Dietrich Mattausch

In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the authorities came to learn of it, the lovers' arrest, and the aftermath. While his son takes Polaroid photographs, he retraces the steps of his childhood and interviews those who should remember. The story is disclosed in flashbacks that focus on the lovers (Paulina and Stanislaus), on a jealous and conniving neighbor, and on Mayer, the local SS commander who wants to find a way out of inevitable consequences.

In her teens, Mme. Zachanassian had to flee her home town in disgrace. Now she's old and rich and the town is facing bankruptcy. But she returns with news that she wants to help - as long as the townsfolk kill someone for her.

Accordion virtuoso Bruno has signed his first record deal when he is seriously injured at work. At the Alpine Clinic, senior physician Linda Singer advises the immediate amputation of his hand after examining the X-ray images. This would mean the end of the young artist's career. As an experienced surgeon, Dr. Daniel Guth still sees a chance: in a difficult operation, he saves the young musician's hand, but during the treatment he overlooks an internal injury. Has Daniel committed malpractice? Arch-enemy Linda senses her chance to finally replace Daniel as chief physician. With "Emergency for Dr. Guth", entertainment specialist Peter Sämann continues the story of the popular Alpenklinik series. In the role of the dutiful head doctor, audience favorite Erol Sander clearly has too much patience with his adversaries.

A real time recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which leading SS and Nazi Party officals gathered to discuss the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". Led by SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, the Wannsee Conference was the starting point for the Jewish Holcaust which led to the mass murder of six million people.

The Second World War is over and now begins in post-war Germany, the reconstruction. Jakob Formann sees his chance here and begins a rapid rise as an entrepreneur.

Diane falls from the clouds when she receives the anonymous message that her husband is cheating on her business trip to Verona. Immediately she makes her way to Italy to get to the bottom of it. In fact, Heiko does not just have a lover - he even gives her out to his business partners as his wife. In her grief, Dianne finds support with the likeable Anton Brück, whom she has already met on the train. When he takes down the depressed Dianne for an important business lunch and there Heiko and his "wife" appear, the amorous entanglements really get going

Bonn 1948. The member of parliament and lawyer Elisabeth Selbert fights tirelessly for the inclusion of the sentence "Men and women have equal rights" in the Basic Law of the future Federal Republic of Germany. Despite the opposition she encounters during sessions in the Parliamentary Council , there is _she does not stop and stubbornly sticks to her plan . Selbert experiences a grandiose triumph when her application is included in the new Basic Law under Article 3, Paragraph 2 . In doing so , she lays the foundation for what has now been a 65-year political and social debate on the subjectEqual rights.