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1921

**1921** is the year in which Sic Mundus or "The Travelers" have a church built over the top of their secret lair and lab. They have also created the entry with the metal door and dead-end tunnel inside the cave but the passage won't be opened for another 32 years.

## Events

* January 8th, 1921 a photo of Sic Mundus
* Teen Noah and an older man, (later revealed to be Bartosz), are working on the tunnel and teen Noah kills him with a pick-axe for losing faith.
* Adult Noah tells teen Noah not to lose faith
* Adam orders adult Noah to find the missing pages
* Noah lies to Adam about finding the notebook pages after killing the elderly Claudia
* Jonas arrives from 2053. He is found by farmers and assumed to be a POW.
* He is taken in by Erna and provided room and board where he meets young Agnes and teen Noah. Teen Noah has seemingly been expecting him.

* Jonas tries to find his way back to 2019 through the cave but discovers the passage is still closed. Teen Noah tells him it will not be open for another 32 years.

* Teen Noah takes Jonas to the church where he discovers Sic Mundus and meets Adult Noah and Adam who is an adult version of Jonas.
* Adam talks with Jonas of time travel and shows him the various time machine plans & God Particle Twin.
* Jonas travels back to June 20, 2019, a day before Michael's suicide, via the God Particle Twin portal.
* Adam has St Christopher medallion
* Old Magnus asks why they didn't tell Jonas the truth about his role
* Noah tells Teen Noah he must travel same path as he did
* Teen Noah travels to June 27, 2020, the day of the apocalypse, to go into the bunker via the God Particle Twin portal
* Noah tells Adam he did find the notebook pages off Old Claudia and he tries to kill Adam with a gun
* Agnes kills Noah instead with same gun
* With the help of old Magnus and old Franziska?, Adam travels to June 27, 2020, the day of the apocalypse, to kill Martha and circle the calendar
* Sic Mundus eventually leaves their lair for 2053.

## Characters

### Youths

* Jonas
* Agnes
* Noah

### Adults

* Farmer
* Erna
* Noah
* Magnus
* Franziska
* Bartosz
* Agnes

## Episodes

1. ↑ *Dark* Season 2 Episode 2: "Dark Matter"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 *Dark* Season 2 Episode 1: "Beginnings and Endings"
3. ↑ *Dark* Season 2 Episode 3: "Ghosts"
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 *Dark* Season 2 Episode 4: "The Travelers"
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 *Dark* Season 2 Episode 5: "Lost and Found"
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 *Dark* Season 2 Episode 8: "Endings and Beginnings"
Unborn Child (Original World Jonas)

**Jonas** is the future son of Hannah Kahnwald and Torben Wöller in the Original World. He is mentioned and named at the very end of season 3, presumably in the year 2019.

The naming of the child is an unusual event on its own. The name Jonas was picked because Hannah had a deja-vu while looking at a yellow raincoat remarkably similar to the one Adam's World Jonas frequently used, right after a blackout. Even though the reason behind the blackout and the deja-vu were never officially revealed, they most likely happened because, had the events played out differently, this would probably be the exact moment in time when Adam's and Eva's world were created.
Yasin Friese

### Status

Dead (unintentionally killed by Noah and Helge Doppler via the time travel chair)

## Behind the Scenes

### **Portrayed by**

Vico Mücke

**Yasin Friese** is a young deaf child in 2019 and the "boyfriend" of Elisabeth Doppler.

## Biography

He and Elisabeth are seen chatting with one another after school on November 6, 2019, the day of Elisabeth's (temporary) disappearance. Yasin's mother offers to drive Elisabeth home, but Elisabeth declines, expecting her mother at any minute.

    The next morning, walking to school alone through the forest, Yasin encounters a hooded figure and subsequently disappears. He is reported missing that morning, becoming the subject of yet another Winden Police investigation.

Helge Doppler takes Yasin through the cave to 1986. On November 9th, through Noah's experiments on time travel in the bunker using the chair, he is transported to 1953, killing him in the process. Helge then travels through the cave to 1953, where he moves Yasin's corpse to the nuclear plant construction site to be found along with Erik Obendorf on November 10th, 1953.

## Analysis

The name *Friese* is derived from the Frieseland region, abutting the North Sea; thus, like *Nielsen* and *Tiedemann*, it has a northern origin. *Yasin* is a name derived from the 36th surah of the Qur'an, which starts with these letters, as well as one of the names of the Prophet Muhammad.

Yasin may be of Turkish descent, at least in part. When the 1953 police pathologist, Udo Meier, examines Yasin's body, he comments that the boy must not be local, because he looks Mediterranean. While Germany today has a significant ethnic Turkish population of around 5 percent, this is due to a large influx starting in the 1960s with a guest worker program, intensifying in the 1970s after reforms to family reunification laws.

## Trivia

* Yasin shares his surname Friese with Jantje Friese, the main writer of the show.

## Episodes

* "Double Lives" (2019)
* "Crossroads" (1953, time travel; corpse)
* "As You Sow, so You Shall Reap" (1953, time travel; corpse)

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Dark* Season 1 Episode 6: "Sic Mundus Creatus Est"
2. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 7: "Crossroads"
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 *Dark* Season 1 Episode 4: "Double Lives" Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; name "doublelives" defined multiple times with different content
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 *Dark* Season 1 Episode 8: "As You Sow, so You Shall Reap"
1987

**1987** is the fourth year introduced in Season 2 of the Dark Series.

## Events

June 22nd

* Old Claudia talks with Claudia at Power Plant with Gretchen
* Old Claudia departs to 1954 via Apparatus as Claudia witnesses
* Noah meets Mikkel outside of cave
* Older Egon visits Helge in Hospital asks about Mads and 1986 interview
* Old Egon visits Old Ulrich in Asylum but still doesn't know who he is
* Hannah & The Stranger arrival from 2020 via Apparatus to see Ines & Mikkel
* Claudia digs up apparatus in her yard

June 23rd

* Helge departs to 1954 via upgraded Chair sent by Noah
* Claudia visits Helge at Hospital about book gift and he says don't trust Noah
* Old Egon visits Old Ulrich again and reveals he is Ulrich
* Claudia visits Old H.G Tannhaus who explains bootstrap paradox about book
* Old Egon tires to talk with Mikkel about parents but Ines doesn't let him
* Old Egon visits Claudia at plant and tells her he has cancer
* Old Egon visits Old Ulrich again this time with Mikkel's photo and Ulrich attacks him
* Claudia departs to 2020 via Apparatus to 2020 to see Regina

June 24th

* Claudia arrives from 2020 via Apparatus and comes home to find Teen Regina sleeping

June 25th

* Claudia asks Old Egon to move in with them
* Claudia meets with Old Bernd to discuss God Particle and has it analyzed
* Ines steals medication from Hospital to drug Mikkel
* Old Ulrich escapes Asylum and meets Mikkel and tries to take him to cave
* Ines calls Old Egon to help get Mikkel back and Old Ulrich is arrested again heading toward the cave
* Teens arrive from 2020 via Apparatus and go to bus stop as Old Ulrich is taken away by police
* Teens depart to 2020 via Apparatus to go home

June 26th

* Claudia starts God Particle recordings to cassette
* Claudia goes to Old Egon's first chemo treatment and he tells her time travel is real
* Claudia and Old Egon struggle at his apartment and he falls hitting his head and dies
* Jonas arrives at Claudia's house and she has to come with him to the future
* Hannah arrival from 2020 via Apparatus (midway point) to see Ulrich via stolen apparatus
* Hannah departs to 1953 via Apparatus to see Ulrich via stolen apparatus

June 27th

* Jonas takes Claudia to Yellow barrels to get sample telling her they may be able to change the small things
* Jonas and Claudia depart to 2020 via Apparatus/Cave to re-open cave passage

## Characters

Main characters appear as their "natural" ages as follows:

* As Teens: Regina, Aleksander, Katharina
* As Adults: Claudia, Ines
* As Seniors: Egon, Bernd, H.G Tannhaus

Time travelers:

* As Youths: Mikkel
* As Teens: Magnus, Martha, Franziska, Elisabeth, Bartsoz, Jonas
* As Adults: Gretchen, Noah, Helge, Hannah, The Stranger
* As seniors: Claudia, Ulrich

## References

1. ↑ *Dark* Season 2 Episode 2: "Dark Matter"
2. ↑ *Dark* Season 2 Episode 3: "Ghosts"
3. ↑ *Dark* Season 2 Episode 4: "The Travelers"
4. ↑ *Dark* Season 2 Episode 5: "Lost and Found"
5. ↑ *Dark* Season 2 Episode 7: "The White Devil"
6. ↑ *Dark* Season 2 Episode 8: "Endings and Beginnings"
Gustav Tannhaus

* 1888
* 1822

**Gustav Tannhaus** is the son of Heinrich Tannhaus and Charlotte Tannhaus. He has been blind since childhood.

## History

When **Gustav’s** mother Charlotte died, his father Heinrich Tannhaus was encumbered with grief. Eventually, due to his loneliness, he became obsessed with bringing her back. Moreover, **Gustav Tannhaus**' father Heinrich established “Sic Mundus”, a society of time travellers in Winden. In spite of all his life’s work, Heinrich failed to resurrect Charlotte.

**Gustav Tannhaus** continued his father’s research and work and inherited his father's triquetra ring and Sic Mundus cane and his mother's pocket watch and her love of the Ariadne play.

In 1888, he met Jonas, Magnus, Franziska and Bartosz from 2020, who were all somehow related to him.

*"When I found you, now, that was a sign. A god-sent miracle...don't forget what we are going to create. Paradise! Every calamity can be reversed. Every pain destroyed before it even exists. A perfect world. Sic mundus creatus est."*
―Gustav Tannhaus**Gustav Tannhaus**, who was still working on the early stages of the time travel experiment, learnt from Jonas that time travel does exist in the future. Unfortunately, The Unknown son of Eva killed him before he could tell anyone else about this.

## Analysis

While it is answered that the he is a part of the elaborate and confounding family tree, it is unclear if the Sic Mundus lead by **Gustav Tannhaus** was even making headway in creating the time travel technology. However, one thing is clear that H.G. Tannhaus's interest in time and clocks stems from his incredibly intelligent and passionate lineage.

## References

1. ↑ *Dark* Season 3 Episode 3: "Adam and Eva"
2. ↑ *Dark* Season 3 Episode 2: "The Survivors"
Sebastian Krüger

**Sebastian Krüger** is Hannah Kahnwald's father. In 1986 he is proprietor of a linen service (*textilreinigung*), and is commonly seen driving around town in his green van making pickups and deliveries with Hannah.

   On one of these occasions, they stop at the hospital. Hannah sees Mikkel Nielsen sitting outside on a bench, and joins him. He shows her a sleight-of-hand trick, and they make friends.

Later the same day, they stop at the high school. Hearing Katharina's voice, she peers through a window to see Katharina having sex with Ulrich Nielsen, her crush. She convincingly lies to her father that she saw Ulrich raping Katharina. Sebastian then takes her to the Winden Police where she gives the same testimony to Egon Tiedemann, resulting in Ulrich's arrest.

   On another occasion, Sebastian and Hannah drive by the bus stop and see the teenage Jonas Kahnwald waiting there in a driving rain. Unbeknownst to them, however, he has just emerged from the Winden Caves for the first time from 2019, and is bewildered by the missing persons flyers for Mads Nielsen posted on the bus shelter. Hannah urges him to get in, saying the rain may still contain toxins from the Chernobyl disaster six months earlier. When Sebastian tells Hannah by name to make space for him, however, Jonas Kahnwald realizes he is speaking to younger versions of his mother and grandfather, and begs off.

## Appearances

* "Truths"
* "Sic Mundus Creatus Est"

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 *Dark* Season 1 Episode 5: "Truths"
2. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 6: "Sic Mundus Creatus Est"
Daan Lennard Liebrenz

**Daan Lennard Liebrenz** portrayed Young Mikkel Nielsen/Michael Kahnwald in *Secrets*, *Lies*, *Past and Present*, *Double Lives*, *Truths*, *Sic Mundus Creatus Est*, *Crossroads*, *As You Sow, so You Shall Reap*, *Everything Is Now*, *Alpha and Omega*, *Beginnings and Endings*, *Dark Matter*, *Ghosts*, *The Travelers*, *Lost and Found*, *An Endless Cycle*, *Endings and Beginnings*, *Deja-vu*, *The Survivors* and *Life and Death*.

He also portrayed an alternate Mikkel Nielsen in *Deja-vu* and *Light and Shadow*.

## Credits

### Actor

#### Season 1

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

#### Season 2

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

## External links

* Daan Lennard Liebrenz at the Internet Movie Database

* Follow Daan Lennard Liebrenz (@daanlennardliebrenz\_official) on Instagram
Literary references

*Dark* includes **references and allusions** to various works of literature.

* ***The Divine Comedy*** by Dante Alighieri – Speaking to Jonas about the number 33, H.G. Tannhaus references Dante's 33 cantos in purgatory and paradise.
* ***Theseus and the Minotaur*** - referenced multiple times in the series (see more).

## References

1. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 8: "As You Sow, so You Shall Reap"
Jördis Triebel

**Jördis Triebel** is a German actress. She portrays Katharina Nielsen in *Dark*.

## Credits

### Actor

#### Season 1

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

## External links

* Jördis Triebel at the Internet Movie Database

* Follow Jördis Triebel (@joerdis\_triebel) on Instagram

* Follow Jördis Triebel (@jordistriebel) on Twitter

* Follow Jördis Triebel (@people/Jördis-Triebel/100008686036897) on Facebook
String wall

* Un-Annotated
* Annotated

A **string wall** with photos of several people from Winden was located in the bunker in 2052. There were different photos of the same people from 1953, 1986 and 2019. Relatives were connected by string, as a sort of family tree.

## Interesting details

* The red string moves from Mikkel/Michael in "Secrets" to Jonas/The Stranger in "Alpha and Omega".
* The photos of teen and adult Jonas are connected by string, but not placed side by side as others.
* There is an empty photo pocket next to Peter Doppler.
* Charlotte Doppler is connected directly by string to her grandfather H.G. Tannhaus, not through her parents.

## Mysteries

* Where and when is the string wall?
	+ In the bunker in 2052.
* Who created and maintains the string wall?
	+ Claudia Tiedemann
Winden School for the Deaf

The **Winden School for the Deaf** was a centre of learning for students without the ability to hear. They were entitled to appropriate education from teachers who must communicate through silent language. Two notable former students were Elisabeth Doppler (who became a cult leader) and Yasin Friese (who was abducted and murdered by Noah).
Sylvester Groth

**Sylvester Groth**is a German actor and vocalist. He portrays Inspector Clausen on *Dark*.

Groth studied at the Ernst Buch High School for Acting in Berlin, and worked as a stage actor all across East Germany. His breakthrough film was *Der Aufenthalt* (*The Turning Point*), which won the Heinrich Greif Prize in 1983. Groth escaped to West Germany in 1986 and has enjoyed a long and successful career since, and is probably best-known among English speakers for portraying Joseph Goebells in Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film *Inglourious Basterds*.

## Credits

### Actor

#### Season 2

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

## External links

* Sylvester Groth at the Internet Movie Database
Paul Lux

## Paul Lux

### Years active

2011–

**Paul Lux** is a German actor. He portrays Bartosz Tiedemann in *Dark*.

## Credits

### Actor

#### Season 1

* Secrets
* Lies
* Truths
* Sic Mundus Creatus Est
* Everything Is Now
* Alpha and Omega

#### Season 2

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

## External links

* Paul Lux at the Internet Movie Database

* Follow Paul Lux (@paullux1234) on Instagram
Time

**Time** is a central theme in *Dark*. Time is not consecutive, so the future, past and present all affect each other. A wormhole intertwines three points in time, set 33 years apart.

## References to time

* Graffiti reads "No future"
* A book is titled "A journey through time"

## Watches and clocks

Most of people wear a watch. That is recurrent in every period. Even in 2019, when it is not so fashionable to have one, children, teenagers and older characters have one. Each character seems to change the watch with the period. The only remaining watch is the Charlotte's pocket watch but this is not in use.

### Characters with noticeable specificities

* Ines is the only one that has a pocket one in the hospital in 1986 and a wristwatch at home when she does not seem to have on in 2019 as she uses clock to see at what time she can open the death letter.
* Bartosz seems to be the only one who have digital display
Maja Schöne

**Maja Schöne** is a German actress. She portrays the adult Hannah Kahnwald in *Dark*.

Schöne graduated from the Westfälischen Schauspielschule Bochum acting school in 2001, and has performed in various stage productions in Hamburg and Cologne, as well as television and film productions. She was awarded Best Leading Actress in 2013 for her role as Judith in *Der Brand* (*The Fire*, 2011), and was named Best Actress at Theaterfestival NRW in 2009.

## Credits

### Actor

#### Season 1

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

#### Season 2

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

## External links

* Maja Schöne at the Internet Movie Database
2019

This is a timeline of events that occurred during 2019.

#### 20th

* Jonas Kahnwald wakes up in the morning and goes downstairs. He sniffs the milk to check if it's fresh for cereal before being spooked by Michael Kahnwald. The Kahnwald family has breakfast, and Michael is uneasy about going for Ulrich Nielsen and Katharina Nielsen's anniversary party. Michael refuses to go, due to his anxiety over his former life reforming. When Jonas is about to leave to hangout with his friends, Michael experiences déjà vu upon seeing Jonas' raincoat. Hannah Kahnwald tries to comfort Michael and have him explain his problems, but he chooses to stay in the house to finish his painting.

### November

#### 4th

* Jonas Kahnwald wakes up from a nightmare about Michael Kahnwald's suicide. He goes downstairs for breakfast, finding out that the power is out and, after smelling the milk bottle tip, the milk wasn't fresh. He calls out to Hannah Kahnwald, who is secretly making love with Ulrich Nielsen. However, Jonas is aware of their affair. Before Ulrich leaves, Hannah tells him that she loves him, but he doesn't reciprocate, saying she's beautiful.
* Jonas cycles to the Winden Main Intersection to find a missing persons poster for Erik Obendorf.

## References

1. ↑ *Dark: 2.06: An Endless Cycle*
2. ↑ *Dark: 1.01: Secrets*
Katharina Nielsen/Eva's World

*This article is about the Katharina from Eva's world. For the Katharina from Adam's world, see Katharina Nielsen. For the Katharina from the original world, see Katharina Albers.*

*"I believe we take our lives into our own hands. That we decide which path we take."*
―Katharina[src]
**Katharina Nielsen** (née **Albers**) is the ex-wife of Ulrich Nielsen, with whom she had the three children: Magnus, Martha, and Mikkel. In 2019, she is the principal of the Winden Comprehensive School.

## History

### 2019

#### November 4

Mikkel is playing a videogame, which Katharina tells him to turn off. Martha asks Katharina what's wrong with him, and Katharina tells her he has been having the same nightmares. Martha tells Mikkel that maybe it wasn't a dream, and that maybe the here and now was one, and none of them were real. Mikkel laughs sarcastically and the lights in the house start flickering, as Katharina takes his videogame away. Katharina asks if Magnus is awake yet, but nobody knows he is having sex with Franziska. Katharina offers them rides to school, but they decide to go on their own. She also reminds Martha that the next day they would be staying with their father. Martha is annoyed by this, but heads off for school.

At school, Katharina makes an announcement on the school's PA in which she summons all students to an assembly in the gymnasium. Hannah walks into the high school, and walks right into Katharina, who tries to ignore her. Hannah says she wanted to see her, and tells her she knows that she and the kids were a part of him and that she would back off. Katharina sarcastically thanks her, and tells her that Ulrich wanted to bring something over, when Hannah asks if Ulrich had been to her house earlier that morning.

#### November 8

On the day of the Apocalypse, Katharina is home with Mikkel. Both perish in the disaster.

 Appearances

### Season 3

* Episode 1 "Deja-vu" (2019)
* Episode 6 "Light and Shadow" (2019)

1. ↑ https://dark.netflix.io/en/event-timeline/katharina-nielsen-b
2. ↑ *Dark* Season 3 Episode 6: "Light and Shadow"
Benjamin Wöller's Trailer

**Benjamin Wöller's Trailer** was the residence of the transgendered prostitute Benjamin Wöller.

Benni is the owner or guardian of the truck used to hide the yellow barrels offsite from the Winden Nuclear Power Plant in 2019, which was parked in the same truck stop as the trailer. The next year, as the plant operators prepare to shut it down, Aleksander has the waste drums removed from the cave where they are stashed, and stored in the truck. Later, Torben Wöller visits Benni, paying her and receiving the keys to the truck in return, for their secret burial in the plant's old cooling pool when the plant is decommissioned.

Benni has has several visitors to both the **Truck Stop** and trailer:

* Charlotte Doppler - asking Benni if Peter Doppler has been by recently.
* Peter Doppler - watching Benni from his car the night Mikkel disappears.
* The Stranger - obtains Cesium-137 isotope from the yellow barrels within the truck needed to power the apparatus.
* Magnus Nielsen - following Benni from under the railroad bridge after exchanging hormone therapy drugs left by Franziska for cash in the tin box under the railroad track.
* Torben Wöller - *see above*

## Behind the scenes

Filming allegedly took place at the Dreilinden autobahn service area formerly known as Checkpoint Bravo.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 *Dark* Season 2 Episode 1: "Beginnings and Endings"
2. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 4: "Double Lives"
3. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 10: "Alpha and Omega"
4. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 9: "Everything Is Now"
Kidnapping of Erik Obendorf

*"It's been 13 days. It's been 13 days now."*
―Ulla Obendorf[src]
The **Kidnapping of Erik Obendorf** was an abduction perpetrated by Noah to preserve certain events of the timeline to lead up to Adam's grand plan. Helge Doppler kidnapped Erik and took him to 1986 to use him as a test subject for the Time Machine Chair.
Selma Ahrens

**Selma Ahrens** is a case worker from Child Protective Services (CPS) in 1986.

She interacts mostly with Ines Kahnwald at Winden Hospital regarding the welfare of Mikkel.

Ines reveals to **Selma Ahrens** that she previously had a son who died shortly after he was born.

Prior to CPS assuming custody of Mikkel and placing him in a children's home, Ines indicates she would like to adopt him.

## Production Goof

As **Selma Ahrens** and Ines walk down the hall of the hospital, *the same* extras, nurses and male patients (head wrap and arm cast), can be seen walking/crossing the hallway several times through out the scene.

## Appearances / References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Dark* Season 1 Episode 5: "Truths"
2. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 10: "Alpha and Omega"
Ella Lee

**Ella Lee** is a German child actress. She portrays the 1980s Hannah Kahnwald on *Dark*.

## Credits

### Actor

#### Season 1

* *Dark* Season 1 Episode 3: "Past and Present"
* *Dark* Season 1 Episode 5: "Truths"
* *Dark* Season 1 Episode 6: "Sic Mundus Creatus Est"
* *Dark* Season 1 Episode 7: "Crossroads"
* *Dark* Season 1 Episode 9: "Everything Is Now"

#### Season 2

* *Dark* Season 2 Episode 2: "Dark Matter"

#### Season 3

* *Dark* Season 3 Episode 2: "The Survivors"

## External Links

* Ella Lee at the Internet Movie Database
2020

**2020** is the year in which the central storyline of Season 2 of *Dark* takes place, over the week of June 21–27.

## Events

* Inspector Clausen is appointed to take over the police investigation of the disapperances in Winden
* The cancer-stricken Regina Tiedemann declines admission to the hospital, preferring to stay at home
* Martha and Bartosz break up
* The Winden Nuclear Power Plant is decommissioned, and Aleksander uses the occasion to cover up evidence of the 1986 incident
* Elisabeth discovers a photo of Noah from 1921 looking the same as he did in 2019
* the adult Jonas visits Hannah and introduces her to time travel using the apparatus; Charlotte and Katharina are subsequently brought into the circle
* Katharina discovers Jonas's Winden Cave map and orb light and investigates the Winden Caves in search of Ulrich and Mikkel
* Martha, Magnus, and Franziska force Bartosz to demonstrate the use of the apparatus
* Hannah uses the apparatus to travel to 1953, and does not return
* Claudia Tiedemann from 1987 visits the library to research her fate and the fate of her family, then visits Regina
* Clausen, suspecting Aleksander of murdering his brother, has him arrested for identity theft, and obtains a search warrant for the power plant
* Peter, the older Jonas, and the middle-aged Claudia attempt to usher their friends and family to the safety of the bunker, with mixed success
* The police discover the secret stash of Cs-137 at the power plant
* The older Jonas travels with the teenagers, and the alternate universe Martha travels with the teenage Jonas, to save them from the apocalypse
* The apocalypse wipes out Winden and almost everyone in it

## Characters

The following main characters appear at their "natural" ages in 2020:

### Youths

* Bartosz
* Elisabeth
* Franziska
* Jonas
* Magnus
* Martha

### Adults

* Aleksander
* Charlotte
* Clausen
* Hannah
* Katharina
* Peter
* Regina

### Seniors

* Jana
* Tronte
The Fall of the Damned

***The Fall of the Damned*** (German: *Der Höllensturz der Verdammten*), also known as the ***The Fall of the Rebel Angels***, is a massive oil painting by 17th-century Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens.

Painted on oak panels and measuring 286 × 224 cm (9 ft 4.6 in × 7 ft 4.2 in), it depicts a mass of bodies of the defeated army of Satan being hurled into the abyss after their battle with the archangel Michael. The painting, or a copy of it, occupies a large wall panel in the headquarters of Sic Mundus.

## Analysis

The battle between St. Michael and the rebel angels is described in the Biblical Book of Revelation, also known as the Revelation of John or the Apocalypse of St. John, which is the final book of the Bible in most traditions of Christianity. The Book of Revelation describes the final battle between good and evil at the end of the world, hence the adoption of the word *apocalypse* to refer to the end times in English (in Greek, it means *revelation* or *unveiling*). This fits with Adam's vision to bring about the end by destroying time.

## Behind the scenes

The real painting is part of the permanent collection of the Alte Pinakothek museum in Munich, Bavaria. It was the subject of an acid attack in 1959 by a Walter Menzl, a philosopher who had been unsuccessful in promoting his ideas about utopian universal peace.

## References

1. ↑ *Dark* Season 2 Episode 1: "Beginnings and Endings"
Winden Rest Home

The **Winden Rest Home** (in German: ***Senioren & Pflegeheim Stadt Winden***) is the nursing home in Winden.

The elderly Helge Doppler, suffering from dementia, resides here in 2019. As November comes around, however, he begins to leave the facility in the middle of the night. He wanders over to the high school, for example, forcing his daughter-in-law Charlotte Doppler to leave an assembly about the missing children. He absconds again only to be found in the woods by Torben Wöller.

   Peter, his son, visits him to urge him not to walk off, but Helge mutters incomprehensibly that he has to tell "him" to stop "it."

A few days later, Helge awakes in bed muttering that he remembers "everything." Ulrich Nielsen concludes that Helge must be connected to the disappearances of his son Mikkel and his brother Mads, and assaults him at the nursing home, requiring the efforts of nurse Clara Schrage and two other staff to pull him off. He escapes again later that night, and Ulrich follows him into the Winden Caves, where they both disappear.

## Trivia

The welcome sign outside bears a logo of three trees, the same as on the town's coat of arms (see: Winden). The tagline below reads *Wir bieten altergerechtes Wohnen*, roughly translating to *We offer age-appropriate living*.

## Behind the scenes

In Germany, a *Pflegeheim* is a residential facility which offers round-the-clock nursing care for the elderly and infirm, the highest level of institutional support. A more traditional term would be *Altenheim* (*home for the elderly* or *old folks' home* ), though this has fallen out of favor, in part because the same facility may serve people with disabilities who are not elderly.

## References

1. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 1: "Secrets"
2. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 4: "Double Lives"
3. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 7: "Crossroads"
Gretchen

Claudia Tiedemann's dog Gretchen

**Gretchen** began life a poodle belonging to the eleven-year-old Claudia Tiedemann in 1953.

On November 10, she goes missing in the woods while Claudia and Tronte Nielsen, a newcomer to Winden and Claudia's new housemate, are walking together. Also present on the walk is Helge Doppler, a couple years younger than Claudia and also tutored by her. He becomes jealous of the attention Claudia shows Tronte and throws a stick into the cave, which Gretchen chases. The poodle never returns to the outside world.

At least, not in that year. Instead, she comes out of the caves in 1986, while a middle-aged Claudia is head of the nuclear power plant and is inspecting the nuclear waste hidden in the caves. Claudia recognizes her immediately and takes her back to her office.

The following year Claudia is visited in her office by an elderly woman, whom Gretchen runs up to happily. The woman has told Claudia's secretary that the dog is in fact hers. Claudia apologizes, saying that no one ever reported her missing. She remarks the dog looks like the one she had as a child. The older woman supplies the name immediately. Claudia is disturbed. The woman reveals that the dog does belong to her, because she is in fact Claudia from the future. She explains that she was waiting in the cave in 1953 to collect Gretchen, who recognized her as though she were not a day older. She then brought the dog to 1986 for her younger self to find in the cave.

Claudia goes missing from 1987 some days after the visit with the mysterious old woman. Gretchen remains in the care of Regina, Claudia's teenaged daughter. One day in the fall, Tronte seems to recognize the poodle from his childhood. Regina says she thinks that is why Claudia kept her originally.

## References

1. ↑ *Dark* Season 3 Episode 8: "The Paradise"
2. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 8: "As You Sow, so You Shall Reap"
3. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 9: "Everything Is Now"
4. ↑ *Dark* Season 2 Episode 2: "Dark Matter"
5. ↑ *Dark* Season 2 Episode 7: "The White Devil"
6. ↑ *Dark* Season 3 Episode 2: "The Survivors"
Aleksander Köhler

*This article is about the Aleksander from the Original World. For the Aleksander from Adam's World, see Aleksander Tiedemann. For the Aleksander from Eva's World, see Aleksander Tiedemann.*
**Aleksander Köhler** (originally **Boris Niewald**) is an inhabitant of the Original World.

## History

Presumably, the events that led to Boris Niewald being on the run still occurred in this universe, as he adopted the identity of Aleksander Köhler. However, unlike in Adam's World and Eva's World, he did not marry Regina Doppler and have a son with her.

## References

1. ↑ https://darknetflix.io/en/family-tree
Udo Meier

**Udo Meier** is a Police Pathologist in 1953 & 1954.

## Events

On November 10th 1953 , he examines the bodies of two boys found in a sand pile at the plant construction site.

He tells Daniel and Egon of the strange findings. He has never seen burns like this before, possibly from a phosphorous grenade. It is interesting that both boys ears are completely destroyed. They both had a 1986 pfennig coin on a red lanyard around their neck. All their clothes have "Made in China" tags. The boys are not from Germany, one looks Mediterranean or Arabian and he is not sure about the redhead who also has a strange tattoo of a small winged unicorn barfing a rainbow.

*"I've seen all sorts of odd things, but this...definitely takes the cake."*
―**Udo Meier**[[As You Sow, so You Shall Reap|[src]]]On June 26th 1954, he examines the body of a 75-80 year old caucasian woman with long white hair who was shot in the chest. The eyes are notable as she had heterochromia Egon realizes this is the same woman who came to him at the Police station the day Helge reappeared to apologize, but he did not understand why. Daniel theorizes she may have been the madman's accomplice and/or mother who held Helge for 7 months. **Udo** also says the he came across something by chance, her body is contaminated likely being exposed to heavy radiation for a prolonged period of time perhaps working as a radiographer.

## References

1. ↑ *Dark* Season 1 Episode 8: "As You Sow, so You Shall Reap"
2. ↑ *Dark* Season 2 Episode 7: "The White Devil"
Karoline Eichhorn

### Portrays

Adult Charlotte Doppler, Adult Charlotte Doppler (Eva's World), Adult Claudia Tiedemann (Eva's World)

### Years active

1988–

**Karoline Eichhorn** is a German actress. She portrays Charlotte Doppler in *Dark*.

## Credits

### Actress

#### Season 1

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

## External links

* Karoline Eichhorn at the Internet Movie Database
Colors

Some **colors** feature prominently in *Dark*. Their appearance on screen creates a vivid contrast to the dark and bleak color scheme of the show.

Three colors which feature prominently are **yellow, red and blue**. In the color wheel, these three colors are equally distanced to each other and stand in a triadic relation to one another, just like the years in the cycle are 33 years apart.

## Yellow

* Jonas wears a yellow raincoat when outside.
* The Raider bar wrapper is gold with red lettering.
* The doors and trim of the high school are painted yellow.
* The barrels of nuclear waste from the 1986 incident are yellow.
* Agnes sometimes wears a bright yellow dress.
* The radiation suits are yellow.
* The anti-nuclear sweatshirt Mads Nielsen wears in his 1986 photo with Ulrich is yellow.
* The cassette tape in Mads' Walkman is yellow.
* Benni's umbrella is yellow.
* Hannah's massage table is yellow.

## Red

* The 1986 pfennig coin found on the bodies of the dead boys hangs on a red cord
* The red cord showing the path through the Winden Caves to the portal is red
* Martha, Claudia, and most of the women, sometimes wear bright red lipstick
* Franziska Doppler is angry about Elisabeth taking her red lipstick
* Claudia wears a bright red suit when she meets with Bernd
* The string Martha as Ariadne provides for navigating the labyrinth is red
* Agnes wears a red dress when she arrives in Winden in 1953
* Mikkel Nielsen is wearing a red coat when he is transported to 1986 (Past and Present)
* Claudia Tiedemann sometimes wears a red blouse as a child

## Blue

* The wallpaper in the 1986 bunker has a blue background
* Jana Nielsen wears blue sweaters, blouses, and shawls
* Tronte Nielsen wears a blue jacket when he arrives in Winden
* Agnes sometimes wears a blue dress
Ulla Obendorf

Ulla Obendorf is the mother of Kilian Obendorf and the missing Erik Obendorf and wife of Jürgen Obendorf. She spat at Charlotte Doppler, the chief of police in 2019, when Ulla & Jürgen were upset at the police station on Monday November 4th, 2019 for not finding anything regarding Erik's disappearance 13 days prior.*Dark* Season 1 Episode 1: "Secrets"
Lydia Makrides

**Lydia Makrides**, credited in earlier episodes as **Lydia Maria Makrides**, is a Greek actress. She portrays the teenage Regina Tiedemann in *Dark*.

## Credits

### Actor

#### Season 1

* "Past and Present"
* "Sic Mundus Creatus Est"
* "Crossroads"
* "Everything Is Now"

#### Season 2

* "Dark Matter"
* "Ghosts"
* "The Travelers"

## External links

* Lydia Makrides at the Internet Movie Database
Doris Tiedemann (Eva's World)

Martha Nielsen (great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter)
Michael Kahnwald (great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson)
Jonas Kahnwald (great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson)

## Physical Description

### Eyes

Brown

*This article is about the Doris from Eva's World. For the Doris from Adam's World, see Doris Tiedemann. For the Doris from the Original World, see Doris Tiedemann.*
**Egon Tiedemann** is the mother of Claudia Tiedemann, and the wife of Egon Tiedemann.

## History

Doris is never depicted, though events in her life may have played out differently given that her husband knew of time travel and was a member of Erit Lux in this universe. It is likely that she also had an affair with this universe's version of Agnes Nielsen.

Like her counterpart, she was likely dead before 2019.
Theseus and the Minotaur

**Theseus and the Minotaur** is a myth in Greek mythology. A play based on the myth was set up at the Winden school with Martha Nielsen in the lead role of Ariadne, and *Dark* features several allusions and connections to elements from the myth.

## Allusions

* The labyrinth
* Lunar/annual cycles
* "Sacrifice" of men/women to the Minotaur
* The red string
* Mino Tauros is the publisher of H.G. Tannhaus' novel "A Journey Through Time."
* Nietzsche wrote a poem entitled "Ariadne's Lament".He also developed the concept of Eternal Recurrences in which the past repeats itself and suffering continues to be experienced over and over again. Charlotte Doppler, in the episode "Truths", tells Ulrich that her grandfather was obsessed with the lunar/solar cycle, Big Bang, Big Crunch, and Nietzsche's eternal recurrences.
* S. 2 Ep. 5 In the phone [Martha Nielsen's] used for time traveling the screensaver writes ariadne on it
Timeline

The **Timeline** is a chronological display of the events that happened in the different worlds depicted in *Dark*.

## Chronology

### Main Reality

* Before 20th Century
* 1900s • 1910s • 1920s • 1930s • 1940s • 1950s • 1960s • 1970s • 1980s • 1990s
* 2000s • 2010 • 2011 • 2012 • 2013 • 2014 • 2015 • 2016 • 2017 • 2018 • 2019 • 2020 • 2021 • - • 2023 • - • 2040 • 2041 • - • 2052 • 2053

### Alternate Realities

* **Eva's World**: 1940s • 1950s • 1960s • 1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s • 2010 • 2011 • 2012 • 2013 • 2014 • 2015 • 2016 • 2017 • 2018 • 2019 • - • 2040 • - • 2052
* **Origin World**: 1970s • - • 2019
* **Destroyed Origin World**: 1970s • 1980s
* **Knot**: 2053
* **Eva's World/Knot**: 2052
* **First Reality**: 2020
* **Third Reality**: 2020
* **Eva's World/Second Reality**: 201
Claudia Doppler

*This article is about the Claudia from the Original World. For the Claudia from Adam's World, see Claudia Tiedemann. For the Claudia from Eva's World, see Claudia Tiedemann.*
**Claudia Doppler** (née **Tiedemann**) is a resident of Winden in the Original World, and the second wife of Bernd Doppler. She lives with her husband and daughter, Regina, in a beautiful old house on the edge of the woods.

## History

Claudia is restored to existence after her alternate self in Adam's World tells Adam about the true origin of the time loop, and how he can prevent the destruction of the original world and the creation of the two other worlds by using quantum entanglement during the Apocalypse.

As her alternate self predicted, Regina lives a healthy life, free of cancer.

## Notes and references

1. ↑ https://darknetflix.io/en/event-timeline/regina-c
2. ↑ *Dark* Season 3 Episode 8: "The Paradise"
Max Schimmelpfennig

**Max Schimmelpfennig** is a German actor. He portrays the younger Noah in *Dark*.

Schimmelpfennig got his start as a youth stage actor at the Departure Theater Berlin, later expanding to films and television. He had a recurring role as Sami in *Tempel*, but he may be best known outside Germany for his portrayal of Wilhelm Müller on the 2018 *Sky* series *Das Boot*,

## Credits

### Actor

#### Season 2

* "Beginnings and Endings"
* "The Travelers"
* "Endings and Beginnings"

#### Season 3

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

## External links

* Max Schimmelpfennig at the Internet Movie Database

* Follow Max Schimmelpfennig (@max.schimmelpfennig) on Instagram
1953

**1953** is the third year introduced in Season 1 of *Dark*. The events of November 10–12 are depicted in the episode "As You Sow, so You Shall Reap." This timeline resumes in Season 2 from June 22, 1954.

## Events

* Bernd Doppler proposes the construction of a nuclear power plant to the city fathers of Winden
* Ulrich Nielsen travels from 2019 via the wormhole in the Winden Caves in his failed pursuit of the elderly Helge Doppler. After various encounters with the townsfolk, he attempts to murder Helge as a child, and is arrested by Egon Tiedemann.
* The elderly Claudia Tiedemann visits the young H.G. Tannhaus at the clockmaker's shop and commissions him to build a time travel apparatus from her blueprints

## Characters

The characters of Agnes Nielsen, Greta Doppler, and Daniel Kahnwald are first encountered in this period. Other main characters appear as their "natural" ages as follows:

* As youths: Claudia, Tronte, Helge, Ines, and Jana
* As adults: Egon & Doris, Bernd & Greta, Agnes, Daniel, H.G. Tannhaus
* Time travelers - Adult - Noah, Ulrich
* Time travelers - Elderly - Claudia
Winfried Glatzeder

**Winfried Glatzeder** was born on April 26, 1945 in Zoppot, Germany (today Sopot, Pomorskie, Poland). He is an actor, known for Till Eulenspiegel (1975), Tatort (1970) and Vergeßt Mozart (1985). He has been married to Marion Glatzeder since 1970.

## Appearances

### Season 2

*Dark* Season 2 Episode 2: "Dark Matter"

*Dark* Season 2 Episode 3: "Ghosts"

*Dark* Season 2 Episode 5: "Lost and Found"

### Season 3

*Dark* Season 3 Episode 2: "The Survivors"

*Dark* Season 3 Episode 5: "Life and Death"

## External Links

 Winfried Glatzeder at the Internet Movie Database
A Journey Through Time

### Owner

H.G. Tannhaus, Jonas Kahnwald, Helge Doppler, Claudia Tiedemann, Noah, Bartosz Tiedemann

## Behind the scenes

### Last seen

"Alpha and Omega"

**A Journey Through Time** (German: ***Eine Reise durch die Zeit***)is a book written by H.G. Tannhaus some time betweeen 1953 and 1986, published by Mino Taurus. It is a scientific study on time and explores things like time travel, the sun-moon cycle and the nature of wormholes. It is first introduced in "Lies" when the stranger comes into the room after the shower and looks at the book on which lies a strange key.

It is shown many times during the show and serves the purpose of catalyzying a character's interest in time travel. It's also a narration device, the book's synopsis is the monologue by Tannhaus at the beginning of the first episode, and it also contains theories surrounding time travel that apply to the story.

On the front cover of the book, there is an upside down Penrose Triangle. On the back cover of the book, a following blurb is written:

"*Wir vertrauen auf den linearen, ewig gleichförmigen Verlauf der Zeit - bis in die Unendlichkeit. Aber die Unterscheidung zwischen Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft ist nichts als eine Illusion*."

(English translation: *"We trust in the linear, forever the same shape of the past, until eternity. But the diffrences between the past, presence and future are nothing illusion.")*

was published on April 19th, 2020. ISBN: 9781716041020, 1716041023. The English version of the book is poorly translated.
Triquetra

The **triquetra** is a three-pointed symbol that has been used in ancient Nordic, Celtic, German, and Japanese cultures. It has been used in both pagan and Christian religious imagery as well, symbolizing the Holy Trinity in the latter. It is sometimes interlaced within a circle or combined/interlaced with additional triquetras to form different geometric shapes like crosses, celtic knots, trikelions, and the three-hare symbol are all related.

In the first two seasons of *Dark*, the triquetra seems to symbolize the caves' closed time loops with each year being thirty-three years apart, with the past affecting the future and the future influencing the past. In the third season, it comes to symbolize the three different worlds as well.

This symbol is seen on the Emerald Tablet, the steel door in the cave leading to the passage, among the Stranger's papers, in the Sic Mundus photograph, on the leather notebook, and more.

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triquetra
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://dark.netflix.io/triquetra/
Determinism

**Determinism** is the philosophical belief that "all events, including human action, are ultimately determined by causes regarded as external to the will" and as such, free will does not exist. It is a central theme in *Dark*.

## Occurences

* Peter Doppler recites the serenity prayer: “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.” *Dark* Season 1 Episode 1: "Secrets"
* Jonas travels back to 1986 to rescue Mikkel and change the circumstances of the future, but is prevented by his future self as it would eliminate his own existence.
Lisa Kreuzer

**Lisa Kreuzer** is a German actress who portrays 2019-20 elderly Claudia Tiedemann.

She has credits for appearances in over 150 television series and films throughout her career. Notably, The American Friend (1977) with Dennis Hopper, The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and a trilogy that her husband, Wim Wenders, directed the Road Movie trilogy: Alice in the Cities (1974), The Wrong Move (1975) and Kings of the Road (1976).

## Credits

### Actress

#### Season 1

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

#### Season 2

* "Beginnings and Endings"
* "Dark Matter"
* "Ghosts"
* "An Endless Cycle"
* "The White Devil"

## External links

* Lisa Kreuzer at the Internet Movie Database
Peter Doppler/Eva's World

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

**Peter Doppler** is the son of Helge Doppler and Ulla Schmidt, the husband of Charlotte Doppler, and the father of Franziska and Elisabeth. He is a priest at Winden's St. Christopher church.

1. ↑ https://dark.netflix.io/en/event-timeline/peter-doppler-b
2. ↑ *Dark* Season 3 Episode 8: "The Paradise"