Best German soap series

Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten is a long-running German television soap opera, first broadcast on RTL in 1992. The programme concerns the lives of a fictional neighborhood in Germany's capital city Berlin. Over the years the soap opera tends to have an overhaul of young people in their late teens and early twenties; targeting a young viewership.

The residents of a Berlin flat share, between which there are love affairs, scenes of jealousy and, again and again, very harmonious moments.

Verliebt in Berlin (German pun for In Love in/with Berlin; abbreviation: ViB) is a Golden Rose-winning German telenovela, starring Alexandra Neldel, along with Mathis Künzler, Tim Sander, and Laura Osswald. It premiered on February 28, 2005, on Sat.1 in most of German-speaking Europe, with its final episode broadcast on October 12, 2007. The series is an adaptation of the Colombian telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea, written by Fernando Gaitán and produced by RCN TV.

Docu-soap about Davina Shakira and Shania Tyra, the two daughters of Robert and Carmen Geiss. In the spin-off of the "Geisses", Davina and Shania are now fledged and want to move into their own apartment in the best area of the Principality of Monaco. At last, the two Geiss daughters can decide for themselves what to do. However, dad Robert and mom Carmen are not completely written off: The Bal de Noël is just around the corner. The luxury family prepares for it together in their parents' apartment - after all, Robert and Carmen are experienced ball-goers and can therefore give their daughters a helping hand.

MMA fighter Louna Loris saves the life of Nicolas, an heir to billions, and becomes his new bodyguard. Though the social barriers between them seem insurmountable, they can’t shake their growing feelings for one another.

Anna Polauke hat großes kreatives Talent. Sie ist eine junge, freundliche Frau. Allerdings mit einem kleinen Problem. Sie ist schüchtern - sehr schüchtern. Vor fremden Menschen oder manchen bremsligen Situationen bekommt sie einfach kein Wort heraus. Besonders schwer fällt ihr das Sprechen vor Jonas Broda, in den sie sich zu Beginn Verliebt...

Lindenstraße (literally "Linden Street") is a German television show on ARD's Das Erste

Hand aufs Herz is a German television soap opera and premiered on October 4, 2010 on the private broadcasting station Sat.1. It got canceled in June 2011, announcing the series finale for September 5, 2011. However that changed when Sat.1 decided to drop the show from its line-up and sixx was announced to air the remaining episodes; with a one-hour series finale on September 2, 2011.The show focuses around a fictional high school in Cologne and tackles with young love, a marriage crisis, a mysterious disappearance, schemes and competition fights, coming out, drug abuse, career chances and forbidden feelings. Hand aufs Herz also introduces something completely new to the genre of a soap opera by including music and dance as one of the main elements.It has been compared to the successful American television show a hit TV show, Glee and the High School Musical franchise. Even though it started out as a musical series, the show shifts its stories from that plot even though it remains a part of the series.Hand aufs Herz started two weeks after the failed daily drama Eine wie keine aired its final episode due to low ratings. The show is in direct competition with the long-running soap opera Verbotene Liebe and is starring with Vanessa Jung and Andreas Jancke two of its former stars.

A Soap Opera set in Essen, Germany.

Shows relationship stories around the five-star Hotel Fürstenhof and love in several interwoven threads. The main actions relate in particular to the members of the Saalfeld family, owners of the hotel, and the employees of the Fürstenhof.

Verbotene Liebe is a German television soap opera Verbotene Liebe was initially based on original story and character outlines from the Australian soap opera Sons and Daughters, before evolving into a show of its own as the series progressed. The show originally focused on two core families: the wealthy Anstetten family and the middle-class Brandner family. More specifically, it dealt with the story of Jan Brandner and Julia von Anstetten, two strangers whose fascination for each other leads them to fall in love, neither of them cognizant of the fact that they are twins separated by their parents. It is this story of forbidden love that gave the series its title.

In Cologne's Schillerallee, love and hate go hand in hand. In the house at number 10 on the corner of Schillerallee and Maybachstraße, people love, argue, kiss, dream and blaspheme. People meet in the Schiller pub, in the Weigel patisserie and in summer at the ÜberSee beach club. Love and intrigue, friendship and cheating, careers and children, cheating and support, intact and broken families, quarrels and reconciliations: "Unter uns" deals with everything that can happen in every family, every clique, every flat-sharing community in real life, but doesn't have to. In "Unter uns", everyone knows everyone else's problems, everyone is somehow friends or related and tries to help each other.

A spin-off of the german soap opera 'Verbotene Liebe'. The series follows the residents of Königsbrunn Palace, where the family of fashion entrepreneur Robert Verhoven lives.

The lives of the residents of the fictitious village of Lansing in Upper Bavaria.

When the amateur gardeners get going, the viewer can look forward to entertaining hours. Whether sowing lawns, pulling fences, building terraces, planting trees - there is always something to do in the garden. And something always goes wrong: one has two left hands and the other lacks a green thumb.

"Shopping Queen" is a styling documentary in which five women compete against each other on five consecutive days each week to become the woman with the best style and the best sense of fashion.

In the background of the story, in which are involved families Franić and Šeper, is a family treasure that is buried back in 1943, in the forest, near the mansion.

Für alle Fälle Stefanie is an German medical drama television series created by Werner Krämer that aired on Sat.1 from May 15, 2005 to August 29, 2005. It was produced by Novafilm Fernsehproduktion. Für alle Fälle Stefanie follows the professional and personal life of nurse Stefanie Engel, then Stephanie Wilde and for a short time Fanny 'Stephanie' Stephan. The show was a giant success for the network and had around seven, in later years, five million viewers on a weekly basis. It won the Goldene Kamera award in 1997 and the Bavarian TV Award in 1996.

Christoph, Katharina, Kai and Beatrice work as animators in the holiday club Marengo on changing holiday destinations. Again and again they are moved to new places or move on freely. Everyone is young and good-looking and at the beginning has constant affairs with changing partners. Beatrice used to be with Christoph. After a while he discovered his love for Katharina, the two became a couple, and Baby Jonathan was born. Shortly afterwards they get married. In addition to his work as an animator, Christoph is drawn to the stage as a musician. He joins the women's band Ladycats as a singer and gives concerts with them again and again.

Manuela Berlett is a straightforward, chaotic woman and loving mother. After the divorce from the father of her child (Ralf) she has to stand on her own feet. Following a customs battle she loses custody of her son Daniel and tries to get her life in order to be able to get him back. Out of nowhere she gets help from hotel manager Mark Braun who gives her a cleaning job in the five star Grand Hotel Aden. Little does she know in what intrigues she's gonna be tangled in, in the world of the rich and sophisticated..

Another Schmonzetten series in front of a Scandinavian natural backdrop: In the fjords of Norway, Hanna Eliassen is looking for the biological father of her son Daniel, who is suffering from a serious illness, because the meteorologist Leif Sörensen, who lives on a remote island, is the only one who can guide him through one Organ donation can still save. But to find him, Hanne needs the help of her husband, who, however, has withdrawn deeply injured after learning that he is not the birth father of her son.

Alle zusammen – jeder für sich was a German television soap opera series which aired on RTL between 25 November 1996 and 30 October 1997. 230 episodes were produced by Grundy UFA.

The series revolves around the Wagenfeld family from Hamburg. Katharina Wagenfeld moves with her three children from Hamburg to Rosenburg in Bavaria after her husband has an affair. In Rosenburg, she is asked to take over her sick aunt's run-down inn, but this task proves more difficult than expected. But Katharina doesn't give up and tries to build a new life for herself and her children with the Black Rooster .

The Marienhof: thrilling and humorous, but especially tumultuous stories take place in this neighbourhood. Strong women and interesting men face exciting relationships and existential conflicts as well as the everyday aspects of life. With power and personality, the "kids" from Marienhof get to the heart of the aspirations and hopes of today's young people.

It's true that a hotel can hardly look more impressive and be more beautifully situated than Rhives Castle, but all beginnings are difficult. The young manager Carrie, who wants to lead the house to new splendor, has to realize this as well. That's why she worries a lot when she realizes that she is pregnant. What will her financier and life partner Sam say about this? As a newspaper publisher, he has his hands full trying to dissuade bestselling author Alexia White from suing for defamation: one of his employees accused her of plagiarism. The writer has it in her hands to financially destroy him and Carrie. Carrie's jealousy and the pressure from his bank don't make Sam's negotiations with the woman whose honor has been violated any easier.

After getting plastered with absinthe the two slackers Jacob and David find a pizza box on which they deliriously wrote a thesis for a new religion. On the internet solvent followers join their church and soon their Pay Pal account is bursting at the seams. Because of their intensive passion for video games, they hire Eva, who is supposed to manage the pastoral counseling. To make themselves seem reputable in front of the tax authorities and be able to circulate an actual offertory bag, a real church has to be built. Coincidentally Eva just met a carpenter. Seems to be a nice guy. His name is Jesús.