The Best Things in Life

Big names on the German screen Jürgen Vogel and Bettina Lamprecht are the leads in the modern drama series The Best Things in Life that tells the story of an ordinary family navigating extraordinary challenges.

This TV drama series tells the story of an ordinary family navigating extraordinary challenges. Full of warmth, charm, pain, humor and passion, it investigates what makes us who we are, explores the issue of identity, and questions personal ambition and our ability to turn our lives around in later years. Kurt and Sandra Fankhauser have been married for almost twenty years and live in Bonn with their three children. Their everyday joys and displeasures are much the same as those of most other German families.