughter’s kidnappers. Meanwhile, Sebastian Hackspiel (Gerhard Liebmann) is pursuing reports on the find of the body parts in the cemetery. He visits hotel manager Johanna Schönborn and warns her to be caught up by the past. Surprisingly, Schönborn gives Blum an indication of the import/export company Yar by Badal Sarkissian (Peter Kurth).
Dead woman II/4: False confession (Monday, March 3., 9:05 p.m., ORF 1 and Sunday, March 2, 9:05 p.m., ORF on)
BKA investigator Wallner absolutely wants to believe Blum. Danzberger considers the effort to be exaggerated. With Reza you have a suspect at the police station who stood the murder of Edwin Schönborn. Blum, however, follows the traces to the unscrupulous businessman Badal Sarkissian. Sebastian Hackspiel also spy him and his sister Tamar (Sabine Timoteo). Wallner, however, initiates a house search at Sarkissian.
Dead woman II/5: Eye for Eye (Monday, March 10, 8:15 p.m., ORF 1 and Monday, March 3., 8:15 p.m., ORF on)
The meeting of Blum with Sarkissian, where she wanted to exchange his sister Tamar for Nela, is wrong. After a body is found again in the forest, Danzberger finally wants to know from Johanna Schönborn who is behind the murders. Schönborn is covered as always. Wallner has now been deducted from the case. For Blum she is the last hope of finding out Nela’s whereabouts.
Totenfrau II/6: Billing Day (Monday, March 10, 9:05 p.m., ORF 1 and Sunday, March 9, 9:05 p.m., ORF on)
Wallner encounters an old property in the confiscated documents, which was bought by Sarkissian for the governor’s candidate Richard Lange. A race against time begins for Blum. If her daughter Nela is recorded there, it is the last chance to save her from safe death. While Wallner sets off with Sarkissian in the car, Blum races on her motorcycle to the secluded, dilapidated villa.
The second season of “Totenfrau” is a production of Mona Film Streaming and Barry Films in co-production with SquareOne Productions for ORF and Netflix, manufactured with the support of FISA+, ABA and Cine Tirol Film Commission.