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Kidnapping of Yasin Friese

*"You must be Yasin. Noah sent me."*
―Helge Doppler[src]
The **Kidnapping of Yasin Friese** was an abduction perpetrated by Noah to preserve certain events of the timeline to lead up to Adam's grand plan. Helge Doppler kidnapped Yasin and took him to 1986 to use him as a test subject for the Time Machine Chair.

## Background

As part of Noah's plan to preserve the events of the time loop for Adam's plan, he sent the middle-aged Helge Doppler from 1986 to 2019 to kidnap the deaf Yasin Friese. Two other kids had already been kidnapped, Mads Nielsen and Erik Obendorf.

## Kidnapping

On the morning of November 7, 2019, the 9-year-old Yasin Friese was walking to school when he stumbles upon a cloaked man, Helge Doppler. Helge tells him that he was sent by Noah. Helge took the boy to 1986 to be used as a test subject for the time-traveling chair. Yasin had died during the process.

## Aftermath

The bodies of Yasin and Erik were placed in 1953 to be discovered by the Winden Police Department. In 2019, there was no trace of Yasin's body.
Town hall

The **town hall** (in German: ***Rathaus***) is the seat of the local government of Winden. A city council meets here. The mayor of Winden also works out of this building.

In the 1950s, the coal industry was apparently very influential within the government of Winden, particularly on the mayor. The mayor actively blocked Bernd Doppler's requests for a building permit for his proposed nuclear power plant. It was not until he was threatened at gunpoint in 1954 that the mayor signed the permit. Following the construction of the plant, the coal industry likely has little influence in local politics, while the power plant likely has enormous influence.

It is not known what happens to the building following the apocalypse, but the government it once housed is effectively defunct. After a temporary military occupation during the immediate aftermath of the catastrophe in 2020, roaming bands of survivors, such as Elisabeth Doppler's cult, come to control the area of Winden as late as 2053.

## References

1. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 8: "As You Sow, so You Shall Reap"
2. ↑ *Dark* Season 3 Episode 4: "The Origin"
3. ↑ *Dark* Season 2 Episode 1: "Beginnings and Endings"
4. ↑ *Dark* Season 3 Episode 2: "The Survivors"
Captain Future

## Season 1

**Captain Future** is a comic book which Mikkel Nielsen read while he stayed in the hospital in 1986 when Noah comes to visit.  The issue was #79: "Die Welt der tausend Schrecken" ("The World of a Thousand Horrors"), published in 1983.

In 1986, Helge has similar looking comics, **Nuclear Navigators**, pinned up on the wall in the shack when Egon comes to interview him as he hides.

## Season 2

In 1987, Mikkel/Michael has both the **Captain Future & Nuclear Navigators** comic books as we see him wake up for the first time in the Kahnwald home living with Ines.

## Reference List

1. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 5: "Truths"
2. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 9: "Everything Is Now"
3. ↑ *Dark* Season 2 Episode 2: "Dark Matter"

## Gallery

Pinned up at the 1986 ShackIn Michael's room at Kahnwald home in 1987
Dead Animals

Dead Bird

Noises during time travel events inside Winden Caves seemingly cause at least two type of animals to die:

1. birds
2. sheep

The following people have dead birds fall around them:

* The Teens near Winden Cave prior to Mikkel's disappearance on the night of November 4th, 2019
* Charlotte just outside the police station the night of November 5th, 2019
* Egon when he returns to Farmer Alber's field the night of November 5th, 1986
* Peter & Elisabeth in their car on the way to the bunker
* Charlotte when she on the bycicle in the woods when going to school
* When Helge is not found by his mother and before meeting Ulrich for the second time (when Ulrich will punch him), Helge has a dead bird in his box (5. Dark Season 1 Episode 8: "As you Sow, so You Shall Reap")

Both Helge and Charlotte collect the dead birds.

## Mechanism

Every time a time anomaly happens in Winden, the wormhole inside the caves emits a loud sound that can be heard from miles. The frequency appears to be inaudible to people, unless they're close to the cave openings. It however affects animals - both sheep and birds had their eardrums ruptured.

Startled birds flee from the forest en masse, but the following electromagnetic pulse disrupts their sense of balance during flight, causing them to fall to their deaths.

At one time in 1986, the event has caused an entire herd of sheep to die abruptly in their pasture. Sheep, being very timid animals, apparently went into a state of panic, induced by the loud noise and subsequently died of extreme stress.

Other animals are presumably affected too, for instance dogs. However, only birds and sheep have been seen to be influenced by the time phenomenons in the series.

## Gallery

1. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 1: "Secrets"
2. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 2: "Lies"
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *Dark* Season 1 Episode 3: "Past and Present"
4. ↑ *Dark* Season 2 Episode 8: "Endings and Beginnings"
Hunters blind

Within the Forest of Winden is a **Hunters Blind** that sits at the edge of the trees and overlooks an open field.

## History

### 1953

At least 1 scene from 1953 occurs nearby:

* Helge rides his bike through the open field along an unpaved road. The **Hunters blind** can be seen in the background as he passes.

### 1986

Several scenes from 1986 have taken place in it or near it.

* Jonas awakens inside after going through cave a second time to retrieve Mikkel.
* Ulrich and Katharina share a smoke at it's base just prior to encountering Regina and then Aleksander.
* Helge awakes inside after going through the cave to stop himself.

## References

1. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 8: "As You Sow, so You Shall Reap"
2. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 7: "Crossroads"
3. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 9: "Everything Is Now"
4. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 10: "Alpha and Omega"
Hermann Albers

Ulrich Nielsen (son-in-law/great-great-great-grandson/great-great-great-great-grandson)
Magnus Nielsen (grandson)
Martha Nielsen (granddaughter)
Michael Kahnwald (grandson)
Jonas Kahnwald (great-grandson)
The Unknown (great-grandson/great-great-grandson)
Tronte Nielsen (great-great-grandson/great-great-great-grandson)
Mads Nielsen (great-great-great-grandson/great-great-great-great-grandson)

## Behind the Scenes

### **Portrayed by**

Thomas Arnold

**Hermann Albers** was a farmer in Winden and Katharina Nielsen's father.

## Biography

### 1986

#### November 5

In the morning Hermann finds 33 of his sheep dead when he goes to feed them. Chief Inspector Egon Tiedemann, who comes to investigate, asks if it could be wolves or poison but Hermann does not think so: There were no bite marks and they were fine the previous day.

*"Be on your guard! Be alert! You don't know when that time will come."*
―Hermann to Egon Tiedemann[[Past and Present|[src]]]
Hermann says that things like the missing boy and now the killing of the sheep never used to happen in Winden. He then quotes a Bible verse (Mark, 13:33) about signs of the end times. Egon replies telling Hermann he didn't know he was a churchgoer. Hermann says the parish has a new priest, a good man.

Egon has Dr. Schaller, a veterinarian, perform an autopsy on one of the sheep. Schaller discovers that they died of sudden cardiac arrest due to a herd panic, and both of the sheep's eardrums are ruptured.

### 1987

#### September 22

Hermann attends Mads Nielsen's symbolic funeral and tells Jana Nielsen that this was the right thing to do to get closure. Jana then tells everyone about Tronte Nielsen's affair with Claudia Tiedemann.
Hannah Wöller

**Hannah Wöller** (née **Krüger**) is a resident of Winden in the original world and the wife of Torben Wöller. She is pregnant with his child.

## History

### 2019 (Original World)

Hannah is having dinner with her husband Torben, her sister-in-law Bernadette, Bernadette's partner Peter Doppler, and her good friends Regina Doppler and Katharina Albers. She recounts that she had an awful dream about two worlds disappearing, and an unending darkness, which is put down to her hormones. Hannah stares at a yellow coat, exactly like the one that Jonas Kahnwald of Adam's world wore, recognizing it for a second. When Katharina asks she has thought of any names for the baby, she says that she thinks Jonas is a beautiful name.

## Notes and references

1. ↑ https://dark.netflix.io/en/event-timeline/hannah-w%C3%B6ller-c
2. ↑ *Dark* Season 3 Episode 8: "The Paradise"
Claudia Tiedemann (Eva's World)

The Unknown (great-great-great-great-great-grandson/great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson)

## Physical Description

### Eyes

Heterochromia, brown (right) & blue (left)

## Behind the Scenes

### **Portrayed by**

Karoline Eichorn (body)
Julika Jenkins (head)

*This article is about the Claudia from Eva's World. For the Claudia from Adam's World, see Claudia Tiedemann. For the Claudia from the Original World, see Claudia Doppler.*
**Claudia Tiedemann** is a time traveler and member of Erit Lux.

## Biography

Just before the apocalypse devastates her world, Claudia gathers with the rest of Erit Lux. Eva instructs Claudia to recruit her alternate self to their cause.

Claudia uses her golden time travel sphere to visit Adam's world in 2020. There, she meets her alternate self in the abandoned police station in post-apocalyptic Winden. She convinces the Claudia of Adam's world to join Erit Lux in the fight against Adam.

Eva entrusts Claudia to keep check on Adam's world. The other Claudia maintains regular contact with her for two decades, however, the other Claudia begins to pursue things counter to Eva's plans and comes to the conclusion that neither Adam nor Eva has the answer. In 2040, the Claudia of Adam's world kills her alternate self and assumes her identity.

## Appearances

* *Dark* Season 3 Episode 5: "Life and Death"
* *Dark* Season 3 Episode 6: "Light and Shadow"
* *Dark* Season 3 Episode 7: "Between the Time"

## References

1. ↑ Story on July 4, 2019, on the official Dark Instagram page https://i.imgur.com/0uMsyP5.jpg
2. ↑ *Dark* Season 3 Episode 7: "Between the Time"
3. ↑ *Dark* Season 3 Episode 6: "Light and Shadow"
4. ↑ *Dark* Season 3 Episode 5: "Life and Death"
5. ↑ *Dark* Season 3 Episode 7: "Between the Time"
Doppler manor

* Fall 1953
* Summer 1954
* Fall 1986
* Summer 1987
* Fall 1987
* Backside

The **Doppler manor** is the estate of the Doppler family for much of the latter half of the twentieth century. It is a palatial home on the edge of the forest. Following the death of its owner, Bernd Doppler, it is eventually renovated and converted into the Waldhotel Winden, managed by Regina Tiedemann, in 2019.

## Events

* Nine-year-old Helge Doppler is sitting out behind his home near the woods in 1953 when he is approached by a time-traveling Ulrich Nielsen from 2019. Ulrich pursues the boy from here to try to kill him.
* Twelve-year-old Claudia Tiedemann comes here in 1954 in order to tutor the young Helge. Helge's father Bernd insists upon giving Claudia DM 10 for her services despite her protests, and she eventually accepts it and thanks him.
* Thirty-two years later, Claudia, now the director of the Winden Nuclear Power Plant, comes here to speak with Bernd about the incident at the plant earlier in the summer.
* Claudia returns the following summer, in 1987, to inquire of Bernd further about the incident and the findings it produced.
* In September of that same year, Bernd is murdered here by an unknown man accompanied by a young boy and an elderly man.
* In 2019, the estate is converted into the Waldhotel Winden.

## Residents

* 1953/1954 - Bernd, Greta, and Helge Doppler
	+ between November 10, 1953, and June 23, 1954: Bernd and Greta
* 1986/1987 - Bernd Doppler

## References

1. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 8: "As You Sow, so You Shall Reap"
2. ↑ *Dark* Season 3 Episode 4: "The Origin"
3. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 9: "Everything Is Now"
4. ↑ *Dark* Season 2 Episode 5: "Lost and Found"
5. ↑ *Dark* Season 3 Episode 1: "Deja-vu"
6. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 1: "Secrets"
7. ↑ *Dark* Season 2 Episode 4: "The Travelers"
Jürgen Obendorf

**Jürgen Obendorf** is the father of the missing Erik Obendorf and husband of Ulla Obendorf, who is seen in 2019 and 2020. He is portrayed by Tom Jahn.

## Biography

Obendorf works part-time as a driver and delivery man at the Winden Nuclear Power Plant.

Little is known of his background, but he and his wife Ulla have one son, Erik, who went missing on October 22, 2019. On November 4, with no apparent progress made on the investigation, they went to the Winden Police, where Jürgen confronted investigator Charlotte Doppler aggressively, Jürgen shouting at her and Ulla spitting in her face. The situation was defused by another officer, Ulrich Nielsen, who suggested that Erik might have run away.

After Ulrich's own son Mikkel went missing in the vicinity of the nuclear plant, Ulrich became suspicious of Jürgen himself. Secretly poking around Jürgen's junk shed, he located a stash of drugs, and Jürgen admitted that he and Erik had been working together to sell the drugs at the local high school.

Aleksander Tiedemann, the director of the plant, denied Ulrich access to it. Nevertheless, the interaction spooked Aleksander, who bullied Jürgen into driving a truck full of drums of nuclear waste out of the Winden Caves before the police would arrive with a search warrant.*Dark* Season 1 Episode 2: "Lies"

Seven months later, Jürgen attended the town assembly where a new federal task force led by Inspector Clausen was announced. Jürgen forced Clausen to admit that the task force consisted only of himself, assisted by Charlotte Doppler, whose failure to find the missing children had discredited in Jürgen's eyes. Dissatisfied with Clausen's preference to have the same set of eyes look at all angles, Jürgen stormed out of the room.<ref>*Dark* Season 2 Episode 1: "Beginnings and Endings"</references>

## Gallery

Pleading with UlrichJürgen's police fileCalling out Clausen
Noah/Eva's World

*This article is about the Noah from Eva's world. For the Noah from Adam's world, see Noah.*

* Adult
* Teenager

## Family

### Family

Bartosz Tiedemann † (father/first cousin, once removed)
Silja Tiedemann † (mother)
Agnes Nielsen (sister)
Charlotte Doppler (daughter/mother-in-law)
Franziska Doppler (granddaughter/sister-in-law)
Elisabeth Doppler (granddaughter/wife)
Peter Doppler † (son-in-law/father-in-law)
The Unknown (brother-in-law/great-great-great-grand-nephew/half-cousin)
Jonas Kahnwald/The Stranger/Adam (half-uncle/great-great-grand-nephew)
Jonas Kahnwald (half-uncle/great-great-grand-nephew)
Tronte Nielsen (nephew)
Ulrich Nielsen (grand-nephew)
Mads Nielsen † (grand-nephew)
Magnus Nielsen (great-grand-nephew)
Martha Nielsen/Eva † (great-grand-niece)
Mikkel Nielsen † (great-grand-nephew)
Mikkel Nielsen/Eva's World † (great-grand-nephew)
Hannah Nielsen † (grandmother)
Regina Tiedemann † (grandmother/cousin)
Aleksander Tiedemann † (grandfather)
Claudia Tiedemann † (half-aunt/great-grandmother)
Egon Tiedemann † (grandfather/great-great-grandfather)
Bernd Doppler † (great-grandfather)
Sebastian Krüger † (great-grandfather)
Doris Tiedemann † (great-great-grandmother)
Egon Tiedemann † (great-great-grandfather)

## Behind the Scenes

### **Portrayed by**

Mark Waschke (adult)Max Schimmelpfennig (young)

**Noah**, also known as **Hanno Tauber**, is a follower of Eva's time-travelling cult Erit Lux. He is the son of Bartosz Tiedemann and Silja Tiedemann.

On November 8, 2019, as the Apocalypse was about to happen, the teenage Noah was sent by Eva and went to the bunker, where he was waiting for his older self and Elisabeth Doppler. Together, they had a daughter, Charlotte. 33 years later, in 2052, he was sent back in time, to take the younger version of his wife to meet his younger self, allowing the cycle to be repeated.

After Jonas and Martha saved the lives of Marek, Sonja, and Charlotte, Noah was erased from existence.
Railroad bridge

The **railroad bridge** is a location in Winden where several events occur.

The arch cobblestone single lane bridge is lined with street lamps and spans a valley below with disused railroad tracks running perpendicular to it.

It seems to be a meeting place for the teens of 2019 & 2020.

## Season 1

Below on the tracks:

* Magnus follows Franziska here from high school
* Franziska dead drop tin box
* Magnus finds a dove pendant

Above on the bridge:

* The teens run here after losing Mikkel in the forest
* Parents come to pickup scared teens
* Noah & Bartozs meet in a black car a few times

## Season 2

Below on the tracks:

* Benni dead drop tin box
* Bartozs meets Magnus and Franziska about the apparatus

Above on the bridge:

* Magnus spies on Benni
* Martha and Bartosz argue

## Behind the scenes

According to some reports, scenes under and on top of the bridge were filmed at the intersection of Königsweg with the abandoned S-Bahn line from Wannsee to Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf in Grunewald, Berlin.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Dark* Season 1 Episode 4: "Double Lives"
2. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 6: "Sic Mundus Creatus Est"
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *Dark* Season 1 Episode 1: "Secrets"
4. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 5: "Truths"
5. ↑ *Dark* Season 2 Episode 8: "Endings and Beginnings"
Anne Ratte-Polle

**Anne Ratte-Polle** is a German actress. She portrays the middle-aged Ines Kahnwald in *Dark*.

## Credits

### Actor

#### Season 1

* "Past and Present"
* "Truths"
* "Crossroads"
* "Everything Is Now"
* "Alpha and Omega"

#### Season 2

* "Dark Matter"
* "Ghosts"
* "Lost and Found"

## External links

* Anne Ratte-Polle at the Internet Movie Database

* Follow Anne Ratte-Polle (@annerattepolle) on Instagram
Clara Schrage

**Clara Schrage** works at the Winden Nursing home where she takes care of Helge Doppler. He is known to have escaped the facility several times, but usually comes back within few hours.

She has interactions with the following people:

* Helge grabs **Clara Schrage**'s arm after waking and says he must stop Noah.
* Tells a co-worker, she left her kids home with her mother. Nurse Anne Reisch replies that she has a pathologist friend that says the boy's body that was found was mutilated.
* When Ulrich comes to get information on "why not forest road?", and the staff have to pull him off of Helge after Helge says he knows him and he can change to past and the future.
* Charlotte speaks with **Clara Schrage** about Helge missing since November 9th and if Ulrich had returned. She tells Charlotte that she hadn't seen Ulrich since he lashed out at Helge as if he had something to to with the case.

## Appearances / References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Dark* Season 1 Episode 4: "Double Lives"
2. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 7: "Crossroads"
3. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 10: "Alpha and Omega"

## Gallery

Winden Nursing HomeTick TockHelge awakensAssault on HelgeHelge is missing
Coin

The pfennig **coin** was a recurring item in Season 1 of *Dark*. Each boy whose body was discovered in 1953 and 2019 was found with a lanyard of red cord around the neck, to which was attached a single pfennig with the minting year 1986.

    A hooded figure is seen placing the lanyard around Erik Obendorf's neck after he is strapped down in the chair. His body, and that of Yasin Friese, are placed at the construction site for the power plant to be discovered, but the date stamp mystifies the police.

Such a coin is also retrieved from the body of a boy found in the forest in 2019 during the search for Mikkel Nielsen. The body was later established to be that of Mads Nielsen, who had disappeared in 1986.

The coin does not appear to serve any particular role in time travel, but rather identifies the year of "origin" when using the chair. Mads was kidnapped in 1986. Erik and Yasin were kidnapped in 2019, but taken through the wormhole in the Winden Caves to 1986, for Noah's experiments using the chair.

## Behind the scenes

The pfennig—the word is etymologically related to *penny*—was a unit of currency valued at one hundredth of a Deutsche Mark, first issued by West Germany's postwar government in 1948. A 1986 coin would have been made of copper-coated steel featuring the words *Bundesrepublik Deutschland* (*Federal Republic of Germany*) and the minting year surrounding an oak seedling on the obverse, and two stalks of rye and the currency amount on the reverse. It was abolished in 2001, along with the Deutsche Mark, with the adoption of the euro.

## References

1. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 8: "As You Sow, so You Shall Reap"
2. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 2: "Lies"
Gina Stiebitz

**Gina Stiebitz**, sometimes credited as **Gina Alice Stiebitz**, is a German actress. She portrays the teenage Franziska Doppler in *Dark*.

She began her career as a child actor in *Wie erziehe ich meine Eltern?* (*How Do I Teach My Parents?*) in 2010, and since then has appeared in several German television series and feature films. She has also performed on stage at the Friedrichstadtpalast Berlin.

## Credits

### Actor

#### Season 1

* Secrets
* Lies
* Double Lives
* Everything Is Now
* Alpha and Omega

#### Season 2

* Beginnings and Endings
* Dark Matter
* Lost and Found
* The Travelers
* The White Devil
* An Endless Cycle
* Endings and Beginnings

## External links

* Gina Stiebitz at the Internet Movie Database

* Follow Gina Stiebitz (@gina.stiebitz) on Instagram

* Follow Gina Stiebitz (@ginaastiebitz1) on Twitter
Ulla Schmidt (Eva's World)

*This article is about the Ulla from Eva's World. For the Ulla from Adam's World, see Ulla Schmidt. For the Ulla from the Original World, see Ulla Schmidt.*
**Ulla Schmidt** was the lover of Helge Doppler and mother of Peter Doppler.

## History

### Family history

Since Peter lived in Winden in Eva's World, Ulla's history was likely the same as her counterpart in Adam's World. Only during her final moments did she tell her son who his father actually was - a man named Helge Doppler. After she passed away, Peter moved to Winden.
Winden Cave map

The **Winden Cave map** was a map of the Winden Caves which Michael Kahnwald used to explore the caves, likely in an attempt to find the wormhole. Michael made several modifications to the original map and annotated it with his discoveries and questions.

## History

Jonas found the map hidden behind a loose wooden board in Michael's attic.

## Original locations and annotations

* **EINGANG**
* HAUCK 3,5-?4
* verfüllt Windenklub 1981
* Zahnes des Rhinozeros ?? durch MEINHER (1903)
* ehem. Pfuhl FISSNEIDER (1890) gelegentl. aus-trocknend
* unget. Fundstelle eines Skelettfragments von ???otherium WALDRON/SANDBERG (1894)
* **SKELETTKAMMER** SANDBERG (1898)
* **ROTE HALLE** - Lenzinger (1893)
* V. RIEG (1915)
* LENZINGER (1893 - 1895) "einige ????? tiefer Versuchssonacht"
* **FUCHSGANG** SANDBERG
* Block mit Wandsinter
* **KLEINSORGE-GANG** - ????RICH (1928)
* **REITERGROTTE** - BLÄTTERMANN
* **BARENGANG** - Lenzinger (1894)
* Lackfilme 1970 Geol???? HH

## Michael's annotations

Michael annotated the map with discoveries and questions, including drawing new maps over the original map. He seemingly had some system of sections, which were called B01, B02, B03 etc.

* Alles ???? AUF DEM GRUND IST NICHTS NFINDEN (?) (Everything???? THERE IS NOTHING TO BE FOUND ON THE BOTTOM(?))
* ICH HABE (Upside Down) (I have)
* 2 Spalten (?) ca. 15 – 20 mm 2 1/2 Wochen grabung und kleine Sprengung ???? (2 gaps approximately 15-20 millimeters 2 1/2 weeks of digging and a small explosion)
* Ich ??? ??? rom rom beginnen 06. August ~~2...~~ 2003 (I??? start)
* Ich verlierd meine Erinneirung (I am losing my memory)
* Wo ist Ubergang? (Where is the crossing?)
* RÜCKSEITE NICHT VERSTARKT! (BACK NOT SUPPORTED)

Some of the annotations were groups of three numbers written underneath eachother. They might correspond to years.

* ?5-04-22
* 95-05-09
* 96-03-18
Nielsen Family Home

* 1986
* 2019

The **Nielsen family home** has been home to several members of the Nielsen and Tiedemann families.

It is located at Killinger Strasse 61.

## Events

* Eleven-year-old Claudia Tiedemann tutors nine-year-old Helge Doppler here.
* Anges Nielsen and her son Tronte rent living space from Egon and Doris here in 1953.
* The marriage of Egon and Doris Tiedemann effectively ends here in 1954 when Doris demands a divorce.
* Eleven-year-old Mikkel Nielsen shows up here at the doorstep in 1986 after traveling from the year 2019.
* Fifteen-year-old Ulrich Nielsen is arrested here in 1986 on false charges of rape.
* Jana and Tronte Nielsen hold a symbolic funeral for their missing son Mads in 1987.
* The affair between Ulrich and Hannah Kahnwald begins here in 2019, during Ulrich and Katharina Nielsen's twenty-fifth wedding anniversary party.
* Jonas Kahnwald and his aunt Martha Nielsen have sex here in 2019.
* The marriage of Ulrich and Katharina effectively ends here in 2019 after Katharina confronts Ulrich about his affair.

## Residents

* 1953/1954 - Egon, Doris, and Claudia Tiedemann
* 1953/1954 - Agnes and Tronte Nielsen (renting)
	+ after June 26, 1954: Tronte
* 1986/1987 - Jana, Tronte, Ulrich, and Mads Nielsen
	+ after October 9, 1986: Jana, Tronte, and Ulrich
* 2019/2020 - Ulrich, Katharina, Magnus, Martha, and Mikkel Nielsen
	+ after November 4, 2019: Ulrich, Katharina, Magnus, and Martha
	+ after November 9, 2019: Katharina, Magnus, and Martha

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 *Dark* Season 1 Episode 8: "As You Sow, so You Shall Reap"
2. ↑ *Dark* Season 3 Episode 4: "The Origin"
3. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 3: "Past and Present"
4. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 5: "Truths"
5. ↑ *Dark* Season 3 Episode 2: "The Survivors"
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 *Dark* Season 2 Episode 6: "An Endless Cycle"
7. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 7: "Crossroads"
Baran bo Odar

**Baran bo Odar** is a German director and screenwriter. He and his partner, Jantje Friese, are the co-creators of *Dark*. Odar has directed every episode of *Dark*, and is credited as a writer on a significant number of episodes. In July 2020, after the final season of *Dark*, he and Friese began developing a new mystery series on Netflix, titled *1899*, which was canceled after the first season, though this was not the end of their collaboration with Netflix. In February 2023, bo Odar and Friese were tapped as showrunners and writers for the Netflix original supernatural drama, *Something Is Killing the Children*.

He grew up in Erlangen, Bavaria, and studied at HFF München (*Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München*, University of Television and Film of Munich), where he met Friese.

His first film, '"The Silence *(German:* Das letzte Schweigen*), was released in 2010. Based on the novel* Das Schweigen*, it concerns the investigation into the disappearance of a young girl 23 years after another girl was raped and murdered, and the lives of the suspects.*

Odar's next film was the 2014 film *Who Am I [No system Is Safe]* (German: *Who Am I – Kein System ist sicher*), a techno-thriller about a Berlin-based computer hacking group, sometimes compared to *Mr. Robot*. *Who Am I* won three German Movie Awards as well as teh Bambi award for best German film.

In 2017, he directed *Sleepless*, a crime thriller starring Jamie Foxx as Vincent Downs, a corrupt Las Vegas police officer whose son is kidnapped. An American remake of the 2011 French film *Sleepless Night* (French: *Nuit Blanche*), the film received mostly negative reviews.

## External links

* Official site
* Baran bo Odar at the Internet Movie Database

* Follow Baran bo Odar (@baranboodar) on Instagram

* Follow Baran bo Odar (@baranboodar) on Twitter
Greta Doppler

**Greta Doppler** is the mother of Helge Doppler and the wife of Bernd Doppler.

Greta is a stern mother to Helge; when he arrives home muddy one day in 1953, she forces him to disrobe in the entrance hall of the grand Doppler residence. After Helge goes missing, she implies to Noah that Bernd is not Helge's father, but rather Helge is the product of rape. She also confesses she had once hoped that God would have taken Helge away.

When a physically and emotionally scarred Helge returns months later, on June 23, 1954, she kneels before him, touching him to be sure he is real, and thanking God for returning him. He does not speak or otherwise respond to her, however, and soon she has returned to her cold treatment, scolding him for not answering Egon Tiedemann's questioning. She complains about him to Noah later, saying she is frightened by him, and wonders if he is possessed by the devil, but when Greta calls Helge, the boy recognizes Noah and immediately embraces him. Greta looks to Noah in awe as he asks Helge to read a Bible passage.

3 months later, Greta is seen again in Egon's office, asking if he's found any more leads. Egon replies that Helge is still hesitant to offer any more information on what happened to him, but she scoffs at him, informing Egon she was referring to Noah's mysterious disappearance, saying their church needs their pastor. Egon, whose wife suspects Noah also had something to do with Agnes's disappearance as well, asks Greta if she ever saw Noah in the company of a woman. Greta becomes offended and demands Egon to find Noah before storming out.

 Appearances

### Season 1

* Episode 8 "As You Sow, so You Shall Reap" (1953)
* Episode 9 "Everything Is Now" (1953)
* Episode 10 "Alpha and Omega" (1953)

### Season 2

* Episode 3 "Ghosts" (1954)
* Episode 7 "The White Devil" (1954)

## References

1. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 9: "Everything Is Now"
2. ↑ *Dark* Season 2 Episode 3: "Ghosts"
Bartosz Tiedemann/Eva's World

* Young
* Young Traveler
* Adult

**Bartosz Tiedemann** is the only child of Aleksander and Regina Tiedemann, the husband of Silja, and the father of Hanno Tauber and Agnes Nielsen. In his youth he is a student at Winden Comprehensive School, but in 2019 he is roped into the world of time travel by his own older self. From that point on, he follows Eva (an older Martha Nielsen) and is a member of her time travel cult Erit Lux.

1. ↑ https://dark.netflix.io/en/event-timeline/bartosz-tiedemann-b
2. ↑ *Dark* Season 3 Episode 8: "The Paradise"
3. ↑ https://darknetflix.io/en/event-timeline/regina-c
Marc O. Seng

**Marc O. Seng** is a German screenwriter and director. He wrote the screenplays for the 2010 film *Einer Wie Bruno* and the 2012 teamWorx production of *Baron Münchhausen*, and in addition to *Dark*, is working on another Netflix project, the feature film *Freaks*, to be released 2020.

He studied writing and directing at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg, completing studies in 2003.

## Credits

### Writer

#### Season 1

* "Past and Present"
* "Crossroads"
* "Everything Is Now"

#### Season 2

* "Ghosts"
* "The White Devil"

## External links

* Marc O. Seng at the Internet Movie Database
Raider

**Raider** was a brand of chocolate bar by Mars distributed in Northern Europe. It was introduced in West Germany and Austria in 1976 and sold under that name until 1991, when it was renamed **Twix** in line with the brand name used elsewhere in the world.

Mads Nielsen loved the chocolate. Jana Nielsen found a Raider wrapper in the forest in 2019 and suspected it had something to do with Mads' disappearance. Helge Doppler also enjoyed it, and ate a chocolate bar earlier on the same day he kidnapped Mads.

Young Hannah is seen eating it while chatting with Mikkel Nielsen in the hospital.

Mikkel Nielsen sees a television ad for Raider through the window of the Nielsen home, after traveling to 1986.

Magnus and Franziska are watching television at the Nielsen family home home when a Raider commercial comes on when The Stranger activates the apparatus in the caves.

## Analysis

Raider (pronunciation like *rider* in German) was a top-selling chocolate bar in Germany. The decision to rename Raider to Twix in 1991 was therefore accompanied by a massive and memorable national advertising campaign featuring the slogan "Raider heißt jetzt Twix—sonst ändert sich nix," which can be loosely translated as "Raider is now Twix—nothing else has changed."

While this campaign took place years after the 1986–87 events depicted in *Dark*, it was ubiquitous to the point that "Raider heißt jetzt Twix" entered German slang. In modern use, it tends to be a critical or disparagin remark about something that has only changed in name, not substance, as with some public policy measures or political organizations.

This sense resonates with the recurring themes of constancy amidst name changes and time travel in *Dark*. In every cycle, children disappear, and the bodies of other children are found, though the identities of the children change. Michael Kahnwald cannot escape that he is truly Mikkel Nielsen. And Aleksander Tiedemann has several past identities he cannot escape from. And even Benni, undergoing a transformation to Bernadette, remains Torben Wöller's sibling and apparent co-conspirator.

## References

1. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 1: "Secrets"
2. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 3: "Past and Present"
3. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 10: "Alpha and Omega"
Stephan Kampwirth

## Stephan Kampwirth

### Born

March 20, 1967
 Neheim-Hüsten [now Arnsberg], North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

### Years active

1996–

**Stephan Kampwirth** is a German actor. He portrays Peter Doppler in *Dark*.

## Credits

### Actor

#### Season 1

* *"Secrets"*
* *"Lies"*
* *"Double Lives"*
* *"Truths"*
* *"Sic Mundus Creatus Est"*
* *"Crossroads"*
* *"Everything Is Now"*
* *"Alpha and Omega"*

## External links

* Stephan Kampwirth at the Internet Movie Database
Chair Machine

* 1986
* 1987

**The chair** is a device found in the middle of the bunker in 1986 and 1987. Noah and his henchman Helge Doppler use it to experiment with time travel.

## History

### 1986

The chair resembles an electric chair as it has wrist and ankle shackles, and metal eye ring, and has electrical cords running from it. In fact, it is a prototype time machine built that channels the energy from the wormhole within the caves below.

The chair has been used on three of the missing children: Mads Nielsen, Erik Obendorf, and Yasin Friese. It transported them thirty-three years in time, but also killed them, shattering their eardrums and charring their eyes in the process.

### 1987

Noah in 1987 uses an updated chair to send Helge back to 1954 on June 23, after he has healed up from Ulrich Nielsen previously bashing him in the head with a rock and locking in the bunker over seven months prior.

The wormhole is not yet active again until June 27 when Jonas and Claudia reopen it. This indicates that the upgraded chair is a self sufficient time travel device that can run on Cs-137.

Helge was previously transported from the bunker in 1953 to the bunker in 1986 after he and Jonas Kahnwald, who was in the bunker in the '80s, touched through the wormhole or portal that opened in the bunker after the Stranger used the portable time machine in the cave passage.

## References

1. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 1: "Secrets"
2. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 10: "Alpha and Omega"
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *Dark* Season 2 Episode 3: "Ghosts"
4. ↑ *Dark* Season 2 Episode 8: "Endings and Beginnings"

## Gallery

Chair metal eye ringHooded figure looms over ErikErik in ChairTick-TockNoah sending Helge back to 19541987 Chair Plans
Ulla Schmidt

*This article is about the Ulla from Adam's World. For the Ulla from Eva's World, see Ulla Schmidt. For the Ulla from the Original World, see Ulla Schmidt.*
**Ulla Schmidt** was the lover of Helge Doppler and mother of Peter Doppler.

## History

### Family history

Ulla died in 1987. Only during her final moments did she tell her son who his father actually was - a man named Helge Doppler. After she passed away, her son moved to Winden, where his father lived.
Erit Lux

**Erit Lux** (Latin: *"There will be light"*) is a secret society of time travelers in the Winden of Eva's world, led by Eva. They are the counterpart of Sic Mundus in Adam's world and believe that they are in the light, while Sic Mundus is in the shadows. While Adam seeks to end the two worlds, Eva wishes to preserve the time loop. Their symbol is the Staff of Hermes.

## Headquarters

The Erit Lux headquarters is located inside an opulent hall inside the Winden Caves of Eva's world. Lucas Cranach's painting "Adam and Eve" hangs on the wall, and there is a mosaic of the intertwined, infinite family tree of both Adam and Eva's worlds on the floor. Notably, it contains an error regarding the parentage of Regina Tiedemann in both worlds. After the apocalypse, the painting is burned and the floor is covered with sand.

Their time travel god particle portal is found in a grotto within the caves, and resembles the portal in the Sic Mundus headquarters. Eva uses the portal, as well as the time travel spheres, to send her followers on missions.

## Members

* Eva (leader)
* Young Martha Nielsen (Eva's world)
* Female Stranger (Eva's world)
* Claudia Tiedemann (Eva's world)
* Claudia Tiedemann (Infiltrator from Adam's world)
* Bartosz Tiedemann (Eva's world)
* Egon Tiedemann (Eva's world)
* Noah (Eva's world)
* Young Noah (Eva's world)
* The Unknown

## Analysis

On the day of the apocalypse November 8, 2019 in Eva's World, Eva sends her Erit Lux members out on their missions to sustain the knot that has given all of them life. Three of the members are dead in Adam's World prior to 2019: Bartosz, Egon, and Noah. So in Eva's World, what was different that kept them alive?

## References

1. ↑ Dark - The Official Guide - Erit Lux
2. ↑ *Dark* Season 3 Episode 6: "Light and Shadow"
Windener Tageblatt

Winden Daily Newspaper

***Windener Tageblatt*** (*Winden Daily Paper*) is the local newspaper of Winden, established in 1952.

Tronte Nielsen is known to be a journalist in 1986; perhaps he worked at the *Windener Tageblatt*.

Several articles came from this daily newspaper, many of which reported on various disappearances or missing children.

## Notes and references

1. ↑ The article describes Claudia as being forty-five, which would only be true after August 14, 1987 (though this could simply be a mistake); there is also another article in frame during the same shot that says it is from August 29, showing that these articles are from all across the past three months and thus that several could come from August.
Quantum entanglement

**Quantum entanglement** is a phenomenon that leads to the overlapping of different realities.

During the apocalypse in both worlds, time stands still for a fraction of a second, breaking the chain of cause and effect. For a moment, there is a gap through which reality can proceed in two different directions: a switch at the knot of the time loop.

## Theory

H.G. Tannhaus of the original world describes the theory of quantum entanglement during his television show in 1974. He explains the thought experiment of Schrödinger's cat, which is simultaneously dead and alive, and that states of an atom can overlap until they are forced into a definite state by observation. He broadens the idea and asks whether it would be possible for multiple realities to exist side-by-side.

## History

Quantum entanglement is first used during the apocalypse in Adam's world. In the first version, Martha Nielsen from Eva's world brings Jonas Kahnwald into Eva's world on Adam's behalf. This version of Martha is later killed by Adam in his world, along with her unborn child. Meanwhile this reality's Jonas impregnates the younger Martha with the Unknown and is later shot by the second version's Martha in the Erit Lux headquarters.

In the second version, Eva sends Bartosz Tiedemann to stop Martha and travel back with him to 2052 in their world. This version's Jonas never goes to Eva's world, surviving the apocalypse in his basement, and thus becomes the Stranger and later Adam. Meanwhile this version's Martha ultimately survives and gives birth to the Unknown. Eva uses quantum entanglement to save herself and the Unknown, and thus preserve the time loop.

Adam fails to end it all time again and again by killing Martha and the supposed origin with the God particle, not accounting for the two pregnant versions of her. However, Claudia Tiedemann of Adam's world utilizes quantum entanglement to send herself to 2053 to speak with him. She explains the concept to him, and how Eva has been using it to preserve the knot, but that there is a way to break the cycle. Adam creates a third version of events by going back to save Jonas from the apocalypse and sending him to Eva's world to save Martha before she can be taken to Adam's world. This allows them to travel to the original world, where they succeed in destroying both worlds at an instance and Eva's worlds.

## References

1. ↑ https://darknetflix.io/en/event-timeline/quantum-entanglement
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 *Dark* Season 3 Episode 7: "Between the Time"
3. ↑ *Dark* Season 2 Episode 8: "Endings and Beginnings"
4. ↑ *Dark* Season 3 Episode 1: "Deja-vu"
5. ↑ *Dark* Season 3 Episode 3: "Adam and Eva"
6. ↑ *Dark* Season 3 Episode 4: "The Origin"
7. ↑ *Dark* Season 3 Episode 5: "Life and Death"
8. ↑ *Dark* Season 3 Episode 6: "Light and Shadow"
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 *Dark* Season 3 Episode 8: "The Paradise"
St. Christopher medal

The **St. Christopher medal** is a small metal medallion which Jonas Kahnwald found at the lake and later gave to Martha Nielsen. He is first seen with it at the beginning of Season 2, taking it with him after waking up in the derelict Kahnwald home.

In 1986 at the Hospital, Noah tells Mikkel he is a priest from **St. Christopher's** Church.

## Analysis

In Christian tradition, Saint Christopher (Latin: *Christophorus*; German: *Christoph*) was a third-century martyr. He is a patron saint of travellers, unmarried men, and sailors among many others, and is invoked for protection against storms, floods, and lightning. The church in Winden is dedicated to him.

According to legend, as a youth, he sought to follow the greatest king in the world. When the king crossed himself at the name of the devil, he decided the devil was stronger and sought to follow the devil. But finding that the devil feared Christ, Christopher decided to follow Christ instead. His name is derived from Greek, meaning "Christ-bearer," after another legend in which he ferries a small child across a raging river, who is then revealed to be Jesus.

Devout travellers may carry medallions of St. Christopher for good luck; like Jonas', they depict the saint carrying a child on his back.

## Timeline

1953:

The St. Christopher medal appears for the first time chronologically in when Egon gives Hannah the medal. She carries it with her and is also wearing it when she goes to an abortion clinic. There, she meets Helena, Katharina's mother as a child, who shows some interest in Saint Christopher. When Helena is gone, Hannah decides not to abort her baby but leaves the medal for Helena.

1986:

Now Helena has the medal and keeps it, after which we see the medal again when Katharina visits the psychiatric ward and talks to her mother. When Helena fights Katharina at the lake, Katharina snatches the medal off of Helena, and it falls in the sand where Helena forgets about it.

2019:

In June of 2019, teen Jonas, Martha, Bartosz and Magnus go swimming in the lake. Jonas finds the medal in the sand, in the same spot where Helena had left it.

2020:

in June of 2020, adult Jonas breaks into the Nielsen house, goes to Martha's room, sits on her bed and then places the medal on her pillow.

## References

1. ↑ *Dark* Season 2 Episode 1: "Beginnings and Endings"
2. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 5: "Truths"
3. ↑ Mershman, Francis. "St. Christopher," The Catholic Encyclopedia
Study

A **Study** exists within the Sic Mundus underground lair below the Church.

## Description

It is a vast high ceilinged room with built-in book shelves full of books, decorative wall molding, surrounded with blue shaded lamps, wall sconces, candles, oriental rugs down the middle, blue cushioned chairs and couch to the left, a high backed chair and desk to the right, along with several other chairs and tables full of books, papers, devices, and other knickknacks.

At the far end of the room exists:

* A left alcove of framed photographs of the four families and various other people
* A right alcove of framed design prints of time travel devices
* Mantled fireplace and above it the center piece of the room, Rubens painting "The Fall of the Damned," or a full-sized replica of it

*"Every stone is back where it belongs, everyone at their destination. All that's needed now is a push."*
―Adam to Jonas
## Events

In 1921, Noah leads Jonas to Sic Mundus Underground Lair and into the **Study**. Adam reveals his identity to Jonas

## References

1. ↑ *Dark* Season 2 Episode 4: "The Travelers"
Ulla Schmidt (Original World)

*This article is about the Ulla from the Original World. For the Ulla from Adam's World, see Ulla Schmidt. For the Ulla from Eva's World, see Ulla Schmidt.*
**Ulla Schmidt** was the lover of Helge Doppler and mother of Peter Doppler.

## History

### Family history

Since Peter lived in Winden in the Original World, Ulla's history was likely the same as her counterpart in Adam's World. Only during her final moments did she tell her son who his father actually was - a man named Helge Doppler. After she passed away, Peter moved to Winden.
Julika Jenkins

**Julika Jenkins** is a British-German actress. She portrays the 1986–87 adult/middle-aged Claudia Tiedemann in *Dark*.

She trained at the Otto-Falckenberg acting school in Munich and has appeared in stage, television, and film productions in Switzerland and Germany. She is dating Arnd Klawitter, who plays the mid-aged H.G. Tannhaus.

## Credits

### Actress

#### Season 1

* "Past and Present"
* "Everything Is Now"
* "Alpha and Omega"

#### Season 2

* "Dark Matter"
* "Ghosts"
* "The Travelers"
* "Lost and Found"
* "The White Devil"
* "Endings and Beginnings

#### Season 3

* "The Survivors"
* "Life and Death"
* "Light and Shadow"
* "Between the Time"
* "The Paradise"

## External links

* Julika Jenkins at the Internet Movie Database
Erna

* 1921
* 1904

**Erna Jung** is a Winden Tavern and Inn Keeper in 1921. She is known to take in strays or people in need of food and shelter on a temporary basis.

She took the injured Jonas in when he appeared in 1921 after some local farmers came across him in a wheat field and assumed he was a returning POW.

Also young **Erna** appears as midwife during Silja's childbirth.

Young Noah and Young Agnes live with **Erna** in1921**.**

*"Years ago, I was still a little boy. A stranger came to us. He looked as if he'd been in the war. Didn't talk much. There was this sadness in his eyes. The kind you sometimes see in those who want to die, but life won't let them. He took a room in our house. The bedroom right next to mine. And sometimes I heard him talk in his sleep. Confused words. But one night, he was suddenly very clear. He stood in the hallway, his eyes wide open, and said "Nothing is in vain. Not a single breath. Not a single step, not a single word. Not pain. An eternal miracle of the One." I didn't understand any of his words. Only years later, when I felt the pain, did I understand what he meant. That none of the horrible things that befall us should be in vain...That they make us what we are. That they give us our strength. Your pain made you who you are, Helge. But it no longer has power over you."*
―Noah talking with Helge at the Church[[Alpha and Omega|[src]]]
## References

1. ↑ *Dark* Season 2 Episode 4: "The Travelers"

## Gallery

Jonas awakes in 1921Farmer to come across JonasNoah tells Helge a story from his pastYoung Agnes told to tell ErnaAgnes sweeps Inn
Moritz Jahn

**Moritz Jahn**, born **Moritz Glaser**, is a German actor and musician. He portrays Magnus Nielsen in *Dark*.

He began his career at 14 playing the starring role of Karol in *Die Pfefferkörner* (*The Peppercorns*). His first lead role came in 2010 in the television movie *Prinz and Bottel*, and he has appeared in a variety of television productions since.

## Credits

### Actor

#### Season 1

* "Secrets"
* "Lies"
* "Double Lives"
* "Sic Mundus Creatus Est"
* "Everything Is Now"
* "Alpha and Omega"

#### Season 2

* "Beginnings and Endings"
* "Dark Matter"
* "The Travelers"
* "Lost and Found"
* "An Endless Cycle"
* "The White Devil"
* "Endings and Beginnings"

## External links

* Official site
* Moritz Jahn at the Internet Movie Database

* Follow Moritz Jahn (@moritzjahnofficial) on Instagram