Season 1
(1984)
Cast
as Glasisch Karl
as Maria Simon
as Eduard Simon
as Katharina Simon
as Lucie Hardtke
as Mathias Simon
as Alois Wiegand
as Wilfried Wiegand
as Marie-Goot
as Robert Kröber
as Martha
as Pauline
as Martina
as Hänschen
as Otto Wohlleben
as Glockzieh
as Wirt
as Lotti
as Klärchen Sisse
as Paul Simon
as Hermann Simon
as Hermann Simon
as Pauline Kröber
as Anton Simon
as Anton Simon
Episodes
The Call of Far-Away Places (1919-1928) 0.0
September 16, 1984
1918 (November) -- World War I ends. 1919 -- the Weimar Republic is set up at Weimar, Germany. Katharina and Mathias …
The Center of the World (1928-1933) 0.0
September 19, 1984
1929 -- the Great Depression begins further impoverishing the less fortunate Germans. This puts great pressure on the…
The Best Christmas Ever (1935) 0.0
September 23, 1984
From Berlin the sickly Eduard brings his wife Lucie home to Schabbach. Lucie is an extremely ambitious woman and wants…
The Highway (1938) 0.0
September 26, 1984
1938 -- to escape the politically worsening situation in Germany, the famous German movie star Marlene Dietrich emigr…
Up and Away and Back (1938-1939) 0.0
October 8, 1984
1938 (June) -- German heavy-weight boxer Max Schmeling loses badly in a rematch with American boxer Joe Louis. A bom…
The Home Front (1943) 0.0
October 15, 1984
1943 -- the last large-scale German offensive assault on the eastern front begins at Kursk. The military situation r…
Soldiers and Love (1944) 0.0
October 22, 1984
1944 (June 6) -- the allied forces land on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. 1944 (July 20) -- would-be assassins…
The American (1944-1947) 0.0
October 31, 1984
1945 (May 8) -- Germany surrenders. Lucie sees the arrival of the Americans in Schabbach as just another opportunit…
Little Hermann (1955-1956) 0.0
November 4, 1984
1955 -- West Germany joins NATO, while East Germany joins the Warsaw Pact. Maria absolutely dotes on her son Hermann…
The Proud Years (1967-1969) 0.0
October 21, 1984
1968 -- there are student demonstrations and unrest in West Germany as in the rest of the West. 1969 -- Chancellor…
The Feast of the Living and the Dead (1982) 0.0
October 24, 1984
1982-1998 -- reign of Helmut Kohl as Chancellor of Germany. He saw the destruction of the Berlin Wall (November 9, 1…