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Auf und davon – Mein Auslandstagebuch

television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ759480 ↗
Source-derived summary

Auf und davon – Mein Auslandstagebuch (English: Up and Away - My Diary Abroad) is a German documentary television series, broadcast on VOX since 16 April 2007. The television series is in the format of docu-soaps covering young people who leave for the first time in their lives their family, friends and home to spend some time in foreign countries. The participants relate their experiences and impressions with a handheld camera.

Plot

The TV series belongs to the docu-soap format. In the series Auf und davon – Mein Auslandstagebuch (Up and Away - My Diary Abroad), VOX accompanies young people who leave their families, friends and home country for the first time in their lives to spend some time abroad. It also accompanies teenagers or young adults who are visiting Germans for a few months. The participants record their experiences and impressions with a handheld camera.

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The public source identifies “Auf und davon – Mein Auslandstagebuch” as television series. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around davon, Mein and Auslandstagebuch.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with davon, Mein and Auslandstagebuch providing the first useful test.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q759480. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from “Auf und davon – Mein Auslandstagebuch” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.