Family Dr. Kleist
| Television series | |
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| Original title | Family Dr. Kleist |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | 2004-2020 |
| length | 47 minutes |
| Episodes | 129 in 9 seasons ( list ) |
| genre | family |
| idea | Christiane Sadlo |
| music | Rainer Oleak , Günther Fischer |
| First broadcast | April 13, 2004 on Das Erste |
| occupation | |
Family Dr. Kleist is a television series starring Francis Fulton-Smith in the title role, which premiered in 129 episodes and nine seasons between April 13, 2004 and January 21, 2020 on the public broadcaster Das Erste . Most recently the Polyphon Film- und Fernsehgesellschaft produced the series on behalf of ARD-Werbung and ARD . The first five seasons with 13 episodes each were broadcast in the main evening program, and since the sixth season the sixteen episodes each have been broadcast in the evening program . On April 2, 2020, the MDR announced that there would be no 10th season and the series would be discontinued.
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Dr. Christian Kleist is an internist by profession . He works in a Berlin hospital, is happily married to his wife Susanne and has two children, Lisa and Peter. On his birthday, the family would like to surprise him with a new home and practice. But Susanne dies in a car accident. A world is collapsing for the doctor. The uncle, Johannes Kleist, invites the nephew with the children to Eisenach in Thuringia . The citizens of the Wartburg city urgently need a doctor because their predecessor has passed away. Dr. Kleist seems to be exactly the right person for this. Finally, the doctor decides to move to Eisenach with the children. When he met the school principal Marlene Holstein while looking for a parking space, the story took its course: Marlene and Christian became a couple. They get married and become parents of little Paul. They also adopt Marlene's niece Clara.
Johannes marries his late wife's girlfriend, Inge März, who initially helps out with the Kleists' household. Peter goes to boarding school, and Lisa and cardiologist Dr. Michael Sandmann a family.
Johannes and Marlene die in a car accident. Three years later, while looking for a parking space, Christian met the lawyer Anna Schöller. They soon become a couple and move in together at the end of season five.
At the beginning of the sixth season, Christian Kleist founded a group practice with his daughter Lisa, now a gynecologist, and his son Peter, now a physiotherapist. Lisa and Michael get married and he is given the position of chief physician at the local hospital, which is a great stress test for the young family. This intensifies when Christian Kleist decides to buy a computer tomograph and hires a radiologist for it: Timotheus von Hatzfeld. He gives Lisa the attention that Michael cannot give her due to lack of time, which leads to a serious marital crisis for Lisa and Michael.
After Inge Kleist and Bernd Spengler came back from a joint holiday abroad, Inge suffered severe pneumonia and, as a result, an allergy that forced her to leave Eisenach. With a heavy heart, she and Bernd move away from Eisenach for a while. After her financier has closed down, Anna Schöller tries to stand on her own two feet and travels a lot. Christian tries his best to use the credit for the practice and the expensive CT machine and takes on assignments as an emergency doctor in order to earn additional money. He can only cope with this double burden with medication , which sooner or later makes him dependent.
Anna leaves Christian after she finds out that Christian has not told her about his drug addiction. Piwi's partner Anke breaks off a stay in Singapore because she is pregnant by Piwi. She had a premature birth at the end of the sixth season. The group practice is temporarily in dire straits when it turns out that von Hatzfeld treated children and adolescents without a license as a pediatric radiologist.
Lisa leaves the group practice and goes to Paris . Her successor, the single parent Tanja Ewald, also becomes Christian's new life partner and moves in with him with her daughter. Peter also turns his back on Eisenach and the group practice, he moves to Switzerland with Anke and their son. The vacated space in the group practice is temporarily taken over by the laboratory doctor Yasmin Wolf, then the young general practitioner Carolin Thelen.
main characters
Dr. Christian Kleist
Christian Kleist is an internist from Berlin. The children Lisa and Peter emerged from his marriage to his first wife Susanne. After his wife's accidental death, he moves to his uncle Johannes in Eisenach, where he meets and marries Marlene Holstein. With her he has their son Paul and adopts Marlene's niece Clara before Marlene dies in a car accident. Three years after her death, he met and fell in love with Anna Schöller. Lisa makes him grandfather of little Rosalie, later he becomes Benjamin's grandfather through his son Peter. The death of a patient prompts him to open a modern group practice with his children Lisa and Peter. Driven by financial worries and overwork, he becomes temporarily dependent on medication. His relationship with Anna fails. At a medical congress, he starts an affair with the gynecologist Tanja Ewald, who shortly afterwards starts in his group practice and moves in with him.
Marlene Holstein / Kleist
Marlene is the director of a high school in Eisenach. She gets to know and love Christian after taking a parking lot away from him. She moves in with him at the end of the first season and marries him at the beginning of the third season. With Christian she has their son Paul. Gregor, around 20 years old at the beginning of the series, comes from an earlier relationship and later emigrates to Australia. Marlene dies in a car accident between the fourth and fifth seasons.
Johannes Kleist
Johannes is the uncle of Christian and the father of Klaus, whose pharmacy he takes over after the first season. At the beginning of the series he is a widower and persuades Christian to move to Eisenach after the death of his first wife. At the end of the second season he married Inge März and survived a heart operation at the beginning of the fourth season. He dies in a car accident between the fourth and fifth seasons.
Inge March / Kleist
Inge is a good friend of Johannes' late wife. She helps Johannes and later the entire Kleist family in the household, falls in love with Johannes and marries him in the last episode of the second season. She is initially a freelance artist and runs a café in the fourth and fifth seasons. Between the fifth and sixth season she falls in love with Bernd Spengler and they go on a trip around the world. Due to a suddenly occurring severe allergy, she and Bernd Spengler temporarily move away from Eisenach. After their recovery and return, Inge and Bernd move into a house in the Kleists' neighborhood.
Dr. Lisa Kleist
The 16-year-old daughter of Susanne and Christian Kleist at the beginning of the series quickly gets used to Eisenach and falls in love with Marlene's son Gregor for a short time. She later studied medicine. In the fourth season she meets Christian's colleague Dr. Know and love Michael Sandmann. He separates from his family because of her and becomes her partner. With him she has a daughter, Rosalie. After their birth, she begins her clinical traineeship in the clinic where her partner also works. In the sixth season she marries Dr. Michael Sandmann and becomes a partner in her father's group practice as a gynecologist. She gets into an affair with her colleague von Hatzfeld, which puts a heavy strain on her marriage. Lisa finally leaves the group practice and her husband and moves to Paris.
Peter "Piwi" Kleist
Piwi is the ten-year-old son of Susanne and Christian Kleist at the beginning of the series. At first he finds it difficult to overcome his mother's death. He begins to be interested in tennis. After having a brief relationship with Nele of the same age as a teenager , which ends after a miscarriage , he switches to a sports boarding school. After a few years, he returns as a professional tennis player at the beginning of the fifth season. A tumor that presses on the nerves in the spinal cord ends his tennis career. In the swimming pool he meets his former classmate Anke Stoll, the two become a couple, and he moves in with her at the end of the fifth season. As a physiotherapist, he becomes a partner in his father's group practice. At the end of the sixth season, he and his partner Anke become parents of a little boy named Benjamin. Anke and Peter get married at the end of the seventh season, at the beginning of the eighth season the couple moves to Switzerland, where new professional perspectives have opened up for Anke. In the middle of the ninth season, Piwi returns alone. He has separated from Anke and confesses to his homosexuality .
Clara Hofer / Kleist
Clara is Marlene's niece, who is housed with the Kleists by her sister Monika, because Monika does not have to live long due to illness. After the death of her mother, Clara stays with Marlene and Christian, although her biological father is still alive. Marlene and Christian adopt Clara and she grows up with them, after Marlene's death with Christian. In the sixth season she plays together with her friends Lauri and Sabrina in the band Pink Slip . She is with her classmate Yannick, but at times also feels drawn to Sabrina. When, years later, her birth father Justus made contact with her again, she decided to visit him in Canada . On her return from Canada, she began training as a horse manager at a stud in Warendorf and decided to study veterinary medicine.
Paul Kleist
Paul is the son of Marlene and Christian, who was born at the beginning of the third season. After Marlene's death, he lives with his father. He is highly intelligent, but at times suffers from bullying at school . Initially, there were also conflicts with Tanja's daughter Lotte.
Dr. Michael Georg Friedrich Sandmann / Sandmann-Kleist
Michael is a cardiologist. He falls in love with the much younger Lisa and leaves his family because of her. With her he has their daughter Rosalie, who was born between the fourth and fifth season. In the sixth season he marries Dr. Lisa Kleist and is promoted to chief physician. His marriage to Lisa fails. Lisa moves to Paris with their daughter, and Rosalie later lives with him again.
Anna Scholler
Anna is a lawyer and the half-sister of the Eisenach mayor Spengler. At first she lived in Cologne , but after the breakdown of her relationship with a married man and a miscarriage, at the insistence of her brother, she moved to Eisenach, where she fell in love with the widower of two, Christian Kleist. At the end of the fifth season, she decides to move in with Christian. In season 6, Anna and Christian fell out and ended their relationship. Anna then leaves the Kleist villa and moves to Munich .
Bernd Spengler
At the beginning of the fourth season, Spengler succeeds Erwin Baum as mayor of Eisenach. As a hypochondriac, he appears regularly in Christian's practice. He was married to Valerie, who has a brief affair with Christian towards the end of season four. At the beginning of the fifth season he persuades his half-sister Anna Schöller to settle down as a lawyer in Eisenach. Between the fifth and sixth season he falls in love with Inge Kleist and they travel around the world. When Inge had to leave Eisenach for health reasons, he temporarily moved away with her. Some time after his return, he set up a voluntary social meeting place in the city with the meeting point Eisenach .
Dr. Timothy von Hatzfeld
Timotheus von Hatzfeld has been working as a radiologist in the Kleists' group practice since the beginning of the sixth season . There he met Lisa Kleist. Both get closer and briefly have an affair. Michael Sandmann finds out that von Hatzfeld, although an excellent radiologist, was involved in a medical scandal during a previous employment and practiced as a pediatric radiologist for the Kleists without a license. The matter turns out to be his former mentor's intrigue and Hatzfeld ultimately receives his approval. With the beginning of the eighth season he becomes a partner in the group practice.
Tanja Ewald
Tanja Ewald is a specialist in gynecology. She is divorced, her older daughter Luisa lives with her ex-husband Holger in Berlin, the younger Charlotte with her in Weimar. At a medical congress in Weimar, she met Christian Kleist and shortly afterwards took on the vacant post of gynecologist in Kleist's group practice. Christian and Tanja become a couple, she and Charlotte move in with Christian.
Charlotte "Lotte" Ewald
Lotte is Tanja's 14-year-old daughter. After initial friction, she soon got along well with Christian's son Paul. Bernd quickly becomes a confidante whose opinion she values when she repeatedly offends the other residents of the Kleistvilla with her spirited manner. After the 10th grade she considers dropping out of school, but during an internship in the group practice she begins to show a strong interest in working in the medical laboratory. This motivates her to do her Abitur.
Luisa Ewald
Luisa is Tanja's older daughter. She is two years older than Charlotte and was twelve when Tanja separated from her first husband. Luisa stayed with her father after the separation and moved with him to Berlin. Because of her invitation to Christian and Tanja's wedding, she comes to Eisenach. Her relationship with Tanja is initially hypothermic, as she blames her mother for the separation of her parents. After Tanja has explained the background of the separation to her, the two make up. Luisa stays in Eisenach and quickly settles in with the extended family.
Yasmin Wolf
Dr. Yasmin Wolf was from Hatzfeld's colleague in Tübingen. When the joint practice decides to fill the space that became vacant after Peter's departure with an urgently needed medical laboratory in Eisenach, the laboratory doctor is hired on von Hatzfeld's initiative. However, she leaves the community practice after a short time.
Carolin Thelen
Dr. Carolin Thelen is new to the practice after Yasmin Wolf's departure. She is still very young, which means that some patients do not consider her competent, but still often makes the correct diagnosis and also explains or illustrates the clinical picture well. At first she gets along with Dr. von Hatzfeld in the hair. But both work well together and in the end she feels drawn to him.
Locations
The series was created and played in the Thuringian city of Eisenach and the surrounding area.
The Luther Church in Möhra served as the backdrop for Christian and Marlene's wedding in the third season . Most of the hospital scenes were made in the St. Georg Clinic in Eisenach . The Martin-Luther-Gymnasium Eisenach served as the backdrop for the school in which Marlene worked at the beginning of the series . Christian and Johannes' fishing trips in the first season were filmed directly above the Werra bridge in Creuzburg . The interior shots of the Kleists' joint practice, which was run from the sixth season, were taken in the "Wartburghaus" of the Vollack company in the industrial area of the Eisenach district of Stedtfeld . A house built in the 1990s in Lauchergasse was used for the exterior shots of the fictitious doctor's practice.
The first season's “Kleist Villa” on Klosterweg in Eisenach's southern district
The second and third season of the “Kleist Villa” on Fritz-Koch-Strasse in Eisenach's southern district
Markt 18 in Eisenach, the fictitious doctor's practice of the first five seasons was on the 1st floor
The city pharmacy was run by Johannes Kleist for the first four seasons
The St. Georg Klinikum served as the backdrop for the hospital
The Lauchergasse in Eisenach city center; the modern building in the center of the picture served as the outside backdrop for the practice from season 6
Directors
| Surname | consequences |
|---|---|
| Erwin Keusch | Episodes 1-4, 32-39 |
| Vera Loebner | Episodes 5–9 |
| Stefan Bartmann | Episodes 10-13 |
| Hans Werner | Episodes 14-18 |
| Peter Weissflog | Episodes 19-22 |
| Richard Engel | Episodes 23–31, 40–47, 51 |
| Esther Wenger | Episodes 48–50, 52, 60, 62–65 |
| Donald Kraemer | Episodes 53–56 |
| Heidi Kranz | Episodes 57–59, 61, 122 + 126 |
| Stefan Bühling | Episodes 66-69, 74-77 |
| Jan Bauer | Episodes 70-73 |
| Tanja Roitzheim | Episodes 78–81 |
| Dirk rule | Episodes 82-85 |
| Philipp Osthus | Episodes 86–89, 102–105, 118–121 |
| John Delbridge | Episodes 90-92, 94 |
| Bodo black | Episodes 93, 95-97 |
| Oliver Dommenget | Episodes 98-101 |
| Verena S. Freytag | Episodes 106 + 107 |
| Oliver Muth | Episodes 108–111 |
| Laura Thies | Follows 112 + 113, 125, 127–129 |
| Carsten Meyer-Grohbrügge | Episodes 114–117 |
| Till Müller-Edenborn | Episodes 123 + 124 |
occupation
The table lists the actors, their role names, their affiliation to the main cast (●) or to the supporting actors (•) per season (1–9).
| Season | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| actor | Role name | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | Role description | consequences |
| Francis Fulton-Smith | Christian Kleist | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | 1-129 | |
| Christina Plate | Marlene Holstein / Kleist † | ● | ● | ● | ● | Christian's second wife | 1-52 | |||||
| Ulrich Pleitgen † | Johannes Kleist † | ● | ● | ● | ● | Christian's uncle | 1-52 | |||||
| Uta Schorn | Inge March / Kleist | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | Johannes' acquaintance / wife / widow | 1-129 |
| Marie Seiser | Lisa Kleist | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | Christian's daughter from his first marriage / Rosalie's mother | 1-81 | |||
| David Bode | Peter "Piwi" Kleist # 1 | ● | ● | ● | Christian's son from his first marriage | 1-35 | ||||||
| Meo Wulf | Peter "Piwi" Kleist # 2 | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | Christian's son from his first marriage | 53-129 | ||||
| Winnie Boew | Nora Mann | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | Office hours help | 14-129 | |
| Lisa-Marie Coroll | Clara Hofer / Kleist | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | Marlene's niece, Christian's adopted daughter | 16-125 | |
| Luca Zamperoni | Michael Sandmann | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | Surgeon, Lisa's significant other / husband / ex-husband / Rosalie's father | 40-129 | |||
| Walter Plathe | Bernd Spengler | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | initially Eisenach's mayor, later Inge's partner | 40-129 | |||
| Ursula Buschhorn | Anna Scholler | ● | ● | Bernd's sister, lawyer, Christian's ex-partner | 53-78 | |||||||
| Fabienne Haller | Anke Stoll | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | Peter's partner / wife | 60-99, 125, 129 | ||||
| Julian King | Paul Kleist # 3 | ● | ● | ● | ● | Christian's son from his second marriage, with Marlene | 66-129 | |||||
| Tom Radisch | Timothy von Hatzfeld | ● | ● | ● | ● | Radiologist in Christian's practice | 68-129 | |||||
| Christina Athenstädt | Tanja Ewald | ● | ● | ● | Gynecologist in Christian's practice and Christian's partner | 82-129 | ||||||
| Anne Sophie Triesch | Charlotte "Lotte" Ewald | ● | ● | ● | Tanja's daughter | 87-129 | ||||||
| Nelly Hoffmann | Rosalie Kleist # 3 | ● | ● | Lisa's and Michael's daughter | 98-129 | |||||||
| Artemis Chalkidou | Yasmin Wolf | ● | Specialist in laboratory medicine | 103-113 | ||||||||
| Diane Willems | Carolin Thelen | ● | doctor | 115-129 | ||||||||
| Pauline Angert | Luisa Ewald | ● | Tanja's daughter | 117-129 | ||||||||
Further supporting roles / recurring guest roles
| actor | Role name | consequences | Years | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mathias Herrmann | Klaus Kleist | 2-11 | 2004 | Pharmacist; Son of Johannes; Father of Julia; Christian's cousin |
| Teresa Weissbach | Nina Wertheimer | 2-12 | 2004 | Office hours help |
| Martin Goeres | Gregor Holstein | 1-13 | 2004 | Son of Marlene and Dieter; Guest appearance: Episode 45 (2010) in the video chat |
| Simone von Zglinicki | Dr. Verena Klein | 1-26 | 2004-2006 | Gynecologist ; good friend of Marlene |
| Bernd Herzsprung | Erwin Baum | 2-26 | 2004-2006 | Mayor of Eisenach, predecessor of Spengler |
| Alexandra Scheidt | Sara tree | 2-27 | 2004-2008 | Daughter of Erwin Baum; good friend of Lisa |
| Aline Hochscheid | Remanka Walter | 1-38, 51 | 2004-2009 | policewoman |
| Lina Schuller | Julia Kleist # 2 | 30-39 | 2008-2009 | Daughter of Klaus; Granddaughter of Johannes |
| Verena Klein | Ingrid Biber | 14-44 | 2006-2010 | pharmacist |
| Corbinian Schlegelmilch | Paul Kleist # 2 | 40-52 | 2010-2011 | Son of Marlene and Christian |
| Katharina Abbot | Valerie Spengler | 40-52 | 2010-2011 | Head of administration of the clinic; Ex-wife of Bernd Spengler |
| Niklas Berndt | Paul Kleist # 3 | 53-65 | 2013-2014 | Son of Marlene and Christian |
| Jolina heart | Rosalie Kleist # 1 | 53-65 | 2013-2014 | Daughter of Lisa and Michael |
| Gina Stiebitz | Lauri | 66-77 | 2016 | Member of the band Pink Slip ; good friend of Clara |
| Helena Siegmund-Schultze | Sabrina | 66-79 | 2016 | Member of the band Pink Slip ; good friend of Clara |
| Helena Ansorg | Rosalie Kleist # 2 | 66-81 | 2016-2017 | Daughter of Lisa and Michael |
| Stephan Bürgi | Professor Bender | 66-97 | 2016-2018 | Clinic director, Michael's superior |
| Hedi Honert | Dorothee Bender | 82-97 | 2017-2018 | Daughter of Professor Bender, colleague of Michael |
| Daniel Littau | Jan Dreves | 98-113 | 2018-2019 | Office hours help |
| Nicolas Wolf | Mark Kirchner | 114-129 | 2019-2020 | Office hours help |
| Richard Kreutz | Lennard Krause | 115-121 | 2019 | Lotte's friend |
| Hannes Gwiasda | Finn Reichardt | 120-126 | 2019 | The Kleists' foster child |
Episode list
Reviews
The WDR Broadcasting Council included the series in a series of “somewhat dusty and old-fashioned” productions that “in the future can also be dispensed with in favor of formats for a younger target group”.
Merchandise
The series has so far been released on DVD in 3 DVD boxes by ARD-Video . Each box comprises four DVDs and contains a full season:
- Season 1: Episodes 1-13, released May 30, 2007
- Season 2: episodes 14–26, released April 30, 2008,
- Season 3: Episodes 27-39, released November 26, 2008.
A complete box with the first three seasons is also available. The later seasons have not yet been released on DVD.
Two books have been published on the series. The titles are Departure into a New Life (Author: Carina Martinez) and Detours of Love (Author: Kerstin Evers).
Audio description
Since the 5th season, the series for the blind and visually impaired has also been broadcast as an audio film version .
Web links
- Official website
- Family Dr. Kleist in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Family Dr. Kleist at Fernsehserien.de
- Family Dr. Kleist in the online film database
- Polyphonic website
- City tour “In the footsteps of Dr. Kleist through Eisenach " (PDF; 1.9 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Premiere party - Family Dr. Kleist , eisenachonline.de, accessed on September 5, 2019.
- ^ Off for ARD television series Familie Dr. Kleist
- ↑ Birgit Schellbach: The new practice of Dr. Kleist is located in Stedtfeld. Thüringer Allgemeine, Eisenach edition, October 14, 2015, p. 13.
- ↑ Poor Francis. Christina Plate breaks up with Dr. Kleist. News.de, February 1, 2011, accessed on August 21, 2012.
- ^ "In all friendship" -Lexicon: Awards & audio description. MDR website , accessed August 7, 2015.