From Berlin to Bielefeld, moving back home with some furniture, some broken dreams and many good memories in my luggage.

Is that how you fail?

For Hanna (Banafshe Hourmadzi) in her mid-twenties it is time to take stock.

Tidying up life hasn't been her thing until now. Determination certainly not at all. Your ideas: studying literature in the capital, then embarking on a career in publishing. The specific plan: it will be fine. Her flat share friends Holly (Bineta Hansen) and Tobi (Leonard Kunz) may have admired Hanna's optimism, their sense of reality was seen as a missing person case. Franzi (Lena Klenke), Hanna's first great love, had all the more sense of planning. She went through her teaching degree, studied when Hanna wanted to party, and passed her exams with ease. The "annoyingly cute couple" became the couple that got on each other's nerves. Then each went their own way. Why should the prelude promise the finale with timpani and trumpets?

After Franzi came Lara (Emma Drogunova), who liked parties, drugs, sex and non-commitment. Hanna suddenly found herself on the solid side. It became one-sided with Anouk (Larissa Sirah Herden). Although Hanna was emotionally contorted and raved about what it was worth, nothing came of it. Anouk just wasn't into her. The hot office sex with Hanna's internship manager Josephine (Karin Hanczewski) turned out to be morally complicated. Especially since Josephine's wife caught both of them red-handed and the affair also had a lot of smack due to the hierarchy. Sarah (Soma Pysall) just wanted to postpone a secret love affair and her coming out until she was sure of her sexual preference. Holding hands and hugging in the street was not possible. While working abroad, she fell in love again. In a man.For Sarah, lesbian love was just a station in self-discovery and Hanna was more of a means to an end. Stupid that Franzi emerged from oblivion on the day of the move, of all places. Or a hint of fate.

Five past relationships

The ZDFneo series “Loving Her” needs six episodes, each short and sweet, to call up the main character's five past love affairs and to draw a self-love conclusion in the last one.

Instead of long dramaturgical arcs of development, there are short series of scenes brought to the point;

instead of drawn out relationship discussions, Hanna's dry comment in the voice over.

With “Loving Her”, Leonie Krippendorff (direction and script) and Marlene Melchior (script) adapt the Dutch series “Anne +”, which the broadcaster announces as “Instant Fiction” format.

With “Inside”, “Love Now!” Or “Sleeping Sheep”, ZDFneo has earned merits in recent months with more up-to-date, faster-produced and easier-to-tell short series.

With "Loving Her" the production went particularly fast.

There were only a few months between the announcement in March and availability in the media library at the beginning of July.

Tempo and humor also determine the image design by cameraman Lotta Kilian.

Hanna's coming-of-age stories consist of variants of the romantic question of who suits us best - and how many frogs we have to kiss to find the one prince.

Who in this case is a princess.

The fact that only women love women here is simply assumed without fuss.

Problems arise in the individual relationships, not from the fact that Hanna thinks women are "hot".

This is what distinguishes “Loving Her” from its counterpart “All you need” (ARD One), a series of relationships with gay staff that tends to illustrate activism, as if the manifesto “#ActOut” had been filmed directly.

“Loving Her” represents less, but rather sets lesbian points of view with a suitable open-heartedness.

If the diversity requirement of the hour creates such connections between seriousness and entertainment, then gladly more of it.

Loving Her,

this Saturday at 9:40 p.m. on ZDFneo and in the ZDF media library.