Television: From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the Love Parade: The new season of “The Palace”

Shortly after the start of the year, ZDF likes to show glossy series. This time the audience can look forward to the sequel to “The Palace”. The first season of the multi-part series about the Berlin revue theater Friedrichstadt-Palast attracted more than six million viewers to the screen two years ago. Now the period of upheaval after 1990 continues. The new episodes start on January 6th at 8:15 p.m. in the second. Uli Edel (“Christiane F. – We Children from Bahnhof Zoo”) directed the film again.

Dance in front of half-empty rows

The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the beginning of a new era for the legendary Revue Palace. In the reunited Berlin, a new generation of ambitious young dance talents takes to the boards that mean the world: Luise, Lukas and Karla (Lary Müller, Lukas Brandl and Taynara Silva-Wolf) make it into the ensemble under the strict guidance of ballet director Regina Feldmann. They feel closer to their dream than ever, but the new ones have no idea that the house is about to close.

The wall has fallen, and for a brief moment the formerly divided city becomes a place of unlimited possibilities. But in the Palast, the famous revue theater in the East, the ensemble dances in front of half-empty rows of spectators. The ballet director courageously tries to recreate the legendary “Kickline” and at the same time defy the plans of the West German director Gerd Kolberg, who wants to turn the palace into a casino.

Jeanette Hain (“Babylon Berlin”) can be seen again as Regina Feldmann – her role required enormous training. “As in the first season, I was very lucky to be able to continue learning from Alexandra Georgieva, the ballet director of the Friedrichstadtpalast,” said Hain in a ZDF interview. “For me, Alexandra embodies the heartbeat of this unique house. She is a firework of creativity, strength and endurance. You can feel her great sensitivity and humanity, her humor and her persistence when dealing with all departments of the house.”

The real ballet director was “an inexhaustible source of inspiration for actress Hain, both as a person and as an actress,” as she says. “I was often able to see her training with her ensemble, and we discussed, acted out and rehearsed all the scenes in the script that had to do with dance. I also took some ballet lessons myself in order to feel certain movement sequences in my own body .”