Hotel Elfie
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Hotel Elfie |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | 1998-1999 |
| length | 43 minutes |
| Episodes | 13 |
| genre | drama |
| idea | Christian Pfannenschmidt |
| production | Katharina M. Trebitsch Real Film GmbH |
| music | "Life" by Manon Straché |
| First broadcast | February 22, 2000 on ZDF |
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Hotel Elfie is a German television series that was produced in 1999 as an offshoot of the girl friends series and was broadcast in the spring of 2000 on ZDF's early evening program. The production of the format was discontinued after only one season (13 episodes) due to a lack of success.
content
The secretary Elfie Gerdes ( Manon Straché ) leaves the Hansson Palace Hotel and opens her own small ten-room bed and breakfast, the Hotel Elfie . Numerous guests with their very own needs and worries stay in the pension, and their neighbors can also be seen again and again. After the death of her partner Alexander Hofstädter (Peer Jäger), an illegitimate son of his appears and wants his share of the inheritance. Elfie's best friend Alrun (Annette Kreft) dies, and suddenly the resolute hotel owner finds herself in the role of foster mother for young Melvin (Mark Horstmann). Half-Iranian Fatima Bürgenstock ( Jennifer Steffens ) is Elfie's right-hand man in the hotel, Cora Blitz ( Sandra Borgmann ) is the girl for everything. Elfie's best friend Bernd Bosch ( Thomas Limpinsel ) would be a real candidate for marriage - if he weren't gay. And the previous owner of the hotel, chain-smoking Rita Schnabel ( Doris Kunstmann ), returns to the pension after the death of her husband.
background
After the broadcast of the fourth season of Girl friends , ZDF announced that it was working on a spin-off called Hotel Elfie , which would focus on the former secretary Elfie Gerdes, played by Manon Straché . The spin-off was realized by the Hamburg production company Real Film under the direction of Girl friends director Katharina M. Trebitsch. For the filming in Hamburg-Tonndorf , two complete streets with eight playable houses were specially built on 1,300 square meters. In addition to Straché, the actresses Jennifer Steffens , Sandra Borgmann and Doris Kunstmann could be cast in Hotel Elfie . Also Ingrit Dohse and Harald Maack had in their from friends Girl known roles guest appearances in the series. The first broadcast will take place on February 22, 2000 on ZDF. Production of the series was discontinued after the first season.
occupation
Main cast
| actor | role |
|---|---|
| Manon Straché | Elfriede "Elfie" Gerdes |
| Sandra Borgmann | Cora Blitz |
| Thomas Limpinsel | Bernd Bosch |
| Jennifer Steffens | Fatima Bürgenstock |
| Marc Horstmann | Melvin Schmidt |
| Doris Kunstmann | Rita Schnabel |
Supporting cast
| actor | role |
|---|---|
| Ingrit Dohse | Julietta |
| Annette Kreft | Alrun Schmidt |
| Andreas Herder | Tom Claasen |
| Christopher Novak | Haju Konopke |
| Willem Fricke | Ulli Müggebrecht |
| Ole doll | Boris |
| Harald Maack | Heronimus "Schmolli" Schmolke |
Charisma
Most of Hotel Elfie was filmed in the spring of 1999. The broadcast of the series as a replacement for girl friends was originally planned for autumn 1999 on ZDF, but was initially postponed. The station finally showed the 13 episodes for the first time from February 22 to May 16, 2000 on Tuesdays. While the full-length pilot was shown in prime time, ZDF broadcast all subsequent episodes in the evening program .
Episodes
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
Original title | First broadcast D | Director | script |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Pilot film | February 22, 2000 | Christine Kabisch | Christian Pfannenschmidt |
| 2 | 2 | The lost Son | February 29, 2000 | Christine Kabisch | Christian Pfannenschmidt |
| 3 | 3 | Lovesickness | March 7, 2000 | Christine Kabisch | Christian Pfannenschmidt |
| 4th | 4th | Afternoon rendezvous | March 14, 2000 | Christine Kabisch | Christian Pfannenschmidt |
| 5 | 5 | Light boys, heavy boys | March 21, 2000 | Richard Engel | Christian Pfannenschmidt |
| 6th | 6th | Money and other worries | March 28, 2000 | Richard Engel | Christian Pfannenschmidt |
| 7th | 7th | Secrets | April 4, 2000 | Richard Engel | Christian Pfannenschmidt |
| 8th | 8th | Farewell looks | April 11, 2000 | Richard Engel | Christian Pfannenschmidt |
| 9 | 9 | Never alone again | April 18, 2000 | Richard Engel | Christian Pfannenschmidt |
| 10 | 10 | Cupid's arrows | April 18, 2000 | Richard Engel | Christian Pfannenschmidt |
| 11 | 11 | Brawlers | April 25, 2000 | Richard Engel | Christian Pfannenschmidt |
| 12 | 12 | Cupid's arrows | May 9, 2000 | Richard Engel | Christian Pfannenschmidt |
| 13 | 13 | Brawlers | May 16, 2000 | Richard Engel | Christian Pfannenschmidt |
reception
criticism
Hotel Elfie received mixed feedback from critics. Emmanuel van Stein from Die Welt found in his TV review in the run-up to the first broadcast that the series was turbulent according to the tried and tested manner, which was “especially about Whirlwind Elfie (wonderfully embodied by Manon Straché) and her new girl friends , above all Sandra Borgmann is an art student. Routinely staged by Christine Kabisch, Hotel Elfie offers the viewer a decent amount of entertainment “. Cinema magazine described the series as “harmless lessons for business start-ups” and wrote: “The pilot episode of the hotel series is a bit leisurely. But with the right guests it can still be really fun ”.
The taz described the series as very "ZDFig, like licked, but also wonderfully lit, partly unruly concocted". The series is a “lovely sentimental hymn to good friends and, well, patent medium-sized entrepreneurship”. Der Spiegel judged that Straché in girl friends - friendship with a heart was positively noticed “as a woman with a heart, wit and comedic talent”. In Hotel Elfie , however, “her limits become visible: the direction and screenplay are too demanding for her. The actress wants to give her best and uses exaggerated facial expressions - a mistake that the camera does not forgive ”.
Merchandising
Hotel Elfie , the novel about the series written by author Christian Pfannenschmidt and Edith Beleites , was published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag in April 2000, parallel to the TV broadcast . The complete series was released on DVD by Studio Hamburg Enterprises in November 2008 .
Web links
- Hotel Elfie in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website of ZDF
- TVSI - information about the series
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Huge effort for Hamburgers, Hotel Elfie ' . MoPo.de. Retrieved March 13, 2019.
- ↑ a b Hotel Elfie . Crew-United.de. Retrieved March 13, 2019.
- ↑ a b Spin-off as an anthem. In: The daily newspaper . Retrieved April 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Proper assembly. In: The world . February 22, 2000, accessed April 16, 2020 .
- ↑ criticism. In: Cinema . Retrieved April 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Preview: switch off. In: Der Spiegel . February 28, 2000, accessed April 16, 2020 .
- ^ Hotel Elfie . fernsehserien.de. Retrieved April 28, 2019.