Feuerwehrfrauen –
Phoenix aus der Asche
(Firewomen – Phoenix From The Ashes)
TV movie/series
Germany, 2024
With comedy, drama, action and northern German flair, this is the pilot of a series about two unequal female comrades at the center of a volunteer fire department
Anja (Nadja Becker) works at the bank in her hometown in northern Germany and is a particularly ambitious member of the volunteer fire department. When local fire brigade leader Rainer (Merlin Sandmeyer) makes the divorced mother of two a temporary squad leader, not everyone agrees. Especially not Meike (Katja Danowski), who joins the squad. The go-getting farmer and ex-soldier clashes with the risk-averse Anja on her very first rescue mission. The two women are like fire and water. And yet an unexpected bond of trust develops between them – until Anja makes a serious mistake during a fire mission.
Two opposing heroines are at the center of the action-packed series Feuerwehrfrauen
: Nadja Becker as an ambitious but inexperienced group leader and Katja Danowski as a tough newcomer must first learn that they are stronger together than alone. Feuerwehrfrauen
delves into a traditionally male domain that is only slowly changing. Even today, only just over ten percent of the more than one million volunteer firefighters in Germany are female.
Commissioned by ARD Degeto for ARD
Executive production: Krebs & Krappen Film
Director: Martin Busker
Screenplay: Volker Krappen
Cast: Nadja Becker, Katja Danowski, Merlin Sandmeyer, Fabien Tietjen, Lina Wendel, Alina Hidić, Christian Rudolf, Elmar Gutmann, Jan Hasenfuß, Leander Lichti and many more
Shooting time: June - July 2022
Filming location: Hamburg hinterland and Hamburg
First broadcast date: 13.09.2024