Zur See

Zur See is a 9-part television series, produced by the German Sea Seafarers' Training and Freightship, J. G. Fichte, on behalf of the GDR television from 1974 to 1976. Authors for the individual episodes were Eva Stein, Manfred Dietrich, Anne Dessau, Hans Georg Lietz and Captain Gerd Peters. Director of all nine episodes was Wolfgang Luderer. Many prominent actors of the GDR had been committed to this series for the main roles. With Horst Drinda, Günter Naumann, Günter Schubert and Erik S. Klein were the most popular actors of their time before the camera. The series became one of the most successful and most-watched productions on the GDR television.

The nine episodes had different running times on television and ranged between 60 and 75 minutes, depending on the production. Their first broadcast was a on Friday evening at 8 pm on GDR television.

In the nine episodes, the everyday life and the professional situations of a shipyard of the GDR's socialist merchant fleet, from the captain to the decksman on their ship, are portrayed between sea and land, essentially based on actual events. But also the problems within families of two captains and the normal other interpersonal problems arising from long separation from the families are treated. The friendship with the socialist maritime states such as the People's Republic of Poland and the Soviet Union is also described; These are always helpful to the spruce, as is the Cuban authorities.