Short Description
Life-lines is the title of a weekly series made by the ”Bayerischer Rundfunk” since 1990 with 45 minutes’ length.

”Life-lines” describes people who are not famous or well-known but who have had to face unusual challenges in their lives and who either mastered them or failed. The people portrayed themselves reflect and analyse their life in a critical way.

Examples :a programme about an Italian merchant working in Munich and his family who constantly stayed in touch with his country and never let go of his links to the past, about a Greek woman who came to Germany when still a child and who lived there until her early retirement, but then went back to the country she was born in in order to "await her death in peace", about a German woman who, during the time of the Nazi persecutions, had to flee her mother country with her parents and settled down in France where she has been running a German bookshop in the French metropolis for more than 40 years - she feels German and French at the same time, etc...

Length : 45 minutes (shorter programmes are not welcome, possibly longer productions of 52 or 60 minutes)

Latest Development
The Bavarian Television, with the help of CIRCOM Regional, is looking for partners who would be willing to cooperate in the production of Life lines. Many different forms of cooperation are conceivable, but in a more narrow sense there will be no forms of a co-production.
Detailed project sheets in English are at the disposal of all interested stations.

Contact
Reimar H. Allerdt, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Tel +49 89 38065468, Fax +49 89 38067701