With heart and Berlin snark: in summer 2024, the new ARD Degeto series MARZAHN MON AMOUR was filmed in the Berlin district of Marzahn. All episodes will be available in the ARD media library from March 14.

The six-part series – produced by UFA Fiction – tells the autobiographically inspired story of novelist Katja Oskamp, who turns her life as a writer upside down and decides to make an unusual new start instead: she becomes a chiropodist in Berlin-Marzahn, once the largest prefabricated housing estate in the GDR. In a beauty salon, she and her colleagues, who become friends, learn more every day about the exciting, bizarre and moving life stories of their customers.

Henriette Lippold, producer at UFA Fiction: “Translating Katja Oskamp’s tender and cleverly observant book into pictures is an exciting and challenging task. We have dealt intensively with the stories of the predominantly older people and have immersed ourselves in biographies that represent an entire generation. It is touching to give these people and their everyday lives a stage. The fact that we have found Clara Zoë My-Linh von Arnim as director and very authentic and strong actors to tell us these stories makes us extremely happy.”

Leonie Geisinger, Executive Producer at UFA Fiction: “We are very proud and grateful to have been commissioned by Degeto to film MARZAHN MON AMOUR, based on the wonderful novel of the same name by Katja Oskamp. The series tells the story of a special neighborhood and the people who live there and share their everyday moments of happiness and worries, big and small, in Kathi’s salon. Our series is dedicated to them. Director Clara Zoë My-Linh von Arnim has transformed these stories into a series with the utmost love and respect. It was an exciting challenge to immerse herself so intensively in the biographies of the predominantly older protagonists, who represent an entire generation and are played by fantastic actors, many of whom have their own biographical connection to the district. Marzahn – we love you!”