Lindenstraße (literally "Linden Street") was a German television
drama series, broadcast by Das Erste. The first episode aired on 8
December 1985 and since then new episodes were broadcast weekly. Its
current timeslot on Das Erste is Sundays at 18:50. The events of the
Sunday episode usually take place on the Thursday before the show.
This is a result of the original plan having been to show each episode
on a Thursday night. Before the start of the series the programme's
timeslot was switched to Sunday evening, but Thursday remained the day
on which the events are normally shown as taking place, because the
original concept of dramatizing the events of daily life as
experienced by a group of characters on an ordinary weekday has
continued unchanged. Exceptions are the so-called holiday episodes
where the events take place on such special occasions as Christmas and
Easter; also on important election days (especially general elections
to the German Bundestag).Setting the pace for other soap operas in
Germany, the first episodes were mostly met with poor reviews.
However, Lindenstraße soon became one of the most successful shows on
German television.On 16 November 2018 it was announced that the ARD
television programme conference had decided â€" on cost grounds,
despite the programme's continuing to attract between two and three
million viewers weekly â€" not to extend its contract with the show's
producers, Geißendörfer Film- und Fernsehproduktion, and that the
series would therefore come to an end, after 35 years, in March
2020.The creator of Lindenstraße is Hans W. Geißendörfer, whose
company Geißendörfer Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH (GFF -
"Geißendörfer film and TV productions") still produces the series
today. In the beginning, Geißendörfer also directed the series. It
is set in Munich, but filmed at the WDR studios in
Cologne-Bocklemünd, where an entire outdoor street mock-up of the
eponymous Lindenstraße was built. An actual street named
'Lindenstraße' exists in Munich's Harlaching district, but it has
nothing to do with the series' fictional street. Lindenstraße Biography, Weight & Height, Age, Nationality & Ethnicity
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