Jakob und Adele
- Carl -Heinz Schroth: Jakob Biedermann
- Brigitte Horney: Adele Schliemann
- Jürgen Thormann: Rudolf waiter
- Almut Eggert: Lisbeth waiter
- Judith Brandt: daughter Marion
- Hans Häckermann
- Ernst Stankovski
- Manfred Krug
- Gerd Baltus
- Joachim Wichmann
- Gerd Duwner
- Rudolf Platte
- Matthias Ponnier
- Peer Schmidt
- Friedrich Georg Beck House
- Wichart of Roell
- Evelyn Hamann
- Andrea L' Arronge
- Diether Krebs
- Erni Singerl
- Louise Martini
- Jophi Ries
- Peter Schiff
- Christine Neubauer
Jacob and Adele was a successful German television series of the ZDF, which was produced 1981-1989. The series of screenwriter Herbert Reinecker was the ancients to come from the anthology film in which the actor Carl -Heinz Schroth and Edith army sword embodied the characters of seniors, from which finally the television series Jacob and Adele has been developed. Originally Edith army sword should take over the role of Adele, but the actress died before the series was completed. After army sword death Brigitte Horney was offered the female lead role.
After the death of Brigitte Horney in July 1988 still has a final sequence, with Carl -Heinz Schroth as Jacob turned. The producers have planned to do another season for the fall of 1988, but this could not be carried out by Horney's premature death. A short time later died Schroth.
General
Jacob and Adele get to know seniors than by chance and decide to start at age all over again, and to show their environment that life over 65 years is not yet over. Fight with wit and charm, Jacob and Adele with things like travel, a disco and detective work against social stereotypes and help different people many a time of distress. The main venue of the series was Berlin. The result A house with bright windows was filmed in Mallorca, Jacob and Adele as private investigators played in Munich. At the Lake Orta - the residence of Carl -Heinz Schroth - the episode was filmed trip to Tierra del Fuego.
A sequence usually contains three to four individual episodes. As a guest performer appeared, among other Evelyn Hamann, Willy Harlander, Erni Singerl, Diether Krebs, Joachim Wichmann and Manfred Krug.