Tom Rehberg is acting as a special agent in Berlin’s redlight district.

Anna Schröder was once a celebrated ice princess. But a fall that left her badly injured put an end to her career. Her marriage with the dull-witted attorney Reiner doesn’t make her happy.

The inconspicuous Burkharda Meier dreams of becoming a famous singer. So she answers an ad seeking a singer-soloist on a luxury liner. At the casting, however, Burkharda flunks the test in grand style.

Fashion consultant Juliane is a successful business lady. Together with her boyfriend René she owns an exclusive salon, which he uses as a gallery to exhibit paintings.

“Victories have a huge number of fathers and mothers. Defeats only ever have one.” (Gerhard Schröder)

Part of an Arte theme evening entitled What we want to know: Natural catastrophes - who pays?

Katarina Diezmann (Gudrun Landgrebe) is generally happy with life. The well-known art expert has a senior position with the auctioneers Wegener.

Sandra Speichert, Dominic Raacke and Charles Brauer in “Love is the Best Medicine”: love in Sicilian and a faked death

Rosemarie Fendel, Jennifer Nitsch, Helmut Zierl, Florian Fitz in “In the Cave of the Lioness”: a story of mothers, daughters and secret love

When his wife dies of cancer, the only thing that still matters to advertising photographer Michael Bender is his nine-year-old daughter Sammy.

A smear campaign - definitely! Successful lawyer Rebekka Butt has no other way of explaining the photographs which have just appeared in the tabloid newspaper “Sonne”.

Eva Maria Split is pleased when her husband Herbert retires. But she is less taken with his idea that they should set off on a long journey in the new mobile home. Eva Maria hates camping holidays.

Hildegard Reimund has three grown-up daughters and would like nothing more than some grandchildren to make the house feel alive once again.

Her company is older than the German Republic – she herself is better known than the German Chancellor: 98 per cent of the population knows Beate Uhse. Her name stands for a legend of German moral history and is a synonym for sexual freedom.

A documentary about "Alzheimer" by Claudia Bissinger and Michael Jürgs

THE PUBLISHER is a telefeature biography of a German titan who builds a media empire of European format out of nothing.

A documentary about the biggest tunnel-escape in the history of the Berlin wall, the soldier Egon Schultz, and a Cold War lie.

A HEART IN FLAMES is the first TV movies in a new series called STAR SIGNS produced by ZIEGLER FILM GmbH & Co. KG for ARD/DEGETO. The TV movies are romantic or sophisticated comedies, inspired by the different star signs. Winfried Noe, the famous astrologist works as a consultant on the entire collection.

The Tyrolean radio station Radio Kaisertal has a regular feature: Dream Couple of the Week. This involves the presenter turning up unexpectedly at a couple’s front door, and on this occasion he catches Hans and Vera.

Professor Robert von Reichenbach (Peter Sattmann) is an astronomer and the director of the Berlin Observatory.

The adaptation of the novel by Charlotte Link tells the sinister involvement of a German couple with the fate of their English holiday cottage owners.

Leona, lector in a publishing house, has just called her husband Wolfgang on her mobile to announce happily that she has found their dream house, when a young woman falls onto the pavement in front of her and dies in her arms.

So many men in the world and it has to be him! Adele Weiß is horrified when she learns that her daughter Linda is planning to get married to Dieter Morus, of all people.

Anna can safely say there is only one man in her life: her seven-year-old son Tobi.

Sophie Dukakis has a very particular passion in life: books!

Carola Martin (Thekla Carola Wied) has enjoyed a trouble-free marriage for the last 25 years with Dieter (Miguel Herz-Kestranek), the owner of a profitable furniture company; they have a daughter, Simone (Valerie Koch), and Carola has a successful

Police officer Simon Gehring wants to convict Berlin’s head of redlight district named Fengler.

BRIGITTE MIRA and HARALD JUHNKE are the „depraved couple“ in a romantic comedy by WOLF GREMM starring GÜNTER PFITZMANN, JULIA BIEDERMANN, HELEN VITA, EVELYN KÜNNECKE, KONSTANTIN WECKER and HELMUT BERGER. As guests: AXEL SCHULZ CHRISTINE NEUBAUER. Käthe (Brigitte Mira) has been a widow for ten years now. Helplessly she has to watch how Stefan (Helmut Berger) not only cheats on her beloved granddaughter Christine (Julia Biedermann), but also has turned her good old café into a dubious nightclub. Her only comfort in this situation are her conversations with her dead husband Hubert (Harald Juhnke). Every day she confides her thoughts and sorrows to his photography and still he is even closer to her heart than her best friends Arabella (Helen Vita) and Brigitte (Evelyn Künnecke). One day a miracle happens: destiny gives a second chance to Käthe and Hubert. Hubert returns from the hereafter to stand by Käthe and to save Christine out of the clutches of unfaithful Stefan. But only Käthe can see her Hubert, and so people think that she is more and more talking to herself. The couple thinks about getting Stefan out of the way. Hubert has been an inspector, and now they need all his cleverness to cook up a perfect plan. They want Wilhelm (Günter Pfitzmann) to help them. Wilhelm is a retired policeman who used to be Hubert´s subordinate. He was head over heels for Käthe and still adores her – and Hubert´s jealousy arouses again. Another part of their plan is Frank Morawek (Konstantin Wecker), a former Foreign Legionnaire who now runs the nightclub without scruple. He has his eye on Christine and Käthe wants to distract him from her, because he isn´t exactly her idea of a good catch for her granddaughter. But just as Käthe and Hubert want to make their diabolic plan come true, everything goes another way. Because just like in the good old days of their marriage the couple starts to quarrel like cats and dogs. So they almost forget their plan – when suddenly there is a dead body in the bathtub... The film is based on the novel „After a depraved life“ by Andreas Arnold.

35-year-old Flora works for the glossy society magazine “Marylin”. Her job takes her to such exciting places as beauty farms and sperm banks and it involves meeting a lot of interesting and eccentric people.

FOREVER YOUNG is homage to the Grande Dame of German stage and cinema – the wonderful Brigitte Mira. To honor this unique and beloved artist on her 90th birthday, a gala with many famous guests was held at the Berliner Wintergarten  Varieté.

Who hasn’t dreamed of driving along endless inter-state highways, floating above New York in a helicopter or crossing Grand Canyon in a boat?

Retired building contractor Arno Adelmann is approaching his 77th birthday. The gnarled, grumpy old eccentric is a great deal more warm-hearted, amusing and quick-witted than might be apparent at first.

“Relentless Women” is the NDR Television film with Stefanie Stappenbeck and Barbara Philipp in the leading roles, which was broadcast by ARD on Wednesday 12th March 2003 at 20.15. The script was written by Eckhard Theophil and Manfred Stelzer, who also directed the film. “Relentless Women” was produced by Ziegler Film, Berlin and shot in Berlin, on Romo (Denmark) and the island of Sylt. Fine Holthusen has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of her boyfriend Holger. She has spent the last three years behind bars struggling to remember what happened the night he was killed. She was found guilty on the basis of circumstantial evidence, but now Fine is determined to establish the truth and breaks out of jail with the assistance of her friend, a convicted robber called Luzzi. The two women, who would seem to have so little in common, first stop off at Luzzi’s old apartment. Her friend Flash, a gambler down on his luck, is living there at the moment. Luzzi guesses that he will soon reveal their presence to the police, since he has always been a rather dubious character. In fact Fine and Luzzi just manage to get away in time. Fine resolves to return to the scene of the crime in order to establish what really happened. So they both take the train to the north, renting a bungalow in the holiday complex where the murder took place three years ago. Fine, disguised with a black wig and a pair of sunglasses, wanders around and soon finds some memory is returning. She and Holger had argued. Fine went down to the beach and was drinking with three men, locals. Then the men started making advances, and Fine was forced to defend herself... But at precisely this point her memories cease. Luzzi suggests that Fine was probably drugged and raped. During the trial the three men, Henning Jepsen, Wilhelm Lopsien and Bruno Leip, were witnesses for the prosecution. They still live in this seaside resort, and Henning in particular seems to be doing very well; in the meantime he has been able to expand the holiday apartments considerably. On the first evening here Fine and Luzzi invite Bruno to their bungalow and ply him with drinks. Then Fine reveals to him her true appearance. When he recognizes her he gets a terrible shock, and Luzzi is smart enough to make use of this: she accuses him of having raped Fine. He replies: “Not me!” And in this way he clearly incriminates the other two men. Armed with this knowledge, Fine and Luzzi come up with a sophisticated plan which will ensure that the real culprits get the punishment they deserve...

Life seems to be good for Ellen Schweizer. The attractive and successful author of historical love stories has been happily married for almost 20 years to businessmen Donald.

After the death of her mother the divorced dance therapist Marlene Hagedorn moves into her mother’s empty semi-detached house together with her three daughters Nadja, Miriam and Cilli.

Franziska Zis has made it. Her debut novel is a huge success. Alexander Karl, programme director at Sender TV, even he wants her as a talk show host.

Linda is seriously frustrated. Her job in an advertising agency is almost giving her a nervous breakdown, and while the new man in her life, Mike Badon, is an absolute sweetheart, he lives a long way away.

On November 30 2002,  in the fourth episode of “Laughter is Good for You - Comedy for UNICEF” presenter Dirk Bach, along with stars of the German comedy scenes such as Ingo Appelt, Maren Kroyman, Rüdiger Hoffmann, Anke Engelke, Ingolf

He likes to sail in the storm, he loves dangerous rock climbing and his wife always has to accompany him. Ursula Winkler does not lead an easy life with Walter, owner of a packaging plant.

Thekla Carola Wied is Anna Marx again...

Linda, a 32 year-old-single, works as an art director for the advertising agency König & König. Together with her gay colleague Donald she enjoys watching happy couples on TV.

Marie really should enjoy life: the children have left home and she has all the time she needs to paint.

Julia loves her family: her four children, aunt Isolde and the dog Victor. The only person she does not love as much is her still-to-be- husband Wolf. He was unfaithful and so she threw him out.

Judith cannot help it, she just is a little clumsy. Any kind of problem just sticks to her like flies to a wall. And of course she is unhappy with her boy-friend Holger as well as with her economics studies at university.

Just recently Sarah became a single mother. Until then she used to have a happy family, a husband Ralf and a son Benny. Sarah though has learned her lesson from that experience and will now only date married man.

Sylvie was attacked in a park, on her way to a carnival. Her assailant almost raped her and very nearly killed her before escaping.

RIDING THE STORM, a five-part series on the fate of a woman and a family, begins in the summer of 1914 and literally takes the pulse of the entire 20th century.

Chief Inspector Beckmann finds himself involved in an extremely tricky case when a woman claims that she witnessed him committing murder and robbery.

Housewife Theresa Bayer has won a prize: a holiday in a luxurious and extremely high-class hotel with beauty centre and adjoining golf course.