Julia Penner

Druck follows a group of friends in their teen life in Berlin and deals with daily and current events, like friendship, love and the search for their own identity. Every season centers on a new character.

Juggling a never-ending barrage of responsibilities, parents and business owners Maik and Linh are occupied with money worries and their marriage is at the bottom of their to-do list. As Linh reveals the true extent of their shocking fi nancial situation, they both take on second jobs. Inevitably, the stress of the situation further damages their marriage and old confl icts start to resurface. In a fi nal bid to save them, Maik decides with a heavy heart to sell their business. But just as they’re about to lose everything they’ve worked for, will a close friend be their salvation ?

More determined than ever to live her life in accordance with her deepest desires, nurse Johanna Gabathuler finds herself embroiled in a spy conspiracy with international implications. There’s a high price to pay and it’s risky to say the least, but she will do anything it takes to find her daughter and, ultimately, secure her freedom.

The young lawyer Clara Andersen goes beyond all moral limits to have her father, the famous singer Carsten Andersen, declared innocent of raping her best friend Leonie Novak. The situation of the night of the crime seems to be ambiguous, because on the one hand Leonie and Carsten actually had a passionate love affair, but on the other hand the decisive word was “no”.

Vivian Bernaise is the star of the Hamburg drag scene. After a glamorous performance in the Hamburg drag club "Die Donauwelle", she witnesses a mafia attack and has to flee. Vivian becomes Volker – and disguised as a straight man, she hides with the family of the elementary school teacher Katja in the rural areas of Schleswig-Holstein.

Margarita, 13 years old and an introverted outsider at school, observes the beautiful Ariana on a school trip. All the boys want to be near Ariana, and all the girls want to be like her. Margarita is also fascinated by Ariana and a secret friendship develops between the two very different girls. But then Margarita observes how the crush on Ariana can get out of control and a dark secret is imposed on the class community. Margarita is faced with a conflict of conscience for which there seems to be no solution.