Eine geschiedene Frau

Erika Seipold is getting divorced after more than 30 years of marriage. The six-part series very successfully depicts the fate of a woman well over 50 who has been "dumped" from the perspective of the early 1970s, when it was still normal for wives not to have a career and, after a divorce, not only fell into an emotional hole but also had to endure existential fears. Her selfish children and largely unsympathetic environment offer little help; everywhere the protagonist encounters the stigma of being an older, single, supposedly useless member of society – a foreshadowing of the dark side of the cult of youth.

Director

Claus Peter Witt

Writer

Heinz Oskar Wuttig

Writer

Detlef Müller

Writer

Answald Krüger

Writer

Maria Matray

Original Music Composer

Martin Böttcher