Verbotene Liebe minor characters

The following are characters from the German soap opera Verbotene Liebe (Forbidden Love) who are notable for their actions or relationships, but who do not warrant their own articles.

Ben von Anstetten

Andreas Jung (15 April 1996 to 15 November 1996^[1])

Benedict "Ben" von Anstetten is the younger brother of Christoph von Anstetten and the first husband of Tanja von Lahnstein. Ben shocks his brother when he returns after twenty years and has Tanja as his new bride on his side. Ben wants to have his inheritance of the Anstetten fortune. As soon as Ben gets his share, he wants to buy Castle Friedenau. Christoph and Ben fight over the holdings until Ben is found dead. Tanja and Ben's illegitimate son Rajan Rai inherit his fortune. While Christoph and Tanja are suspects in Ben's murder, it soon comes out that George Helthay, former Butler of the Anstetten family, killed him, but planned to murder Clarissa von Anstetten.

Mimi Baxter

Christa Strobel (4 October 2005^[2] to 22 February 2006^[3])

Wilhelmine "Mimi" Baxter (formerly Frei and von Lahnstein) is the mother of Johannes von Lahnstein and returns to Königsbrunn after she left her son behind years ago, when she ended her marriage to Dietrich von Lahnstein. After pretending to be someone else, Johannes and Mimi can make peace with each other, before she leaves again for an adventure in Africa, to where she takes her granddaughter Nico with her. Mimi dies later as mentioned by Nico after she returns to Düsseldorf.

Achim Brandner

Matthias Haase (5 August 2003^[4] to 11 September 2003; 28 June 2005 to 23 August 2005^[5])

Achim Brandner is the younger brother of Arno Brandner and cousin to Matthias Brandner and Philipp Brandner. He is also the father of Jana Brandner and Robin Brandner. Achim comes to Düsseldorf to visit his children. Arno is disgusted by Achim's behavior since he abandoned the kids after the death of his wife Vera. He wants to make up for the lost time and finds a supporter in his daughter Nico von Lahnstein, who wants to return into the home of her father. With Nico's support Jana also begins to have faith in her father again and the three want to leave town together, while Robin wants nothing to do with him. But when Nico discovers an old letter of her mother, saying she wasn't sure whether or not he was the father of Nico and Jana or not. With this discovery, Achim does a paternity test who proves that Jana is his daughter, while Nico isn't. Disappointed and hurt by the results Achim walks out on his children once again. Achim returns two years later and wants Robin and Jana to think that he changed. In the end, both of his kids decide to give their father another chance and Robin even leaves with his father after his break-up with girlfriend Coco. When his daughter Jana dies in the beginning of 2008, Achim is nowhere to be seen and does not attend her funeral. But he and the also absent Robin send flowers for her grave.

Iris Brandner

Regina Nowack (2 January 1995^[6] to 24 January 1996^[7])

Iris Sander Brandner is the first wife of Arno Brandner and mother to Florian Brandner and Susanne Brandner. She also raised Arno's illegitimate son Jan Brandner from his previous relationship with Clarissa von Anstetten. Iris is the heart and soul of the Brandner family and is shocked when she finds out that Arno lied to her in all those years they've been married and never told her that he has another child with Clarissa. Jan's twin-sister Julia, who he falls in love with unknowingly that she is his sister. Iris has a hard time forgiving Arno for not letting her in on his secrets, which leads to marriage problems. Arno has enough from all the fighting with Iris and finds comfort in the arms of Clarissa. He begins a passionate affair with his former love. When Iris finds out about them, she decides to leave Arno for good. Iris feels betrayed by her family, when Clarissa becomes more and more present in all of their lives and escapes. Iris isn't seen for months, when a shocking news gets through the Brandner house a day after Arno's birthday. Iris died because of a ectopic pregnancy, which wasn't diagnosed in time. The Brandner's are shocked when they find out that Arno wasn't the father - Iris new lover Jürgen May was.

Philipp Brandner

Steve Hudson (May 1999 to 7 August 2000^[8]; 25 January 2005^[9])

Philipp Brandner is the scheming cousin of Arno Brandner, Matthias Brandner and Achim Brandner. He works as an architect and soon gets a job in Arno's construction company Brandner Bau. But Philipp begins to embezzle money and costs a collapse of a fairground. Arno has to cover for Philipp's actions and gets into debt because of it. He sells his company and can't believe when Philipp appears to be the new owner; getting the company through a stooge. He buys himself and his great love Steffi Sander an expensive apartment, but is left by her when she sees him for who he really is. When Steffi then begins to date Philipp's best friend Max Jannsen, he loses it and tries to murder them. Steffi and Max survive the attempted murder and Philipp gets convicted. But he can free himself and gets away. After four and a half years, Philipp appears as a roses seller in the Bistro Schneiders. He is thrown out by one of the waiter and remains unrecognized.

Meike Breuer

Nova Meierhenrich (9 June 2006^[10] to 30 August 2006^[11])

Meike Wittkamp Breuer is the younger sister of Tanja von Anstetten. Tanja hasn't been in contact with her family for years and is not happy, when Meike comes to Düsseldorf. But when Tanja sees that she could use Meike to get in contact with her son Hannes, Tanja tries to be extremely nice to her sister. Hannes is living with Tanja's ex Ansgar von Lahnstein. The timing couldn't be better, when Meike takes the job offer to be the new nanny of Hannes. This way she can let Tanja see the little boy whenever he wants. But even through Meike's intentions are pure, it doesn't take long until she's caught up in Ansgar and Tanja's games with each other. Ansgar finds out that Meike is Tanja's sister and wants to win her for his side, when the custody battle comes up. He tells Meike that he's real feelings for her - even proposes to Meike. When the custody trial comes up, Ansgar outs Meike as Tanja's sister and Tanja fears to lose the fight over her son. In the end, Meike is hurt by Ansgar's betrayal and kidnaps Hannes, believing that Tanja and Ansgar don't deserve him. Nathalie Käppler tries to get to Meike and gets her into giving up and returning Hannes to his parents, before she's about to kill him. After this Meike is brought in a psychiatric institution. It's mentioned in 2008 by her mother Annegret that she is still in psychiatric care. When Ansgar tries in December 2009 to drug Tanja with hallucinogens and wants her put away into a mental hospital, once again it's been confirmed that after more than three years, Meike still wasn't released.

Nicole Büchner

Sotiria Loucopoulos (30 August 1995^[12] to 31 August 1995, 02 October 1995 to 03 April 1996, 13 September 1996 to 08 October 1996^[13])

Nicole Büchner comes to town after the death of her father Max Orbis. She returns months later to visit her half-brother Alex Wiegand, who's mental state is more than critical. Nicole soon develops a friendship with Julia von Anstetten and falls in love with her twin-brother Jan Brandner. He has interest in her as well and after a short time the two of them become a couple. Nicole shares a flat with the twins and realizes after a short time that Jan and Julia have a special relationship to one another that she's not a part of. As Julia starts a relationship with Sebastian Schröder, Jan shows a jealous behavior that leads for Nicole to break up with him. Sebastian starts to feel the same way in his relationship with Julia and finds comfort in Nicole. Sebastian ends things with Julia and he and Nicole become a couple. Soon after the two leave town. Five months later Nicole returns to the wedding of Julia with Tim Sander.

Jessica von Deinburg-Thalbach

Andrea Suwa (26 September 1997^[14] to 1998^[15])

Jessica von Deinburg-Thalbach (also known as Princess of Deinburg-Thalbach and born as Prozeski) is the niece of Clarissa von Anstetten and moves with her family to Düsseldorf. She begins to work in a children's home. Jessica keeps a family secret with why her mother Katrin left the family years ago and disappeared. She meets and begins to fall in love with Alexander Berg. She doesn't know that he truly is a rich prince. Jessica finds out the truth, when she reads the announcement of marriage with Eva von Waller-Schönfeld in the paper. She tries to distant herself from Alexander, but he wants to fight for her and even break with his family. Against the will of his father, Alexander announces that he wants to marry Jessica. While the wedding, Alexander's father appears and makes peace with his son. After Jessica and Alexander have a ceremony at Castle Friedenau, they say their goodbyes and leave for Abu Dhabi, where the happy couple starts a new life.

Theresa Erzberger

Eva Luca Klemmt (13 May 2011^[16] to present)

Theresa Erzberger is the egocentric new jockey of the Lahnstein stud farm. As soon as she starts her job, Theresa comes to close quarters with groom Dana Wolf and sees through her feelings for her brother-in-law Hagen von Lahnstein. Theresa uses sarcastic comments to describe the seemingly forbidden relationship Dana and Hagen share and soon develops a crush on the married Christian Mann. As he separates from his husband, Oliver Sabel, Christian can't deny his attraction to Theresa and the two start sleeping together.

Philipp zu Hohenfelden

Stephan Käfer (7 May 2010^[17] to present)

Philipp zu Hohenfelden aka Prince Philipp is the best friend of Tristan von Lahnstein and a con artist, who uses the wealth of older women to finance his lifestyle. While married to the vicious Antonia Weber, Philipp has an affair with Lady Joan. The aristocratic lady soon learns about Philipp's real interest in her and leaves him - after she coned him. Philipp soon develops interest in Nico von Lahnstein and starts to fall in love with her. But Antonia is determined to prohibit this love from happening. As she can't stop interfering in Philipp and Nico's life, Philipp wants to talk to her - only to find her dead in her hotel room. The prince is now wanted for murder and the press starts a persecution on him. Nico tries to stay by his side, but in between has her own doubts about Philipp's innocence. In the end, Nico starts fighting for her man and can clear him from the murder charge.

The two get legally married and want to take a trip around the world. But family problems keep Nico from going away and as the day of their departure comes near, Philipp has a life-changing accident. He's a victim in a hit and run by Helena von Lahnstein, Nico's cousin, and fights for his life. Nico wakes by his bedside, while Helena impends to break down over her guilt. Philipp starts recovering and is released out of the hospital, but is ordered to take things slowly. As he plans a romantic surprise for Nico, Philipp breaks down in front of a garden with red roses. As Helena and her boyfriend Andi Fritzsche find him, he's rushed to the hospital; falling into a coma. Fearing that he may never wake up again, Nico and Philipp's father Trutz try to find help in a special clinic in Munich.

On September 8th, after he was declared brain-dead, Nico decided to cut the life support system that kept him alive.

Trutz zu Hohenfelden

Rainer Goernemann (26 July 2010^[18] to 28 July 2010; 26 October 2010 to 27 October 2010; 19 May 2011 to 20 May 2011, 18 July 2011 to present</ref>)

Trutz-Alouis zu Hohenfelden is the father of Philipp and meets his son while being on a business trip in Düsseldorf. Between the two is no love left as Trutz makes it clear that he sees his son as a loser. He seems to be proven right, when Philipp asks him for 2,000,000 € to help an "old friend" out. Trutz shows his disappointment, but is willing to give Philipp the money, if he returns home with him and begins to work in the family's company. Philipp decides to go for it, when he makes a bet with his father. If Philipp loses he has to return with Trutz, but if he wins he gets the money. Philipp's wife Antonia Weber pays Trutz a visit to warn him and makes it clear that he doesn't want Philipp to win; fearing that she would lose him entirely on Nico von Lahnstein. Trutz shows up to win the bet, but eventually loses due to his big ego. Trutz gives Philipp the money and leaves Düsseldorf with the certainty to never see his son again.

Three months later, Trutz returns and wants to speak with Philipp. But father and son don't seem to find a basis to speak with each other.^[19] Nico tries to talk to Trutz and can convince Philipp to listen to what his father has to say. He finds out that Trutz is going to cancer treatment and wants his son by his side. Philipp and Trutz find a way to overcome the past and Philipp leaves Düsseldorf for a short time to help his father with the chemotherapy. When Trutz visits Nico in May 2011, he wants to sell a family heirloom. Philipp and Nico aren't sure about Trutz' illness and Philipp even fears that his father could die soon. In the end, Nico can arrange for father and son to talk to each other and Trutz promises his son that he's fine.

Trutz returns once again, when his son has a tragic accident and is falling into a coma. He tries to be there for Nico and doesn't want her to give up hope. Trutz escorts his daughter-in-law to Munich to treat Philipp in a special clinic.

Lady Joan

Joan Collins (7 May 2010 to 11 May 2010)

Lady Joan is a British aristocratic Lady, who comes to Düsseldorf as companion of Prince Philipp zu Hohenfelden. The attractive old lady sees Philipp's interest in a young countess, Nico von Lahnstein. She begins to believe that Philipp is only with her because of Joan's money. When he wins a race, she takes his gain and leaves town with a goodbye for her former boytoy. Philipp calls her and is determined to get his money back.

Elke Käppler

Elke Bludau (23 October 2003^[20] to 15 March 2007^[21])

Elke Käppler is the head maid of Castle Königsbrunn, home of the aristocratic Lahnstein family. She always seems to have a little crush on Johannes von Lahnstein. While she respects his wife Cécile de Maron, who later falls in love with Johannes son Leonard, she seems to despite Elisabeth, who begins a relationship with him after Johannes' marriage to Cécile failed. Elke has a great relationship with her niece Nathalie Käppler. In 2006 it comes out that Elke once had a one-night-stand with Johannes, which resulted a child. Sarah Hofmann comes to Königsbrunn to work as a maid for the Lahnstein family. It comes out that she is Elke and Johannes' illegitimate daughter. Elke later decides that she no longer can stay on the castle and leaves after Nathalie married Johannes' oldest son Ansgar. After she disappeared, Elke is hardly mentioned.

Peter Kaufmann

Ingo Klünder (1 October 1999 to 10 August 2000^[22])

Peter Kaufmann appears to be the first husband of Clarissa von Anstetten, marrying Clarissa under her birth name Clara Prozeski. When Peter falls in love with Ingrid Bohn, he wants to leave Clarissa. But she doesn't agrees and instead blackmails Peter with his illegal business activities. But in the end, Peter isn't scared of Clarissa's threats anymore and leaves her anyway. But Clarissa wasn't playing and gives her information to the police. Peter has to flee the country and hides in South America; leaving a pregnant Ingrid behind. After the birth of her son Max, Ingrid doesn't want to live without Peter and takes her own life. Max is left to people who adopt him, while Clarissa enjoys her life, declares Peter as dead and marries the wealthy businessman Christoph von Anstetten.

Years later, Peter is brought back to Germany by the Anstetten family to out Clarissa as a fraud and bigamist. In the meanwhile, Clarissa plans to publish her autobiography. The Anstettens succeed in adding another chapter to the book and open up about Clarissa's shameful past. After Clarissa is humiliated in front of the public eye, Peter returns to South America. But soon after, he returns and falls in love with Bistro owner Charlie Schneider, Clarissa's frenemy. Charlie is suspicious of Peter because of his past with Clarissa. But after he proves his love to her, the two become a happy couple. But Clarissa has problems to see her ex-husband happy and tries to ruin his announced wedding with Charlie. Clarissa's plan works as she can seduce Peter shortly before his wedding to Charlie, who eventually breaks things with him. To let Peter suffer even more, Clarissa brings his son Max to town and sicks him on his father. Max becomes a tool to Clarissa's schemes and even begins an affair with her. But when Max learns the truth he breaks all ties with Clarissa and reunites with his father, who both leave town.

Kitty Kübler

Monica Ivancan (26 September 2006^[23] to 19 October 2009^[24])

Katharina "Kitty" Kübler is the beginning an assistant to one of the schemes of Tanja von Anstetten. Tanja uses Kitty to get Ansgar von Lahnstein arrested for drug possession and smuggling. When Kitty fears that her involvement could come out she leaves town for a while. But she comes back to work is a loyal secretary to Adrian Degenhardt. She helps him with his schemes and always tries to do what's best for him. But Kitty always seems to have a little problem with her intelligence, which leads to the guess that she could be a problem and not very helpful to Adrian to solve his. Adrian keeps Kitty anyway and they both share a strange friendship with each other. Kitty also becomes the frienemy of Olivia Schneider. She sleeps with Olivia's uncle Lars, after Olivia told her that he is into her. But Olivia was blackmailed to destroy with relationship between Lars and his girlfriend Nathalie and used Kitty for it. But when Olivia becomes famous as a model, Kitty is happy to call Olivia one of her friends anyway. Since then they both are seen in unity. When Olivia disappears, Kitty is only shown her role as Tanja's assistant. After 'v.L. Faces' is written out a few months after Kitty's last appearance, she is not mentioned again.

Robert Marenbach

Max Engelke (27 January 2010^[25] to 6 July 2010^[26])

Robert "Rob" Marenbach is an event manager and a great contact for Oliver Sabel to influence the party scene in Düsseldorf with the NoLimits. Oliver is impressed by Robert's ideas, which soon leads to tension with his boyfriend Christian Mann. He turns out to be a drug dealer who plans to use NoLimits as a base to sell drugs, and has displayed personal interest in Oliver, although it was unclear whether it was romantic, merely physical, or a facade to use him and his place for traffic.

After Oliver realized that his partnering with Rob was straining his relationship with Christian, parted ways with him, which made Robert resentful. He then tried to frame Oliver on drug dealing, leaving a drug package in No Limits and calling the police, but his plan backfired because Rebecca von Lahnstein hid the package and left it in his car, prompting the cops to raid his house and find drugs there. Robert was arrested.

Monseñor Mateo

Claus Wilcke (23 June 2011^[27] to present)

Monseñor Mateo is introduced as superior for Padre Jan Brandner, when he arrives on Mallorca.^[28] Mateo doesn't know what to think of Jan as he switches his job more often and doesn't appear as a typical reverend. Mateo still meets Jan with respect and shows him around and hopes that he's there to stay.

David McNeil

Sam Eisenstein (24 March 2003^[29] to 9 March 2005^[30])

David McNeil (born as Fabian Weiland) was married to Hanna Novak once. Because he was an undercover police officer and he didn't want to get Hanna in danger, he took a place in the witness protection service after he testified as principal witness. Hanna thought for years her husband was dead. When Fabian comes back as David to Düsseldorf to do business with Marie von Anstetten, he meets Hanna again. Even though she moved on and is in a relationship with the lawyer Lars Schneider, Hanna begins an affair with her former husband. Hanna's devious sister Sylvia Jones discovers the affair and blackmails her sister into ending her relationship to Lars or she would tell the press about David's role as a principal witness. Hanna ends her relationship with Lars, but he comes behind Sylvia's scheme. Furious she tells the press about David, which brings Hanna and David in danger. They can rescue themselves in the last minute. After this David and Hanna decide to stay friends. Introduced by Hanna and Lars, David meets the attractive bistro owner Charlie Schneider. They have a complicated, but also very passionate relationship with each other. When Charlie's old enemy Tanja von Anstetten returns to town, she wants to make Charlie's life miserable and uses David in one of her schemes. She seduces David and takes care that Charlie discovers them in bed together. Charlie ends the relationship, but when they both suffered because of Tanja, they decide to stay friends after all. He leaves Düsseldorf for a while, after he hasn't much success with an opera he wrote. When Charlie has money problems, she decides to fake David's death and get money for David's written opera. After this David surprisingly returns and is furious when he finds out what Charlie did. David refuses to forgive her, but in the end he sees that as a new beginning, says goodbye to Charlie and begins a new life in New York.

Miriam Pesch

Romina Becks (30 October 2007^[31] to present)

Miriam Pesch is a waitress in NoLimits. She is introduced as a classmate of Lisa Brandner, who takes interest in Constantin von Lahnstein. She later has a one-night-stand with her boss, Gregor Mann and ends up kissing a drunk Christian Mann. Miriam seems to be a very nice person, who often trashes glasses in front of guests and has an unhappy love life. In 2010, she starts dating Andi Fritzsche after his relationship with Helena von Lahnstein ended because of the schemes of her brother Tristan. In late November 2010, Miriam shares a kiss with Helena and Tristian's sister Rebecca von Lahnstein and the two soon start a relationship. Unfortunately, it doesn't last long, and they break up in January after deciding to be friends instead.

Rajan Rai

Sascha Zaglauer (22 October 1996^[32] to 18 July 1997^[33])

Rajan Rai is the illegitimate son of Ben von Anstetten. He comes to Castle Friedenau to learn more about his father, who has no idea that he has a son. Kati von Sterneck falls in love with him and procures him work as a groom. Rajan takes interest in the Anstetten family, which makes Ben's wife Tanja von Anstetten suspicious of him. When she finds out his secret, Tanja becomes his ally and tries to use Rajan's situation of being Ben's son. As soon as Ben finds out about his paternity, he invites Rajan to live on Castle Friedenau. Rajan begins to develop feelings for his stepmother and even begins a love affair with her, after Ben is murdered. But Tanja only uses him. When Rajan sees Tanja's interest in Tim Sander, he wants her to come with him to India and become his wife. Tanja agrees and prusues a cruel plan. After their wedding, Tanja kills Rajan and returns with his half of Ben's fourtne to Germany.

Kerstin Richter

Julia Haacke (5 June 1997 to 27 August 1997, 19 August 2011 to 31 August 2011)

Kerstin Richter is introduced as a friend of Susanne Brandner. On her birthday party Kerstin meets Susanne's brother Jan and falls for him on first sight. Jan mourns the disappearance of his twin-sister Julia von Anstetten, who he was trying to find for months. Giving up hope to find her, Jan starts a relationship with Kerstin. But she soon has to realizes that Jan and Julia share more than a sibling bond. As Kerstin by mistakes opens a letter for Jan, she's shocked to read that Julia is alive and wants Jan to follow her to Spain, where she's living now. Kerstin wants Jan to make up his mind and confronts him with Julia being alive and well. Jan wants to visit Julia, but realizes that his love for her is beyond all hope. He returns into Kerstin's arms, who is about to start a new life in Paris. Jan decides to go with her and start over.

In Paris, Jan realizes that his love for Julia is stronger and will never go away. Feeling that he never can love another woman like he loves his sister, he breaks up with Kerstin. After the break up, Kerstin finds out that she's pregnant with Jan's child, but decides to keep this to herself. While Jan becomes a priest, Kerstin raises their daughter Leonie all on her own.

As a seventeen year old Leonie wants to know more about her father and Kerstin isn't willing to give her the answers, Leonie tries to find him and locates Jan on the Spanish island Mallorca. She's flying to Jan to finally get answers about his disappearance and is confronted by him not even knowing that he has a daughter. Kerstin travels after her daughter and wants to prevent Leonie having a relationship with Jan. Seeing him after all those years sets her pain free and Jan realizes how hurt Kerstin must have been over the break up all those years ago.

Lukas Roloff

Christoph Dostal (7 May 2001^[34] to 4 November 2002^[35])

Lukas Roloff is a devious attoney, who wants was a well-known lawyer in the world of the high society. But he lost his good reputation and is determined to get it back. Lukas meets Tanja von Anstetten, who is back in Düsseldorf, and is taking an interest in her late husband's nephew, Henning von Anstetten. He wants to marry him to get the rest of the money out of the Anstetten fortune. She begins an affair with Lukas and he becomes her partner-in-crime as Tanja promises him a share of what she gets. But with all her scheming and the plan to murder Henning, Lukas becomes cold feet and tells Clarissa von Anstetten about Tanja's plan. Since Tanja wants to use Clarissa as prime suspect in Henning's murder, Clarissa is all for taking her arch enemy down once and for all. When Tanja discovers that Lukas is working with Clarissa, he attempts to kill him together with Beatrice von Beyenbach, who also has become a witness of her crime. Lukas survives but hasn't learned his lesson. He begins to flirt with Charlie Schneider to get her money. But Charlie sees through to his plan and plans on taking revenge together with her good friend Cécile de Maron. Together they are determined to get Charlie's money back. After they did, Lukas is convicted with grand theft and gets five years in prison. Lukas is never seen again in Düsseldorf.

Josefine von Rossitz

Lin Lougear (30 November 2009^[36] to 1 December 2009^[37]; 12 March 2010 to 15 March 2010)

Josefine von Rossitz (born as von Waldensteyck) is the aunt of Luise von Waldensteyck and is contacted by her niece, when Castle Waldensteyck is about to get sold to one of Eduard von Tepp's business partner. At first, Josefine isn't very happy with Luise's choice; to marry the former call boy Gregor Mann. But as soon as she gets to know Gregor, she is smitten by him and promises Luise that she will do anything to save the Castle. Luise is shocked when she finds out that Eduard's business partner already bought the residence of the Waldensteyck family and wants to turn it into a whorehouse. Josefine later tells her niece over the phone that she couldn't of helped with the money to rescue the Castle anyway.

Henriette Sabel

Susanne Seuffert (8 March 2001^[38] to 12 March 2001^[39])
Angelika Fornell (23 August 2010^[40] to 06 September 2010^[41])

Henriette Schneider Sabel is the mother of Oliver Sabel, sister of Charlie and Lars Schneider and aunt to Olivia Schneider and Sophia von Lahnstein. Henriette first appears in March 2001 to visit her son Oliver. She shows her disappointment in him, when she discovers that he's in a relationship with another man. With disapproving of her son's sexuality, Henriette leaves town and isn't seen in years.

Henriette makes a surprising return when Oliver is about to marry his longtime boyfriend Christian Mann in August 2010. Still against the life her son is living, Henriette refuses to be a part of Oliver's wedding. Even a talk with her sister Charlie can't change it. But when she realizes how much Christian loves her son and that these two really make each other happy, Henriette forgets about her beliefs and attends to the wedding anyway. After that she leaves town once again with Charlie to travel with her for a short time.

Sonja von Steigenberg

Anouschka Renzi (2 August 2010^[42] to 4 August 2010^[43]; 1 February 2011^[44] to 3 March 2011^[45])

Sonja von Steigenberg is a former mistress of Prince Philipp zu Hohenfelden. He owes Sonja a lot of money and comes to Düsseldorf, where she meets with Philipp's wife Antonia Weber, who wants to use Sonja to keep her husband from getting closer to Nico von Lahnstein. Sonja gives Philipp time to get back her money or else she will tell Nico that her new lover is a con artist. Philipp takes part in a high-risk poker game to get Sonja's money and is happy to pay her back and keep his secret. Already believing that he will never cross paths with Sonja again, she gives Nico a call months later. Nico already knows about Philipp's shady past, but gets another surprise when Sonja delivers her a recording that can prove that Philipp in fact killed Antonia. As Sonja takes the stand in Philipp's trail, Sebastian can prove that she's lying. After that, Sonja disappears.

Jessica Stiehl

Jana Julie Kilka (28 January 2010^[46][47] to present)

Jessica Stiehl is the niece of Butler Justus Stiehl. She seems very self-confident, but mostly is a little bit naive. Coming from a working-class district in Hamburg, Jessica wants never go back and become one of the rich and famous of the society in Düsseldorf. Her uncle, who works for the rich aristocratic Lahnstein family seems to be the perfect place to begin. She's noted by her devious ways and her ability to play other people to achieve her goals. After working the palace kitchen, in mid-2011 she starts working for Tanja von Lahnstein, and moves to Olliver Sabel's flatshare.

Butler Justus Stiehl

Claus Thull-Emden (26 November 2007^[48] to present)

Justus Stiehl is the butler of the aristocratic Lahnstein family and very loyal. He got employed by the late Johannes von Lahnstein, only months before his tragic presumed death. Justus is very serious about his work and tries to keep everything together. For a long time he seems to head the personal of the castle until the arrival of Stella Mann, who becomes the caretaker and head of the staff. Justus seems to be a cold and snobby character, but has a warm soul.

Eduard von Tepp

Hubertus Regout (9 February 2009^[49] to 15 March 2010)

Eduard von Tepp is a wealthy baron and the fiancé of Luise von Waldensteyck. He is a very snobby personality and likes things to be planned out in every single detail. He is a passionate fan of antic cigar boxes. A love he doesn't share with his fiancée. His love to Luise seems to be more like a business for him. The principality of Waldensteyck has serious money problems and with his marriage to Luise he would help them out. When Luise falls in love with Gregor Mann and wants to break her engagement with Eduard, he tells her that he may be the only chance to rescue Waldensteyck. Luise is shocked that Eduard knew all along that their marriage wasn't about two people loving each other. Eduard tries everything to bring Gregor and Luise away from each other. He wants to destroy Gregor and manipulate his helicopter, so he crashed with Luise and Gregor. They survived the crash, so Eduard tries to kill Gregor in the hospital. When Luise finds out, she is in shock and realizes what Eduard is capable of. Gregor and Luise press charges against him, but Eduard is nowhere to be found. They later get word that Eduard is somewhere in Italy, hiding from German authorities. But he shows up again on Luise and Gregor's wedding day. He holds Luise hostage and wants a final duel with Gregor. A duel of life and death. Gregor wins, when his brother Christian shows up and they both take Eduard to wait for the police to take him away. After they overcome this crisis, Luise and Gregor get married.

Rafael Velasquez

Marc Philipp (18 July 2011^[50])

Rafael Velasquez is introduced as a friend of Timo Mendes. Rafael is openly gay and soon starts to flirt with Oliver Sabel, who he meets on the beach.^[51] Olli takes a vacation from his broken marriage with Christian Mann and seems to find the perfect distraction in the charming Rafael. The two go together to Timo's house party, where Rafael kisses Olli. The married man is insecure about how far he wants this flirt to go and stops Rafael, only to give in a little later. Rafael and Olli spend a passionate night together. Olli wakes up alone, while Rafael is asking Timo where Olli went.

Wilhelm von Waldensteyck

Michael Tietz (28 April 2009^[52] to 30 July 2009^[53]; 6 November 2009)

Wilhelm von Waldensteyck is the seriously ill father of Luise von Waldensteyck. His daughter takes over the business for him to representative the family and living a life of a socialite. The principality of Waldensteyck has serious money problems, which leads to Luise marrying the wealthy Eduard von Tepp. But Luise has fallen in love with Gregor Mann. When she wants to break the engagement to Eduard, Wilhelm tells his daughter to put the happiness of an entire principality in front of her own. Luise tries her best, but his disappoint when she finds out that her marriage with Eduard was more about business than anything else. The begging of her father to don't let Waldensteyck go down makes the decision between heart and mind for Luise not any easier. On the 30th July 2009 Wilhelm died getting the promise from Luise that she will marry Eduard in order to save Waldensteyck. But Luise later decides to marry Gregor anyway. On her wedding day, the ghost of Wilhelm appears to his daughter and gives her his blessing.

Antonia Weber

Ricarda Bramley (25 May 2010^[54] to 10 December 2010^[55])

Antonia Weber is the scheming wife of Philipp zu Hohenfelden. She appears in Düsseldorf after Philipp made contact to the wealthy Nico von Lahnstein. Her plan is it that Philipp appears to fall for Nico to get to her money, like they did with other women before. But Antonia doesn't realize that Philipp begins to really fall for Nico. Meanwhile, Antonia plans to have Philipp kidnapped to get the ransom from her. Philipp stops his plan against Nico, which leads for Antonia to scheme against the couple. She even kidnaps Nico herself and tries to do everything to blackmail Philipp into coming back to her. After Nico and Philipp thought that Antonia got arrested, she comes back to Düsseldorf and wants to meet with Philipp. When he arrives at her hotel room, he finds Antonia dead after she committed suicide. Antonia left a personal diary which indicates that Philipp played her and Nico for months and that he in fact killed Antonia, while she was still in love with him and hoping for a happy end. Philipp decides to hide the diary from Nico and also from the police. As Nico discovers it by accident she's furious with Philipp but decides to stay with him when he wants to turn it to the police. He later returns and tells Nico that the charges against him were dropped. When Nico finds out that he never showed the police Antonia's diary she questions their relationship and Philipp's love for her again. Eventually Nico comes around as Philipp has already given the diary to the police. With the evidence against him, Philipp is sure that Antonia has done anything to let him pay for her death.

Alex Wiegand

Frank Behnke (1995^[56] to 6 November 1995, 9 August 1996 to 23 August 1996, 12 September 2006 to 21 September 2006, 27 February 2007 to 9 March 2007^[57])
Stefan Franz (21 April 2005^[58] to 22 April 2005^[59])

Alexander "Alex" Wiegand is the illegitimate son of Max Orbis, owner of a big empire. He hasn't spoken to his father in years, when Alex comes to Düsseldorf and begins to work for construction builder Arno Brandner. His new boss is impressed by Alex' work. Only Arno's daughter Susanne can't stand the new employee, who he has to share an office with. Alex begins an affair with the influential Clarissa von Anstetten. But the passion soon gets lost and Alex moves on with Clarissa's daughter Julia. The relationship doesn't last long either, after Julia can't get over the feelings she has for her brother Jan and Alex wants to move to quickly. When Susanne's boyfriend Oliver Kopp gets arrested for manslaughter, Susanne finds comfort in Alex. Her mother Iris hopes that Susanne can get over Oliver and that her future might be with Alex. Iris tries to hide Oliver's letters from prison, while Alex and Susanne get closer. When Susanne finds out about her mother's doing, she deals with a guilty conscience and decides to marry Oliver in prison. Alex then finds out that his father is seriously ill and wants him to be his successor. Even though Alex has no interest in his inheritance, he promises his father to take care of the company. Max leaves Düsseldorf happy to take a last vacation from which he never returns. When Alex gets news from his father's death, he shows an odd behavior. Clarissa begins to take care of Alex and takes interest in him again, but is only after the company Max left for his son. She tries to manipulate him and makes him believe that his father's girlfriend Fiona Beckmann is responsible for Max' death. Alex gets more and more paranoid and is convinced that Fiona, Susanne and Sophie Levinsky want to harm him. He takes Sophie hostage and the situation gets out of control. Only a doctor can convince Alex that he has serious issues, suffering from a persecution complex, and Alex gets committed to a mental hospital.

Walter Wittkamp

Josef Quadflieg (21 June 1995^[60])
Erich Krieg (27 July 2011 to 10 August 2011)

Walter Wittkamp is the abusive father of Tanja von Anstetten and her younger siblings Meike and Thomas. He's married to their mother Annegret. Walter first appears in June 1995, when he has to sell his stud farm to Christoph von Anstetten. Tanja is angry with her father that he doesn't see another way to hold on to their property and takes the promise of young Jan Brandner that she always can visit her horse at Castle Friedenau. This is the perfect invitation for Tanja into a world of wealth and power. Tanja burns all bridges with her hated family.

When Tanja's mother Annegret reappears in 2008, she tells her daughter that Walter died. Annegret wants to reconcile with Tanja, when a family secret comes out. Tanja spent years in psychiatric care, after she was hold responsible for Thomas' tragic death. Annegret admits that it was Walter who took the life of Thomas by pushing him down the stairs. Tanja makes it perfectly clear that her parents were never their for her and wants Annegret to leave. After one last attempt to reunite with Tanja, Annegret decides to commit suicide.

In 2011, Tanja is hunted by her father's ghost, after she gets locked in an ice cellar from Rebecca von Lahnstein. The hallucinations tell Tanja that she's worthless and will always be alone. Walter tells his daughter that she will have no other than him and that he will never leave her alone. Tanja is scared out of her mind and breaks down in tears when Sebastian finds her.^[61] After resting under Sebastian's watch, Tanja is all alone again when she wakes up and hunted by Walter once again. Tanja wants to make sure to get rid of her father and starts to mix up reality with her hallucinations. She buys a gun in order to murder Walter, but instead shoots Sebastian who in her mind she sees as Walter. Tanja is shocked about her doing and is glad when Sebastian wants to hear her story. Tanja tells Sebastian about the abuse, the death of Thomas and her two years in a psychiatric institution. In the end Sebastian promises her that she never has to fear anything ever again.^[62]

See also

• List of Verbotene Liebe characters

Notes

1. ^ First and last appearance of Andreas Jung as Ben
2. ^ First appearance of Christa Strobel as Mimi
3. ^ Last appearance of Christa Strobel as Mimi
4. ^ First appearance of Matthias Haase as Achim
5. ^ Last appearance of Matthias Haase as Achim
6. ^ [1] First appearance of Regina Nowack as Iris
7. ^ [2] Last appearance of Regina Nowack as Iris
8. ^ Last appearance of Steve Hudson as Philipp
9. ^ Guest appearance of Steve Hudson as Philipp
10. ^ First appearance of Nova Meierhenrich as Meike
11. ^ Last appearance of Nova Meierhenrich as Meike
12. ^ First appearance of Sotiria Loucopoulos as Nicole Büchner
13. ^ Last appearance of Sotiria Loucopoulos as Nicole Büchner
14. ^ [3] First appearance of Andrea Suwa as Jessica
15. ^ [4] Last appearance of Andrea Suwa as Jessica
16. ^ First appearance of Eva Luca Klemmt as Theresa
17. ^ First appearance of Stephan Käfer as Prince Philipp
18. ^ First appearance of Rainer Goernemann as Trutz zu Hohenfelden
19. ^ Trutz returns
20. ^ First appearance of Elke Bludau as Elke
21. ^ Last appearance of Elke Bludau as Elke
22. ^ Last appearance of Ingo Klünder as Peter Kaufmann
23. ^ First appearance of Monica Ivancan as Kitty
24. ^ Last appearance of Monica Ivancan as Kitty
25. ^ First appearance of Max Engelke as Robert
26. ^ Last appearance of Max Engelke as Robert
27. ^ First appearance of Claus Wilcke as Monseñor Mateo
28. ^ Introduction of Monseñor Mateo
29. ^ First appearance of Sam Eisenstein as David
30. ^ Last appearance of Sam Eisenstein as David
31. ^ First appearance of Romina Becks as Miriam
32. ^ First appearance of Sascha Zaglauer as Rajan
33. ^ Last appearance of Sascha Zaglauer as Rajan
34. ^ First appearance of Christoph Dostal as Lukas
35. ^ Last appearance of Christoph Dostal as Lukas
36. ^ [5] First appearance of Lin Lougear as Josefine
37. ^ [6] Last appearance of Lin Lougear as Josefine
38. ^ [7] First appearance of Susanne Seuffert as Henriette
39. ^ [8] Last appearance of Susanne Seuffert as Henriette
40. ^ [9] First appearance of Angelika Fornell as Henriette
41. ^ [10] Last appearance of Angelika Fornell as Henriette)
42. ^ [11] First appearance of Anouschka Renzi as Sonja von Steigenberg]
43. ^ [12] Last appearance of Anouschka Renzi as Sonja von Steigenberg in 2010
44. ^ [13] Anouschka Renzi returns as Sonja
45. ^ Sonja leaves after lying in the witness stand
46. ^ [14]
47. ^ First appearance of Jana Julie Kilka as Jessica
48. ^ First appearance of Claus Thull-Emden as Justus
49. ^ First appearance of Hubertus Regout as Eduard
50. ^ First appearance of Marc Philipp as Rafael Velasquez
51. ^ Recap 07-18-2011: Rafael and Olli meet
52. ^ [15] First appearance of Michael Tietz as Wilhelm
53. ^ [16] Last appearance of Michael Tietz as Wilhelm
54. ^ First appearance of Ricarda Bramley as Antonia
55. ^ Last appearance of Ricarda Bramley as Antonia
56. ^ First appearance of Frank Behnke as Alex
57. ^ Last appearance of Frank Behnke as Alex
58. ^ First appearance of Stefan Franz as Alex
59. ^ Last appearance of Stefan Franz as Alex
60. ^ Appearance of Josef Quadflieg as Walter Wittkamp
61. ^ Recap 07-28-2011
62. ^ Recap 08-02-2011