Lean Times

Lean Times (German: Magere Zeiten) is a West German television series which originally aired on ARD in 1978.^[1]

Lean Times
Genre	Drama
Directed by	Michael Braun
Starring	Karin Anselm Gerd Baltus Margot Leonard Ilse Pagé
Country of origin	West Germany
Original language	German
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	16
Production
Running time	25 minutes
Production company	Norddeutscher Rundfunk
Original release
Network	ARD
Release	4 October 1978 (1978-10-04) – 31 January 1979 (1979-01-31)

Selected cast

• Karin Anselm as Bettina Basdorf
• Margot Leonard as Hanna Hergenrath
• Wolfgang Völz as Atze Müller
• Christian Hanft as Sigbert Hergenrath
• Wieslawa Wesolowska as Hildegard Hergenrath
• Gerd Baltus as Dr. Peter Helfrich
• Ilse Pagé as Conny Finkbein
• Günter Strack as Alfred Mildezahn
• Johannes Grossmann as Walter Burger
• Walter Buschhoff as Fritz Kohlwitz