In “Der Metzger – Mordstheater”, audience favorite Simon Schwarz takes on the role of the popular novel character by the successful author Thomas Raab for the second time.

His latest restoration job takes Willibald Adrian Metzger (Simon Schwarz) to a crime theater in Graz. After the work is done, he wants to watch the current play “Mordstheater” together with his wife Danjela (Valery Tscheplanowa), best-buddy Wollnar (Christoph Krutzler) and his old schoolmate and current policeman Senekowitsch (Thomas Mraz). Danjela is a big fan of the leading actress Emelie Fablé. But she doesn’t show up for the performance and her body is found shortly afterwards. When the understudy and previous main suspect Olga dies shortly afterwards, Metzger, Danjela and Wollnar start to investigate.

Based on the novel “Der Metzger holt den Teufel”, director Michael Podogil (“Meiberger – Mörderisches Klassentreffen”, “Der Metzger traut sich”) sends the Metzger on a crime thriller journey through the theater world. The script was once again written by Peter Koller. In addition to Valery Tscheplanowa as Danjela and Christoph Krutzler as best friend Petar Wollnar, the cast includes Thomas Mraz, Alev Irmak, Gerhard Liebmann and Lukas Watzl.

Der Metzger – Mordstheater’ is a production of Satel Film GmbH with ServusTV, supported by FISAplus, Fernsehfonds Austria, Cinestyria Filmcommission and Fonds and the Film Commission Graz.

The television premiere took place on 12 October 2024 at 8.15 pm on ServusTV.