Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten Year 1999 Episode 26 Episode 26 ( Air Date 1999-02-08 ) Genre Drama, Soap category. Overview "Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten is a long-running German television soap opera, first broadcast on RTL in 1992. The programme concerns the lives of a fictional neighborhood in Germany's capital city Berlin. Over the years the soap opera tends to have an overhaul of young people in their late teens and early twenties; targeting a young viewership.".