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L'insegnante di tedesco Frank Stimpel si è dimesso per una battuta razzista e deve rifare l'esame da insegnante in un distretto fortemente popolato da immigrati.

Poor Hans travels around the world in search of power and wealth. His path leads him to a remote house where an old mother lives with a goose maid. The old woman fulfills his excessive demands, but in the fulfillment of his wishes he suffers great setbacks each time. Hans has only one wish left. He comes to his senses and wants to find Princess Marie, who has been cast out of the castle and whose sad life he has encountered in his dreams at night. Only late does he realize that the princess is none other than the goose maid.

Tax official and family man Hugo Marquardt (Barnaby Metschurat) lost his wife two years ago and still tries to give his daughters Emma (Emilia Weisse) and Laura (Maya Lauterbach) as secure and carefree a life as possible. Slowly, a kind of normality seems to return to the family's life. Laura has her first steady boyfriend at 16 and Emma has also regained her cheerfulness thanks to her best friend Chrissie (Naila Schuberth). All this is shaken when Chrissie's father Marius Milner (Klaus Steinbacher) is released from prison after eight years. He had killed a man, but now swears for his wife Kitty (Maike Jüttendonk) and his daughter to leave his old life behind. Hugo tries to meet Marius as unprejudiced as possible, but it soon becomes clear that the ex-con is pulling him into a vortex of crime, violence and lies, from which it is difficult to escape.

For Aleks, Emi and the rest of the clique, almost every conversation revolves around love, friendship and sex. "What is rainbowing?", "How do you protect yourself during oral sex?" or "Are you also a man if you've never had sex?" are questions that the young people ask themselves. What they have only heard in theory so far is now to be put into practice with the help of a bet: The "deadline" is literally at the end of the vacations. Anyone who is still a virgin on this date must walk naked across the schoolyard on the first day of school. The pressure and expectations rise and what is actually the most beautiful minor matter in the world becomes a stressful challenge for the clique and their friendship. What's more, their plan is not without danger, but unfortunately the friends realize this far too late.

According to a legend from the Harz region, sometime in the Middle Ages the brutal, greedy owner of the windmill farm set fire to a forest mill together with the castle bailiff and the village schoolmaster. Disguised as devils, they had set to work on a stormy night and stolen even the last flour from the forest mill. From then on, the farmers are forced to have the grain ground by the evil millman, especially since he spreads the rumor that the forest mill is bewitched. Anne, who works on his farm, discovers the stolen sacks and thus gets on the trail of the crime.

The drama series "Friedmanns Vier" shows the Friedmann family, which is torn a big hole by a fatal car accident: Emma (Picco von Groote) dies and leaves her husband Mischko (Tom Beck) the difficult task of leading their three common children Maya (Anna-Lena Schwing), Tilda (Kya-Celina Barucki) and Carla (Amadeo*Leo Arndt) into the future. For the small family, a time of difficult mourning begins. On the one hand, father Mishko has to come to terms with the loss for himself, on the other hand, he has to offer his children a strong and helping hand. Emma and he had always weighed in together when it came to parenting issues. Now he has to make all the decisions himself.

Afghanistan has been in a state of emergency for four decades. In this documentary, for the first time, only women talk about how their lives have changed in Afghanistan. Six Afghan women take the audience on a journey from paradise to hell. The former "Miss Afghanistan 1972" has her say, as does the current Minister of State for Human Rights, the daughter of the last communist president, activists and members of the Afghan parliament. Six Afghan women make the endless war tangible and show how women in particular became victims of violent politics. But it also becomes clear how much courage and bravery Afghan women have. Directed by Lucio Mollica, Marcel Mettelsiefen and Mayte Carrasco, women like Shukria Barakzai, who campaigns for women's rights, show us a very different Afghanistan than we know today. Using mostly unseen archival footage, the film shows girls growing up, going to school and participating in social life in a colorful Kabul in the 1960s. But the "golden age" ends when the monarchy is overthrown and ideological battles break out between communists and Islamists. Even the Soviet Union cannot calm the situation. Its mighty army is defeated by Islamic fighters. When they finally take over Kabul, a downward spiral begins that turns the lives of Afghan women into a dark dungeon. But the women want to take their fate into their own hands. They want their country back.

Naples, Capodichino Airport, October 1: BKA investigators Fredo Kovacs and Jupp Sauerland land on a scheduled flight from Frankfurt. Their goal: the arrest of a terrorist. Amigo Steiger, who has long been in hiding in Italy, shot a bank president and his chauffeur 20 years ago. The two investigators find Steiger in a small town just off the autostrada leading into the city. Brooding heat buzzing over the fields. Lemon orchards as far as the eye can see. A small farm with an agriturismo sign. In the field, a lone man harvesting his crop: Amigo Steiger. When the German officers arrive, a wild shootout ensues. The organic farmer always has his gun handy. So Amigo is able to flee to Germany slightly injured, while the investigator Sauerland is taken to the hospital in Naples seriously injured. There he is operated on by Carlotta Fortunato. What Sauerland only learns later: The doctor is Amigo's mistress. Hamburg, at the same time: The publisher Alexander Bosch and his attractive wife Maxime are in big trouble. Not only is their small publishing house on the verge of bankruptcy and the planned publication of a political book causing trouble, but their adolescent son Rio is also causing problems. The enthusiastic sprayer has been caught by the police. Now he is facing a prison sentence. Amigo searches for old companions in Hamburg and meets with Bosch. When Amigo fled Germany after the murder of the bank president, Maxime was pregnant by him. Rio is Amigo's son. Together, Bosch and Amigo robbed various banks back then. Amigo now wants to get his share of the loot. On the way to the field where they buried the money, Bosch is killed in an accident and Amigo has to go into hiding again. The investigator Kovacs now tries to set a trap for the father with the help of the son. In return, Rio is promised lighter sentences in the sprayer case. Although Rio initially agrees, he does not have the heart to betray Amigo. He warns him and thus enables Amigo's return to Naples. But there, not only his lover awaits him, but also someone who wants to settle an old score.

Retired Chief Krause and sister manage an inn, facing cultural clashes and personal dilemmas. Helping a friend and a Syrian family, Krause navigates challenges, finding happiness in aiding others amidst unexpected family visits.

Animal reporter Anna goes in search of the wolf in the Bavarian Forest. For some years now, the shy predators have been sighted there again. But instead of the wolf, Anna meets Woife, a real outdoors man. At his construction trailer, the animal rights activist is currently fostering the stone martens "Seppi" and "Beppi". Without further ado, the two make a pact: Anna helps the Woife to feed up his charges and in return the Woife shows her the forest and its animal inhabitants such as deer, beavers and forest birds. Thus begins for Anna an exciting adventure in the wild forest. In her search for the wolf, Anna gets active support from forester Marco. Together they set up camera traps. With a little luck, the animal detectives succeed in taking great pictures of the shy predators. And in fact, Anna and Marco quickly hit upon a hot lead.

Maren Hilbert starts her new job as a music and German teacher at the private school "Sophienbund". She soon finds a good rapport with her class thanks to her unconventional manner, but she also notices that the relationship between her 16- to 17-year-old students is not the best. One morning, she receives a call from the school secretary's office, which is still unmanned, in which an anonymous threat of a killing spree is made.

Anna spends a summer on the mountain pasture - together with cottage dog Lukki, the cows, calves, chickens, ducks and many other surprise guests. Anna is not here for pleasure. She wants to find out how hard the work is on an alpine hut and helps dairymaid Kati wherever she can. This includes herding and milking cows, mucking out the barn, making hay and sweeping and feeding numerous visitors who are hungry and thirsty after a hike. Anna gets quite out of breath. But in addition to the work, there is also time for fun. Reporter Anna has one goal: she wants to get to know real life on an alpine pasture in the mountains. She assists Kati, a professional dairymaid, in all aspects of her daily work. Whether it's mucking out the cowshed, leading the animals to the alpine pasture even under protest, or procuring the fodder hay for the cattle - for Anna there are many tasks that can also be physically exhausting. But for a view of the beautiful nature and for the gratitude of the cared for animals are worth all the effort.

Documentary series that retells the life story of the CDU politician shortly before the end of Angela Merkel's term in office after 16 years. Chronologically, "Frau Bundeskanzlerin" shows her growing up under socialism, the incision of the fall of communism, her rise in the CDU all the way to the party presidency, and finally her chancellorship. In this way, the format is also intended to present the portrait of an extraordinary politician in power, in the face of numerous trials and crises.

Building your own house is expensive. It becomes cheaper when many people join forces and realize their dream home as a joint building venture. But how does it work when 19 builders plan a house together? An experiment. A venture. Can it work?

Freely invented police, rescue and fire department operations are the focus of this scripted reality series, which was previously tested under the umbrella brand "Verdachtsfälle" and eventually turned into a stand-alone show. Each episode first depicts a dramatically staged incident, which is then investigated and solved by lawyer Willi Vorbeck (Frank Junge) and his colleagues.

A 17 year old tries to find his own identity in October 1958 while Elvis Presley begins his service as a G.I in Germany. He is torn between his parents' generation which was marked by war and the new "American way of life" which is particularly present in the town of Bremerhaven.

16-year-old Samira (Kaouthar Boulfazat), who lives in a socially deprived area, dreams of a great career as a singer and hopes that this will give her and her little brother Yasin the ticket to a better life. While she is constantly confronted with new problems at home, Samira finds support in her music. Together with her sandbox friend and beat producer Rico, she writes her own songs and works on her big breakthrough. With her clique, which includes her best friends Emily (Dana Michelle Bloch), Toni (Robin Edwell) and Celine (Lisa Gänger), Samira has found a surrogate family. Then Samira meets Nick (Justin Schmidt), an amateur DJ who gives her new hope. Nick comes from a rich family and maintains contacts in the music scene. He falls head over heels in love with Samira and supports her. Through him, the teenager meets stars like Eunique and Mrs. Nina Chartier. But when her mother suddenly leaves the family, the only 16-year-old must suddenly provide for the family alone.

From appendicitis to open brain surgery, from C-sections to kidney transplants, from cat bites to car accidents, "Emergency Room" shows how closely suffering and joy are intertwined in everyday hospital life. We get up close and personal in the country's largest emergency room, the Unfall-Krankenhaus Berlin, and in the world's first accident clinic in Bochum, and experience how doctors save lives.

A tax haven in Switzerland, a half-hearted fight against tax evaders in Germany, a once prosperous African country led into the abyss by world market prices of raw materials: What at first glance seems to have nothing to do with each other stands for a global economic system that determines all our lives - and the filmmaker is right in the middle of it. The film tells the story of citizens of the city of Zug who have managed to become very rich: With consistent tax cuts, they have transformed their little town into one of the world's most important tax havens. Swiss filmmaker Luzia Schmid's childhood was marked by this foolhardy rise, and its main protagonists were part of her everyday life: It is a personal economic film from the filmmaker's perspective, telling how Zug became one of the largest commodity trading centers in the world. The starting point is the close circle of her family: the father, the trustee, the sister, the politician. They are joined by friends and contemporary witnesses. Likeable people who enjoyed it and still profit from it today. But with success came problems: Dubious business lawyers and commodity traders moved into the Swiss idyll. And exploited states like Zambia from here. Zug became a symbolic place for the great injustices of this world. And a surprisingly large number of Zug residents live well with it. The director, as a first-person narrator, traces this power of displacement. She searches for answers in the field of tension between morality and motivation and locates Zug in the international tax competition, in which her adopted country, Germany, also plays a leading role. But the promise of a constantly growing economy - inherent in tax competition - only succeeds at the expense of others.

Filmmaker Benjamin Rost poetically portrays three men who illegally search a diamond field for the precious stones that will change their lives forever. In this way, a piece of South African life unfolds. The rubble field where it all takes place is on the edge of the desert, bordering the ocean. It has been torn up like a field by the many excavators and machines that have dug up the soil here for European companies for decades. Underneath, deep underground, still lie the remains of the purest diamonds in the world. For some years now, the only reminder of these glorious days of the diamond business has been a fence that shakes in the wind and a warning sign: Do not enter. The area here is considered one of the poorest in South Africa, with the highest unemployment in the country. The first dozen "diamond diggers" quickly grew into thousands, so that the understaffed police in this desert wasteland could no longer take action. Day and night, they have been digging with bare hands for the tiny stones for almost two years now: a new diamond rush in South Africa that has spread like wildfire along the west coast. It should also help the former drug addict Vianey to a better life and revives the dream of Nelson Mandela in the homeless chef Patrick. Only diamond diver George, who was once a millionaire, hangs barefoot on the beach after his memories of the good old days. The film not only shows the individual fates of these men on the so-called "Digging Fields". It traces a universal feeling that is just as valid in Europe as on the other side of the globe: the search for happiness. The film shows how important hope is in order to survive in this inhospitable desert. "In the Pursuit of Happiness" not only shows the fates of these men on the so-called "Digging Fields" . The film also traces a universal feeling that is just as valid for us in Europe as it is on the other side of the globe: the search for happiness.

Hick, an unemployed chimney sweep from Munich, has an illegitimate child, Su, with the grumpy convent sister. Su adores her father and dreams of a life together in Tibet. After abolishing the church tax, drinking vast quantities of beer and symbolically separating from his wife, Hick is finally able to "rid the earth of himself": he is struck dead by lightning at the Viktualienmarkt and Su is stabbed to death by her jealous mother. Shortly thereafter, both are reborn in the Tibet of 1662 and find love for each other through Buddhist enlightenment and contemplation.

Friederike Kempter meets women who do what they want. Even if not everyone likes it. What drives them, where do they find the strength and courage to assert themselves?

Two widely separated life and work stories, that of the boxing trainer Ulli Wegner and that of the documentary film director Heinz Brinkmann, are narratively connected in a large arc by the director's death from cancer before completion of the film: "Until the Last Round". The central narrative remains the development and success story of the man Ulli Wegner, who becomes a popular coaching legend in boxing and over a lifetime also a contemporary witness of German history after World War II. In the GDR Wegner underwent a comprehensive training as a trainer in socialist-influenced competitive sports always success-oriented. Victory for the socialist state of the GDR was his mission and goal. With the German reunification, the victories of his protege's are combined with his own personal ambition to always be the best, to create something special in his life. He owes the success of more than 100 world champion titles in professional boxing to his mental and psychological as well as to his technical skills acquired in the GDR. Together with his wife Margret, Ulli Wegner can enjoy the media glamour and the prosperity of the West. The Heringsdorfer Heinz Brinkmann, who feels mentally connected with the Pomeranian Wegner, the fight against cancer works in its quiet way counterpoint. This is also the effect of the quotations from films by the director, which tell in a completely different way the events of the time and the sensitivities of the people in these upheavals. In the final rounds, both become friends.

Albert, the funny and popular cartoon character of the series, goes on a discovery tour again, this time to the secrets of life. In the new 26-part animated series for six to twelve-year-olds, Albert, this very special pink mixture of hamster and bird, takes viewers on his time travels in the "time-o-mobile" he built himself. Along for the ride is his neighbor Zora, a 250-year-old turtle who knows (almost) everything better.

The armed forces are under pressure - in Germany as well as in France. Both armies are challenged, as they have not been for decades, by foreign deployments from Afghanistan to North Africa. At the same time, the French army - like the German Bundeswehr - is struggling with financial problems, poor material and a shortage of personnel. Outsourcing and cooperation with civilian companies promise favorable prices and quick solutions. In foreign missions, from reconnaissance drones to laundry, nothing can be done without private companies. For example, it is an armaments company that operates the GÜZ, Germany's most important military training center. In addition, our politicians and military leaders are committed to arms exports all over the world in order to maintain the domestic arms industries. Former ministers switch to arms companies as lobbyists. And those who buy weapons from France or Germany also receive training from the respective army. External companies have long since been supplying not only equipment for the armed forces, but also know-how and personnel. How much outsourcing can the state monopoly on the use of force tolerate, and what does that mean for the democratic control of military actions? Our authors had access to the French army and the Bundeswehr, were able to film during exercises and foreign deployments such as in Afghanistan, and confront those responsible from politics, the army and industry with their research. The investigative documentary reveals how far privatization has already progressed, how close the links to the arms industry are and what fatal consequences these entanglements could have in the future.