Best German soap series

In Love in Berlin (2005)

Verliebt in Berlin (German pun for In Love in/with Berlin; abbreviation: ViB) is a Golden Rose-winning German telenovela, starring Alexandra Neldel, along with Mathis Künzler, Tim Sander, and Laura Osswald. It premiered on February 28, 2005, on Sat.1 in most of German-speaking Europe, with its final episode broadcast on October 12, 2007. The series is an adaptation of the Colombian telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea, written by Fernando Gaitán and produced by RCN TV.

In aller Freundschaft (1998)

Davina & Shania - We Love Monaco (2022)

(2008)

Anna Polauke hat großes kreatives Talent. Sie ist eine junge, freundliche Frau. Allerdings mit einem kleinen Problem. Sie ist schüchtern - sehr schüchtern. Vor fremden Menschen oder manchen bremsligen Situationen bekommt sie einfach kein Wort heraus. Besonders schwer fällt ihr das Sprechen vor Jonas Broda, in den sie sich zu Beginn Verliebt...

Schwiegertochter gesucht (2007)

Für alle Fälle Familie (2024)

Alles was zählt (2006)

A Soap Opera set in Essen, Germany.

Leon - Glaub nicht alles, was du siehst (2022)

Sunny - Wer bist Du wirklich? (2020)

Hand aufs Herz (2010)

Hand aufs Herz is a German television soap opera and premiered on October 4, 2010 on the private broadcasting station Sat.1. It got canceled in June 2011, announcing the series finale for September 5, 2011. However that changed when Sat.1 decided to drop the show from its line-up and sixx was announced to air the remaining episodes; with a one-hour series finale on September 2, 2011.The show focuses around a fictional high school in Cologne and tackles with young love, a marriage crisis, a mysterious disappearance, schemes and competition fights, coming out, drug abuse, career chances and forbidden feelings. Hand aufs Herz also introduces something completely new to the genre of a soap opera by including music and dance as one of the main elements.It has been compared to the successful American television show a hit TV show, Glee and the High School Musical franchise. Even though it started out as a musical series, the show shifts its stories from that plot even though it remains a part of the series.Hand aufs Herz started two weeks after the failed daily drama Eine wie keine aired its final episode due to low ratings. The show is in direct competition with the long-running soap opera Verbotene Liebe and is starring with Vanessa Jung and Andreas Jancke two of its former stars.

Verbotene Liebe (1995)

Verbotene Liebe is a German television soap opera Verbotene Liebe was initially based on original story and character outlines from the Australian soap opera Sons and Daughters, before evolving into a show of its own as the series progressed. The show originally focused on two core families: the wealthy Anstetten family and the middle-class Brandner family. More specifically, it dealt with the story of Jan Brandner and Julia von Anstetten, two strangers whose fascination for each other leads them to fall in love, neither of them cognizant of the fact that they are twins separated by their parents. It is this story of forbidden love that gave the series its title.

Storm of Love (2005)

Shows relationship stories around the five-star Hotel Fürstenhof and love in several interwoven threads. The main actions relate in particular to the members of the Saalfeld family, owners of the hotel, and the employees of the Fürstenhof.

Forbidden Love - Next Generation (2020)

A spin-off of the german soap opera 'Verbotene Liebe'. The series follows the residents of Königsbrunn Palace, where the family of fashion entrepreneur Robert Verhoven lives.

Dahoam is Dahoam (2001)

The lives of the residents of the fictitious village of Lansing in Upper Bavaria.

Alles oder Nichts (2018)

Ab ins Beet! Die Garten-Soap (2005)

When the amateur gardeners get going, the viewer can look forward to entertaining hours. Whether sowing lawns, pulling fences, building terraces, planting trees - there is always something to do in the garden. And something always goes wrong: one has two left hands and the other lacks a green thumb.

Shopping Queen (DE) (2012)

"Shopping Queen" is a styling documentary in which five women compete against each other on five consecutive days each week to become the woman with the best style and the best sense of fashion.

Red Roses (2006)

Alles Liebe, Annette (2016)

Lena – Liebe meines Lebens (2010)

Tajne (2013)

In the background of the story, in which are involved families Franić and Šeper, is a family treasure that is buried back in 1943, in the forest, near the mansion.

Ibiza Diary (2018)

Die Bräuteschule 1958 (2008)

Bunte Hunde – Wo die Tierliebe hinfällt (2023)

Für alle Fälle Stefanie (1995)

Für alle Fälle Stefanie is an German medical drama television series created by Werner Krämer that aired on Sat.1 from May 15, 2005 to August 29, 2005. It was produced by Novafilm Fernsehproduktion. Für alle Fälle Stefanie follows the professional and personal life of nurse Stefanie Engel, then Stephanie Wilde and for a short time Fanny 'Stephanie' Stephan. The show was a giant success for the network and had around seven, in later years, five million viewers on a weekly basis. It won the Goldene Kamera award in 1997 and the Bavarian TV Award in 1996.

Between us (1994)

In Cologne's Schillerallee, love and hate go hand in hand. In the house at number 10 on the corner of Schillerallee and Maybachstraße, people love, argue, kiss, dream and blaspheme. People meet in the Schiller pub, in the Weigel patisserie and in summer at the ÜberSee beach club. Love and intrigue, friendship and cheating, careers and children, cheating and support, intact and broken families, quarrels and reconciliations: "Unter uns" deals with everything that can happen in every family, every clique, every flat-sharing community in real life, but doesn't have to. In "Unter uns", everyone knows everyone else's problems, everyone is somehow friends or related and tries to help each other.

Liebe am Fjord (2009)

Another Schmonzetten series in front of a Scandinavian natural backdrop: In the fjords of Norway, Hanna Eliassen is looking for the biological father of her son Daniel, who is suffering from a serious illness, because the meteorologist Leif Sörensen, who lives on a remote island, is the only one who can guide him through one Organ donation can still save. But to find him, Hanne needs the help of her husband, who, however, has withdrawn deeply injured after learning that he is not the birth father of her son.

Einmal Camping, immer Camping (2014)

Eine wie keine (2009)

Manuela Berlett is a straightforward, chaotic woman and loving mother. After the divorce from the father of her child (Ralf) she has to stand on her own feet. Following a customs battle she loses custody of her son Daniel and tries to get her life in order to be able to get him back. Out of nowhere she gets help from hotel manager Mark Braun who gives her a cleaning job in the five star Grand Hotel Aden. Little does she know in what intrigues she's gonna be tangled in, in the world of the rich and sophisticated..

Southern Stars (1992)

Christoph, Katharina, Kai and Beatrice work as animators in the holiday club Marengo on changing holiday destinations. Again and again they are moved to new places or move on freely. Everyone is young and good-looking and at the beginning has constant affairs with changing partners. Beatrice used to be with Christoph. After a while he discovered his love for Katharina, the two became a couple, and Baby Jonathan was born. Shortly afterwards they get married. In addition to his work as an animator, Christoph is drawn to the stage as a musician. He joins the women's band Ladycats as a singer and gives concerts with them again and again.