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* AntiHero: Emil Behring is an arrogant, socially conceited {{Jerkass}} who treats people who are less intelligent and educated than him with contempt, CantTakeCriticism, is unkind to his colleagues because he sees them as a threat, and has let a girl down he was supposed to marry when she needed the support. But, different than Koch, his scientific work is profound and throughout authentic, he takes his diphtheria project very seriously, and he actually saves lives.
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* AntiHero: Emil Behring is an arrogant, socially conceited {{Jerkass}} who treats people who are less intelligent and educated than him with contempt, CantTakeCriticism, is unkind to his colleagues because he sees them as a threat, and has let a girl down he was supposed to marry when she needed the support. But, different than Koch, Koch's, his scientific work is profound and throughout authentic, he takes his diphtheria project very seriously, and he actually saves lives.lives, even at his own detriment.
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* HospitalParadiso: The Charité is to be presented that way when the new emperor, young Wilhelm II, comes for a visit; everything is to be cleaned up, the severely ill patients are to be kept out of sight, and those who have to be shown get a generous portion of opium so they don't moan with pain. Professor Virchow is disgusted as he'd rather have the emperor see the bad state the hospital is in to get him to agree to more finances for them and to a general improvement of the health care system.
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* HospitalParadiso: The Charité is to be presented that way when the new emperor, young Wilhelm II, comes for a visit; everything is to be cleaned up, the severely ill patients are to be kept out of sight, and those who have to be shown get a generous portion of opium so they don't moan with pain. Professor Virchow is disgusted as he'd rather have the emperor see the bad state the hospital is in to get him to agree to more finances better fundings for them and to a general improvement of the health care system.
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* InsufferableGenius: Behring, and also Koch, though the latter doesn't let it on quite as much because he's already on top of his career and thus doesn't have the same frail ego.
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* InsufferableGenius: Behring, and also Koch, though the latter doesn't let it on quite as much because he's already on top of his career and thus doesn't have the same frail ego. He seldom misses an opportunity to rub his success in Behring's face, though.
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* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: Both Professor Virchow and nurse Edith, liberals and allies, are very outspoken in their critique of the state of affairs in Germany and of the emperor. Virchow can afford it, Edith not so much -- she's harshly reprimanded by the matron, and later endangers herself with her social engagement.
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* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: Both Professor Virchow and nurse Edith, liberals and allies, are very outspoken in their critique of the state of affairs in Germany and of the emperor. Virchow can afford it, Edith not so much -- she's harshly reprimanded by the matron, and later endangers herself with as her social engagement.engagement conflicts with the law.
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* RuggedScar: Is kind of an identity mark for the members of the fraternity Georg joins; von Minckwitz has one on his cheekbone, and Georg gets his during the fencing bout with which he's accepted in the fraternity.
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* RuggedScar: Is A dueling scar is kind of an identity mark for the members of the fraternity Georg joins; von Minckwitz has one on his cheekbone, and Georg gets his during the fencing bout with which he's accepted in the fraternity.
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* TheRival: Where to start? Virchow and Koch are rivals for prestige, Behring considers Ehrlich a rival because he got the position in Koch's laboratory first, though [[ImproperlyParanoid Ehrlich is pretty much the only one who keeps out of the power play]], and Behring is also sure that Koch sees a rival in him and so attempts to block his scientific process. [[spoiler:As it turns out, he's right about the last one. Koch has [[WorthyOpponent always known]] Behring is brilliant, and so didn't want him near himself.]]
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* TheRival: Where to start? Virchow and Koch are rivals for prestige, Behring considers Ehrlich a rival because he got the position in Koch's laboratory first, though [[ImproperlyParanoid although Ehrlich is pretty much the only one who [[ImproperlyParanoid keeps out of the power play]], and Behring is also sure that Koch sees a rival in him and so attempts to block his scientific process. [[spoiler:As it turns out, he's right about the last one. Koch has [[WorthyOpponent always known]] Behring is brilliant, and so didn't want him near himself.]]
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* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: The young empress proudly declares that tuberculosis spreads so wide because the constant washing with soap reduces the skin's wax content, and smiles condescendingly when a spluttering Professor Virchow tries very politely to correct her. [[FunnyBackgroundEvent Behind her]], Sister Therese quietly laughs her ass off.
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* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: The young empress proudly declares that tuberculosis spreads so wide widely because the constant washing with soap reduces the skin's wax content, and smiles condescendingly when a spluttering Professor Virchow tries very politely to correct her. [[FunnyBackgroundEvent Behind her]], Sister Therese quietly laughs her ass off.
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* '''Stine''': a blunt, but kind-hearted nurse who has a soft spot for lost cases.
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* '''Stine''': a blunt, an uncouth, but kind-hearted nurse who has a soft spot for lost cases.
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Poor Therese doesn't stand a chance with [[spoiler:[[IncompatibleOrientation Ida]].]]
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Poor Sister Therese doesn't stand a chance with [[spoiler:[[IncompatibleOrientation Ida]].]]
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* TheRival: Where to start? Virchow and Koch are rivals for prestige, Behring considers Ehrlich a rival because he got the position in Koch's laboratory first, though [[ImproperlyParanoid Ehrlich is pretty much the only one who keeps out of the power play]], and Behring is also sure that Koch sees a rival in him and so attempts to block his scientific process. [[spoiler:As it turns out, he's right about the last one. Koch has [[WorthyOpponent always known]] Behring is brilliant, and so didn't want him too near himself.]]
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* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Doctor Koch, Doctor Kitasato, and Doctor Ehrlich.
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* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Doctor Professor Virchow, Professor Koch, Doctor Kitasato, and Doctor Ehrlich.
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* AntiHero: Emil Behring is an arrogant, socially conceited {{Jerkass}} who treats people who are less intelligent and educated than him with contempt, CantTakeCriticism, is unkind to his colleagues because he sees them as a threat, and has let a girl down he was supposed to marry when she needed the support. But, different than Koch, his scientific work is profound and throughout authentic, he takes his diphtheria project very seriously, and he actually saves lives.
* BeautifulDreamer: Georg has sketched Ida sleeping in her hospital bed. Afraid to have offended her, he gives her the sketch after she has recovered, and Ida shows it to Sister Therese [[spoiler:who holds onto it.]]
* DudeWheresMyRespect: The nurses complain about the matron domineering them like minors, and especially Edith calls for more freedom and recognition of their hard work.
* TheGentlemanOrTheScoundrel: Georg Tischendorf is the Gentleman to Ida, closer to her in age, sweet, courting her gallantly and offering her emotional stability and a secured future. Emil Behring is the Scoundrel, a fickle, difficult man with obvious issues, but ambitious and brilliant, a man who challenges her and supports her own ambitions. However, the trope is not always played straight – Behring has moments of kindness and holds onto his honor as a scientist, and he always takes Ida seriously, whereas Tischendorf has his own shortcomings [[spoiler:such as his sexist attitude that a woman has no business studying, and his growing nationalism.]]
* GoldDigger: Ida accuses Emil Behring of only having taken an interest in her a few years prior because, as a doctor's daughter, she was an advantageous catch. Behring is insulted, insisting that he made his career completely by his own strength. [[spoiler:Unfortunatly, Ida ends up thinking the same again when Behring winds up engaged to Else Spinola.]]
* GoldDigger: Ida accuses Emil Behring of only having taken an interest in her a few years prior because, as a doctor's daughter, she was an advantageous catch. Behring is insulted, insisting that he made his career completely by his own strength. [[spoiler:Unfortunatly, Ida ends up thinking the same again when Behring winds up engaged to Else Spinola.]]
* InsufferableGenius: Behring, and also Koch, though the latter doesn't let it on quite as much because he's already on top of his career and thus doesn't have the same frail ego.
* ItWillNeverCatchOn: Director Spinola's telephone is considered a passing fashion curiosity.
* ItWillNeverCatchOn: Director Spinola's telephone is considered a passing fashion curiosity.
** Behring has come to deeply regret that he didn't marry Ida early on when he should have been there for her, especially since he has realized meanwhile that she's everything he could wish for in a woman.
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* OldShame: Behring has come to deeply regret that he didn't marry Ida early on when he should have been there for her, especially since he has realized meanwhile that she's everything he could wish for in a woman.
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* '''Emil Behring''': an ambitious young surgeon and immunologist with a difficult character and a history with Ida. When they meet again, they start off a complicated relationship between mentorship, hostility, and attraction. His ultimate goal is the development of a diphtheria vaccine, but his colleagues don't take him seriously -- or just plain don't want to work with him because of his terrible attitude. He's suffering from manic-depressive episodes and tries to help it out with Laudanum.
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* '''Emil Behring''': an ambitious young surgeon and immunologist with a difficult character and a history with Ida. When they meet again, they start off a complicated relationship between mentorship, hostility, and attraction. His ultimate goal is the development of a diphtheria vaccine, remedy, but his colleagues don't take him seriously -- or just plain don't want to work with him because of his terrible attitude. He's suffering from manic-depressive episodes and tries to help it out with Laudanum.
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* FunctionalAddict: Behring tries to treat his psychological issues (which would later come to be known as bipolar disorder, but were hardly recognized at his time and age) with Laudanum. He also attempts withdrawal a few times, but at those occasions, he winds up with shaky hands and thus useless as a surgeon, and his mood swings get worse to the point of a total emotional breakdown.
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* FunctionalAddict: Behring tries to treat his psychological issues (which would later come to be known as bipolar disorder, but were hardly recognized at his time and age) with Laudanum. He also attempts withdrawal a few times, but at those occasions, he winds up with shaky hands and thus useless as a surgeon, and his mood swings get worse to the point of a total emotional breakdown.
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* TheKindnessOfStrangers: Ida is a mess when she comes to the hospital, feverish and cringing with pain. Doctor Ehrlich and Georg Tischendorf check her in immediately, and when an official protests that the payment of her treatment is not cleared, Ehrlich insists she wil be taken in as a teaching subject on appendicitis and the surgery will be performed in the auditorium before the students.
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* TheKindnessOfStrangers: IllGirl: First Ida is a mess when and Marie, later [[spoiler:Sister Therese.]]
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Ida, knowingly and willingly. When Hedwig warns her that shecomes to the hospital, feverish and cringing with pain. Doctor Ehrlich can't change Behring, Ida replies: ''"No, but perhaps give him support."''
* LoveTriangle: Emil Behring and Georg Tischendorfcheck both are in love with Ida, and she has feelings for both of them. [[spoiler:Neither of them ends up with her; Tischendorf's chances are ruined by his own behavior, Behring's by external circumstances he has no influence over. Ida remains unmarried for all her life.]]
* MercyKill: Behring eventually has to give his loyal horse, which has long been a blood donor for his diphtheria remedy project, to the knacker because she won't get better anymore. He won't take money, only asks that she won't be inimmediately, and pain when an official protests that the payment of her treatment is not cleared, Ehrlich insists she wil be taken in as a teaching subject on appendicitis and the surgery will be performed in the auditorium before the students.it happens.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Ida, knowingly and willingly. When Hedwig warns her that she
* LoveTriangle: Emil Behring and Georg Tischendorf
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* TheMistress: Hedwig becomes this -- Koch's wife says she'll accept the affair as long as it's kept discreet, and for a while, it works out. Then [[spoiler:von Minckwitz publishes a photography of Hedwig and an article about her that identifies her as Koch's lover, kicking off a scandal and causing the end of Koch's marriage and of Hedwig's job at the Varieté.]]
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* TheMistress: Hedwig becomes this -- Koch's wife says she'll accept the affair as long as it's [[SecretRelationship kept discreet, discreet]], and for a while, it works out. Then [[spoiler:von Minckwitz publishes a photography of Hedwig and an article about her that identifies her as Koch's lover, kicking off a scandal [[SlutShaming scandal]] and causing the end of Koch's marriage and of Hedwig's job at the Varieté.]]
* MoodSwinger: Emil Behring, jumping from sunny confidence to cold rage to a tearful, ashamed breakdown. He's infamous throughout the hospital for this and often called out on it, but few acknowledge that it's an actual psychological issue that should be treated -- it would later come to be known as bipolar disorder.
--> '''Ida''': Doctor Behring is as erratic as April weather.
--> '''Ida''': Doctor Behring is as erratic as April weather.
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* RoadsideSurgery: Averted within the series, but Behring has been a field medic in the army before and recalls surgeries without any anesthetic, praising the value of chloroform.
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* TheRival: Where to start? Virchow and Koch are rivals for prestige, Behring considers Ehrlich a rival because he got the position in Koch's laboratory first, though [[ImproperlyParanoid Ehrlich is pretty much the only one who keeps out of the power play]], and Behring is also sure that Koch sees a rival in him and so attempts to block his scientific process. [[spoiler:As it turns out, he's right about the last one. Koch has [[WorthyOpponent always known known]] Behring is brilliant, and so didn't want him too near himself.]]
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* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Ida is a mess when she comes to the hospital, feverish and cringing with pain. Doctor Ehrlich and Georg Tischendorf check her in immediately, and when an official protests that the payment of her treatment is not clarified, Ehrlich insists she will be taken in as a teaching subject on appendicitis and the surgery will be performed in the auditorium before the students.
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* TheMistress: Hedwig becomes this -- Koch's wife says she'll accept the affair as long as it's kept discreet, and for a while, it works out. Then [[spoiler:von Minckwitz publishes a photography of Hedwig and an article about her that identifies her as Koch's lover, kicking off a scandal and causing the end of Koch's marriage and of Hedwig's job at the Varieté.]]
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* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: Both Professor Virchow and nurse Edith, liberals and allies, are very outspoken in their critique of the state of affairs in Germany and of the emperor. Virchow can afford it, Edith not -- she's harshly reprimanded by the matron, and later endangers herself with her social engagement.
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* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: Both Professor Virchow and nurse Edith, liberals and allies, are very outspoken in their critique of the state of affairs in Germany and of the emperor. Virchow can afford it, Edith not so much -- she's harshly reprimanded by the matron, and later endangers herself with her social engagement.
* OldShame: Behring has come to deeply regret that he didn't marry Ida early on when he should have been there for her, especially since he has realized meanwhile that she's everything he could wish for in a woman.
* PetTheDog: Behring gifts Ida with an anatomy book so she can further her knowledge.
* PetTheDog: Behring gifts Ida with an anatomy book so she can further her knowledge.
* TheRival: Where to start? Virchow and Koch are rivals for prestige, Behring considers Ehrlich a rival because he got the position in Koch's laboratory first, though [[ImproperlyParanoid Ehrlich is pretty much the only one who keeps out of the power play]], and Behring is also sure that Koch sees a rival in him and so attempts to block his scientific process. [[spoiler:As it turns out, he's right about the last one. Koch has always known Behring is brilliant, and so didn't want him too near himself.]]
** Then there are the romantic rivalries between Hedwig and Koch's wife Emmy, as well as between Behring and Georg Tischendorf, who tend to spit poison at each other in the auditorium.
* RuggedScar: Is kind of an identity mark for the members of the fraternity Georg joins; von Minckwitz has one on his cheekbone, and Georg gets his during the fencing bout with which he's accepted in the fraternity.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Doctor Koch, Doctor Kitasato, and Doctor Ehrlich.
* StayInTheKitchen: Georg's father makes clear this is the only way he would consider accepting Ida, a mere nurse, as his son's wife -- he deems her ambitions to study utter nonsense. [[spoiler:Georg agrees with him.]]
** Then there are the romantic rivalries between Hedwig and Koch's wife Emmy, as well as between Behring and Georg Tischendorf, who tend to spit poison at each other in the auditorium.
* RuggedScar: Is kind of an identity mark for the members of the fraternity Georg joins; von Minckwitz has one on his cheekbone, and Georg gets his during the fencing bout with which he's accepted in the fraternity.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Doctor Koch, Doctor Kitasato, and Doctor Ehrlich.
* StayInTheKitchen: Georg's father makes clear this is the only way he would consider accepting Ida, a mere nurse, as his son's wife -- he deems her ambitions to study utter nonsense. [[spoiler:Georg agrees with him.]]
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* TrueBlueFemininity: The deaconesses wear dark blue dresses, the nurses light blue smocks with white aprons.
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* TransparentCloset: Matron Martha soon rebukes Sister Therese for the "unnatural feelings" she has for [[spoiler:Ida]].
* TrueBlueFemininity: The deaconesses wear dark blue dresses, the nurses light blue smocks with whiteaprons.aprons.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Georg Tischendorf studies medicine to overtake his father's practice someday, even though he'd rather study arts, gets into a fraternity because his father was a member there once, and, [[spoiler:when his father tells him that he won't allow him to marry a woman who's studied and works, demands that Ida gives up on her plans.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: Koch's marriage [[AwfulWeddedLife is dead]], and he begins an affair with the young Varieté actress Hedwig.
* TrueBlueFemininity: The deaconesses wear dark blue dresses, the nurses light blue smocks with white
* WellDoneSonGuy: Georg Tischendorf studies medicine to overtake his father's practice someday, even though he'd rather study arts, gets into a fraternity because his father was a member there once, and, [[spoiler:when his father tells him that he won't allow him to marry a woman who's studied and works, demands that Ida gives up on her plans.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: Koch's marriage [[AwfulWeddedLife is dead]], and he begins an affair with the young Varieté actress Hedwig.
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* '''Rudolf Virchow''': a pathologist with quite a reputation, and rival of Robert Koch with whom he regularly exchanges polite, subliminally vitriolic conversations about their respective professional opinions. He has doubts that the results of Koch's research will save the world from tuberculosis, [[spoiler:and he's right.]] Virchow decries the poor living conditions of the proletarians that lead to the spread of illnesses, and uses his bit of influence to demand for restrictions on child labor and for a new sewer system to better up the hygienics in Berlin.
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* '''Rudolf Virchow''': a pathologist with quite a reputation, and rival of Robert Koch with whom he regularly exchanges polite, subliminally vitriolic conversations about their respective professional opinions. He has doubts that the results of Koch's research will save the world from tuberculosis, [[spoiler:and he's right.]] Virchow decries the poor living conditions of the proletarians that lead to the spread of illnesses, and uses his bit of influence to demand for restrictions on child labor and for a new sewer system to better up the hygienics in Berlin.
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* HeroWorship: Hedwig starts off having this for Robert Koch, and Professor Spinola's adolescent daughter Else develops this for Behring after he has saved her little cousin's life with a tracheotomy.
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* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: The young empress proudly declares that tuberculosis spreads so wide because the constant washing with soap reduces the skin's wax content, and smiles condescendingly when a spluttering Professor Virchow tries very politely to correct her. [[FunnyBackgroundEvent Behind her]], Sister Therese quietly laughs her ass off.
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* MiseryBuildsCharacter: Matron Martha believes in this, claiming that suffering pain brings a soul closer to God.
* MomentKiller: Hedwig and Robert Koch share a first HeldGaze when Doctor Kitasato makes his entrance, introducing himself to Koch and assuring him of what an honor it is to work for him.
* MomentKiller: Hedwig and Robert Koch share a first HeldGaze when Doctor Kitasato makes his entrance, introducing himself to Koch and assuring him of what an honor it is to work for him.
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* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: Both Professor Virchow and nurse Edith, liberals and allies, are very outspoken in their critique of the state of affairs in Germany and of the emperor. Virchow can afford it, Edith not -- she's harshly reprimanded by the matron, and later endangers herself with her social engagement.
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* '''Rudolf Virchow''': a pathologist with quite a reputation, and rival of Robert Koch with whom he regularly exchanges polite, subliminally vitriolic conversations about their respective professional opinions. He has doubts that the results of Koch's research will save the world from tuberculosis, [[spoiler:and he's right.]]
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* '''Rudolf Virchow''': a pathologist with quite a reputation, and rival of Robert Koch with whom he regularly exchanges polite, subliminally vitriolic conversations about their respective professional opinions. He has doubts that the results of Koch's research will save the world from tuberculosis, [[spoiler:and he's right.]]]] Virchow decries the poor living conditions of the proletarians that lead to the spread of illnesses, and uses his bit of influence to demand for restrictions on child labor and for a new sewer system to better up the hygienics in Berlin.
* DisappearedDad: Ida's father was a doctor, and she learned quite a bit from him, but he died of typhoid fever along with [[MissingMom her mother]]. Hedwig's father died of tuberculosis; she lives with her mother and little brother in rather poor conditions.
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]. Nurse Stine brings her cousin Marie to the Charité, a sweet young girl of about 14 years who's been impregnated by a tenant. She's one of six children, her father is dead and her mother a prostitute -- and when she can't find a doctor who's willing to abort the baby because that's illegal (and Stine explicitly warns her from going to some backalley quack), Marie is too frightened to go home with another mouth to feed and [[DrivenToSuicide tries to kill herself]]. [[spoiler:She initially survives the attempt and thanks God for it, but dies a few days later of the ensuing complications, devastating Stine.]]
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]. Nurse Stine brings her cousin Marie to the Charité, a sweet young girl of about 14 years who's been impregnated by a tenant. She's one of six children, her father is dead and her mother a prostitute -- and when she can't find a doctor who's willing to abort the baby because that's illegal (and Stine explicitly warns her from going to some backalley back-alley quack), Marie is too frightened to go home with another mouth to feed and [[DrivenToSuicide tries to kill herself]]. [[spoiler:She initially survives the attempt and thanks God for it, but dies a few days later of the ensuing complications, devastating Stine.]]]]
* HappilyMarried: The only one we ever see in a happy, steady and supportive relationship is Doctor Ehrlich. His wife accompanies him when he travels to Egypt to recover from tuberculosis, and he's on the verge of despair when he isn't allowed to stay with her during her labor and difficult childbirth.
* HeroWorship: Hedwig starts off having this for Robert Koch, and Professor Spinola's adolescent daughter Else develops this for Behring after he has saved her little cousin's life with a tracheotomy.
* HospitalParadiso: The Charité is to be presented that way when the new emperor, young Wilhelm II, comes for a visit; everything is to be cleaned up, the severely ill patients are to be kept out of sight, and those who have to be shown get a generous portion of opium so they don't moan with pain. Professor Virchow is disgusted as he'd rather have the emperor see the bad state the hospital is in to get him to agree to more finances for them and to a general improvement of the health care system.
* TheKindnessOfStrangers: Ida is a mess when she comes to the hospital, feverish and cringing with pain. Doctor Ehrlich and Georg Tischendorf check her in immediately, and when an official protests that the payment of her treatment is not cleared, Ehrlich insists she wil be taken in as a teaching subject on appendicitis and the surgery will be performed in the auditorium before the students.
* HappilyMarried: The only one we ever see in a happy, steady and supportive relationship is Doctor Ehrlich. His wife accompanies him when he travels to Egypt to recover from tuberculosis, and he's on the verge of despair when he isn't allowed to stay with her during her labor and difficult childbirth.
* HeroWorship: Hedwig starts off having this for Robert Koch, and Professor Spinola's adolescent daughter Else develops this for Behring after he has saved her little cousin's life with a tracheotomy.
* HospitalParadiso: The Charité is to be presented that way when the new emperor, young Wilhelm II, comes for a visit; everything is to be cleaned up, the severely ill patients are to be kept out of sight, and those who have to be shown get a generous portion of opium so they don't moan with pain. Professor Virchow is disgusted as he'd rather have the emperor see the bad state the hospital is in to get him to agree to more finances for them and to a general improvement of the health care system.
* TheKindnessOfStrangers: Ida is a mess when she comes to the hospital, feverish and cringing with pain. Doctor Ehrlich and Georg Tischendorf check her in immediately, and when an official protests that the payment of her treatment is not cleared, Ehrlich insists she wil be taken in as a teaching subject on appendicitis and the surgery will be performed in the auditorium before the students.
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* BreachOfPromiseOfMarriage: The initial conflict between Doctor Behring and Ida: Behring was working in her father's medical practice and had been courting her, but after her father's death and loss of her heritage, he left her on her own which is why she ended up ill and indebted as a laborer of the hospital. She's still angry at him, but considers them even after Behring has saved her life with an appendectomy.
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* BreachOfPromiseOfMarriage: The initial conflict between Doctor Behring and Ida: Behring was working in her father's medical practice and had been courting her, but after her father's death and loss of her heritage, he left her on her own which is why own, and so she ended up ill and indebted as a laborer of the hospital. She's still angry at him, but considers them even after Behring has saved her life with an appendectomy.
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* '''Matron Martha''': the stern head of the deaconry who keeps the women in line, most of all Sistser Therese. She doesn't believe in modern medicine, certain that science is "falsehood" spread by the doctors that has nothing on Christian piety and traditional means of solicitude. It's why she often clashes with progressive Doctor Behring and reprimands Ida for her undue interests.
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* '''Matron Martha''': the stern head of the deaconry who keeps the women in line, most of all Sistser Sister Therese. She doesn't believe in modern medicine, certain that science is "falsehood" spread by the doctors that has nothing on Christian piety and traditional means of solicitude. It's why she often clashes with progressive Doctor Behring and reprimands Ida for her undue interests.
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* '''Emil Behring''': an ambitious young surgeon and immunologist with a difficult character and a history with Ida. When they meet again, they start off a complicated relationship between mentorship, hostility, and attraction. His ultimate goal is the development of a diphtheria vaccine, but his colleagues don't take him seriously -- or just plain don't want work with him because of his terrible attitude. He's suffering from manic-depressive episodes and tries to help it out with Laudanum.
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* '''Emil Behring''': an ambitious young surgeon and immunologist with a difficult character and a history with Ida. When they meet again, they start off a complicated relationship between mentorship, hostility, and attraction. His ultimate goal is the development of a diphtheria vaccine, but his colleagues don't take him seriously -- or just plain don't want to work with him because of his terrible attitude. He's suffering from manic-depressive episodes and tries to help it out with Laudanum.
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* '''Matron Martha''': the stern head of the deaconry. She doesn't believe in modern medicine, certain that science is "falsehood" spread by the doctors that has nothing on Christian piety and traditional means of solicitude. It's why she often clashes with progressive Doctor Behring. On the other hand, she's good friends with pathologist Rudolf Virchow.
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* '''Matron Martha''': the stern head of the deaconry.deaconry who keeps the women in line, most of all Sistser Therese. She doesn't believe in modern medicine, certain that science is "falsehood" spread by the doctors that has nothing on Christian piety and traditional means of solicitude. It's why she often clashes with progressive Doctor Behring. On the other hand, she's good friends with pathologist Rudolf Virchow.Behring and reprimands Ida for her undue interests.
* '''Rudolf Virchow''': a pathologist with quite a reputation, and rival of Robert Koch with whom he regularly exchanges polite, subliminally vitriolic conversations about their respective professional opinions. He has doubts that the results of Koch's research will save the world from tuberculosis, [[spoiler:and he's right.]]
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* '''Edith''': a nurse with a social-democratic orientation who wants better working conditions for the nurses and deaconesses at the hospital.
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* '''Edith''': a nurse with a social-democratic orientation who wants better working conditions for the nurses and deaconesses at the hospital. She's friends with liberal Professor Virchow.
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* BreachOfPromiseOfMarriage: The initial conflict between Doctor Behring and Ida: Behring was a friend of her family and was supposed to marry her after her father's death, but he left her on her own which is why she ended up ill and indebted as a laborer of the hospital. She's still angry at him, but considers them even after Behring has saved her life with an appendectomy.
* BreakTheCutie: Ida has gone through a lot of this: Her parents are dead, her fiancé has left her with not a penny, and after she could support herself by working as a nanny for a time, she fell ill and lost her job because her recuperation took too long, and since her former employers didn't want to pay for her hospital stay, she ended up having to work off her debt.
* BreakTheCutie: Ida has gone through a lot of this: Her parents are dead, her fiancé has left her with not a penny, and after she could support herself by working as a nanny for a time, she fell ill and lost her job because her recuperation took too long, and since her former employers didn't want to pay for her hospital stay, she ended up having to work off her debt.
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* BreachOfPromiseOfMarriage: The initial conflict between Doctor Behring and Ida: Behring was a friend of working in her family father's medical practice and was supposed to marry her had been courting her, but after her father's death, but death and loss of her heritage, he left her on her own which is why she ended up ill and indebted as a laborer of the hospital. She's still angry at him, but considers them even after Behring has saved her life with an appendectomy.
* BreakTheCutie: Ida has gone through a lot of this: Her parents are dead, herfiancé has custodian misappropriated her heritage, which is why the man who courted her left her with not a penny, her, and after she could support herself by working as a nanny governess for a time, she fell ill and lost her job because her recuperation took too long, and since her former employers didn't want to pay for her hospital stay, she ended up having to work off her debt.
* BreakTheCutie: Ida has gone through a lot of this: Her parents are dead, her
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* AsianAndNerdy: Doctor Shibasaburo, a Japanese bacteriologist who works in the Robert Koch Institute and assists Behring for a while before moving on to other projects because he's fed up with Behring.
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* AsianAndNerdy: Doctor Shibasaburo, Kitasato, a Japanese bacteriologist who works in the Robert Koch Institute and assists Behring for a while before moving on to other projects because he's fed up with Behring.Behring's behavior.
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* FunctionalAddict: Behring tries to treat his psychological issues (that would later come to be known as bipolar disorder, but were hardly recognized at his time and age) with Laudanum. He also attempts withdrawal a few times, but at those occasions, he winds up with shaky hands and thus useless as a surgeon, and his mood swings get worse to the point of a total emotional breakdown.
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* FunctionalAddict: Behring tries to treat his psychological issues (that (which would later come to be known as bipolar disorder, but were hardly recognized at his time and age) with Laudanum. He also attempts withdrawal a few times, but at those occasions, he winds up with shaky hands and thus useless as a surgeon, and his mood swings get worse to the point of a total emotional breakdown.
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The main protagonist however is the young Ida Lenze (played by Alicia von Rittberg), who comes to the hospital with appendicitis, can be saved with a surgery that's still new and risky at the time, but loses her job and thus stays as a nurse to work off her debt. Soon, it becomes apparent that Ida has the intelligence, the diligence and the resilience to become a doctor in her own right -- but age and circumstances are not conducive to her ambitions.
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The main protagonist however is the young Ida Lenze (played by Alicia von Rittberg), Rittberg) who comes to the hospital with appendicitis, can be saved with a surgery that's still new and risky at the time, but loses her job and thus stays as a nurse to work off her debt. Soon, it becomes apparent that Ida has the intelligence, the diligence and the resilience to become a doctor in her own right -- but age and circumstances are not conducive to her ambitions.
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* MoralityPet: Ida to Behring. He thinks he has better things to do with his time than performing a surgery on some random young woman, but the moment he recognizes Ida, he's on the task.
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* MoralityPet: Ida to Behring. He thinks he has better things to do with his time than performing a surgery on some random young woman, but the moment he recognizes Ida, he's on onto the task.
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* FunctionalAddict: Behring tries to treat his psychological issues (that would later come to be known as bipolar disorder, but were hardly recognized at his time and age) with Laudanum. He also attempts withdrawal a few times, but at those occasions, he winds up with shaky hands and thus useless as a surgeon, and his mood swings get worse to the point of a total emotional breakdown.
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* NightmareFetishist: It seems morbid when Doctor Behring gives Ida her own resected appendix in a glass full of alcohol,
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* NightmareFetishist: It seems morbid when Doctor Behring gives Ida her own resected appendix in a glass full of alcohol, alcohol after the thing almost killed her, but Ida with her interest in medicine is fascinated and asks about details of the appendectomy.
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* '''Matron Martha''': the stern head of the deaconry.
* '''Robert Koch''':
* '''Hedwig Freiberg''': a lively young actress who fancies Robert Koch, and winds up charming him. Koch's wife takes an issue with her, but Hedwig is not easily driven away.
* '''Robert Koch''':
* '''Hedwig Freiberg''': a lively young actress who fancies Robert Koch, and winds up charming him. Koch's wife takes an issue with her, but Hedwig is not easily driven away.
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* '''Matron Martha''': the stern head of the deaconry.
deaconry. She doesn't believe in modern medicine, certain that science is "falsehood" spread by the doctors that has nothing on Christian piety and traditional means of solicitude. It's why she often clashes with progressive Doctor Behring. On the other hand, she's good friends with pathologist Rudolf Virchow.
* '''RobertKoch''':
Koch''': the famous bacteriologist at a turning point of his career. The research institute at the Charité hospital is named for him, and he has a lot of prestige, money, and influence on his hands to drive the progress of medicine forward, but also a lot of responsibility on his shoulders -- all the world is looking at him and his Tuberculin, hoping that it will heal consumption. He doesn't think too much of Behring and his project, but a damn lot of himself and his own achievements.
* '''Hedwig Freiberg''': a lively young actress who fancies Robert Koch, and winds up charming him. Koch's wife takes an issue with her, but Hedwig is not easily driven away. She fully believes in and supports Koch's work, even giving herself as a guinea pig for his Tuberculin tests.
* '''Robert
* '''Hedwig Freiberg''': a lively young actress who fancies Robert Koch, and winds up charming him. Koch's wife takes an issue with her, but Hedwig is not easily driven away. She fully believes in and supports Koch's work, even giving herself as a guinea pig for his Tuberculin tests.
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* MoralityPet: Ida to Behring. He thinks he has better things to do with his time than performing a surgery on some random young woman, but the moment he recognizes Ida, he's on the task.
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* NightmareFetishist: It seems morbid when Doctor Behring gives Ida her own resected appendix in a glass full of alcohol,
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* RoadsideSurgery: Averted within the series, but Behring has been a field medic in the army before and recalls surgeries without any anesthetic, praising the value of chloroform.
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* '''Paul Ehrlich''':
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* '''Paul Ehrlich''':Ehrlich''': an immunologist and one of the scientists working for and with Robert Koch, but also one of the few people who puts up with Behring because he believes in the importance of his work. He's a married man, a father of two girls, a victim of increasing anti-Semitism, and one of the few decent men at the hospital who take their work and responsibility more seriously than the potential profit.
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* TrueBlueFemininity: The deaconesses wear dark blue dresses, the nurses light blue with white aprons.
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* TrueBlueFemininity: The deaconesses wear dark blue dresses, the nurses light blue smocks with white aprons.
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* '''Mother Superior Martha''': the stern matron of the deaconesses.
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* '''Mother Superior '''Matron Martha''': the stern matron head of the deaconesses.deaconry.
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* '''Sister Therese''': a young deaconess who's working hard and never complains. She becomes friends with [[spoiler:and falls in love with]] Ida, helping her to learn the ropes and supporting her actions to help patients. [[spoiler:Later, she's one of the first tuberculosis patients who gets treated with Koch's Tuberculin -- and one of those who die when the medicament fails.]]
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* '''Sister Therese''': a young deaconess who's working hard and never complains. She becomes friends with [[spoiler:and falls in love with]] Ida, helping her to learn the ropes and supporting her actions to help patients. [[spoiler:Later, she's one of the first tuberculosis patients who gets treated with Koch's Tuberculin -- and one of those who die when the medicament remedy fails.]]
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* AsianAndNerdy: Doctor Shibasaburo, a Japanese bacteriologist who works in the Robert Koch Institute and assists Behring for a while.
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* AsianAndNerdy: Doctor Shibasaburo, a Japanese bacteriologist who works in the Robert Koch Institute and assists Behring for a while.while before moving on to other projects because he's fed up with Behring.
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* Emil Behring
* Georg Tischendorf
* Mother Superior Martha
* Robert Koch
* Hedwig Freiberg: a lively young actress who fancies Robert Koch, and winds up charming him. Koch's wife takes an issue with her, but Hedwig is not easily driven away.
* Paul Ehrlich
* Sister Therese: a young deaconess who's working hard and never complains. She becomes friends with [[spoiler:and falls in love with]] Ida, helping her to learn the ropes and supporting her actions to help patients. [[spoiler:Later, she's one of the first tuberculosis patients who gets treated with Koch's Tuberculin -- and one of those who die when the medicament fails.]]
* Edith: a nurse with a social-democratic orientation who wants better working conditions for the nurses and deaconesses at the hospital.
* Stine: a blunt, but kind-hearted nurse who has a soft spot for lost cases.
* Georg Tischendorf
* Mother Superior Martha
* Robert Koch
* Hedwig Freiberg: a lively young actress who fancies Robert Koch, and winds up charming him. Koch's wife takes an issue with her, but Hedwig is not easily driven away.
* Paul Ehrlich
* Sister Therese: a young deaconess who's working hard and never complains. She becomes friends with [[spoiler:and falls in love with]] Ida, helping her to learn the ropes and supporting her actions to help patients. [[spoiler:Later, she's one of the first tuberculosis patients who gets treated with Koch's Tuberculin -- and one of those who die when the medicament fails.]]
* Edith: a nurse with a social-democratic orientation who wants better working conditions for the nurses and deaconesses at the hospital.
* Stine: a blunt, but kind-hearted nurse who has a soft spot for lost cases.
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* Emil Behring
'''Emil Behring''': an ambitious young surgeon and immunologist with a difficult character and a history with Ida. When they meet again, they start off a complicated relationship between mentorship, hostility, and attraction. His ultimate goal is the development of a diphtheria vaccine, but his colleagues don't take him seriously -- or just plain don't want work with him because of his terrible attitude. He's suffering from manic-depressive episodes and tries to help it out with Laudanum.
*Georg Tischendorf
'''Georg Tischendorf''': a medicine student who'd rather become a photographer but doesn't want to incur his father's wrath. He's the one who gets Ida help for her appendicitis and assists with her surgery, and later falls in love with her and becomes determined to convince his father of his marriage to a woman of lower social standing, all while trying to prove himself among his peer students.
*Mother '''Mother Superior Martha
Martha''': the stern matron of the deaconesses.
*Robert Koch
'''Robert Koch''':
*Hedwig Freiberg: '''Hedwig Freiberg''': a lively young actress who fancies Robert Koch, and winds up charming him. Koch's wife takes an issue with her, but Hedwig is not easily driven away.
*Paul Ehrlich
'''Paul Ehrlich''':
*Sister Therese: '''Sister Therese''': a young deaconess who's working hard and never complains. She becomes friends with [[spoiler:and falls in love with]] Ida, helping her to learn the ropes and supporting her actions to help patients. [[spoiler:Later, she's one of the first tuberculosis patients who gets treated with Koch's Tuberculin -- and one of those who die when the medicament fails.]]
*Edith: '''Edith''': a nurse with a social-democratic orientation who wants better working conditions for the nurses and deaconesses at the hospital.
*Stine: '''Stine''': a blunt, but kind-hearted nurse who has a soft spot for lost cases.
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The main protagonist however is the young Ida Lenze (played by Alicia von Rittberg), who comes to the hospital with appendicitis, can be saved with a surgery that's still new and risky at the time, but loses her job and thus stays to become a nurse and work off her debt. Soon, it becomes apparent that Ida has the intelligence, the diligence and the resilience to become a doctor in her own right -- but age and circumstances are not gracious to her ambitions.
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The main protagonist however is the young Ida Lenze (played by Alicia von Rittberg), who comes to the hospital with appendicitis, can be saved with a surgery that's still new and risky at the time, but loses her job and thus stays to become as a nurse and to work off her debt. Soon, it becomes apparent that Ida has the intelligence, the diligence and the resilience to become a doctor in her own right -- but age and circumstances are not gracious conducive to her ambitions.
ambitions.
Further characters include:
* Emil Behring
* Georg Tischendorf
* Mother Superior Martha
* Robert Koch
* Hedwig Freiberg: a lively young actress who fancies Robert Koch, and winds up charming him. Koch's wife takes an issue with her, but Hedwig is not easily driven away.
* Paul Ehrlich
* Sister Therese: a young deaconess who's working hard and never complains. She becomes friends with [[spoiler:and falls in love with]] Ida, helping her to learn the ropes and supporting her actions to help patients. [[spoiler:Later, she's one of the first tuberculosis patients who gets treated with Koch's Tuberculin -- and one of those who die when the medicament fails.]]
* Edith: a nurse with a social-democratic orientation who wants better working conditions for the nurses and deaconesses at the hospital.
* Stine: a blunt, but kind-hearted nurse who has a soft spot for lost cases.
Further characters include:
* Emil Behring
* Georg Tischendorf
* Mother Superior Martha
* Robert Koch
* Hedwig Freiberg: a lively young actress who fancies Robert Koch, and winds up charming him. Koch's wife takes an issue with her, but Hedwig is not easily driven away.
* Paul Ehrlich
* Sister Therese: a young deaconess who's working hard and never complains. She becomes friends with [[spoiler:and falls in love with]] Ida, helping her to learn the ropes and supporting her actions to help patients. [[spoiler:Later, she's one of the first tuberculosis patients who gets treated with Koch's Tuberculin -- and one of those who die when the medicament fails.]]
* Edith: a nurse with a social-democratic orientation who wants better working conditions for the nurses and deaconesses at the hospital.
* Stine: a blunt, but kind-hearted nurse who has a soft spot for lost cases.
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* BreakTheCutie: Ida has gone through a lot of this: Her parents are dead, her fiancé has left her with not a penny, and after she could support herself by working as a nanny, she fell ill and lost her job because her recuperation took too long, and her former employers didn't want to pay for her hospital stay, so she ended up having to work off her debt.
* DefrostingIceQueen: The young deaconess Sister Therese seems very stern and closed-up at first, but she soon thaws considerably around Ida and befriends her.
* DefrostingIceQueen: The young deaconess Sister Therese seems very stern and closed-up at first, but she soon thaws considerably around Ida and befriends her.
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* BreakTheCutie: Ida has gone through a lot of this: Her parents are dead, her fiancé has left her with not a penny, and after she could support herself by working as a nanny, nanny for a time, she fell ill and lost her job because her recuperation took too long, and since her former employers didn't want to pay for her hospital stay, so she ended up having to work off her debt.
* DefrostingIceQueen:The young deaconess Sister Therese seems very stern and closed-up at first, but she soon thaws considerably around Ida and befriends her.
* DefrostingIceQueen:
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* MyGreatestFailure: Georg Tischendorf is plagued by guilt when he finds Marie in a hospital bed after her BungledSuicide, blaming himself since he denied her an abortion, both because he didn't want to lose his chance of a medical license and because he didn't think himself capable of performing the procedure. [[spoiler:It gets worse when Marie dies and is examined in the auditorium, during which the professor extracts the embryo before everyone's eyes.]]
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* MyGreatestFailure: Georg Tischendorf is plagued by guilt when he finds sees Marie in a hospital bed after her BungledSuicide, blaming himself since he denied her an abortion, both because he didn't want to lose his chance of a medical license and because he didn't think himself capable of performing the procedure. [[spoiler:It gets worse when Marie dies and is examined in the auditorium, during which the professor extracts the embryo before everyone's eyes.]]
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* BreachOfPromiseOfMarriage: The initial conflict between Doctor Behring and Ida: Behring was a friend of her family and was supposed to marry her after her father's death, but he left her on her own which is why she ended up ill and indebted as a working force of the hospital. She's still angry at him, but considers them even after Behring has saved her life with an appendectomy.
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* BreachOfPromiseOfMarriage: The initial conflict between Doctor Behring and Ida: Behring was a friend of her family and was supposed to marry her after her father's death, but he left her on her own which is why she ended up ill and indebted as a working force laborer of the hospital. She's still angry at him, but considers them even after Behring has saved her life with an appendectomy.
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* AsianAndNerdy: Doctor Shibasaburo, a japanese bacteriologist who works in the Robert Koch Institute and assists Behring for a while.
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* AsianAndNerdy: Doctor Shibasaburo, a japanese Japanese bacteriologist who works in the Robert Koch Institute and assists Behring for a while.
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]. Nurse Stine brings her cousin Marie to the Charité, a young girl of about 14 years who's been impregnated and left by a tenant. She's one of six children, her father is dead and her mother is a prostitute -- and when she can't find a doctor who's willing to abort the baby because it's illegal, Marie is too frightened to go home with another mouth to feed and [[DrivenToSuicide tries to kill herself]].
* NakedFirstImpression: How 17-year-old Hedwig Freiberg is introduced to the audience -- granted, she wears a ModestyBedsheet when posing for painter Gustav Graef's muse picture, but we still get to see her naked from behind a moment later. [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl She doesn't realy mind that sort of thing.]]
* NakedFirstImpression: How 17-year-old Hedwig Freiberg is introduced to the audience -- granted, she wears a ModestyBedsheet when posing for painter Gustav Graef's muse picture, but we still get to see her naked from behind a moment later. [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl She doesn't realy mind that sort of thing.]]
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]. Nurse Stine brings her cousin Marie to the Charité, a sweet young girl of about 14 years who's been impregnated and left by a tenant. She's one of six children, her father is dead and her mother is a prostitute -- and when she can't find a doctor who's willing to abort the baby because it's illegal, that's illegal (and Stine explicitly warns her from going to some backalley quack), Marie is too frightened to go home with another mouth to feed and [[DrivenToSuicide tries to kill herself]].
herself]]. [[spoiler:She initially survives the attempt and thanks God for it, but dies a few days later of the ensuing complications, devastating Stine.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: Georg Tischendorf is plagued by guilt when he finds Marie in a hospital bed after her BungledSuicide, blaming himself since he denied her an abortion, both because he didn't want to lose his chance of a medical license and because he didn't think himself capable of performing the procedure. [[spoiler:It gets worse when Marie dies and is examined in the auditorium, during which the professor extracts the embryo before everyone's eyes.]]
* NakedFirstImpression: How 17-year-old Hedwig Freiberg is introduced to the audience -- granted, she wears a ModestyBedsheet when posing for painter Gustav Graef's muse picture, but we still get to see her naked from behind a moment later. [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl She doesn'trealy really mind that sort of thing.]]]]
* NiceJewishBoy: Well, not boy, but Doctor Paul Ehrlich is a Jew and by far the most decent, compassionate and upright of the doctors in the Charité hospital.
* ProudBeauty: Hedwig is gorgeous, and she knows it.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Ida is not afraid of telling Doctor Behring to his face what she thinks of him.
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:Marie]] dies of a vein thrombosis in the brain -- surprising because the initial issue was a pair of broken legs.
* TrueBlueFemininity: The deaconesses wear dark blue dresses, the nurses light blue with white aprons.
* MyGreatestFailure: Georg Tischendorf is plagued by guilt when he finds Marie in a hospital bed after her BungledSuicide, blaming himself since he denied her an abortion, both because he didn't want to lose his chance of a medical license and because he didn't think himself capable of performing the procedure. [[spoiler:It gets worse when Marie dies and is examined in the auditorium, during which the professor extracts the embryo before everyone's eyes.]]
* NakedFirstImpression: How 17-year-old Hedwig Freiberg is introduced to the audience -- granted, she wears a ModestyBedsheet when posing for painter Gustav Graef's muse picture, but we still get to see her naked from behind a moment later. [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl She doesn't
* NiceJewishBoy: Well, not boy, but Doctor Paul Ehrlich is a Jew and by far the most decent, compassionate and upright of the doctors in the Charité hospital.
* ProudBeauty: Hedwig is gorgeous, and she knows it.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Ida is not afraid of telling Doctor Behring to his face what she thinks of him.
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:Marie]] dies of a vein thrombosis in the brain -- surprising because the initial issue was a pair of broken legs.
* TrueBlueFemininity: The deaconesses wear dark blue dresses, the nurses light blue with white aprons.
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The main protagonist however is the young Ida Lenze (played by Alicia von Rittberg), who comes to the hospital with appendicitis, can be saved with a surgery that's still new and risky at the time, but loses her job and thus stays to become a nurse and work off her debt. Soon, it becomes apparent that Ida has the intelligence, the diligence and the resilience to become a doctor in her own right -- but age and circumstances are not gracious to her ambitions.
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The main protagonist however is the young Ida Lenze (played by Alicia von Rittberg), who comes to the hospital with appendicitis, can be saved with a surgery that's still new and risky at the time, but loses her job and thus stays to become a nurse and work off her debt. Soon, it becomes apparent that Ida has the intelligence, the diligence and the resilience to become a doctor in her own right -- but age and circumstances are not gracious to her ambitions.ambitions.
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Poor Therese doesn't stand a chance with [[spoiler:[[IncompatibleOrientation Ida]].]]
* AsianAndNerdy: Doctor Shibasaburo, a japanese bacteriologist who works in the Robert Koch Institute and assists Behring for a while.
* BreachOfPromiseOfMarriage: The initial conflict between Doctor Behring and Ida: Behring was a friend of her family and was supposed to marry her after her father's death, but he left her on her own which is why she ended up ill and indebted as a working force of the hospital. She's still angry at him, but considers them even after Behring has saved her life with an appendectomy.
* BreakTheCutie: Ida has gone through a lot of this: Her parents are dead, her fiancé has left her with not a penny, and after she could support herself by working as a nanny, she fell ill and lost her job because her recuperation took too long, and her former employers didn't want to pay for her hospital stay, so she ended up having to work off her debt.
* DefrostingIceQueen: The young deaconess Sister Therese seems very stern and closed-up at first, but she soon thaws considerably around Ida and befriends her.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]. Nurse Stine brings her cousin Marie to the Charité, a young girl of about 14 years who's been impregnated and left by a tenant. She's one of six children, her father is dead and her mother is a prostitute -- and when she can't find a doctor who's willing to abort the baby because it's illegal, Marie is too frightened to go home with another mouth to feed and [[DrivenToSuicide tries to kill herself]].
* NakedFirstImpression: How 17-year-old Hedwig Freiberg is introduced to the audience -- granted, she wears a ModestyBedsheet when posing for painter Gustav Graef's muse picture, but we still get to see her naked from behind a moment later. [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl She doesn't realy mind that sort of thing.]]
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Poor Therese doesn't stand a chance with [[spoiler:[[IncompatibleOrientation Ida]].]]
* AsianAndNerdy: Doctor Shibasaburo, a japanese bacteriologist who works in the Robert Koch Institute and assists Behring for a while.
* BreachOfPromiseOfMarriage: The initial conflict between Doctor Behring and Ida: Behring was a friend of her family and was supposed to marry her after her father's death, but he left her on her own which is why she ended up ill and indebted as a working force of the hospital. She's still angry at him, but considers them even after Behring has saved her life with an appendectomy.
* BreakTheCutie: Ida has gone through a lot of this: Her parents are dead, her fiancé has left her with not a penny, and after she could support herself by working as a nanny, she fell ill and lost her job because her recuperation took too long, and her former employers didn't want to pay for her hospital stay, so she ended up having to work off her debt.
* DefrostingIceQueen: The young deaconess Sister Therese seems very stern and closed-up at first, but she soon thaws considerably around Ida and befriends her.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]. Nurse Stine brings her cousin Marie to the Charité, a young girl of about 14 years who's been impregnated and left by a tenant. She's one of six children, her father is dead and her mother is a prostitute -- and when she can't find a doctor who's willing to abort the baby because it's illegal, Marie is too frightened to go home with another mouth to feed and [[DrivenToSuicide tries to kill herself]].
* NakedFirstImpression: How 17-year-old Hedwig Freiberg is introduced to the audience -- granted, she wears a ModestyBedsheet when posing for painter Gustav Graef's muse picture, but we still get to see her naked from behind a moment later. [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl She doesn't realy mind that sort of thing.]]
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The main protagonist however is the young Ida Lenze (played by Alicia von Rittberg), who comes to the hospital with appendicitis, can be saved with a surgery that's still new and risky at the time, but loses her job and thus stays to become a nurse. Soon, it becomes apparent that Ida has the intelligence, the diligence and the resilience to become a doctor in her own right -- but age and circumstances are not gracious to her ambitions.
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The main protagonist however is the young Ida Lenze (played by Alicia von Rittberg), who comes to the hospital with appendicitis, can be saved with a surgery that's still new and risky at the time, but loses her job and thus stays to become a nurse.nurse and work off her debt. Soon, it becomes apparent that Ida has the intelligence, the diligence and the resilience to become a doctor in her own right -- but age and circumstances are not gracious to her ambitions.
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''Charité'' is a 2017 six-part German television miniseries.
It is set in the RealLife Charité hospital in Berlin, from 1888 to 1891, focusing on the research, work, and personal lives of the doctors and nurses around the prestigious Robert Koch, half of which are {{Historical Domain Character}}s.
The main protagonist however is the young Ida Lenze (played by Alicia von Rittberg), who comes to the hospital with appendicitis, can be saved with a surgery that's still new and risky at the time, but loses her job and thus stays to become a nurse. Soon, it becomes apparent that Ida has the intelligence, the diligence and the resilience to become a doctor in her own right -- but age and circumstances are not gracious to her ambitions.
It is set in the RealLife Charité hospital in Berlin, from 1888 to 1891, focusing on the research, work, and personal lives of the doctors and nurses around the prestigious Robert Koch, half of which are {{Historical Domain Character}}s.
The main protagonist however is the young Ida Lenze (played by Alicia von Rittberg), who comes to the hospital with appendicitis, can be saved with a surgery that's still new and risky at the time, but loses her job and thus stays to become a nurse. Soon, it becomes apparent that Ida has the intelligence, the diligence and the resilience to become a doctor in her own right -- but age and circumstances are not gracious to her ambitions.
