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The ARD weekly series "Lindenstraße" will no longer be used after more than 34 years. The ARD television program conference had expressed its majority against an extension of the production contract with film and television production Geissendörfer, it is said in a press release. But farewell will only take place in March 2020, when the latest episode will be aired.
Volker Herres, director of programs for the first German television, said: "The ARD television program conference did not make this decision easy because the" Lindenstraße "is an icon of German television who has been with us for decades. " This is a reflection of the history and development of our republic. She has set accents that will remain influential – a merit of committed and pbadionate decision-makers. "
But, continues Herres, be sober and regretted to find that the public interest and our inevitable austerity are inconsistent with the production costs of a series of such quality. "
In fact, quotas have been steadily declining over the past decades, from five to six million viewers in the 1980s and 1990s, to last from two to three million, the other being similar to long-running television series . A change also in the production of the inventor Hans W. Geißendörfer on the girls "Hana", Flotter Fliers and new characters eager to cool off, as indicated by Axel Holst Roland Landmann – Gabi Zenkers (Andrea Spatzek), cousin of Görlitz – and his son Konstantin (Arne Rudolf), did not help. Speaking of Görlitz: the subjects and moods of the new federal states could never be addressed, even when "Lindenstraße" temporarily delegated to Leipzig an apartment shared around Klausi Beimer.
After all, Herres, the director of the ARD program, continues to disperse roses. Hans W. Geißendörfer wrote as father of the history of television "Linden Street". "He and his successor Hana Geißendörfer, as well as all the contributors, have our respect and our gratitude."
Since 1985 on ARD screen
Since its launch on December 8, 1985, "Lindenstraße" tells the fates and stories of life in West Germany and Germany in a fictional residential street in Munich. The Weekly is currently being shot in the WDR studios in Cologne-Bocklemünd, with hundreds of actors and thousands of extras so far. The outdoor landscape of the "Lindenstraße" is 150 meters long. 100,000 accessories are always available for filming.
For their fans, the "Lindenstraße" has managed, with its constellation of numbers, to reflect realistically the diversity of social life and its development. Time and time again, the series tells provocative stories that stimulate discussion and have often caused a sensation.
The truth is: Lindenstraße has changed and evolved continuously over the decades. But it helped and it is useless: the quotas collapse. This is also related to this: next to the "Lindenstraße", several serials have joined to accompany the public in life. ARD Weekly has become a storyteller among others. And more gray and older. The "Lindenstraße" has simply lost part of its audience. Stayed are the hardcore fans.
Jörg Schönenborn, director of WDR TV, said: "All those involved can be very proud because they ended up with" Lindenstraße ", which no other German series has managed to achieve: over generations, in the middle of everyday life, major social and political problems map ". At the same time, he said he understood that the economic conditions of ARD had changed and that productions should be re-evaluated.
As you can imagine, Hans W. Geißendörfer and Hana Geißendörfer see things differently: "Lindenstraße represents political and social commitment, freedom of expression, democracy, equal rights for all and integration, which is more important than ever in times of right and xenophobia, we are dismayed and can only express our misunderstanding that the ARD apparently only sees it as its mission to continue the series, at the heart of which is to represent that attitude. "
We probably felt it. Joachim Hermann Luger, "Lindenstraßler" from the very beginning, more than 30 years as a father, Hans Beimer, good soul of this series. Luger himself wrote this summer of "Lindenstraße" to still play theater. "Although I am not here anymore, I am very concerned that the Lindenstraße is now coming to an end and should be, for me, the news is shocking," he said on Friday. He should therefore always go to loyal fans who from Sunday, 18:50, ARD, is counting the last episodes of their favorite series.
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