Johanna (TV series)

Television series
Original title	Johanna
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Year (s)	1987 - 1989
length	60 minutes
Episodes	7th
genre	Family series
First broadcast	September 1, 1989 ( GDR ) on GDR 1
occupation
Ute Lubosch : Johanna Rothermund main character, tram driver Cornelia Lippert : Heidemarie "Heidi" Lehmann Traffic Manager Jürgen Mai : Reinhard "Raini" Böttcher tram driver Karin Düwel : Christel Grunert "Grille" tram driver Brigitte Krause : Erna Schumann tram driver Peter Mohrdieck : Ede Richter tram driver Stefan Martin Müller : Karl Heinz "Kalle" Klingner tram driver Carl Heinz Choynski : Fredy tram driver Viola Schweizer : Walli Hausmann "Rotfuchs" tram driver Myriam Stark : Ramona Ludwig tram driver Ursula Staack : Astrid tram driver Deborah Kaufmann : Gudrun tram driver Wilfried Pucher : Dieter Rothermund bus driver Wolfgang Winkler : Wolfgang Kühne Head of Operations Hanns-Michael Schmidt : Helmut Berger "Thuringian" / "Schluchtenjodler" tram driver Walfriede Schmitt : Kalles mother Günter Schubert : Horst "Horscht" Neubert tram driver Ernst-Georg Schwill : rocker tram driver Gerry Wolff : Schorsch tram driver Werner Godemann : "Paule" workshop master Erik Keiche : Engineer Reichel appraiser

Johanna is a seven-part television series that was produced on behalf of the DDR television in 1988 and 1989. Peter Hagen was the author and director .

The series tells the story of a Berlin tram driver, her family and the collective - the "second family". In seven parts, Johanna masters one hurdle after the other with the help of her two families and always has an open ear for the other's problems.

For the Berlin VEB Kombinat Transport Authority (BVB) in Berlin turned recordings were KT4D - railcars 219,551 and 219,552 and the Reko - sidecar used type BE64 267444. The upper part of the sidecar was cut off and the film technology installed on it. The car then ran between the two KT4Ds, the tram drivers to be filmed sat in the rear of the vehicle. The sidecar was scrapped after filming was completed.

The shooting was supported by experts. a. by Petra Kuder (driving instructor) and Peter Schulze (driving instructor).

On November 4, 2013, the series was first released on DVD.

Episode list

No.	title	First broadcast
1	Mirror fencing	September 1, 1989
2	Collisions	September 8, 1989
3	A Thuringian in Berlin	September 15, 1989
4th	The migratory bird	September 22, 1989
5	Detours	September 29, 1989
6th	Kalle will do it	4th October 1989
7th	You have to have ideas	October 13, 1989

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ivo Köhler: Reko cars. The harder way of driving the tram . Society for Transport Policy and Railways e. V. (GVE), Berlin, 1996. ISBN 3-89218-045-8

Web links

• Johanna in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Johanna at fernsehserien.de (with episode guide)