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Theycalme_Jane
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 Message 9 of 17
29 August 2013 at 2:25pm | IP Logged 
Popular German series, as far as I can tell:

Series:
-Türkisch für Anfänger
-Tatort (extremely popular but must have been around for years)

"Telenovelas":
-Anna und die Liebe
-Verliebt in Berlin
-Berlin Berlin

You can find an archive of a lot of educational programs on http://www.3sat.de/index.html (under "Sendungen A-Z)

Personally I like watching stuff on ZDFneo (.de), there is a "mediathek" on their webpage.


If you were to look for soap operas there'd be stuff like:
-Marienhof
-Gute Zeiten Schlechte Zeiten
-Unter Uns
-Verbotene Liebe
-(really old school: Lindenstraße)

All of which, at least to some extent (probably not all episodes), can surely be found on youtube.

Edited by Theycalme_Jane on 29 August 2013 at 2:25pm

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montmorency
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 Message 10 of 17
29 August 2013 at 4:00pm | IP Logged 
The "Wilsberg" detective series set in Münster is great fun, and not too difficult to
follow. (Based on the books by Jürgen Kehrer). I think the books are a bit darker than
the TV series, which seems to be played for laughs somewhat, but it's still good.


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dleewo
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 Message 11 of 17
30 August 2013 at 2:31am | IP Logged 
I recently ordered the Türkisch für Anfänger complete series and the Stromberg complete
series from Amazon.de.

I happened to be browsing their site and I saw the series "Doctor Diary". The box set
was only €18 (without VAT as it's shipping to the US) so I ordered it.

Is this any good? At the very least, I figured it's about 1,000 mins of TV all in German

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patrickwilken
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 Message 12 of 17
30 August 2013 at 10:16am | IP Logged 
Deutsche Welle has lots of materials for German learners, including level appropriate soap operas and such.

Tartort, the beloved weekly German crime show (more than 50 bars here in Berlin show it live each Sunday night) is available from the ARD site:

http://www.daserste.de/unterhaltung/krimi/tatort/index.html

Personally I find Tatort relatively hard to follow compared to say a dubbed HBO show, but it will give you an interesting insights into German culture. It's filmed by different TV stations across Germany (and Switzerland and Austria) so you get quite different cultural views depending on the particularly city a particular show is filmed in. People have their favorite crime teams - I think my wife's is Leipzig.

There are also a lot of other shows available on ARD you watch:

http://programm.daserste.de/pages/programm/liste.aspx

I am not sure if there is a problem viewing these shows outside Germany, though my wife used to watch Tatort from the UK.

Edited by patrickwilken on 30 August 2013 at 10:22am

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Theycalme_Jane
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 Message 13 of 17
02 September 2013 at 1:17pm | IP Logged 
Ah yeah, Stromberg and Doctor's Diary are really popular! Thanks dleewo!

Edited by Theycalme_Jane on 02 September 2013 at 1:17pm

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Theycalme_Jane
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 Message 14 of 17
02 September 2013 at 1:18pm | IP Logged 
dleewo wrote:
I recently ordered the Türkisch für Anfänger complete series and the Stromberg complete
series from Amazon.de.

I happened to be browsing their site and I saw the series "Doctor Diary". The box set
was only €18 (without VAT as it's shipping to the US) so I ordered it.

Is this any good? At the very least, I figured it's about 1,000 mins of TV all in German


I'd say it's definitely a good choice.
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anime
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 Message 15 of 17
07 September 2013 at 4:13pm | IP Logged 
Here's a soap opera:

Lindenstraße

It's got German subtitles, atleast some of the episodes. Haven't watched it yet though, it might be rubbish, but my standards aren't very high when it comes to subtitled German content =)
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montmorency
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 Message 16 of 17
07 September 2013 at 5:22pm | IP Logged 
Supposed to have been based on the British "Coronation Street", originally. I've seen
quite an interesting documentary about it.


Soaps are ....hmm....I dunno. Having been slightly addicted to some UK soaps in my time,
I'm not sure I'd want to get sucked into another, even in the noble cause of language-
learning. I have the same dilemma at the moment in Welsh: there is a "classic" soap on
S4C called "Pobol y Cwm", dual subtitles available....tempting...but I think I'll give it
a miss.


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