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- A writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge.
- An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- On her 16th birthday, Gwendolyn Shepherd finds out that instead of her cousin, she has inherited a rare gene that allows her to travel through time.
- An author forms a strange bond with her eccentric maid that will have a lasting effect on both women.
- The 18th century literary genius Friedrich Schiller falls in love with the sisters Charlotte and Caroline von Lengefeld. After a passionate summer together in a menage a trois, jealousy and rivalry endanger their union.
- Thomas Müller is spotted by a marketing agency for his exceptional normality.
- A young college student thinks that something sinister is going on in her new dorm room.
- The sudden transformation of a lower middle class woman who falls in love with a bank robber and soon becomes one herself.
- A student's lie about a book he damaged leads to an unexpected campaign of hate against the members of another class.
- The story is about the 13-year-old boy Kos. His mother passed away and after his father ended up in the hospital, Kos must run the family hotel together with his three sisters. Kos tries to take the lead, but the cooperation with his sisters is quite hard. He doesn't understand anything about girls as hard as he tries. Around Isabel, the girl he's in love with, he also doesn't know how to act. Kos does everything he can to save the hotel, but when the creditors come asking for their money, everything seems lost .
- One evening in the mid-sixties, Rolf Anschütz, a chef who runs a small restaurant in a town called Suhl in the middle of the East German province of Thuringen offers his guests a unique and exotic meal - Japanese Sukiyaki. It was intent to be a surprise for some of his best customers and it became a great success. Even the local paper wrote about it - and this should change the life of Rolf Anschütz forever. A couple of days after the "event" a real Japanese turned up at the restaurant and demanded the same meal again. From this moment there was no way back. The Japanese loved Rolf Anschütz cooking and his restaurant "Der Waffenschmied" (Gunsmith) soon was honored as the place which offered the best and most authentic Japanese cuisine outside Japan. In the shortest time the Japanese have accepted Rolf Anschütz as one theirs. They celebrate the Authenzität of his kitchen and the "original" Japanese washing rituals before the meals would be served. First diplomats, later Japanese economic bosses and sports delegations were sitting in the pool of the now famous restaurant "Waffenschmied - Japanese department" - naked and side by side with government officials and the brigades of the East German working class. And because the omnipresent communist party cannot close the popular place any more, the state security better known as Stasi took also their seat in the pool. The party soon discovered Rolfs restaurant as a foreign currency bringer and allowed the import of Japanese food and exotic ingredients from a delicatessen importer from West Germany. And while Rolfs Anschütz, in the meantime, wearing kimonos and East German geisha's on his side, philosophies about the peaceful coexistence of the people in the World his restaurant turns into the only really existing "theme park" in East Germany. Who wanted to go for a meal, must order two years in advance - at the end it will be 2 million guests!
- Berlin, 1932. The Weimar Republic is torn apart in the struggle between right- and left-wing extremists and Berlin is a powder keg. Nightclub singer Henny Dalgow get to know the Social Democratic congressman and Jewish doctor Albert Goldman, and the two become a slightly odd couple. Albert is a sworn pacifist after his experiences in the First World War. Contrary to his beliefs he agrees to act as courier for his brother Edwin, who belongs to a radical communist cell.
- This animated short follows the life of a poor, German coal miner, Peter Munk. Coal mining leaves Peter far from the riches he desires, yet when given the opportunity to have three wishes granted, things do not go as well as he had hoped.
- Thomas (Lars Eidinger) returns from the university back to the Hessian Heimatkaff. There is just the "Grenzgang" celebrated a festival on which he met Kerstin (Claudia Michelsen). Years later, they meet again - two disillusioned souls
- Friendly, ever-helpful simpleton Till is his carpenter brothers Paul and Peter's dogsbody and the town laughingstock. When he generously shares his lunch with an old beggar, the character is actually a sorcerer and rewards him with a living golden goose. Till wants to offer it to the ever-sad Princess Louise, whose aunt and strict governess Edeltraud want to marry her off to haughty Prince Amandus and dreams of succeeding king Eduard herself, to cheer her up. The greedy townsfolk, including the curate, find that anyone who attempt to steal the goose sticks to it, while the bully brothers get their comeuppance in--and from--the forest.
- At the heart of this "Terra-X" offshoot for children is Opa Max, a retired scientist who works on a time machine together with his grandson Paul. But instead of traveling by itself, the not-quite-functional device brings people from the past into the present instead, who are pestered by Paul with questions. Themes of the first season include the ancient Egypt, Romans and Teutons, Cologne Cathedral and other medieval construction sites.
- Sarah Pohl is journalist in a great newspaper of Leipzig and she is now writing an article about an employer (the FCS company) who contracts illegally women and these women work in terrible conditions.His companion Florian Faber, represents Mrs Wörner, a woman who has been hit by the car driven by René Tornow, a candidate who looks for his reelection in the town hall of Leipzig, Mr. Tornow was driving his car under the influence of alcohol.This morning Florian has a meeting with Mrs. Wörner and is quite sure that he can win the trial, because Tornow was drunken and there are several witnesses who can testify it.But Florian speaks with Mrs. Wörner about her work as cleaning lady for the FCS company, but she is not convinced to denounce her work conditions.Sarah Pohl nearly shocks with Dirk Kosinsky,the manager of the FCS company, and asks him for an interview.Later she follows a van which is picking immigrant women for working.Besides Sarah is happy to meet again her former boyfriend Thomas Gärtner who has come to Leipzig.Florian just makes an ironical comment about the arrival of Thomas.
- Prisoner Edmund Frank is offered a large amount of money by the editor of a magazine, to tell the real story of his crime and the hiding place of the one million Mark he stole from the bank he worked for.
- After receiving a dubious Phone call at work, Eva Konalsky, a typist working at a Steel Factory disappears without a trace. The Saarbrücken Police sends the two cops Liersdahl and Schäfermann to investigate. Both of them have a very different view of how police work should be done and they are not very fond of each other at first. When another person of the Steel Factory's personnel is murdered they both have to do their best to solve the case.
- The East German authorities are calling the West German Police for assistance on a case. The body of a boy was found at a Truck Stop near Leipzig. The boy wears shoes made in West Germany. Some time later the assistance call is withdrawn. Phoning his colleague in East Berlin, a man he worked together with in the past, investigator Paul Trimmel in Hamburg is told: "There is no work for you here." But Trimmel investigates on his own. He finds out that the wealthy Erich Landsberger is the illegitimate father of the dead kid. Landsberger and his other son have moved to Frankfurt. Trimmel pays him a visit there. The man is of no great help for him, but Trimmel gets an unexpected clue from Landsberger's little son. He has to go to Leipzig himself to find out more. So he leaves the Transit Route near the city, pretending his car broke down, takes a Taxi and goes looking for Eva Billsing, the dead boy's mother. She is not home when Trimmel arrives. The next day Trimmel encounters Eva's boyfriend Peter Klaus, who works for the East German Police, and talks him into letting him have a word with Eva. At least Klaus gives in to Trimmel and the things Eva tells him help solve the case.
- A dead woman found in the Donau, is the wife of a very important guest of the Austrian Government. Oberinspektor Marek is asked to investigate the case very gently.