''Der Lehrer'' (''The Teacher'') is a German television series. It premiered on 10 August 2009 on

RTL Television RTL (from '), formerly RTL plus and RTL Television, is a German-language free-to-air television channel owned by the RTL Group, headquartered in Cologne. Founded as an offshoot of the German-language radio programme '' ,'' RTL is consider ...

. The first season consisted of 9 episodes, the second of 7. It premiered in December 2013. On April 8, 2021, the series ended after 9 seasons and 98 episodes on RTL. RTL then announced that there would be no 10th season and canceled the series.

Premise

''Der Lehrer'' revolves around the

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Stefan Vollmer ( Hendrik Duryn) who teaches

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, Science and PE. After 10 years he comes back to be a teacher again. His new school turns out to be very problematic with students hanging around in the halls and not listening to teachers. Vollmer becomes expert for the so-called "G-Kurs" which is the most chaotic class in the school. With new and unconventional methods he finally succeeds to come through to his students and change their attitude against school.

Cast

guest actors The show could already engage several known actors for guest roles.

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as Picko in the third episode of season 1. Also Anna Stieblich, Marie Rönnebeck,

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, Yvonne de Bark,

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, Markus Hoffmann,

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, Sotiria Loucopoulos,

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, Xenia Georgia Assenza, Nick Julius Schuk,

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, Claudia Mehnert, Nick Romeo Reimann,

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and

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in one or more episodes.

Production

The series has already been produced in 2007 but aired two years later due to lack of interest of the audience. It aired from 10 August to 31 August 2009, Mondays 9:15pm, with two episodes back-to-back. The sixth episode aired on 25 November 2009 in the night 4:25am (

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). 2011, RTL decided to continue the show as one hour series. The new season was filmed from April to August 2012. Jessica Ginkel and Matthias Klimsa joined the cast. The second season was originally planned to air in the 2012-13 television season. However, the start date has been pulled back to 5 December 2013.

Reception

''Der Lehrer'' won a

Deutscher Fernsehpreis The Deutscher Fernsehpreis (''German Television Award'') is an annual German award for television programming, created in 1999 by German television channels Das Erste, ZDF, RTL and Sat.1. It was created to be an equivalent to the Emmy Awards, t ...

(German Television Award) in 2009 in the category “Beste Serie” (“best TV series”).

Episodes

Season 1 (2009)

Season 2 (2013-14)

Season 3 (2015)

Season 4 (2016)

Season 5 (2017)

Season 6 (2018)

Season 7 (2018-2019)

Season 8 (2019-2020)

Season 9 (2020-2021)

External links

*
Official website

References

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