Frank Tallis
Vienna Blood
Summary
“Vienna Blood” is a British-Austrian procedural drama television series set in Vienna, Austria, in the 1900s, based on the Max Liebermann novels by Frank Tallis in which murders are investigated by providing psychological insights into the suspects’ motives. A continuing sub-theme is the growing antisemitism against the Liebermann family. Trudy Gold and Frank Tallis discuss the series and its inspiration as well as some of Tallis’s other work.
Frank Tallis
Frank Tallis is a writer and clinical psychologist. He has held lecturing posts at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience and King’s College London. He has published over 30 scientific papers in international journals and has written a textbook on cognitive and neuropsychological aspects of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). He has written five works of psychology for the lay reader: Changing Minds (1999), Love Sick (2005), Hidden Minds (2012), The Incurable Romantic (2018), and The Act of Living: What the Great Psychologists Can Teach Us About Finding Fulfillment (2020). He has also written numerous novels, including seven novels in the Liebermann Papers historical mystery series. The Liebermann books have been translated into fourteen languages and adapted for television as the internationally successful TV series Vienna Blood (2019).