The Fussbroichs

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Television series
Original title The Fussbroichs: A working class family from Cologne
Country of production Germany
original language German , Rheinischer Regiolekt
Year (s) 1989-2001
length 30 minutes
Episodes 100
genre Documentary series
idea Ute Diehl
music Ennio Morricone (episode 1–12)
Andreas Schilling (from episode 13)
First broadcast February 13, 1990 on West 3
occupation
  • Fred (Friedrich) Fussbroich (born September 16, 1940)
  • Annem (ar) ie Fussbroich (* 1947)
  • Frank Fussbroich (born June 17, 1968)

The Fussbroichs is the title of a documentary film series about the Cologne working-class family Fred, Annemie and Frank Fussbroich, which was shot for WDR television from 1989 to 2001 . It is considered the first German TV documentary soap . The author, director and producer Ute Diehl was awarded the bronze Adolf Grimme Prize for the series in 1992 .

Background: A children's room in 1979

WDR director Ute Diehl was looking for a typical German working-class family for a planned documentary film in Cologne's comprehensive schools in order to portray the abundance of toys among the children of the time. She found the Fussbroichs, to which the socio-cultural conditions for the program Ein Kinderzimmer 1979 broadcast on August 19, 1979, applied . The television presented the children's room of the then eleven-year-old son Frank Fussbroich. The children's room was part of the 68 m² apartment of the three-person Fussbroich family, who have lived here since 1968.

Pilot 1989 and series 1990–2001

In 1989 Ute Diehl visited the family again, this time to document their everyday family life without rehearsals in front of the camera; initially in an 85-minute documentary (first broadcast: February 13, 1990). Here and from the broadcast of the first series on December 22, 1991, the Fussbroichs presented their everyday family life in an authentic way. Even during the shooting, the participants made no effort to hide their Cologne dialect . The development of a typical working class family in the cooperative tenement environment in the Cologne-Buchheim district on the right bank of the Rhine was shown .

The main contributors were father Fred, mother Annemie, son Frank and his girlfriend Pia (later Heike and then Claudia). The father was a foreman at the Cologne cable works Felten & Guilleaume , where his son worked as a fitter at the beginning of the series. Later, however, Frank changed jobs several times. Annemie was a secretary at the education authority of the city of Cologne. All the characters were real, as were the plot and dialogues. There were no scripts; the Fussbroichs had their lives filmed depending on the situation.

With 100 episodes of 30 minutes each in 17 seasons , the long-term development of the family on birthdays, retirement, job loss, vacation trips or illness could be followed in 10 years of shooting. The 99th episode ran as part of the 17th season in February 2002, followed by the last 100th episode at Christmas 2003, which was also from the 17th season. Since then there have been numerous repetitions, especially in the context of so-called Fussbroich Nights on WDR television, in which between three and nine episodes are broadcast in a row.

The Fussbroichs later

In 2004, Frank Fussbroich was a candidate for the fifth season of Big Brother , in November 2010 he was a participant in the program The Perfect Celebrity Dinner and in 2018 a participant in the RTL entertainment program Das Sommerhaus der Stars . He married his wife Elke in 2009. Frank was convicted of stolen goods and fraud , among other things .

Fred went into early retirement in 1997 (episode 66: The last shift ) and his wife Annemie Fussbroich worked for the Cologne city council until retirement.

At the beginning of 2012, five video clips produced for Ströer Out-of-Home Media , Die Fussbroichs explain the advertising, were published on YouTube . In March 2013 a 97-minute DVD with the title Die Fussbroichs heute about the current life of the family was released. In 2013, 2014 and 2016 the Fussbroichs released their own DVDs.

media

  • Die Fussbroichs: A Children's Room 1979 - Documentary D 1979.
  • The Fussbroichs: A Cologne Working Family - Documentary D 1989 (pilot film for the series)
  • The Fussbroichs: A Cologne Working Family - Documentary Series D 1990–2001
  • The Fussbroichs 2013 - Documentary Series D 2013.
  • The Fussbroichs 2014 - Documentary Series D 2014.
  • The Fussbroichs 2016 - Documentary Series D 2016.

DVDs

  • The Fussbroichs - A Cologne Workers Family - Documentation 1989.
  • Die Fussbroichs - 1st season (episodes 1–22 on 5 DVDs)
  • Die Fussbroichs - Season 2 (episodes 23–45 on 5 DVDs)
  • Die Fussbroichs - 3rd season (episodes 46-71 on 5 DVDs)
  • Die Fussbroichs - Season 4 (episodes 72-100 on 5 DVDs)
  • The Fussbroich saga in 13 chapters 1979-2004 (compilation, 1 DVD)
  • Die Fussbroichs 2013 new episodes (episodes 1–5 + bonus material on 2 DVDs) Produced by EFFA, director: Elke Fussbroich, camera / editor: André Graffe
  • Die Fussbroichs 2014 new episodes (episodes 1–6 + 2 bonus episodes + bonus material on 2 DVDs) Produced by EFFA, director: Elke Fussbroich, camera / editor: André Graffe
  • Die Fussbroichs 2016 new episodes (episodes 1–10 + bonus material on 2 DVDs)

Produced by EFFA, director: Frank Fussbroich, camera / editor: Alex Stöve

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Childhood Memories from the movie Once Upon a Time in America
  2. ↑ imdb.com
  3. ↑ ARD Information ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / programm.ard.de
  4. ↑ fernsehserien.de
  5. ↑ "Key date" in WDR 2 on August 19, 2009
  6. ↑ How to lure riot kids into the TV trap Berliner Morgenpost
  7. ^ "Summer house of the stars": Frank Fussbroich - He has to admit guilty to these crimes TV Movie
  8. ↑ express.de
  9. ↑ express.de

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