Lukas (TV series)

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Television series
Original title Luke
Country of production GermanyGermany Germany
original language German
Year (s) 1996-2001
length 25 minutes
Episodes 64 in 5 seasons
genre Sitcom
First broadcast March 3, 1996 on ZDF
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Lukas is a comedy series that ran on ZDF from 1996 to 2001 . The series consisted of five seasons with 64 episodes.

The series

The protagonist of the series is the professional actor Lukas Lenz, who lives in an old apartment in Cologne-Nippes with his daughter Lisa and his father Ludwig . This three-generation household provides plenty of fuel for situation comedy , puns and bizarre situations. The series was shot as a stage recording in front of an audience with the title "Hello, today is Wednesday ..."

people

Lukas Lenz is a short, overweight actor who moderates the children's program "Flora, the lilac-colored bat". Since Lukas was widowed at an early age, he has to be the father and mother of his daughter Lisa at the same time, which is not so easy as he never grew up himself. His need for harmony and his will to show tolerance in all directions usually lead to him stepping into one faux pas after the other. Lukas was portrayed by Dirk Bach .

Ludwig, Lukas' father, is a retired accountant. After his divorce he moved in with Lukas and Lisa and since then has tried to organize the household with bureaucratic precision, which inevitably causes a tangible row with Lukas. Ludwig was portrayed by Hansjoachim Krietsch .

Lisa is Lukas' daughter. She is Lukas' good conscience in many things and often has to bring him back on the carpet with Coco and Ludwig when he again overreacts completely. Maria de Bragança played Lisa in the first three seasons, from the fourth onwards Charlotte Bohning took over the role.

Coco, actually Cornelia Weber, Lukas' friend from the sandpit times, is almost part of the "house inventory", although she does not live there. Coco is a professional photographer, a self-confessed lesbian, always looking for the woman in life and with Lukas usually one heart and one soul. Coco is portrayed by Katja Bellinghausen .

Ms. Hamacher, Lukas' constantly drunk neighbor, appears as a running gag in every episode or is at least mentioned by name. Mostly she just sneaks through the stairwell laden with bottles and her text consists only of a tortured “Morjen!”. Her first name ( Ulrike ) is never mentioned, but can be read on a check in episode 52. The role and actress therefore have the same name. (Apart from episode 23, however, the actress's nickname, Uli Hamacher , can always be read in the credits .)

Awards

In 1996, leading actor Dirk Bach received the Telestar television award in the category of best actor in a series for the role of Lukas .

Trivia

In episode 41 ( A class of its own ) it is explained that Lukas and Coco went to school with Maren Gilzer . She appears at a class reunion and her work for the game show Wheel of Fortune is discussed. Lukas cannot remember her name at first, which means that a content-related error has crept into the series. Already in episode 36 ( My stomach belongs to me ) he jokingly asked why Maren Gilzer did not moderate the day's topics - he must have known about her.

Episode 2 (The Horror Video) describes how Ludwig quits smoking because his doctor advised him to. Much later in the series, in the second-to-last episode (you never go completely part 1), Ludwig tells us that "recently" he didn't put a cigarette off properly. Accordingly, he never stopped smoking or he relapsed after quitting smoking.

In episode 22 ( Won, Won ), Lukas mentions that he doesn't have a driver's license. In the last episode of the series ( rear-view mirror ), however, the frame plot consists of Lukas sitting at the wheel of a VW Beetle and driving home with Coco.

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