Lindenstrasse

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Lindenstrasse (disambiguation) .

Television series
Original title	Lindenstrasse
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Year (s)	1985-2020
Production company	Geißendörfer film and television production , Westdeutscher Rundfunk Cologne
length	about 29 minutes
Episodes	1758, 1 special (1995) and 6 special episodes (2006, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2017) ( list )
genre	Weekly Soap
idea	Hans W. Geißendörfer
production	Hans W. Geißendörfer Hana Geißendörfer
music	Jürgen Knieper
First broadcast	December 8, 1985 on Das Erste
occupation
see list of actors

Lindenstrasse is a German television series of the WDR founded by Hans W. Geißendörfer and is considered the first German soap opera .

It was first broadcast on the Sunday evening before December 8, 1985. In November 2018 it became known that the ARD television program conference would not renew the production contract with Geißendörfer Film- und Fernsehproduktion and that the series would therefore be ended after more than 34 years. The last episode of Lindenstrasse with the number 1758 was broadcast on March 29, 2020 at 6:50 p.m. The last day of shooting of the series was on December 20, 2019.

development

The first episode aired on December 8, 1985 at 6:40 p.m. with the title Herzlich Willkommen . From then on the series ran weekly. The 1000th episode was shown on January 30, 2005 as a longer anniversary episode (46 minutes). The regular slot for the first episode broadcast was from March 13, 2005 on Sundays at 6:50 p.m. on First German Television . Originally, the series should be broadcast on Thursdays in the main evening program; therefore the actions usually take place on a Thursday. Exceptions are the so-called “ holiday sequences ”, which take place at Easter or Christmas, but also on election days.

The inventor of Lindenstrasse is Hans W. Geißendörfer , whose company Geißendörfer Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH (GFF) produced the series to its end. By his own admission, there were two inspirations for the series; initially Geißendörfer's own childhood in an apartment building in Neustadt an der Aisch ; the second inspiration is the British television series Coronation Street , which has been produced and broadcast in Great Britain since 1960. The responsible TV game director at WDR Gunther Witte contributed the title Lindenstrasse .

Geißendörfer also directed the first 31 episodes of Lindenstrasse . Later this switched between different directors, u. a. Dominikus Probst and from the end of 2007 Iain Dilthey . Long-time director Wolfgang Frank died unexpectedly on October 4th, 2012. His episodes were taken over by Kerstin Krause .

Long-standing authors of the series are Michael Meisheit , who was the scriptwriter for Lindenstrasse from 1997 ( returnees since episode 651 ), and Irene Fischer , who wrote screenplays from 1999 in addition to her role as Anna Ziegler (first Fischer episode 763 The Change ). Other authors from Lindenstrasse include the writers Martina Borger and Maria Elisabeth Straub , who together wrote 250 scripts for the series from 1985 to 1997.

On November 16, 2018, the ARD decided not to continue on Lindenstrasse. The end of production was dated at the end of 2019, so the last episode of Lindenstrasse was on the screens on March 29, 2020. It got the title Goodbye with reference to the name of the first episode .

action

Group picture for the 30th anniversary in 2015

Local framework for action

Logo until September 2015

Lindenstrasse takes place in Munich. Families with children live in the apartment buildings on the street - the Beimer-Schiller, Beimer-Ziegler and Zenker families are particularly influential - as well as couples without children and shared apartments . The doctor's practice of Dr. Iris Brooks, formerly headed by Dr. Ernesto Stadler, Dr. Carsten Flöter and his stepfather Dr. Ludwig Dressler was operated, as well as the Greek restaurant Akropolis and a supermarket.

In the adjacent Kastanienstraße there is a shisha bar, the Café Bayer (modeled after the former Café Beyer in the house built by Wendelin Streicher at Bamberger Straße 7 in Neustadt an der Aisch ), a small fitness studio and a car workshop. Some of the main characters of the series also live in this street. The Astor cinema center, the George Café and a hairdressing salon are located in the opposite Ulrike-Böss-Straße.

Content-related framework for action

The life of the street dwellers is depicted very realistically . Diverse, mostly problematic facets of real human life are taken up in storylines that sometimes span several years. Gradually developing marital crises in previously healthy families (such as in earlier years with the Schildknecht couple, later with the Beimer and Sperling couple) are just as much a part of it as puberty problems in the numerous young people (for example in the form of lovesickness, premature pregnancy , Eating disorders, drug addiction) as well as political or religious extremism . For example, the main character Klaus Beimer belonged to the neo-Nazi scene in his youth . There were coming-out processes (as with the gay Carsten Flöter in the first year of the series, later also with the lesbian Tanja Schildknecht and others), protracted attempts to fulfill children's wishes (for example with Valerie Zenker and Ines Kling due to the impotence of their respective ones Partners, with Berta Griese because of infertility or with same-sex couples), complicated disease courses ( e.g. AIDS with Benno Zimmermann in the late 1980s, Alzheimer's disease with Hubert Koch in the 1990s, heart disease with Erich Schiller in 2009, Parkinson's disease with Hans Beimer in 2015 ), Menopausal and old age crises, but also professional (business start-ups with restaurants and shops) and grassroots involvement (party foundations, citizens' petitions ).

Relation to social developments

Real social and real political developments and discourses are taken up and reflected. Among other things, the emancipation of women within marriage can be cited, for example represented by the character Elfie Kronmayr in the first episodes.

The increasing social and legal emancipation of homosexuals has been expressed since the early years of the series , represented by the coming out of Carsten Flöter in 1986 and by numerous other lesbian and gay relationships, with Carsten Flöter and Theo Klages even celebrating a wedding. It also became clear again and again to what extent homosexuals still have to struggle with social and formal obstacles, for example in the effort to adopt a child : Carsten Flöter and his partner “Käthe” ​​Eschweiler finally adopted the young Felix, who had HIV , after disputes with the authorities is infected.

The environmental movement was embodied in the 1980s by the figure Benny Beimer, who was expelled from high school shortly before graduating from high school due to his actions. In the early 1990s, the character Hubert Koch showed that older people are also committed to fighting for environmental protection and are not afraid of conflicts with the authorities. The temporary failure of such engagements and the associated frustration were also shown: In 1995, Philipp Sperling experienced a bitter disenchantment in his attempts to curb car traffic. This did not stop the Beimer-Ziegler couple from initiating a referendum for a restricted-traffic zone a year later after their son Tom almost died in a car accident.

The social trend towards vegetarianism and veganism was also an issue: At the festive dinner for Christmas 1994, Marion Beimer presented a live goose that she could not have slaughtered. Julia von der Marwitz and Klaus Beimer, and later Felix Flöter, became involved as animal rights activists and a vegan diet, and the doctor Eva Sperling, as well as Helga Beimer and Tanja Schildknecht at times, lived vegetarian.

The series continuously addressed the occasional resurgence of right-wing extremism : In addition to the neo-Nazi activities of Klaus Beimer and Olli Klatt in their youth, the Greek restaurant Akropolis was attacked for xenophobic motives and the old Nazi Franz Wittich gathered a group of like-minded people around him . But not only right-wing extremism, also militant Islamism became the topic, embodied in 2009 by the converted Timo Zenker.

At the time of general conscription , the script also dealt with evading military service on the part of young men: Benny Beimer suffered from overload during his civil service , "Zorro" Pichelsteiner was imprisoned for total refusal , Klaus Beimer succeeded in being retired after a persistent fight. Foreign missions of the Bundeswehr were problematized insofar as Enzo letter suffered a war trauma as a soldier in Afghanistan .

The series also tried to reflect increasing pressure to perform in society: Gabi Zenker suffered from harassment of her profit-oriented boss in 2010, who she finally had a private investigator shadow her in order to find excuses for resigning. Growing fears of the future of young people with regard to their career opportunities were also expressed in storylines: Lea Starck fought for admission to high school. Tom Ziegler got the scholarship for a sports school after at a doping test his cannabis use was obvious.

Money problems due to unemployment also appeared in the scripts: Several characters searched in vain for jobs for a long time, including Hans Beimer in 1993, whose wife even engaged in sexual acts with his former boss in order to get back the old job. Maria Stadler's father committed suicide in 2010 when his company went bankrupt. Jimi Stadler, who worked for this company, went through an identity crisis due to his unemployment, and the family suffered a severe financial crisis. The fact that even people who have a permanent job sometimes get into financial hardship with high debts was illustrated by the medical assistant Andrea Neumann, who fell into the clutches of dubious lenders who eventually threatened them and continued to exploit them.

Furthermore, various social developments related to the Internet are presented, including stalking problems: the young Irina Winicki got into trouble online by a sex offender. At the end of 2011, Lea Starck emailed a stranger naked photos of herself, which appeared in January 2012 on the USB stick of an employee of the Christian-Conservative Party, of which Klaus Beimer was press spokesman at the time, along with numerous other nude photos of young girls.

In allusion to Scientology , the sect “Society” was up to mischief in Lindenstrasse from 2011 and tried in particular to bind children to itself. With the help of his family, Klaus Beimer had searched the Internet for his daughter, who was in the hands of this sect. Similar to Scientology in reality, Society is also observed by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution in the series .

Social issues such as active euthanasia were taken up as early as 1995 : Enrico Pavarotti was in a coma after an accident until his relatives switched off the life-support machines. In 1997 it was described how Amélie von der Marwitz and her terminally ill partner decided to commit suicide together in order to avoid a longer, more agonizing death or end of life as a widow. In 2011, the ban on surrogacy was also discussed: Jaqueline "Jack" Aichinger carried Vasily and Sandra Sarikakis' child to term because the latter could no longer have children after her drug past. In 2019 it was discussed how the incurable glioblastoma sufferer Dr. Ludwig Dressler puts an end to his life in a self-determined manner.

From 2011, integration problems of young migrants from Muslim countries were increasingly discussed , initially embodied in the figure of the young Turk from Hurricane. Orkan saw himself discriminated against by his origin in his search for an apprenticeship position. In 2014 it became known that a mosque was to be built on Lindenstrasse. In this context, the residents' reservations about Islam were made an issue and the activities of a right-wing youth group were included in the storyline.

In 2016, Hans Beimer , who had Parkinson's disease, tried to alleviate his suffering with cannabis . However, since he was not prescribed the drug and was not allowed to grow it himself, he almost got caught up in the procurement crime when he tried to buy it on the black market. Also since 2016, the character of Sunny Zöllig, previously Marek, has also reflected transsexuality in the series plot.

In 2019 and 2020 Konstantin Landmann took up the subject of Hebephilia , which culminated in a suicide attempt when Konstantin was falsely suspected of having sexually molested the fourteen-year-old Antonia Beimer.

Daily updates

The producers of Lindenstrasse repeatedly shot scenes with current content shortly before the broadcast date in order to get a certain timely reference. Dialogues on almost daily events such as plane crashes and earthquakes or political events such as Bundestag resolutions or revolutions abroad can be found in most episodes. Excerpts from the latest radio reports can often be heard in the background. For example, in the 1998 general election, four versions of the outcome were prepared. In the 2005 Bundestag election , reference was made to the death of a direct candidate and the associated by-election in Dresden. As a result, on the Sunday of the 2009 Bundestag elections , the first extrapolation could be seen from 6:14 p.m. and backed up with current comments and ratings by the members of the shared apartment. The episode was specially announced in the previous topics of the day to the effect that the following Lindenstrasse was only completed shortly before it was broadcast. Even the episode 1.755, which was broadcast after the end of production (December 2019) on March 8, 2020, was given the tone of a Tagesschau report on the COVID-19 pandemic .

The timely incorporation of certain events also had its limits. The terrorist attacks in the USA on September 11, 2001, a Tuesday, were not thematically incorporated into the following Sunday episode.

Beginning and end of each episode

Each episode opening shows, accompanied by the title melody, first a panorama picture of Munich city center with the Frauenkirche and then a pan into Lindenstrasse, which ends with a tracking shot at a house entrance. Finally, the respective next title is displayed, which has generally been added in two other languages ​​since episode 417 (first broadcast: November 28, 1993), whereby one of them is usually given in Latin letters, the other in a script corresponding to the respective language.

The same melody appears at the end of most of the episodes, combined with a so-called cliffhanger : After an action with heavy content - usually a statement by a character - there is a short zoom in to a close-up of the character or its horrified-looking partner in the scene and the closing music begins. This is to arouse curiosity about the next episode. In addition, a cyclist regularly drove through the picture during the credits and rang the bell once; later it was a scooter driver who let the engine roar. This running gag was temporarily omitted due to lack of time, which led to protests among fans on social media.

However, the cliffhanger is rarely taken up immediately in the next episode because it takes place a week later, but it is only in the course of the episode how a certain situation has been resolved. During the musical end credits, a sound, a sentence from the script or a piece of music that is taken from the respective episode and reflects one of the storylines is played.

Very few episodes end without a cliffhanger, mostly in connection with the film death of a Lindenstrasse character. Traditionally also without cliff hangers, but with musical credits, the New Year's Eve edition on Lindenstrasse gets by because at the turn of the year all residents meet on the street and dance waltzes. When a member of the Lindenstrasse ensemble has died, the next episode ends with the fact that the deceased member of the ensemble is remembered with a photo and the dates of his life instead of the usual musical credits.

Film structures

Lindenstrasse 7 ("Villa Dressler")

Setting of the living room of the Beimer family

The action took place in Munich and was shot in Cologne-Bocklemünd . On the WDR studio site there ( 50 ° 58 ′ 22 ″  N , 6 ° 51 ′ 14 ″  E, coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 22 ″  N , 6 ° 51 ′ 14 ″  E ), almost the entire external backdrop was used as a dummy facade at 150 meters built up; In the area of ​​the backyard of house no.3 there was also space for the small park with a children's playground, which was often shown in the series, and the cemetery for the deceased street dwellers (although the latter has now become too small; cemetery scenes are now also being filmed in a real cemetery).

The majority of the backdrops were simulated townhouse facades without any interior. The cafés Bayer and George, the organic store 1 A Bio, the app company Tischlein-Klick-Dich! and the hairdressing salon were made playable because of the large window areas and easy visibility. The rest of the interior shoots took place in two closed studios, in which all the home furnishings, including the stairwell, were reproduced using movable walls. For example, from Beimer / Schiller's kitchen you could get directly into Zenker's bathroom; the staircase from house no. 3 was hidden behind the curtain on the stage of the Greek restaurant Akropolis. The individual apartments were also not designed according to the building plan. There did not seem to be any load-bearing walls. Often windows pointed directly to “neighboring buildings”.

The outside backdrop of the row of houses Café Bayer did not exist in the first years of the series. Since the shooting area is on the Federal Highway 1 and the noise level during outdoor shooting was very high, the decision was made to build a noise protection wall and designed Kastanienstraße for it. A relic of this time is also the occasional brisk traffic in the part of Kastanienstraße in front of the travel agency, although the street ends there after a few meters at a large gate.

Locations

Akropolis (Lindenstrasse 2, EG)

The Acropolis has been run by the Sarikakis family since the beginning of the series. Initially, Father Panaiotis Sarikakis was the head of the restaurant. Since he left Lindenstrasse in 1996, his son Vasily continued to run the restaurant and was supported by his mother Elena. The Akropolis was temporarily closed by the health department on January 31, 2013 after the outbreak of the EHEC pathogen. The restaurant's lamb's lettuce caused several guests to become infected and Josi Stadler died of it on February 10, 2013.

After a raccoon appeared in the ladies' room on February 17, 2019, which caused the guests to leave, and subsequent negative comments on the hygiene of the restaurant on social networks, Vasily Sarikakis closed the restaurant for two weeks. In the meantime, Sunny Zöllig joined the company as a new partner to prevent the restaurant from going bankrupt and has since brought in new ideas.

Doctor's office Dr. Brooks in Villa Aichinger / formerly Dressler (Lindenstrasse 7, EG)

The medical practice in house no. 7 (Villa Aichinger, formerly Dressler) had several owners over the years. At the beginning of the series, Dr. Ludwig Dressler is still the doctor in the street. Dr. Manfred Pauli there until Dressler started the practice of Dr. Eva-Maria Sperling rented out. Some time later, Dressler took over the practice again until he rented it out to Dr. Ahmet Dağdelen. During this time, Dressler's foster son Carsten Flöter worked as a doctor in the internship there. Later, Dr. Carsten Flöter practiced for several years. For health reasons, Flöter had to give up the practice and was briefly represented by Dr. Birthe Tenge-Wegemann. She was then followed by Dr. Ernesto Stadler taken over. At the end of September 2012, the practice of Dr. Iris Brooks taken over. Most recently, medical assistants were Lisa Dağdelen and Andrea Neumann. Elisabeth Flöter (later Dressler), Berta Griese, Corinna Marx, Nora Horowitz and Hannelore Siekmann used to work in this position.

Café Bayer (Kastanienstraße 26, EG)

Café Bayer is located between the travel agency and the health food store on Kastanienstraße. Gabi Zenker last worked there, who was employed there as a branch manager from the 1990s, as well as another person unknown to the viewer. From 1999 to 2011 she was supported by Ines Krämer (represented by Sabrina Buchab), and from 2018 Neyla Beimer joined the café team.

Café George (Ulrike-Böss-Strasse)

Café George has been run by Marcella Varese since it opened. Lea Starck was a former employee. Most recently, unknown forces worked there alongside Marcella. It is located on Ulrike-Böss-Straße next to the hairdressing salon. The name was dedicated to the former Lindenstrasse director George Moorse , who died in late July 1999. Before that, there was Café Moorse, which Marcella's father Paolo ran and later handed over to Marcella.

The hairdresser (Ulrike-Böss-Straße)

The hairdressing salon was last run by Tanja Schildknecht and Peter Lottmann. Lea Starck did her training there. It is located on Ulrike-Böss-Straße next to Café George. In the past, Isolde Panowak (later Pavarotti), Beate Sarikakis and Urszula Winicki ran the salon, which was originally at home at Lindenstrasse 4 until March 2001. Bianca Guther worked there from 1986 to 1988, when Isolde Panowak, her and the trainee Beate Sarikakis were all taking a smoking break in the salon. Tanja Schildknecht was trained there by Urszula Winicki from the end of the 1990s and Ute Weigel worked there from 1999 until Urszula Winicki resigned on October 3, 2004, whereupon the make-up artist Peter ("Lotti") Lottmann took over her job.

The workshop (Kastanienstraße)

The garage was opened by Enzo letter at the end of 2011; Jack Aichinger began her apprenticeship there shortly afterwards. Timo Zenker ran the workshop from June 2016 until November 4, 2018, when he was arrested for stalking and threatening with the knife of his employee Jack Aichinger. Then she took over the management herself. Orkan Kurtoğlu (2012) and Chantal Löhmer (around 2013/2014) also worked there earlier.

EMS-Studio "RapidBody" (Kastanienstraße 28 EG)

Nico Zenker opened the EMS Studio in 2018 as part of the "RapidBody" chain.

The store previously served as an office for the app start-up Tischlein-Klick-Dich !, which Marek Zöllig started in June 2016 together with Alex Behrend and Philipp Sperling. The start-up was sold at the instigation of Angelina Dressler. Alex made the office space available after the closure of his travel agency Träwel und Iwends, which he opened together with Josi Stadler in August 2010. After her death in February 2013 he ran the travel agency alone, with Erich Schiller stepping in from time to time. The travel agency was previously called Ehrlich Reisen and was managed by Erich Schiller and Helga Beimer until the bankruptcy. After the death of Erich Schiller on December 6, 2015, Alex finally closed the travel agency in March 2016.

Tischlein-Klick-Dich! -Cooking School (Kastanienstraße 26, EG)

The Vom Tischlein cooking school opened at the end of 2017. Murat Dağdelen, who until then had operated the health food store 1A Bio at this point, and which he had to give up due to financial problems, becomes managing director. The company Tischlein-Klick-Dich! Is now the owner of the premises. Murat Dağdelen last ran a shisha bar in the rooms of the cooking school.

The organic store opened in early 2013 and was merged from the two former shops Alimentari and Kakao.
The Italian delicatessen store Alimentari was opened in 2006 by Sabrina Buchab. After her death in March 2012, the shop stood empty for a while until Helga Beimer reopened it in July 2012 and from August 2012 ran it together with Sabrina's widower Hajo Scholz. The Alimentari was finally closed at the end of 2012 after Hajo Scholz terminated the lease in favor of Murat and Lisa's business idea of ​​opening a health food store on the premises.
In these rooms there used to be the bicycle, the bike shop of Iffi Zenker, later for a short time the travel agency "Erich Reisen" of Erich Schiller and Marlene Schmitt, which had to close because of their arrest after the theft of Helga's customer database in 2001, as well as the business afterwards Humanitas, a junk shop that was run by Oskar Krämer and, after his suicide in July 2005, by Rosi Koch until 2006, who died in 2007.

The chocolate shop Kakao was run by its owner Murat Dağdelen until the opening of 1 A Bio; it was opened by Steffi Kunz in early 2010.
First, from 1990 until 1998, the flower shop of Claudia Rantzow from Saxony was located in the premises, in which the spastic paralyzed wheelchair user Christoph Bogner worked until 1993. After her accidental death in 1995, her widower Olaf Kling continued to run the flower shop. Olaf Kling then turned it into a shoemaker's workshop, and later a Bavarian snack bar with the employee Murat Dağdelen. After Kling's departure in 2008, he took over the shop and opened a shirt shop there as a franchise branch of a relative and later an independent Turkish snack bar. This became Steffi Kunz's Kakao praline shop in 2010, with Anna Ziegler helping. After Steffi Kunz's early departure in September 2010, the latter took over the production of chocolates in the witness protection program, since underworld boss "Attila" had extorted money from the shop and threatened her when she tried to stop the money laundering payments after Anna and Sarah Ziegler had discovered them.

Apartment Aichinger (Lindenstrasse 3, ground floor left)

Jack Aichinger lived in this apartment with daughter Emma and son Elias until shortly before the end of the series. (Former (co) residents: Sarah Ziegler, Ben Hofer, Roma family Baraj, Dr. Ernesto Stadler, Ines Krämer, Olli Klatt, Franz Wittich, Else, Egon and Olaf Kling, Pia Lorenz). In the last episode, Rachel Goldberg and Ron Liebermann moved in with new tenants.

Apartment Varese (Lindenstrasse 3, ground floor right)

Marcella Varese last lived in this apartment. (Former residents: Tanja and Simon Schildknecht, Steffi Kunz, Nastya and Mila Pashenko, Enzo letter, Isolde Pavarotti, Bruno Skabowski, Fausto Rossini, Enrico Pavarotti, Berta and Manoel Griese, Robert Engel, Philomena and Joschi Bennarsch)

WG Beimer-Zenker (Lindenstrasse 3, 1st floor left)

Helga Beimer recently lived in this apartment with Andy and Gabi Zenker. (Former (co-) residents: Roland Landmann, Lea Starck, Erich Schiller, Hajo Scholz, Nastya Niemeyer, Klaus Beimer, Maja Starck, Marion Beimer, Franz Wittich, Hilde Scholz, Olli Klatt, Pat Wolfson, Betty Schiller, Mary Sarikakis, Dominique Mourrait, Hans Beimer, Benny Beimer)

Apartment Zöllig-Schildknecht (Lindenstrasse 3, 1st floor on the right)

Sunny Zöllig last lived in this apartment with Tanja and Simon Schildknecht. (Former (co-) residents: Nina Zöllig, Enzo letter, Hajo, Sabrina and Hilde Scholz, Angelina letter, Gottlieb, Berta and Manoel Griese, Robert Engel, Henny, Tanja and Meike Schildknecht)

Apartment Beimer-Ziegler (Lindenstrasse 3, 2nd floor on the left)

Anna Ziegler last lived in this apartment with her sons Martin and Emil. (Former (co) residents: Hans Beimer, Sarah Ziegler, Gung Pham Kien, Hilde Scholz, Emilie Krüger, Rosi Koch, Urszula, Irina and Wanda Winicki, Gabi Zenker, Elisabeth Birkhahn, Mary and Nikos Sarikakis, Hubert Koch, David Motibe , Jaruslav Winicki, Andy, Jo, Valerie and Iffi Zenker, Carsten Flöter, Zorro Pichelsteiner, Beate Flöter, Robert Engel, Gert Weinbauer)

Apartment Beimer (Lindenstrasse 3, 2nd floor on the right)

Klaus and Neyla Beimer recently lived in this apartment with Klaus' daughter Mila. (Former (co-) residents: Philipp and Momo Sperling, Antonia and Iffi Beimer, Nico Zenker, Tanja and Simon Schildknecht, Suzanne Richter, Caroline and Lukas Stadler, Jan Günzel, Andy, Gabi, Valerie, Max, Jo and Timo Zenker, Lisa Hoffmeister, Gung Pham Kien, Rosi and Hubert Koch, Wanda, Jaruslav and Urszula Winicki, Benno Zimmermann, Anna Ziegler, Chris Barnsteg, Phil Seegers, Wolf Drewitz)

Apartment Behrend-Brooks (Lindenstraße 3, 3rd floor on the left)

This is the apartment where Dr. Iris Brooks and Alex Behrend with Jamal Bakkoush and William Brooks. (Former (co) residents: Lara Brooks, Maria, Adi, Jimi, Josi, Caro and Lukas Stadler, Urszula and Irina Winicki, Christian Brenner, Bruno Büring, Professor McLeod, Tanja Schildknecht, Franziska Brenner, Beate Flöter, Suzanne Richter, Klaus Beimer, Kurt, Eva-Maria, Philipp and Momo Sperling, Daniela Schmitz, Canan Dağdelen, Franz and Vera Schildknecht, Celin Kern, Henny and Meike Schildknecht)

Dağdelen apartment (Lindenstraße 3, 3rd floor on the right)

Murat and Lisa recently lived in this apartment with Paul and Deniz Dağdelen. (Former (co-) residents: Orkan Kurtoğlu, Gabi Zenker, Bruno Skabowski, Ines and Olaf Kling, David Krämer, Ingo Reitmaier, Dr. Ahmet and Canan Dağdelen, Mary Kling, Dieter Rantzow, Egon Kling, Claudia Rantzow, Hajo Scholz, Rosi and Hubert Koch, Chris Barnsteg, Lydia and Berta Nolte)

WG Starck-Landmann (Lindenstrasse 3, 4th floor left)

Lea Starck and Konstantin Landmann last lived in this apartment. (Former (co-) residents: Roland Landmann, Nico, Andy and Gabi, Iffi and Timo Zenker, Peter Lottmann, Mary and Nikos Sarikakis, Momo Sperling, Mohammed Al Naim Al Qadi, Paolo, Giovanna and Marcella Varese, Urszula and Irina Winicki , Carsten Flöter, Franz Wittich, David Motibe, Olli Klatt, Egon Kling, smuggler Dimitri, Bianca Guther and Stefan Nossek)

Apartment Flöter (Lindenstraße 3, 4th floor on the right)

Dr. Carsten Flöter. (Former (co-) residents: Georg Eschweiler, Zorro Pichelsteiner, Felix Flöter, Theo Klages, Beate Flöter, Amélie and Julia von der Marwitz, Ernst-Hugo von Salen-Priesnitz, Robert Engel, Beate and Vasily Sarikakis, Elfie and Sigi Kronmayr )

Villa Dressler (Lindenstrasse 7, above the doctor's office)

Gung Pham Kien last lived in the villa. (Former (co-) residents: Dr. Ludwig Dressler, Elisabeth Dressler, Tanja Schildknecht-Dressler, Frank Dressler, Hannelore Siekmann, Jack Aichinger, Hajo Scholz). In March 2020, Jack Aichinger, who had inherited the house, moved in with her children Emma and Elias.

Sarikakis apartment (Lindenstrasse 2, above the Acropolis)

Vasily Sarikarkis last lived in this apartment, at times with daughter Emma. (Former (co-) residents: Sandra Sarikakis, Chantal Löhmer, Mary and Nikos Sarikakis, Beate Sarikakis, Panaiotis and Elena Sarikakis)

Dressler-Zenker apartment (Kastanienstraße 26, 1st floor)

Angelina Dressler last lived in this apartment with Nico Zenker. (Former residents: Philipp Sperling, Alexander Behrend, Adi and Josi Stadler, Momo Sperling, Klaus Beimer, Marion and Nina Beimer, Nastya Pashenko, Rashid Daruwalla)

WG Kastanienstraße 26, 2nd floor

Unknown residents recently lived in this apartment. (Former residents: Marcella Varese, Adi Stadler, Lea Starck, Alex Behrend, Sarah Ziegler, Lara Brooks, Anna Ziegler, Jack Aichinger, Orkan Kurtoğlu, Hans Beimer, Tom, Sophie and Martin Ziegler, Kathi Müller, Mary Dankor)

WG Zenker-Zöllig (Kastanienstraße 26, 3rd floor)

Iffi Zenker with daughter Antonia and Roland Landmann as well as Nina Zöllig and Johannes Diestl with their daughter Ida lived in this apartment. (Former (co-) residents: Moritz Sperling, Timo and Nico Zenker)

particularities

• After No Beautiful Land from 1985, Die Lindenstrasse is the second German TV series in which a same-sex kiss was shown, namely in 1987. After broadcasting another episode with a kiss scene in 1990, the two actors Martin Armknecht and Georg Uecker received several anonymous death threats . This second kiss between homosexuals resulted in the BR not repeating the episode, which earned it accusations of censorship .
• The three-part comic series The Secret of Lindenstrasse and two other self-contained comic stories were published by Carlsen Verlag between 1992 and 1995 , but their actions have nothing in common with the TV series. The five volumes are:
  • Dressler's Last Ride ISBN 3-551-02051-5 .
  • Fallen Angels ISBN 3-551-02052-3 .
  • Hard drinks for mother Beimer ISBN 3-551-02053-1 .
  • The candidate ISBN 3-551-02054-X .
  • KO according to quote ISBN 3-551-02055-8 .
• On December 14, 1991 issue 71 of Wetten, dass ..? in Kiel. Here was u. A. Mutter-Beimer actress Marjan as guest. The winners were two members of a Husum fan club who randomly recognized seven of seven from all the 314 Lindenstrasse episodes that had been drawn up until then - based on five-second sequences of the respective final scenes.
• In episode 471 (1994), Tatort commissioners Leitmayr ( Udo Wachtveitl ) and Batic ( Miroslav Nemec ) appear with a UNICEF donation can in Lindenstrasse. The occasion was the 300th episode of the crime scene. Quote from Amélie von der Marwitz : “But you don't belong on this street at all. You are Commissioners Leitmayr and Batic. "
• Anna Nowak , who embodied Urszula Winicki in the series , graced the cover of the German playboy in 1998 , and in 2006 Jacqueline Svilarov (Nina Zöllig) was also photographed for this magazine. Cosima Viola (Jacqueline "Jack" Aichinger) was last photographed in 2016 .
• Irene Fischer (Anna Ziegler) is married to one of the directors, Dominikus Probst.
• After the campaign “Vote Gung!”, In which the figure Gung is advertised on posters as a candidate for Chancellor, some ballot papers had to be rejected as invalid in the 1998 Bundestag elections because “Gung” was written on them and checked.
• Til Schweiger left Lindenstrasse after his successful cinema debut Manta, Manta . Although the character Jo Zenker played by Schweiger disappeared from the series in 1992, she is occasionally mentioned in dialogues in such a way that "Jo is in Hollywood". This is a reference made by the scriptwriters to Schweiger's film career after he left the series. Schweiger's future wife Dana Carlsen played the role of Pat Wolfson in episodes 489 and 490 in 1995 .
• The actors Julia Stark and Johannes Scheit have played their roles Sarah Ziegler and Tom Ziegler since they were babies. Scheit made his first appearance on the series when he was seven months old, and Stark was selected in casting for the series when she was one year old. Moritz A. Sachs has been playing the role of Klaus Beimer since he was seven years old and grew up on Lindenstrasse. Also Sontje Peplow (Lisa Dağdelen) , Rebecca Siemoneit-Barum (Iffi Beimer) and Anna Sophia Claus (Lea Starck) play their roles since childhood. The actors Hermes Hodolides (Vasily Sarikakis) , Sybille Waury (Tanja Schildknecht) , Andrea Spatzek (Gabriele Zenker) and Georg Uecker (Carsten Flöter) have held their roles for more than half their lives.
• Irene Fischer and Joachim Hermann Luger , who in their roles as parents have a child with Down syndrome (trisomy 21), are now committed to helping people with this disability. The child has been played by Jan Dominik Grünig, who was born with trisomy 21, since he was five months old. Fischer and Luger took part in a poster campaign run by the DS Infocenter; Luger was the godfather of the second Down Sportsman Festival , which took place on May 8, 2004 in Frankfurt am Main. In 2001 Lindenstrasse received the “ Bobby ” Lebenshilfe media prize for dealing with the issue of “disability ”.
• The role of Hartmut Rennep , embodied by Harry Rowohlt , has a hidden gag: If you read his last name Rennep backwards, Penner comes out - the character is a homeless person, known colloquially as "Penner".
• The director and action artist Christoph Schlingensief was production manager from 1986 to 1987.
• Irene Fischer ( Anna Ziegler ) was the only actor who was active at the time to write scripts for Lindenstrasse.
• In memory of the former director George Moorse , the ice cream parlor was first called “Café Moorse” and from mid-2009 “Café George”.
• The series is named after the actually existing Lindenstrasse in Ummendorf in Upper Swabia (near Biberach) . Screenwriter Barbara Piazza wrote the series and character concept for Lindenstrasse together with Hans W. Geißendörfer and lived in Lindenstrasse for several years.
• When a Lindenstrasse resident sets up a website , it always exists in reality. By Hajo Scholz and Andy Zenker launched page to the "power change" was still accessible even after many years, as is the blog of Andy and Gabi Zenker , established during a longer stay Italy.
• In the film, Abduction from Linden Street from 1995 many Lindenstrasse actors interact with. However, the roles were transferred to other personalities except for Helga Beimer . Herbert Feuerstein plays a leading role as Detlef Hase .
• The voice that Else Kling heard shortly before her death in episode 1069 belonged to the series inventor Hans W. Geißendörfer . The role figure was called to him in the truest sense of the word by its creator.
• In the course of the Soccer World Cup 2010 , episode 1282 was not broadcast on June 27, 2010 at the designated slot. The first broadcast of this episode took place on the same day shortly before midnight on the Einsfestival transmitter ; a first repetition usually takes place on this slot . The first aired the episode the following Monday at 5:00 a.m. After criticism by viewers, the episode was repeated on July 4, 2010, right before the current episode 1283.
• On December 8, 2010, the series celebrated its 25th anniversary. In the following anniversary issue No. 1306, which was broadcast on December 12, 2010, Geißendörfer appeared in person for the first time in front of the camera, in order to marry the characters Iffi and Klaus as wedding speakers . This episode also lasted ten minutes longer than usual.
• On the occasion of the 25th anniversary, the special episode Was was, what is, what would be if ... was produced on DVD in cooperation with the TV magazine Hörzu , which was published as an insert. In addition to the actual episode, the DVD contains a “ making-of ” and a 24-minute interview with Hans-W. Geißendörfer.
• Due to the first broadcast of the 2012 Olympic Games in London , no episodes of Lindenstrasse were broadcast on July 29 and August 12; there were two weeks between episodes 1390, 1391 and 1392. This was the first time since the series began in December 1985 that broadcast dates were canceled without replacement. According to ARD, a postponement was not possible. For 2013 there were further failures on August 4 and December 29. Due to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , the programs were only broadcast around midnight on February 16 and 23. Due to the broadcast of the Tour de France 2015 , on July 26th 2015 - only announced at short notice - the regular episode in the first was canceled; it was first broadcast late in the evening on Einsfestival, again on the repeat slot. For the next sport-related failure of the series, however, the ARD changed the concept: The episodes 1565 and 1566, which had been displaced from their traditional broadcasting slot due to live broadcasts of the European Handball Championship on January 24 and 31, 2016, were on the one hand on the Internet two days in advance on the other hand, they ran at the usual time at 6:50 p.m. on Einsfestival. In addition, both episodes were repeated in the main program on the afternoon of the regular broadcast day of episode 1567.
• For the 30th anniversary of the series, the anniversary episode was produced and broadcast live on December 6, 2015 .
• The actor Aaron Rufer grew up in the real Lindenstrasse in Munich.
• After July 9, 2017 (episode 1637; one, two, cha cha cha ), the series took a summer break for the first time until August 20, 2017 (episode 1638; little angel flies ). The broadcaster stated that it wanted to use this time to produce “a very unusual episode”.
• Dr. Dressler's suicide was broadcast exactly 34 years to the day after the first broadcast of episode 1 (his first appearance, at Klaus Beimer's bedside) on December 8, 2019.
• In the last episode (1758) the 80th birthday of Helga Beimer was celebrated in the Acropolis. Practically all the figures in the current ensemble appeared as guests. In the credits, images of Lindenstrasse were cut together with those of a drone flight over Munich, so that the street blended into the city's backdrop. The location was on Kaulbachstrasse in Munich-Schwabing.

Actors and characters

→ Main article : List of actors and characters from Lindenstrasse

Episode guide

→ Main article : Episode list

Crossover

There are two crossover episodes to the SWR soap opera Die Fallers - Eine Schwarzwaldfamilie . So Else Kling travels in sequence 630 along Lindenstrasse Süßer die Glocken ... to the Black Forest and spends her vacation at Fallerhof in sequence 130 visits from Lindenstrasse . In Lindenstraße sequence 632 Stuffed up also travels Mary Gordon to the fallers and occurs there in a row 131 Helga Beimers Black Forest Tour on. The two episodes that belong together were shown on the same evening when they were first broadcast. Lindenstrasse and Die Fallers are therefore located in the same series universe. The Fallers are in the same universe as Dahoam is Dahoam .

In addition, the Lindenstrasse family doctor Iris Brooks is in episode 793 of the series In All Friendship ( Out of sight out of mind? From November 28, 2017) patient in the Sachsenklinik and daughter Lara Brooks visiting her, which is in the Lindenstrasse episode 1653 Being there for one another from December 3, 2017 at the beginning and when Lara's nightmare is discussed. A little later, on April 15 and 22, 2018, in the Lindenstrasse episodes 1670 and 1671 (Neyla and Klaus and Das Enkelkind), the Sachsenklinik administration chief Sarah Marquardt made a return visit to Lindenstrasse, where she met the former family doctors Ludwig Dressler and Carsten Flute has to do. In all friendship continued to have various crossovers to other ARD series.

Overall, the common series universe consists of veterinarian Dr. Mertens , cheerful to fatal: Ex files , Einstein Castle , Marienhof , Forbidden Love . Lindenstrasse, The Fallers , Dahoam is Dahoam , In all friendship and In all friendship - The young doctors .

Awards

• 1989 Bambi for the "realistic representation of everyday German life".
• 1998 Golden Camera in the category "most successful series on German television".
• 2001 Adolf Grimme Prize with gold, in the “Special” category, to Hans W. Geißendörfer as producer of the series.

literature

• Barbara Piazza: Welcome! The novel for the television series, episodes 1-4. Ed .: Monika Paetow. 1st edition. Gustav Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 1986, ISBN 3-404-10664-4 .
• Wolfram Lotze: The official Lindenstrasse book . 1st edition. Vito von Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-8218-3357-2 .
• Eva Erb-Schulze: The Lindenstrasse cookbook . 1st edition. Weingarten, 1995, ISBN 3-8170-0027-8 .
• Florian Kann: The Lindenstrasse case. Legal opinion on the machinations of the Beimer, Kling, Sperling, von der Marwitz families and others . Vito von Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1st edition, 1997, ISBN 3-8218-3456-0 .
• Judy Bister and Sandra Müller: The Lindenstrasse Universe . All the stories. Ed .: Joachim Christian Huth. 1st edition. vgs, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-8025-2613-9 .
• Judy Bister and Sandra Müller: The Lindenstrasse Universe . Data, facts, background. Ed .: Joachim Christian Huth. 1st edition. vgs, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-8025-2614-7 .
• Hans W. Geißendörfer and Wolfram Lotze (eds.): Lindenstrasse - 1000 episodes in words and pictures . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-609-7 .
• Sabine Buchholz, Annika Hoffmann, Kerstin Tille, Anina Müller: serial phenomenon Lindenstrasse . The "Lindenstrasse" as a mirror of society. ScienceFactory, 2013, ISBN 978-3-95687-022-4 .
• Eckhard Pabst: Pictures of cities, pictures of life . Conceptions of urbanity in the TV series “Lindenstrasse” and “ Gute Zeiten, Bad Zeiten ”. Ludwig, Kiel 2015, ISBN 978-3-937719-66-5 .
• Lotta Müller: Lindenstrasse - The Quiz Book . BoD, Norderstedt 2017, ISBN 978-3-7448-9501-9 .
• 30 years of Lindenstrasse. The Chronicle . Kettler, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86206-453-3 .
• Lindenstrasse: The Chronicle . Kettler, 2020, ISBN 978-3-86206-808-1 .

Publications

In addition to the broadcast dates on television and on the Internet, the episodes were released as annual DVD boxes.

Web links

Commons : Lindenstrasse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lindenstraße in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• TV series website
• virtual and interactive 360 ​​° tour through Lindenstrasse

Individual evidence

1. ↑ LIVE episode 1559 Behind the Door on WDR .de
2. ↑ imfernsehen GmbH & Co KG: Lindenstrasse: Episodenguide. Retrieved February 21, 2020 . 
3. ↑ wdr.de
4. ↑ Hans W. Geißendörfer on Lindenstrasse.de , accessed on November 26, 2012.
5. ↑ sueddeutsche.de - Obituaries
6. ^ Lindenstrasse: Farewell after more than three decades . WDR press and information, November 16, 2018.
7. ↑ The "Lindenstrasse" and its roots in Neustadt. In: Northern Bavaria. December 13, 2018.
8. ↑ Ground floor on the left on lindenstrasse.de, accessed on March 30, 2020.
9. ↑ The series says goodbye in such an unspectacular manner . on stern.de, accessed on March 30, 2020.
10. ^ Christian Deutschländer: Indendantenwahl: Change of power at the BR. MERKUR ONLINE, April 15, 2010, accessed on July 4, 2010 : "In the 70s and 80s, the BR faded out by the minute from the ARD program when it got too tricky: for a cabaret show or a gay Kiss in the "Lindenstrasse". " 
11. ↑ Jürn Kruse and Stefan Niggemeier: Lindenstrasse is part of my life , Übermedien from March 24, 2020, accessed on April 1, 2020.
12. ↑ Holger Kreitling : Confucius and the election. WELT ONLINE, September 22, 1998, accessed July 4, 2010 . 
13. ↑ www.tagblatt.de: “Lindenstrasse” author Barbara Piazza presents her first great novel. April 7, 2010, accessed January 30, 2011 . 
14. ↑ www.lindenstraße.de: ARD press release and further information. Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, accessed on December 12, 2010 : “Das Erste broadcasts episodes 1282 and 1283 of the weekly series at 6:20 pm and 6:50 pm to ensure that no fan misses a minute from Germany's first permanent series can. " 
15. ^ After review: ARD repeatedly postponed "Lindenstrasse" episode. TVmatrix Network, accessed July 4, 2010 . 
16. ↑ Aaron Rufer plays "Jamal Bakkoush": Aaron Rufer from June 2017 in the role of "Jamal". New entry in “Lindenstrasse” Vita; WDR website . Retrieved July 7, 2017.
17. ^ Lindenstrasse: 'Lindenstrasse' takes a summer break . May 30, 2017 ( wdr.de [accessed July 5, 2017]).