“Love is the best therapy” is the name of the latest film from ZDF’s Rosamunde Pilcher series. Leading actor Joscha Kiefer has had no such experience. “I think I’ve skipped the point where love could have treated me,” says the 40-year-old actor. “Fortunately, I never had to go to therapy because of love.”
And the love for his children – Kiefer has two daughters with his wife, the singer and actress Kristina Dorfer (38) – has changed him “in so many ways”, but does not treat it.
His appearance in “Love is the best therapy” (to be seen on March 5 at 8:15 p.m.) is not the first in ZDF’s Herzkino series. Kiefer has appeared in another Pilcher film as well as two Inga Lindstrom stories.
He likes such feel-good formats for one simple reason: “Especially in times like these, it’s important to be able to just switch off. letting go. The past three years have been a difficult time for many. It’s nice when you’re far away with your thoughts. For example in beautiful Cornwall.”
Eric Cameron (Joscha Kiefer) and Pauline Parker (Lea Louisa Wolfram) are stuck in troubled marriages. | Image: Jon Ailes/ZDF
And perhaps, he says, such stories then served “in a way as therapy for everyday life”. In the film, as Eric, he meets Pauline in his psychotherapist’s waiting room, whose husband is having an affair with Eric’s wife. “A strange situation, but their common destiny welds them together,” says a statement from ZDF.
During his stay in England, where the film was made, the actor rode his motorbike across the county of Cornwall. He has been to England a number of times before, but has never been there on a motorbike – until now. “I drove from Newquay to Plymouth via Dartmoor. Incredibly beautiful landscape. swamplands. rough area. Windy. Then down to the south coast. I like to stop at old churches. It’s like going back to the 16th century in England.”
Dana Cameron (Thekla Hartmann) is cheating on her husband Eric (Joscha Kiefer). | Image: Jon Ailes/ZDF
In his home country, too, Kiefer travels a lot with his motorbike. He comes from Müllheim near Freiburg and now lives with his family in nearby Breisach, after Munich had been the center of his life for a long time. “I don’t think there is anyone who doesn’t feel comfortable here. The people are warm, the landscape is beautiful and the weather is the best,” he enthuses. He mostly drives around the Vosges on his motorbike, “almost a stone’s throw away. It’s great to drive through this area. You can feel the history on every corner,” says Kiefer.
The actor is known to many viewers for his role in the ZDF series “Soko Munich”. He was last seen in the “Breisgau” thriller, but no sequel is planned at the moment. “Unfortunately,” he says.
