Articles about Das Erste
Haus work
Creating a thriller around a large ensemble of characters and unexpectedly shooting in a foreign country threw up plenty of challenges for Haus aus Glas (Inside a Family) writer Esther Bernstorff and director Alain Gsponer. They tell DQ how they made it work.
Generation gap
Marianne Wendt, writer and creative producer of Wer wir sind (Generation Now: Today for Tomorrow), opens up about the social themes at the heart of this German drama and the big questions it asks about the kind of society we want to leave for our children.
Built to last
The executive producers of German dramas Sturm der Liebe (Storm of Love) and Die Rosenheim Cops (The Rosenheim Cops) take DQ inside the making of these long-running dramas, which together have amassed more than 4,000 episodes.
Wood work
Hair and make-up designers Gregor Eckstein and Jeanette Latzelsberger discuss creating styles for multiple time periods in German drama Das Geheimnis des Totenwaldes (Dark Woods), which is inspired by the real-life search for a missing woman.
Butcher’s cut
Jonas Nay, star of The Master Butchers Singing Club, and producer Sarah Kirkegaard open up about making the miniseries, based on Louise Erdrich’s novel about a German butcher who emigrates to the US after the First World War.
Back to the 1980s
As a host of scripted series find inspiration in the 1980s, DQ speaks to the creatives behind these shows to find out how they recreated the era – and why it remains so popular almost 30 years after the decade ended.
Disappearing act
German film prodco 23/5 Filmproduktion is moving into TV for the first time with Das Verschwinden (The Vanishing), in which a woman searching for the truth behind her daughter’s disappearance uncovers more than she bargained for.
To Babylon and beyond
Hot on the heels of some breakout hits, German drama is paving the way for fresh stories to be told as new players enter the original programming game. Michael Pickard reports.