Doctor's Diary
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Doctor's Diary - Men are the best medicine |
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| Country of production |
Germany , Austria |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | 2008-2011 |
| Production company |
Polyphonic film and television company |
| length | 45 minutes |
| Episodes | 24 in 3 seasons ( list ) |
| genre | Comedy , hospital series |
| Theme music | Bitter: Sweet - Dirty Laundry |
| idea | Bora Dagtkin |
| production |
Steffi Ackermann , Beatrice Kramm , Andrea Artner , Ulrike Leibfried |
| music |
Beaver Gullatz Andreas Schäfer |
| First broadcast | June 23, 2008 on RTL |
| occupation | |
Doctor's Diary is a German - Austrian doctor series that was produced from 2007 to 2010 by RTL in coproduction with ORF . The focus of the series is the young doctor Margarete "Gretchen" Haase, who wants to make a career in her father's hospital.
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First season
After catching her fiancé Peter cheating a week before her wedding, a world collapses for Gretchen Haase.
She returns to Berlin in her parents' house. Her father, Prof. Franz Haase, made her the offer to apply for an assistant doctor position in surgery in his hospital . She accepts the offer. In the hospital she meets Dr. Marc Meier, the senior surgeon in charge. Marc Meier is her old childhood sweetheart and the curse of her childhood in one person. He didn’t miss a minute during her school days to make life difficult for her, and yet Gretchen was hopelessly in love with him by the time she finished school. Even when they meet again, he promptly makes fun of their greatest weak point, their alleged excess weight.
When she then learns from her father that he would be her boss if she accepted the assistant position, her plan is shaken for the first time, because Gretchen does not want to deal with Marc Meier under any circumstances. Ultimately, however, she decides to take up the position, which is not least due to the encouragement from Dr. Mehdi Kaan lies. Dr. In contrast to Marc, Kaan, the senior gynecologist in charge , is very sensitive. This tempts Gretchen to invite him to have a coffee on her first day at work, which he categorically refuses.
Sister Gabi, who is having an affair with Marc, which she would like to turn into a relationship, tries to mark out her territory. But that doesn't help her much, because Gretchen and Marc, who is always very sarcastic and macho towards her, get closer. Eventually there is a kiss. While the senior doctor only wants a casual affair, Gretchen is not the type and finally has to confess that she cannot and does not want to separate sex and love. So the relationship between the two seems to have broken down before anything has happened. Shortly afterwards, Gretchen caught Marc and Gabi in an unambiguous situation that was staged by Gabi and is suddenly happy that she didn't do anything with Marc, because in their eyes he will forever remain an incapable macho.
Up until then, Gretchen had tried to ignore any signs that Dr. Kaan might have feelings for her. But suddenly something develops between the two and she seems to have forgotten Marc. The fact that he has a daughter and his wife is in a coma is initially difficult for Gretchen, but she accepts it.
While Gretchen is more or less happy with Mehdi, Gabi sees all the skins floating away in the relationship with Marc. And so she tries to tie him to her with a baby. Dr. However, Meier makes it clear to her that he doesn't want a child with her. They agree to abort the child . On the drive to the abortion clinic, the two argue and it becomes clear that Gabi is not as sure about an abortion as Marc. They don't pay attention to the road and Marc hits a cyclist. You take the man to the clinic and he has an operation, his chances of survival are good.
Mehdi's wife Anna wakes up from her coma and Mehdi learns that she is paraplegic . He feels obliged to take care of her. Gretchen gives him a choice and Mehdi chooses Anna, even though he loves Gretchen.
When Gretchen collapses a short time later and can call Marc at the last second, Marc saves her life and kisses her again. The two chat and it becomes clear that they have deeper feelings for each other and really want to try this time. Gretchen is overjoyed. What neither of them know at this point is that Gabi has noticed everything. Shortly before, she let the victim die because he had sworn to sue her, and so she develops a perfidious plan. She tells Marc about the death of the accident victim and blackmails him by proposing to her.
Although Marc tried to prevent it, Gretchen also appears in the cafeteria for this marriage proposal and has to watch her great love propose to someone else, although it was only a few hours before after a happy ending for her and had looked him.
At the end of the last episode of the first season, Gretchen decides to finally close with Marc and rush back to life.
Second season
In the second season, Gretchen meets the millionaire Alexis von Buren, who is later treated by her for a brain tumor .
Gretchen's mother Bärbel Haase had an affair while on vacation. During a visit, her lover sneaks the fortune that should be the old-age provision of Gretchen's parents. She resumes working as a nurse after 35 years. In her service she realizes that the doctor Dr. Knechtelsdorfer secretly planted hemp in the basement of the hospital to produce cannabis as an intoxicant . Bärbel spontaneously decides to help with the cultivation.
Anna Kaan, who worked as a prostitute in the past , overcomes her paralysis and leaves town with her daughter because she still owes her pimp money. The pimp and his people visit Dr. Kaan and make it clear to him that he has to pay for his wife's debts. When Dr. But Kaan refuses to pay Anna's debts, he is shadowed by the pimp's men.
Gretchen continues to try to find out what Sister Gabi Dr. Marc Meier blackmailed by breaking into their shared apartment to get to the bottom of the matter. She is discovered by Marc and the two get closer in the shower. Sister Gabi finds out and carries out her threat to go to the police. But Gretchen manages to make Gabi implausible to the police. Sister Gabi gives up and pulls in with Dr. Meier - for which this Gretchen is very grateful.
Meanwhile, Gretchen falls in love with Alexis, whom she married drunk in Las Vegas in the run-up to her thirtieth birthday . After individual misunderstandings, they plan to marry in church.
A paternity test shows that not Marc, as assumed, but the junkyard owner Kalle is the father of Gabi's child. She loses the child after an accident in the junkyard and blames Gretchen for always being lucky and Gabi herself just unlucky. However, Gabi finds out that Alexis von Buren is not who he claims to be. It turns out that the alleged millionaire is a man named Frank who is hiding a body in his house.
While Gretchen and Alexis are planning their wedding, Marc finds out that he still has feelings for Gretchen. Both he and Mehdi try to propose marriage to Gretchen, but Gretchen has apparently already made up her mind and is fighting off the impulsive proposals of the two.
Gretchen's friend Gina Amsel comes to the wedding from London. To make Gretchen jealous, Marc plans to sleep with Gina on the hen party. But it doesn't come to that; Marc leaves the half-naked Gina standing, because he simply “doesn't feel like it anymore”. Instead, he kisses Gretchen a little later, whom Marc rejects, confused. Marc finally wants to tell Gretchen that he loves her the next day in the hospital. Gina manages to prevent this by anticipating him and explaining to Gretchen that she slept with Marc. Even if Gretchen is deeply hurt, Gina, who wants to protect her friend's happiness, saves Alexis and Gretchen's wedding with her unselfish lie.
During the church wedding, a contagious tropical virus breaks out in the hospital, which a pregnant patient Dr. Brought in Kaans from Africa; some people collapse with bleeding noses. Gretchen's father also has a nosebleed at the wedding party. Shortly afterwards the doctor beeps from various guests sound the alarm.
Third season
The third season immediately follows the end of the second season. All wedding guests as well as the hospital residents must remain in quarantine in the hospital . So Gretchen and Alexis have to spend their wedding night in a room with the medical profession.
During that night Gabi blackmailed Frank with the fact that she knew of his false identity and asked for money. Frank explains that he and Lissi happened to come to the villa some time ago and found Alexis von Buren hung up in the villa. Alexis (Frank) walled him up and assumed his identity so that he could start a new life. The requested money, which Alexis (Frank) deposited for Gabi in the dumpster in front of his house, is found by chance by Bärbel and unexpectedly solves her money problems.
Days later, with the help of Sister Gabi and Sister Sabine, Gretchen succeeds in locating the Virion's host and producing an antiserum to end the epidemic .
The mother of the real Alexis, Mechthild von Buren, immediately realizes that Alexis is not her real son and threatens him to make the truth public if he shouldn't sleep with her. Since Gretchen is very worried about Marc, she decides to check on Marc despite the planned wedding night. However, when she meets him with another woman, she runs away angrily. During a discussion between the two of them, Marc fell ill with the pandemic disease and had to be treated in the hospital.
Mechthild von Buren dies that same night in an accident with a radio in the bathtub. Later in the evening Gabi witnesses his attempt to get the body out of the villa and helps Frank to get rid of it for a further payment.
While still in the hospital, Gretchen meets her friend Gina, who confesses that she has not slept with Marc and is convinced that he is the right person.
After a few days, the police appear in front of the villa and try to arrest Alexis. After turbulence, he flees, but tries repeatedly to make contact with Gretchen. As part of a police operation, Gretchen uses Marc as bait, which doesn't seem to work. Marc kisses Gretchen and confesses his feelings to her. Alexis then attacks Marc, but is able to flee again. Marc is shot by a policewoman.
In the basement of a student union, human experiments with brain implants are carried out. Gretchen solves the case and is kidnapped, but saved by Marc.
In the last episode, Gretchen learns that Marc was abused by his father as a child, but gives up further attempts to approach him. She decides to accept a patient's offer and travel to Africa alone. At the last moment, Marc admits that he doesn't want to give up and follows her to the airport. It comes to a happy ending.
Character descriptions
Sorted by the number of scenes.
main characters
Gretchen Haase
S01E01-S03E08
Margarete "Gretchen" Haase is the main character and 29 years old at the beginning of the series. After a disappointment in love, she is facing a new phase of life. Gretchen is the protagonist in the series and the only character with a voiceover . Although she is very insecure at the beginning, she gains more and more confidence through her job. What still frustrates her is her figure. Although they always describe everyone as "not ambitious", she sometimes proves the opposite, for example when she successfully regains her sports badge, which she did not achieve earlier, which makes her very proud. She has been unhappily in love with Marc Meier since school. Both tease each other and had a short relationship, which then failed due to an intrigue by Gabi. At the end of the second season she marries the alleged millionaire Alexis von Buren, but the marriage is invalid due to the false identity. Gretchen finally meets Marc when he realizes shortly before leaving for Africa that he is in love with her.
Marc Olivier Meier
S01E01-S03E08
Dr. Meier is senior surgeon at the hospital and is Gretchen's boss; he sees a great future ahead of him. At 32, Marc is the hospital's youngest senior physician. Gretchen's father treats him like his own son, seeing him as a talented doctor. Although he is very experienced in his job, Marc is an extremely insensitive person when it comes to dealing with other people. Gretchen and Marc have known each other since primary school. Marc was her great love for Gretchen. However, he bullied Gretchen. Marc suffered from domestic violence in his childhood. He kept this a secret for a long time. When Gretchen starts working in the hospital, she falls in love with him again. At the beginning of the series, Marc has an affair with his sister Gabi who, at the end of the first season, blackmailed him into proposing marriage to her, although he now feels drawn to Gretchen. Gretchen saves him from having to marry Gabi. At the end of the second season, he finally admits that he is in love with Gretchen. He gets together with Gretchen in the last episode of the third season because he prevents her from leaving for Africa because he finally admits his feelings for her and loves her.
Mehdi Kaan
S01E01-S03E08
Dr. Kaan is the hospital's senior gynecologist. At the beginning he is a single father of one daughter because his wife has fallen into a coma . Since a suicide attempt caused by this tragic situation, his daughter has mainly been in the care of his worried parents. He ends his friendship with Marc after he learns that Marc was having an affair with his wife. During the first season he falls in love with Gretchen. However, when his wife wakes up from the coma, he decides against Gretchen and for his family. In the second season, it turns out that his wife was a prostitute. She did not have an affair with Marc Meier, but he knew about her past. Under these circumstances, Mehdi was able to build up a friendly base with Marc again. Since his wife owes her pimp money, she leaves town with her daughter. Before that, she tells Mehdi that he is not the father. Then he tries again for Gretchen. After a long time there is a one-night stand under the influence of alcohol. At the end of the third season, Mehdi approaches Gina.
Sabine Vögler
S01E01-S03E08
Sabine Vögler works as a nurse in surgery. In the third season, Sabine is 31 years old. Sister Sabine is usually only laughed at by her colleagues and seems very strange to others. She is still a virgin, extremely shy and a little prude. Sabine loves reading the dime novels by Marc's mother Elke Fisher. She lives with her dominant mother, who doesn't want Sabine to move out so that Sabine can only take care of her. Sabine suffers a lot from it. In the third season, Sabine falls in love with the pathologist Dr. Günni Gummersbach, but due to many misunderstandings and the shyness of the two, they do not find each other at first despite the mutual affection. Finally she manages to break away from her mother and moves in with Günni and experiences her first sex with him.
Gabi Kragenow
S01E01-S03E08
Gabi is a nurse in gynecology and is the typical antagonist in the series. Sister Gabi is madly in love with Marc Meier. But he sees nothing more in her than an affair. In order to win Marc over, she takes drastic measures. She sees Gretchen as a competitor. In the second season she blackmailed Marc with an accident and also uses her unborn baby as leverage. It later emerges that it is not Marc but the junkyard owner Kalle who is the father of the child. Gabi is seriously injured after an accident in his junkyard and the child cannot be saved. After Marc, she blackmailed Alexis von Buren with € 250,000 because she knew of his false identity. Alexis finally steals the money from her on his escape.
Bärbel Haase
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S01E01-S03E08
Bärbel Haase is Gretchen's mother and Franz's wife. She is a housewife and nurse and only wants the best to keep her family together. Franz is a notorious stranger. In order not to endanger the marriage, she bribes her husband's affairs so that they turn away from him. When Franz finally enters into a relationship with Marc's mother, she separates from her husband because of his repeated infidelity, but returns to him after a trip to India. In the meantime, she herself had an affair with an artist who robbed her and her husband of their retirement savings. To make up for the loss, she begins to work as a nurse, but earns additional income by gardening in a cannabis plantation within the hospital. By finding a suitcase intended for Gabi, she can settle the account. Shortly afterwards, however, Franz learns of Barbel's affair through Gretchen and separates from her.
Frank Muffke alias Alexis von Buren
S02E01-S03E04
Alexis von Buren initially appears as a millionaire with an alcohol problem who lives in a large villa with his sister Lissi. His relationship with Gretchen initially fluctuates between affection and rejection. Gretchen and Alexis have a lot of contact through numerous hospital stays. After much confusion, they become a couple and get married. However, it turns out that he is a con man, actually called Frank Muffke, and that he is hiding a corpse in his villa. However, only Mechthild, the mother of the real Alexis von Buren and, by chance, sister Gabi too, find out about this double life . In return for her silence, Mechthild wants tenderness from Alexis. Shortly thereafter, Alexis accidentally electrocutes her. The police finally find out about him and his marriage to Gretchen is annulled. Since then, Frank has been on the run from the authorities.
Franz Haase
S01E01-S03E08
Franz Haase is the hospital's chief physician and Gretchen's father. For his rather advanced age, he seems very sporty and body-conscious. He is also very self-sacrificing for his family. Franz still has several passionate affairs, one of which he has with the dime novel author Elke Fisher, who - as it turns out - is Marc Meier's mother. After separating from Bärbel, he was with Elke for a short time, but she quickly dumped him. At the beginning of the second season, he gets back together with his wife. At the end of the second season he collapses because of a tropical virus during Gretchen's wedding. A short time later he is healed by his daughter Gretchen. Ever since he found out his wife was having an affair, he has been separated from her, despite the fact that he himself used to be a notorious cheat.
Maria Hassmann
S01E04-S03E08
Dr. Hassmann is a senior physician in neurosurgery and initially gets on well with Gretchen. Miss Dr. Hassmann is divorced and has a daughter (Melanie). She is not very satisfied with her life, but she does not want to show anything. Gretchen admires her because she sees Hassmann as very mature and emancipated. When Dr. Kaan goes to the doctors ball with her, Gretchen becomes jealous. But she soon forgot about him and is still looking for a rich bachelor. Eventually she approaches Maurice Knechtelsdorfer and begins a relationship with him.
Maurice Knechtelsdorfer
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S02E01-S03E08
Maurice Knechtelsdorfer is of Austrian origin and an assistant doctor. He appears from the first episode of the second season. Maurice has a strong bond with his sister Mitzi. Knechtelsdorfer is a member of a student union. He initially competes heavily with Gretchen, as he and she are the only interns in surgery, and often fights by unfair means. At the end of the series, he begins a relationship with the neurosurgeon Maria Hassmann, who is seven years his senior.
Günni Gummersbach
S03E01-S03E08
Dr. Gummersbach is the hospital's new pathologist. Günni is a big Star Trek fan. He feels drawn to Sister Sabine from the start, but is initially too shy to admit his feelings to her. After several misunderstandings, they finally come together.
Minor characters (at least three episodes)
Elke Fisher
S01E03 – S03E03
Elke Fisher is the selfish mother of Marc Olivier Meier. Elke is considered to be very dominant and tries to keep fit by all means, such as gym or yoga. Elke is an author by profession and writes dime novels about her character Doctor Rogelt , which according to her own statements is based on Franz Haase, but later reminds her more of her ex-husband, which was the reason for her, Dr. Let Rogelt die. Franz was Elke's affair. When Franz separated from his wife and moved in with Elke, he fell ill and had to be looked after by her. That's why she kicked him out. Elke has a great dislike of sister Gabi, who was initially supposed to be her daughter-in-law.
Gordon Tolkien
S01E04-S03E07
Gordon Tolkien is the hospital paramedic. He first appeared when he was teaching doctors a medical course. Since then he has appeared again and again when paramedics are needed. He always has a casual saying on his lips and openly shows his affection for Gretchen. He had a bigger storyline when it was discovered that he and Dr. Knechtelsdorfer grew hemp in the hospital cellar. As a result of a trip, Gordon stuck a missile in his anus and had to be operated on.
Jochen Haase
S01E01 – S02E03
Jochen Haase is the brother of Gretchen and thus the son of Bärbel and Franz. He completed an internship in the hospital and also wants to become a doctor. He had previously dropped out of law school. Jochen doesn't get along very well with his sister, they get annoyed all the time. At the beginning of the second season, Jochen begins studying and no longer appears.
Gina Amsel
S02E08-S03E08
Gina "Gigi" Amsel is Gretchen's childhood friend. She is a senior doctor in surgery, but always poses as a pediatrician in front of men. Their appearance is not very positive due to their horn-rimmed glasses and clothing. Gina comes to visit Gretchen for her wedding to Alexis and falls in love with Marc just like her friend. The two of them almost had sex on their bachelorette party. Gina appears again in the season finale. On the plane she falls in love with Mehdi.
Lissi from Buren
S02E01 – S03E02
Lissi von Buren's real last name is Muffke and she initially worked with her brother as an insurance agent. When they find Alexis von Buren in a villa, who has committed suicide, Lissi and her brother assume the identity of the von Buren family. Since then, Lissi has lived in luxury and appears very arrogant to others. Lissi does not have a good relationship with her sister-in-law Gretchen. When she sees her brother with the dead Mechthild, she believes that he killed her and moves away. Shortly afterwards, her brother is arrested. Since then, nothing has been known of Lissi's whereabouts.
Mechthild von Buren
S02E08-S03E03
Mechthild von Buren is the mother of the real Alexis von Buren. She lives in a retirement home and plays her blindness so that she doesn't have to attend game nights. Mechthild looks very harsh and cold. Gretchen seeks her out because she wants Alexis to make up with his mother, but doesn't know that Alexis is not the real Alexis. Mechthild plays that she has Alexis in front of her. A little later, however, she reveals to him that she is not blind and that she knows about his double life. Since she hated her son and wanted to kill himself once, she doesn't mind. She asks Frank to have sex so she can keep the secret. A little later, however, she is electrocuted by a radio which Frank accidentally falls into her bathtub, smuggled into the pathology department by Sister Gabi and then disappears as a corpse in an anatomy course.
Lilly Kaan
S01E03 – S02E03
Lilly is eight years old and lives alone with her father Medhi because her mother is in a coma. The family is supported by Lilly's grandparents. Finally her mother wakes up, thanks to Lilly. It turns out that Lilly is not Medhi's biological child, and she and her mother flee from Berlin's former pimp.
Brad Holister
S01E05 – S03E06
Brad Holister is a fitness trainer and trained Elke, Bärbel and Gretchen. He is very sporty and gay. In the third season he comes to the hospital with kidney stones and has to be treated there.
Mrs. Nettelsbacher
S02E02-S02E08
Ms. Nettelsbacher is Alexis' personal assistant. She always appears in a good mood and friendly. Even Alexis' gruff manner doesn't let her get her down, she works overtime all the time. At Alexis' wedding, she became his maid of honor. She is happy about the wedding with Gretchen.
Anna Kaan
S01E05 – S02E03
Anna is the wife of Mehdi. She led a double life and worked as a prostitute. This brought about her daughter Lilly, whom she passed off as Medhi's daughter. Anna had enormous debts to her suitors, however. She was in a coma for 14 months in a car accident. When she woke up and realized that she could no longer cope with the debt, she revealed herself to Mehdi and fled Berlin with her daughter.
Peggy
S03E01-S03E05
Peggy is admitted to the hospital and is delusional. It turns out that Peggy is a street kid and was abused for research with computer chips and radiation. She is saved by Gretchen.
Mrs. Vögler
S03E06-S03E08
Mrs. Vögler is the mother of sister Sabine and lives with her. She is extremely dominant and - for fear of being alone - wants to prevent Sabine from ever moving out because she wants to be looked after by her daughter when she is old. Sabine suffers from the tyrannical machinations of her mother and in the season finale finally has the strength to speak to her and to free herself from her.
Sophie
S02E01-S02E03
Sophie is a prostitute and former work colleague of Anna Kaan who owes her money. It is curious that Sophie's brother Jürgen works as a pastor. Sophie has a son. Anna finally attacks her with a knife during a visit and Sophie comes to the hospital.
Eric
S02E01-S02E03
Eric is Bärbel's affair she met in India. He is madly in love with the older Bärbel. When she separates from him, he steals the key to the locker for the pension from Bärbel and Franz.
Sister Ingeborg
S02E05-S03E03
Ingeborg is a nurse and lives in the nursing home. She keeps appearing in her job, but has no narrative thread of its own. In the second season finale, she is infected with the tropical virus and is in mortal danger, but will ultimately survive.
Jurgen
S02E01-S02E03
Jürgen is a pastor and prepares the wedding of Gabi and Marc. His sister Sophie works as a prostitute.
Figures in the individual episodes
Episode bar for all characters from three episodes.
In double episodes (9/10), (17/18), the actors in the first 45 minutes are counted in the first episode and the actors who appear after that in the second episode.
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14th | 15th | 16 | 17th | 18th | 19th | 20th | 21st | 22nd | 23 | 24 |
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| Prof. Dr. Franz Haase | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sabine Vögler | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bärbel Haase | bra | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gabi Kragenow | Gabi Kragenow | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gretchen (young) | Gretchen (young) | Gretchen | Gretchen (j.) | Gretchen (young) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Marc (young) | Marc (young) | Marc | Marc | Marc (young) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Jochen Haase | Jochen Haase | J. | Jochen Haase | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Elke Fisher | Elke Fisher | Elke | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Lilly | Lilly Kaan | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dr. Maria Hassmann | MH | MH | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Gordon T. | Gordon | Gordon Tolkien | Gordon Tolkien | Gordon | |||||||||||||||||||
| Brad Holister | Brad Holister | Brad Holister | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Anna | Anna Kaan | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dr. Maurice Knechtelsdorfer | MK | Knechtelsdorfer | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Alexis von Buhren | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lissi v. Booing | Lissi v. Booing | Lissi von Buhren | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Eric | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sophie | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Mrs. Nettelsb. | Mrs. Nettelsb. | Mrs. Nettelsbacher | |||||||||||||||||||||
| I. | Sister Ingeborg | I. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dr. Gina Amsel | GA | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dr. Günni Gummersbach | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Peggy | Peggy | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mrs. Vögler | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14th | 15th | 16 | 17th | 18th | 19th | 20th | 21st | 22nd | 23 | 24 |
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occupation
listed from two episodes
| actor | role | Main role | Supporting role | Remarks |
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| Diana Amft | Dr. Margarete "Gretchen" Haase | 1.01-3.08 |
Assistant doctor in surgery, daughter of Bärbel and Franz Haase, sister of Jochen, supposed wife of Alexis von Buren, ex-fiancee of Peter, friend of Marc and ex-girlfriend of Mehdi |
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| Florian David Fitz | Dr. Marc Olivier Meier | 1.01-3.08 |
Senior surgeon son of Elke Fisher. Gabi's ex-fiance, Gretchen's friend |
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| Kai Schumann | Dr. Mehdi Kaan | 1.01-3.08 |
Senior doctor in gynecology Ex-boyfriend of Gretchen, ex-husband of Anna |
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| Peter Prager | Professor Dr. Franz Haase | 1.01-3.08 |
Head physician, husband of Bärbel, father of Gretchen and Jochen, Elke's ex-affair |
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| Laura Osswald | Gabi Kragenow | 1.01-2.08 | 3.01-3.08 |
Nurse in Gynecology Sister of Tina, ex-fiancée of Marc, One-Night-Stand of Kalle |
| Ursela Monn | Bärbel Haase born wolf | 1.01-3.08 |
Oncology nurse Franz's wife, Gretchen's and Jochen's mother, Eric's ex-girlfriend |
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| Julia Koschitz | Dr. Maria Hassmann | 1.04-3.08 |
Senior physician in neurosurgery, friend of Maurice Knechtelsdorfer |
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| Elyas M'Barek | Dr. Maurice Knechtelsdorfer | 2.01-2.08 | 3.01-3.08 |
Assistant doctor in surgery and oncology, friend of Maria Hassmann |
| Steffen Groth | Frank Muffke alias Alexis von Buren | 2.01-3.04 |
Fraudulent brother of Lissi, supposed husband of Gretchen, flees from the police |
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| Annette Strasser | Sabine Vögler | 3.01-3.08 | 1.01-2.08 |
Nurse in surgery, friend of Günni |
| Marc Benjamin Puch | Dr. Günni Gummersbach | 3.01-3.08 |
Pathologist friend of Sabine |
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| Zsá Zsá Inci Bürkle | Margarete "Gretchen" Haase | 1.01-3.08 | Gretchen in childhood memories | |
| Antoine Brison | Marc Meier | 1.01-2.08 | Marc in childhood memories | |
| Lucas Reiber | 3.03-3.08 | |||
| Fabian Oscar Vienna | Jochen Haase | 1.01-2.03 |
Trainee in the hospital son of Bärbel and Franz Haase, brother of Gretchen; leaves Berlin to study medicine |
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| Chantal Hourticolon | Lilly Kaan | 1.03-2.02 | Foster daughter of Mehdi Kaan, daughter of Anna Kaan; flees with her mother | |
| Adele Neuhauser | Elke Fisher | 1.03-2.01, 2.06-2.07, 3.03 |
Author mother of Marc Meier, ex-affair of Franz |
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| Bo Hansen | Gordon Tolkien | 1.04-3.07 | Ambulance driver | |
| Hannah Schröder | Anna Kaan | 1.05-2.02 |
Prostitute ex-wife of Mehdi Kaan, mother of Lilly Kaan; flees Berlin with Lilly |
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| Dominic Boeer | Brad Holister | 1.05, 3.03, 3.06 | Fitness trainer | |
| Paula Schramm | Lissi von Buren, actually Muffke | 2.01-3.02 | Sister of Frank; submerges | |
| Roberto Guerra | Eric | 2.01-2.03 | Bärbel's ex-affair; leaves the country with Barbel's money | |
| Bärbel Schleker | Mrs. Nettelsbacher | 2.02-2.08 |
Alexis's secretary played a bookseller in episode 4 |
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| Nina Vorbrodt | Stefanie Brinkmann | 2.04-2.05 | Head nurse | |
| Cristina do Rego | Sister Ingeborg | 2.05-3.03 | Nurse in the maternity ward | |
| Valerie Niehaus | Dr. Gina "Gigi" Blackbird | 2.08-3.03, 3.08 |
Doctor 's best friend Gretchen |
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| Ingrid van Bergen | Mechthild von Buren | 2.08-3.03 | Mother of the real Alexis; dies from accidentally electrocuted by Frank | |
| Maria Ehrich | Peggy | 3.01-3.05 | Street kid who was used for human experimentation | |
| Irm Hermann | Mrs. Vögler | 3.06-3.08 | Mother of Sabine | |
| Christian Näthe | Fritz | 3.07-3.08 | Jungle doctor |
Prominent guest actors
| actor | role | consequences | Other / reason |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nora Tschirner | Mitzi Knechtelsdorfer | 3.01-3.02 | Sister of Maurice Knechtelsdorfer |
| Maxi Biewer | Maxi Biewer | 3.01 | Weather fairy from RTL |
| Angela Finger heirs | Angela Finger heirs | 3.01 | RTL presenter |
| Günther Jauch | Günther Jauch | 3.05 | WWM moderator |
Parallels to Turkish for beginners
Doctor's Diary contains many parallels and allusions to Turkish for Beginners , a series in the First , also from Bora Drachtkin's pen. There are allusions as follows between the two series: In the series finale of Turkish for Beginners, Doris seeks a gynecologist. This is embodied by Kai Schumann , who also plays a gynecologist in Doctor's Diary. In the doctor series, however, Anna Stieblich plays a patient of the same gynecologist, who has to sound like in the series that she cannot have children. Although not too obvious, this was an indirect allusion, which was also confirmed by Dierterkin in the audio commentary. Another allusion is shown when Gretchen from Doctor's Diary thinks back to her past and meets her teacher Mrs. Schneider, played by Katharina Kaali . Kaali plays the role of Diana Schneider, teacher in Turkish for Beginners.
In addition, an extraordinary number of actors had roles in both series: in alphabetical order
| actor | Turkish for Beginners | Doctor's Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Anna Stieblich | Leading role as Doris Schneider | Episode role as a patient |
| Annette Strasser |
Supporting role as geriatric nurse Susanne supporting role as stewardess (movie) |
Main role as sister Sabine |
| Arnel Taci | Leading role as Costa | Supporting role as junkyard owner Kalle |
| Bärbel Schleker | Supporting role as Jette Zink |
Supporting role as Mrs Nettelsbacher, episode role as a bookseller |
| Cristina do Rego | Leading role as Katharina Kuhn | Supporting role as sister Ingeborg |
| Elyas M'Barek | Leading role as Cem Öztürk | Leading role as doctor Dr. Maurice Knechtelsdorfer |
| Frederick Lau | Supporting role as Frieder (movie) | Episode role as Jonas |
| Josefine Preuss | Leading role as Lena Schneider | Episode role as a family member of a patient |
| Kai Schumann | Episodic role as a gynecologist | Leading role as gynecologist Dr. Mehdi Kaan |
| Catherine Kaali | Main role as teacher Diana Schneider | Episode role as a teacher Mrs. Schneider |
| Laura Osswald |
Cameo as herself supporting role as turnkey (movie) |
Main role as sister Gabi |
| Marc Ben Puch | Supporting role as legal clerk (movie) | Leading role as Dr. Günni Gummersbach |
| Pegah Ferydoni | Leading role as Yagmur Öztürk | Episode role as a drug addict patient |
| Sonja Gerhardt | Supporting role as Cleo (movie) | Small role as a student |
| Ursela Monn | Episode role as undertaker | Leading role as Bärbel Haase |
| Us Conradi | Supporting role as Esther Rosenstein | Episode role as a patient |
Production and broadcast
The series was produced by the Polyphon company on behalf of RTL and ORF . The film was shot between August and December 2007 on 55 original locations in Berlin. In the first two seasons, around 90 bars of chocolate and 400 mouthguards were used for the series, according toquotemeter.de . Oliver Schmitz ( poor millionaires , Turkish for beginners , Paris, je t'aime ), Christian Ditter ( French for beginners , Turkish for beginners , school girls ) and Sophie Allet-Coche ( Angie , Mein Leben & Ich ) acted as directors . The scripts are by Grimme Prize winner and lead author Bora Drachtkin, Vivian Hoppe and Silke Steiner.
While RTL first broadcast the hospital series on June 23, 2008, ORF showed the series on June 24, 2008 and ended it after four weeks due to the double episode broadcast. Instead, RTL opted for the option of showing the program for seven weeks. The original plan was to air the series in the fall of 2008.
The series was renewed for two more seasons on August 5, 2008. The second season started on August 3, 2009 simultaneously on ORF 1 and RTL. On average, the second season came to 17 percent in the advertising-relevant target group compared to 16.4 percent in the first season. The order for new scripts for the third season was placed in September 2009. At the end of April 2010, filming began on the third season, which has been broadcast on ORF eins on Mondays and on RTL on Wednesdays since January 5, 2011 after the first episode that was broadcast together .
The broadcast ended on February 14th in Austria and on February 16th in Germany. In Switzerland, the station SF two broadcast the first season from November 29, 2010 to January 4, 2011. In October 2011 the discontinuation of the series was announced due to time problems of the cast and crew, as all those involved are currently involved in other projects.
Director
| Director | consequences |
|---|---|
| Oliver Schmitz | 1, 4-6 |
| Christian Ditter | 2-3 |
| Sophie Allet-Coche | 7-8, 13-20 |
| Holger Haase | 9 |
| Franziska Meyer Price | 10-12, 21-24 |
Episodes
reception
criticism
The first reactions in the media were mixed. While the Austrian daily Der Standard as the series with the most successful German films of the past one, the online magazine looks Quotenmeter.de in the dialogues a frantic attempt to reach slapstick. While the online magazine draws parallels to Grey's Anatomy , Der Standard sees no direct similarities with the supposed US model.
Awards / nominations
Awards
- 2008
- German television award in the Best Series category
- German Comedy Award in the Best Comedy Series category
- 2009
- Adolf Grimme Prize in the entertainment category
- Bavarian television award in the series and series
- Bavarian TV Award in the Best Book category
- Bavarian TV Award in the Best Actress category
- German Comedy Award in the Best Comedy Series category
Nominations
- 2008
- German Television Award 2008 in the category Best Actor Leading role : Florian David Fitz
- 2011
- German Comedy Award in the Best Comedy Series category
- German Television Award 2011 in the Best Series category
Trivia
- In Germany, the song Dirty Laundry by the US trip-hop duo Bitter: Sweet from the album The Mating Game is used as the theme song .
- In the casting show Mission Hollywood , also produced by RTL , Friederike Lohrer won a guest appearance in Doctor's Diary.
- The RTL presenters Maxi Biewer , Angela Finger-Erben and Wolfram Kons had a guest appearance on January 5, 2011 in the pilot episode of the third season. They played themselves in the original setting at point 9 .
- In episode 21 in the third season, Marc Meier dreamed of being in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? to play as a candidate. The original backdrop of the studio was used and the presenter Günther Jauch embodied himself there.
- In episode 23, Melanie Hassmann mentions that Maurice Knechtelsdorfer looks like Bushido . This is an allusion to the fact that the Knechtelsdorfer actor Elyas M'Barek Bushido embodied you in the film Changing Times .
- In the 24th episode, the series finale, there is an allusion to the British series Little Britain and the character Carol Beer contained there. Marc Meier tries to get a ticket for Gretchen's flight, but only gets a bored look and an emotionless "Computer says no." Followed by the typical little cough.
- Also in the last episode 24 is called at Bora Drachtkin airport. He is the lead author and creator of Doctor's Diary.
- At the door of the station nurse Stefanie's office, it says "Station management Brinkmann". This can be based on Prof. Dr. Brinkmann from the Black Forest Clinic can be seen.
DVD publications
- The first season was released on August 18, 2008
- The second season was released on September 18, 2009
- The third season was released on February 25, 2011
Web links
- Doctor's Diary in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website for Doctor's Diary on RTL.de
- Program information on the start of series on tv.ORF.at
- Doctor's Diary: Review of the pilot on serienjunkies.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Lückerath: Continuation for “Doctor's Diary”: Two new seasons . DWDL.de . August 5, 2008. Retrieved August 5, 2008.
- ↑ Jochen Voß: "Doctor's Diary": script commission for the third season . DWDL.de . September 8, 2009. Retrieved September 8, 2009.
- ↑ Manuel Weis: Only now: start shooting for “Doctor's Diary” . Oddsmeter.de . April 27, 2010. Retrieved January 29, 2011.
- ↑ Thomas Lückerath: Hope given up: RTL discontinues "Doctor's Diary" . DWDL.de . October 19, 2011. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
- ↑ a b diary of a doctor . The standard . June 20, 2008. Retrieved January 29, 2011.
- ^ A b Philipp Stendebach: The Critics: "Doctor's Diary" . Oddsmeter.de . June 21, 2008. Retrieved January 29, 2011.
- ↑ 2008 - Best Series - Doctor's Diary - Men are the best medicine . German television award . Archived from the original on January 16, 2010. Retrieved January 29, 2011.
- ↑ Prize Winner 2009 . Grimme Institute . Archived from the original on December 28, 2010. Retrieved January 29, 2011.
- ^ A b c Bettina Ebenbeck: Doctor's Diary wins Bavarian TV Prize . Serienjunkies.de . May 16, 2009. Retrieved January 29, 2011.
- ↑ Doctor's Diary 2 receives the German Comedy Award for the second time . Movie Village . October 26, 2009. Archived from the original on November 3, 2010. Retrieved January 29, 2011.
- ↑ The 2008 nomination . German television award . Archived from the original on May 30, 2011. Retrieved September 22, 2011.
- ↑ The 2011 nomination . German Comedy Award . Retrieved September 2, 2011.