The Teacher (TV Series)
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | The teacher |
 | |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | 2009, since 2013 |
| Production company |
Sony Pictures Film und Fernseh Produktions GmbH |
| length | Season 1: 24 minutes since Season 2: 45 minutes |
| Episodes | 85+ in 8+ seasons ( list ) |
| genre | Dramedy |
| Theme music | Black Eyed Peas - Now Generation (since season 2) |
| idea |
Peter Freiberg , Thomas Koch |
| production |
Christiane Ruff (season 1), Astrid Quentell (season 2–) |
| German-language first broadcast |
August 10, 2009 on RTL |
| occupation | |
The teacher is a German dramedy television series about the teacher Stefan Vollmer, played by Hendrik Duryn . The first season of the series was produced for RTL in 2007 , but was not broadcast until 2009. It was similar with the second season, which was produced in summer 2012, but did not start broadcasting until December 2013. Another season was broadcast in each of the following years.
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The series is about Stefan Vollmer, a teacher for German, natural sciences and sports. After ten years of absence, he returns to the school service. His new job, the Georg Schwerthoff Comprehensive School, soon turns out to be a problem area. There is anomie in the hallways and Stefan Vollmer will soon be assigned as an expert on the G-course , which is the most chaotic class in the whole school. With alternative, unconventional methods and a different approach, however, he soon gets the students behind him and gradually manages to change their attitude towards the school.
When the teacher Karin Noske comes to the school at the beginning of the second season, a romance is slowly developing between her and Vollmer. At the end of the season she wants to move to Boston with her partner in the USA , but at the last moment decides to stay in Germany. However, Stefan Vollmer does not notice, who - also at the last moment - also buys a ticket for the plane to confess his love to her. This season, Vollmer also learns that he has an illegitimate gay son.
At the beginning of the third season the neighboring secondary school burns down, so that the students of this school are now also taught at the comprehensive school. The romance between Stefan Vollmer and Karin Noske experiences a continuous ups and downs until they kiss and come together at the end. The ups and downs continue in the fourth season.
In addition, in the course of the fourth season you learn that director Günther Rose has a daughter, with whom he had no contact for many years because of his alcohol problem. Furthermore, Vollmer's G-course ends with her successful graduation and after the summer vacation a new school year begins with a new class, the upper school course.
Karin Noske takes a rector position in Lemgo and takes it up at the beginning of the fifth season. She is pregnant but does not know whether it is from Vollmer or his best friend Michael, as she had sexual intercourse with Vollmer once during her relationship with Michael. She gets back together with Vollmer and returns to school in Cologne, where her mother has since started a relationship with Rose. The fifth season ends with the birth of the baby at school and the two fathers who are supposed to cut the umbilical cord.
At the beginning of the sixth season, fatherhood is clarified, father is Michael. Patrick Petzold ( Eugen Bauder ) comes as a new colleague at the Georg Schwerthoff Comprehensive School. He is taken with Karin, but cannot show his feelings towards her due to his relationship with Stefan. In the meantime, he confirms Noske's assumption that he is homosexual. Stefan sees through it and demands that he confess it to Karin himself. Ultimately, he can only prove his heterosexuality to her with a kiss. At the end of the season, Stefan and Karin want to get married. However, a gas leak occurs in the wedding tent, which leads to an explosion. Hanging from the cliff , it is left open whether everyone survived this disaster.
At the beginning of the seventh season it turns out that Karin cannot remember the last three years due to the explosion. Stefan's attempts to revive her memory by visiting striking places fail. Only at the prom of the high school graduation class can Karin remember when she realizes that she knows tango and loves Stefan. Later in the season, Stefan reconciles with his mother after realizing that he unjustly pushed her away after the death of his father, to whom he had a very close bond. In a school experiment in which the blood types of Michael and Frida are determined, it turns out that Michael cannot be Frida's father. Another test then confirms that Stefan is the father. It also turns out that Karin suffers from an incurable form of thyroid cancer. At the end of the seventh season, Karin finally dies of it. A leap in time takes place five years later. Jonas, Stefan's son, has meanwhile become a teacher and lives with Stefan and Frida in the house. By chance, Stefan finds a USB stick with a message from Karin, where she thanks him for everything.
Season 8 begins 5 years after the death of Karin Vollmer in season 7: Frida, the daughter of Stefan Vollmer and Karin, is now six years old and starts primary school. In the first episode, Stefan meets a young woman named Sara, with whom he has a one night stand. Vollmer later learns that Sara shares a fate similar to his. At the end of the third episode, Stefan's son Jonas Burmeister moves out of the Vollmer house and leaves the series for the time being. As usual, Stefan takes care of the needs of his students, including topics such as environmental protection, simulated deafness, exclusion and a few more. But even Stefan is still haunted by the grief for his beloved Karin, but never really shows anything on the outside. The grief persists throughout the series. Barbara and Karl now have a son named Luke and at the end of the season, Barbara becomes pregnant with a girl. After nothing came of Stefan and Sara, he enters into a small on-off relationship with Frida's class teacher Rebecca, but the grief for Karin does not yet make a new relationship possible for him. The last episode comes to the emotional climax of the season: Stefan is trapped under an aircraft bomb from the Second World War. Sara joins them and tries to defuse the bomb - which they do. The season ends with Stefan lovingly hugging Frida, indulging in his sad feelings and starting to cry.
occupation
| actor | Role name |
Period (season) |
Remarks (role) |
| Adult actor | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Hendrik Duryn | Stefan Vollmer | 1.01– | Teacher, widower of Karin Vollmer, father of Jonas and Frida |
| Lars Gartner | Elmar roundabout | 1.01–1.09 | Teacher |
| Ulrich Gebauer | Günther Rose | 1.01– | Teacher, rector (S2–) |
| Antje Widdra | Veronika Baeumler | 1.01–1.09 | Teacher |
| Rainer Piwek | Karl Sievers | 1.01– | Teacher, husband of Barbara Knopmacher |
| Andrea Bürgin | Anita Herenberg | 1.01–1.09 | Rector |
| Frank Voss | Holger Wenker | 1.01–2.01 | Teacher |
| Katja Liebing | Ute roundabout | 1.01–1.09 | Elmar Kreisel's wife |
| Jessica Ginkel | Karin Vollmer (née Noske) † | 2.01-7.10 | Teacher, deputy rector, wife of Stefan Vollmer, mother of Frida |
| Matthias Klimsa | Rüdiger Matuschek | 2.01-3.02 | Teacher |
| Antje Lewald | Mrs. Cornelius | 2.02– | secretary |
| Andrea L'Arronge | Charlotte Noske | 2.05-6.05 | Mother of Karin |
| Merlin Rose | Jonas Burmeister | 2.07, 3.09, 5.07, 7.03-7.04, 7.10-8.03 | former student, son of Stefan, half-brother of Frida, teacher (S8-) |
| Nadine Wrietz | Barbara Knopmacher | 3.01– | Teacher, wife of Karl Sievers |
| Sebastian Baumgart | Mats Müller | 3.08-3.09 | Trainee lawyer |
| Gabriel Merz | Michael Hunter | 4.06-7.10 | Lawyer, friend of Stefan's |
| Zsá Zsá Inci Bürkle | Emma Dehler | 4.11, 5.03, 5.12–5.13, 7.08– | former student, trainee lawyer (S8-) |
| Bernd-Christian Althoff | Dr. Franke | 5.02-7.10 | Gynecologist |
| Renate Kroessner | Inga Vollmer | 5.10-5.11, 7.04-7.06 | Stefan's mother |
| Dagny Dewath | Julia May | 5.13–7.03 | Head of Education |
| Eugen Bauder | Patrick Petzold | 6.01–6.12 | Teacher |
| Birthe Wolter | iris | 6.08–7.07 | Karin's friend, Michael’s relationship |
| Anne Moll | Claudia Prange | 7.02– | Assessor in the development association |
| Leni infant | Frida Vollmer | 8.01– | Daughter of Stefan and Karin Vollmer, half sister of Jonas |
| Liane Forestieri | Rebecca Mojciechowski | 8.01– | Frida's teacher |
| Student actor | |||
| Sebastian Bender | Benny Wasilewski | 1.01–1.09 | student |
| Friedrich Brockmann | Kevin | 1.01–1.09 | student |
| Farbod Borhanazad | Ahmed | 1.01–1.09 | student |
| Nadja Mühlenbach | Britta | 1.01–1.09 | pupil |
| Susan Hoecke | Corinna Sabic | 1.01-1.02, 1.07-1.08 | pupil |
| Sophie Steinbüchel | Lena | 2.01-2.08 | pupil |
| Zejhun Demirov | Mehmet Yilmaz | 2.01-4.06, 5.09 | student |
| Daniel Rodic | Cem | 2.02-2.04, 3.07, 5.06, 6.09 | student |
| Jan-David Citizen | Mirko | 2.02-2.08 | student |
| Patrick Mölleken | Moritz | 2.02, 2.04-2.05 | student |
| Carolin von der Groeben | Leonie | 2.02-2.08 | pupil |
| Anna Florkowski | Alina | 3.01-5.13 | pupil |
| Aram Arami | Jamil Abu-Khalil | 3.01-4.06 | student |
| Pauline Angert | Natasha | 3.01-4.06 | pupil |
| Rouven David Israel | Ludger | 3.01-4.06 | student |
| Jasper Smets | Marvin | 3.01-3.10 | student |
| Markus Roland | Jan Lindner | 1.04, 1.05 | former student, drug dealer, nightclub operator |
| Gerrit Klein | 3.10, 4.12 | ||
| Jascha Rust | Tom Harbacher | 4.01-4.06 | student |
| Sinje Irslinger | Nikki | 4.01-5.11 | pupil |
| Vita Tepel | Hanna Schilling | 4.02, 4.08-4.09, 4.12 | pupil |
| Sven Gielnik | Bela Koslowski | 4.06-5.11 | student |
| Matti Schmidt-Schaller | Ole | 4.06, 4.11, 5.07, 7.07 | student |
| Janosch Lencer | Jens | 4.08-5.13 | student |
| Samuel Prost | Robin | 4.08-4.13 | student |
| Béla Gabor Lenz | Oleg Sobolev | 4.13-5.11 | student |
| Julius Nitschkoff | Luis Schmitz | 5.01-5.13, 6.03 | student |
| Mascha from Kreisler | Melanie | 5.01-7.10 | pupil |
| Cosima Henman | Dunja Baum | 5.01-7.10 | pupil |
| Jeanne Goursaud | Bibi | 5.01-7.10 | pupil |
| Samy Abdel Fattah | Güney | 5.01-7.10 | student |
| Yannic lip | Richard | 5.03, 6.10 | student |
| Lennart Betzgen | Sascha Frege | April 6 - December 6 | student |
| Yvonne Pferdrer | Betty | 8.01– | pupil |
| Taynara Wolf | Tamika | 8.01– | pupil |
Guest actor
The series was able to hire some well-known actors for guest roles. So was u. a. Frederick Lau (as Picko) can be seen in the third episode of the first season. There were also Anna Stieblich , Marie Rönnebeck , Esther Esche , Yvonne de Bark , Sonja Baum , Guido Renner , Jannik Schümann , Sotiria Loucopoulos , Almila Bagriacik , Xenia Georgia Assenza , Nick Julius Schuck , Lion Wasczyk , Claudia Mehnert , Max Felder , Joyce Ilg , Nick Romeo Reimann , Marvin Linke , Kathrin Ackermann , MoTrip , David Meier , Henriette Nagel and Andreas Hoppe can be seen in one or more episodes.
background
production
The first season of the series was produced back in 2007, but only aired two years later due to the alleged lack of audience interest. When it was first broadcast, the roughly half-hour episodes were broadcast in double blocks. Some of the filming took place in the old Rodenkirchen comprehensive school in the Cologne district of the same name, which was replaced by a new building in 2009. The other episodes of the first season were v. a. Shot in the Lise Meitner Comprehensive School in Cologne-Porz.
In 2011, RTL decided to continue the series, with the new episodes not being produced in a length of around 25 minutes net, but in the usual series length of 45 minutes. The shooting for the second season took place from April to August 2012 in the former community secondary school Worringen in Cologne. In addition to actors from the first season, Jessica Ginkel and Matthias Klimsa can be seen in the new episodes . In June 2014, the series was extended by a third season, which consists of ten episodes. One month before the end of the third season, at the beginning of February 2015, RTL already ordered a fourth season of the series consisting of 13 episodes. The shooting of this lasted from the end of June 2015 to December 2015. In January 2016, RTL announced that the series should be continued with a fifth season.
Matthias Klimsa , who played Stefan Vollmer's colleague and best friend Rüdiger Matuschek in season 2, only appeared in the first two episodes of season 3. After that, he was no longer seen in the series. Reasons were not given.
Since the 3rd season Nadine Wrietz has also been part of the teaching staff as Barbara Knopmacher, who over time enters into a relationship with the teacher Karl Sievers (played by Rainer Piwek ) and finally marries him in the fourth season.
Charisma
The first season aired from August 10th to November 25th, 2009. The second season was broadcast over four years later, from December 5, 2013 to January 30, 2014. The ten-part third season began on January 8, 2015 with a double episode and ended on March 5, 2015. The broadcast of the fourth season began January 7, 2016 and set a new record for the series with a total of 3.19 million viewers and a market share of 17.5% in the target group. The last episode of the season aired on March 30th.
During the broadcast of the 5th season in spring 2017, RTL announced that a 6th season with 12 episodes would be broadcast from February 2018. In early December 2017, it was announced that the season would begin broadcasting on January 4, 2018. It was also announced in December 2018 that the 7th season will be broadcast from January 3, 2019. Season 8 began broadcasting on January 2, 2020.
In July 2020, RTL extended the series by a 9th season of 13 episodes.
reception
Audience ratings
 Audience ratings for the series on the free TV private broadcaster RTL
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| Season | Episodes | Broadcast period | Audience ratings | Time slot | source | |||
| Range (from 3 years in millions) |
Market share (from 3 years in%) |
Reach (14-49 years in millions) |
Market share (14-49 years in%) |
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| 1 | 8th | August 10th - 31st, 2009 | ø 2.29 million | ø 8.6% | ø 1.75 million | ø 15.9% | Monday 9:15 p.m. / Monday 9:45 p.m. | |
| 1 | November 25, 2009 | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | Wednesday 4:25 a.m. | ||
| 2 | 8th | December 5, 2013 - January 30, 2014 | ø 2.72 million | ø 8.7% | ø 1.66 million | ø 13.9% | Thursday 9:15 p.m. | |
| 3 | 10 | January 8, 2015 - March 5, 2015 | ø 2.71 million | ø 8.3% | ø 1.73 million | ø 15.0% | Thursday 8:15 p.m. / 9:15 p.m. (Jan. 8, 2015) Thursday 8:15 p.m. |
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| 4th | 13 | January 7, 2016 - March 31, 2016 | ø 3.05 million | ø 9.3% | ø 1.97 million | ø 17.3% | Thursday 8:15 p.m. | |
| 5 | 13 | January 5, 2017 - March 30, 2017 | ø 3.03 million | ø 9.2% | ø 1.96 million | ø 18.0% | Thursday 8:15 p.m. | |
| 6th | 12 | January 4, 2018 - March 22, 2018 | ø 3.06 million | ø 9.3% | ø 1.90 million | ø 18.0% | Thursday 8:15 p.m. | |
| 7th | 10 | January 3, 2019 - March 7, 2019 | ø 2.54 million | ø 7.9% | ø 1.60 million | ø 16.7% | Thursday 8:15 p.m. | |
| 8th | 10 | January 2, 2020 - March 19, 2020 | ø 2.32 million | ø 7.2% | - | ø 15.5% | Thursday 8:15 p.m. | |
Awards
- Bavarian television award
- German Comedy Award
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German television award
- 2009 : Award in the Best Series category
Similar series
There is a similar series in Russia called The Gymnastics Teacher . In Denmark there is a similar series Rita , which is shown in German on Netflix .
Web links
- The teacher in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The teacher at Fernsehserien.de
- The teacher at RTL
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fernsehserien.de - Andreas Hoppe - Filmography. Retrieved February 4, 2018 .
- ↑ DWDL.de : Start of shooting: RTL tries again with "Der Lehrer" , accessed on April 7, 2012.
- ↑ promiflash.de: Ex-GZSZ star Jessica Ginkel has a new series role , August 18, 2012, accessed on September 15, 2012
- ↑ Seba Canel: RTL: shooting start for the new episodes 'Der Lehrer'; starring Hendrik Duryn, Jessica Ginkel & more , serien-load.de, April 3, 2012, accessed on September 15, 2012
- ↑ Thomas Lückerath: RTL: More "teachers", US series and new design . In: dwdl.de . June 3, 2014. Retrieved June 3, 2014.
- ↑ Uwe Mantel: RTL: Another season "The Teacher" under one roof . In: dwdl.de . February 9, 2015. Accessed February 9, 2015.
- ↑ Seba Canel: RTL orders the fourth season of “The Teacher”; ,Quotemeter.de, February 9, 2015, accessed on February 9, 2015
- ↑ Glenn Riedmeier: "The Teacher": Start of shooting for the fourth season . In: wunschliste.de . June 29, 2015. Retrieved June 29, 2015.
- ↑ "The Teacher": New Season 5 has been ordered! In: TV Movie . January 21, 2016. Retrieved January 25, 2016 .
- ↑ Michael Brandes: "The Teacher": RTL finds a slot for a new edition. wunschliste.de, October 22, 2013, accessed on November 16, 2013
- ↑ Alexander Krei: RTL starts the year with “Lehrer” and “Männer!” . In: dwdl.de . November 20, 2014. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
- ↑ Uwe Mantel: "The teacher" is back with a new record . In: dwdl.de . January 8, 2016. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
- ↑ "The Teacher" with Hendrik Duryn: The sixth season comes in February 2018. In: rtl.de. March 1, 2017, accessed September 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Glenn Riedmeier: "Magda" and "The Teacher": RTL reveals season start dates. In: Wishlist.de. December 4, 2017, accessed December 10, 2017 .
- ↑ "The Teacher" and "Sister, Sister": Shooting starts in August. In: rtl.de. July 26, 2020, accessed July 27, 2020 .
- ↑ Wettenmeter.de - Odds check 1st season
- ↑ quotemeter.de - Odds check 2nd season
- ↑ quotemeter.de - Odds check 3rd season
- ↑ Wettenmeter.de - Odds check 4th season
- ↑ quotemeter.de - Oddscheck 5th season
- ↑ quotemeter.de - Oddscheck 6th season
- ↑ quotemeter.de - Odds check 7th season
- ↑ Wettenmeter.de - Odds check 8th season