Rote Rosen is a German telenovela produced by Studio Hamburg Serienwerft Lüneburg and broadcast by Das Erste since November 6, 2006. The show is a complex telenovela, who tells one love story every season about women in their forties.

The life of young pharmacy student Merle seems to be already planned out, but meeting her parents expectations pushes her to her limits. Setting herself her first own task of learning the art of analogue photography, she dives into a new world, but begins to neglect everything else in her life.