The Black Forest Clinic

Television series
Original title	The Black Forest Clinic
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Year (s)	1984–1988, 1991, 2005
length	45 minutes
Episodes	70 + 1 special + 2 films in 3 seasons
genre	Doctor series
idea	Herbert Lichtenfeld
production	Wolfgang Rademann
music	Hans Hammerschmid
First broadcast	October 22, 1985 on ZDF
occupation
Klausjürgen Wussow : Prof. Klaus Brinkmann Gaby Dohm : Sister Christa Mehnert / Dr. Christa Brinkmann Sascha Hehn : Dr. Udo Brinkmann Andreas Winterhalder : Benjamin Brinkmann as a child Alexander Wussow : Dr. Benjamin Brinkmann as an adult Eva Habermann : Dr. Sophie Schwarz / Brinkmann Ilona Grübel : Dr. Katarina Gessner Anja Kruse : Claudia Schubert Angelika Reissner : Angela "Angie" Gessner Karin Hardt : Housekeeper Käti Evelyn Hamann : Carsta Michaelis Olivia Pascal : Carola Reissner Eva Maria Bauer : Head Nurse Hildegard Zeisig Jochen Schroeder : Nurse Michael "Mischa" Burgmann Barbara Wussow : Sister Elke / Elke Brinkmann Gaby Fischer : Sister Ina Karin Eckhold : Secretary Karin Meis ("Meislein") Alf Marholm : Administrative Director Alfred Mühlmann Karl Walter Diess : Dr. Gerhard Schäfer Holger Petzold  : Dr. Rens Horst Naumann : Dr. Horst Römer Volker Brandt : Dr. Werner Schübel Herbert Tennigkeit : Dr. Laudann Christian Kohlund : Prof. Alexander Vollmers Knut Hinz : Dr. Borsdorf Franz Rudnick : Dr. Gerd Wolter Verena Peter : Dr. Karin Plessers Heidelinde Weis : Dr. Elena Bach Michael Kausch : Dr. Angel Wolfgang Wahl : Wolfgang Pohl Raimund Harmstorf : Florian Brinkmann Hannelore Elsner : Maria Rotenburg Beatrice Kessler : Theres Rotenburg Jörg Pleva : Dr. pagan Frank Schröder : Postman Berti

The “Klinik Glotterbad” in Glottertal in the Black Forest ( map )

Hüsli local history museum, external location for Professor Brinkmann's private apartment ( map )

The Black Forest Clinic is a German TV series by ZDF , which was produced between 1984 and 1988 and first broadcast from 1985 to 1989.

prehistory

The concept was based on the successful Czech series The Hospital on the Outskirts of the City , which emerged in the late 1970s and is considered the "mother of the hospital series". In interviews, Klausjürgen Wussow also named the American television series General Hospital as a role model for Die Schwarzwaldklinik .

Herbert Lichtenfeld acted as the author and spiritual father of the series ; The producer was the dream ship inventor Wolfgang Rademann . In the previous years, Rademann had tried several times to get broadcasters interested in the production of a doctor series, but had failed again and again. The Black Forest Clinic was produced by Polyphon Film- und Fernseh GmbH on behalf of ZDF and Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF). In the summer of 1984 a Polyphon team moved into quarters in Glottertal in the Black Forest for the shooting of the first season.

production

Rod

In addition to his actual work, producer Wolfgang Rademann was responsible for the engagement of actors and employees of the series.

The directors responsible for the three seasons of the Black Forest Clinic were Alfred Vohrer and Hans-Jürgen Tögel . Alfred Vohrer was the director of numerous Edgar Wallace and Winnetou films in the 1960s and 1970s. Since the mid-1970s he worked as a director for ZDF, including the crime series Derrick and Der Alte . The director of the Black Forest Clinic was Alfred Vohrer at the beginning of the series, he was responsible for the pilot film The Homecoming and for the first eleven episodes up to and including the episode The wrong diagnosis . All other episodes of the series were directed by Hans-Jürgen Tögel, who had previously been responsible for the ZDF dream ship as director . Tögel remained true to the genre of doctor series even after the Black Forest Clinic ended ; Among other things, he was the director of several episodes of the RTL series Dr. Stefan Frank - The doctor whom women trust .

Screenwriter Herbert Lichtenfeld had previously worked as an author for the ARD crime series Tatort and was initially only intended for the script for the first episodes. Ultimately, however, Rademann transferred the other episodes of the Black Forest Clinic to him , so that Lichtenfeld is the sole scriptwriter for all episodes of the series. While working at the Black Forest Clinic , he developed the ZDF series Der Landarzt .

Theme music

Originally from the ZDF many by scoring Karl May movies known Martin Böttcher as a composer for the theme song of the Black Forest Clinic provided. Böttcher had already written a theme song, but could not come to an agreement with the producers of the Black Forest Clinic on a financial level. That is why Hans Hammerschmid was hired as a composer, who then played the well-known Black Forest Clinic title music Hallo Dr. B. composed.

The title music, originally composed by Böttcher for the Black Forest Clinic , later became known through the series Forsthaus Falkenau , also produced by ZDF .

Display board in front of the Hüsli local history museum

Locations

The Carlsbau in Glottertal near Freiburg , built in 1913 and 1914, served as the exterior backdrop for the building of the fictitious Black Forest Clinic ( map ). The Glotterbad Clinic, used as a sanatorium, was taken over by the Württemberg State Insurance Institute in 1960 ; from 1987 it served as a specialist clinic for psychosomatics, psychotherapeutic and internal medicine, and most recently for children and family rehabilitation. In 2013 it was sold to the Kur und Reha GmbH of the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband , which opened an acute psychosomatic clinic there in 2014.

Only the exterior shots of the series were shot in the Black Forest, all interior shots took place in a Hamburg studio. These circumstances repeatedly led to the fact that fans of the series actually suspected the interior sets known from the series behind the facade of the clinic and sometimes believed that they could meet the actors there. Jörg Michael Herrmann, head of the Glotterbad Clinic, mentioned in an interview that even surgeons and anesthetists with a doctorate had applied for a position in the clinic, even though it did not even have an operating room.

The Hüsli local history museum in Grafenhausen was used as the exterior backdrop for the Brinkmann family's house . The fictional town where the Black Forest Clinic is located, was by the Kinzigtal lying Schiltach shown locations were the market place and the Gerberngasse the old town. The bank robbery that took place in the episode The Kidnapping was filmed in the Schluchsee community . Other well-known locations in the Black Forest such as the Triberg waterfalls or the Titisee also appeared as locations in the series, as did the old town of Freiburg ; a total of 31 locations in the Black Forest were shot.

The proximity of the locations suggested by the series, however, does not actually exist: The Titisee is about 30 km east of Glottertal, Grafenhausen about 60 km away.

In the opening and closing credits of the series, pictures of the mountain "Kofel" from the Ammergau Alps near Oberammergau, about 330 km away, were included. The outrage led to the fact that the ZDF recorded and broadcast a Sunday concert in Oberammergau as compensation .

Another location was in one episode the Freiburg University Clinic with its internal medicine lecture hall and the clinical chemistry teaching laboratory of the Medical Clinic. Medical students of 1985 served as extras.

Number of episodes

At times there is confusion about the number of episodes in the series. Due to the fact that both episodes 1 ( The Homecoming ) and 13 ( The Failure ) were broadcast in two parts of 45 minutes each and episode 24 ( The Journey to America ) originally consisted of two episodes of 45 minutes each ( Die Reise nach America and A Tragic Accident ), an episode number of 73 is sometimes assumed. In fact, there are 70 episodes.

actor

Leading roles

As with the Czech model, the Black Forest Clinic's plot revolved around both medical incidents and private problems of the main characters. Some of the characters in the series were cast by well-known actors, but many actors only became known and popular through the Black Forest Clinic .

The role of head physician Professor Klaus Brinkmann was initially offered to actor Armin Mueller-Stahl , who refused on the grounds that he did not want to be involved in a long-running series as an actor. Finally, the actor Klausjürgen Wussow, already known from the ZDF series Der Kurier der Kaiserin, was hired for the role. His film son Udo Brinkmann played Sascha Hehn , who became famous among other things for the dream ship . Other main actors besides Wussow and Hehn were the actresses Gaby Dohm as Christa Mehnert, hardly known on television at the beginning of the series , Eva Maria Bauer as head nurse Hildegard Zeisig and Christian Kohlund as doctor and later Professor Alexander Vollmers.

For the actors, the great success of the series was not exclusively gratifying, because they were fixed on their roles for years and were often only cast accordingly. Klausjürgen Wussow played the doctor Dr. Frank Hofmann in the ARD series Klinik unter Palmen , Sascha Hehn the title role in the ZDF series Frauenarzt Dr. Markus Merthin and Eva Maria Bauer various roles in the series Der Landarzt , Hallo, Unkel Doc! and St. Angela . Many actors are still associated with the characters they portrayed in the Black Forest Clinic .

Small roles

In addition to the long-term actors involved in the Black Forest Clinic , there were also numerous smaller roles, most of which were only seen a few episodes in the series. Nonetheless, these actors also achieved some notoriety, such as Frank Schröder , who played the postman Berti.

Other actors who had a minor role in the Black Forest Clinic included Karl-Heinz Vosgerau as Klaus Brinkmann's disease representative Professor Breeken, Heidelinde Weis as anesthetist Dr. Elena Bach, Wolfgang Kieling as country doctor Dr. Ignaz Marker or Monika Woytowicz as Christa Brinkmann's distraught friend Anna Marschner, who was separated from Dr. Schübel can be comforted.

Guest actor

The story of one or more patients at the Black Forest Clinic is usually told as a completed action within a series episode . This provided a great opportunity for producers to hire guest stars for these roles. Numerous well-known actors appeared as guest stars in the series, including Gert Fröbe in his last film and television role as a hundred-year-old patient Theodor Katz.

Serial characters

The linchpin of the Black Forest Clinic is the story of Professor Klaus Brinkmann and his family tensions with his son Dr. Udo Brinkmann, who was also a doctor at the clinic, to which his father returned as chief physician. Then there was the love story between the professor and the nurse Christa.

Brinkmann family

Professor Dr. Klaus Brinkmann is head physician at the Black Forest Clinic, has a lot of understanding for people and, as a surgeon, has a steady hand. He is the contact point for the worries and problems of his patients, hardly anything can disturb him. He lives in a beautiful farmhouse on Schluchsee (Hüsli) and marries the nurse Christa. During an operation, he suddenly had a heart attack. Meanwhile, Christa is expecting a child. After a long break, he travels to America to be examined thoroughly by a colleague. There he has a brief affair with the German landowner Maria Rotenburg, which puts considerable strain on his marriage.

Christa Brinkmann, b. Mehnert (later Dr.), works at the beginning of the series as a nurse in the Black Forest Clinic, where she is wooed in vain by Klaus' son Udo. When she met Klaus, she continued her medical studies. The two get married. With her son Benjamin , she makes Klaus a happy father again. Christa also becomes a surgeon at the Black Forest Clinic, but cannot cope with the death of patients and then moves to the Biological-Medical Institute in Konstanz, where she works closely with Prof. Vollmers. With Klaus this leads to jealousy and distrust again and again. As Benjamin develops psychosomatic symptoms due to the frequent absence of his mother, Christa finally quits in Konstanz and works again briefly at the pharmaceutical manufacturer Ilvo towards the end of the series. In the Special The Next Generation , she is the chief physician at the children's clinic in Heidelberg.

Udo Brinkmann's white cabriolet

Dr. Udo Brinkmann (later Prof.), Klaus' attractive son, is a surgeon like his father. Because of his hot temper, the two often clash. At the beginning of the series he is a real womanizer. His elegant jump into his white VW Golf Cabriolet achieved almost cult status. After his Sturm und Drang phase, he married the anesthetist Dr. Katarina Gessner, whose little daughter Angie is particularly dear to him. The marriage with Katarina fell apart and Udo got together with Angie's nanny, Claudia Schubert. After her death from leukemia, Udo goes with Dr. Vollmers to Africa, where they find themselves caught between the lines of civil war and spend some time in captivity. Back at home in the Black Forest, Udo finally meets up with sister Elke. He wants to marry her, but has to be divorced from Katarina first. It doesn't come to that anymore, as Katarina soon dies of blood poisoning. Udo and Elke go to Hamburg for a short time in the course of the series, where there are conflicts between the two, as Udo's job in an accident clinic is much harder than Elke's job in a private clinic. In addition, Udo's life in Hamburg is in danger when he is shot. He only survived thanks to immediate emergency surgery. After his recovery, Udo and Elke return to the Black Forest - Udo takes on a senior physician position at the Rodenweiler Clinic - and they get married at the end of the series. In the Special The Next Generation , Udo works two days a week as a well-paid cosmetic surgeon in Munich and treats children from war zones free of charge the rest of the time. In the New Times special , he became a professor and is made chief physician of the Black Forest Clinic by the new owner of the Black Forest Clinic, Kurt Seeberg. His father is proud that he has succeeded him.

Doctors at the Black Forest Clinic

Dr. Horst Römer , internist and neurologist at the Black Forest Clinic, is a bachelor and Klaus' closest colleague. He experiences an unhappy love affair with an actress. The talented surgeon and senior physician Dr. Borsdorf is one of Klaus' best employees. While solving a murder case, he himself comes under suspicion of having hit a girl. The reliable surgeon Dr. Gerhard Schäfer falls ill with rheumatism and changes in episode 11 of the 2nd season as a lecturer at the Hannover Medical School (MHH).

Dr. Elena Bach is an anesthetist and Klaus' long-time friend. It is difficult for her to cope with the fact that Klaus has chosen Christa. She is killed in a car accident. It happens when Klaus is on Sylt with Christa. Udo grievously reproaches his father for not being there, like when his mother died. Her successor will be the divorced anesthetist Dr. Katarina Gessner , who loves her independence, whereupon the marriage with Udo ultimately breaks up. She died of blood poisoning before a possible divorce.

The young assistant doctor Dr. Engel is hired to replace Udo when he goes to Africa. After his somewhat awkward debut - he tried several times in vain to get closer to Sister Elke - he was finally happy with Sister Ina . She briefly takes on the position of head nurse, while head nurse Hildegard is cured of a broken ankle. Ina is friends with Mischa, but often clashes with the head nurse. Engel is a skilled doctor, but is haunted by bad luck every now and then.

The passionate player and womanizer Dr. Despite everything, Werner Schübel is an excellent surgeon and senior physician . When he is broke again, Klaus stands by him despite his concerns. He falls in love with Christa's girlfriend Anna Marschner and leaves his wife for her. The young divorced doctor Dr. Karin Plessers admires and worships Klaus Brinkmann before getting back together with her former husband towards the end of the series.

Further employees of the Black Forest Clinic

Head nurse Hildegard Zeisig (in the special The next generation Hildegard Vogt) is curious and snappy, spreads wild rumors and chases the sisters around. She knows little pardon with patients until she has to go under the knife herself.

The conscientious administrative director Alfred Mühlmann would like full beds and sounding registers. With his concerns, Klaus does not always meet with approval. At an advanced age, he meets his long-lost wife and daughter in the Black Forest Clinic.

Miss Karin Meis , called Meislein, is Klaus' busy secretary and often has to endure the whims of her boss.

Sister Elke already had a brief affair with Udo as a student sister . Then she meets a stunt man who is healing his injuries in the Black Forest Clinic. After his tragic death she gets closer to Udo and marries him in the last episode.

The nurse Mischa Burgmann was already doing his community service in the Black Forest Clinic. Despite his perky mouth, he is popular everywhere.

More people

Käti is Klaus' long-time housekeeper who has been looking after him since he was a child. She is the good soul of the house until she suddenly dies during an afternoon nap. Her successor is the strict Carsta Michaelis , who attaches great importance to a godly lifestyle until suddenly her illegitimate daughter appears. Klaus' cousin Florian , who has lived in Canada for a long time, stands at the door one day with his suitcase full and surprises everyone with his unconventional way of life. He courted Michaelis, but later left her because of an old love. After this disappointment, Mrs. Michaelis despises all men, v. a. Wolfgang Pohl , the lovable neighbor of the Brinkmanns and retired bank director, whom she secretly loves. Only after he has had a serious accident does she open her heart to him.

Claudia Schubert first works as a nanny for Udo and Katharina and looks after Angie , Katharina's daughter from her first marriage. When Katharina goes to Hamburg and lives separated from Udo, Benjamin, the son of Klaus and Christa, is born. After her mother's death, Angie finds a new home with Maria Rotenburg's sister Theres, whom Angie's biological father gets to know and love through Klaus Brinkmann's mediation. Angie remains a regular at the Brinkmanns for the rest of the series. Udo falls in love with Claudia and she looks after Benjamin until she dies of leukemia. The disease was discovered through a persistent infection, but too late for a possible cure. Her successor is Carola Reissner , who looks after little Benjamin as the Brinkmanns' nanny. The drug researcher Prof. Alexander Vollmers tries in vain to win Christa's heart. He befriends Udo and after much back and forth falls in love with Carola, whom he later marries.

Success and impact of the series

German hit series of the 1980s

The first broadcast of the Black Forest Clinic took place with the pilot film Die Heimkehr on Tuesday, October 22, 1985 on ZDF. The first 22 episodes of the series were broadcast until February 23, 1986, the time slot changed between Saturday and Sunday evening at 7.30 p.m.

On October 15, 1987, the first broadcast of the second season began with a double episode, from October 17, 1987 to March 26, 1988, 22 new episodes were broadcast on Saturday evenings at 7.30 p.m. The 24-episode third and final season was broadcast on October 8, 1988. The episode Wedding with Obstacles was the last episode of the Black Forest Clinic on March 25, 1989. A total of 70 episodes (including double episodes) had been produced and broadcast by 1989.

Up to 28 million viewers (60% market share) watched weekly, making the Black Forest Clinic one of the biggest German television successes. The episode The Question of Guilt was reached on November 17, 1985, the record number of 27.97 million viewers. To date, this is the highest number of viewers ever achieved in Germany for a program with fictional content. Only sports broadcasts achieved and are achieving higher participation.

In 1991 a special edition for the Christmas program The Biggest Festival of the Year - Christmas was filmed by our television families at ZDF, in which most of the regular actors were involved. The Brinkmann couple actually want to enjoy Christmas morning for two, but are repeatedly disturbed by visitors, so that they all sit together in front of the television and watch their own series - announced by Birgit Schrowange . A major development was the announcement of the engagement of Dr. Römer and sister Ina, which was not included in the later films. When the series was repeated in the evening program of ZDF from October 1994, the special edition Die Schwarzwaldklinik - A series legend returns was created as a compilation of the best scenes from all episodes . Also thanks to the huge audience success, the Black Forest Clinic has so far made a total of eleven repetitions in the ZDF program.

The Black Forest Clinic was the reason that the genre of the doctor series became popular in Germany and so a large number of doctor and hospital series emerged on almost all channels in the 1990s (including gynecologist Dr. Markus Merthin , Dr. Stefan Frank - The doctor whom women trust , St. Angela , OP calls Dr. Bruckner - Germany's best doctors , in all friendship ).

The series also had an impact on tourism in the Black Forest, especially in the original setting in Glottertal. In the 1987 and 1988 summer seasons, 200,000 or more additional guests were counted who came to the region specifically for the Black Forest Clinic .

Export abroad

The Black Forest Clinic was extremely successful not only in Germany at the end of the 1980s. The series was sold in a total of 38 countries and ran in France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Spain, Yugoslavia, Italy, Greece, Scandinavia, Poland, Hungary and South Africa, among others.

Controversial consequences

The episode " Violence in the Game" , broadcast on February 1, 1986, sparked sometimes violent protests from viewers immediately after it was broadcast. This episode shows the rape of a young woman who later practices vigilante justice with her brother on the perpetrator and stabs him in the abdomen. As a first consequence, the ZDF canceled the repetition of the episode planned for the following day in the morning program .

The broadcast of the episode Steinschlag , which was actually scheduled for February 15, was then completely canceled, as the ZDF feared further negative reactions due to the child abuse discussed in this episode . The then ZDF announcer Birgit Schrowange only presented a short summary of the actions occurring in this episode that were important for the overall course of the series. The next episode, A Child, a Child, a Child, was broadcast on that day . The episode Rockfall was first seen on September 30, 1987, when the series' first season was repeated.

The Federal Testing Office for Writings Harmful to Young People put the episode " Violence in the Game" on the list of writings harmful to young people. Following a lawsuit by ZDF, the Federal Administrative Court issued a basic judgment on the indexing of television programs and films ( Schwarzwaldklinik / BVerwGE 85, 169), in which it spoke out against the indexing. The justification for the judgment was that a television program as such could not be included in the list of writings harmful to minors.

In the repetitions of the series that were broadcast several times in the ZDF program in the 1990s, the consequences of violence in games and falling rocks were not broadcast. It was not until the fifth complete repetition of the series in 2002 that the two episodes could be seen again on German television a good 15 years after their first broadcast. However, it was not the original version that was shown, but a shortened version in which the scenes of violence were cut accordingly and thus defused.

Abroad, the two controversial episodes were partially shown in the original uncut version.

reception

Immediately after the broadcast of the first episode, the series was almost unanimously ridiculed by critics as “kitsch romance” in the serious press, especially the unrealistic character of the presentation and the conceptual proximity to the doctor's novel . In the fall of 1985, Der Spiegel ran the headline: Operation Kitsch - TV hit Black Forest Clinic . The rainbow press, however, quickly realized how popular the series was with viewers and ran numerous accounts of the cast. ZDF program director Alois Schardt defended himself in the Hörzu in November 1985 against the criticism of the series. A tendency to encourage confusion between fiction and reality was quickly discernible; On this in mid-December 1985 Der Spiegel : “Not only picture and hearing have attached themselves to the boom, constantly reporting from the Black Forest. The Golden Leaf reported that the Black Forest Clinic was 'already 30 years ago ... world famous' as a sanatorium and that King Ibn Saud himself celebrated 'the rescue of his daughter' who had 'suffered the most severe burns' during fireworks. The ruler wrote in Arabic in the guest book: 'In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful'. "

The continuing repercussions beyond the screen also led to criticism in the Black Forest. So criticized z. For example, in 1986 the pastor of the Glottertal parish called “hospital tourism”, which takes place especially on church holidays, as “megalomania that no longer wants or needs God”.

Michael Prosser describes the Schwarzwaldklinik as a broadcast format following the “frequent viewer syndrome” described by Michael R. Buß in 1983, which is composed of elements of the soap opera , the trivial doctor novel and the Heimatfilm and which follows the purpose of the broadcaster to attract frequent viewers to its program hold. The soap opera scheme was followed by the unchanged location without historical-geographical quality, the unchanged protagonists and their lack of personal development. The doctor's novel scheme was followed by various structural schemes in the series (love relationships, the young doctor's maturation process, the main character's role as superfather) as well as the affinity to the everyday world underlined by identifying props such as the contemporary equipment with clothing and automobiles. The picture book views taken at various locations were borrowed from Heimatfilm, and were "cloned in the studio to a Black Forest of compressed intensity". The landscape photographs should not convey any geographical knowledge, but only moods. In addition, according to Prosser, the visual stimuli “give the poor dialogues in the script their full semantics ”.

In 1987 Michael Schenk and Patrick Rössler conducted an audience survey on the reception of soap operas using the example of the Black Forest Clinic and the Dallas series . The audience attributed the attributes “moral”, “romantic” and “harmonious” to the Black Forest Clinic . The most important reception motive was given as the entertaining character, whereby the entertainment value of the Black Forest Clinic was rated higher than that of Dallas . Michael Prosser subsumes the audience reception as an expression of escapism , in which, in addition to enjoying the presented idyll, there is also empathy for the fate of the protagonists, whereby conflicts are only built up in order to be able to offer harmonious solutions, but not to clarify problems or to reflect and encourage reflection.

revival

In response to the keen audience interest, a television film was produced in August 2004 for the 20th anniversary of the Black Forest Clinic, which was broadcast on ZDF on February 20, 2005 under the title The Black Forest Clinic - The Next Generation . Almost all of the actors from that time were filmed at the original locations of the series and on the Bodensee island of Mainau . The plot revolved around the preparations for the wedding of the now adult son of Prof. Brinkmann, Benjamin Brinkmann, who works as a doctor in the Black Forest Clinic. This is portrayed by Klausjürgen Wussow's son Alexander Wussow , whose film wife Eva Habermann . However, the authors of the series do not calculate the age of the character Benjamin Brinkmann in real time, as he was only born in the episode broadcast on February 23, 1986.

Due to the enormous audience rating, up to 15 million at the top, the producer Wolfgang Rademann decided, contrary to initial announcements, to shoot another episode of the “next generation”. The broadcast date of the second special, Die Schwarzwaldklinik - Neue Zeiten, was December 4, 2005. The ratings for the second episode, however, could not keep up with those of the first, they were just over seven million viewers.

According to the producer, there will no longer be a weekly series or other special editions. While all the main actors were still there when the television film was shot in 2004, with the exception of Karin Hardt, who died in 1992, and Alf Marholm, who was seriously ill, Klausjürgen Wussow, Eva-Maria Bauer, Alf Marholm, Franz Rudnick, Wolfgang Wahl, Evelyn Hamann and Karl Walter have been there ever since Diess died.

Trivia

• In 1985, the cabaret artist Stephan Wald published a satirical record with the title Schwarzwortklinik, which alluded to the series in terms of appearance and content.
• The series was satirized parallel to its first broadcast on Südwestfunk as Das kranke Haus am Titisee . Main characters were called u. a. Prof. Trinkmann and splendid sister Christa.
• The Düsseldorf punk band Die Toten Hosen published a satirical-critical title under the name Schwarzwaldklinik on the 1986 album Damenwahl .
• The forensic doctor portrayed in the movie Der Wixxer by Oliver Welke is called Dr. Brinkman.
• The Freiburg surf band Leopold Kraus Wellenkapelle transformed the title melody of the series as a clinic under fir trees into a surf song on their album Schwarzwaldfieber .
• The publisher Siso Trend published a board game for the series.
• The building of the Black Forest Clinic was offered as a model by Vollmer .
• For the 30th anniversary, a dinner-theater piece was created in Essen in September 2015. The premiere took place on September 9, 2015 in the Wasserschloss Wittringen in Gladbeck, and the piece has been on tour through Germany since then.

DVD release

To release the series on DVD , the three seasons, each comprising 24 episodes, were cut in half and divided into six parts, which were now called Season 1, Season 2, etc. for better marketing:

• Season 1 (episodes 1–12), March 27, 2006
• Second season (episodes 13-23), February 12, 2007
• Season 3 (episodes 24-34), October 8, 2007
• 4th season (episodes 35-46), January 14, 2008
• Season 5 (episodes 47-58), May 5, 2008
• Season 6 (episodes 59-70), September 15, 2008

In September 2015, Studio Hamburg released a new complete box with all the episodes.

literature

• Peter Heim : The Black Forest Clinic. Novel based on the ZDF television series by Herbert Lichtenfeld . Hestia, Rastatt 1994, 287 pages, ISBN 3-89457-052-0
• Peter Heim: The wedding in the Black Forest Clinic. Novel based on the ZDF television series by Herbert Lichtenfeld . Full paperback edition. Droemersche Verlagsanstalt Knaur, Munich 1987, 404 pages, ISBN 3-426-01486-6
• Peter Heim: People and Fates in the Black Forest Clinic. Novel based on the ZDF television series by Herbert Lichtenfeld . Full paperback edition. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1987, 421 pp.
• Peter Heim: The doctors at the Black Forest Clinic. Novel based on the ZDF television series by Herbert Lichtenfeld . Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1988, 443 pages, ISBN 3-404-11240-7
• Klausjürgen Wussow : My life as chief physician Dr. Brinkmann from the Black Forest Clinic. Views, thoughts and experiences of the popular actor . Special edition. Naumann and Göbel, Cologne 1989, 350 pages, ISBN 3-625-20124-0
• Patrick Rössler: Dallas and Black Forest Clinic. A program study about soap operas on German television . Series Medien-Skripten, Volume 1. Fischer, Munich 1988, 187 pages, ISBN 3-88927-039-5
• Axel Braun: Black Forest Clinic escape model. A family series as a retreat in a simplified, homely world . Oldenburg preprints (Issue 10). University of Oldenburg, Center for Pedagogical Professional Practice, Oldenburg 1987, 109 pp.
• Michael Prosser: The phenomenon "Black Forest Clinic" , in: Contributions to folklore in Baden-Württemberg, Vol. 5 , Stuttgart 1993, pp. 97-144.

Web links

Commons : Die Schwarzwaldklinik  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The Black Forest Clinic in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Page with further information about the series and its actors
• The TV Black Forest Clinic in Glottertal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} "An ideal world is always in business" , producer Wolfgang Rademann in a SPIEGEL interview on einestages.de (accessed on October 22, 2010)
2. ^ Martin U. Müller: On the death of Wolfgang Rademann: Melodramas for millions . In: Spiegel Online . February 1, 2016 ( spiegel.de [accessed November 24, 2017]).
3. ^ Portrait of Wolfgang Rademann. zdf.de, February 14, 2005, archived from the original on July 14, 2007 ; accessed on November 14, 2016 . 
4. ^ Portrait of Alfred Vohrer at deutscher-tonfilm.de ( Memento from December 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Personal details about Hans-Jürgen Tögel at cinefacts.de
6. ↑ Herbert Lichtenfeld , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 21/2002, May 13, 2002, accessed on November 25, 2012
7. ↑ Interview with the composer Martin Böttcher on May 2, 2004
8. ↑ Photo: Specialist Clinic for Family Rehabilitation Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 23, 2008
9. ↑ Glottertal: Thure-von-Uexküll-Klinik: Schwarzwaldklinik: The first patients move into their rooms - badische-zeitung.de. Retrieved September 30, 2014 . 
10. ↑ "We don't even have an operating room" - article at zdf.de from August 26, 2004 ( Memento from November 30, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ The Black Forest Clinic - TV history against a picturesque backdrop. In: Media-Center WM 2006. media-bw.de, archived from the original on December 8, 2008 ; accessed on November 14, 2016 . 
12. ↑ ^{a b} Information from the IMDb
13. ↑ Prosser 1993, p. 99.
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15. ↑ Der Spiegel 44/1985, title
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