Most Verliebt in Berlin episodes are shot in two closed studios in Berlin-Adlershof. While switching between a range of 24 different sets, the team generally films one episode (each 25 minutes) per day; in addition, outdoor shots in Berlin are booked twice a week. Supervised by creators Michael Esser, and Peter Schlesselmann, 15 writers daily draft a script for one episode. Nearly 120 crewmembers are involved in the shooting of le destin de lisa(episode 365 sous titree) a single episode.^[1]

Neldel worked as a dental assistant before she was discovered by the boss of a Berlin casting agency during a polo competition. He helped her audition for daily soap opera Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten and Neldel, barely experienced in acting, immediately landed the role of Katja Wettstein. After leaving GZSZ in 1999 Neldel starred in several German motion pictures and TV films, including Lammbock, Samba in Mettmann and Emmy-winning Berlin, Berlin.

Verliebt in Berlin (A German pun for "In Love in/with Berlin"; abbreviation: "ViB") is a Golden Rose-winning German telenovela, starring Alexandra Neldel, Mathis Künzler, Tim Sander, and Laura Osswald. It premiered on February 28, 2005, on Sat.1 in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, with its final episode broadcasted on October 12, 2007. The series is an adaptation of the Colombian telenovela Yo soy Betty, le destin de lisa(episode 365 sous titree) la fea ("I am Betty, the ugly one"), written by Fernando Gaitán (also author of Café, con aroma de mujer) and produced by RCN TV.

ViB was adapted into a Berlin setting by creators neldel mistst�ck dvd Michael Esser, Peter Schlesselmann and their co-team and co-producers Markus Brunnemann and Rainer Wemcken, whose production company Phoenix Film Karlheinz Brunnemann GmbH & Co. Produktions KG partnered with Grundy UFA TV Produktions GmbH to create the half-hour-long program for the German-speaking audience.

Additional information about the telenovela is available via a fan magazine (available in Germany, Switzerland and Austria), as well as a PC video game adventure. Also, DVD boxes are available (20 episodes each), including the specials. The 18th box set includes the last twenty episodes and the TV movie. On October 6, 2006 the alternate ending of the TV movie was released. The show also spawned a series of novels and a soundtrack Nina-Friederike Gn�dig nude CD containing music from the series, including the show's theme song by Nena, plus songs from Dido, Glashaus, Sarah Connor, Nora Jones, Sarah McLachlan, Joss Stone, and more.

During the course of the series, Lisa manages to save and finally own Kerima Moda, rescues her boss David from death and the wrath of his then-fiancée, watches the dissolve of his engagement to Mariella, protects the company from David's maleficent rival and step-brother and Mariella's brother Richard von Brahmberg (Karim Köster) and his mother Sophie von Brahmberg (Gabrielle Scharnitzky), endures the antics of the secretary Sabrina mathis kunzler (Nina-Friederike Gnädig), falls in love with and gets engaged to Robert "Rokko" Kowalski (Manuel Cortez), while bearing the quirks of the chief designer Hugo Haas (Hubertus Regout) and helping his assistant Hannah Refrath (Laura Osswald), David's sister Kim (Lara-Isabelle Rentinck) and the runner boy Timo (Matthias Dietrich) with their love lives.

Elisabeth “Lisa” Plenske (Alexandra Neldel), a kind, intelligent, but naive and not necessarily beautiful young woman, grows up in the (fictional) village Göberitz, near Berlin, with her parents Bernd (Volker Herold) and Helga (Ulrike Mai). Lisa moves to Berlin and tries to get a job at Kerima Moda, a fashion company. There, she bumps into the junior chairman David Seidel (Mathis Künzler) and falls in love with him. She starts off le destin de lisa:episodes 180 et 300 catering at Kerima Moda, but manages to get promoted to personal assistant of Seidel. She works with him, however he does not really notice her qualities (much less herself as a woman), because he is engaged to Mariella von Brahmberg (Bianca Hein) and is also involved with various other women.