2012
Life in the Spin Cycle – Rich and Poor in the Laundromat
(30’), ZDF-series 37°, Sept 4, 2012
Topic: Freddy-Leck’s laundromat is frequented by the full spectrum of clients, from welfare recipients to politicians.
Market share: 9.8 % | Viewers: 2.2 million
2011
Dream Woman for Dad – The Children Get a Say
(30’), ZDF series 37°, Sept 13, 2011
Topic: How do single fathers find a mate who will gel with the children too?
Market share: 11.6 % | Viewers: 2.6 Millionen
2011
All aboard!
Family with 9 children on the Rhei
(30’), ZDF series 37°, Mar 29, 2011 at 00:03 AM
Topic: The Mnichs: a family of Inland sailors at the Loreley tanker disaster
Market share: 11.2 % | Viewers: 1.4 Millionen
2010
My Wife Gets the Check
(30’), ZDF series 37°, Aug 10, 2010
Topic: How do men alter their roles when women provide for the family?
Market share: 13.1 % | Viewers: 2.78 Millionen
2009
“It’s All Trash – People Who Live from Junk”
(30’), ZDF series 37°, August 18, 2009 at 10:15 PM
Topic: Scrap dealers, metal collectors, flea market professionals.
Market share: 12.5 % | Viewers: 2.6 Millionen
2009
“Dream Job: Cashier – Smiling as the Scanner Beeps”
(30’), ZDF series 37°, June 16, 2009 at 10:15 PM
Topic: Hardworking women talk about their jobs as cashiers.
Market share: 11.2 % | Viewers: 2.4 Millionen
2009
“Mona – Life With Epidermolysis Bullosa”
(9’), ZDF Menschen – das Magazin, January 3, 2009 at 5:45 PM
(15’), ZDF infokanal total normal
Topic: Mona‘s illness and her courage to face life.
Market share: 10.5 % | Viewers: 2.03 Millionen
2008
“Sweet Girls – Strong Women.
Ten Girlfriends Stick Together”
(30’), ZDF series 37°, August 19, 2008 at 10:15 PM
Topic: Ten women share an exceptional friendship.
Market share: 9.4 % | Viewers: 2.0 Millionen
2007
“Family Life XXL – 5 Generations Under One Roof”
(30’), ZDF series 37°, September 11, 2007 at 10:15 PM
Topic: What do different generations learn from each other?
Market share: 12.6 % | Viewers: 2.8 Millionen
2007
“Seeing and Being Seen at KaDeWe – A Department Store becomes a Legend”
(30’), ZDF, August 28, 2007 at 11:30 PM
Topic: The Kaufhaus des Westens (upmarket West Berlin department store) turns 100.
Market share: 7.4 % | Viewers: 0.77 Millionen
2006
Put on a Happy Face: No Smile? No Job.
(30’), ZDF series 37°, September 19, 2006 at 10:45 PM
Topic: When your job requires a permanent smile.
Market share: 8.5 % | Viewers: 1.43 Millionen
2006
No Such Thing as Quitting Time – Multi-jobbers and Extreme-commuters
(30’) ZDF series 37°, January 31, 2006 at 10:20 PM
Topic: Hard-working people in Germany.
Market share: 14.5 % | Viewers: 3.39 Millionen
2005
Four Generations at Home – What Keeps Large Families Together
(30’), ZDF series 37°, January 11, 2005 at 10:15 PM
Topic: Two multi-generational families in Germany.
Market share: 14.4 % | Viewers: 3.58 Millionen
2004
Half the Family – Twice the Work.
How Single Parents Struggle Through Life
(30’), ZDF documentary, July 28, 2004 at 10:45 PM
Topic: The situation of single parents in Germany.
Market share: 7.7 % | Viewers: 1.32 Millionen
2004
A Job Abroad – The Departure of German Workers
(30’), ZDF series 37°, February 03, 2004 at 10:15 PM
Topic: Germans working in Sweden, the UK, and Spain.
Market share: 12.8 % | Viewers: 2.76 Millionen
2003
The Cook, the Cleaning Lady, and the Security Guard – Work is Our Entire Life!
(30’), ZDF series 37°, September 02, 2003 at 10:15 PM
Topic: Lots of work for little money – jobs in the service sector.
Market share: 14.4 % | Viewers: 3.0 Millionen
2003
Sleepless at Midnight
(2 x 45’), ZDF pilots from February 18. – March 11, 2003
Format: Self-help for shopaholics and compulsive hoarders and messies.
Market share: 6.8 % / 7.6 % | Viewers: 420.000 / 350.000
2002
When All the Dams Break.
People in the Flood
(60’), ZDF special report, August 27, 2002 at 08:15 PM
Film by Peter Kunz, Gunther Scholz, Anne Reith and Sibylle Trost
Topic: Human fates during the floods in 2002.
Market share: 11.4 % | Viewers: 3.06 Millionen
2002
Up and Away.
When Mothers Leave their Families
(30’), ZDF series 37°, April 23, 2002 at 10:15 PM
Topic: Women who leave their families without taking their children.
Market share: 12.5 % | Viewers: 2.7 Millionen
2001
Younger Man – New Happiness
When Women Take Other Paths
(30’), ZDF series 37°, June 12, 2001 at 10:15 PM
Topic: Older women who love younger men.
Market share: 11.2 % | Viewers: 2.34 Millionen
2000
A Woman’s World: Shopping Parties in Germany
(30’), ZDF series 37°, December 12, 2000 at 10:15 PM
Topic: Home sales parties for candles, anti-aging creams and lingerie.
Market share: 11.9 % | Viewers: 2.59 Millionen
2000
Body Fever – 48 Hours at the Loveparade
(30’), ZDF series 37°, July 11, 2000 at 10:15 PM
Topic: Report on the Loveparade techno party in Berlin as experienced by two cliques of teenagers.
Market share: 6.6 % | Viewers: 1.16 Millionen
2000
Heads and Figures.
People Intoxicated by Numbers
(30’), ZDF series 37°, February 29, 2000 at 10:30 PM
Topic: Number fetishists.
Market share: 4.4 % | Viewers: 0.92 Millionen
1999
Full Lips, Flat Stomach.
People Who are Made Beautiful
(30’), ZDF series 37°, December 14, 1999 at 10:15 PM
Topic: Cosmetic surgery on beautiful people.
Market share: 13.4 % | Viewers: 2.71 Millionen
1999
The Rat Catchers.
Going around Berlin with the Exterminators.
(30’), ZDF series Die Reportage, October 29, 1999 at 09:15 PM
Topic: Exterminators catching rats.
Market share: 14.3 % | Viewers: 4.23 Millionen
1999
I’ll Buy Myself Happiness.
People Addicted to Shopping
(30’), ZDF series 37°, July 20, 1999 at 10:30 PM
Topic: Shopping addiction in Germany.
Market share: 10.7 % | Viewers: 1.81 Millionen
1999
Beyond Messy: Germans Drowning in their Own Trash
(30’), ZDF series 37°, January 12, 1999 at 10:15 PM
Topic: People’s apartments overflowing with rubbish.
Market share: 12.4 % | Viewers: 2.98 Millionen
1998
Millennium Fever – The Prophets of the Last Days
(30’), ZDF series 37°, August 4, 1998 at 10:30 PM
Topic: Germans who believe that the year 2000 will bring the end time.
Market share: 10.2 % | Viewers: 2.09 Millionen
1997
Animal Farm in the Big City
(30’), ZDF series 37°, June 10, 1997 at 10:30 PM
Topic: Exotic animals in Berlin’s hood, Kreuzberg.
Market share: 12.4 % | Viewers: 2.04 Millionen
1996
Nominated for the 1995 Axel-Springer prize
for “The Man with Pork on his Hat”
1996
Schlachtfest – or: ‘It is the Tragedy of Life
that Our Food is made of Countless Murdered Souls.’
(14’), Short film for the Schweisfurth Stiftung Munich
Presented at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden
Exhibit “Humans and Animals – A Paradoxical Relationship”, 2003
1995
The Man with Pork on his Hat
(30’), ZDF series 37°, August 29, 1995 at 10:15 PM
Topic: Portrait of the butcher Karl Ludwig Schweisfurth
(Nominated for the Axel-Springer prize in 1996)
Market share: 7.9 % | Viewers: 1.53 Millionen
1993
Return of the Biospherians – Two Years under a Glass Dome
(30’), A Film by Jörg Seibold and Sibylle Trost
Deutsche Welle TV and 3Sat, November 1993
Topic: The Biosphere 2 project in Arizona, USA
