List of Heimat episodes

This is an episode guide for the film series Heimat created by Edgar Reitz.

Heimat

No.	Title	Setting	Airdate
1	"The Call of Faraway Places" "Fernweh"	1919–28	16 September 1984
The teenager Paul Simon takes up the hobby of radio and marries the girl Maria, but leaves the village and never returns.
2	"The Centre of the World" "Die Mitte der Welt"	1929–33	19 September 1984
Paul Simon's brother Eduard moves to Berlin and meets the socialite Lucie.
3	"A Christmas Like No Other" "Weihnacht wie noch nie"	1935	23 September 1984
Eduard Simon becomes the mayor of a village near Schabbach.
4	"Highway of the Reich" "Reichshöhenstraße"	1938	26 September 1984
A highway is built near Schabbach, and one of the engineers, Otto, becomes Maria's lover.
5	"Up and Away and Back" "Auf und davon und zurück"	1938–39	8 October 1984
Paul writes from the United States that he is visiting, forcing his ex-wife Maria to break up with Otto. However without proof of his Aryan lineage Paul is unable to enter Germany.
6	"The Home Front" "Heimatfront"	1943	15 October 1984
Anton Simon, fighting on the Russian front, marries Martha Hanke via a telephone wedding. Schabbach villagers confront the morality of Nazism.
7	"Soldiers and Love" "Die Liebe der Soldaten"	1944	22 October 1984
The Simon family deals with the waning years of the German war.
8	"The American" "Der Amerikaner"	1945–47	31 October 1984
Paul returns to Germany. The Simon family struggles for prosperity in the lean post-war years.
9	"Little Hermann" "Hermännchen"	1955–56	4 November 1984
The teenage Hermann has a love affair with 26-year-old Klärchen, who is ostracized from Schabbach.
10	"The Proud Years" "Die stolzen Jahre"	1967–69	21 October 1984
Anton Simon and his brother Ernst struggle for success in their businesses.
11	"The Feast of the Living and the Dead" "Das Fest der Lebenden und der Toten"	1982	24 October 1984
It is the twilight years of the older generation of the Simons, with a flashback to Maria's 70th birthday party and then her funeral.

Die Zweite Heimat

No.	Title	Setting	Featured character	Airdate
1	"The Time of the First Songs" "Die Zeit der ersten Lieder"	1960	Hermann	4 March 1993
Hermann Simon leaves the Hunsrück and comes to Munich to study music. He makes friends, falls for the cellist Clarissa Lichtblau and starts to fight against this love.
2	"Two Strange Eyes" "Zwei fremde Augen"	1960–61	Juan	7 March 1993
Juan Ramón Fernández Subercaseaux, a young Chilean, attempts to make some progress with his talents, for he has too many. Hermann becomes friends with Juan, Juan kisses Clarissa and Hermann loses all of his worldly possessions to Frau Moretti. He becomes sick for the first time away from home.
3	"Jealousy and Pride" "Eifersucht und Stolz"	1961	Evelyne	11 March 1993
Evelyne Cerphal, the girl with the deep voice, loses her father and starts out to look for her mother, who is presumed to be dead. She ends up in Fraülein Cerphal's villa in Schwabing, named Fuchsbau ("foxhole"), and sees a film première of some young filmmakers. Hermann, Clarissa and Juan are jealous and hurt each other's feelings. Evelyne meets Ansgar Herzsprung.
4	"Ansgar's Death" "Ansgars Tod"	1961–62	Ansgar	14 March 1993
Ansgar and Evelyne become inseparable, and Olga Müller shoots at Ansgar to try to kill her love. Clarissa wins a cello competition, playing a piece written by Hermann, and Hermann is overshadowed by her and suffers because of it. Ansgar points out his parents to Evelyne, and suffers from self-doubt. An artists' party is celebrated during carnival and Ansgar dies in a tram accident.
5	"The Game with Freedom" "Das Spiel mit der Freiheit"	1962	Helga	18 March 1993
Helga Aufschrey languishes, and she and Hermann see the Schwabing riots. Hermann is beaten by a policeman and flees Munich. He arrives in Helga's sleepy hometown, and becomes the dream man of three women.
6	"Kennedy's Children" "Kennedys Kinder"	1963	Alex	21 March 1993
Alex, the eternal philosopher, experiences the day of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Fraülein Cerphal has a cherry tree chopped down. Hermann refuses to accept the dreams of Helga's. Clarissa refuses to have a child that could have two fathers. The young filmmakers have a falling-out; Hermann meets Waltraud Schneider ("Schnüsschen"); and the death of the American president rescues Helga from committing suicide.
7	"Christmas Wolves" "Weihnachtswölfe"	1963	Clarissa	25 March 1993
Clarissa almost dies from complications after an abortion. Hermann performs his SPUREN concert ("Traces") and remains alone afterwards. Helga and Stefan Aufhauser realize that they can torture one another. Juan and Renate Leineweber bury their hopes. Christmas draws near and Hermann has to cling to Schnüsschen. Clarissa flees from the clinic and she, once again, misses the right moment with Hermann.
8	"The Wedding" "Die Hochzeit"	1964	Schnüsschen	28 March 1993
Schnüsschen celebrates New Year's Eve in the Hunsrück, and resolves to marry soon. She and Hermann take care of the children of a girlfriend of hers and she demonstrates to him the advantages of a perfect household. Clarissa goes to Paris in order to play for a famous cello teacher. The wedding of Hermann and Schnüsschen turns into a party for all of their friends. Clarissa returns and goes to the wedding reception as everyone is already in despair. Juan attempts suicide.
9	"The Eternal Daughter" "Die ewige Tochter"	1965	Fräulein Cerphal	1 April 1993
Fraülein Cerphal finds out that her father will die soon, and realises that Fuchsbau rightfully belongs to a Jewish family. Hermann and Schnüsschen do everything for their child and try to be happy. Clarissa returns from California and her cello breaks. Volkert becomes a great pianist and gets closer to Clarissa. Herr Cerphal dies and it is the end of an era.
10	"The End of the Future" "Das Ende der Zukunft"	1966	Reinhard	4 April 1993
Reinhard Dörr returns from Mexico and finds Fuchsbau destroyed. He tries, together with Rob Stürmer, to depict the disappearance of the house in a film. Hermann composes a requiem for the villa and the friends have a fight on the construction site. Clarissa becomes a mother. Reinhard goes to Venice in order to write a screenplay, meets Esther Goldbaum there and drowns in the Ammersee.
11	"Time of Silence" "Die Zeit des Schweigens"	1967–68	Rob	8 April 1993
Rob meets Esther and develops a film technology. Esther visits Dachau concentration camp with her father and loses all trace of her mother. Hermann meets Consul Handschuh. Clarissa and Hermann attempt to come to grips with day-to-day life. Clarissa stops playing the cello. Hermann cheats on Clarissa, and he and Rob get lost in experiments. Helga becomes politically active on the New Left and fights with the artists. Rob loses his sight for a while during the première presentation of VariaVision.
12	"A Time of Many Words" "Die Zeit der vielen Worte"	1968–69	Stefan	11 April 1993
Stefan goes to Berlin to shoot his first film, and Helga interferes. Schnüsschen becomes a student late in life and has a "self-realization". Clarissa discovers singing with an American girlfriend. Hermann leaves Schnüsschen and flies to Katrin in Berlin. A Hollywood producer, unwittingly, pays for the whole revolt against Stefan. Hermann is confronted with the rubble of his past.
13	"Art or Life" "Kunst oder Leben"	1970	Hermann and Clarissa	11 April 1993
Hermann becomes the crown prince of Isarfilm, and the childless consul wants to make him a surrogate son. Hermann looks for advice from friends and can't find any of his friends anymore. Hermann follows Clarissa and finally finds her in Amsterdam. He experiences Clarissa's show Hexenpassion ("Witches' Passion") and spends a long night with her. He returns to his small town of Schabbach, in order to learn how to wait.

Heimat 3

No.	Title	Setting	Airdate
1	"The Happiest People in the World" "Das glücklichste Volk der Welt"	1989	15 December 2004
2	"The World Champions" "Die Weltmeister"	1990	17 December 2004
3	"The Russians are Coming" "Die Russen kommen"	1992–93	20 December 2004
4	"Everyone's Doing Well" "Allen geht's gut"	1995	22 December 2004
5	"The Heirs" "Die Erben"	1997	27 December 2004
6	"Farewell to Schabbach" "Abschied von Schabbach"	1999–2000	29 December 2004

Heimat Fragments

No.	Title	Setting	Airdate
1	"Heimat Fragments: The Women" "Heimat-Fragmente: Die Frauen"	1999–2000 & 1960s	2 September 2006

Home from Home

No.	Title	Setting	Airdate
1	"Home from Home" "Die andere Heimat"	1842–44	29 August 2013 (Venice Film Festival) 28 September 2013 (general release)

References