Petra Schmidt-Schaller

Lea, Steffi, Toni & Maja have vowed to celebrate each others weddings together — 26 years ago, things you do at twelve. Now Maja ...

Isn’t the trajectory of a shared life determined in advance? Get married, have kids, be like everyone else… According to Dietrich Brüggemann, who ...

On a Berlin construction site, the former editor-in-chief Karin and her journalist Rommy happens to witness a fatal accident. From Taras, the ...

Due to the fall of the Berlin Wall, a double agent is targeted by the American foreign intelligence service CIA.

Psychologist Kara Bischoff and LKA Commissioner Sibylle Deininger, once a couple, are reunited by a brutal murder case.

The good thing about a low point is, you can not fall lower. At least the unemployed Maria Kowalke thinks after her break-up and when the ...

One day she is sitting at his door. In her red wedding dress and worn-out sneakers. She does not speak his language, is actually too young for ...

The day begins like many others in the Schwarz family’s life: doctor Nora is preparing breakfast, one-year-old Jella is playing on her ...

Cem Balta, an aspiring imam, lives in Hanover with his wife Sehra and daughter Hanna. For the family, German culture is just as much a part of ...

Single parent Mona Doermer travels to the Baltic Sea with her two children Tom and Marlen. The mentally unstable mother and the children, which ...

In Munich’s apartment building No. 23, one still shares in the joy and suffering of the neighbors. The single mother Miriam fell in love ...

Anja Altmann disappears after a birthday party. When the police ask husband Thomas about her , family attorney and friend Lavinia Bertok manage ...

Ella and Marcus Herlinger desperately want to have a child. But Ella is a carrier of the incurable hereditary disease Duchenne, which her ...

After the death of genius Richard Wagner his wife Cosima fights for his legacy even against the will of her children Sigmund and Sieglinde.

Eva hasn’t seen her older sister Lydia for many years. Now, shortly before Eva’s wedding, Lydia returns to her hometown – and ...

On a freezing November night, a young doctor accidentally runs over and kills an 18-year old boy. The criminal investigation is quickly dropped, ...

Marie is a successful designer and has a loving husband and two children. But fate offers more. When she meets the fiancée of their friend Dom, ...

Erik has is own motorbike workshop in a sleepy little town. He may have the telling word ‘scoundrel’ tattooed onto his lower arm but he ...

At Christmas, the four Maillinger siblings want to spend quality time together in peace and quiet. That’s why Miriam, who is now heavily ...

Janne Flecker returns to her hometown of Cuxhaven because her brother Erik was found murdered in the mud. There, Janne’s picture of her ...

Crying children, changing diapers, baby food – everything around Jan seems to revolve around having children. Not only is his best friend ...

A look at a Bavarian commune of the Indian Bhagwan cult.

The budding friendship between two very different neighbors takes a tragic turn when David runs over a young woman and causes her death. At ...

After living 45 years in Germany, the Turkish Hüseyin Yilmaz, seventy, announces to his family that he has bought a house in Turkey and they ...

Nicole Wagner finds out by chance that her son cannot be the son she once fathered with the scaffolder Grille. Nine years ago there was a mix-up ...

In the Austrian first broadcast: For his life he said to others where to go. That shouldn’t change on the 70th birthday. The screw ...

Business executive Nick Porter starts an affair with landscape architect Holly while jogging on his way to see his half-brother Benjamin ...