Michael Wittenborn

A young East German woman leaves her controlling husband/business partner and relocates to a West German city to start anew as an accountant, but he soon catches up with her.

An introverted insurance executive at a car rental service is annoyed by his hyperactive, garrulous coworker, but the two end up becoming friends.

Chrissi has spent years abroad proving that she can handle cars as a stunt driver. When she has to return to her father's childhood village after a serious accident, she is caught up in the tormenting memories of her family history. But her father is still trapped in his pain and unable to be there for her. In desperation, he offers her money so that she can build a life elsewhere, independent of the German social system - the relationship between the two is about to be put to the test...

Swim coach Anne trains her niece Juli for a state championship, sparking clashes with Juli’s mother, Anne’s sister Miriam, who fears Anne’s strict methods stem from her own abrupt, mysterious career halt years ago. At their mother’s 65th birthday, old secrets surface, triggering Anne’s panic attacks - visions of a shadow beneath the pool. Haunted by past disorientation at a key race, Anne must confront her fears to uncover the truth.

Miriam Maertens falls ill with cystic fibrosis and struggles quietly with the disease. Mastering a double life she falls in love and achieves her professional goals. When Miriam gets pregnant, everyone is shocked. When her lungs malfunction, it is a race against time to find a suitable donor.

At the latest when Helga crashes through the floor of her living room, she realizes that she is stuck. It's been two years since her husband left her for another woman, but she's still angry and hurt. Everything changes when her cleaning lady goes on vacation and sends Polish worker Ryszard to replace her. Initially the target of Helga's resentment himself, Ryszard soon becomes her confidant. Although they don't speak the same language, Helga feels understood. In the safety of their own four walls, the two grow closer. But when Helga's family and friends find out about her secret, she finds it difficult to admit her feelings for Ryszard, who doesn't fit in at all with the usual image of masculinity in her milieu. Will Helga sacrifice her young, late happiness to social conventions?

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At the centre of the comedy ‘Halbe Hundert’ (‘half of hundred’) stand three strong women at fifty. As with so many women of their generation, the number on their birth certificate seemingly doesn’t fit to their sense of life at all. But all three of them stand before decisive changes. Anne is successful in her professional life as a hand surgeon who is acclaimed all across Germany. The victim of her flawless career is her marriage to Klaus, who had her back with regards to children and household for years and now has left her unexpectedly. Anne reacts with wounded vanity and books a young, attractive male escort for a congress. But the relationship, considered to be professional, throws Anne out of the loop emotionally. Charlotte has worn down herself for the family for years as she is diagnosed with breast cancer. With the illness in front of her eyes, Charlotte finds the courage to break out of old confinements…

When the animal keeper Birgit gifts her daughter Sarah a parrot, the joy is great. While Sarah is teased at school because of her speech impediment, the parrot provides her with a sense of security. But when the parrot suddenly begins to constantly spout Nazi slogans, it not only causes problems with Birgit's Jewish in-laws, but also puts her in the crossfire of the media.

A love triangle forms between post-Enlightenment writer Friedrich Schiller and two sisters -- one who became his wife, and the other, his biographer.

Nick Gutlicht lives of illegally selling valuable books, owes money to a bunch of other crooks and has to hide from them. By chance he ends up in the mansion of the famous, now very old philosopher Curt Ledig, who despite the age related forgetfulness and pathological kitchen phobia resists to move to his daughter. Nick is hired by the family as watchdog. Now Curt can work on a presentation for the upcoming symposium, which anybody thinks he's capable of anymore. Nick thinks he has an excellent hiding place. This partnership of convenience of the two individuals quickly develops its own momentum. Curt regards Nick as an exciting research object and subjects him to an absurd therapy. For Nick it's a unique opportunity to fund his finances with Curt's phenomenal library. The strange couple is going through turmoil of incalculable proportions.

Three old friends from college move back in together in an apartment in Munich for financial reasons.

HERMANN WIEGAND (70), renowned economist and professor at the University of Bonn, is found dead at his home one morning by his girlfriend ANNETTE (62). His heart seems to have given way, completely out of the blue. Annette does not want to tell the sad news to their closest friends, JOACHIM (70), ELLA (66) and FRIEDRICH (68), who have all been part of their inseparable gang for centuries. Later that day, the four sit in the bedroom of their villa in Bonn and mourn their friend. Joachim realizes that this year's Nobel Prize in economics will be announced in just five days. Hermann has been a serious candidate for the prize for years thanks to his groundbreaking research in business psychology.

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Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Doppelter Einsatz is a German television series about the cases of two female detectives of the Hamburg police.

Die Affäre Semmeling was a 2002 German teleplay, broadcast on ZDF. It starred Mario Adorf as Walter 'Beton-Walter' Wegener, Robert Atzorn as Dr. Klaus Hennig, Heinz Hoenig as Axel Ropert, Stefan Kurt as Sigi Semmeling and Heike Makatsch as Silke Semmeling.