
Love stories with the defenses left in.
The gist
Paula Lieben Lernen centers on long, personal conversations about love in its difficult forms: parents, partners, exes, longing, resentment, and repair. Guests bring lived stories, and the recurring voice keeps pressing toward motive, consequence, boundaries, and what a person can still choose next.
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About Paula Lieben Lernen
Paula Lieben Lernen is a German relationship interview show where private history becomes the map for present love. The conversations are close. Guests arrive with a problem that sounds familiar, then the episode follows it into the older room behind it. A regular parent call may become a story about duty, distance, and the right to step away. A perfectionism spiral may reveal burnout, body awareness, and the terror of consequences. The show is not tidy self-help. It is more interested in the moment when someone hears their own pattern out loud. Paula’s recurring presence gives the episodes their shape: warm enough for confession, direct enough to interrupt avoidance, and plain-spoken enough to keep big feelings from becoming vague. Guests are not treated as cases. They are people with contradictions, loyalties, anger, humor, and half-finished conclusions. Recent episodes move through village life, estranged parents, grief, depression, dating rules, fear of abandonment, therapy, sobriety, and the work of naming a need before it turns into self-protection. There are light breaks. There are also hard turns. A throwaway joke about emojis can sit near a serious question about why someone keeps choosing distance. That mix is part of the appeal. The show trusts that love is not only romance, and that family, work, friendship, bodies, and old wounds all enter the room. It is emotionally literate without sounding clinical. It can be blunt without becoming cold. For listeners drawn to relationship stories with consequence, Paula Lieben Lernen offers something slower and more exposed than quick dating commentary. It asks what happened, what it cost, and what a person might do differently without pretending that insight makes everything easy.
Made for: For German-speaking listeners drawn to candid relationship conversations, family-system fallout, dating ambivalence, and emotionally direct interviews. It especially suits people who prefer lived stories over polished advice.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its patient pressure: guests are allowed to wander, joke, resist, and revise themselves, while the conversation keeps returning to the emotional pattern underneath. It feels closer to a searching kitchen-table reckoning than a scripted relationship program.
In their own words
Das Leben hält Beziehungen aller Art bereit. Tiefe und wahre, schöne und lustige, aber auch anstrengende und herausfordernde Beziehungen, die einen an die Grenzen bringen. Ist gar nicht so einfach das mit diesem „lieben lernen“… Gemeinsam mit Paula sprechen ihre Gäste über alle möglichen Arten von Beziehungen und finden Wege und Lösungen, wie man mit neuen Situationen umgeht.
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Winking emojis sit beside the relationship patterns you keep repeating, and Paula makes room for both.
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- candid guest conversations connecting your present-day relationships to what you learned at home
- space to examine why safety can feel stranger than the people who hurt you
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Episodes
- 1
344 - Vulvapflege für Fortgeschrittene
·46m - 2
382 - Das große Allein
·54m - 3
380 - Liebe für Runaways
·56m - 4
379 - Oh, Oklahoma!
·51m - 5
378 - Mommy dearest
·1h 5m - 6
378 - Köpfchen, übernehmen Sie!
·59m - 7
377 - Sturm im Kopf
·54m - 8
376 - Single as fuck
·1h 8m - 9
375 - Die Angst vor der Angst
·55m - 10
374 - Loslassen bedeutet nicht, dass man fällt
·1h 1m - 11
373 - Willst du ihn oder willst du, dass er dich will?
·1h 9m - 12
372 - Ein frischer Anfang
·23m - 13
371 - Weihnachten macht ehrlich
·30m - 14
370 - Das Monster im Keller
·53m - 15
369 - Kontrolle und Vorurteil
·1h 3m - 16
368 - Ein Stück vom Glück
·59m - 17
367 - Der Tod und das Mädchen
·48m - 18
366 - Mamagraphie
·1h 3m - 19
365 - Ab ins Nest
·1h 13m - 20
364 - Über den Wolken
·1h 5m - 21
363 - Ein Schlüsselanhänger fürs Herz
·54m - 22
362 - Darf’s ein bisschen weniger sein?
·56m - 23
361 - Die längste Situationship der Welt
·52m - 24
360 - Wie schüchtern kann man dem Leben gegenüber sein?
·53m - 25
359 - Ein bewegendes Wiedersehen
·58m - 26
358 - Deep Talk in der Sauna
·1h 3m - 27
357 - Eine Affäre zum Verlieben
·46m - 28
356 - Das Projekt
·1h 4m - 29
355 - Der bunte Vogel muss endlich fliegen
·1h 5m - 30
354 - Wissen ist nicht Fühlen
·1h 1m - 31
353 - Susan Sideropoulos - Das Wunder der Gleichzeitigkeit
·51m - 32
352 - Schützt die Kinder!
·50m - 33
351 - Herumgekommen, aber wenig gekommen
·52m - 34
350 - Eine Affäre zum vergessen
·59m - 35
349 - Im Dunklen durch die Menopause
·46m - 36
348 - Wenn Freundschaft Plus ein Minus ist
·1h - 37
347 - Let`s talk about sex!
·42m - 38
346 - Liebe ist ein Zirkus
·58m - 39
343 - Are you the one?
·55m - 40
342 - Mutters kalter Schatten
·53m - 41
341 - Gottes Werk & Esthers Beitrag
·54m - 42
340 - Die Vater Wunde
·1h 2m - 43
339 - Rausch und Realität!
·1h 4m - 44
338 - Die Wut muss raus
·52m - 45
337 - Lovebombing Deluxe
·54m - 46
336 - Die mit Senna Gamour
·56m - 47
335 - Eine Liebe wie Bridget Jones
·27m - 48
334 - Das Bambus-Prinzip
·57m - 49
333 - Ein unsichtbares Leben
·47m - 50
332 - Toxische Fesseln
·51m - 51
331 - Heulsuse
·54m - 52
330 - Trotzdem geblieben
·52m - 53
329 - Schmerzgrenze
·46m - 54
328 - Single in Dauerschleife
·49m - 55
327 - Gefangen im Selbstzweifel
·57m - 56
316 - Immer wieder Sonntags
·47m - 57
326 - Die Scham muss die Seiten wechseln
·59m - 58
325 - Vier Brüste, wieder vereint
·47m - 59
324 - Zu schön um wahr zu sein
·47m - 60
323 - Knappes Entkommen
·53m - 61
322 - Was nicht passt, wird passend gemacht!
·54m - 62
321 - Die Spießer-Rebellion
·45m - 63
320 - Episode 1 (Teil 2)
·35m - 64
319 - Episode 1
·32m - 65
318 - Ick-Game
·31m - 66
317 - Die Vergangenheit erwacht
·58m - 67
315 - Unter den Teppich gekehrt
·49m - 68
314 - Schwarzes Schaf
·54m - 69
313 - Nein zum Jein
·50m - 70
312 - Scham und Schweigen
·54m - 71
311 - Wut und Minderwertigkeit
·50m - 72
310 - Booty Call - Beziehung
·44m - 73
309 - Eine Affäre zu viel
·44m - 74
308 - Red Flag Alert
·45m - 75
307 - Was an Fragen übrig blieb (Teil 2)
·32m - 76
306 - Was an Fragen übrig blieb
·32m - 77
305 - Panagiota Petridou und die Liebe
·55m - 78
304 - Endstation Liebe
·56m - 79
303 - Kleine Schritte, große Wirkung
·50m - 80
302 - Date oder Bewerbungsgespräch?
·53m - 81
301 - 31, Jungfrau, ledig, sucht
·49m - 82
300 - Ein fantastischer Tag zum Schlussmachen
·39m - 83
299 - Der Groot aller Problemhaufen
·51m - 84
298 - Tanz auf Eierschalen
·54m - 85
297 - Von allen begehrt, von keinem geliebt
·52m - 86
296 - Das Tor bleibt zu!
·45m - 87
295 - Trial and Error
·52m - 88
294 - Schicksalsschläge im Schnellkochtopf
·53m - 89
293 - Grenzen aus Sand
·49m - 90
292 - Beziehungsstatus: Es ist kompliziert!
·40m - 91
291 - Schluss machen, aber wie?
·56m - 92
290 - Kindische Eltern
·46m - 93
289 - Dating-Burnout
·57m - 94
288 - Bin ich zu viel?
·56m - 95
287 - Im Rausch der Impulse
·53m - 96
345 - Die Schwierigkeit des Hier und Jetzt
Hidden gemHost Paula interviews guest Anne about a nine-year on-off relationship — four breakups in total — with a coworker who has an alcohol problem and, as Anne eventually comes to see, no relationship with himself.
·55m·4 clips - 97
383 - Immer wieder aufgestanden
Hidden gemPaula interviews Miriam Höller — stuntwoman and Germany's Next Topmodel 2010 contestant — about love, loss, and resilience in the ten years since her partner Hannes died in a helicopter crash.
·1h 2m·4 clips - 98
381 - Perfektion und Dasein
Guest Edda joins host Paula on 'Paula Lieben Lernen' to discuss perfectionism, over-responsibility, and a near-third burnout driven by a chronic inability to let others bear consequences.
·57m·4 clips - 99
385 - Das Dating Paradoxon
Paula (host) and guest Janne discuss what Janne calls the 'dating paradox': she knows that not approaching or initiating contact with men damages her dating life, yet she continues to do it anyway.
·59m·4 clips - 100
384 - Ich liebe meine Eltern nicht
Guest Susi joins host Paula on 'Paula Lieben Lernen' to discuss decades of emotional damage from a controlling mother who imposed rigid contact rules—mandatory Tuesday-11am calls—and eventually locked Susi out of the family home at age 16 after Susi revealed her mother's long-running affair.
·59m·4 clips