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- The soap-operish antics of two families: the Campbells and the Tates.
- An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- A show about students at a boarding school in Erfurt.
- A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.
- Based on the films of the same name, John Shaft is a two-fisted black private eye modeled on Mike Hammer and Phillip Marlowe.
- The sisters Bimbo and Molle live on a farm. One day, her cousin Peggy and her cousins drag Danny and Ben to the farm because their parents had a fatal accident.
- 13 part television series based on the books: "The Little Vampire" and "The Little Vampire Moves In" by Angela Sommer-Bodenburg.
- Pumuckl 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.
- In this contemporary adaptation, Mowgli is joined on his adventures by a young American girl named Nahbiri, who has accompanied her widowed doctor father to Jabalpur.
- The series is the continuation of the series Die Märchenbraut.
- An attractive young woman is accosted in the corridor by a young man with something rather sinister on his mind. A contest of give-and-take follows.
- The adventures of an East German secret agent.
- People of the Week talk show.
- The banality of evil - described from the East German everyday perspective where the Party and the Stasi ran amok.
- Heidi Wittwer was a stripper and erotic dancer from Leipzig, East Germany. She began her working life as a TV-store sales assistant, ensured a fast track to shop manager, a member of the Free German Youth (FDJ). She became interested in dancing, enrolled at an art school, and was nominated Mis Leipzig Carnival which attracted a lot of media attention. Soon she was running a striptease education center along with working as a photographic designer.
- Eva Senta Elisabeth Zimmermann was born in Berlin 1909, daughter of opera-singer Emmy Zimmermann and the Swiss conductor . Franz Beidler. Eva received her first piano lesson when she was 4 and her first violin lesson when she was 7. Dancing lessons began when she was 5. Her first professional engagements were as a singer and actress at Berlin's recently opened Volksbühne, where she met the actor Ernst Busch. They married in 1932. Like her husband she was openly opposed to the Nazi party and was forced to escape to the Netherlands in 1933. In 1942 the Gestapo caught up with her in Paris and transferred to KZ Ravensbrück. In Paris 1946, through a friend, she met the "Paris-Soir" journalist and resistance hero George Sinclair.
- About the Berlin youth club Friedrichsfelde Ost a.k.a. Eastside. Administered by the FDJ - Freie Deutsche Jugend - for young people, both male and female, between the ages of 14 and 25, intended to be the "reliable assistant and fighting reserve of the Worker's Party", or Socialist Unity Party of Germany. At the end of November 1989, the FDJ leadership led by Eberhard Aurich was dismissed by the 13th session of the Central Council. "Frie ost / Off ground" was made in two parts 1988/9.
- About the 10th anniversary of the band Feeling B - a punk rock band founded in East Berlin in 1983 - at the Hiddenseeparty in 1993. On 9 Nov. 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell, Feeling B was performing in West Berlin as part of a gig endorsed by the socialist government in order to promote the GDR. Some of the members of Feeling B transformed into Rammstein in 1994.
- "The Last Trabant" - begins at the site of the Sachsenring automobile factory and various satellites are shown. Employees then comment on the cessation of production. In the last part, a farewell ceremony is shown in the assembly hall, which is accompanied by a live band. The second volume continues the farewell to Trabant production. A speech by Kurt Hans Biedenkopf and statements by the employees can also be seen. The last part of the second volume shows demolition work in the workshop. A total of 3,096,999 Trabants were produced.
- The battle of Mainzer Straße took place in Friedrichshain, East Berlin between 12 and 14 November 1990. It was a major incident in the history of the city, following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The magistrate of East Berlin decided to evict a row of squatted apartment blocks and the autonomous movement resisted the eviction for three days, until the buildings were all evicted by the police.
- German activist/singer/songwriter Aljoscha Rompe interviews young people on the topic "What is right?". And what do we think about foreigners, migrants, refugees, neo-Nazis and communists. Aljoscha Rompe was the singer in the band Feeling B which began in 1983 as part of the second wave of underground punk acts operating outside the state-sanctioned music scene.
- In 1941, Mexico became a country of refuge for refugees who were denied the United States because they were communists or were considered sympathizers of communism. In Marseille, which is overflowing with refugees, there is a Mexican consul who goes far beyond his duty, who issues thousands of visas, petitions German intellectuals imprisoned in French concentration camps and enables them to leave occupied France. In 1994, some former exiles went to Mexico and presented the 102-year-old ambassador with a certificate: "For Gilberto Bosques, whose human greatness will always be present in all of our hearts."
- A visit to the Stasi bunker that in the event of a voltage failure, the object 17/5005 should offer protection to Minister Erich Mielke and his staff. However, there were other areas of activities that suited this place underground.
- An exhibition in House 1 of the former headquarters of the Ministry for State Security (MfS). Featuring "Day X" referred to East German plans for military conquest of West Berlin during the 1970s and 80s. In the latter part of the Cold War, detailed plans existed to attack and conquer West Berlin on a moment's notice in case of a military conflict. Only the highest-ranking members of East German leadership had full knowledge of it. The plans were top-secret and did not come to lights until after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and German reunification in 1990. To head off discovery, most details were communicated only verbally. Few documents survived. Most were shredded. Only one document with Erich Mielke's handwriting survived. He was the head of the Stasi, East Germany's state security service.
- Prisoner Edmund Frank is offered a large amount of money by the editor of a magazine, to tell the real story of his crime and the hiding place of the one million Mark he stole from the bank he worked for.
- After receiving a dubious Phone call at work, Eva Konalsky, a typist working at a Steel Factory disappears without a trace. The Saarbrücken Police sends the two cops Liersdahl and Schäfermann to investigate. Both of them have a very different view of how police work should be done and they are not very fond of each other at first. When another person of the Steel Factory's personnel is murdered they both have to do their best to solve the case.
- The East German authorities are calling the West German Police for assistance on a case. The body of a boy was found at a Truck Stop near Leipzig. The boy wears shoes made in West Germany. Some time later the assistance call is withdrawn. Phoning his colleague in East Berlin, a man he worked together with in the past, investigator Paul Trimmel in Hamburg is told: "There is no work for you here." But Trimmel investigates on his own. He finds out that the wealthy Erich Landsberger is the illegitimate father of the dead kid. Landsberger and his other son have moved to Frankfurt. Trimmel pays him a visit there. The man is of no great help for him, but Trimmel gets an unexpected clue from Landsberger's little son. He has to go to Leipzig himself to find out more. So he leaves the Transit Route near the city, pretending his car broke down, takes a Taxi and goes looking for Eva Billsing, the dead boy's mother. She is not home when Trimmel arrives. The next day Trimmel encounters Eva's boyfriend Peter Klaus, who works for the East German Police, and talks him into letting him have a word with Eva. At least Klaus gives in to Trimmel and the things Eva tells him help solve the case.
- A dead woman found in the Donau, is the wife of a very important guest of the Austrian Government. Oberinspektor Marek is asked to investigate the case very gently.
- Brigitta Beerenberg calls the police to inform them she has killed her husband in self-defense. Trimmel wants her to be examined by a psychiatrist.
- Max Bergusson hijacks flight AE612 from Milaan to Beirut. His wife's murderer is on board and he demands the captain to fly to Hamburg instead. Before he boards the plane, he informs Hauptkommissar Trimmel through a curious message.
- After a few days away from home with his girlfriend constructor Breuke from Sieverstedt hurries home to convince his wife he is not having an affair. On the road home he hits a bicyclist, but drives on instead of calling an ambulance. Arriving at his house he deliberately hits the post of the driveway gate to disguise the damage of the accident. All the while he is unaware that his wife is watching him. Hauptkommissar Finke arrives in the village after the local police has taken Peter Reichert as a suspect. His assistant wants to investigate further. Meanwhile Breuke is being blackmailed by an unknown person. Then an actual murder takes place.
- In Frankfurt con man Johannes Stein is making easy money with his latest trick: He is selling "Gold" to unsuspecting people. He too talks the Wimper family into buying some, later to be stored in a Swiss bank. After seeing proof, Grandpa Wimper is eager to buy. Little does he know about that "Gold". When Stein tries to sell some more to a business tycoon, he gets busted and has to flee. It's now up to investigator Konrad to track down the swindler and to arrest him.
- Kressin is back in Cologne, where he works for the customs office. Soon he is ordered to a new case. A gang of bootleggers keep outwitting the customs authorities. Kressin's colleagues can't find any evidence of a crime. Everytime the suspicious trucks are checked at the border, their load is always correct, as declared. Kressin now has to find the liquor and the bootleggers' HQ.
- Customs officer Kressin is on holiday in Hamburg and sees the tour guide acting suspiciously. He ignores it, but the day after the guide is found dead in the water.
- An American private eye is shot dead in Germany by an international extortion gang, and his partner arrives to seek revenge.