User:Vema LS/Fritzie – Der Himmel muss warten (Heaven must wait)

Fritzie - Der Himmel muss warten (Heaven must wait) is a German drama television series by director Josh Broecker based on a script written by head writer Kerstin Hoeckel and co-author Katja Grübel and Christiane Bubner with acress Tanja Wedhorn in the role of a teacher who is diagnosed with breast cancer. The series was produced by Polyphon Film- und Fernsehgesellschaft for ZDF. All episodes are available in the ZDF media library since September 24, 2020. The first two episodes were originally broadcast on October 1, 2020, followed by episodes 3 and 4 on October 8, and episodes 5 and 6 on October 15, 2020.

The first season of the series was shot in and around Berlin from October 15, to December 13, 2019, under the working title Schule fürs Leben (School for Life) . The series premier was scheduled for April 23, 2020, but was post-poned to October 1, 2020 due to the Coronavirus-Pandemie.

On October 12.2020 the ZDF announced it was shooting a second seasons with a further six episodes. Since April 22, 2021 the second season is available in the ZDFmediathek; each new episodes premiers since April 29, 2021 on Thursdays in a double-feature.

Season 1
Fritzie Kühne is a biologie and sports teacher on theRosalind-Franklin-Schule in Berlin, where she faces the daily madness of life as a teacher. She is happily married and has a teenage son. One day her GP Dr. Malotta, reveals that a biopsy showed a malignant tumour which has already spread to the nearby lymph nodes. When Fritzie discovers that her surgery had been scheduled for parent-teacher day, she cancels the appointment and tries do supress thoughts about her diagnosis. At home her husband Stefan tells her that he booked a holiday for the family during the autumn school holidays, which further pushes the date of the surgery back.

The next day she finally confesses her severe illness to her family and allows the art teacher Gerd to create a gympsum cast of her breasts, which will have to be surgically removed, to keep a momentum of them. After a lot of back and furth and denial of her illness, Fritzie finally decides not to go through with the double mastectomy. Her husband and son are not happy about her decision, but accept it because Fritzie is not in pain and at least this way they will be able to remember her the way she was.