Scene of "Totenfrau"

Brünhilde Blum “murdered” again in Ternitz

Mayor Christian Samwald (center) with Robert Palfrader and Britta Hammelstein in the "guard room". In the new season, Anna Maria Mühe as mortician Blum worries about her daughter, who has been kidnapped.(Bild: Krone KREATIV/ORF ZVG Stadtgemeinde Ternitz)

When Robert Palfrader suddenly crosses your path in the Ternitz municipal office or actress Anna Maria Mühe comes towards you on her motorcycle on the Hohe Wand, then it's filming time again for Bernhard Aichner's "Totenfrau". 

Since Monday, she has been happily murdering on the ORF screen again - Brünhilde Blum from Bernhard Aichner's novel trilogy "Die Totenfrau". And once again, Ternitz in the district of Neunkirchen serves as the filming location for the police station in which Robert Palfrader investigates as police chief Danzberger.

Mayor Christian Samwald still has fond memories of filming in the town center. It took place during normal operations. "However, party traffic was not restricted on any day," says Samwald.

This building houses the municipality of Ternitz. It is often used as a film set due to its 80s charm.(Bild: Doris Seebacher)

In the first part, the town center, home to the Ternitz municipal office, was used as a film set. "Because of the unique architecture," smiles Samwald. The exceptional architectural building from the 1980s has also served as a film set for other productions - both outside and inside.

However, the effort involved in filming the sequel to "Dead Woman" was greater this time than for the first part. "There were more scenes and more people on set, but everything worked perfectly. We were always informed exactly when and where filming was taking place," explains Samwald, who was particularly impressed by Robert Palfrader: "A very easy-going guy!"

Occasionally, a well-known actor like Robert Palfrader would just run into you in the corridor.

Christian Samwald, Bürgermeister von Ternitz

The Hohe Wand also served as a setting. Markus Hofer, head of the nature park municipality: "Individual scenes were shot on the plateau and in a hut where the door was blown out," he reports, "And there were night scenes in which Blum rides through the area on a motorcycle." Are these shots good advertising for the region? "Not so much, because hardly anyone recognizes that it was filmed here."