50 Best German Television Series
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- CreatorAlexander AdolphStarsSenta BergerRudolf KrauseGerd AnthoffUnder suspicion crime series.
- CreatorClaus Cornelius FischerStarsPeter BorgeltJürgen FrohriepWolfgang WinklerAlexander Bukow is a cop who doesn't mind working at the edge of the law to get results. His straight-laced partner Katrin Koenig is a control freak whose life is the job. Together, they're a great crime-fighting team--when they're not fighting each other.
- StarsMathieu CarrièreUrsela MonnKarl Michael VoglerAfter the death of his father, young Karl Siebrecht goes to Berlin to make a fortune.
- CreatorBora DagtekinSteffi AckermannStarsDiana AmftPeter PragerUrsela MonnAfter being left at the altar, a doctor gets a job at her father's hospital, where she is reunited with a bully from school--but also a crush from school.
- StarsSamuel FinziClaudia MichelsenOliver BröckerPolice psychologist Flemming and his detective ex-wife live next door to each other and work together to solve crimes.
- StarsUlrich MüheGesine CukrowskiJörg Gudzuhn"The Last Witness" is a crime series that was aired by the ZDF. This crime drama is about medical examiner Dr. Robert Kolmaar (Ulrich Mühe), who is helping the Berlin PD with his extensive medical knowledge to solve murder cases.
- StarsWitta PohlGrete WurmEike Hagen SchweikhardtThis critically-acclaimed drama focuses on the Drombuschs, an average German family living in Darmstadt near Frankfurt. Siegfried, the father, runs an antique shop, while his wife Vera looks after their home and the three children, Chris, Marion, and Thommy. Chris is a dutiful police officer who marries the complicated Tina, daughter of a wealthy family, but his sister can't handle her life after she gives birth to Daniel and becomes a single mom. Siegfried's mother moves in and annoys the whole family. After a while, Vera and Siegfried buy and start to renovate an old mill, but the financial problems and stress are too much for Siegfried, who dies after a heart attack. At this difficult time, Vera is supported by Uncle Ludwig, a relative who suddenly turns up and secretly falls in love with her while she starts a disappointing relationship with journalist Martin Sanders, whose wife Brigitte tries to destroy their love. Over the next years, Chris is killed by a hooligan and Tina must raise her adopted Black son; Marion has an affair with a pander, but finally finds her true love. In the last episode, Vera follows a frustrated Ludwig to Mauritius, while Marion discovers that the mill is burning down with her grandmother inside.
- StarsKlaus LöwitschUlrich von DobschützMichèle MarianPeter Strohm was a German crime series with Klaus Löwitsch as detective Peter Strohm.
- StarsChristiane HörbigerWilfried BaasnerIris BerbenThe series is based on the aristocratic Guldenburg family and deals with their various relationships and problems. They live outside Hamburg at Castle Guldenburg, which is set on a large farm that's also the site of the family's brewery, their chief income source. A Hamburg family, the Balbecks, are the rival beer-brewers and seek to buy out the Guldenburgs; then Thomas von Guldenburg falls in love with Catherine (Kitty) Balbeck. The Guldenburgs themselves are not a unified family. Herta, the dowager Countess, never really approved of Christine, the present Countess. Christine's husband (Herta's son) has died, leaving her with two children, Susanne (Nana) and Alexander (Sacha). There are also two children from the Count's first marriage: Thomas and Evelyn. Evelyn is married to Achim Lauritzen, who works for the Balbecks and attempts to undermine the Guldenburgs. Christine is the principal heroine as she struggles to keep the family from bankruptcy--and from the Balbecks buying them out. Then yet another challenge emerges with the appearance of her dead husband's mistress Carini di Angeli and her child.
- StarsEmily ReuerHerbert DillensegerAlfred ZornbachIn this TV series you will get to know men and women who round-the-clock are in use in the service of the public, if people get into need. You will experience, that without the cooperation of a medical emergency service, fire brigade, and police help to be more precise a fast would not be possible often at all. It matters if people shall be saved and on the fast help. Each of us can need this help urgently certainly today. You will see how many people are there for you then. The pictures will always not be very beautiful but they show the reality. We thank everyone who has helped us at this TV series.
- StarsPeter WeckThekla Carola WiedJulia BiedermannWerner, a successful single without family, meets Angelika (Angie), a divorced mother with three children, of whom especially the eldest daughter, teenager Tanja, is very difficult. Very soon, Werner marries Angie and she and her children move in his house, to the horror of the housekeeper, Frau Rabe. And the problems move in with them - Tanja becomes even more difficult, son Markus wants to go to his father and son Tom is afraid, that Werner's dog Lulu might eat his guinea pig. But Werner and Angie manage every problem, that a typical West German couple has.
- StarsDieter HallervordenRotraud SchindlerKurt SchmidtchenThere is a complete comic story in each episode, with Didi in the main role - as well as other, more brief, comedy sketches, also starring Didi.
- StarsOtto Waalkes
- StarsKai BöckingStefanie TückingPeter IllmannFormula One - the first modern music show on German television.
- CreatorMarkus StromiedelStarsRainer HunoldFiona CoorsAstrid PosnerCases and complicated lives of a public prosecutor and a police unit, a member of whom is the prosecutor's son, who work in Wiesbaden.
- StarsDietrich MattauschDieter PfaffNorbert WarthaDer Fahnder was an evening crime series of the ARD.
- StarsChristian WolffDoris KunstmannHelma SeitzAnnemarie Braun, a daughter of a doctor and her life from five to ten years. She lives in Berlin, Germany with her parents and two brothers in 1910 to 1914. The series is an adoption of the first 3 Nesthäkchen novels by Else Ury.
- StarsUwe FriedrichsenEdgar BessenGeorge Meyer-GollBlack Red Gold is the title of an ARD television series with Uwe Friedrichsen.
- CreatorHans W. GeissendörferStarsMarie-Luise MarjanAndrea SpatzekMoritz A. SachsThis weekly soap opera focuses on the lives of normal people living in an average quarter of Munich. Besides the typical storyline like love, marriage, and death, the show has treated many controversial issues through the years, like homosexuality, drug abuse, domestic violence, rape, xenophobia, prostitution, and AIDS.
- StarsLeonard LansinkRita RussekRoland JankowskyWilsberg: the thriller from Münster.
- CreatorWaltraud EhrhardtPeter ObristStarsNatalia WörnerRalph HerforthMartin BrambachDetective Inspector Jana Winter investigates with her team in the Schleswig-Holstein area while also fulfilling her role as a mother. Her intuition for the psychological dimension of crimes often leads her on the right track, and she must assert herself against her male colleagues time and again.
- StarsOttfried FischerElmar WepperRobert GiggenbachSomehow and anyway.
- StarsGustl BayrhammerHans ClarinWerner ZeusselPumuckl is a nice and sometimes naughty goblin who used to live with a cabinet maker named Franz Eder. Mr. Eder has had to live through quite some trouble because Pumuckl always was up to do some mischief. The history of "Pumuckl" is going back to the early 1960 when the Bayerischer Rundfunk started a radio series on the notorious goblin Pumuckl. The author of the Pumuckl stories is Ellis Kaut, a resident of Munich, Germany who became famous for having invented that naughty little creature. By 1970 "Pumuckl" was successful enough that his stories were pressed on records. At this time actor Alfred Pongratz was the voice of Meister Eder. Alfred Pongratz died in 1977 and so Gustl Bayrhammer got the role. In 1979, the Bayerischer Rundfunk decided to put "Pumuckl" on TV. The TV series was absolutely successful and is still continued even today even though Gustl Bayrhammer (Meister Eder) died several years ago. Today, Pumuckl is living on a ship that travels the river Danube, and his new friend, a crewman on that ship,is played by Towje Kleiner. In the TV series "Pumuckl" is an animated character whose voice is that of Hans Clarin. This actor lent "Pumuckl" his voice from the very beginning on the radio and has now been doing so for 40 years. The high-pitched voice is a trademark of Pumuckl, and no one could ever replace Hans Clarin in this part.
- StarsManfred KrugRüdiger KirschsteinNele Mueller-StöfenThe adventures of a group of German truckers on jobs all over the world.
- StarsDaniel FriedrichMichael FitzJulio BrinkmannComic author Tobias and his boat-building friend Christopher are both convinced singles. Together they inhabit an old villa and have an easy life with many girlfriends. But when Tobias' ex-wife dies in a plane-crash in Brazil, his two teenage children Alicia and Henrik and the young adopted Brazilian Carlos move in with them. At first they're less than thrilled, but they manage to arrange themselves to an unusual, but comfortable living community. Focus of the series are typical generational conflicts, single parenting and teenager problems like love-sickness, search for a job, drugs etc.
- StarsGünter StrackLiesel ChristBuddy EliasWith body and soul - series.
- CreatorTom GerhardtHerman WeigelStarsTom GerhardtJanine KunzeIrene SchwarzThe everyday life of a caretaker's family.
- StarsThomas FritschHerbert HerrmannJutta SpeidelCharlotte is a traveling sales rep for her uncle's pottery. On her travels she meets the attractive young teacher Peter and his equally young and attractive landlord Benedikt. Charlotte becomes friends with the two men, and whenever she is in their area calls in for a visit. As time goes by, both men fall for her. Charlotte is fond of them both and initially tries to be friends with the two of them, but it becomes increasingly clear that she will eventually have to decide between them.
- StarsMaria KetikidouJan FedderTill DemtrøderThe daily lives of police officers in the St. Pauli district of Hamburg.
- CreatorOrkun ErtenerKathrin BreiningerStarsGötz SchubertManfred ZapatkaSaskia VesterBig and small stories surrounding a police station in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
- StarsMax RiemeltRonald ZehrfeldMarie BäumerThe worlds of a young Russo-German cop who investigates within the Berlin Russian mafia milieu and a young Russian woman who is forced into prostitution, intertwine when they meet and fall in love.
- StarsMaria SebaldtStephan OrlacEdith SchollwerThe Wicherts next door - a family history.
- StarsUlrike KrienerMichael RollTilo PrücknerA crime series based in Regensburg, Bavaria.
- StarsKlaus J. BehrendtMiroslav NemecUdo WachtveitlAn anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- StarsArmin RohdeMinh-Khai Phan-ThiBarbara AuerNight shift thriller story.
- CreatorMarc TerjungStarsChristoph M. OhrtRebecca ImmanuelIsabel TuengerthalEdel and Starck is a German television series in the style of a screwball comedy and plays in the eponymous law firm.
- StarsMartin SemmelroggeDietrich MattauschGuntbert WarnsThe cases of an organized crime unit of the Berlin police.
- StarsRobert AtzornGisela TroweClaudia WenzelGerman television program about Dr. Specht, a man trying to balance his personal life with his job as a high-school teacher.
- StarsWolfgang StumphStephanie StumphMargret HomeyerThe cases of police detective, family man, and Dresden native Wilfried Stubbe in his new home in Hamburg.
- StarsFlorian LukasUwe KockischJörg HartmannThe lives of two families in East Berlin between 1980 and 1990 as the era of communist DDR slowly comes to an end.
- CreatorMatthias GlasnerStarsJürgen VogelThomas HeinzeJördis TriebelA homicide cop with a mysterious past and a bad attitude works the seedy underbelly of Berlin in this gritty, complex thriller from the director of 'Cenk Batu Undercover Agent'.