Die glückliche Familie

The happy family is a German television series in 52 parts, which was broadcast on Wednesdays from 1987 to 1991 in the evening program of the ARD. It tells the story of the Behringer family with their typical everyday problems. When the parents of the family were Siegfried Rauch and Maria Schell on in their only series starring role.

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The series is about living in Graefelfing near Munich Behringer family, a typical middle-class family of the late eighties. The computer expert Florian and journalist Maria, both in their fifties, live with their daughters, Tami, Katja and Alexandra, called Alex first in the Munich suburb of Graefelfing. Behringer grandpa lives in the same house and a passion for motorcycles. The order no comments embarrassed Frankish housekeeper Erna is the backbone of the family.

After Alex has dropped out of school, they opened the fashion boutique "Chez Alex ," which must have been a little later file for bankruptcy. She completed an apprenticeship as a tailor and get at the age of 18 years, a son ( Titian) of the neighbor Richie. This relationship eventually breaks, and Richie goes to the USA. Alex finally learns the fashion designer Henry Wolf Gruber know and moves in with him, Katja Irish James Flanigan and moves in with him to Dublin.

Florian, Mary and Tami go for a year in the United States. After their return, they buy a house in a village in Upper Bavaria. Katie's marriage failed and they will also return to Germany. Florian takes the plunge into self-employment, Maria writes a book about the family life of the Behringer. Heinrich Wolf Gruber tried with a large-scale insurance fraud to rehabilitate the company, but an employee comes to him on the ropes and blackmails him. Towards the end of the series Maria fell seriously ill and eventually dies during an operation.

Background

The produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk series showed everyday common problems such as marital quarrel (also in the relations of the older daughters ), Midlife Crisis, puberty problems in teenagers, but also addressed the cancer and the death of a main character in the final season. For satirical and komik -like deposits ensured, among other things embodied by Fritz Strassner grandfather Ludwig and the Central Franconian housekeeper Erna.

Numerous television stars had guest appearances in the series, including Ottfried Fischer, Iris Berben, Thomas Ohrner, Harald Leipnitz and Michael Hinz. For Maria Furtwängler, who starred in the series with her mother Kathrin Ackermann, The happy family meant the beginning of her television career. The later film director Sönke Wortmann starred in several episodes and completed way on the set of the series an internship as assistant director. For Maria Schell The happy family was one of her last major roles in German television.

All three seasons of the show are available on DVD.