Season 1
(2008)
Cast
Episodes
Otto and the Empire 0.0
October 26, 2008
The birth of the Germans. In the struggle of the German tribes against the Hungarians, something like a sense of commun…
Heinrich and the Pope 0.0
October 28, 2008
The walk to Canossa. It is a power struggle such as has never been seen before: King versus Pope. Who is the stronger? …
Barbarossa and the Lion 0.0
November 2, 2008
Rivalry in the family. He is the king of the Germans and wants to rule over the Occident as emperor: the Staufer Freder…
Luther and the Nation 0.0
November 4, 2008
The reformer and promoter of the German language. At first, he was just a simple monk, a doubting and struggling theolo…
Wallenstein and the War 0.0
November 9, 2008
Genius commander or traitor? It is a battle for religious and political supremacy in the empire and in Europe: Catholic…
Frederick the Great and the Empress 0.0
November 11, 2008
Duel between Prussia and Austria. After the Thirty Years' War, the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation resembled a t…
Napoleon and the Germans 0.0
November 16, 2008
Between freedom and repression. It is a foreign emperor, of all people, who catapults Germany into a national era: Fran…
Robert Blum and the Revolution 0.0
November 18, 2008
An unknown hero. A revolution - in Germany? And by no means, as Lenin later smugly told the Germans, with a proper plat…
Bismarck and the German Empire 0.0
November 23, 2008
From Small-State Fighter to National Fighter. After the revolution of 1848, the unsuccessful attempt at "unity from bel…
Wilhelm and the World 0.0
November 25, 2008
A monarch between megalomania and depression. The German Empire at the beginning of the 20th century: too small to rule…