Life for a notary and attorney in Berlin's district Kreuzberg can get boring. Thus, Robert Liebling only accepts cases that interest him. Delegating most of the work to his subordinates and two-timing several women only adds to that excitement. Did we mention that the guy likes to eat a whale's worth of götterspeiseTranslation and rides exclusively motorcycles or convertibles?
Liebling Kreuzberg is a German series that aired between 1986 and 1998 about an Anti-Hero Bunny-Ears Lawyer. It was created and produced by Jurek Becker and stars Manfred Krug as Liebling and Corinna Genest and Anja Franke as his witty secretaries.
This series provides examples of:
- Hypocrite: Liebling sees no issue with having affairs with several women at the same time while not informing them about his other girlfriends. However, he gets extremely jealous if he so much as suspects any of them is seeing other men.
- Omnidisciplinary Lawyer: Robert Liebling has taken cases concerning matters as varied as real state litigations, burglary, embezzlement, fraud, identity theft, disenfranchisement, lease agreements, employment and labor law, bribery, manslaughter, damage to property, prostitution, complicity, and coercion.
- Perpetual Poverty: Liebling's daughter, Sara, is always strapped for some cash because she doesn't know how to manage well her money. Despite that, she can afford to wear nice outfits and worry herself more with romance than with how is she going to make ends meet.
- The Place: Liebling's firm, the main setting of the series, is located in Kreuzberg, one of the districts of Berlin.
- Protagonist Title: The series is partially named after its protagonist, the lawyer and attorney Robert Liebling.
- Was Just Leaving: The Protagonist, a somewhat unconventional lawyer, invokes this trope to make other people leave. In one instance, his secretary asks whether there's a problem. He answers with "No, just wanted to leave. Didn't you hear? You just wanted to leave!"
