Jens Kramer
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Jens Kramer is a fictional character
on the German
soap opera
Verbotene Liebe
(Forbidden Love). The character was portrayed on recurring basis
from September 24, 2008 to March 3, 2009 by actor
Antonius Hermlin. The actor returned afterwards as a hallucination, before seen again in September 2010, when Jens is released from a psychiatric clinic, to the character's death in October 2010.
(then played by Joscha Kiefer
) and also knows his younger sister Rebecca
(Jasmin Lord) from their childhood. He works as a photographer, what is the reason that brought him to Düsseldorf
. Short after his arrival, Jens decides to stay and moves in with Gregor Mann
(Andreas Jancke). In the Internet, he meets Lydia Brandner
(Theresa Underberg
), without knowing that she is Sebastian's ex-girlfriend. As soon as that come to be known, Jens finds out that Sebastian cheated on Lydia with her own mother Katja
(Diana Frank). He ends his friendship with Sebastian and can't understand how somebody can do something like that, after he had his own story in his past, where his brother slept with his ex-girlfriend.
After he ended the friendship with Sebastian, he got closer with Lydia and already fall for the young woman. He finds out about the blog she is writing and tries to use it to get close to her - over the Internet and in person. Jens' plan works and Lydia begins to fall for him too. When they kiss, Lydia first thinks it's too soon, after she was hurt so badly by Sebastian. But eventually, Jens and she become a couple. Sebastian isn't happy about it, but he wants Lydia to find happiness again and tries to finally give up on her. Meanwhile, Jens sees Sebastian still as a threat and tells him several times to stay away from Lydia. His relationship with Lydia still in development, Jens tries to bring her to close her blog for good and no longer write about her feelings. Lydia finds that reasonable, because she has Jens now. But as soon as she decides to close the blog, she regrets her decision and wants to go on with it - to the displeasure of Jens. He feels threaten by the blog and doesn't want other people to know about Lydia's feeling. So, he begins to sabotage her blog, which goes so far, that he finds somebody that sues Lydia because of the name for the blog - which is already copyrighted.
But Lydia won't give up and wants to fight for her work and the people who read the blog. Shocked that it's Sebastian that wants to help Lydia with her legal problem, Jens sees only one chance to bind Lydia on their relationship. He proposes to her. But Lydia finally opens her eyes and sees that her relationship with Jens got to soon to fast and turns him down. When he presses too hard, Lydia decides to take a break and asks Jens to go. He keeps hoping for a reunion with her, but when he tries to take advantage of her after Lydia's mother died, she ends things with him completely. In that difficult time for Lydia, it is Sebastian who can give her the consolation she needs. Jens quickly gets jealous and sees a reunion coming for them as a couple. But there could be one thing that finally can break the special connection between them: The question if or if not Sebastian could be the father of Lydia's newborn sister Christina. Jens places a bug in the Brandner house and sends an anonymous message to Lydia. She guesses that Jens is behind it and wants to talk to him. But the situation gets out of control, when Lydia tells him again that it's over between them, he threatens to kill himself right in front of her. When Sebastian comes into the situation, when he takes Lydia hostage and threatens now her life. Sebastian appeals to Jens' love for Lydia and he does let her go. But with the next exhalation, Jens threatens them that he won't stop making their lives a living hell. Sebastian wants to go to the police, but Lydia doesn't want that and they also would have no proof. But soon Sebastian needs to realizes that Jens is capable of everything in his delusion. He tries to get him out of town by offering him a job as photographer in Namibia
. Jens refuses and tells Sebastian that he won't get rid of him. Sebastian appeals on their old friendship and wants Jens to see that he needs help. Jens goes completely crazy and knows Sebastian down. Jens is shocked of his own doing, when he thinks that he killed Sebastian.
He tries to get rid of his body, when he discovers that Sebastian is still alive. Jens decides to take him to an empty warehouse in an industrial area, where nobody would find him. Sebastian realizes that he is surrendered by Jens, who tries to make up his mind how to go from here. He soon needs to hear that Lydia is worried over Sebastian and asks questions where he might been. She even gets a bad feeling that something happened to him, when she gets a text message from Sebastian's mobile phone. The message says that he is in Munich
to speak with Jens' brother over the condition that Jens is in. Lydia is relieved for a few days. But when Sebastian doesn't shows up to an important meeting, she is questioning his whereabouts. Jens hears from the worry over the bug and pays a visit to Sebastian, who is in a really bad shape. With a knife he gets threaten by Jens to write a letter, which, after Jens' thinking, will stop the questions and the search for Sebastian. Lydia and the Lahnstein family find out eventually that Sebastian is kidnapped and he is rescued by Lydia, after she gets alarmed when Jens tries to get close to her again. Jens gets committed to a psychiatric hospital, where he tells Lydia that he will always be with her.
Sebastian has to suffer serious nightmares after his kidnapping, resulting dreaming and hallucinating about Jens. He tries to keep his condition a secret to Lydia, but she eventually gets behind what Sebastian still has to deal with and begs him to get professional help. After an argument Sebastian finally agrees and gets rid of Jens' daily present in his life.
Over a year goes by, Sebastian (now played by Sebastian Schlemmer) and Lydia got married, but aren't a happy couple anymore. Sebastian seems to live for his work and this results with Lydia starting an affair with Sebastian's cousin Ansgar von Lahnstein
(Wolfram Grandezka
). After Lydia has another encounter with Ansgar, she drives away and literally bumps into Jens. He finds out about her affair with Ansgar and in his twisted way, sees that as a chance to be together with her again, because for him it finally proves that Lydia's love for Sebastian isn't that strong. Jens threatens Lydia to tell Sebastian about the affair and even gives him photos that prove him right. But Sebastian trusts his wife and believes Jens manipulated them in order to destroy his marriage. Meanwhile, Ansgar knows about Lydia's fear of Jens and tries to scare him off. Anyway, Jens doesn't stop and discovers the secret place where Ansgar and Lydia meet. He overpowers Ansgar and captivates him before getting Lydia in his grip. Jens even tries to rape Lydia, before Ansgar can free himself and tries to protect Lydia. It comes to a fight between the men. As Jens seems to get stronger, Lydia pushes him away from Ansgar, which leads for Jens to break his neck on the door frame. He's immediately dead to the shock of Lydia, who has to overcome that she killed somebody. Ansgar realizes that Jens' death could expose their affair after all and wants to protect Lydia by taking the fault and covering the tracks of their affair. As Ansgar could be prosecuted for murder, Lydia comes clean and opens up about her affair to Ansgar and tells in front of the press, Sebastian and the Lahnstein family that she killed Jens.
Fictional character
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on the German
Germany
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soap opera
Soap opera
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Verbotene Liebe
Verbotene Liebe
Verbotene Liebe , often abbreviated to VL, is a Rose d'Or Award-winning German television soap opera. The show was created by Reg Watson and first broadcast on Das Erste on 2 January 1995...
(Forbidden Love). The character was portrayed on recurring basis
Recurring status
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from September 24, 2008 to March 3, 2009 by actor
Actor
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Antonius Hermlin. The actor returned afterwards as a hallucination, before seen again in September 2010, when Jens is released from a psychiatric clinic, to the character's death in October 2010.
Character's background
Jens is an old friend of Sebastian von LahnsteinSebastian von Lahnstein
Sebastian von Lahnstein is a fictional character from the German soap opera Verbotene Liebe . The character has been portrayed by actor Joscha Kiefer from November 26, 2007 to October 13, 2009...
(then played by Joscha Kiefer
Joscha Kiefer
Joscha Kiefer is a German actor and best known for his role as Sebastian von Lahnstein on the soap opera Verbotene Liebe ....
) and also knows his younger sister Rebecca
Rebecca von Lahnstein
Rebecca von Lahnstein is a fictional character on the German soap opera Verbotene Liebe . The character was portrayed by Jasmin Lord and debuted on June 17, 2008. In 2009, Lord earned the Miss Soap award as the most beautiful actress in a soap opera, followed by the German Soap Award as Sexiest...
(Jasmin Lord) from their childhood. He works as a photographer, what is the reason that brought him to Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...
. Short after his arrival, Jens decides to stay and moves in with Gregor Mann
Gregor Mann
Gregor von der Waldenau is a fictional character from the German soap opera Verbotene Liebe , portrayed by actor Andreas Jancke. He made his first appearance on screen on 16 February 2005 and left the show on 12 March 2010.-Background:Gregor's childhood was far from easy...
(Andreas Jancke). In the Internet, he meets Lydia Brandner
Lydia Brandner
Lydia Brandner is a fictional character from the German soap opera Verbotene Liebe . The role was originated by actress Theresa Underberg on January 16, 2008. Theresa announced on December 21, 2010 that she will leave the show in early 2011...
(Theresa Underberg
Theresa Underberg
Kira-Theresa Underberg is a German actress and radio play talker.Since 1994, she speaks for some popular radio plays. In 1999, she took over the voice of Anne in the German radio play version of Enid Blyton's The Famous Five . She continues her work on this series until today...
), without knowing that she is Sebastian's ex-girlfriend. As soon as that come to be known, Jens finds out that Sebastian cheated on Lydia with her own mother Katja
Katja Brandner
Katja Brandner is a fictional character on German daytime soap opera Verbotene Liebe . The character was portrayed by actress Diana Frank from January 15, 2008 to January 5, 2009.-Character's background:...
(Diana Frank). He ends his friendship with Sebastian and can't understand how somebody can do something like that, after he had his own story in his past, where his brother slept with his ex-girlfriend.
After he ended the friendship with Sebastian, he got closer with Lydia and already fall for the young woman. He finds out about the blog she is writing and tries to use it to get close to her - over the Internet and in person. Jens' plan works and Lydia begins to fall for him too. When they kiss, Lydia first thinks it's too soon, after she was hurt so badly by Sebastian. But eventually, Jens and she become a couple. Sebastian isn't happy about it, but he wants Lydia to find happiness again and tries to finally give up on her. Meanwhile, Jens sees Sebastian still as a threat and tells him several times to stay away from Lydia. His relationship with Lydia still in development, Jens tries to bring her to close her blog for good and no longer write about her feelings. Lydia finds that reasonable, because she has Jens now. But as soon as she decides to close the blog, she regrets her decision and wants to go on with it - to the displeasure of Jens. He feels threaten by the blog and doesn't want other people to know about Lydia's feeling. So, he begins to sabotage her blog, which goes so far, that he finds somebody that sues Lydia because of the name for the blog - which is already copyrighted.
But Lydia won't give up and wants to fight for her work and the people who read the blog. Shocked that it's Sebastian that wants to help Lydia with her legal problem, Jens sees only one chance to bind Lydia on their relationship. He proposes to her. But Lydia finally opens her eyes and sees that her relationship with Jens got to soon to fast and turns him down. When he presses too hard, Lydia decides to take a break and asks Jens to go. He keeps hoping for a reunion with her, but when he tries to take advantage of her after Lydia's mother died, she ends things with him completely. In that difficult time for Lydia, it is Sebastian who can give her the consolation she needs. Jens quickly gets jealous and sees a reunion coming for them as a couple. But there could be one thing that finally can break the special connection between them: The question if or if not Sebastian could be the father of Lydia's newborn sister Christina. Jens places a bug in the Brandner house and sends an anonymous message to Lydia. She guesses that Jens is behind it and wants to talk to him. But the situation gets out of control, when Lydia tells him again that it's over between them, he threatens to kill himself right in front of her. When Sebastian comes into the situation, when he takes Lydia hostage and threatens now her life. Sebastian appeals to Jens' love for Lydia and he does let her go. But with the next exhalation, Jens threatens them that he won't stop making their lives a living hell. Sebastian wants to go to the police, but Lydia doesn't want that and they also would have no proof. But soon Sebastian needs to realizes that Jens is capable of everything in his delusion. He tries to get him out of town by offering him a job as photographer in Namibia
Namibia
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...
. Jens refuses and tells Sebastian that he won't get rid of him. Sebastian appeals on their old friendship and wants Jens to see that he needs help. Jens goes completely crazy and knows Sebastian down. Jens is shocked of his own doing, when he thinks that he killed Sebastian.
He tries to get rid of his body, when he discovers that Sebastian is still alive. Jens decides to take him to an empty warehouse in an industrial area, where nobody would find him. Sebastian realizes that he is surrendered by Jens, who tries to make up his mind how to go from here. He soon needs to hear that Lydia is worried over Sebastian and asks questions where he might been. She even gets a bad feeling that something happened to him, when she gets a text message from Sebastian's mobile phone. The message says that he is in Munich
Munich
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to speak with Jens' brother over the condition that Jens is in. Lydia is relieved for a few days. But when Sebastian doesn't shows up to an important meeting, she is questioning his whereabouts. Jens hears from the worry over the bug and pays a visit to Sebastian, who is in a really bad shape. With a knife he gets threaten by Jens to write a letter, which, after Jens' thinking, will stop the questions and the search for Sebastian. Lydia and the Lahnstein family find out eventually that Sebastian is kidnapped and he is rescued by Lydia, after she gets alarmed when Jens tries to get close to her again. Jens gets committed to a psychiatric hospital, where he tells Lydia that he will always be with her.
Sebastian has to suffer serious nightmares after his kidnapping, resulting dreaming and hallucinating about Jens. He tries to keep his condition a secret to Lydia, but she eventually gets behind what Sebastian still has to deal with and begs him to get professional help. After an argument Sebastian finally agrees and gets rid of Jens' daily present in his life.
Over a year goes by, Sebastian (now played by Sebastian Schlemmer) and Lydia got married, but aren't a happy couple anymore. Sebastian seems to live for his work and this results with Lydia starting an affair with Sebastian's cousin Ansgar von Lahnstein
Ansgar von Lahnstein
Ansgar Eduard Johannes von Lahnstein is a fictional character of the German soap opera Verbotene Liebe , portrayed by actor Wolfram Grandezka. He debuted in the role on January, 22 2004....
(Wolfram Grandezka
Wolfram Grandezka
Wolfram Grandezka is a German actor.He landed the role of Roman Klingenberg in the Daytime soap opera Unter uns. He played the role from January 5, 1998 to April 26, 2000. Wolfram came to another soap, Verbotene Liebe, four years later...
). After Lydia has another encounter with Ansgar, she drives away and literally bumps into Jens. He finds out about her affair with Ansgar and in his twisted way, sees that as a chance to be together with her again, because for him it finally proves that Lydia's love for Sebastian isn't that strong. Jens threatens Lydia to tell Sebastian about the affair and even gives him photos that prove him right. But Sebastian trusts his wife and believes Jens manipulated them in order to destroy his marriage. Meanwhile, Ansgar knows about Lydia's fear of Jens and tries to scare him off. Anyway, Jens doesn't stop and discovers the secret place where Ansgar and Lydia meet. He overpowers Ansgar and captivates him before getting Lydia in his grip. Jens even tries to rape Lydia, before Ansgar can free himself and tries to protect Lydia. It comes to a fight between the men. As Jens seems to get stronger, Lydia pushes him away from Ansgar, which leads for Jens to break his neck on the door frame. He's immediately dead to the shock of Lydia, who has to overcome that she killed somebody. Ansgar realizes that Jens' death could expose their affair after all and wants to protect Lydia by taking the fault and covering the tracks of their affair. As Ansgar could be prosecuted for murder, Lydia comes clean and opens up about her affair to Ansgar and tells in front of the press, Sebastian and the Lahnstein family that she killed Jens.
Crimes committed
- Bugged the Brandner house to persecutes private conversations.
- Threatened to kill Lydia Brandner in front of Sebastian von Lahnstein.
- Physical injury to Sebastian von Lahnstein.
- Kidnapped Sebastian von Lahnstein.
- Blackmailed Lydia von Lahnstein with her affair.
- Took Ansgar and Lydia von Lahnstein hostage.