In 1984 the ARD broadcast Heimat – Eine deutsche Chronik, Heimat: A German Chronicle, by Edgar Reitz. The work has eleven parts. It follows people from Schabbach, an invented village in the Hunsrück, from 1919 to 1982.
Reitz wanted to set authentic scenes against the American series Holocaust, which he found lacking in artistic truth. In 2022 Uwe Kammann, writing in epd medien, called the Schabbach chronicle eine kluge Reflexion über deutsche Geschichte von universeller Botschaft, a wise reflection on German history with a universal message.
The story ends in 1982, two years before the broadcast.