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The following is a list of fictional characters from Dark, a German science fiction thriller web television series, co-created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese. The series stars a large ensemble cast lead by Louis Hofmann in the role of Jonas Kahnwald.

Overview

Character	Life stage	Actor	Season
			1	2	3
Jonas Kahnwald / The Stranger / Adam	Child	Jonas Gerzabek	Does not appear		Guest
	Teen	Louis Hofmann	Main
	Adult	Andreas Pietschmann	Main
	Elder	Dietrich Hollinderbäumer	Does not appear	Main
Mikkel Nielsen / Michael Kahnwald	Child	Daan Lennard Liebrenz (de)	Main		Recurring
	Adult	Sebastian Rudolph (de)	Recurring	Guest
Ulrich Nielsen	Teen	Ludger Bökelmann	Main	Does not appear	Guest
	Adult	Oliver Masucci	Main
	Elder	Winfried Glatzeder	Does not appear	Main	Recurring
Katharina Nielsen	Teen	Nele Trebs (de)	Main	Guest	Recurring
	Adult	Jördis Triebel	Main
Hannah Kahnwald	Teen	Ella Lee (de)	Main	Guest
	Adult	Maja Schöne	Main
Charlotte Doppler	Teen	Stephanie Amarell (de)	Recurring	Does not appear	Guest
	Adult	Karoline Eichhorn	Main
Regina Tiedemann	Teen	Lydia Makrides	Main	Recurring	Guest
	Adult	Deborah Kaufmann (de)	Main		Recurring
Martha Nielsen / Female Stranger / Eva	Child	Luna Arwen Krüger	Does not appear		Guest
	Teen	Lisa Vicari	Main
	Adult	Nina Kronjäger (de)	Does not appear		Main
	Elder	Barbara Nüsse (de)	Does not appear		Main
Magnus Nielsen	Teen	Moritz Jahn	Main
	Adult	Wolfram Koch (de)	Does not appear	Recurring
Bartosz Tiedemann	Teen	Paul Lux (de)	Main
	Adult	Roman Knižka (de)	Does not appear	Guest
Franziska Doppler	Teen	Gina Alice Stiebitz	Main
	Adult	Carina Wiese	Does not appear	Recurring
Peter Doppler	Teen	Pablo Striebeck	Does not appear		Guest
	Adult	Stephan Kampwirth	Main
Helge Doppler	Child	Tom Philipp	Recurring
	Adult	Peter Schneider	Main	Recurring	Guest
	Elder	Hermann Beyer (de)	Main	Does not appear	Recurring
Aleksander Tiedemann / Boris Niewald	Teen	Béla Gabor Lenz ()	Guest
	Adult	Peter Benedict	Main
Jana Nielsen	Teen	Rike Sindler	Recurring	Does not appear	Guest
	Adult	Anne Lebinsky	Recurring	Does not appear	Guest
	Elder	Tatja Seibt (de)	Main	Guest	Does not appear
Tronte Nielsen	Teen	Joshio Marlon	Recurring	Guest
	Adult	Felix Kramer (de)	Recurring	Does not appear	Guest
	Elder	Walter Kreye	Main	Guest	Recurring
Claudia Tiedemann	Child	Gwendolyn Gobel (de)	Recurring	Guest
	Adult	Julika Jenkins	Main
	Elder	Lisa Kreuzer	Recurring	Main	Recurring
Ines Kahnwald	Teen	Lena Urzendowsky (de)	Recurring	Does not appear	Guest
	Adult	Anne Ratte-Polle (de)	Main	Recurring	Guest
	Elder	Angela Winkler	Main	Does not appear
Elisabeth Doppler	Child	Carlotta von Falkenhayn (de)	Main
	Adult	Sandra Borgmann	Does not appear	Recurring
Egon Tiedemann	Adult	Sebastian Hülk (de)	Recurring		Guest
	Elder	Christian Pätzold (de)	Main		Recurring
H.G. Tannhaus	Adult	Arnd Klawitter	Recurring	Guest	Recurring
	Elder	Christian Steyer (de)	Main	Guest	Recurring
Hanno Tauber / Noah	Teen	Max Schimmelpfennig (de)	Does not appear	Recurring
	Adult	Mark Waschke	Main
The Unknown / The Origin	Child	Claude Heinrich	Does not appear		Main
	Adult	Jakob Diehl	Does not appear		Main
	Elder	Hans Diehl	Does not appear		Main

Family tree

Families from Jonas' world (as of season 3). Younger generations are shown toward the left.

The Kahnwald family

Jonas Kahnwald / Adam

Main article: Jonas Kahnwald

Louis Hofmann, Andreas Pietschmann and Dietrich Hollinderbäumer, who play Jonas's teenage, adult, and elder selves.

Jonas Kahnwald is the son of Hannah and Michael Kahnwald and the protagonist of the series.

• As a teenager Jonas is portrayed by Louis Hofmann. Jonas discovers time travel in the caves through maps his father left behind. Jonas also learns his father Michael is his love interest Martha’s brother Mikkel, who travelled from 2019 to 1986. Jonas is mentored by an elder Claudia Tiedemann in the ways of time travel.
• As an adult, Jonas is portrayed by Andreas Pietschmann and is credited as The Stranger. As an adult, Jonas guides his younger self and acts on Claudia’s commands. While trying to prevent Martha’s death in 2020, Jonas travels, alongside his childhood friends, to 1888 where he begins constructing a time travel machine known as the “God Particle.”^{[ep 18][ep 20]}
• As an elder, Jonas, under the name Adam, is portrayed by Dietrich Hollinderbäumer and serves as the leader of the secret society Sic Mundus.^{[ep 14]} He has received many scars from his work on creating the God Particle and manipulates individuals such as Noah and his younger self so that he can destroy the origin and end the existence of the two worlds.^{[ep 25]}

Additionally, Hofmann portrays two versions of Jonas that split from the main timeline through the usage of quantum entanglement.

• One of these versions is saved by an alternate Martha on the day of the apocalypse and taken to Eva’s world where he meets an elderly Martha and learns that he doesn’t exist due to Mikkel not travelling back in time in this world.^{[ep 19]} This version of Jonas eventually impregnates the alternate Martha, who will later give birth to The Unknown, the person considered the origin of the two worlds. Jonas is later killed by a slightly older version of the alternate Martha under Eva’s orders.^{[ep 23]}
• The other version is saved by Adam, who has been told by Claudia about the existence of the origin world where time travel was created. Jonas and the alternate Martha travel to the origin world and prevent H. G. Tannhaus’ family from dying in a car accident, preventing him from looking for a way to time travel and save them. Through their actions, Jonas and the alternate Martha, as well as their two worlds, are erased from existence.^{[ep 26]}

On the character, Hofmann stated Jonas is a “very reserved and a very broken character, but then he strives so much for the truth and has so much drive and will and strength.” Pietschmann stated that the three actors never talked to each other about the role and that “[it] wouldn’t be helpful to try to imitate each other: how do you lift that cup? How do you say this word? The richness of the character comes from it being played by three actors.”

Jonas Gerzabek portrays a child Jonas in the series finale.

Hannah Kahnwald

Hannah Kahnwald is a clever woman who is driven by pain and vengeance. She doesn’t shy away from scheming if it gets her what she wants. She is the wife of Michael Kahnwald and the mother of Jonas and Silja, and from a young age she is shown to have an obsession with Ulrich Nielsen.

• In 1986, a teenage Hannah (portrayed by Ella Lee) lies to Egon Tiedemann and claims Ulrich raped his current girlfriend Katharina Nielsen. However, he is eventually released and Hannah manages to shift the blame to Regina Tiedemann.
• In 2019, Hannah (portrayed by Maja Schöne) is now married to Michael and has given birth to Jonas. The day before Michael’s suicide, Hannah begins an affair with Ulrich and it continues for another four months until Ulrich breaks it off when his son Mikkel disappears. Jonas later disappears but returns seven months later as an adult. Jonas tells Hannah that Mikkel is actually Michael, and she later uses his time machine to travel to 1954 where she humiliates an imprisoned Ulrich. She later begins an affair with a younger Egon and gives birth to his child Silja before Jonas murders her in 1911.
  • Schöne also plays the Eva’s world of Hannah who is married to Ulrich and is pregnant with his child. She begins to discover Ulrich is cheating on her with Charlotte Doppler. On the day of the apocalypse, Hannah suffers a miscarriage and is saved by an elder Egon Tiedemann who takes her to 1953 so she can give birth to Silja.
  • Schöne also plays Hannah from the origin world who is married to Torben Woller and is pregnant with his child. When asked about the child’s name, she claims she thinks “Jonas” is a lovely name.

Ines Kahnwald

Ines Kahnwald is the adoptive mother of Micheal Kahnwald. She has a strained relationship with her daughter-in-law Hannah.

• In 1953, a child Ines (portrayed by Lena Urzendowsky (de)) is friends with Jana Nielsen and Claudia Tiedemann. She is the daughter of police chief Daniel Kahnwald.
• In 1986, an adult Ines (portrayed by Anne Ratte-Polle (de)) works at a nurse and takes care of Mikkel Nielsen after he travels from 2019. She later adopts him and changes his name to Michael Kahnwald.
• In 2019, an elder Ines (portrayed by Angela Winkler) mourns the death of Michael. She steals Michael’s goodbye letter before Jonas can see it, which confirms Michael is Mikkel. She later reveals to Jonas that she always had a feeling Michael was from the future.

Daniel Kahnwald

Daniel Kahnwald (portrayed by Florian Panzner) is Winden’s chief of police in the 1950s. He has a commanding presence and is father to Ines.

In November 1953, Daniel and Egon Tiedemann investigate two dead bodies who mysteriously show up at the nuclear power plant construction site. The next day, Helge Doppler disappears and the next year Agnes Nielsen and Hanno Tauber disappear as well. He later dies in 1964.^{[ep 19]}

The Nielsen family

Magnus Nielsen

Magnus Nielsen is a stoner in skater clothes, and often acts “too cool” but has a softer side. Magnus is the son of Ulrich and Katharina Nielsen and older brother to Martha and Mikkel.

• In 2019, a teenage Magnus (portrayed by Moritz Jahn) lives with his family. After Mikkel disappears, Magnus begins dating Franziska Doppler and joins Martha in the search for Mikkel and Ulrich. In June 2020, Magnus steals a time machine from Bartosz Tiedemann and he travels to 1987, learning about time travel. On the day of the apocalypse, he is saved by an adult Jonas Kahnwald and taken to 1888 along with Bartosz and Franziska.
  • Jahn also plays Magnus from Eva’s world who is covered in tattoos and believes school is anything but important. Alongside Martha, Franziska, Bartosz and Killian Obendorf, he finds Mads’s Nielsen’s dead body in November 2019. On the day of the apocalypse, Magnus and Franziska are killed by the effect of the yellow barrels.
• In 1921, an adult Magnus (portrayed by Wolfram Koch) remains a close confident of Jonas, even after he starts calling himself Adam. Magnus is present when Noah is shot in the Sic Mundus headquarters. With the help of Franziska, Magnus sends Adam to the future where he will kill Martha. He is last seen when he and Franziska travel to Eva’s world from 2053 to recruit the alternate Martha to Adam’s cause.

On playing Magnus, Jahn stated that "He’s very protective of the people he loves and he’s very passionate, I like the way that he’s a leader and tries to be a caring one too."

Martha Nielsen

Martha Nielsen is Jonas’s love interest and sister to Magnus and Mikkel Nielsen. She is the only daughter of Ulrich and Katharina Nielsen. In Adam’s world, she is a sensitive girl who loves acting and is dating Bartosz Tiedemann. In Eva’s world, she is casted as the lead role in her school’s production of Ariadne alongside Killian Obendorf, who is her boyfriend off-stage.

Adam’s world

In 2019, a teenage Martha (portrayed by Lisa Vicari) gets together with Jonas during the summer but begins dating Bartosz after Jonas leaves Winden to cope with his father’s suicide. In November, Mikkel goes missing and Martha cheats on Bartosz with Jonas. Eventually, her father Ulrich disappears and Martha becomes determined to find him. She looks through his old notes and travels to the caves with Magnus, Franziska and Elisabeth Doppler. There they find Bartosz who takes them to 1987 and introduces them to time travel. On the day of the apocalypse, Martha is held at gunpoint by an adult Jonas who locks her in the bunker as he tries to prevent her death. She ends up escaping and is killed by Adam, dying in Jonas’s arms.

Eva’s world

• In 2019, a teenage Martha Nielsen from Eva’s world (portrayed by Vicari) meets Jonas for the first time at school, but she doesn’t recognize him due to him not existing in this world. In November, Martha, along with Magnus, Franziska, Bartosz and Killian, find the dead body of Mads Nielsen after it falls out of a wormhole. Jonas later shows the secret of time travel, taking her to 2052. She falls in love with Jonas and grows pregnant with his child, The Unknown, who is set to be the origin of their two worlds.
• In 2052, an adult Martha (portrayed by Nina Kronjager), credited as The Female Stranger, greets her younger self and Jonas in the bunker. She describes the impending apocalypse and claims her younger self has the power to change it. It is later revealed she was manipulating her younger self on Eva’s orders and is a loyal follower of Erit Lux.
• An elderly Martha, who now goes by the name Eva (portrayed by Barabara Nusse), is the leader of the secret society Erit Lux. Like the secret society on Adam’s world Sic Mundus, Eva is striving to control time travel. Unlike Adam, however, Eva does not want to destroy the Knot but rather maintain it.

Additionally, Vicari portrays two versions of Martha that split from the timeline through the usage of quantum entanglement.

• One of these versions is never bought to Eva by Bartosz and instead succeeds in saving Jonas from the apocalypse. She brings him to her world before going back to Adam’s world in September 1888. There she provides the adult Jonas with fuel for the God Particle he is creating before travelling to 2053 where it is revealed she made a deal with Adam to help manipulate his younger self, and in return he would tell her what the origin is. Adam reveals Martha is pregnant with the origin and locks her up before using the power of the two apocalypses to kill her.
• The other version is taken by Jonas just before she joins Sic Mundus, and he explains to her the origin lies outside the two worlds and that the two worlds were born when H. G. Tannhaus created time travel after the death of his family. Jonas and Martha travel to the origin world and prevent Tannhaus’s family from getting into a car accident. Through their actions, Martha and Jonas, as well as their two worlds, are erased from existence.^{[ep 26]}

Luna Arwen Kruger plays a child version of the character in the series finale.

Mikkel Nielsen / Michael Kahnwald

Mikkel Nielsen is the younger brother of Magnus and Martha Nielsen. He lives a normal live in 2019, but then he disappears and reappears in the year 1986. He adopts a new identity: Michael Kahnwald and becomes the father of Jonas. The first episode of the show shows his suicide, something that affects Jonas for the reminder of the show.

• A child Mikkel (portrayed by Daan Lennard Liebrenz) is the youngest son of Ulrich and Katharina Nielsen and lives peacefully in 2019. He travels with his siblings, Bartosz and Jonas to the caves to retrieve Erik Obendorf’s drug stash. When the caves make noises, the group runs away and Mikkel is isolated. He is taken by a future version of Jonas into the caves where he travels to 1986. There he is adopted by Ines Kahnwald who changes his name to Michael. In 1987, Mikkel reunites with his father Ulrich, who is now an elderly man, and the two try to return to 2019. However, Ulrich is captured before they can do so.
  • Liebrenz also plays an alternate version of Mikkel from Eva’s world. In this world, Magnus never brings Mikkel to the caves in 2019 so he never travels back in time and Jonas is never born. Mikkel is killed by the apocalypse on 8 November 2019.
• An adult Mikkel, now going by the name Michael Kahnwald (portrayed by Sebastian Rudolph), is the husband of Hannah and the father of Jonas. Due to various pills Ines gave him in his childhood, he doesn’t remember his previous life until 2019 when he sees his younger self. On 20 June 2019, he is visited by a future version of Jonas who begs him not to commit suicide. However, the interaction only reveals that if Michael doesn’t kill himself Jonas would not be born. The next day, Michael sacrifices himself and continues the cycle so Jonas will live.^{[ep 16]}

Ulrich Nielsen

Ulrich Nielsen is an impulsive man who follows his gut instincts, both professionally and privately. He is married to Katharina. He loves his children Magnus, Martha and Mikkel more than anything.

• In 1986, a teenage Ulrich (portrayed by Ludger Bokelmann) is reeling from the disappearance of his younger brother Mads. He is dating Katharina Albers and is briefly falsely arrested on rape charges. He believes Regina Tiedemann, someone Katharina and him have been bulling for the past year, made up these charges.
• In 2019, an adult Ulrich (portrayed by Oliver Masucci) is a police detective and is set on solving the disappearance of Erik Odendorf and his own son Mikkel. He is cheating on Katharina with Hannah Kahnwald. Using Egon Tiedemann’s notes from 1986, he lists Helge Doppler as his prime suspect. One night he follows Helge into the caves and ends up in 1953, where he finds and beats a child Helge to near death. Ulrich is later arrested by a younger Egon and locked up, with no way back to the present.
  • Masucci also plays an alternate version of Ulrich from Eva’s world who is the head of the police department and is cheating on his second wife, Hannah Nielsen, with Charlotte Doppler. When an elderly Helge confesses to killing Mads Nielsen, Ulrich follows him into the caves and ends up in 1986. There, he beats adult Helge Doppler to near death before he is killed by the elderly Helge.
• In 1987, an elder Ulrich (portrayed by Winfried Glatzeder), who has been locked away for 34 years, is visited by a retired Egon who questions him on Helge’s disappearance in 1953-54. Ulrich reveals his identity to Egon who later reveals Mikkel is in the 1980s. Ulrich breaks out hoping to rescue Mikkel and take him back to 2019 but is captured before he can do so. Three months later, he is visited by Katharina who promises to rescue him. However, she is killed before she can, leaving Ulrich alone.

Katharina Nielsen

Katharina Nielsen is Ulrich's wife and the principal of the Winden school.

• In 1986, a teenage Katharina (portrayed by Nele Trebs) falls in love with Ulrich and has a bad relationship with her abusive alcoholic mother. A false rape claim is made against Ulrich for which Katharina blames Regina Tiedemann.
• In 2019, an adult Katharina (portrayed by Jördis Triebel) is the principal of the Winden school. After her son Mikkel goes missing, she grows distant from her husband Ulrich especially after it is revealed he was having an affair with Hannah Kahnwald. Katharina later partners with Hannah, Peter and Charlotte Doppler, and an adult version of Jonas Kahnwald. Learning that Mikkel is in 1986, she travels there and tries to rescue an elderly Ulrich. While trying to ambush her mother to steal a key card, she is killed with her body dumped in the river.
  • Triebel also plays an alternate version of Katharina from Eva's world who is a single mother to three children after her divorce with Ulrich.
  • Triebel also portrays Katharina Albers in the original world where Ulrich does not exist. Here, Katharina remains single and supports her best friend Hannah during her pregnancy.

Tronte Nielsen

Tronte Nielsen is Ulrich Nielsen's father and Mikkel's grandfather.

• In 1953, a child Tronte (portrayed by Joshio Marlon) arrives in Winden with his mother Agnes in 1953. They stay with the Tiedemann family, leading to Tronte and Claudia Tiedemann beginning a romantic relationship. After Agnes disappears to join the secret society Sic Mundus, Tronte begins a relationship with Jana after he confides to her that he used to live in a children's home and that his mother was barely in his life. It is later revealed that Tronte is actually the son of The Unknown, who is the origin between the two worlds and Jonas and Martha's son.
• In 1986, an adult Tronte (portrayed by Felix Kramer) is working as a journalist and married to Jana. Together they have two sons: Ulrich and Mads. In November, Mads goes missing as Jana finds out about an affair he has been having with Claudia. Tronte believes he is the father of Claudia's daughter Regina, but decides to not find out the truth and instead focus on Jana and Ulrich.
• In 2019, an elder Tronte (portrayed by Walter Kreye) lives with his wife. On 4 November 2019, he is called by Peter Doppler who find the dead body of Mads in the Doppler bunker. An elder Claudia arrives and instructs them to bury the body in the forest. In 2020, a slightly younger Claudia saves Tronte from the apocalypse and reveals to him he is not Regina's father. Tronte then returns to 2020 and smothers a dying Regina with a pillow telling her it is the only way to save her.

Jana Nielsen

Jana Nielsen is an elegant, reserved woman whose life is largely shaped by a series of unfortunate events.

• In 1954, a child Jana (portrayed by Rike Sindler) spends much of her time with her friends Ines and Claudia. She's interested in Tronte, even though he seems close to Claudia. He returns her affection by gifting her the ouroboros bracelet that belonged to his mother Agnes.
• In 1986, an adult Jana (portrayed by Anne Lebinsky) loses her will to life after her youngest son Mads disappears. She also learns about Tronte's affair with Claudia Tiedemann and outs him at Mads's funeral.
• In 2019, an elder Jana (portrayed by Tatja Seibt) feels as though history is repeating herself when her grandson Mikkel goes missing. She helps her son Ulrich with the investigation by telling him she saw a man in 1986 and the same man unaged in 2019: Helge Doppler.

Agnes Nielsen

Agnes Nielsen is Tronte's mother. She has an elegant style that is uncommon in Winden. It is revealed in the show's penultimate episode that she is the daughter of Silja and Bartosz Tiedemann, and her birth cost Silja her life.

• In 1921, a child Agnes (portrayed by Helena Pieske) helps out in the Winden tavern. When an injured Jonas travels from 2053 to 1921, she prepares a room unaware he is her great-great-grandson.^{[ep 14]}
• In 1953, an adult Agnes (portrayed by Antje Traue) returns to Winden after many years away with her son Tronte. She rents out a room in the Tiedemann household and begins a friendship with Doris Tiedemann which leads to a secret affair. She maintains contact with an elder Claudia Tiedemann but betrays her when she tells Noah, her brother, where she keeps the missing pages. This leads to Claudia's death and Adam allowing Agnes to rejoin Sic Mundus. On Adam's orders, she kills Noah and travels to 2053 with him where she meets her mother as a teenager.

The Unknown

The son of Jonas (from Adam's world) and Martha (from Eva's world). Due to him giving birth to Tronte in both worlds and the fact that he is the son of two individuals from different worlds, he is believed to be the origin point of the time loop by both Adam and Eva. The character is nameless throughout the show, occasionally being referred to as The Origin and being credited as The Unknown.

Throughout the third season, The Unknown performs many tasks for Eva across both worlds such as stealing the nuclear power plant's master key, murdering Gustav Tannhaus to prevent the news of time travelers existing being revealed to the world, and creating the notebook that Claudia Tiedemann and Noah will later use. It is revealed he is the cause of the nuclear power plant accident that created the time rift in the caves of both worlds, and leads to the nuclear waste which causes the apocalypses. The origin being Martha's son is her motivation to preserve the time loop, leading to her actions as Eva.

The character always appears alongside his older and younger self, all of whom are easily distinguished by their cleft lip. He is portrayed by Claude Heinrich as a child, Jakob Diehl as an adult, and Hans Diehl (Jacob's father) as an elderly man.

The Tiedemann family

Bartosz Tiedemann

Bartosz Tiedemann is Jonas's best friend who comes across as arrogant, but he's actually quite insecure. He is the only child of wealthy parents. His father Aleksander runs the nuclear power plant and his mother Regina manages a hotel.

• In 2019, a teenage Bartosz (portrayed by Paul Lux) encourages his girlfriend Martha, Jonas and Magnus to help him find Erik Obendorf's drag stash near the caves. When they bring Martha's younger brother Mikkel with them, he ends up going missing near the caves. Bartosz tries meeting with Erik's drug supplier, but instead meets Noah who tells him about time travel and gives him a time machine. In 2020, he runs into Magnus and Martha as well as Franziska and Elisabeth Doppler and reveals the secret of time travel, demonstrating how the machine works by taking them to 1987 and back. On the day of the apocalypse, he, alongside Magnus and Franziska, are saved by an adult Jonas who gets them trapped in 1888. Bartosz begins to resent Jonas. Bartosz eventually meets Silja and falls in love, giving birth to two children: Hanno and Agnes. Upon realizing Hanno will grow up to become Noah, Bartosz neglects him.
• In 1921, an adult Bartosz (portrayed by Roman Knižka) works with Hanno to create a tunnel in the Winden caves that will later be used for time travel. He doubts Jonas's plans for salvation. Hanno, who has grown to resent his father, kills him on Adam's orders as Adam believes Bartosz has betrayed him.^{[ep 11]}

Lux and Knižka also portray Bartosz from Eva's World. In this world, Bartosz has a more quiet nature due to him grieving his mother who passed away from cancer. He is recruited by Martha to stop his father from opening the barrels of nuclear waste and beginning the apocalypse. After Martha is taken by Magnus and Franziska of Adam's world to join Sic Mundus, Bartosz is saved from the apocalypse by his adult self. From there, he becomes a loyal follower of Eva and joins Erit Lux. He stops Martha from saving Jonas from the apocalypse on Eva's orders, allowing for the origin between the two worlds to continue existing.

Boris Niewald / Aleksander Tiedemann

Aleksander Tiedemann is the director of the nuclear power plant, making him one of the most powerful men in Winden. It is later revealed that Aleksander's real name is Boris Niewald and that he left the city of Marbug and came to Winden following a murder. He adopts the identity of the man he killed: Aleksander Kohler.

• In 1986, a teenage Aleksander (portrayed by Béla Gabor Lenz) arrives in Winden and pulls a gun on Ulrich Nielsen and Katharina Albers after they threaten Regina Tiedemann. He then hides the gun and his old passport in a bag in the woods, one which Hannah Kruger finds. He then applies for a job at the nuclear power plant, where Claudia Tiedemann, Regina's mother, gives him a secret task to wield a door in the caves under the power plant, concealing yellow barrels filled with nuclear waste from an accident coverup. He begins dating Regina in 1987.
• In 2019, an adult Aleksander (portrayed by Peter Benedict) has married Regina and taken his wife's last name. After Mikkel goes missing and Ulrich starts investigating the nuclear power plant, Aleksander has the yellow barrels moved. In 2020, he buries them under concrete hoping to keep them hidden until the plant closes down. A special investigator who joins the task force, Clausen, figures out Aleksander is hiding his identity. Clausen reveals himself as the brother of the late Aleksander Kohler, and arrests Aleksander for the murder of his brother. Aleksander later dies in prison as the apocalypse occurs.
  • Benedict also plays another version of Aleksander from Eva's world. In this world, Aleksander is guilt-ridden from the secrets he's kept in his life, especially after Regina dies of cancer. He confesses his involvement in the Marbug murder to Bartosz. He also confesses he has been hiding the yellow barrels to Charlotte Doppler, which inadvertently leads to the apocalypse.

Regina Tiedemann

Regina Tiedemann is the wife of Aleksander and mother of Bartosz. She comes off as a stern, wounded woman, which isn't surprising considering some of the cards she's been dealt.

• In 1986, a teenage Regina (portrayed by Lydia Makrides) experiences constant pressure from her mother and extreme bullying from Ulrich Nielsen and Katharina Albers. This has led her to begin self-harming. She begins dating Aleksander. When her mother Claudia goes missing, she hides her suppressed feelings about her and begins moving in with Aleksander.
• In 2019, an adult Regina (portrayed by Deborah Kaufmann) is diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. It progresses to a point where in June 2020, she becomes extremely bedridden. She is saved by the apocalypse when her adult mother (who has travelled from 1987) rescues her and takes into the bunker. However, three months later she is suffocated by Tronte Nielsen who was given instructions by an elder Claudia.
  • Kaufmann also portrays a version of Regina from the origin world. Here Regina lives happily cancer-free but never meets Aleksander or gives birth to Bartosz. It is revealed Regina lives in the origin world due to the nuclear power plant not being created which leads to Regina's cancer. Claudia also reveals that Regina's father is not Tronte Nielsen as many previously thought, but rather Bernd Doppler meaning Regina is not a part of the time loop that only exists in Adam's and Eva's worlds.

Claudia Tiedemann

Claudia Tiedemann is Regina's mother and the head of the nuclear power plant in 1986. She is one of the three perpetuators of the time loop along with Adam and Eva and the main opposition to Adam and Sic Mundus in Adam's world, earning her the nickname "The White Devil." She has heterochromia with one brown eye and the other blue.

• In 1953, a child Claudia (portrayed by Gwendolyn Göbel) is a high achiever at school and her parents Egon and Doris hope she'll study at university one day. She becomes romantically involved with Tronte Nielsen after he and his mother move into their house, and quickly figures out her mother is having an affair with Tronte's mother Agnes. This makes her closer to her father. While Claudia, Tronte, and Helge Doppler are on a walk through the woods one day, Claudia's pet poodle Gretchen runs into the Winden caves and never returns. In 1954, Egon and Doris divorce and Claudia goes to live with her father.
• In 1986, an adult Claudia (portrayed by Julika Jenkins) is made the director of the nuclear power plant, taking over from Helge's father Bernd Doppler. She is doubted by many due to her being a female. However, Helge believes in her and gifts her a book "A Journey Through Time" by H.G. Tannhaus. Bernd reveals to Claudia that there was a incident at the power plant that had been covered up due to fears created due to the Chernobyl disaster. Eventually, Claudia is visited by her elder self who reveals to her about time travel and gives her a time machine. Claudia uses the time machine to travel to 2020 where she learns of her father's death, something she inadvertently causes. Claudia gets stranded in 2020 after the apocalypse where she protects her daughter Regina. After Regina's death, she is visited by an alternate version of herself from Eva's World who gives her a journal and tells her to help Jonas and Noah on their journey. For the next 20 years, Claudia purposely sabotages Jonas's and Noah's efforts to fix the God Particle and prevent the apocalypse on her alternate self's orders. She eventually kills her alternate self, stealing her time machine to explore both worlds in an effort to find a way Regina can live.
  • Jenkins also portrays Claudia from Eva's World. Here, Claudia is a loyal follower of Eva and the secret society Erit Lux. On 8 November 2052, Eva sends Claudia to Adam's World to recruit her alternate self. She gives her the journal and tells her to help Jonas and Noah on their journey. Claudia remains in contact with her alternate self up until 2040 where she is killed.
• An elder Claudia (portrayed by Lisa Kreuzer) appears in multiple time periods. She is Jonas Kahnwald's mentor, secretly manipulating him so that he can become Adam and perpetuate the time loop. She eventually discovers that the origin of both Adam and Eva's worlds lies outside the two worlds and that the two worlds were created through Tannhaus's efforts to bring back his family after they died in a car accident. After she tells Adam the truth, she travels back in time to inform her younger self about time travel before dying at the hands of Noah in 1954.

Egon Tiedemann

Egon Tiedemann believes in the power of good, both personally and in his work as a policeman. Claudia is his daughter, making Regina Tiedemann his granddaughter.

• In 1953, an adult Egon (portrayed by Sebastian Hülk) is a police officer working with Daniel Kahnwald. He is called to investigate two dead bodies that are found on the construction site of the nuclear power plant. Egon later determines a mysterious man - Ulrich Nielsen from 2019 - as the suspect after he confesses to killing Helge Doppler. Egon arrests the man but is surprised to find Helge is alive. In 1954, a woman claiming her name is "Katharina Nielsen" - actually Hannah Kahnwald from 2020 - arrives to meet with the man. Egon and Hannah begin a relationship that leads to Hannah getting pregnant. Egon's wife Doris finds out and divorces him, while Hannah keeps the child and travels to 1987 to give birth to Egon's second daughter Silja.
• In 1986, an elder Egon (portrayed by Christian Pätzold) is nearing retirement. She has become sworn enemies with teenage Ulrich who he believes is a satanist and reminds him of the man he arrested in 1953, while Ulrich doesn't like Egon as he can't find Ulrich's missing brother Mads. While investigating Mads's disappearance, he suspects Helge is behind it. However, Helge blames it on the man from 1953 who reveals himself to Egon as Ulrich Nielsen from the future. Egon slowly determines time travel is real and shares his thoughts with Claudia. However Claudia, who is trying to cover up the accident at the nuclear power plant, gets into a fight with Egon which leads to him hitting his head and bleeding out in his apartment.
  • Pätzold also portrays Egon from Eva's World. Here, Egon is a loyal follower of Eva and the secret society Erit Lux. On 8 November 2052, Eva sends Egon to save Hannah from the apocalypse and take her to the 1950s so that Silja can be born.

Doris Tiedemann

Doris Tiedemann (portrayed by Luise Heyer) is Egon's wife and Claudia's mother. In 1953, she allows Agnes and Tronte Nielsen to stay at their house. She eventually begins an affair with Agnes and falls in love. After Agnes's disappearance in 1954, Doris visits the church where The Unknown informs her that Egon is having an affair. Doris divorces him, partly over the fact that she has fallen in love with someone else.

Silja

Silja (portrayed by Lea van Acken) was conceived during a brief affair between Egon and time-travelling Hannah Kahnwald in 1954. Hannah decided to keep the pregnancy at the last minute and give birth to Silja in 1988. Egon never learns of his daughter's existence.

In 1993, a five year Silja and her mother are visited by Eva and sent to talk to Jonas in 1911. Here, Jonas, now going under Adam, kills Hannah and kidnaps Silja to take her to 2041. Silja remains in the post-apocalyptic future, becoming Elisabeth's interpreter and a loyal follower of Sic Mundus. She helps a teenage Jonas travel through the God Particle when he arrives in 2053. When Adam arrives, she is one of his followers that he sends through time to preserve the time loop. Silja is sent to 1890 where she meets Bartosz. The two fall in love and have two children: Hanno (named after Hannah) and Agnes. Silja dies while giving birth to Agnes.

Silja is also portrayed by Aurora Dervisi as a child in 1911 and by Lissy Pernthaler as an adult in 1910.

Hanno Tauber / Noah

Hanno Tauber is the son of Silja and Bartosz Tiedemann. He is an acolyte of Sic Mundus who, as an adult, follows Adam's orders in the hopes of finding his missing daughter under the name Noah.

• As a child, Hanno is played by Till Patz. He is born in 1904 and has a younger sister Agnes. His mother died in childbirth, leaving Hanno to live with his father who resents him due to his future self's actions.
• As a teenager, Noah is played by Max Schimmelpfennig. He has been a loyal follower of Adam from a young age even going as far as killing his father Bartosz on Adam's orders when he is 17. Now under the name "Noah", he often remains in contact with the older version of himself, who tells him that him and Jonas will become friends but eventually Jonas will betray him. On the day of the apocalypse, Adam sends the teenage Noah to 2020 to deliver a letter to the adult Jonas. Noah lives in a post-apocalyptic Winden, eventually taking care and falling in love with Elisabeth Doppler after her father is killed.
• As an adult, Noah is played by Mark Waschke. In 2041, Noah and Elisabeth live peacefully with their daughter Charlotte (named after Elisabeth's mother), and he is best friends with Jonas. Noah believes Claudia, who Jonas follows, is sabotaging their efforts to fix the God Particle. When the one-year old Charlotte goes missing one night, Noah blames Claudia and Jonas with Noah believing this to be the betrayal his older self talked about. Noah manages to travel to 1920 with a mission to find Claudia. Here, he reunites with Adam who lies to him that Claudia was solely behind Charlotte's disappearance and that he can prevent Charlotte from going missing. Noah, along with Helge Doppler, works on Adam's orders to create the first time machine. This leads to him kidnapping and killing children for the sake of research. Eventually, Noah is told by Adam to find the missing pages of the journal that details time travel in Winden. After killing Claudia, Noah recovers the pages and realizes the Elisabeth's mother Charlotte is his daughter. The missing pages also reveals to Noah that Adam had been lying to him. Noah tries to kill Adam but his attempt as Adam is destined to live; instead, an adult Agnes arrives and kills Noah.

Schimmelpfenning and Waschke also portray the Noah from Eva's world. Here, Noah is a loyal follower of Eva and the secret society Erit Lux. On 8 November 2052, Eva sends Noah to save Elisabeth from the apocalypse so that Charlotte can be born.

References

Works cited

• Episode 11: "Beginnings and Endings". Dark. June 21, 2019. Netflix.
• Episode 14: "The Travelers". Dark. June 21, 2019. Netflix.
• Episode 16: "An Endless Cycle". Dark. June 21, 2019. Netflix.
• Episode 18: "Endings and Beginnings". Dark. June 21, 2019. Netflix.
• Episode 19: "Deja-vu". Dark. June 27, 2020. Netflix.
• Episode 20: "The Survivors". Dark. June 27, 2020. Netflix.
• Episode 23: "Life and Death". Dark. June 27, 2020. Netflix.
• Episode 26: "Paradise". Dark. June 27, 2020. Netflix.