Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten

Overview

Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten (“Good Times, Bad Times”), often abbreviated GZSZ, is a long-running German television soap opera, first broadcast on RTL in 1992. The program concerns the lives of a fictional neighborhood in Germany’s capital city Berlin. Over the years the soap opera tends to have an overhaul of young people in their late teens and early twenties, targeting a young viewership.

It has tackled with issues like homosexuality, incest, rape, drug addiction, various crimes, breast cancer, bulimia, underage drinking, adoption and mental illnesses.