As pleased as we are that our work and, above all, our topic – your topic! – has become the basis for a movie, it is also important for us to say that the love story told in “Die Liebeskümmerer” on Netflix is, of course, fictional. None of us would ever start a romance with a client – that would not only be counterproductive for the counseling process, but of course also completely contradicts our professional ethics. But much more is allowed in movies than in real life!

Individual scenes, such as Maria’s interview about the founding of the agency at the beginning of the film, use almost exactly the same words that Elena would use to talk about us love counselors.