'The Empress': Worldwide Success for Season 2

THE EMPRESS – Great start of the second Season of the German Netflix series

Berlin, December 4, 2024 – The second season of THE EMPRESS launched on November 22 on Netflix and has been a success both nationally and internationally ever since. In its first week alone, the royal drama series climbed to the topof the Netflix charts with 6.7 million views. In 84 countries, Season 2 of The Empress ranks in the Top 10 — and in 10 countries, it has secured the number one position, including Germany and Austria, as well as France, Portugal, Chile, and Argentina. Meanwhile, Season 1 has also made a comeback to the Top 10, reaching an impressive 3 million views and securing the third spot among non-English TV shows.

Katharina Eyssen once again served as the showrunner for the second Season of the successful series, sharing creative responsibility with Executive Producer Robert Eyssen. The production was once again handled by Sommerhaus Serien GmbH, led by executive Producers Jochen Laube and Fabian Maubach. Scarlett Lacey returned as an Executive Producer, while Lars Gmehling took on the role of co-executive producer. This season was directed by Barbara Ott and Maximilian Erlenwein, with filming took place in Bavaria, the Czech Republic, and Italy.

Showrunner: Katharina Eyssen

Executive Producers: Jochen Laube, Fabian Maubach, Robert Eyssen

and Scarlett Lacey

Co-Executive Producer: Lars Gmehling

Screenplay: Katharina Eyssen (Head-Writer), Elena von Saucken, 

Francis Pfitzner, Matthias Börner

Director: Barbara Ott, Maximilian Erlenwein

Director of photography: Kolja Brandt, Rik Zang

Costume design: Gabriela Reumer

Make Up: Jens Bartram

Production design: Myrna Wolff

Associate Producer: Michal Pokorny 

Production: Sommerhaus Serien GmbH

Service Production: MIA Film 

Cast: Devrim Lingnau, Philip Froissant, Melika Foroutan, Johannes Nussbaum, 

Almila Bagriacik, Alexander Finkenwirth, Runa Greiner, Leopold Hornung, Josephine Thiesen, Christophe Favre, Jördis Triebel, Noëmi Krausz among others.

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Click HERE for the key art. Synopsis The Empress (Season 2)

The first crisis is barely over and the young couple wants to enjoy their fresh marital bliss when dark clouds gather over Schönbrunn Palace: Franz (Philip Froissant) unexpectedly faces a powerful adversary in Europe. And Elisabeth (Devrim Lingnau) comes under great pressure, because an heir to the throne is to secure the future of the empire as quickly as possible. When fate strikes with all its power, the couple's love threatens to finally break apart. And Elisabeth must fight not only for her family, but also for the integrity of her soul...  

About Sommerhaus Filmproduktion

Since 2015, Jochen Laube and Fabian Maubach have jointly led Sommerhaus Filmproduktion. Their completed projects include feature films such as In den Gängen (Berlinale Competition 2018) and Was uns nicht umbringt (world premiere at the Piazza in Locarno 2018), as well as television productions like Dominik Graf's Tatort: Der rote Schatten and Katharina Eyssen's Netflix miniseries Zeit der Geheimnisse. The film adaptation of When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit captivated over a million cinema-goers and was awarded the Bavarian Film Prize and the German Film Award for Best Children's Film.

The adaptation of Alfred Döblin's world-famous novel Berlin Alexanderplatz premiered at the Berlinale 2020 competition and won five Lolas at the German Film Awards, as well as a European Excellence Award for its film score. The first season of the historical series The Empress, created by showrunner Katharina Eyssen and directed by Katrin Gebbe and Florian Cossen, topped the global rankings for non-English language series after its spectacular debut on Netflix in September 2022. It also won the International Emmy® Award for Best Drama Series in 2023.

Shortly before the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the international TV series The Net – Game on the Edge, directed by Rick Ostermann, premiered, delving into the mafia-like dealings behind football. In early December 2022, a new collaboration with Thomas Stuber, Die stillen Trabanten, was released in cinemas. Currently, two more episodes of The Barcelona Crime (directed by Andreas Kleinert), Burhan Qurbani's new feature film kein Tier. so wild. Sommerhaus Filmproduktion has branch offices in Berlin, Ludwigsburg, and Munich. 

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