Die Deutschen

Die Deutschen
Genre	Documentary, history
Starring	Hans Mittermüller David C. Bunners Mickey Hardt Gabriel Spahiu Guntbernt Warns Bernd Gnann Georg Prang Stefan Jürgens Ulrich Wiggers Yasmina Djaballah Adrian Vancica Hansjürgen Hürrig Cristian Motiu Steffen Münster Susann Uplegger Mircea Caraman Vlad Radescu Constantin Draganescu Udo Schenk Benjamin Morik Michael Pink
Country of origin	Germany
Language(s)	German
No. of seasons	2+
No. of episodes	20
Production
Running time	43 minutes
Production company(s)	Gruppe 5 Filmproduktion
Broadcast
Original channel	ZDF
Original airing	Season 1: October 26, 2008 (2008-10-26) on ZDF, season 2: November 13, 2010 (2010-11-13) on ZDFneo
External links
Website

"Die Deutschen" ("The Germans") is a German television documentary produced for ZDF that first aired from October to November 2008. Each episode recounts a selected epoch of German History, beginning (first season) with the reign of Otto the Great and ending with the collapse of the German Empire at the end of the First World War. In November 2010 the second season of "Die Deutschen" was published in German television (ZDF and ZDFneo), beginning with Charlemagne, the Frankish King, and ending with Gustav Stresemann, the Chancellor and Foreign Minister during the Weimar Republic.

Historical events are recreated through a combination of live action scenes and computer generated animations. The series was filmed at over 200 different locations in Germany, Malta, and Romania at a cost of approximately €500,000 per episode.

First season

#	English Title	German Title	Original Air Date
1	Otto and the Empire	Otto und das Reich	October 26, 2008
2	Heinrich and the Pope	Heinrich und der Papst	October 28, 2008
3	Barbarossa and the Lion	Barbarossa und der Löwe	November 2, 2008
4	Luther and the Nation	Luther und die Nation	November 4, 2008
5	Wallenstein and the War	Wallenstein und der Krieg	November 9, 2008
6	Frederick and the Empress	Friedrich und die Kaiserin	November 11, 2008
7	Napoleon and the Germans	Napoleon und die Deutschen	November 16, 2008
8	Robert Blum and the Revolution	Robert Blum und die Revolution	November 18, 2008
9	Bismarck and the German Empire	Bismarck und das Deutsche Reich	November 23, 2008
10	Wilhelm and the World	Wilhelm und die Welt	November 25, 2008

Second season

#	English Title	German Title	Original Air Date
1	Charlemagne and the Saxons	Karl der Große und die Sachsen	November 13, 2010
2	Frederick II. and the Crusade	Friedrich II. und der Kreuzzug	November 13, 2010
3	Hildegard of Bingen and the Power of Women	Hildegard von Bingen und die Macht der Frauen	November 20, 2010
4	Charles IV. and the Black Death	Karl IV. und der schwarze Tod	November 20, 2010
5	Thomas Müntzer and the Peasants' War	Thomas Müntzer und der Krieg der Bauern	November 27, 2010
6	Augustus the Strong and the Love	August der Starke und die Liebe	November 27, 2010
7	Karl Marx and the Class struggle	Karl Marx und der Klassenkampf	December 04, 2010
8	Ludwig II. and the Bavarians	Ludwig II. und die Bayern	December 04, 2010
9	Rosa Luxemburg and the Liberty	Rosa Luxemburg und die Freiheit	December 11, 2010
10	Gustav Stresemann and the Republic	Gustav Stresemann und die Republik	December 11, 2010

See also

Die Deutschen (German)

External links

Die Deutschen at the Internet Movie Database

• "Die Deutschen" on zdf.de, including full episodes (German)

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.