Verliebt in Berlin
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| Genre | Telenovela |
| Running time | 24 minutes |
| Creator(s) | Michael Esser Peter Schlesselmann |
| Producer(s) | Markus Brunnemann Rainer Wemcken |
| Starring | Alexandra Neldel Mathis Künzler Tim Sander Laura Osswald |
| Opening theme | Nena - "Liebe Ist" |
| Country of origin | Germany |
| Language(s) | German |
| Original channel | Sat. 1 |
| Original run | February 28, 2005– |
| No. of episodes | 364 + 19 specials + Tv movie + 280 (2nd season) |
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Verliebt in Berlin (ViB) is the a German telenovela. The first episode premiered on February 28, 2005 on Sat. 1, just before primetime. Each Sunday, all episodes of the week are repeated. ViB is produced by Grundy UFA TV Produktions GmbH and Phoenix Film. The story is based on Yo Soy Betty La Fea.
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[edit] Plot
[edit] Season 1
Elisabeth „Lisa“ Plenske (Alexandra Neldel), a kind, intelligent, but naive and not necessarily beautiful young woman, grows up in the (fictional) village Göberitz, near Berlin, with her parents Bernd (Volker Herold) and Helga (Ulrike Mai). Lisa moves to Berlin and tries to get a job at Kerima Moda, a fashion company. There, she bumps into the junior chairman David Seidel (Mathis Künzler) and falls in love with him. She starts off catering at Kerima Moda, but manages to get promoted to personal assistant of Seidel. She works with him, however he does not really notice her qualities (much less herself as a woman), because he is engaged to Mariella von Brahmberg (Bianca Hein) and is also involved with various other women.
During the course of the series, Lisa manages to save and finally own Kerima Moda, rescues her boss David from death and the wrath of his then-fiancée, watches the dissolve of his engagement to Mariella, protects the company from David's maleficent rival and half-brother Richard von Brahmberg (Karim Köster) and his mother Sophie von Brahmberg (Gabrielle Scharnitzky), endures the antics of the secretary Sabrina (Nina-Friederike Gnädig), falls in love with and gets engaged to Robert "Rokko" Kowalski (Manuel Cortez), while bearing the quirks of the chief designer Hugo Haas (Hubertus Regout) and helping his assistant Hannah Refrath (Laura Osswald), David's sister Kim (Lara-Isabelle Rentinck) and the runner boy Timo (Matthias Dietrich) with their love lives.
She is aided by her best friend Jürgen Decker (Oliver Bokern) and the cook Agnes Hetzer (Susanne Szell). In the end, she calls off the wedding to Rokko, marries David instead and sails with him on his boat to the Caribbean.
[edit] Season 2
Season two centers around sympathetic conman Bruno Lehmann (Tim Sander), who is Lisa's half brother. Bruno is on the run and lands up in Berlin to see is (unassuming) father Bernd. There, he starts to save the lifework of is half sister Lisa and Bruno starts to realize that his charm won't get him anywhere and that at times, you have to work for your achievements. Also, he starts to fall in love with the young (and married) designer Nora Lindberg (Julia Malik).
[edit] Background
[edit] Production
The concept for the German adaptation of Yo Soy Betty La Fea. was the end result of a long consideration process. The original name of the telenovela was Alles nur aus Liebe (Everything just out of love), but the for soap operas typical abbreviation would have been ANAL, so the title was changed. Lisa also was called "Lily" in earlier versions.
Most Verliebt in Berlin episodes are shot in two closed studios in Berlin-Adlershof. While switching between a range of 24 different sets, the team generally films one episode (each 25 minutes) per day; in addition, outdoor shots in Berlin are booked twice a week. Supervised by creators Michael Esser, and Peter Schlesselmann, 15 writers daily draft a script for one episode. Nearly 120 crewmembers are involved in the shooting of a single episode.[1]
Originally, 225 episodes would have been produced and aired within a year. However, since the telenovela was very successful, Sat.1 produced the series for another year. On September 1, 2006, a 90-minute TV movie was aired (with ratings of more than 7.6 million people watching - very much for the German market). Two versions of this movie exist: one, where Lisa marries David (the canonical version which was chosen in the end) and the other, where she marries Rokko.
In June 2006, Grundy UFA and SAT.1 officially announced the renewal of a new season for another year. Till August 2007, 208 more episodes will be produced with Bruno Lehman as new protagonist. With the combination of renewal and change of protagonist, the series left the traditional set-up of a telenovela with a set run, and a closed story and moves towards the concept of a soap opera. The reason for this is possibly the huge success of the series: it managed to get similar high viewership like Gute Zeiten, Schlechte Zeiten, the soap opera which had previously dominated viewership just before primetime.
[edit] Merchandising
Additional information about the telenovela is available via a fan magazine (available in Germany, Switzerland and Austria), as well as a PC Adventure. Also, DVD boxes are available (20 episodes each) with the specials. On the 18th box the last twenty episodes and the TV movie were included. On October 6, 2006 the release of the alternate ending of the TV movie is planned.
[edit] Misc
Since January 2006, the Hungarian TV station TV2 is airing a dubbed version of ViB called Lisa csak egy van. Also, the french TV station TF1, the belgian RTL-TVI and the Télévision Suisse Romande air a dubbed version called Le destin de Lisa (The destiny of Lisa). In Slowakia, the series is aired with it's original title Verliebt in Berlin on TV JOJ.
[edit] Cast
[edit] Main Cast
| Actor/Actress | Role | First Episode | Last Episode | Reason for leave/Note |
| Tim Sander | Bruno Lehmann | episode 365 | ||
| Julia Malik | Nora Lindberg, geb. Amendola | episode 365 | ||
| Volker Herold | Bernd Plenske | |||
| Ulrike Mai | Helga Plenske | |||
| Alexandra Neldel | Elisabeth „Lisa“ Seidel, geb. Plenske | TV movie | Travels with David to Tahiti on her honeymoon | |
| Mathis Künzler | David Seidel | TV movie | Travels with Lisa to Tahiti on her honeymoon | |
| Wilhelm Manske | Friedrich Seidel | |||
| Olivia Pascal | Laura Seidel | |||
| Gabrielle Scharnitzky | Sophie von Brahmberg | |||
| Karim Köster | Richard von Brahmberg | TV movie | break between episodes 246 - 318, goes to jail after unsuccessful murder attempt | |
| Alexander Sternberg | Maximilian „Max“ Petersen | episode 393 | Leaves Berlin with family for a new job | |
| Hubertus Regout | Hugo Haas | |||
| Susanne Szell | Agnes Hetzer | break between episodes 234-397 (guest appearance in TV movie) | ||
| Bianca Hein | Mariella von Brahmberg | episode 254 | moved away with Lars (guest appearance in TV movie) | |
| Nina-Friederike Gnädig | Sabrina Hofmann | TV movie | leaves Berlin with a Scheikh to move to Dubai | |
| Laura Osswald | Hannah Refrath | TV movie | new job with Jerry Chrysler in Milano | |
| Stefanie Höner | Inka Pietsch | TV movie | break between episode 305 - 324, takes new job in Munich | |
| Matthias Dietrich | Timo Pietsch | episode 384 | moves with new love Giulietta to South Afrika | |
| Oliver Bokern | Jürgen Decker | episode 6 | ||
| Lara-Isabelle Rentinck | Kim Seidel | episode 7 | ||
| Bärbel Schleker | Yvonne Petersen, nee Kuballa | episode 8 | episode 393 | moves away from Berlin with Max and Bärbel |
| Manuel Cortez | Robert Konrad „Rokko“ Kowalski | episode 226 | TV movie | moves for self-discovery to Tibet |
| Nora Düding | Angelina Martens | episode 338 | ||
| Alexandra Seefisch | Doreen Vogel | episode 372 | ||
| Matthias Gall | Sven Lindberg | |||
| Thorsten Feller | Paolo Amendola | episode 376 |
[edit] Supporting Cast
| Actor/Actress | Role | First Episode | Last Episode | Reason for leave/Note |
| Isabel Arlt | Simone | episode 1 | Waitress in Wolfhardts | |
| Sven Rothkirch | Georg | episode 4 | Waiter in Wolfhardts | |
| Lilli Anders | Ariane Sommerstädt | episode 8 | working at Kerima | |
| Susanne Berckhemer | Britta Haas, nee. Paul † | episode 24 | episode 267 | break between episodes 146 - 211, died in car accident |
| Claudia Weiske | Gabrielle | episode 28 | maid of family Seidel | |
| Clayton Nemrow | Lars van der Lohe | episode 52 | episode 254 | break between 209 - 230, moved away to Boston with Mariella (guest appearance in TV movie) |
| Jean-Marc Birkholz | Marc Trojan | episode 72 | ||
| Roman Rossa | Viktor Karski | episode 76 | episode 150 | break between episode 111 - 148 |
| Shai Hoffmann | Alexander „Alex“ Greifenhagen | episode 133 | episode 319 | break between episode 199 - 262, got arrested |
| Matthias Rott | Boris Wudtke | episode 148 | episode 233 | break between episodes 209 - 230, moved away with Agnes |
| Axel Röhrle | Olaf Kern | episode301 | episode 329 | got arrested |
| Ina Rudolph | Katarina Dorn | episode 307 | episode 329 | |
| Dieter Bach | Johannes Fuchs | episode 339 | ||
| Ernie Herold Fabian | Ernie | episode 388 | ||
| Peter Raffalt | Martin König | episode 391 |
[edit] Awards
- 2005 - Deutscher Fernsehpreis (German TV Award) for Best Daily Series
- 2006 - Rose d'Or
- Best Soap
- Best Actress in a Soap - Alexandra Neldel
[edit] Directors
- Winfried Bonengel (241-245)
- Hans-Henning Borgelt & Joris Hermans (1-5, 7+9+10)
- Hans-Henning Borgelt (365-369)
- Christof Brehmer (141-145)
- Petra Clever (61-65, 81-85, 181-185, 206-210)
- Cornelia Dohrn (21-25, 46-50, 66-70, 116-120, 191-195, 291-295, 316-320, 341-345, 395-399)
- Joris Hermans (6+8, 26-30, 51-55)
- Edgar Kaufmann (216-220)
- Klaus Kemmler (166-170, 261-265, 286-290, 311-315, 336-340, 361-364, 375-379)
- Sabine Landgraeber (86-90, 126-130, 151-155, 186-190, 211-215, 251-255, 276-280, 301-305, 326-330, 356-360, 390-394)
- Andreas Morell (31-35, 161-165)
- Laurenz Schlüter (91-95, 111-115, 136-140, 176-180, 201-205, 226-230, 246-250, 296-300, 321-325, 346-350)
- Marcus Schmidt-Märkl (101-105, 236-240, 266-270, 351-355, 380-384)
- Peter Zimmermann (11-15, 36-40, 56-60, 76-80, 106-110, 131-135, 156-160, 231-235, 256-260)
- Micaela Zschieschow (16-20, 41-45, 71-75, 96-100, 121-125, 146-150, 171-175, 196-200, 221-225, 270-275, 281-285, 306-310, 331-335, "Das Ja-Wort", 370-374)
[edit] External links
- Official Website (German)
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