Dr. Günther Brendel is a veterinarian, and his wife Sonia is an author who is writing a book about parenting.

The main filming locations were a horse farm in Handeloh with many outdoor scenes in the area, the city center of Buchholz (Nordheide) and the Gymnasium in Trittau, but also numerous other places in the southern and eastern parts of Hamburg.

Monika Zinnenberg directed all the episodes, and the screenplay was written by Marlies Kerremans based on the literary sources of Brigitte Blobel.

Günter Brendel is a veterinarian on the Süderhof farm, and his wife Sonia is writing a book about parenting.

In the opening episode, Günter's brother, Tom, and his wife, Francis, were killed in a plane crash.

The Brendel adults deal with the monetary and financial struggles of running a farm and raising a family, as well as the death and the grieving process.

A common theme is that they find that the animals and their companionship, as well as the support of family and friends, can mitigate their problems.

After a long break of four years, a different broadcasting company, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, produced more seasons of the series.

However, even though the actors in the original Süderhof series were only four years older, they were said to have outgrown the roles because the children in the books never aged.

All new actors were chosen, except for Ursula Hinrichs (grandmother Brendel), and some supporting cast members.

In the special episode "Visiting the Süderhof", which also aired for the first time in the "Tigerenten Club", the performers of the first two seasons handed over their roles to the new cast members.

This season, Bimbo was replaced by a new protagonist named Lili, played by Ann-Kristin Schmeisser.

[6] The radio play version of News from the Suderhof ranked 12th place in the Children's Bestsellers list in 1998.