Season 35 • Episode 63
LatestGute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten is a long-running German television soap opera, first broadcast on RTL in 1992. The programme concerns the lives of a fictional neighborhood in Germany's capital city Berlin. Over the years the soap opera tends to have an overhaul of young people in their late teens and early twenties; targeting a young viewership.
Production
Daily production for 30+ years: a logistical miracle of chaos.
Acting
Career-launching conveyor belt: Christian Ulmen, Daniel Brühl, others escaped.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
GZSZ invented the 'Daily Soap' format for German television, importing Australian production methods and creating a generation who grew up with fictional Berlin neighbors more familiar than real ones.
The original 1992 cast included a young Christian Ulmen and eventually Daniel Brühl—making this technically the longest-running acting school in German television history.
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