Gesine Cukrowski

After having a chance encounter with a mysterious character, Wendy, a young working class mother, discovers that she has super powers.

When Ulja (12) is prevented from pursuing her passion, astronomy, she decides to take matters into her own hands. With a stolen hearse and a 13-year-old classmate as a driver, she makes her way across Eastern Europe to watch the impact of an asteroid. In doing so, she not only has to shake off her persecutors, but also her pragmatic view of friendship and family.

Kim and Maja, two physiotherapists who are friends, are planning to open a practice together. To finance their dream, they are working part-time at a hostess agency that offers jobs in the restaurant industry.

Grandpa Oskar takes neither the truth nor himself very seriously. The rascal has just been released from prison, where he was serving a sentence for imposture. Since the ex-con needs a place to stay, he quartered himself in the old construction trailer in the farthest corner of the garden of his daughter Tilda, who is still mad at him. The senior soon meets his autistic granddaughter Fanny, whose antics and peculiarities threaten to break the family under. In contrast to the old man, the 8-year-old takes the truth very seriously. In order to gain their trust, Oskar does not introduce himself to the comic-loving girl as the criminal grandpa, who has been missing for years, but as Professor Krypton. For Fanny, who prefers to wear a brightly colored superhero costume and is teased at school for it, the omniscient mentor from the Superman planet comes along just at the right time, because she has a dream: To win the talent competition at school!

Petra Hoffmann is in her early 50s and pregnant. She is not carrying her own child though, but that of her daughter. Midwife Lena Lorenz has been looking after mother and daughter for a while and the pregnancy has been unproblematic thus far, but shortly before the birth the family starts to break apart.

Shortly before Christmas, the major baker Johann König had a fatal accident. He is the father of three daughters, who came from three different mothers and are in constant quarrel with one another.

He was arrested 23 years ago. In May 1995, Germany's most famous building tycoon and fraudster was caught by FBI and BKA investigators in Miami. Jürgen Schneider had been hiding there with his wife Claudia for over 13 months after his flight from Germany triggered the biggest real estate bankruptcy of the post-war period. He left behind debts of over 5 billion Deutschmarks to more than 50 banks. Never before had the banking industry in Germany been so ripped off. But it was not only the banks that were affected, but also many, especially East German craft firms.

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Dr. Joachim Glahn is the presiding judge at the Berlin district court and is known for his explicit sense of justice and truth. His daughter Luise is now embarking on the same career path and has just been admitted to law school. But then Luise then Luise is kidnapped and Glahn gets into an ethical-moral conflict: he should go beyond the limits of the law and set a murderer on the loose or he won't see his daughter alive again.

At the beginning of the weekend, the detective commissioner Tina Campenhausen wanted to spend with her family, she is called to a hotel in Travemünde. Guest Brederstein lies dead in the tub. Everything points to suicide. Tina Campenhausen knows the dead that she keeps secret from her colleague. Tina is caught up in her past when her sister, Jenny Hansen, whom she has not had any contact with for years, is at her door. Does Jenny have something to do with the death of the hotel guest? Tina gets into the biggest conflict of conscience of her life.

Their 20th wedding anniversary is coming up and Liane and Ben want to celebrate it together in Lisbon. In the years of their marriage, the two have had little of each other. While Liane took care of the children and the household, architect Ben jetted around the world building luxury hotels. Now the children are out of the house and the couple want to spend more time together again. So much for the theory. In reality, Ben is stuck on a project in Morocco and can't pick up his wife at the airport in Lisbon. He has sent his friend, the Portuguese João, as a replacement. He takes his role very seriously and Liane obviously takes a liking to the new man at her side.

Claire and Robert spend most of their time in a house they own in the beautiful and remote countryside in Italy. Their life seems to be perfect. But when Claire's sister gets murdered in the very same house, the traumatic event shakes up their relationship. Disappointment, fear and resentment they swept under the rug for years, resurface. Revealing the dark side of a blissful love - a dream that turns into a nightmare. It is the story of two people trapped in a dark secret.

Medical doctor Dr. Sophie Heimbach is asked by her former mentor Dr. Ursula Stein to fly to an earthquake zone in Indonesia for the aid organization Mediziner ohne Grenzen to investigate the team leader there, the talented surgeon Dr. Kreusler. He has allegedly misappropriated aid supplies. On site, the two have to maintain medical care under the most difficult conditions. Then the earth shakes again...

Johannes Ganten, in his late 50s, known as John to his friends, leads a comfortable life as an emeritus professor. Everything has always come to him, which John takes for granted. He has never thought about anything until this morning - the Christmas holidays are just over - when he finds a note in his letterbox with the words: "Tomorrow you must die! Ganten doesn't really take the warning seriously. His old friend Peter takes a completely different view and can't understand John's attitude at all. Only the second warning and some very strange encounters gnaw away at Ganten's unshakeable self-confidence. The hours he then experiences change his life.

When Ruprecht forgets his wife Johanna at the taxi stand and shows no regrets, the well-off architect's wife tries the uprising after 30 years of marriage. Although Christmas is just around the corner, she quickly moves into the apartment of the young taxi driver Ellie, whom she has just met. When it comes to protecting Ellie's home from illegal demolition, Johanna rediscovers her legal talent. But they are fighting strong opponents: an influential real estate speculator and her willing architects - Ruprecht of all people.

A man had a donkey that had carried the sacks to the mill for many years, but whose strength was now coming to an end, so that he became increasingly unfit for work.

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Under the slogan of the arms race of the superpowers, which escalates in the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and brings the world to the brink of nuclear war, two exemplary post-war male figures challenge an almost archaic feud: Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss and journalist Rudolf Augstein.

Oliver, a single father from Berlin, and Johanna, also a single parent but from Bavaria, meet and fall in love while on vacation. The widowed teacher and the divorced mother of two soon no longer want to settle for a long-distance relationship. Without further ado, Oliver packs his things and moves with his daughter Holly to the Bavarian province, where Johanna runs a nursery. However, everyday life in a large family thrown together presents everyone involved with unexpected difficulties. Holly is still grieving for her mother and is estranged from Johanna. Her daughter Lisa, who is the same age, is suffering from school problems that are bigger than her mother suspects. And on top of all the family chaos, the heating in the nursery breaks down, jeopardizing Johanna's livelihood.

Harald eagerly anticipates the wedding of his only daughter. His biggest problem is his belief that his deceased wife lives on in a mannequin, which he wants to bring to the wedding celebration.

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Apothecary Eva had after the painful separation of her husband Christian life and emotions rearranged. A new relationship is out of the question for the 42-year-old, she just wants to be there for her two almost grown-up sons and one day to take over the pharmacy of her still-mother-in-law. Out of the blue, however, the more than ten years younger doctor Hendrik burst into her life and makes no secret that he has fallen in love with her. Eva suddenly struggles with feelings she never wanted to allow.

Once again, the "border crossing" is celebrated, as every seven years in the Upper Hessian town of Bergen. It is really turbulent at this folk festival, when the municipal boundaries are confirmed from old tradition and everything is upside down. For this occasion leaves Thomas Weidmann his girlfriend and flees because of his botched university career from the city of Berlin back to his native village. At the party, he meets Kerstin Werner, whose life has just come out of joint - her marriage is broken and her husband Jürgen on the jump to another, younger woman.

Anna Lechner loves her work as a flower wholesaler in Amsterdam and has found her dream husband, Ed Verkerk, an ambitious tulip grower. But when her father dies, he makes her promise to take care of her younger sister Lilli. Since a serious childhood car accident, in which the mother died, Lilli is handicapped and full of complexes. Anna stays in Munich for the time being to help Lilli and thus puts her luck to risk with Ed. Lilli, however, gets to know the doctor Lorenz and hovers in the seventh heaven. But Anna is suspicious. which Lilli completely misinterprets.

A year ago, her beloved Nico was run over by a truck. The shock of death caused sommelier Anne to lose her sense of smell and taste. Now she receives a letter from Holland: the annual rent for the eggs she fertilized twelve years ago is due! A baby as a legacy - and a new start, not only Anne thinks, but also her colleague Conny. Only Hilde, an ex-policeman with two sons, thinks motherhood at almost 50 is a crazy idea. Despite her reservations, she takes them to the fertility clinic in Amsterdam.

When four bodies are discovered among the industrial decay and urban grime of New York City, brash young detective Mike Reilly teams with ambitious Department of Health researcher Terry Huston to uncover the cause behind their violent and inexplicable deaths. The only common factor shared by the victims? Each died exactly 48 hours after logging onto a website called feardotcom.

A presumed virus outbreak during a flight from south Asia to Munich. Most of all, the scientific premise is utterly wrong. Retroviruses is shown as multiplying in erythrocytes, which lack a) DNA (necessary for retrovirus replication) and b) the enzymatic apparatus for multiplying any viral nucleic acids.

Despite her blindness, the famous singer Sophie Martell, who lives in Venice, has remained a cheerful, optimistic woman. However, she does not look forward to much, as her agent David hired journalist Eike Blohm to write Sophie's biography. But soon the idiosyncratic woman falls in love with her sensitive biographers. David, however, is not at all thrilled with Sophie's love affair: he fears that this could expose his scams and embezzlement of Sophie's private assets.

When his favorite goose Henriette is to be slaughtered for Christmas, twelve-year-old Rudi Wasmeier does everything he can to save her.

Anne Petersen returns to the harbor with her catch of fish. There she meets the vet Thomas Krugmann, who has just arrived from Hanover with his children and his girlfriend Sabine. As their car breaks down and they have to go to a garage, they decide to stay in town.

Anouk, a woman in her late 30s, a copywriter from Stuttgart and who has traveled the world, bumps into Heiner, an architect, who is in his mid-40s, in Berlin. The two meet in spontaneous longing for a different, a new life.

Hilde Reimer is overjoyed when her three grown-up daughters and their partners move into the old family villa. The only thing that really bothers Hilde is that her three girls are still not married, despite having children and being very much in love.

Judith Kemp has become a lone fighter since the death of her husband. As a single mother of two children and an aspiring star lawyer in a large corporate law firm, Judith manages her job and family. Inevitably, someone often falls by the wayside: their children Julia and Marco, their friend, pediatrician Susanne Blau, and their boss Stefan Walther, who wants to promote Judith to partner not only in the office. Only her job as lawyer for the economic bosses is rarely neglected - until Judith meets little Eva Traber: her father has run away and does not pay a tired euro maintenance, her mother Helena can no longer get her debts under control despite several jobs. The three children are often left on their own and grow up in poverty. Judith's sense of justice does not leave her alone: She makes Eva's business hers. As her child advocate, she fights with full commitment for the rights of the girl and her siblings. So begins a follow ...

After a lot of trial and error, Hilde Reimer has finally decided to marry her late love Theo. Immediately after the wedding, Theo moves in with her in the Reimersche family villa - nothing seems to stand in the way of their mutual happiness. Or is it? While Theo soon gets to feel the idiosyncrasies of his new wife, Hilde quickly realizes that she can hardly keep up with the pace of the agile Theo in everyday life.

After the death of his wife, successful author Seefeld has retreated to a lighthouse on the Irish coast. His nervous publisher is waiting in vain for a new bestseller and sends a spy: psychologist Carolin is to find out what Seefeld is up to. She disguises herself as an ornithologist - and the outcome is immediately clear to all connoisseurs of schmaltz.

Alexander Hoffmann travels to Stansbury in southwest England with his fiancée Jessica Wahlberg and his child Ricarda from his first marriage. They are staying in the manor house of Patricia Roth, who inherited it from her uncle. Alexander regularly spends his vacations there with his two former fellow students Leon Roth and Tim Burkhard. When they all enter the property together, a man named Phillip Bowen storms past them out of the house. He has spent the night there without permission.

After many years, Dr. Knut Hansen marries his old childhood sweetheart Stina Thorwald.

The Munich business lawyer Marc is not happy: Instead of going to New York as planned, he has to travel to the province of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania at short notice to represent his sick grandfather as a pub owner for four weeks. The lawyer juggles millions of dollars every day - it should be easy for him to get grandpa's ailing tavern going with Western know-how. But the down-to-earth Ossis are not in the mood for tapas and Thai food. Marc only realizes this when he gets to know and love the young, single parent Carmen. When Marc's fiancée Lisa shows up, decisions are pending.

An assassination attempt on the highest dignitary of the Catholic Church? According to providence, this is exactly what is supposed to happen on a certain day in September. When parts of the prophecy actually come true, the Vatican is seriously worried. The highest security measures are therefore in place for the Holy Father's upcoming visit to Cologne. Vatican security officers Andrea Conti and Paolo Naldini, as well as BKA officers Sara Stertz and Frank Dabrock, join forces to protect the Pope. At around the same time, former Foreign Legionnaire and precision marksman Rami Hamdan receives a mysterious assignment. For the horrendous sum of 25 million dollars, he is to take out a high-ranking figure. His destination is the cathedral city of Cologne.

Just when bestselling author Leo Leitner was awarded an Austrian literary prize, a mysterious death overshadowed the pompous event. His host Hofrat Lassnig-Schiele may have a hand in it. Charming and funny 'Vienna' episode of the successful crime series! Crime author Leo Leitner is surprisingly awarded the Leo Perutz Prize in Vienna. He reluctantly follows his publisher to the Austrian capital, where he is welcomed by the Viennese society. A tragic incident occurs during the awards ceremony. Burgtheater actor Staberny is found dead in the toilet, presumably suicide. Leo's criminal instinct is awakened. Of course he believes in murder.

The childless sisters Regina, Anja and Susanne are outraged. Their wealthy mother is determined to become a grandmother and offers her fancy villa as a reward for the first of the three daughters to give her a grandchild. But Anja has completely different plans: she is going to emigrate to Brazil with Karin, the love of her life.

Anna Marek is looking forward to a break in her hectic life as a midwife and single mother of two daughters: for the first time in years, she will be taking the children on vacation. But then her neighbor Lukas rings the doorbell. He asks for Anna's help. His Chilean friend Maria went into labor unexpectedly. Anna can be persuaded to go to the clinic. She helps the baby into the world, quarrels with her mother, drives to Italy with her children. But the next morning Anna wakes up in her bed in Mainz and the chaos day seems to repeat itself.

East Germany, 1988: working as a state security service agent, Jürgen Kaiser is loyal to the party line, but worried about his son Marco, a punk. As he is arrested after a concert, Marco is forced to join the army, where he surprisingly identifies with socialism and believes he has to defend his country against the capitalist enemy. While Jürgen is astonished, his wife Hanna and Marco's girlfriend Anja, supporting the civil rights movement, don't like his new attitude...

Paulus is a criminal psychologist who was forced to kill an inmate in self-defense. A few years later, he becomes involved in a series of murders, all linked by a common thread. The ruthless killer has the strange habit of announcing his crimes in advance through videos posted online...

It all starts with a mistake. The wealthy Polina finds a sleeping man in her hotel room, the business lawyer Friedrich. A mistake by the receptionist, he claims, and she believes him. He asks her to play for him in the casino. She is a lucky child. She plays and wins. Friedrich, who is accused of embezzlement, sees his mountain of debt melt away. But then his luck changes. Polina's losses soon threaten her own existence.

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Elizabeth and Tom Schubert are going through a marital crisis due to jealousy of him. They decide given a new opportunity and travel to Phuket in Thailand, where they expected Julia, a friend of Elizabeth to that Tom does not support. The couple had a heated argument and she decides to leave with Julia for a few days, a period in which lives a romance with an attractive architect.

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Ernst Zoller is found dead. He is the fourth man in a short period of time to die from bleeding to death. All the evidence suggests that Lotte Zoller killed her husband. When the woman commits suicide, it initially looks like an admission of guilt.

Every day film freak Walter tries to get tickets for the Hollywood screenings at the Berlin Film Festival, but after hours of waiting the answer is Ausverkauft! ("sold out") After all he reveals his chain saw, "lends" a blonde and does it his way.

A car race ends in disaster for Günni and his Mustang. Ossi" Raoul also has problems: a loan shark is breathing down his neck. Zombie has an idea that can save them both: A used car deal in an old American caravan. So the clique sets off for America.

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The crazy Ruhrpott clique goes on vacation to Mallorca. The plan is sun, beach, Ballermann 6 and lots and lots of fun. What awaits them is a nightmare. After everything that can go wrong on a vacation trip goes wrong, the clique gets caught up in a turbulent case of mistaken identity: the two crooks Ossi and Heinz want to kidnap the daughter of pop star Bernd Bender - and she looks just like Petra.

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Four young people from the former GDR want to start doing meaningful things. In spite of adverse circumstances they start the construction of an environmentally friendly solar power plant.

Claire suffers from memory loss, but is constantly tormented by fragmentary memories. The search for the truth leads the psychiatric patient to the Baltic Sea island of Tradum. Claire firmly believes that she will discover her lost identity there. The inhabitants of the island receive her suspiciously. With the help of diver Björn, Claire uncovers the island's secret...