About Unter uns
Unter uns (English: Among Us) is a long-running German daily soap that has aired on RTL since 28 November 1994, making it one of the country's most enduring weekday serials. The whole show is built around a single address: the residential building at the fictional Schillerallee 10 in Cologne. Rather than ranging across a city, the series keeps its focus tight on the apartments, the courtyard, and the shops on the ground floor, so that the front door, the stairwell, and the neighbors you pass every day become the stage for the drama.
At the heart of the house is the baker family Weigel, the show's core clan and the thread that has held it together across thousands of episodes. Around them rotate the other tenants and shopkeepers of the Schillerallee, and the storytelling grows out of ordinary neighborly life: romances that start on the landing, family secrets that cannot stay hidden in such close quarters, friendships, feuds, and reconciliations among people who share one roof. A handful of long-serving mainstays anchor the ensemble, giving regular viewers a sense of familiar faces returning day after day.
Tonally, Unter uns is a clean, character-driven daily soap that leans on warmth and continuity rather than spectacle. The pleasure of the show is its steadiness: the same building, the same neighbors, and the slow accumulation of small dramas into shared history. That format, family life observed at close range within one Cologne address, has kept Unter uns on the air for decades and turned its core characters into long-term companions for its audience.
