In aller Freundschaft (In all friendship) is a German television soap opera that began airing in 1998 every Tuesday. The series follows the staff of the fictional Sachsenklinik hospital in the city of Leipzig.[citation needed]

In aller Freundschaft
StarringThomas Rühmann
Dieter Bellmann
Ursula Karusseit
Alexa Maria Surholt
Andrea Kathrin Loewig
Arzu Bazman
Thomas Koch [de]
Hendrikje Fitz
Bernhard Bettermann
Rolf Becker
Udo Schenk
Julia Jäger
Michael Trischan
Jascha Rust
Christina Petersen
Annett Renneberg
Julian Weigend
Martin Halm
Tao Li Ma
Angela Lilo Sandritter
Gunter Schoß
Ina Rudolph
Axel Wandtke
Alissa Jung
Stephen Dürr
Fred Delmare
Joachim Kretzer
Holger Daemgen
Johannes Steck
Matthias Koeberlin
Steve Windolf
Denise Zich
Maren Gilzer
Uta Schorn
Jutta Kammann
Roy Peter Link
Cheryl Shepard
Sarah Tkotsch
Anita Vulesica
Isabel Varell
Anja Nejarri
Isabell Gerschke
Theme music composerKisha [de]
Opening themeLove is Enough
Country of originGermany
Original languageGerman
No. of seasons26
No. of episodes1056
Production
Executive producerJana Brandt
Running time45 min
Original release
NetworkDas Erste
Release26 October 1998 (1998-10-26) –
present
Building complex in the Media City Leipzig with the hospital building.

The series is produced by Degeto (a subsidiary of the German TV channel ARD) and by Saxonia Media Filmproduktion GmbH in the studios of Media City Leipzig.

The first broadcast was on 26 October 1998. Since then, approximately 600 episodes have aired.

Initially, the focus was on three main characters and their friendship Dr. Roland Heilmann, Dr. Achim Kreutzer, and Dr. Maia Dietz. Nowadays, there is a growing cast of 15–20 characters which the plot follows (of the original trio, only Dr. Roland Heilmann can still be seen in the program).

Many actors were already acting in the television and cinema in the German Democratic Republic. Other locally renowned directors from the former GDR that contribute to the program include Celino Bleiweiß, Klaus Gendries, and Peter Hill.

Even though the series is set in the city of Leipzig (Saxony), which is home to the Upper Saxon German dialect, it is rarely used in the series in order to make it easier for the rest of the German population to understand.

Current cast

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As of 2016, the cast consists of the following actors:

Spin-off: In aller Freundschaft – Die jungen Ärzte

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In July 2014, the MDR announced the production of a spin-off named In aller Freundschaft – Die jungen Ärzte [de] - (In All Friendship - The Young Doctors). The series focuses on Dr. Niklas Ahrend (Roy Peter Link [de]), who at the beginning of the series accepts a senior physician's office at the Johannes-Thal-Klinikum in Erfurt, leaving the Sachsenklinik and five assistants. The production of 42 episodes took place since autumn 2014, the weekly broadcast on Thursday evenings began on 22 January 2015 at Das Erste.

Spin-off: In aller Freundschaft – Die Krankenschwestern

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In November 2018, a new spin-off begins named In aller Freundschaft – Die Krankenschwestern. The characters are introduced in both older series. In In aller Freundschaft, nurse Arzu meets a former classmate from nursing school who asks her to comme to Halle and help her with the formation of the new nurses. In Die jungen Ärzte, two of the main characters, Luisa and Jasmine, who have applied to the nursing school, have a car accident in Erfurt (where the young doctors show happens) and meet Fliete Petersen, the cousin of Elias Bähr, who works at the Johannes-Thal-Klinikum as a assistants. Fliete realises that he wants to train as a nurse too and follows his two new friends in Halle.

References

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  • In aller Freundschaft at IMDb
  • Official German website
  • In aller Freundschaft-Spoiler (in German)
  • "In aller Freundschaft website".