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- The marriage of young, ambitious writer Nico Thomkins with Helen, coming from a rich family, is nothing more than a hardly concealed love-hate relationship. Because of Nico's aggressiveness Helen flees to the island Sylt and gets into a liaison with a lawyer, boyfriend of her new neighbor Clara. Left alone Nico starts to write again but then fantasy and reality get mixed continuously. Suddenly Nico realizes that since Helen's flight he and the house are watched by Clara. The papers start speculating about Helen's disappearance, finally about her supposed death. Meanwhile Nico, because of his aimless, hostile attitude, gets more and more under suspicion of having murdered his wife, but when he tries to discover Helen's hideaway on his own something horrible happens.
- This melodrama updates the ancient Greek myth of Medea to the experiences of the lives of modern women.
- The 24-year-old Ekkehard Scherrer is disturbed by the suicide of Hans Georg, a boy who was in his care at the time. He lodges in his room, because he believes that he will discover the reason for the suicide there. Whilst looking for the cause his perception of reality starts to change.
- Brigitte wants to work and live with those she loves. And to work at something which doesn't separate her from life. The young secretary rebels against the boredom and hassles of work and the problems her landlady is giving her. Brigitte quits her job, and brings her five friends together, none of whom previously knew each other. She manages to get the five men to pool their individual talents into a new, joint business: they transform a run-down farm into a flourishing guesthouse. Brigitte had assumed that the success of the business would lead to each of the five men loving her more. Instead each of her relationships start falling apart; whilst the friendships between the men blossom. Before long they each find a girl friend amongst the customers.
- The story about how Trude Hesterberg (1892-1967) managed to scrape together the funds necessary to set up her own cabaret. To earn her living she sang the title role of the Operetta "The Merry Widow" by Franz Lehar. She commuted every day between the Metropol Theatre in Friedrichstrasse and her cellar theatre at Theater des Westens. Her partners were, amongst other people, Kurt Tucholsky, Walter Mehring, Klabund and Joachim Ringelnatz. She gave Bert Brecht his first break on a Berlin stage. She discovered the performer Kate Kühl. In 1921 Trude Hesterberg opened The Wild Stage Cabaret in the basement of the Theater des Westens in Berlin.