Serientod

Lindenstraße, Germany’s oldest and longest-running TV series, will be put to sleep by the end of the year.

A media phenomenon since it first hit the airwaves in 1985, Lindenstraßehas always also been a faithful mirror of German manners and life, as is illustrated by the issues the show has tackled and, more obviously, by the furniture and decorations of the film sets. The rooms and sceneries constructed for the series may be read as a panopticon of the most varied ways of being at home.

The photographic project Serientodexplores the media representation of the residential interior. The pictures show details of the sceneries for the show, which is set in Munich, and were taken at the original locations on the premises of WDR an produced by Geißendörfer Film- und Fernsehproduktion in Cologne. They put the focus on details that use textures and surfaces to generate a sense of homeliness and convey an impression of specific backgrounds and character traits.

The series examines how a collective feeling of being at home as well as stereotypical ideas of everyday life are constructed in the viewer’s mind.