Julia von Anstetten
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Julia Mendes is a fictional character
from the German
soap opera
Verbotene Liebe
(Forbidden Love), played by Valerie Niehaus. She is introduced in the series' premiere on January 2, 1995. She departed from the series in July 1997, when Niehaus decided to pursue other roles. The role was surprisingly recast with well-known actress Nina Bott
in 2011; reinstating the Brandner family and the original story of the show. Bott appeared for the first time on-screen on June 23, 2011. She eventually finished shooting her story arc in October 2011 and is set to have her last appearance on January 18, 2012. The character is known as the first protagonist
of the show and her main story focuses around the incestuous
love to her twin-brother Jan Brandner
.
, she believes for the first twenty years of her life that Christoph von Anstetten is her father and his son Henning
her half-brother. After Julia returns from a trip in the abroad, the young countess returns home to celebrate her twentieth birthday with her family. On the airport, unknowingly to herself she meets her twin-brother Jan and starts to fall in love with him. Julia's mother Clarissa
finds out with whom her daughter got romantically involved with and tries to break Jan and Julia up without letting anyone know the real truth. Clarissa makes several attempts to reunite Julia with her former boyfriend Gero von Sterneck, who soon turns out to be gay
before he and Julia can get married. Jan belongs in Julia's heart and even though the two doesn't seem to make it because of their different lives, they always find their way back to each other. Clarissa then has no other choice to come clean to Jan after he learned the truth from Fiona Beckmann. Jan promises to end things with Julia but stays furious with Clarissa. Julia is heartbroken when Jan leaves her and she tries to take her own life by almost freezing to death in a cold winter night; mourning the lost of her great love.
Julia seems broken after she lost Jan and usually hasn't enough energy to get through the day. Christoph and Clarissa are worried about her, but don't know what to do. Christoph wants to try to get Jan back into Julia's life, but Clarissa sabotages the plan to protect her own lies. Julia then is diagnosed with leukemia
. When she needs a donor, Clarissa realizes that the truth might come out in order to save Julia's life. She tells Jan about Julia's condition, who wants to help his twin-sister in a heartbeat. The truth finally gets out and Julia is shocked by all the lies her mother told her for twenty years. Even though Julia wants to get to know Arno and her siblings, Florian
and Susanne, she wants to stay close to Christoph, who keeps being her dad. After Julia knows the truth and Jan seems back in her life, she has a hard time dealing with it. She always tries to be close to him, which ends - more than once - almost in a kiss between brother and sister.
. Jan follows her and they two have a wonderful time together. They enjoy the refund closeness between them and Julia realizes that she still loves Jan and always will. She decides to swimming, but never returns.
The rest is part of a big partly uncovered mystery. Jan tries to find Julia night and day and is sure that she has to be alive, while parts of her friends and family believe she committed suicide out of her forbidden love for Jan. As he thinks that Julia really could have died, he starts a new life with girlfriend Kerstin Richter. But then Jan gets a mysterious letter from Julia, telling him she's alive and well and that she wants him to follow to Spain
, where she is living now. Jan is happy that Julia is alive, but wants to spare his sister and himself with their forbidden feelings and decides to move to Paris
with Kerstin.
, she marries Dr. Ricardo Mendes and starts a new life with him on Mallorca
. Arno tries to reach out to his daughter in the following years, but as they always end up speaking about Jan, it hurts Julia so much that she banishes her father from her life. In 2011, Arno and Julia haven't spoken in four years, he remembers his children when an old portrait of the deceased Clarissa turns up. As Julia's birthday is coming up, Charlie can convince Arno to call his daughter. But as Julia reaches his message she deletes it immediately. Julia fears her past, not knowing that not only a very much alive Clarissa, who spent the last ten years in an South American prison, is on the way to see her and her brother Jan is taken a job as a priest on the Spanish island.
Fictional character
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from the German
Germany
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soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
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), played by Valerie Niehaus. She is introduced in the series' premiere on January 2, 1995. She departed from the series in July 1997, when Niehaus decided to pursue other roles. The role was surprisingly recast with well-known actress Nina Bott
Nina Bott
Nina Bott is a German actress.-Acting:Between August 1997 and September 2005 she played Cora Hinze Moreno on the popular German soap opera Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten. She then appeared in the period drama Unter den Linden - Das Haus Gravenhorst. Nina Bott then joined the soap opera Alles was...
in 2011; reinstating the Brandner family and the original story of the show. Bott appeared for the first time on-screen on June 23, 2011. She eventually finished shooting her story arc in October 2011 and is set to have her last appearance on January 18, 2012. The character is known as the first protagonist
Protagonist
A protagonist is the main character of a literary, theatrical, cinematic, or musical narrative, around whom the events of the narrative's plot revolve and with whom the audience is intended to most identify...
of the show and her main story focuses around the incestuous
Incest
Incest is sexual intercourse between close relatives that is usually illegal in the jurisdiction where it takes place and/or is conventionally considered a taboo. The term may apply to sexual activities between: individuals of close "blood relationship"; members of the same household; step...
love to her twin-brother Jan Brandner
Jan Brandner
Jan Brandner is a fictional character on German soap opera Verbotene Liebe . The character was played from the show's debut on January 2, 1995 to August 27, 1997 by actor Andreas Brucker. In March 2011, the role was surprisingly recast with actor Hubertus Grimm; reinstating the Brandner family and...
.
Forbidden love
Even though Julia is the daughter of Arno BrandnerArno Brandner
Arno Brandner is a fictional character on German soap opera Verbotene Liebe . The character is portrayed since the show's debut on January 2, 1995 by actor Konrad Krauss.-Background:...
, she believes for the first twenty years of her life that Christoph von Anstetten is her father and his son Henning
Henning von Anstetten
Henning Christoph August von Anstetten is a fictional character from German soap opera Verbotene Liebe . The character was first played by the late Markus Hoffmann from the series premiere on January 2, 1995 to February 1996. Two years later, actor Hendirk Martz took over the role and played...
her half-brother. After Julia returns from a trip in the abroad, the young countess returns home to celebrate her twentieth birthday with her family. On the airport, unknowingly to herself she meets her twin-brother Jan and starts to fall in love with him. Julia's mother Clarissa
Clarissa von Anstetten
Clarissa von Anstetten is a fictional character on German soap opera Verbotene Liebe . The character was played by actress Isa Jank from the show's debut on January 2, 1995 to September 5, 2001. Jank left the show after a disagreement with the producers...
finds out with whom her daughter got romantically involved with and tries to break Jan and Julia up without letting anyone know the real truth. Clarissa makes several attempts to reunite Julia with her former boyfriend Gero von Sterneck, who soon turns out to be gay
Gay
Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....
before he and Julia can get married. Jan belongs in Julia's heart and even though the two doesn't seem to make it because of their different lives, they always find their way back to each other. Clarissa then has no other choice to come clean to Jan after he learned the truth from Fiona Beckmann. Jan promises to end things with Julia but stays furious with Clarissa. Julia is heartbroken when Jan leaves her and she tries to take her own life by almost freezing to death in a cold winter night; mourning the lost of her great love.
Julia seems broken after she lost Jan and usually hasn't enough energy to get through the day. Christoph and Clarissa are worried about her, but don't know what to do. Christoph wants to try to get Jan back into Julia's life, but Clarissa sabotages the plan to protect her own lies. Julia then is diagnosed with leukemia
Leukemia
Leukemia or leukaemia is a type of cancer of the blood or bone marrow characterized by an abnormal increase of immature white blood cells called "blasts". Leukemia is a broad term covering a spectrum of diseases...
. When she needs a donor, Clarissa realizes that the truth might come out in order to save Julia's life. She tells Jan about Julia's condition, who wants to help his twin-sister in a heartbeat. The truth finally gets out and Julia is shocked by all the lies her mother told her for twenty years. Even though Julia wants to get to know Arno and her siblings, Florian
Florian Brandner
Florian Brandner is a fictional character on German soap opera Verbotene Liebe . The character was first played by Frédéric A. Komp from January 2, 1995 to the fall of 1996 and again in February 1997 and from June to October 1998. The character was recast with actor Alex Huber four years later, on...
and Susanne, she wants to stay close to Christoph, who keeps being her dad. After Julia knows the truth and Jan seems back in her life, she has a hard time dealing with it. She always tries to be close to him, which ends - more than once - almost in a kiss between brother and sister.
Fighting the love
With time Jan and Julia both try to move on with other people. Julia eventually meets Tim Sander and marries him sometime later. But because of the closeness that Jan and Julia still have and Tim's jealousy of that, the marriage is very soon a troubled one. When Julia gets pregnant, Clarissa sees her chance of ending the marriage between Tim and Julia and tells her son-in-law that Julia would be carrying Jan's child. Tim gets mad and Julia leaves town to get a clear head. She decides to fly to LanzaroteLanzarote
Lanzarote , a Spanish island, is the easternmost of the autonomous Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 125 km off the coast of Africa and 1,000 km from the Iberian Peninsula. Covering 845.9 km2, it stands as the fourth largest of the islands...
. Jan follows her and they two have a wonderful time together. They enjoy the refund closeness between them and Julia realizes that she still loves Jan and always will. She decides to swimming, but never returns.
The rest is part of a big partly uncovered mystery. Jan tries to find Julia night and day and is sure that she has to be alive, while parts of her friends and family believe she committed suicide out of her forbidden love for Jan. As he thinks that Julia really could have died, he starts a new life with girlfriend Kerstin Richter. But then Jan gets a mysterious letter from Julia, telling him she's alive and well and that she wants him to follow to Spain
Spain
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, where she is living now. Jan is happy that Julia is alive, but wants to spare his sister and himself with their forbidden feelings and decides to move to Paris
Paris
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with Kerstin.
Fearing the past
Julia respects Jan's decision and tries to move on as well. After she gives birth to her son TimoTimo Mendes
Timo Mendes is a fictional character from the German soap opera Verbotene Liebe . Remo Schulze debuted in the role on June 23, 2011. Timo is the son of Julia von Anstetten and her first husband Tim Sander.-Background:...
, she marries Dr. Ricardo Mendes and starts a new life with him on Mallorca
Mallorca
Majorca or Mallorca is an island located in the Mediterranean Sea, one of the Balearic Islands.The capital of the island, Palma, is also the capital of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. The Cabrera Archipelago is administratively grouped with Majorca...
. Arno tries to reach out to his daughter in the following years, but as they always end up speaking about Jan, it hurts Julia so much that she banishes her father from her life. In 2011, Arno and Julia haven't spoken in four years, he remembers his children when an old portrait of the deceased Clarissa turns up. As Julia's birthday is coming up, Charlie can convince Arno to call his daughter. But as Julia reaches his message she deletes it immediately. Julia fears her past, not knowing that not only a very much alive Clarissa, who spent the last ten years in an South American prison, is on the way to see her and her brother Jan is taken a job as a priest on the Spanish island.