The carillon which rings repeatedly through the film is playing "Üb immer Treu und Redlichkeit" by Ludwig Hölty, the tune being taken from Papageno's aria "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen" in W. A. Mozart's opera "Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)".
The film could not be shot in the actual school buildings because at the time they were occupied by the Soviet KGB. Only in 1994 did the Russians return the site to the Foundation.
Actress Therese Giehse once worked with and had a relationship with Erika Mann who appears in the first film version "Mädchen in Uniform" from 1931.
The school in which the story is set was the Kaiserin-Augusta-Stift (Empress Augusta Foundation), which had moved to new buildings at Potsdam in 1902. The school was for daughters of noblemen, officers, clergymen and civil servants.