Die Trotzkis

• Heinz racing hack: Herbert Trotsky
• Christine Harbort: Pink Trotsky
• Diana Urbank: Margot Trotsky
• Michael Stutz: Benno Trotsky

The Trotsky is a comedy series which was produced and broadcast from 1993 to 1994. The first broadcast was on 14 December 1993 to 1 March 1994 at 21.05 clock in the First.

Action

The focus of the approximately 25 - minute episodes is the family Trotsky from Leipzig, who must deal with the changes after German reunification. The head of the family Herbert Trotsky knows everything better, is in his fifties, taxi drivers, and how his son Benno VfB Leipzig fan. His wife Rosa is an unemployed kindergarten teacher. It ensures the cohesion of the family and lives in constant dispute with her husband, also because of the constant lamentations about politics. With her ​​daughter Margot connects the preference for all the blessings of the West. Margot is mid 20's, working on the front desk of a leading hotel in Leipzig, looking for the man of her dreams. My brother Ben is thicker early 20's and vice chairman of the fan club Nordkurve. Due to his clumsiness he is the favorite victims Margot for verbal attacks.

Reception

" The Trotsky are simple souls, which the German - German everyday adding hard. You are Easterners out of conviction: Little Red Riding Hood prefer champagne instead of Veuve Cliquot. Herbert Trotsky sitting at home like - and lectures about the pitfalls of the market economy. The Kamikaze of the East in continuous clinch with loan sharks and estate agents ... "

" In each episode, the four how perfect the little man's revenge can be so that it's a miracle, really, that they all live together peacefully under one roof. The series is the East German response to the comedy series Motzki. "

The series was repeated in 1994 to B1, 1997 and 1998 in the MDR television, as well as 1999 on 3sat.