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3	''Schloss Einstein'' is a German SoapOpera for kids and teenagers, about life at the titular boarding school (the Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium, or "Schloss Einstein" for short). The first episode was broadcast in 1998; as of 2024, the show is in its twentyseventh season, making it the longest-running children's series in Germany. From 1998 to 2007, the series was set in the fictional village of Seelitz near Potsdam. After the production company changed, the series was re-located to Erfurt. The stories most commonly feature things like first love, roommate drama, and students struggling with exams and grades.
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6	!! This show provides examples of:
7	* AbusiveParents: Martin isn't very physically abusive, but can be extremely possessive of Oliver.
8	* AmateurFilmMakingPlot: Noah, Julia, Colin and Ava try to shoot a horror film for Colin and Joel's project.
9	* AmicableExes: Pawel and Sibel
10	* ArtifactTitle: The name ''Schloss Einstein'' comes from the fact that the boarding school was originally located in a former castle. This is no longer the case since episode 846.
11	* BetterAsFriends: Julia and Colin date for a while in season 25 but quickly find out they're not romantically attracted to each other.
12	* BigBrotherInstinct: Charlotte became very protective of Leon after he was diagnosed with diabetes, much to his dismay.
13	* BoardingSchool: The primary setting of the show.
14	* TheBusCameBack: Heinz Sirius Pasulke, the baby of Paulina and Lucky born in season 12, returns in season 25 as a student.
15	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Heinz Pasulke disappeared from the show without an explanation and his actor died soon after. Also applies to some other major characters whose sudden disappearance from the cast was never explained.
16	* CircusBrat: The Freytag sisters grew up in their family's circus but had to go to boarding school after their parents ran into financial difficulties and had to close the circus.
17	* ComingOfAgeQueerRomance: Leni and Cäcilia
18	* CoveredInGunge: Joel gets this from Annika and Nesrin after he accidentally foiled one of their pranks.
19	* CoveredInMud: Happens to Reena after falling down a slope during the cross country run in episode 999.
20	* DaddyDidntShow: Joyce's mother is released from prison on her daughter's birthday and promises to visit her so they can celebrate it together. Joyce waits for hours but her mother doesn't show up.
21	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Petra's parents died in a diving accident during a family vacation. Her brother, who's also her legal guardian, went to prison after the events of season 19.
22	* DarkerAndEdgier: When the series moved to Erfurt (Season 11 and on), the average age of the kids increased and the show started dealing with more serious issues more often. The plots that served to provide edutainment about science practically disappeared, and the fact that Schloss Einstein was a sort of natural-science magnet school was downplayed.
23	* DearJohnLetter: Liz breaks up with Adrian this way
24	* DescentIntoAddiction: Feli starts taking drugs to cope with her parents' divorce and becomes addicted to them.
25	* DisownedParent: Joyce after finding out her mother abandoned her on purpose because she cared more about the money from a fraud scheme she was involved in.
26	* DramaClub: The main theme of season 25.
27	* EggSitting: With a baby doll that made crying noises in the middle of the night and had an electronic scoring system.
28	* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: Mary invokes this as a form of ObfuscatingStupidity, telling Coco that she didn't mean to say something mean about Magda – she just mistranslated an English idiom into German! Coco sees through it, though.
29	* EnsembleCast: Of around 17 to 20 main characters per season.
30	* EnterStageWindow: Noah after secretly sneaking out to take care of his dog Freddy in episode 1031.
31	* FromRoommatesToRomance: All three gay romance storylines so far (Karla and Marie Luise, Leni and Cäcilia, and Noah and Colin) started out this way.
32	* GymClassRopeClimb: Not a literal climbing rope, but the gymnastics exercise on the bar is the moral equivalent of this for Magda.
33	* HighSchoolSweethearts: In season 24 it is revealed that Pippi and David have since gotten married.
34	* HotForTeacher: Antje (season 1), Franziska (season 6), Mia (season 11), Hubertus (season 16), Lotta (season 18) and Viktor (season 23) each suffer from this at one point.
35	* InternetSafetyAesop: Daphne meets up with someone she met on the Internet and gets kidnapped.
36	* IntroductoryOpeningCredits: Except for season 17 and 18
37	* LIsForDyslexia: Tim and Finja
38	* LongDistanceRelationship: Reena and Gustav after Gustav decides to go to a dancing school between season 25 and 26.
39	* LongLostRelative:
40	** Phillip and Berti are half-siblings.
41	** Serena and Miriam are fraternal twins.
42	** Julia Schnabel finds out that her late father had an affair and she has a half-brother called Aaron Zuckmayer.
43	* LongRunners: On air since 1998 and the longest-running fictional children's television series with child actors.
44	* LukeIAmYourFather: Lara Zöllner pretends to be a journalist who wants to write an article about Roxy but later reveals that she is her biological mother.
45	* LukeYouAreMyFather:
46	** Pascal Merten attends the school under a fake name to meet his father Dr. Stollberg.
47	** Tatjana Jonas was adopted as a child and wants to get revenge on her biological mother Dr. Steiner.
48	** Anton Busch cheats to get a scholarship to attend the school to meet his father Sascha Hauser who has no idea he has a son.
49	* LoveTriangle: A very common trope on the show.
50	** Season 8: Leon/Tessa/Valentin and Lars/Sue/David
51	** Season 9: Kai/Konny/Anton
52	** Season 10: Konny/Anton/Marie-Sophie, Konny/René/Sue and Billi/Lukas/Verena
53	** Season 11: Coco/Manuel/Layla
54	** Season 12: Karla/Marie Luise/Freddy Lennox
55	** Season 14: Ronja/Justus/Bruno
56	** Season 15: Bella/Sándor/Jo
57	** Season 16: Tobias/Liz/Adrian
58	** Season 17: Hubertus/Constanze/Tommy
59	** Season 21: Olivia/Lennard/Paul
60	** Season 23: Kasimir/Martha/Till
61	** Season 24: Rosa/Bela/Anton
62	* MakeUpOrBreakUp: Reena and Gustav have to decide if they want to continue their long-distance relationship in season 26.
63	* MiddleNameBasis: Heinz Sirius Pasulke goes by his middle name once he returns as a student in season 25.
64	* MilitarySchool: Sándor is briefly threatened with one.
65	* MissedTheBus:
66	** Pit misses the bus to the new boarding school in the first episode of season 22.
67	** Chiara and Ms Stocker miss the bus to the forest in episode 981.
68	* MistakenForMurderer: Joel believes Noah is up to no good at the start of season 26 because he keeps sneaking out at night and Joel found a bone and a shoe in the woods after following Noah.
69	* MistakenForRomance: Massuda believes Julia and Colin are a couple when she first meets them.
70	* MomentKiller: Noah and Colin sitting in their room, exchanging a LongingLook but then Joel knocks on the door.
71	* NearAndDearBabyNaming: Heinz Sirius was named after his great-uncle Heinz Pasulke who his mother lived with.
72	* OddNameOut: Leni Freytag is the only member of her family whose name doesn't start with an F.
73	* OneSteveLimit: Averted. While no characters with the same name appeared at the same time, old names are regularly reused, like Annika (Schubert, Schneeberger and Barry) or Julia (Popke, Schnabel and Sponer).
74	* PassedOverPromotion: After Dr. Berger's promotion, vice principal Dr. Zech thinks he's going to be the new principal. Instead it's new hire Jong Hi Chung.
75	* ThePrankster: Hermann & Jona and Nesrin & Annika.
76	* PreMeeting: Chui's disastrous first encounter with Herr Berger.
77	* PreviouslyOn: From episode 2 to episode 792 when the show aired once a week instead of five days a week.
78	* PutOnABus: How the show deals with an actor leaving. Usually ends up being a LongBusTrip.
79	* PutOnAPrisonBus: Ole after he set fire to the boarding school building.
80	* RearrangeTheSong: From season 20 onwards, the theme song was rearranged from rock to electronic and sung by a female singer instead of a male singer.
81	* {{Retcon}}: Episode 876 shows the students moving into the new boarding school building in August 2015. Episode 900 states the move took place in September 2016, meaning that all episodes are set NextSundayAD, one school year later than their airdate rather than in the same school year as previously established.
82	* SchoolNewspaperNewsHound: Nino. Also, most of the staff of ''Kurz und Kleinstein'' in earlier seasons.
83	* SecretPetPlot: Noah secretly brought his dog with him because his parents were going to give it to the shelter.
84	* SecretRelationship: Hubertus and Pippi
85	* SeparatedAtBirth: Serena and Miriam are fraternal twins who were separated when their parents divorced.
86	* TheShowMustGoOn: Lilly replacing Alex in the SchoolPlay, ''Die Räuber''.
87	* SignificantAnagram: Remo Vage is an anagram of Game Over
88	* SneakingOutAtNight: Noah sneaks out at night to take care of his dog Freddy.
89	* SoftReboot: After episode 480, the production company changed and the setting of the series was changed to the Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium in Erfurt. In-Universe, this was explained with Heinz Pasulke getting a call from his sister, telling him to move to Erfurt to take care of his niece Paulina. He, Mark Lachmann and Michael Berger are the only characters who appeared in both Seelitz and Erfurt.
90	* SpoilerOpening: Ronja can't have left Schloss Einstein for good – she's in the title sequence!
91	* SternTeacher: Dr Zech
92	* TheStoic: Oliver's father, Martin, who is a typical carefree manly dad.
93	* StudentsSecretSociety: The Geheimer Zirkel (Secret Circle) in season 20.
94	* SugarAndIcePersonality: Hubertus
95	* TheTeaser: Replaced the PreviouslyOn segments after episode 792 when the show went from airing weekly with 52 episodes per year to airing five days a week with 26 episodes per year.
96	* TeenPregnancy: Happens to Paulina in season 12. Subverted with Franziska in season 8 whose pregnancy turned out to be a false alarm.
97	* TheUnreveal: The students speculate who the father of Miss Bräuning's twins is, but it's only revealed that it's not Alexander Fischer or Heinz Pasulke.
98	* WithAFootOnTheBus: Friedrich was supposed to go on a boarding school for soccer players but got off the bus to stay at Schloss Einstein.
99	* YoungEntrepreneur: Joel owns a fennel juice start-up and later founds a pranks-on-demand startup with Nesrin and Annika.
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