The Wilsheimers

Television series
Original title	The Wilsheimers
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
year	1987
Episodes	6 in 1 season
genre	Family series
production	Hessian radio
First broadcast	March 9, 1987 on Das Erste
occupation
Hansjörg Felmy : Jean Ziegler Gila von Weitershausen : Lilo Ziegler Ulrike Stürzbecher : Anni Ziegler Axel Jörg : Andreas Ziegler Regine Lutz : Luise Ziegler Dieter Kirchlechner : Friedrich Erlemann Ulrike Bliefert : Betty Erlemann Tilman Madäus : Michael Erlemann Knut Hinz : Edmund Idstein Monica Bleibtreu : Anja Bokowski Iris Berben : Gudrun Idstein Franz Rudnick : Dr. Philip Sibylle Nicolai : local reporter Hans Weicker : Lute guest Lia Woehr : Juraj Kukura : Hammadi Abderamahne Claus Berlinghof : Ben Engel : Mostafa Fqihi : Johannes Grossmann : Jochen Nix : Margit Schulte-Tigges : Silvia Tietz : Georg Lehn : Claus Ringer :

Die Wilsheimer was a six-part television series directed by Claus Peter Witt from 1987, which played in the fictional town of Wilsheim and was also published in book form.

The film was shot in Frankfurt am Main in the Harheim district .

The screenplay was written by Horst Pillau , who is also responsible for the series Salto Mortale and Dalli Dalli as well as for individual pieces of the Ohnsorg Theater , in collaboration with Bernt Rhotert, who brought the incorporation of his village Harheim to Frankfurt as material into the script work and as a dramaturge produced the series for Hessischer Rundfunk .

In addition to Hansjörg Felmy in the main role of contractor Jean Ziegler , Gila von Weitershausen played his wife Lilo Ziegler . The series Die Wilsheimer describes the rise of the building contractor Jean Ziegler against all kinds of hostility, the development of the place Wilsheim and many cheerful and serious episodes from the life of its residents in six parts. The town of Wilsheim threatens to be incorporated into the TV series by the city of Frankfurt, which the residents want to prevent at all costs. The building contractor Ziegler sees many advantages, especially financial ones, and first and foremost he believes that he can get away with it himself.

Only for those familiar with the local conditions were clear parallels to actually existing people and events from Harheim to be recognized, which led to an additional entertainment value of the series.

Series episodes

(date of first performance in brackets)

1. A Village in Frankfurt (March 9, 1987)
2. Andy was in Dallas (March 16, 1987)
3. Who drills wins! (March 23, 1987)
4. Call from Marrakech (March 30, 1987)
5. When It's Most Beautiful (April 6, 1987)
6. Jean becomes a grandfather (April 13, 1987)

Others

• Director Claus Peter Witt has also worked for other well-known television series such as B. The incorrigible , these Drombuschs , Hotel Paradies and Schloßhotel Orth .

media

• Book: Die Wilsheimer , Langen - Mueller Verlag (July 1994), ISBN 3-7844-2151-2

Web links

• Die Wilsheimer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Location of the series