Vienna at the turn of the century

His films, particularly 'The Counterfeiters' and 'Anatomy,' deeply explore the psychological and moral complexities of early 20th-century Central European society with Vienna's decadent atmosphere.

Though working in contemporary settings, his Austrian sensibility and explorations of repressed bourgeois society echo the psychological tensions of fin-de-siècle Vienna.

His film 'Lola' and theatrical work obsessively examine the decadence, sexuality, and moral decay of turn-of-the-century European society that defines Viennese modernism.