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Ratings 2013 – 2015

Alles was zählt (RTL)
2013: Total viewers: 2.46m / Market share 14-49: 14.7%
2014: Total viewers: 2.24m / Market share 14-49: 13.1%
2015: Total viewers: 2.14m / Market share 14-49: 13.6%

Gute Zeiten, Schlechte Zeiten (RTL)
2013: Total viewers: 3.25m / Market share 14-49: 20.3%
2014: Total viewers: 2.91m / Market share 14-49: 17.8%
2015: Total viewers: 2.66m / Market share 14-49: 16.9%

Unter uns (RTL)
2013: Total viewers: 1.49m / Market share 14-49: 13.5%
2014: Total viewers: 1.28m / Market share 14-49: 13.5%
2015: Total viewers: 1.15m / Market share 14-49: 13.5%

Verbotene Liebe (ARD, cancelled in 2015)
2013: Total viewers: 1.18m / Total market share: 6.9% / Market share 14-49: 4.6%
2014: Total viewers: 1.17m / Total market share: 7.0% / Market share 14-49: 4.6%
2015 (daily airings): Total viewers: 1.29m / Total market share: 6.2% / Market share 14-49: 3.8%
2015 (weekly airings): Total viewers: 0.99
m / Total market share: 4.8% / Market share 14-49: 2.8%

Rote Rosen (ARD)
2014: Total viewers: 1.61m / Total market share: 17.1% / Market share 14-49: 6.3%
2015: Total viewers: 1.57m / Total market share: 16.2% / Market share 14-49: 6.7%

Sturm der Liebe (ARD)
2014: Total viewers: 2.07m / Total market share: 20.4% / Market share 14-49: 8.2%
2015: Total viewers: 2.04m / Total market share: 19.4% / Market share 14-49: 7.4%

Berlin – Tag & Nacht (RTL2)
2013: Total viewers: 1.26m / Market share 14-49: 12.5%
2014: Total viewers: 1.13m / Market share 14-49: 11.6%
2015: Total viewers: 1.02m / Market share 14-49: 10.6%

Köln 50667 (RTL2)
2013: Total viewers: 0.89m / 
Market share 14-49: 11.5%
2014: Total viewers: 0.71m / Market share 14-49: 9.7%

2015: Total viewers: 0.67m / Market share 14-49: 9.2%

 

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Barbara Sotelsek (Sonja) has indeed been axed from AWZ. She will last air next week (January 25th, 2016) as Sonja leaves town with her daughter Flo (Julia Albrecht).

Fan favorite Ania Niedieck (Isabelle) will depart the show in March since the actress is expecting her first baby. Niedieck joined the cast in April 2010, and since then Isabelle has been married to Ben Steinkamp, Ben's father Richard Steinkamp and the dangerous Maximilian von Altenburg. She's also had affairs with Richard's other son Jan Marco Schöler and dancer Felix Landeck. Currently Isabelle's involved with Sonja's ex-husband Thomas Brück, but also had a fatal one-night-stand with Thomas's son Leo. It's no surprise that she's on the outs with every female character on the show.

In turn, two new members of the Steinkamp family will arrive in February: Heike Warmuth and Franziska Benz have joined the cast in the new contract roles of "Carmen" and "Michelle". Carmen is Simone Steinkamp's trashy half-sister, and Michelle is Carmen's daughter and a professional figure skater. We will probably see a Marie-Tobi-Leo-Michelle quadrangle during the next months.

Apparently, there is also going to be a new gay storyline involving original character Jenny Steinkamp (Kaja Schmidt-Tychsen is the fourth actress in the role). In order to secure an important business deal, Jenny flirts with a woman named Theresa (Mareile Moeller). After three failed marriages with different men, Jenny slowly begins to question her sexuality.

These were results of the biggest annual online poll regarding German soaps in the "Favorite Characters" categories (the poll has ~ 50 categories):

AWZ

Favorite Male Character 2015
Christoph Lukowski 22.4 % *
Tobi Märtz 11.8 % *
Ben Steinkamp 10.6 %
Ingo Zadek 10.2 %
Deniz Öztürk 9.79 %
Richard Steinkamp 8.97 %
Veit Hartmann 6.53 % *
Maximilian von Altenburg 6.12 % **
Can Öztürk 5.30 % **
Marian Öztürk 3.67 %
Erik Schulte 2.85 % **
Leo Brück 1.22 % *
Thomas Brück 0.40 % *

Favorite Female Character 2015
Vanessa Steinkamp 27.8 %
Isabelle Reichenbach 17.0 %
Simone Steinkamp 13.2 %
Bea Meyer-Zadek 7.88 %
Julia Meyer 5.80 % **
Jenny Steinkamp 5.80 %
Pia Koch 4.97 % *
Katja Bergmann 4.14 % **
Lena Öztürk 3.31 %
Iva Lukowski 2.90 %
Toni Fuchs 1.65 % **
Sonja Brück 1.24 % *
Raquel Santana 1.24 % **
Marie Schmidt 1.24 % *
Flo Brück 1.24 % *
Larissa Schuhmann 0.41 % **

GZSZ

Favorite Male Character 2015
Jo Gerner 17.7 %
John Bachmann 14.6 %
Max "Tuner" Krüger 12.6 %
Philip Höfer 10.1 %
Jonas Seefeld 9.85 %
Leon Moreno 7.60 %
Chris Lehmann 6.76 %
Mesut Yildiz 5.63 %
David Brenner 5.63 %
Tayfun Badak 4.78 %
Vince Köpke 3.66 %
Alexander Cöster 0.84 %

Favorite Female Character 2015
Jasmin Flemming 47.5 %
Anni Brehme 26.1 %
Katrin Flemming 7.58 %
Sunny Richter 7.33 % *
Sophie Lindh 2.83 %
Emily Höfer 2.66 %
Maren Seefeld 2.25 %
Elena Gundlach 1.08 %
Pia Koch 0.75 % **
Lilly Seefeld 0.75 %
Ayla Höfer 0.58 %
Selma Özgül 0.25 % *
Mieke "Mieze" Lutze 0.16 % **
Nele Lehmann 0.08 % **

UU

Favorite Male Character 2015
Tobias Lassner 14.2 %
Rufus Sturm 13.3 %
Till Weigel 13.0 %
Robert Küpper 12.8 % *
Rolf Jäger 11.9 %
Ringo Beckmann 10.8 %
Benno "Bambi" Hirschberger 6.14 %
Moritz Schönfeld 5.96 %
Easy Winter 5.96 %
Henning Fink 2.53 %
Paco Weigel 1.44 %
Malte Winter 1.26 %
Sascha Brenner 0.36 % **

Favorite Female Character 2015
Eva Wagner 17.3 %
Britta Schönfeld 15.6 %
Sina Hirschberger 12.7 %
Ute Fink 11.6 %
Micki Fink 9.67 %
Irene Weigel 8.79 %
Jule Kasper 5.93 % *
Caro Kasper 4.83 %
Lisa Brück 4.61 % **
Fiona Fischer 3.29 % *
Elli Schneider 2.85 % *
Leonie Weidenfeld 1.09 % **
Josephine "Joe" Johlke 1.09 % **
Kimberley Pötter 0.43 % **

* Character debuted in 2015
** Character departed in 2015

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Jenny? I know sometimes people come out later in life, but this seems a bit "jump the shark" (or whatever is the German equivalent of the saying). Bring on a guy for Deniz! He's already Bi. 

 

Vanessa won the poll for AWZ? I must have radically different tastes than the viewers, I've never ever liked her. LOL

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The results didn't surprise me at all :D Vanessa & Christoph are the best couple on AWZ right now, and I would have also ranked Tobi and Isabelle as my number #2s.

Last week, two exits were confirmed, one on UU and one on GZSZ. On UU, Marvin Linke (Moritz Schönfeld) departs in early March after being on contract for six years. On GZSZ, Tayfun Baydar (Tayfun Badak) will make his final appearance later this year. Baydar joined the cast in December 2008.

But the biggest news this week is that AWZ is bringing back original cast member Tanja Szewczenko in her role as Diana Sommer. She will return for a limited run and first air in April. When the show debuted in September 2006, Diana was the main heroine and most of the storylines focused on her trying to become the next figure skating queen. Diana and Jenny fought bitterly – both on the ice and for the affection of Julian Herzog. In late 2007, Diana and Julian got married but he died during the wedding ceremony (thanks to Jenny). In 2008, Diana and Jenny again fought for the same man (Lars Berger), but after a while Diana was relegated to the background and eventually left town in January 2009. Diana still knows a lot of people from the current cast (Jenny, Simone, Richard, Vanessa, Ingo, Marian, Lena, Deniz, Ben) and thus can easily be tied in into current storylines.

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No, I doubt that. As 2016 marks AWZ's 10th anniversary, they're apparently trying to lure back viewers who dropped the show during the past few years. According to a press release, Diana will have matured into a strong woman. I can't wait for Jenny to destroy Diana for good.

It's also striking that 75% of the current characters existed when Diana was on the show. Only a small portion of the main characters that were introduced after her departure stayed on for more than 1 1/2 years. Especially the ones that were introduced between 2010 and 2014 were short-lived and ill-fated: Claudia, David, Erik, Felix, Florian, Franziska, Joscha, Julia, Kai, Larissa, Letizia, Lukas, Marco, Melanie, Sarah, Raquel, Rüdiger, Toni, Tom, Viktoria, Zóe. The only ones from that period that "survived" for a longer period were Bea, Can and Isabelle.

From the 2006/2007 cast, we still have Simone, Richard, Vanessa (with several breaks), Jenny (recast), Ben (recast), Marian, Deniz, Ingo and Lena. There's nobody left from the middle years. Iva joined in late 2014, and Christoph, Tobi, Thomas, Leo, Marie and Veit were 2015 additions.

After her departure from AWZ in 2009, Tanja Szewczenko, who was a professional figure skater herself and took part in the 1994 Olympic Games among other things, released a children's book, played a main role in the crime soap opera "Ein Fall für die Anrheiner" from 2011 to 2014, gave birth to her first daughter and took part in the 7th season of "Let's Dance" (Dancing with the Stars) in 2014 where she reached 2nd place.

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Preview Pictures February/March 2016

Unter uns

01. Moritz (Marvin Linke) and Henning (Benjamin Kiss) have a terrible fight because of Henning cheating on Ute with Ricarda Schätzke – with whom Moritz also had an affair with 02. Ringo (Timothy Boldt, left) flirts with another guy (Day Player) 03. Sina (Valea Scalabrino) and Irene (Petra Blossey) are glad that little Amelie can leave the hospital  04. Eva (Claudelle Deckert) and Britta (Tabea Heynig) are desperately waiting for a taxi 05. Fiona (Olivia Burkhart) realizes that Rolf (Stefan Franz) tried to sabotage her relationship with Easy 06. Caro (Ines Kurenbach) learns that's she pregnant 07. Moritz can't understand that Ute (Isabell Hertel) wants to forgive Henning 08. Moritz leaves town without saying goodbye to Henning and Ute 09. Till (Ben Ruedinger) and Sina decide to let Rolf off the hook 10. After finding out that Jule (Amrei Haardt, center) raided her fridge, Caro raids Jule's fridge in return and embarrasses Jule in front of Ringo

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01. Jenny (Kaja Schmidt-Tychsen) flirts with Theresa Kasten (Mareile Moeller) in order to secure a business deal 02. Bea (Caroline Frier) can't tell Ingo (André Dietz) that she's pregnant with Marian's baby 03. Simone (Tatjana Clasing) and Richard (Silvan-Pierre Leirich) open their new ice skating rink 04. Several of the friends – Thomas (Daniel Brockhaus), Vanessa (Julia Augustin), Marian (Sam Eisenstein), Lena (Juliette Greco) and Bea – say goodbye to the "No. 7" bar 05. During Vanessa and Christoph's (Lars Korten) engagement party, a drunk Ingo denounces Jenny in front of all people 06. Simone's half sister Carmen (Heike Warmuth, left) and her daughter Michelle (Franziska Benz) appear in town 07. Marian and Lena find Bea's farewell letter 08. Thomas can't keep Isabelle (Ania Niedieck) from leaving town with Johann (Holger Christian Gotha) 09. Teammates Michelle and Marie (Judith Neumann) can't stand each other 10. Jenny tries to impress her father Richard with a new business idea

Gute Zeiten, Schlechte Zeiten

The incest storyline involving Katrin, Jasmin and Frederic has brought GZSZ its best ratings in months. Jasmin and Frederic fell in love, not knowing that they are daughter and father. Katrin, Jasmin's mother, eventually found out the truth and told Frederic to stay away from Jasmin. But even though he now knew that Jasmin is his daughter, Frederic slept with Jasmin and wanted to leave the country with her. Katrin wanted to prevent this and told Jasmin the shocking truth. While Jasmin got drunk, Katrin went to Frederic's hotel room and ordered him to leave town immediately and told him to never contact her or Jasmin again. However, Frederic threatened to kill Katrin and pushed her against the wall. Suddenly, Frederic was knocked down. The camera then showed Katrin's best friend Maren, who had quietly entered the hotel room and hit Frederic with a wooden statue. Jasmin's ex-girlfriend Anni had also arrived at the scene. The three women quickly realized that Frederic had died. Frederic's death occured in last friday's episode.

01. After Maren (Eva Mona Rodekirchen, center) has murdered Frederic (Dieter Bach), Katrin (Ulrike Frank), Maren and Anni (Linda Marlen Runge) harbor a dark secret and eventually bury his corpse on a construction site 02. Maren almost confides in Alexander (Clemens Löhr) and asks him for a second chance 03. Mesut (Mustafa Alin), Ayla (Nadine Menz), Elena (Elena Garcia Gerlach) and John (Felix von Jascheroff) go on a balloon flight 04. Ayla helps Selma (Rona Özkan) to prepare herself for a date with Jonas 05. Emily (Anne Menden) is furious that Tayfun (Tayfun Baydar) canceled their date because of Mesut 06. Elena sets up a profile for Ayla on an online dating website 07. Lilly (Iris Mareike Steen) and Amar (Thando Walbaum) are happy together 08. Frederic's sister Jana (Julia Bähre) arrives in town and asks Katrin about Frederic's whereabouts 09. Sophie (Lea Marlen Runge, center) is caught in the middle when Emily and Jasmin (Janina Uhse) fight over the future of "Tussi Attack" 10. Elena realizes that the father of Lotta's (Luise Schubert) baby is not Tuner, but another man 11. Anni and Katrin have to overcome their differences in order to support Jasmin 12. Elena tells Tuner (Thomas Drechsel) to stop feeling sorry for himself

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Frederic first appeared on-screen on September 22nd, 2015 and was murdered on January 31st, 2016. The character was first mentioned in 2008 when Jasmin was revealed to be Katrin and Rico's daughter.

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Since January, ZDF.kultur has been repeating the short-lived daily soap "Jede Menge Leben" (A Lot of Life), which originally aired on ZDF between March 6th, 1995 and September 30th, 1996. The show was at first shown three times a week at 6.30 pm. Beginning with episode 83, the soap was shown five times a week at 4.30 pm. All in all, 376 episodes were produced. However, the last 63 episodes were never shown in Germany and only aired in some other European countries (for example in Austria, France and Hungary). "Jede Menge Leben" was ZDF's only attempt at establishing a daily soap. Yet in 2004, they were the first channel to broadcast German-produced telenovelas.

"Jede Menge Leben" was about Dorothee Berger, a doctor and the mother of two grown sons named Julian and Niko, who started a new life after divorcing her husband Clemens. Her best friend Hanna, the owner of a model agency, helped Dorothee deal with early trials and tribulations. Clemens was killed off early in the series. Niko impregnated his highschool girlfriend Jenny Wischewski, who came from a troubled household as well. Julian was hit on by his gay friend John, had an affair with Hanna, and tried to commit suicide. Julian's best friend Patrick married radio host Sammy, but then he raped her. Then there was also Mia Grasshoff, who wanted to become a model but was stalked by a lunatic.

The show was actually quite decent.

Most of the episodes, that have been repeated so far are now on youtube.

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Another short-lived daily soap was "Alle zusammen – jeder für sich" (All Together – Everyone on Their Own) which ran weekdays at 7 pm on RTL2 between November 25th, 1996 and October 30th, 1997. The show was about the neighbors of a fictional backstreet alley. There was a doctor's office, the bar "Pinguin", an auto shop, and a dance studio. AZ was the first soap to feature a male character who lived a double life as a drag queen (Arnold Edel aka "Renee").

All 230 episodes are on youtube.

Opening credits (the opening stayed the same during the whole run): Oliver Petszokat as Fritz Dollinger – Daisy Dee as Charlotte Bonali – Matthias Bundschuh as Arnold Edel – Brit Gdanietz as Tamara Juranowa – Kay Böger as Thorsten Kladow – Stephan Hippe as Dr. Lukas Burkhart – Beate Maes as Dr. Heike Burkhart – Dieter Bach as Dr. Bruno Freytag – Peter Hladik as Dr. Hajo Baer – Sandra Gerhard as Pamela Baer – Pamela Großer as Caroline Baer – Denise Zich as Billie Baer

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"Mallorca – Suche nach dem Paradies" (Mallorca – Quest for Paradise) ran weekdays at 7 pm on Pro7 between April 26th, 1999 and February 8th, 2000. It was Pro7's only attempt at establishing a daily soap opera. Entirely filmed on the island Mallorca, the show was a very expensive production. "Mallorca – Suche nach dem Paradies" centered on a group of people – young and old, poor and wealthy – living on the island. Ulrike Frank (who's been on GZSZ as Katrin Flemming since 2002) played Julia Breuer, the first transsexual character on any German soap.

All 200 episodes are on youtube.

Opening credits order: Judith Rumpf as Nicole Beck – Patrick Gräser as Marc Osterkamp & Alfonso Losa as Thomas Köhler – Judith Kernke as Lena Schilling – Ulrike Frank as Julia Breuer – Yvonne Burbach as Stefanie Stein – Rolf Zmorek as Rolf Stein – Christine Döring as Kim Ambach-Stein – Matthias Haase as Volker Stein & Jenny Jürgens as Christine Stein – Luise Bähr as Carina Stein & Vincenz Kiefer as Lukas Stein – Kike Mas as Felipe Hansen, Wookie Meyer as Eva Hansen & Gaspar Cano as Ricardo Velazquez – Peter Atanassow as Jan Keppler – Broder B. Hendrix as Andreas Breuer – Louise Wischermann as Carmen Diaz

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And finally, the worst of the bunch: "Geliebte Schwestern" ("Beloved Nurses"). This show ran weekdays on Sat.1 from June 2nd, 1997 to June 13th, 1998 at 7 pm. 250 episodes were produced. "Geliebte Schwestern" was about five nurses who worked at the fictional "Academic Hospital". The show was retooled after six months, but couldn't attract enough viewers so it was cancelled. In the final episode, the hospital burned down.

This was the show's opening after the retooling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbPkjBNTGgI
Order: Annette Schreiber as Ronnie Fritz – Samer Nassif as Felix Reickart – Ivonne Schönherr as Raffaela Steinfeld – Patrick Gräser as Dr. Janosch Steinfeld – Mareike Fell as Micki Beck – Daniel Hartwig as Tommy Beck – Edda Fischer as Eva Schröder – Chaim Alexis Barsuhn as Dr. Philip Seidel – Xenia Seeberg as Angie Wilhelm – Ludwig Schütze as Dr. Georg Steinfeld – Florentine Lahme as Karen Stember

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Preview Pictures March/April 2016

Unter uns
01. After having being hit by a car, Caro (Ines Kurenbach) learns that she has lost her baby 02. Eva (Claudelle Deckert) is attacked by one of her former clients 03. Fiona (Olivia Burkhart) tells her father Rolf (Stefan Franz, right) that he has to move out so that Easy (Lars Steinhöfel) can move in with her 04. After having come to the conclusion that they cannot fix their broken marriage, Henning (Benjamin Kiss) says goodbye to Ute (Isabell Hertel) and leaves town for good 05. Irene (Petra Blossey, left) listens to Roswitha's (Andrea Brix) problems 06. Ute is humiliated by Laurenz (Claus Biechle) 07. Eva and Till (Ben Ruedinger) celebrate Noah's birthday 08. Elli (Nora Koppen) tells Paco (Milos Vukovic) that she's still a virgin 09. Irene tasers a burglar, who turns out to be Robert's grandson Valentin (new series regular Aaron Koszuta) 10. Rufus (Kai Noll) supports Britta (Tabea Heynig) who's about to take her driving test

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Alles was zählt
01. As usual, there's tension during a Steinkamp family dinner as Simone (Tatjana Clasing), Richard (Silvan-Pierre Leirich), Jenny (Kaja Schmidt-Tychsen) and Michelle (Franziska Benz) have a heated argument 02. Jenny wants Marie (Judith Neumann) to win the figure skating championship 03. During the championship, Marie topples and hurts herself 04. Marian (Sam Eisenstein) tries to apologize to Lena (Juliette Greco) 05. Even though she's suspecting her of having an affair with her fiancé Christoph, Vanessa (Julia Augustin) allows Anne (Alexandra Seefisch-Furler) to help her pick a wedding dress 06. Christoph (Lars Korten) complains to Deniz (Igor Dolgatschew) about Veit's behaviour 07. Marian attacks Ingo (André Dietz) when he finds out that Ingo and Lena had sex 08. Ingo introduces Marie to Diana (Tanja Szewczenko) who's back in town after several years of absence 09.  Veit promises Jenny to "take care" of Diana (he later tries to run down Diana, but she survives) 10. While being stuck in the elevator, Carmen (Heike Warmuth) and Simone (Tatjana Clasing) have a chance to talk

Gute Zeiten, Schlechte Zeiten
01. David (Philipp Christopher) and his buddy Tommy (Marc Bluhm) try to escape from their Malaysian prison 02. Thanks to Jasmin (Janina Uhse, middle), Sophie (Lea Marlen Woitack) and Leon (Daniel Fehlow) can finally go on their world trip 03. John (Felix von Jascheroff) and Elena (Elena Garcia Gerlach) have relationship problems 04. Maren (Eva Mona Rodekirchen) realizes that Alexander (Clemens Löhr) knows that she killed Frederic 05. Katrin (Ulrike Frank, right) tells Maren and Anni (Linda Marlen Runge, left) that David might know something about Frederic's murder 06. Ayla (Nadine Menz) suddenly feels attracted to David 07. Anni tries to talk some sense into Selma (Rona Özkan) who's helplessly in love with Jonas 08. Katrin wants to get rid of David 09. Chris (Eric Stehfest) doesn't listen to Jasmin's problems 10. Maja (Anne-Cathrin Märzke) has to tell Tayfun (Tayfun Baydar) that he has terminal cancer

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RTL has restructured its on-demand service and now also offers the 5 latest episodes of GZSZ for free: http://www.tvnow.de/rtl/gzsz/jahr/2016/04

AWZ: http://www.tvnow.de/rtl/alles-was-zaehlt/jahr/2016/04

UU: http://www.tvnow.de/rtl/unter-uns/jahr/2016/04

GZSZ's 6000th episode will be shown on May 18th, 2016. Apparently, the anniversary will be celebrated with a primetime showing, meaning that 3 regular episodes will air back to back between 7.40 and 9.15 pm.

GZSZ has always celebrated its anniversaries in grand style:

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#1000 (1996 – 30 minutes): The whole cast took part in a scavenger hunt through Berlin. Tina posed with a snake and won the competition. Charlie walked in on Kim and Leon kissing.

 


#1500 (1998 – 90 minutes [1498-1500 combined]): Princess Florentine "Flo" Spirandelli di Montalban and Andy Lehmann got married at Berlin Cathedral.
 


#2000 (2000 – 60 minutes [special one-hour-episode]): During a charity event, Cora Hinze gave birth to her and Nico's daughter Antonia shortly after Nico's father had died.
 


#2500 (2002 – 90 minutes [2500-2502 combined]): Flo returned to Berlin after having gone missing in Mauretania thanks to her arch nemesis Sonja Wiebe. During Cora and Leon's wedding party at "Daniel's Bar", Flo confronted Sonja. A fight ensued between the two women, leading to the explosion of a gas bottle, which set the whole bar on fire. After more explosions, several characters were trapped in the basement. Sonja died in the wreckage. More than 7 million people watched this episode, which is the highest number for any soap ever.


#3000 (2004 – 30 minutes): During a special anniversary week, most of the characters boarded a plane to the Ardennes to take part in Antonia's baptism. Suddenly the plane was about to crash. Hannes and Senta missed the flight due to Senta being drunk. Deniz was jealous that Sandra brought Kike along. Vincent and Elisabeth, who had only entered a sham marriage, grew closer. In the Ardennes, Nico was confronted with Julia's return. At the end of the week, John Bachmann became a hero and landed the plane safely.


#3333 (2005 – 90 minutes [3333-3335 combined]): Verena Koch was kidnapped by a bunch of mobsters who wanted to steal her necklace. John and Paula got married.
#3500 (2006 – 30 minutes): After setting Jo Gerner's office on fire, Isabel Eggert fled town together with Tim, Verena and Caroline. During an argument, Tim lost control over their car and they crashed into a ditch. At a cabin, Isabel gave birth to her and Tim's son Felix, but died shortly after that.
#4000 (2008 – 30 minutes): Jasmin came to the conclusion that Katrin must be her half-sister. While on drugs, Emily Höfer and Franzi Reuter broke into the "Fasan" restaurant. The girls accidentally set the kitchen on fire. Paula tried to rescue her lover Franzi but it was too late.
#4500 (2010 – 30 minutes): Regular episode because the show had celebrated 18 years on the air two weeks earlier. During the "birthday" episode, a landslide damaged several buildings in the neighborhood. Carsten and Dascha were hurt and the "Mocca" café was destroyed. The "birthday" episode also featured a crossover with AWZ as AWZ's Simone and Richard Steinkamp visited a charity event hosted by GZSZ's Katrin Flemming-Gerner.
#5000 (2012 – 30 minutes): Threatened by mobsters, Jo Gerner had to run for his life while the other characters celebrated a huge music festival. The episode ended with Gerner being shot.
#5555 (2014 – 30 minutes): David Brenner was threatened by the mafia which led to a hostage situation at the "Mauerwerk" restaurant, while Bommel left town and left a heart-broken Katrin behind.

All anniversary episodes from #1000 to #4500 were released on DVD in 2012.

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