Bernd Spitzer

One of the main theses of the Marienthal study was that prolonged unemployment leads to a state of apathy in which the victims do not utilize any longer even the few opportunities left to them. The vicious cycle between reduced opportunities and reduced level of aspiration has remained the focus of all subsequent discussions.

A theatrical group prepare Voltaire’s play “Alzire”. From this the ideas of Voltaire are examined as they relate to the present day political situation.

Andreas, who is ten, has been brought up by his grandmother. When she dies, he removes a putto from the crucifix placed upon her, puts it in his mouth and does not speak again. The attempts by adults to make a normal child out of him only cause him to flee deeper into his fantasy world - a village of snow. At its center is a snowman with whom Andreas converses.

Vienna in the early eighties: After a suicide attempt, Tina, who comes from a middle-class family, is hospitalized in a psychiatric ward. There she gets to know Gerhard, an apprentice plumber, who also wanted to do away with himself. He comes from a working class family. They fall for each other. A modern love story which is set inside the real life circumstances of the closing of the alternative Youth Center "Gassergasse" in Vienna.

Dans l’épisode La dernière enquête de Stocki de Rex chien flic, l’inspecteur de police criminelle Ernst Stockinger, incarné par Karl Markovics, part pour Salzbourg afin d’y exercer un poste similaire. Il a demandé sa mutation pour raisons familiales, en effet, sa femme souhaite y reprendre le cabinet dentaire de son défunt père. Dans ses nouveaux locaux, il a pour collègue Antonella Simoni, incarnée par Sandra Cervik. Contrairement à Vienne auprès de son impulsif supérieur Richard Moser, incarné Tobias Moretti, il devra plus souvent rendre des comptes à la haute direction, le Dr Brunner, incarné par Hans Peter Heinzl . Stockinger circule dans sa toute petite voiture blanche et, malgré le changement de décor, a gardé tous ses traits de caractère et sa peur des chiens (voir épisode Der Tote im Narzissenfeld). Sa première enquête à Salzbourg, qui a lieu en pleine saison du Festival de Salzbourg, consistera à résoudre le meurtre d’un chocolatier.