Lindenstraße, Germany’s oldest soap opera and longest-running TV series, will be put to sleep by the end of 2018. A media phenomenon since it first hit the airwaves in 1985, Lindenstraße has always also been a faithful mirror of German manners and life, as is illustrated by the issues the show has tackled and, more obviously, by the furniture and decorations of the film sets. The rooms and sceneries constructed for the series may be read as a panopticon of the most varied ways of being at home. The photographic project Lindenstraße Index explores the media representation of the residential interior. The series examines how a collective feeling of being at home as well as stereotypical ideas of everyday life are constructed in the viewer’s mind. -Textem