The Bridal School 1958

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Television broadcast
Country of production Germany
original language German
Year (s) 2006
length 24 minutes
Episodes 16
genre Documentary soap
idea Susanne Abel
production Carl-Ludwig Rettinger
music Andreas Lonardoni ,
Michael Klaukien
First broadcast January 9, 2007 on Das Erste
occupation
  • Melanie Alexander: student
  • Katharina Blass: student
  • Josef Burchert: caretaker
  • Ellen Dennhoven: housekeeper
  • Barbara Dittrich: Ms. Director
  • Hannah Dittrich: student
  • Adrian Draschoff: caretaker assistant
  • Björn Gamerschlag: caretaker assistant
  • Katja Hack: teacher candidate
  • Jörg Henseling: dance and behavior teacher
  • Elisabeth Jüngst: student
  • Nadja J. Kayser: student
  • Antje Limbrock: senior teacher
  • Sandrin Mohn: student
  • Julia Otten: student
  • Maike Prüter: Schoolgirl
  • Sabrina Trinks: student
  • Madeleine Wiese: student

The brides School 1958 is a docu-soap the ARD , produced by Lichtblick film and in January / February 2007 at the First aired. In December 2008 / January 2009, the series was broadcast a second time on the first.

As part of an experiment, an attempt was made to recreate the conditions of a housekeeping school in the 1950s, colloquially known as a bridal school , in the Soonwald Schlösschen educational facility in Mengigart in the Hunsrück . The seventeen 25-minute episodes (sixteen of which were televised) were put together under the direction of Susanne Abel .

The series is part of a number of ARD Living History productions, which include the 1958 Bride School , Black Forest House 1902 (2002), Adventure 1900 - Life in the Manor House (2004), Adventure 1927 - Summer Freshness (2005) and Stone Age - Include the experiment (2007).

Basic concept and technology

The docu-soap belongs to the living history category, as most of the protagonists lived for 6 weeks under the conditions of 1958 and, in this sense, undertook a journey through time . The basic idea was to find out and record on film what happens when a group of girls from today is confronted with the image of women from the 1950s. It was not planned to convey a predetermined message. Ten schoolgirls, several teachers including caretakers and two caretaker assistants acted as protagonists. The educational facility, built around 1930 as a hunting lodge, was converted into a boarding school in the style of the 1950s for 6 weeks down to the last detail (furniture, wallpaper, electrical equipment, sanitary facilities) and equipped with functional devices and teaching material from the 1950s. A 1958-style milk bar was set up in the village of Mengigart for the time of filming , in which the girls met the dance students for three hours on Saturdays.

It was the ARD's most expensive television production to date. The high costs were mainly due to the fact that the devices not only had to be original from the time, but also had to be functional and used in teaching. In the original planning, 12 female students and the year 1956 were targeted, the project was implemented with 10 female students. A scientific monitoring and evaluation of the experiment did not take place.

Turning conditions

The situation at the location was described in detail by Vivian Vrancken in 2007 in her book (see literature ). There was a clear separation between the shooting team and the boarding school. The protagonists only came into contact with the few employees during the shoot for whom this was inevitable. Most of the production team was almost always invisible. The director Ms. Dittrich was solely responsible for the daily routine and compliance with the rules. The girls had been obliged by the film crew to use the diary camera. This was in a small and darkened room in the house. The participants should express their impressions and feelings there. This room also represented a certain free space that was used for eating apples as well as for foolishness. The diary camera was evaluated daily by the production department in order to gain up-to-date knowledge of the girls' sensitivities for the director and to get help in reconstructing storylines.

In contrast to a film, which is usually shot on the basis of a script , in documentary narration the script is only written after the filmed plot. As a result, out of the 600 hours of action that were captured with the camera, only about 8 hours of footage was selected in the end. This effort has only been possible since affordable cameras and recording materials have become available, as well as editing systems that can manage this mass of material. The specified number of episodes was 16 and their length of 25 minutes. What happened in the boarding school was not influenced by either the production or the direction after the lessons began . Events could generally not be recreated, scenes could not be repeated. The camera setting or lighting could be inconvenient in a scene, especially when shooting in tight spaces. In order not to disturb the protagonists, any artificial (and out of date) lighting and flashlight were dispensed with in photos, which often resulted in poor image quality in indoor filmic and photographic recordings (Vrancken 2007 apologized for this right at the beginning of her book ).

Documentary narrative format

In this format the attempt is made to retell reality as true to the facts as possible, in a condensed and, in this production, as dramatic as possible according to the direction. Since the two cameras were unable to monitor every part of the site 24 hours a day, it happened that the camera was not present during important developments. This was particularly problematic when later actions related to an event that was not filmed. There must also have been scenes that were filmed but could not be used for technical reasons (e.g. cameraman accidentally in the picture or technical defects). In episode 4, when the school council arrives, the shadow of a cameraman can be seen briefly, shortly before that in the same episode, a cameraman walks past the director's window unnoticed.

In Vrancken 2007, dance teacher Henseling describes a situation in which he prepared Julia's friend Tom for his upcoming marriage proposal outside the boarding school. Both protagonists had to repeat these scenes several times under the direction of the director so that the shooting team could find out and practice the ideal camera setting for the later real scene. According to Vrancken in 2007, the scene that appeared staged triggered strong discussions during the editing process. It stands to reason that the school council's arrival scene was also practiced.

In many situations, similar scenes were used as a substitute for missed film scenes and later merged into a content unit by editing. There are many examples of this. At the end of episode 6, schoolgirls are shown comforting each other - according to the spokeswoman, Julia is comforted, but she only comes into the picture for a short time and stands by, uninvolved. Towards the end of episode 3 there is singing in the salon, with pictures from two evenings with different choir compositions being cut together alternately. Vrancken argued in 2007 that the truth of the story told would not be falsified. However, this is the responsibility of the director responsible for the editing, there are no control bodies.

Because of the trust between the camera team and the schoolgirls, the girls sometimes entrusted the cameramen, who occasionally offered them a shoulder to cry on, with little secrets. This explains why the camera was able to film scenes such as alcohol smuggling, secret drinking or smoking.

Sound engineering

New territory was not broken in the area of ​​sound technology, as the concept and team from the previous productions Adventure 1900 - Life in the Manor House and Adventure 1927 - Summer Resort were taken over. However, in 2007 Vrancken presented the sound and camera details to the public for the first time in a Living History production. In contrast to a film staged according to a script, in which scenes can be repeated, each scene could only be recorded once. This also increased the demands on the sound technology. Work was carried out with a sound technician team of five people, who had particularly high demands in terms of a sense of responsibility and teamwork. A total of 35 protagonists were equipped with clip-on microphones and pocket transmitters, which they activated themselves in the morning. The film was usually shot with two cameras at the same time, sound was recorded on multi-track recorders with up to 32 audio tracks and mixed with two digital mixers in an adjacent building on the premises . Mobile hard disk recorders with 8 sound tracks were used for recordings outside the house. The sound technology had the images from both cameras visible live on monitors. In order to avoid voyeurism , it was only listened to who was in the picture. In order to avoid unnecessary disruptions in boarding school life, the sound engineers left the property unseen through the neighboring Soonwald in the evening .

music

The music for the series and for the dance lessons was written by the composers Michael Klaukien and Andreas Lonardoni , the theme music was recorded with the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg . Basic rhythms and tempos for the dance lessons were given by Jörg Henseling. Most of the music was produced on the computer, with live musicians being integrated into the playbacks to create an authentic 1950s sound. In the 1950s, it was played exclusively with large orchestras.

Contents with explanations

Episode 1 - Zero Hour

The teaching staff welcomes the 10 students, says goodbye to the relatives and assigns the rooms and clothes (school uniforms in the style of a housekeeping school from the 1950s), combined with contemporary hairstyles. All contemporary utensils must be handed in, including all electronic devices and cosmetic items. The teachers first try to determine their level of domestic economics and then express themselves surprised and disappointed. In the 1950s, girls of this age were able to bring significantly more prior knowledge of cleaning, cooking and housekeeping to a home economics school. Some of the girls are entering almost completely new territory (Sandrin is shown as an example, who does not know the terms for the various cleaning cloths and calls it that in the diary camera). In the educational style of the 1950s, the director decides to face the problem with strict discipline.

More than 1,500 people applied for the 17 protagonists for the “Bride School” after a casting call was published on radio, TV and newspapers in November 2005. The search was not for actors or amateur actors, but for people from real life who were able to behave as unadulterated as possible in front of the camera. When putting together the group of students, care was taken to ensure that a natural range of personalities was covered, including thoughtful and balancing characters. The six-week filming began on April 2, 2006 (the beginning of the time travel for the students), whereby the teachers (with the exception of dance teacher Henseling) had already moved into the building a week before and had prepared intensively for their tasks. This also included familiarization with linguistic differences today.

Episode 2 - The first dance lesson

Once a week there are dance lessons in the dance hall on Thursday evenings under the direction of dance teacher Henseling. In the morning, a group of the schoolgirls, divided into two groups, is given the task of polishing the wooden floor in the dance hall under the direction of Ms. Limbrock. By noon, only a small part of the unusually hard work is done, so that the second group has to work after lunch. In the subsequent dance lesson with the dance partners who have arrived with Mr. Henseling, rules of etiquette and behavior are taught, which sometimes astonish the students.

Was taught Waltz , Blues , Rumba and Cha Cha Cha , but not rock 'n' roll . Dance teacher Jörg Henseling was not at the location for the entire 6 weeks for his job, but traveled from Marburg in between , and he attended the home economics school a total of 18 times. Jörg Henseling had gone through 4 auditions and delved into the rules of etiquette of the 1950s for his role. His tasks included, among other things, the creation of a coherent and detailed concept for the dance lesson. He also chose the contemporary music, some of which was even composed especially for the series according to his specifications. The rules of behavior were also to be strictly observed under his instructions. Typical was the invitation of the lady by the gentleman, the taking of the dance posture, the exact bowing or instructions for the cultivated handling of "wallflowers", the less popular dance partners. The latter was discussed in advance and without the ladies.

Episode 3 - The Collapse

On the fifth day, the increasing exhaustion and excessive demands are discharged in a serious crisis that affects the entire community in the boarding school. Elisabeth breaks down in tears while eating and runs into the kitchen, later Hannah and Julia meet as group speakers with the headmaster in the classroom to find a solution. Hannah, the director's daughter, tearfully tells her mother that the students are at the edge of their resilience. The head of the boarding school gives the girls 30 minutes more free time a day. An older teacher, Ms. Freese, sits down with the girls in the parlor that afternoon and talks about her own experiences from the 1950s.

The director had expected this crisis a few days after the boarding school had started, and it seems to occur in other such productions as well; those involved on the set were prepared for it. The scenes shown in episode 3 are authentic according to Vrancken 2007 and were only possible because a relationship of trust had built up between the camera team and the students. There were firmly agreed signs when the camera was no longer allowed to film or had to keep its distance. This can be seen in episode 3 when Elisabeth goes into the kitchen and turns away, as well as when the director herself goes to the window after talking to Hannah and Julia and also turns away - both times the camera stops a long way away. Enne Freese was part of the teaching staff (and gave textile studies lessons), the conversation with the girls on the fifth day in the salon instead of the lesson took place at the suggestion of the shooting team and initially without a camera. The camera was only added later when an assistant director who happened to be present recognized the explosiveness of the scene and informed the camera team. However, the shooting team did not intervene in the decisions of the boarding school management. It was Ms. Dittrich's free decision to give the students an extra half hour break.

Episode 4 - Distinguished Visitor

Preparations are being made for the school council's visit, the rooms must be cleaned and cakes baked. The school council is greeted with a song, after the cake meal he examines the housekeeping lessons of Mrs. Limbrock and then leaves again. On Saturday the girls are allowed to shower for the first time after a week and then to the milk bar in the nearby village, where they meet the dance students. Julia is visited by her friend Tom on the occasion.

Julia's friend Tom was allowed to visit, but only in contemporary clothing. The role of the school board in this series is not explained in Vivian's Vrancken book or anywhere else and cannot be understood without some inside knowledge. In the 1950s, a school council was an official of the state school inspectorate who randomly checked the work of the teaching staff in a certain district at irregular intervals. The school management showed a correspondingly high level of respect for such officials. In the booklet accompanying the DVD “The Bride School 1958” there are two sentences: “The school council is due to visit and with it the question of the future of the boarding school. With a good appearance, the money is secured for the whole year ” , subsequently the topic of thrift itself is raised several times without further explanation. However, the school inspectorate primarily exercised a content-related control and instruction function on the subject matter.

What kind of person the nameless school council appearing exclusively in episode 4 actually was cannot be inferred from external sources. The scenes in which Ms. Dittrich says goodbye to the school council (“I'm really looking forward to the next time”) seem acted out given the six-week journey through time. This category also includes the observation that incorrectly there was a picture of the then Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in the director's office , who as a politician of the 1950s is better known than the then head of state, Federal President Theodor Heuss .

Episode 5 - The boys are coming!

After one week, two caretakers (Adrian and Björn) arrive, who will take part in boarding school life for the following 5 weeks. The focus of the episode is discipline, the girls are further restricted in their freedom of movement on the property. Hannah is reprimanded several times by Ms. Limbrock and later has to answer to the director. The assistants make a good impression at first, but are later warned several times not to contact the girls in the house. The other side of discipline is also shown. Hannah and Nadja secretly smoke behind the sheepfold. Sandrin, a non-smoker, also admits in a phone call that she started smoking at boarding school.

Once a week the students were allowed to telephone for 5 minutes in the director's office. External correspondence was also allowed. Sandrin had the results of the Bundesliga regularly sent to him and then discussed them with Mr. Burchert.

Episode 6 - Nothing but Trouble

Recordings from the second week. Adrian and Björn take the truck ( Opel Blitz ), leave the premises and take a break at a free-standing oak tree in the area. The director catches Julia and Nadja with cigarettes in their jacket pockets and gives them both detention. In addition, all students have to sign a self-written text as a contract with the director that alcohol and smoking are strictly prohibited on the premises. On the occasion, the director also names the penalties in the event of violations. Björn and Adrian are late for dinner, are banned from having lunch together and are forbidden to drive. On Saturday, the girls were ordered back from the milk bar to the boarding school in good time because the director found and read an extremely critical letter from the student in Julia's room.

Smoking and alcohol were only forbidden for the girls, but not for the caretakers who were able to smuggle tobacco, alcohol and chocolate into the screened-off area for the girls. The dance students were less skilled at this. Under the pressure in the boarding school, all but one of the students began to smoke, including non-smokers. The punishments in the room (detention, writing an essay, ban on milk bars) were taken seriously, and the students feared further sanctions, such as telephone bans.

Episode 7 - Escape or withstand?

This episode deals with problems in the boarding school in the week before Easter. Sandrin accidentally pours the soup away in the kitchen unnoticed by the schoolgirls present, which prompts the headmaster to have a group discussion. She has the impression that the room layout was not ideal and lets the girls decide among themselves. Sabrina is the only one dissatisfied and swaps with Melanie. Sabrina also has problems with Ms. Limbrock and expresses this in a conversation with the director. The student increasingly sees boarding school as wasted time. As part of the class, Mr. Burchert slaughters two of the rabbits under the eyes of the girls. Miss Hack shows the schoolgirls how they can be skinned and gutted properly. Sabrina can't see it and leaves the room, and the next day the boarding school grounds on foot through the forest. Adrian and Björn are sent to bring Sabrina back. Another conversation follows with the overwhelmed director. Julia and Elisabeth set the tone better, Sabrina finally decides to stay.

Sabrina must have left the boarding school several times in unobserved moments. In one scene in episode 7, Ms. Limbrock cooks with Elisabeth Schwarz-Sauer and speaks a sentence directly into the camera (“ My husband likes that ”). It's the only scene in the entire series where a protagonist is allowed to speak directly into the camera and address the viewer.

Episode 8 - Sweet Surprises

Scenes from Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday . The topic of cleaning: window cleaning under the guidance of Ms. Limbrock. Melanie secretly writes letters with Björn, who with Adrian comes up with the idea of ​​making Easter nests for the girls for the Easter party and painting blown Easter eggs with personal motifs. The main topics in the kitchen at Easter are biscuit dough, spaetzle preparation and the preparation of the roast rabbit. Easter is celebrated indoors because of bad weather. The girls get sweets from the boarding school in the style of the 1950s, plus the artfully crafted Easter nests from Adrian and Björn. The director allows the caretakers to bring the little rabbits into the dining room for the girls.

Episode 9 - Detention

On the 18th day, Mr. Burchert brings a television and tries to install it in the salon. The headmistress initially instructs him to give horticultural lessons, but orders him back a short time later to turn the device on. Ms. Limbrock surprises Sandrin, Hannah and Nadja, who recently smoked during a break in the garden. As a punishment, they have to write an essay on Saturday, clean the yard and are not allowed to go to the milk bar.

The episode addresses several thematic blocks with the television, which involved immense effort on the part of the production. This effort can almost only be inferred by outsiders from the corresponding chapters on the difficulties in archiving research in Vrancken 2007. In addition to the television set, attempts had been made to get as much original material from the 1950s as possible for the protagonists in the boarding school, which was associated with unexpected difficulties. This concerned both the content selection of the programs and their technical condition. In 1958, not every broadcast was recorded, most programs were broadcast live and were lost forever. The recorded magnetic tapes have been transferred to new video standards several times in the 48 years in between and have lost a lot of their quality as a result. This could also be seen in the short original sequences from the 1950s, which were recorded in each episode based on the topic. Many films were copied onto video tapes and then thrown away, the video tapes are now illegible. What remains from that period today is a random selection of music and guess shows, comedies, news, family series, commercials, raffles, fashion shows, and soccer. It was not possible for Mr. Burchert to get the final game of FC Schalke 04 against HSV on May 18, 1958, with which Schalke became German champions : after 48 years, not a single record of this game seemed to have been preserved. The reaction in the boarding school to the television set must have been a disappointment for the production team and at the same time is one of the few evaluable results of the experiment. All protagonists were worked to their limits during the day, and according to statements in agreement, none of the participants missed modern electronic media. Ms. Dennhoven reported in Vrancken's book that only a few attempts were made to watch a program at all, and that they fell asleep.

A cinema was set up in the village and a contemporary film was shown exclusively for the protagonists. Neither in Vrancken's book nor in one of the episodes is it mentioned that the girls had sewn children's clothes and a children's fashion show was held - the source of this information is exclusively the contributions of the students in the ARD Internet forum, who expressed their disappointment that none of them was used . These posts were later deleted and are no longer accessible today.

Episode 10 - The Engagement

Julia's friend Tom comes to the premises and, in the style of the 1950s, proposes to her. The girls practice baby care in class, with dolls and then with two real babies.

The marriage proposal was not an act, but actually meant as such at the moment. Except for the film crew, nobody in the shielded boarding school knew anything about it. There were discussions in the filming team beforehand as to whether this should be allowed. The prerequisite for consent was that Tom Oelbrock adhered to the rules of the 1950s in clothing and etiquette. Tom was prepared for this request by dance and behavior teacher Henseling.

Episode 11 - Marital Hygiene

Contemporary educational classes with original material from the 1950s and the gynecologist Dr. Carpenter. The doctor explains the female cycle and the process of sexual intercourse very abstractly, but evades questions from Katharina and Julia about contraception and does not answer them when asked. Also shown are scenes from Mr. Henseling's behavior class, which shows how couples in love had to behave in public. After a role-play, Elisabeth expresses herself critical of the role of women in the 1950s.

The primary aim of education was to prevent sexual crimes such as premarital intercourse, which only girls were prohibited from doing. In episode 3, Enne Freese had already made it clear that she had not been informed as a student in a home economics school, and had answered Nadja's question with yes, whether she had believed at the time that kissing could lead to pregnancy. But in 2006, too, television was anything but relaxed about the subject. In episode 11, the spokeswoman suggests that the girls had no further questions. In Vrancken 2007, however, Katharina reported on a discussion with the gynecologist about tampons , which was excluded from the film. The gynecologist had insisted on bandages because the hymen should not be destroyed and bandages were supposedly more hygienic. Katharina and others seemed to have made critical arguments in the discussion.

Episode 12 - Dream Dresses

Preparations for the May 1st celebration. When sewing the ball gowns, Adrian and Björn also secretly help in the sewing room in the evening, and Nadja and Hannah teach them how to use the sewing machines. Hannah receives a love letter from dance partner Tobias in the milk bar, which she answers diplomatically. On April 30, the tired schoolgirls had to sew their ball gowns with Ms. Limbrock's help until late at night, but they all got them ready. Mr. Burchert and the assistants set up a canopy in front of the dance hall.

The valuable sewing machines were originals from the 1950s that had been lent by collectors from various European countries. Museums, including those of the manufacturing companies, did not borrow any equipment when they heard that it was to be used for teaching purposes. In contrast to movie props, the devices in this production actually had to work and were used extensively.

Episode 13 - The Miss Poll

Mr. Burchert drives with the assistants into the forest, where a birch tree is felled as a maypole and taken to the boarding school. Then dance into May in the dance hall of the boarding school, with a competition for the choice of the "Miss Bride School 1958". The students are assessed in three disciplines: dancing (rumba), peeling potatoes and quality of the ball gowns. Since Sandrin and Elisabeth are tied in the evaluation, the winner will be determined by orange dancing, a typical party game of the 1950s. Sportswoman Sandrin, who usually stands on the field in soccer shoes and has never wore a dress, let alone sewed it, wins the title of "Miss Bride School 1958".

Episode 14 - Heavily tested

Cooking test and preparations for it. The pupils are assigned the dishes to be cooked, only with the ingredients; the recipes had been collected beforehand. Sabrina has secretly made copies of the exam-relevant recipes that she shares with the others. Sandrin practices "dry cooking" the evening before, which pays off in the exam. Ms. Limbrock supports the director for Sabrina after she made mistakes in the cooking test.

Episode 15 - The final touch

Examination in baking and ironing, followed by an oral exam. Elisabeth finds ironing annoying, but still passes the test with a grade of 1. Madeleine makes a number of mistakes when baking steamed noodles. The headmistress announces the grades during lunch. In the oral exam, the pupils reproduce the material they have learned. In the diary camera, Madeleine addresses the discrepancy between the reproduction of the statements in the examination on the role of women in marriage and her actual life picture. Another difference to life under the conditions of the 1950s is mentioned by Sandrin: the hectic pace of life in 2006 as a contrast to the tranquility in seclusion. Sandrin had also noticed positively in the 1950s that practically no waste was produced and everything was recycled. Adrian and Björn perform a briefly staged play and parody the teachers.

Episode 16 - Finale

May 13th, 2006, last day at home economics boarding school. The relatives have come to pick up the girls. You will first be instructed by Mr. Henseling that the protagonists had lived for 6 weeks under the manners and customs of the 1950s. The dance and behavior teacher prepares a slow transition. The pupils first introduce their relatives to the principal and then serve them at lunch. Only then does the mask fall, the students take their relatives in their arms and show them the boarding school. At the farewell and awarding of certificates, three girls are given special honors: Elisabeth as the best of the year, Madeleine with the comradeship award and soccer fan Sandrin for special achievements with a three-week internship in the hotel of the Brazilian national soccer team at the 2006 World Cup . Afterwards, the graduates and the teachers get their clothes back and say goodbye to each other.

The background for the comradeship award was that the production management attached great importance to the social skills of the group of female students. A psychological specialist was already consulted during the selection process to assess the ability to work in a team . One of the qualities required in this production was being able to stand not being the center of attention. Madeleine had been elected by the girls in a secret ballot for this award at the end of school.

Elisabeth, who was a trainee as a publishing clerk in real life , was the best of her year and received the offer to work on a book about the television series as a co-author. The mentioned book about the bridal school came out in January 2007 at the same time as the broadcast and the DVD . The sole author of the book was Vivian Vrancken, whom Elisabeth Jüngst mentioned in the thanks for her kind support.

Bonus episode - Wild Waters

This 17th episode was not broadcast on television and was only compiled for DVD. A school excursion with a historical excursion bus to the Nahe is shown , around the last week of April. A canoe instructor, Mr. Quitsch, first shows the pupils how to use collapsible boats and then drives them down the Nahe for several hours. Meanwhile, caretaker Buchert and his two assistants are supposed to fish fish, but they don't catch anything until Mr. Burchert secretly drives to a nearby trout farm and buys 20 trout. The evening around the campfire ends harmoniously.

According to Vrancken, Mr. Burchert paid for the trout out of pocket in 2007.

Internet forums

Some protagonists took part in discussions in internet forums before and after the shooting, especially Julia Otten, Nadja Kayser, Elisabeth Jüngst and Björn Gamerschlag.

These forum posts are an exceptionally valuable resource for understanding the filming and for information that would otherwise not have been available to the public.

Broadcast dates and audience ratings

The series was broadcast from January 9, 2007 to February 14, 2007 and December 16, 2008 to January 22, 2009. 2.97 million viewers saw the first episode of the docu-soap (January 9, 2007). That corresponded to a market share of 11.3 percent. A market share of 13.8 percent was achieved among 50 to 64-year-old women, while the share among 14 to 49-year-olds was 8.9 percent, above the average (these figures were also mentioned in the star ). The last episode on February 15, 2007 saw 2.42 million viewers.

literature

The book for the series:

  • Vivian Vrancken: The Bride School 1958 - Ten young ladies experience their economic miracle. Hampp publishing house, Stuttgart. 2007. 144 pages. ISBN 3-936682-07-0 .

The DVD for the series:

  • The Bride School 1958 - Ten young women experience their economic miracle. , Lichtblick Film 2007, 2 × DVD 9, approx. 446 min, contains 17 episodes, interview with director Susanne Abel (13 min), diary camera (8 min) and 12 recipes as a PDF file for printing. ISBN 3-86635-077-5 .

credentials

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