Five hours of German grandmas being messy? Sign me up.
Season 2 • Episode 2
LatestStories about four generations of women – their life at home and at work, their private and political relationships with the years.
Writing
Conversations that start about soup and end in socialism.
Acting
Hilde Berger's side-eye should be in museums.
Production
Period detail so precise you'll smell the 1950s coffee.
Creator
Käthe Kratz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kratz filmed each generation's episodes with different aspect ratios—4:3 for the 1920s grandmother, slowly widening to 16:9 for the 1980s granddaughter.
Banned from East German television until 1989 for depicting abortion and workplace sexism too honestly; West German critics then dismissed it as 'too Eastern' in sensibility. The series had no home until reunification.
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