Episode guide
Heimat: Season 1
11 episodes · premiered Sep 16, 1984
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- Episode 1: The Call of Far-Away Places (1919-1928) Sep 16, 1984 · 1h 59m 1918 (November) -- World War I ends. 1919 -- the Weimar Republic is set up at Weimar, Germany. Katharina and Mathias Simon live in the small village of Schabbach in the Hunsrick area of…
- Episode 2: The Center of the World (1928-1933) Sep 19, 1984 · 1h 30m 1929 -- the Great Depression begins further impoverishing the less fortunate Germans. This puts great pressure on the ill-equipped Weimar democracy. 1932 -- unemployment is now extremely…
- Episode 3: The Best Christmas Ever (1935) Sep 23, 1984 · 58m From Berlin the sickly Eduard brings his wife Lucie home to Schabbach. Lucie is an extremely ambitious woman and wants her husband to rise politically. She constantly henpecks poor Eduard…
- Episode 4: The Highway (1938) Sep 26, 1984 · 58m 1938 -- to escape the politically worsening situation in Germany, the famous German movie star Marlene Dietrich emigrates to the United States. A young Swedish girl named Zarah Leander…
- Episode 5: Up and Away and Back (1938-1939) Oct 8, 1984 · 59m 1938 (June) -- German heavy-weight boxer Max Schmeling loses badly in a rematch with American boxer Joe Louis. A bombshell is dropped on Maria and Otto. Paul Simon of Simon Electric…
- Episode 6: The Home Front (1943) Oct 15, 1984 · 59m 1943 -- the last large-scale German offensive assault on the eastern front begins at Kursk. The military situation really begins to deteriorate for the Germans in the Soviet Union. Maria…
- Episode 7: Soldiers and Love (1944) Oct 22, 1984 · 59m 1944 (June 6) -- the allied forces land on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. 1944 (July 20) -- would-be assassins plant a bomb which goes off near Hitler, but Hitler escapes death. 1944…
- Episode 8: The American (1944-1947) Oct 31, 1984 · 1h 42m 1945 (May 8) -- Germany surrenders. Lucie sees the arrival of the Americans in Schabbach as just another opportunity for her to help Eduard move up in terms of economic and political…
- Episode 9: Little Hermann (1955-1956) Nov 4, 1984 · 2h 18m 1955 -- West Germany joins NATO, while East Germany joins the Warsaw Pact. Maria absolutely dotes on her son Hermann. She has great plans for him, wanting him to become very educated. He…
- Episode 10: The Proud Years (1967-1969) Oct 21, 1984 · 1h 22m 1968 -- there are student demonstrations and unrest in West Germany as in the rest of the West. 1969 -- Chancellor Willy Brantd opens negotiations with East Germany. He is also the man who…
- Episode 11: The Feast of the Living and the Dead (1982) Oct 24, 1984 · 1h 40m 1982-1998 -- reign of Helmut Kohl as Chancellor of Germany. He saw the destruction of the Berlin Wall (November 9, 1989) and the formal unification of West and East Germany (October 3…