Die Fussbroichs () is a German television series by WDR Fernsehen. It was the offspring of a German documentary Die Fussbroichs - Ein Kinderzimmer 1979 by Westdeutsches Fernsehen, former name of WDR Fernsehen, shown on 19 August 1979. (German language documentary) The pilot Die Fussbroichs — Eine Kölner Arbeiterfamilie - a documentary of 85 minutes — was shown on 13 February 1990. The television series launched in 1991, the first episode was shown on 22 December 1991, and ended in 2002. The 100th and last — former unbroadcast - episode Check-up was shown on 26 December 2003.
Literature Ute Diehl: Fussbroichs : die einzig wahre Familiengeschichte, Wienand, Köln, 1994, (German) Eike Wenzel: Ballonseide und Schrankwand: Privatheit und Intimität bei den Fussbroichs und in der Docu-Soap., In: Ulrike Bergermann, Hartmut Winkler (Hrsg.): TV-Trash. The TV-show I love to hate. Schüren 2000 (Schriftenreihe der Gesellschaft für Film- und Fernsehwissenschaft (GFF) 9), S. 71–81 (German)
Awards 1992: Grimme-Preis Bronze for director Ute Diehl.
See also List of German television series
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