Overview

• The 90-minute film will premiere on December 25 at 20:15 on ZDF.
• Early streaming begins November 15 in the ZDF-Mediathek.
• Mariele Millowitsch and Joachim Król lead the cast, with additional roles cited for Eric Cordes, Hannah Gharib, Philipp Hauß, Marlene Becker and Anna Fischer according to press materials.
• Fischer told fans in August that, after the birth of her second daughter, there would be no 2025 edition of her Christmas show.
• The special has been a holiday fixture since 2011 and has occupied ZDF’s Christmas Day prime time since 2013, with prior breaks in 2020–2022 before returning in 2023.