Um Himmels Willen
| Um Himmels Willen | |
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| Genre | Sitcom |
| Created by |
Claudia Sihler |
| Starring |
Fritz Wepper Jutta Speidel |
| Theme music composer |
Nik Reich Ludwig Eckmann |
| Country of origin | Germany |
| Original language(s) | German |
| No. of seasons | 13 |
| No. of episodes | 169 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Jana Brandt Sven Döbler Claudia Sihler Siegfried B. Glökler Jan S. Kaiser |
| Location(s) | Germany |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 45–50 minutes (per episode) |
| Production company(s) | ARD |
| Distributor | ARD |
| Release | |
| Original network | ARD |
| Picture format |
480i (PsF 4:3 SDTV) 1080i (PsF 16:9 HDTV) |
| Original release | January 8, 2002 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Um Himmels Willen (English: For Heaven's Sake) is a German television sitcom created by and , which originally aired on ARD since 8 January 2002 The 13th season was aired from 4 March 2014 to 3 June 2014 and is syndicated in many European countries.
The series follows the daily life of a group of nuns in a small cloister in the fictional town of Kaltenthal in lower Bavaria, and the careers of the town's troubled citizens, mostly the mayor and police officers. The sitcom was produced by ARD. It originally starred Jutta Speidel as the main character, however she was replaced by in 2007.
The show aired at 20:15 on Tuesday nights on ARD in Germany. By June 2013, 156 episodes had been broadcast over eleven seasons. Besides being immensely popular in Germany (with some 7.2 million views per episode), the show is also broadcast daily in Austria,Switzerland, Italy,Hungary, and Denmark.
Wolfgang Wöller (Fritz Wepper), the popular politician and mayor of the fictitious Lower Bavarian town of Kaltenthal, is afraid of losing support and possible elections due an increase in unemployment. Along with the city council, he falls in love with the idea of bioenergy; determined to put his face and name upon a new, large bioenergy facility that will, hopefully, create economic growth for the town, he needs the support of opposition, who refuse to support the idea as there is no immediate place to put such a facility.
Eventually, his eyes fall upon the local cloisters, a large, old castle which houses only six nuns, but swallows up a huge areal portion of the city. As the nuns, especially Sister Hanna (Janina Hartwig), refuse to even discuss the idea of selling the property, Mr. Wöller takes his ideas to the order's Mother Superior. The Mother Superior is equally opposed to the idea, but agrees that six nuns are not enough for such a huge property. She ultimately reluctantly agrees to sell. Sister Hanna does everything in her power to prevent this, not only going against the mayor, but also the Mother Superior.
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