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Lenora Rauch

**Lenora Rauch** was a major character in *Deutschland 83* and its follow up series *Deutschland 86* and *Deutschland 89*.

## Biography

### Deutschland 83

Officially, she is the Cultural Attaché at the East German Embassy in Bonn. However, she also runs the GDR assets in the West for the HVA. She is the sister of Ingrid Rauch and the aunt of Martin Rauch.

She convinces Walter Schweppenstette to recruit Martin as a spy named Moritz Stamm to infiltrate the West German Army. In the final episode of the series her nephew convinces her that Able Archer is actually a hoax, which averts nuclear war.

### Deutschland 86

After fleeing Germany in 1983, she has ended up living in Cape Town, South Africa, with Rose Seithathi, an agent for the ANC who is also her lover.

She is told to approach Martin in a bid to make a trade with an arms dealer but the deal goes wrong and after Martin is injured Lenora leaves him and flees to safety.

Upon her return to Germany later in the series she is arrested and taken in for questioning, with her passport being confiscated.

### Deutschland 89

With the help of Rose Seithathi, she stages a jailbreak and manages to return to the HVA. She shows up at Markus Fuchs' and Barbara Dietrich's Italian villa and later meets her death following a confrontation with Martin Rauch.

## Appearances

### Deutschland 83

* Quantum Jump
* Brave Guy
* Atlantic Lion
* Northern Wedding
* Cold Fire
* Brandy Station
* Bold Guard
* Able Archer

### Deutschland 86

* Tar Baby
* Ommegang
* Dragon Rouge
* Le Cafard
* Tjello
* El Dorado Canyon
* Vula
* Chickenfeed
* Total Onslaught
Florian Amend

**Florian Amend** is a minor recurring character in *Deutschland 86*.

## Biography

He is the chairman of the Sprembex Corporation and is first seen meeting for a meal in an East German restaurant with Walter Schweppenstette and Annett Schneider to discuss the ideas that the company has for its new drug trials.

As he arrives to work he is also confronted by Alex Edel, Tim Avery and Katie Janeway about his drug trials. The former later returns to his office alone under the pretence of doing some research for university and while the secretary is away printing some documents he sneaks a look at documents about the drug trials until Amend catches him in the act and has him escorted from the building by security.

He is later seen meeting Annett Schneider in a hotel room and they kiss, confirming that they are having an affair.

## Appearances

### Deutschland 86

* Tar Baby
* Dragon Rouge
* El Dorado Canyon
* Vula
Marianne

**Marianne** was a minor recurring character is *Deutschland 86*.

## Biography

In the episode Tjello, she delivers food to Ingrid Rauch before showing up at the Fischer household asking Christoph Fischer for help with her car. He leads her to the garage to ask if she can bring him and his family over the border using a camper van.  She declines and Tina gives her a tape to give to Thomas.  However,  Marianne returns to see the Fischers in the middle of the night and agrees to help them.

In the episode El Dorado Canyon, after Martin tells Annett about the Fischers' attempt to flee over the border, Marianne is stopped by the Stasi police. The family are detained for questioning after she is shot dead while trying to make a run from the guards.

## Appearances

* *Tjello*
* *El Dorado Canyon*
Karl Kramer

**Karl Kramer** is a supporting character in *Deutschland 83*. He is a mole at the same base as Moritz Stamm and an assistant of General Edel.

## Biography

At the beginning of the series he is assigned by Tobias Tischbier and Lenora Rauch to go undercover as a spy to assist Martin at the army barracks. He is also present at General Edel's barbecue at his home when Martin is overheard by Renate Werner making a phone call to the East.  He and Martin bring her home after the latter spikes her drink with a drug, causing her to pass out.

During a military training exercise in the episode Atlantic Lion, Martin drops a piece of paper with a coded message and is mocked by fellow cadets before Kramer hands the paper back to him. He also makes fun of Alex Edel for his pacifist ways.

In the episode Brandy Station, Kramer is assigned by Lenora Rauch to deal with Alexander Edel taking General Jackson hostage at a brothel. He brings along Martin Rauch, and the two of them successfully free the General and get Alex out as well. However, Jackson accidentally shoots a prostitute in the confusion. Kramer picks up the murder weapon and runs to get out of the brothel. Unfortunately, after everyone else has already exited the building, Kramer runs into police forces. He fires the pistol at them, but is gunned down in return.

## Appearances

### Deutschland 83

* Quantum Jump
* Brave Guy
* Atlantic Lion
* Northern Wedding
* Cold Fire
* Brandy Station (Death)
Sylvester Groth

**Sylvester Groth** is a German actor and tenor who portrays Walter Schweppenstette on *Deutschland 83* and its follow up series *Deutschland 86* and *Deutschland 89*.

## IMDb Biography

Sylvester Groth was born on March 31, 1958 in Jerichow, East Germany. He is an actor, known for *Inglourious Basterds* (2009), *The Reader* (2008), *Stalingrad* (1993) and *Dark* (2017).
Deutschland 86

**Deutschland 86** is a ten-episode German television series starring Jonas Nay as Martin Rauch who in 1983 was sent to the West as an undercover spy for the Stasi.  It is the follow up series to *Deutschland 83*, which aired in the US and Germany in 2015 and in the UK in 2016.

It is a co-production between AMC Networks' SundanceTV and RTL Television by the production company, UFA Fiction, with international distribution by RTL Group's Fremantle Media International.

Due to the low viewership for *Deutschland 83* on RTL, this series premiered in Germany on Amazon Prime Video on 19 October and in the United States on SundanceTV six days later. In the UK, as with *Deutschland 83*, it aired on More4 in March 2019.

## Plot

Abandoned by Moscow and desperate for cash, the East German leadership pushes their secret operatives to experiment with global capitalism and save their sinking socialist ship. Long banished to Africa for his sins in 1983, Martin Rauch is now sent back into the field. Dark deals and a dangerous mission lead him to South Africa, Angola, Libya, Paris, West Berlin and finally back to East Berlin, where he must make an impossible decision.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Jonas Nay as Martin Rauch (10 episodes)
* Maria Schrader as Lenora Rauch (9 episodes)
* Florence Kasumba as Rose Seithathi (10 episodes)
* Sylvester Groth as Walter Schweppenstette (10 episodes)
* Sonja Gerhardt as Annett Schneider (10 episodes)
* Lavinia Wilson as Brigitte Winkelmann (10 episodes)
* Ludwig Trepte as Alex Edel (7 episodes)
* Alexander Beyer as Tobias Tischbier (9 episodes)
* Fritzi Haberlandt as Tina Fischer (10 episodes)
* Chris Veres as Tim Avery (6 episodes)

### Recurring Cast

* Vladimir Burlakov as Thomas Posimski (8 episodes)
* Anke Engelke as Barbara Dietrich (7 episodes)
* Uwe Preuss as Markus Fuchs (10 episodes)
* Carina Wiese as Ingrid Rauch (8 episodes)
* Michaela Caspar as Frau Netz (5 episodes)
* Jonathan Pienaar as Gary Banks (4 episodes)

### Guest Cast

* Emilia Pieske as Sandra Fischer (7 episodes)
* Helena Pieske as Steffi Fischer (7 episodes)
* Emma Fischer as Katie Janeway (6 episodes)
* Knut Berger as Christoph Fischer (6 episodes)
* Amira El Sayed as Samira (3 episodes)
* Seyneb Saleh as Aya (2 episodes)
* Raul Casso as Hector Valdez (4 episodes)
* Likho Mango as Roberto (4 episodes)
* Laura Beckner as Maria Valdez (2 episodes)
* Mehdi Nebbou as Jean-Luc (2 episodes)
* Hope Thangata as Tiago (3 episodes)
* Oskar Reim as Max Schneider (4 episodes)

## Trivia

* The opening credits for both the German and US broadcasts use the song "Major Tom (Coming Home)" by Peter Schilling, which marks a change to the German transmission of *Deutschland 83*, which used "Blue Monday" by New Order.
* A trailer released prior to the season contained the song "I Ran" by A Flock of Seagulls.

## Videos

Deutschland 86 TrailerTitle Sequence of "Deutschland 86" (2018) Sundance TV
Big fish four-eyes

The **big fish four-eyes** is a character who appears in the episodes "The Two Faces of Squidward" and "Say Awww!"

## Description

She is a large and muscular looking light green fish with four eyes, a dark green dorsal fin, and hot pink lips. She wears a light pink seashell bra and a purple speedo.

## Role in series

The big fish four-eyes has only appeared in two episodes so far. She is absent from the series for many years after her debut in "The Two Faces of Squidward," but makes a comeback in the season 13 episode "Say Awww!" where she has a very slight cameo appearance.

## Roles

### "The Two Faces of Squidward"

She appears from Squidward's bathtub and tells him "Hi, handsome" due to his handsome appearance which in turn makes him freak out and jump out of the tub.

### "Say Awww!"

She is part of the pyramid that the Bikini Bottomites form in order to escape from Q.T.-π.
Tim Avery

**Tim Avery** was a recurring character in *Deutschland 86*. He was an American G.I. who was a closeted gay man and worked alongside Alex Edel.

## Biography

Along with friend Katie Janeway, he meets up with Alex Edel in a West Belin nightclub and tries to flirt with the latter, but is told to knock it off.

They later confront Florian Amend about Sprembex Corporation's inability to find a cure for AIDS. After meeting Frau Netz, Alex comes clean about attempting suicide following his AIDS test, which resulted in his father being paralysed when he tried to stop his son from killing himself.

They later stage a protest at the Sprembex Corporation, which proves to be a success as Tim and Alex smile at each other. They celebrate by partying in Club Paradise with Tim finally coming out by kissing Alex, but the night ends in disaster when a bomb planted by the Libyans explodes. Alex escapes relatively uninjured but Tim is badly hurt and admitted to hospital. The latter's mother plans on taking him home to America and is rude to Alex when she sees how affectionate he is being toward her son.

He eventually dies from his injuries. A memorial is later held for him and when Alex turns it into a rally for gay rights and makes a speech about what it is like living as a gay person with AIDS, Tim's mother walks out of the church in disgust. However, he is applauded by Tobias Tischbier and a group of anti-war protesters who have shown up to offer their support.

## Appearances

### Deutschland 86

* Ommegang
* Dragon Rouge
* Le Cafard
* Tjello
* El Dorado Canyon
Gary Banks

**Gary Banks** is a recurring character in *Deutschland 86*.

## Biography

He first encounters Martin and Lenora in Cape Town and offers to take them into Angola. However he ends up double-crossing them which forces them to flee.

He later follows the latter and Rose back to Berlin and spies on them.  Later, he finds Martin at the docks and the latter is saved by Rose who shoots Gary dead and then flees back to Cape Town to await Lenora's return, unaware that the latter has been arrested by the BND, who has confiscated her passport.

## Appearances

### Deutschland 86

* *Ommegang*
* *Dragon Rouge*
* *Le Cafard*
* *Chickenfeed*
Niels Bormann

**Niels Bormann** is a German actor who portrays Fritz Hartmann on *Deutschland 83* and its follow up series *Deutschland 86* and *Deutschland 89*.

## IMDb Biography

Niels Bormann was born on April 28, 1973 in Bremen, Germany. He is an actor, known for *Toni Erdmann* (2016), *Deutschland 83* (2015) and *Warum Ulli sich am Weihnachtsabend umbringen wollte* (2005).
Sonja Gerhardt

**Sonja Gerhardt** is a German actress who portrays Annett Schneider on *Deutschland 83* and its follow up series *Deutschland 86*.

## IMDb Biography

Sonja Gerhardt was born on April 2, 1989 in Berlin, Germany. She is an actress, known for *Türkisch für Anfänger* (2012), *Summer* (2008) and *The Hunt for the Amber Room* (2012).
Deutschland 83 - Die Musik aus der TV-Serie

**Deutschland 83 - Die Musik aus der TV-Serie** is the soundtrack album released to accompany the TV series *Deutschland 83*. It features 41 tracks from the show spread across two CDs.

## Track listing

**CD 1**

1. Blue Monday – New Order
2. 99 Luftballons – Nena
3. Keine Heimat – Ideal
4. Ein Jahr (Es geht voran) – Fehlfarben
5. Major Tom (völlig losgelöst) – Peter Schilling
6. Mad World – Tears For Fears
7. Hungry Like The Wolf – Duran Duran
8. Call Me - Blondie
9. Boys Don’t Cry – The Cure
10. Sonderzug nach Pankow - Udo Lindenberg & das Panikorchester
11. Grads – Berluc
12. Lenora Takes Blood - Reinhold Heil
13. Berlin – Fischer-Z
14. Goldener Reiter – Joachim Witt
15. Jeopardy – Greg Kihn Band
16. Speak Like A Child – The Style Council
17. Gimme All Your Lovin‘ – ZZ Top
18. Shadow On The Wall – Mike Oldfield
19. Burning The Code – Reinhold Heil
20. Ich bin Rocker - Udo Lindenberg
21. No Bomb – Berluc

**CD 2**

1. Under Pressure - Queen
2. White Wedding – Billy Idol
3. I’ve Seen That Face Before - Grace Jones
4. All Night Long – Mary Jane Girls
5. Just The Two Of Us – Grover Washington, Jr.
6. Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye
7. I’m Not In Love - 10cc
8. Jenseits von Eden – Nino De Angelo
9. Am Fenster – City
10. Sehnsucht – Puhdys
11. Jugendliebe – Ute Freudenberg
12. Und ich sehn‘ mich nach Dir – Metropol
13. Cruise Missiles – Fischer Z
14. Martin Arrives - Reinhold Heil
15. Mr. Roboto – Styx
16. Just What I Always Wanted – Mari Wilson
17. Last Night A D.J. Saved My Life - Indeep
18. Living On Video – Trans-X
19. I.O.U. – Freeez
20. Pack Jam - Jonzun Crew

## References

1. ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Deutschland-Die-Musik-VARIOUS-ARTISTS/dp/B015S12VY8/ref=sr\_1\_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1533207485&sr=8-1&keywords=deutschland+83+soundtrack
Giant Anglerfish

The **Giant Anglerfish** or Incidental 205 is an incidental character who first appears in the episode "Rock Bottom." She is classified as a "deep sea" type incidental.

## Description

She is a very large dark purple angler fish with lavender fins and lips. She has small beady magenta colored eyes surrounded by darker purple marks on her face. She also has a lure with a magenta bulb at the end as well as darker purple spikes on her back.

## Role in series

Incidental 205 aka Giant Anglerfish only appears in one episode of the series so far. Like all "deep sea" type incidentals, she is a lot less common than the other incidental types due to usually being portrayed as a Rock Bottomite.
Mehdi Nebbou

**Mehdi Nebbou** is a French actor who portrays Jean-Luc on *Deutschland 86*.

## IMDb Biography

Mehdi Nebbou was born in Bayonne, France, to a German mother and an Algerian father. He started his career by appearing in the film *My Sweet Home* (2001), directed by Filippos Tsitos.

He has appeared in the Steven Spielberg movie *Munich* (2005) and in 2007 for his performance in *Teresas Zimmer* (2006), directed by German film director Constanze Knoche, he won the award for best actor at the First Steps Awards. He has also appeared in the TV shows *Spiral* and *Homeland*.
Krishna

In *Deutschland 83*, Yvonne Edel is part of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh cult which is run by **Krishna**.

He butts heads with her brother Alex over the ineffectiveness of passive nonviolence when the latter shows up to try and talk to Yvonne and again after he shows up at the centre following an argument with their father, having packed his bags as a result.

## Appearances

### Deutschland 83

* Brave Guy
* Cold Fire
Barbara Dietrich

**Barbara Dietrich** is a recurring character in *Deutschland 86* and *Deutschland 89*.

## Biography

She is a financial consultant in the StäV who also forms a secret romantic relationship with Markus Fuchs. The two later marry and move to Italy.

In the series finale, Nina Rudow and Fritz Hartmann turn up for a visit and shots ring out, leaving the audience to decide who has been killed.

## Appearances

### Deutschland 86

* Tar Baby
* Ommegang
* Le Cafard
* El Dorado Canyon
* Vula
* Chickenfeed
* Total Onslaught

### Deutschland 89

* Kyrie Eleison
* November Nights
* Magic
* Operation Condor
* Timișoara Rebelllion
* Quando Ti Guardo
* Phase Zwei
* The End of History
Errol Trotman-Harewood

**Errol Trotman-Harewood** is an American actor who portrays General Arnold Jackson on *Deutschland 83*. Although born in the US, he currently resides in Berlin, Germany.

## IMDb Biography

Errol Trotman-Harewood was born on January 25, 1955 in New Amsterdam, USA. He is an actor, known for *The Ghost Writer* (2010), *(T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1* (2004) and *Bookies* (2003).
Anna Winger

**Anna Winger** is an American screenwriter who is the creator alongside her husband Jörg and writer of *Deutschland 83* and follow up series *Deutschland 86*and *Deutschland 89*.  She wrote all of the episodes in English before they were translated by her husband.

## Official links

* Official Website
* Anna Winger on Twitter
Ursula Edel

**Ursula Edel** is a supporting character in Deutschland 83.

## Biography

She is the wife of Wolfgang Edel and the mother of their children Alex and Yvonne.

She is emotional but willing to lie to her husband, going as far as to stand up for her son due to his anti-war views. In the final episode it appears she has had enough as she leaves the family home to live with her sister.

## Appearances

### Deutschland 83

* Brave Guy
* Northern Wedding
* Cold Fire
* Brandy Station
* Bold Guard
* Able Archer
Luise von Finckh

**Luise von Finckh** is a German actress who portrays Conny on *Deutschland 89*.

## IMDb Biography

Luise von Finckh made her first acting experiences at the age of 10 in the musical *Les Misérables* at the Theater des Westens. In 2005 she played little Cosette there.

From January to July 2007, she participated in the children's and youth series Schloss Einstein as Rosi. This was followed by the cast as Lotte in the film *cattle à la carte* in 2010 and 2011 as Luise in the fairy tale *The Scored Shoes*.

In the summer of 2012, she first played the French exchange student Claire Latour in the series *Good Times, Bad Times*, where she took over in the fall of 2016, the main character Jule Vogt. In 2015 she could be seen in *Fack ju Göhte 2*.
Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung

The **Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung** (or **HVA**, translating to **Main Directorate for Reconnaissance**) was the foreign intelligence service of the former German Democratic Republic and was an integral part of the GDR Ministry of State Security, commonly known as the Stasi. Its headquarters were situated in Berlin.

From *Deutschland 83* to *Deutschland 89*, the Stasi Museum, located in the original headquarters, was used as a filming location.
Erich Honecker

### Role

First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany

**Erich Honecker** was a German politician who served as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany from 1971 to 1989. He was ousted from office a few weeks before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

## Appearances

* Quantum Jump (archive footage)
* Able Archer (archive footage)
Linda Seiler

**Linda Seiler** is a supporting character in *Deutschland 83*.

## Biography

She was Henrik Mayer's secretary who had an affair with him.

She fell in love with Martin Rauch (undercover as Moritz Stamm) after he was assigned to seduce her and bug her office.

He later proposed to her but after he told her the truth about himself, she tried to make a run for it but died after being hit by a car driven by Tobias Tischbier in the episode *Northern Wedding*.

## Appearances

* Brave Guy
* Atlantic Lion
* Northern Wedding (Death)
Christoph Fischer

**Christoph Fischer** is a minor recurring character in *Deutschland 86*.

## Biography

### Deutschland 86

He is the husband of Tina Fischer and father to their two daughters as well as the brother-in-law of Thomas Posimski.

After Tina introduces him to Marianne he shows the latter a van she can drive him and his family over the border into West Germany.  Hesitant at first, she later agrees to help them. However, they are later arrested and she is shot dead.

Their daughters are put up for adoption but are later reunited over the border with their mother with the help of Martin Rauch and Annet Schneider.

### Deutschland 89

Tina Fischer learns from Ingrid Rauch that he died in prison in April 1988.

## Appearances

### Deutschland 86

* *Ommegang*
* *Le Cafard*
* *Green Book*
* *Tjello*
* *El Dorado Canyon*
* *Vula*
Martin Rauch

**Martin Rauch**, also known as **Moritz Stamm**, codename **Kolibri**, is the central protagonist of *Deutschland 83* and its follow up series *Deutschland 86* and *Deutschland 89*.

## Biography

### Deutschland 83

Martin is a 24 year old man living in East Germany with his mother, who is on the list for a kidney transplant. He is enlisted by his aunt Lenora and her boss Walter Schweppenstette to act as a spy in the West under the identity of Moritz Stamm, the aide-de-camp of General Wolfgang Edel, who is gunned down by an assassin on a train.

While he is over the border his girlfriend Annett learns she is pregnant with his child while engaging in an affair with a work colleague, who is later sent to the West as punishment after she reveals to Schweppenstette that he has been distributing banned books.

Martin returns to the East after his mother has been moved up the donor list and donates his kidney to her but then returns to the West to continue his mission. After his cover is blown, he goes on the run while it is revealed that Schweppenstette is his biological father. However, he returns home to be with his mother.

### Deutschland 86

In 1986, Martin is now hiding in an orphanage in Angola where he is called upon by his aunt to assist her with an operation selling a shipment of West German weapons to the South African Army. However, the trade goes wrong and Martin ends up being abandoned in the Libyan desert by Lenora.

He eventually finds a way to escape and later makes it back to Berlin desperately wanting Annett to let him see their son Max, ultimately abducting him while he is asleep.

After the Fischers are arrested for attempting to cross the border and their daughters put into an adoption home, Martin asks Annett for help in rescuing them. She does so and after they are successful she agrees to let him see their son.

### Deutschland 89

In 1989, Martin lives in East Berlin with his son Max and is working for a state-owned company named Robotron. He is given an assignment by Markus Fuchs to transport the draft of a new travel law to the SED leadership and take photographs of the document before handing them over. Martin reads the documents and realizes that the law would lead to the end of the German Democratic Republic, therefore he tells the politician that he hands it over to that the law has been approved by Moscow.

He also meets Nicole Zangen, a teacher at his son's school, who is later discovered to have been assigned by Schweppenstette to keep an eye on him. In the series finale, the two are given new identities and leave to start a new life together in Marrakech, with Max left in the care of his grandfather.

## Trivia

* In Episode 9 of *Deutschland 86*, Annett Schneider opens a file with his personal information. His date of birth is shown as 25 January 1959.
* In *Deutschland 86*, set three years after the events of the first series, he is 27 years old.

## Appearances

As the central character, he appears in all episodes.
Unknown prostitute

While Alex Edel was holding General Jackson hostage at a brothel, this **unknown prostitute** who was with the latter pleaded with the former to let her go as she had to collect her child from school.

Martin and Kramer headed there to apprehend him and amid the chaos Jackson, who had retrieved Alex's gun, shot the woman dead accidentally.

## Appearance

### Deutschland 83

* Brandy Station (Death)
Aya

**Aya** is a minor character in *Deutschland 86*.

## Biography

She is the younger sister of Samira, who met Martin Rauch when he was abandoned in the Libyan desert and introduced him to Khaled al Badri.

After her elder sister arrives in Berlin, they hatch a plan to detonate a bomb and initially attempt to set it off in a hotel lobby, attempting to leave the purse in a bar and departing before a person, who thinks they simply left it behind, returns it to them.  Instead, it is detonated in Club Paradiso, causing widespread destruction, injury and loss of life.

She is later arrested and detained for questioning.

## Appearances

* *Green Book*
* *Tjello*
Maison de France bombing

The **Maison de France bombing** was an event that took place in West Berlin in August 1983 and was linked to terrorist Carlos the Jackal.

In *Deutschland 83*, the event is featured in the episode Cold Fire, taking place after Stamm delivers a canister of coffee to an unknown man, unaware that the canister contains a bomb that the man then detonates.
Frank Winkelmann

**Frank Winkelmann** was a supporting character in *Deutschland 86*.

## Biography

He was the husband of Brigitte Winkelmann and was the West German Trade Commissioner. Martin and Lenora attempt to get his signature so that they can make an arms deal in Angola.

He later meets with Lenora Rauch and as they are making a deal they are photographed by Martin Rauch.

In the season finale, Brigitte tells him that she is leaving him and he is later found dead in a hotel bathroom after getting drunk and flirting with Nina Rudow in a bar.

## Appearances

* Tar Baby
* Ommegang
* Dragon Rouge
* Tjello
* Chickenfeed
* Total Onslaught (Death)
Sandra Fischer

**Sandra Fischer** is a recurring character in *Deutschland 86*. She is the daughter of Christoph Fischer and Tina Fischer and has one younger sister named Steffi.

## Biography

### Deutschland 86

After attempting to sneak over border to the West, the girls' parents are arrested while the sisters are put up for adoption. With Annett Schneider's help, Martin manages to reunite them with their mother.

### Deutschland 89

She lives alone with her mother and sister in an apartment as their father is later confirmed to have died in prison in April 1988.

## Appearances

### Deutschland 86

* *Ommegang*
* *Dragon Rouge*
* *Le Cafard*
* *Green Book*
* *Tjello*
* *El Dorado Canyon*
* *Vula*
* *Chickenfeed*
* *Total Onslaught*
Moritz Stamm

**Moritz Stamm** is a minor character in *Deutschland 83*.

## Biography

He was a First Lieutenant in the West German Army who was set to be General Wolfgang Edel's aide de camp.

Tischbier reveals that Stamm grew up in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, lost both parents at the age of 12 and had no siblings. As a result, he grew up with his maternal great aunt and enlisted in the army when he was 19 years old.

As Tischbier is unveiling his and Lenora Rauch's plan to Martin that will see the latter assume Stamm's identity, fellow spy Nina is seen boarding a train where she sits in a carriage opposite Stamm before shooting him dead with a gun concealed under a cushion.

## Appearance

### Deutschland 83

* Quantum Jump (Death)
Arnold Jackson

**Arnold Jackson** is a supporting character in *Deutschland 83*. He is an American army general that has been stationed in West Germany.

## Biography

Jackson ruining Martin Rauch's plans is a running gag in the show.

In the episode Brave Guy, Jackson switches rooms with Henrik Mayer, making Rauch's room key useless. In Brandy Station, he is taken hostage by Alex Edel, so Lenora Rauch orders her nephew and fellow spy Karl Kramer to rescue him. Rauch successfully gets Edel and Jackson outside, but Kramer is killed by police.

## Appearances

* Quantum Jump
* Brave Guy
* Atlantic Lion
* Brandy Station
* Bold Guard
* Able Archer
Unnamed state secretary

The **state secretary**is a minor character in *Deutschland 83*.

## Biography

In the episode Brandy Station, when Alex Edel threatens the owner of a brothel with his gun, this man interrupts him and raises his pistol, telling Alex to back off. Alex shoots him and takes him hostage along with the owner.

## Appearances

* Cold Fire
* Bold Guard
* Brandy Station
* Able Archer
Fritz Hartmann

**Fritz Hartmann** is a supporting character in *Deutschland 83*and its follow up series *Deutschland 86* and *Deutschland 89*.

## Biography

For the first two series, he starts off as an engineer working for the HVA under Walter Schweppenstette before the latter is demoted and he becomes his superior until the final season when he eventually goes into trying to market off the latest technology innovations, while still working for the HVA.

In the series finale, he and Nina Rudow show up at Markus Fuchs and Barbara Dietrich's Italian villa and a gunshot goes off, leaving the viewer to decide who has met this fate.

## Appearances

### Deutschland 83

* Atlantic Lion
* Northern Wedding
* Cold Fire
* Brandy Station
* Bold Guard
* Able Archer

### Deutschland 86

* Tar Baby
* Ommegang
* Dragon Rouge
* Le Cafard
* Green Book
* Tjello
* El Dorado Canyon
* Vula
* Chickenfeed
* Total Onslaught

### Deutschland 89

* Kyrie Eleison
* November Nights
* Magic
* Operation Condor
* Timișoara Rebelllion
* Quando Ti Guardo
* Phase Zwei
* The End of History
Thomas Posimski

**Thomas Posimski** is a supporting character in *Deutschland 83* and *Deutschland 86*.

## Biography

### Deutschland 83

He is a colleague of Annett Schneider who becomes her lover while her fiancé Martin Rauch is working undercover as a spy in West Germany.

After Annett moves in with Ingrid Rauch, Thomas begins to use the latter's car as a mobile library for books banned in East Germany. Upon discovering what he has been up to, Annett confronts Thomas about this and he says that he is trying to make the world a better place. However, after discovering a closet full of banned books Annett decides to tell Walter Schweppenstette about Thomas's operation.

In the episode Atlantic Lion, Annett disovers that she is pregnant but denies that the father of the baby is Thomas, telling Ingrid that she and Martin slept together on Ingrid's birthday.

In the episode Bold Guard, Thomas is arrested and taken in for questioning. Near the end of Able Archer, he is released on request from Ingrid, but is sent to West Germany as punishment for the remainder of his life for distributing the banned books.

### Deutschland 86

Now living in the West, he has become a successful writer and works with Tobias Tischbier. He also operates his own pirate radio station. His sister Tina Fischer lives in the East with her family.

Upon Martin Rauch's return to the country Thomas tells him that Annett was already pregnant during their affair so Martin is Max's biological father. However, he later tells Tobias Tischbier that he doesn't know for sure.

He is reunited with his sister who requests his help getting her daughters back after the family is arrested for illegally attempting to cross the border and the girls are put up for adoption. His girlfriend Maike later confesses to the latter that she accidentally played the tape that Tina had sent to her brother, resulting in the family being arrested as they attempt to cross the border.

In the final episode, he is interviewed about a new book he is writing and when asked about what it will be called, he says that he is thinking of naming it "The Legend of Kolibri".

## Appearances

### Deutschland 83

* Quantum Jump
* Brave Guy
* Atlantic Lion
* Northern Wedding
* Cold Fire
* Bold Guard
* Able Archer

### Deutschland 86

* Tar Baby
* Ommegang
* Le Cafard
* Tjello
* El Dorado Canyon
* Vula
* Chickenfeed
* Total Onslaught
Tina Fischer

**Tina Fischer** is a major character in *Deutschland 86* and *Deutschland 89*.

## Biography

### Deutschland 86

She is a doctor who is the sister of Thomas Posimski and the wife of Christoph Fischer as well as the mother of the latter's two daughters Steffi and Sandra. The family lives together in East Germany. However, she is dismissed from her job after threatening to expose the truth about her hospital's dealings with the Sprembrex Corporation.

She and her family are arrested after attempting to cross the border into the West illegally and she is held in custody and questioned about her true intentions, while her daughters are put up for adoption.

She is later reunited with her brother after her release and with the help of Martin Rauch and Annett Schneider she is reunited with her daughters.

### Deutschland 89

Living alone with her two daughters in the West, she is determined to find out what happened to her husband but Ingrid Rauch later delivers thee bad news that he died in prison in April 1988.

She also receives a visit from someone who works with Ingrid Rauch but later realizes he is the same person who interrogated her while in prison in 1986.

## Appearances

### Deutschland 86

* Tar Baby
* Ommegang
* Dragon Rouge
* Le Cafard
* Green Book
* Tjello
* El Dorado Canyon
* Vula
* Chickenfeed
* Total Onslaught
Alexander Beyer

**Alexander Beyer** is a German actor who portrays Tobias Tischbier on *Deutschland 83* and its follow up series *Deutschland 86*.

## IMDb Biography

Alexander Beyer was born on June 24, 1973 in Erfurt, German Democratic Republic. He is known for his work on *Good Bye Lenin!* (2003), *The Fifth Estate* (2013) and *Sun Alley* (1999).
Crystal

**Crystal** is a minor character in *Deutschland 83*.

## Biography

When Moritz Stamm orders a steak in the hotel restaurant a waitress asks him for his hotel room number and he gives it to her.

He later returns to his room where she has let herself in and attempts to seduce him before revealing herself to be an assassin. She fails to kill him as she makes her escape by jumping over the banister of the staircase and fleeing.

## Appearance

* Brave Guy
Carina Wiese

**Carina Wiese** is a German actress who portrays Ingrid Rauch on *Deutschland 83* and its follow up series *Deutschland 86* and *Deutschland 89*.

## IMDb Biography

Carina N. Wiese was born on February 26, 1970 in Dresden, German Democratic Republic as Carina Nicolette Wiese. She is an actress, known for *Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei* (1996), *The Book Thief* (2013) and *The Cloud* (2006).
Samira

**Samira** is recurring character in *Deutschland 86*.

## Biography

She first encounters Martin Rauch in the Libyan desert after he has been abandoned by Lenora Rauch. While he is being quizzed by Khaled al Badri, she asks him what the Ku'damm is and he says it is a nickname for the Kurfürstendamm, writing it on a piece of paper.

Later she arrives in Berlin and stays with her sister Aya and her brother-in-law.  She is the perpetrator of the Club Paradiso bombing and is later arrested by the BND. After he hears of the terrorist incident, Martin realizes why she asked him for the name of the avenue.

## Appearances

* Le Cafard
* Green Book
* Tjello
Joachim

**Joachim** is a minor character in *Deutschland 83* who is a HVA agent.

## Biography

Along with Lenora Rauch, he listens in on a wiretap when Alex Edel enters a brothel and takes General Jackson and a prostitute hostage in the episode Brandy Station.

After Martin has blown his cover and goes on the run, Joachim tells Lenora what has happened.

## Appearances

* Brandy Station
* Able Archer
Comrades and Cash

To accompany the Amazon Prime Video release of *Deutschland 86*, a documentary entitled "Comrades and Cash" was produced.

Narrated by Jonas Nay, it describes various business activities undertaken by the East German state to earn hard currency, including: the sale of arms by the East German state to the apartheid government of South Africa, their notional enemies; smuggling arms to both sides in the Iran-Iraq war; forced labor in prisons; appropriating antiques and safe-deposit-box contents from its citizens and selling them abroad; selling blood abroad without testing it for HIV.
Carl Baumgarten

**Carl Baumgarten** was a West German musician and a member of a far-left terrorist group.

## Biography

Along with his wife Sabine, he is a member of the Red Army Faction, a West German far-left militant organization founded in 1970. Martin Rauch is sent undercover by the CIA to find out more information about them.
Grigore Antonescu

**Grigoire Antonescu** was a Romanian national and a member of a terrorist organization.

## Biography

After Lenora Rauch escapes from prison with Rose Seithathi's help, the latter takes her home where she meets Grigore. They become friends after seeing they have similar ideals.

He is shot dead in a confrontation with Martin Rauch.
Lena Lauzemis

**Lena Lauzemis** is a German actress who portrays Nina Rudow on *Deutschland 83*and its follow-up series *Deutschland 86* and *Deutschland 89*.

## IMDb Biography

Lena Lauzemis was born on January 15, 1983 in Berlin, Germany. She is an actress, known for *If Not Us, Who?* (2011), *Deutschland 83* (2015) and *Hidden Reserves* (2016).
Tobias Tischbier

**Tobias Tischbier** is a major character in *Deutschland 83* and its follow-up series *Deutschland 86* and *Deutschland 89*.

## Biography

### Deutschland 83

He is Martin Rauch's mentor and field supervisor during his time as a spy. In the West, Tobias works as a law professor who organizes peace rallies.  He tells Martin that he moved to the West in 1961 and has been there ever since.

He knocks down and ultimately kills Henrik Mayer's secretary Linda Seiler, angering Martin. He makes a pass at and later sleeps with Alex Edel.  After Tobias' boyfriend Felix reveals that he has the AIDS virus the former shows up at a protest rally outside the military base where Alex and Martin (posing as Moritz Stamm) are stationed and tells Alex, who thinks he wants to rekindle their relationship, to get tested.

After Schweppenstette sends Thomas Posimski over the border to the West for distributing banned books, Tobias is there to welcome him.

### Deutschland 86

In 1986, he is working as a member of the West German parliament while continuing to stage anti-war protests.

## Appearances

### Deutschland 83

* Quantum Jump
* Brave Guy
* Atlantic Lion
* Northern Wedding
* Cold Fire
* Brandy Station
* Bold Guard
* Able Archer

### Deutschland 86

* Tar Baby
* Ommegang
* Dragon Rouge
* Le Cafard
* Green Book
* Tjello
* El Dorado Canyon
* Vula
* Chickenfeed
* Total Onslaught
Bundeswehr

The **Bundeswehr** is the unified armed forces of Germany and their civil administration and procurement authorities. Founded in 1955, it is divided into a military part (armed forces or *Streitkräfte*) and a civil part with the armed forces administration (*Wehrverwaltung*).

## References

1. ↑ https://www.bundeswehr.de/portal/a/bwde/start
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundeswehr
Nikola Kastner

**Nikola Kastner** is a German actress who portrayed Linda Seiler on *Deutschland 83*.

## IMDb Biography

Nikola Kastner was born in 1983 in West Germany. She is an actress, known for *Phoenix* (2014), *The Big Talmon Charade* (2011) and *Offside* (2005).

She also had a minor role in the fifth season of *Homeland* (2011), which was filmed entirely in Berlin, making it the first US TV series to do so.
Kyrie Eleison

**Kyrie Eleison** is the first episode of *Deutschland 89*.

## Synopsis

Martin settles into a normal routine until he's approached by the HVA to do a simple courier job.

## Plot

The episode opens on November 8, 1989, "36 hours before the fall of the Berlin Wall". Martin sits in a white room with a red telephone. It rings and answering it he is told, via proxy, that his ex-girlfriend, Annett, wants to take their son Max to Moscow with her. Martin demands to speak to Annett directly but is refused, so he angrily throws the telephone against the wall, smashing it to pieces.

In the meantime, he is still living in East Germany with his son, Max, now six years old, and has a job with a computer firm called Robotron. Max tells his father that he is missing Annett, who went to Moscow some time ago. Martin tells his son a little white lie that he spoke to her and she sends Max her love. Max is aware that there are protests in East Germany but does not know why. Martin explains that people are unhappy and Max tells him that he heard about a hole in the Wall in Prague that people have escaped through. He is sad about that as he does not want to be parted from his friends and says that everyone wants to see the other side of the Wall. He knows that Martin has seen that and has also seen "real-life elephants in Africa with tusks!" Max loves elephants and even has an imaginary elephant friend, something that worries his teacher Nicole Zangen, who speaks to Martin when the latter drops off to school.

Martin gets a note from Fritz Hartmann to meet on the roof of his apartment block. He reveals that the HVA want Martin for a courier job, specifically to deliver a draft trade law to East Germany's leader Egon Krenz. Martin is reluctant at first but Hartmann says that failure to go through with their wishes will result in Max being sent to Moscow. Martin ends up agreeing but wishes to bail out when Hartmann says Krenz will have to be poisoned if proposals turn out to be too radical. The latter adds that the HVA quickly provided Martin with his apartment and new job but Martin does not think that assassinating the head of state is a fair deal. Hartmann reassures him that it will not come to that as Moscow read every draft law and it would not be in their best interests for a law allowing wider freedom of movement to pass.

Walter Schweppenstette is reluctant for Martin to take the mission but Fuchs thinks Martin is perfectly capable, even though Schweppenstette points out that Martin has a history of stepping out of line. Fuchs makes it clear that if Martin does not go through with the mission then Max will be sent to Moscow, which is something Schweppenstette does not want either.

## Music

 Zum Regenbogen
 Roam
 Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Kyrie: Kyrie eleison I

## Gallery

*The gallery for **Kyrie Eleison** can be found here.*

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Ludwig Trepte

**Ludwig Trepte** is a German actor who portrays Alexander Edel on *Deutschland 83* and its follow up series *Deutschland 86*.

## IMDb Biography

Ludwig Trepte was born on May 17, 1988 in Berlin, Germany. He is an actor, known for *Outta Control* (2008), *What You Don't See* (2009) and *Out of Hand* (2005). He is best known to international audiences for his role as Viktor Goldstein in the World War II miniseries *Generation War*.

## Trivia

* Both he and co-star Jonas Nay starred in the first season of the German miniseries *Tannbach* (*Line of Separation*) in 2015 but Trepte was not in the second season that premiered in 2018.
Sprembex Corporation secretary

When Alex Edel shows up at the Sprembrex Corporation under the pretence of doing some university research, he asks this **unnamed secretary** to print out some documents for him.

While she is out he uses the opportunity to enter Florian Amend's office and finds documentation on his desk regarding the pharmaceutical trials. However, he is escorted from the building after an altercation with Amend.
Rose Seithathi

**Rose Seithathi** is a major character in *Deutschland 86* and its follow up series *Deutschland 89*.

## Biography

### Deutschland 86

She is an African National Congress (ANC) operative who works alongside Lenora Rauch. They are in a relationship with each other.

Rose also has a daughter named Tandi from a previous relationship with a German man and is taken to Berlin for her safety where she hopes that her daughter will be able to join her. In the final episode, Tandi is seen living with her father.

After she kills Gary Banks she flees back to Cape Town and awaits Lenora's return, unaware that the latter had been detained by the BND for questioning and her passport taken away.

### Deutschland 89

Rose comes back to visit Lenora in prison and manages to slip her something to help her escape. She takes her home and introduces her to Grigore Antonescu.

## Appearances

### Deutschland 86

* Tar Baby
* Ommegang
* Tjello
* El Dorado Canyon
* Vula
* Chickenfeed
* Total Onslaught

### Deutschland 89

* Kyrie Eleison
* November Nights
* Magic
* Operation Condor
* Timișoara Rebelllion
* Quando Ti Guardo
* Phase Zwei
* The End of History
The End of History

**The End of History** is the final episode of *Deutschland 89* and also serves as the series finale.

## Synopsis

Martin is tortured by Valdez; Brigitte teams up with Schweppenstette and faces off with Lenora.

## Music

 Twilight
 It's the End of the World as We Know It

## Gallery

*The gallery for **The End of History** can be found here.*

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Sabine Baumgarten

**Sabine Baumgarten** is Carl Baumgarten's wife.

## Biography

Along with her husband Carl, she is a member of the Red Army Faction, a West German far-left militant organization founded in 1970.

When Martin Rauch is sent by the CIA to infiltrate them, they begin to suspect his motives so she plants drugs in his food which causes him to hallucinate, which also involves him dancing at an outdoor rave.

He, along with Nicole Zangen, eventually manage to escape their clutches but he kills Carl Baumgarten which results in Sabine later killing Annett Schneider in retaliation.
S-rank

S-rank (Sランク, *Esu ranku*) is one of the six classifications. It is preceded by A-rank. It is typically used when classifying techniques intended for highly experienced jōnin and Kage-level shinobi. S-rank techniques are almost always unique to a single user, and as such are trademark abilities of that user.

Missions can also be classified as S-rank, these are the highest paying and most dangerous type of mission a ninja can go on. These missions are exclusively assigned to highly skilled jōnin or large squads of ninja. S-rank missions pay at least 1,000,000 ryō.

"S-rank" is also a designation given to extremely powerful missing-nin, earning them a place in their village of origin's Bingo Book. The organisation Akatsuki was stated to be comprised mostly of S-rank criminals.
Jonas Nay

**Jonas Nay** is a German actor and musician who portrays Martin Rauch on *Deutschland 83*, *Deutschland 86* and *Deutschland 89*.

## IMDb Biography

He was born in Luebeck, Germany. He first appeared under the alias "Jonas Friedebom" in a TV series called *4 Against Z* (2005) in which he played a character called "Otti Sörensen". Great attention was given to the TV movie *Homevideo* (2011), in which he played the main character. He was one of the founders of the band "Concerted".

## Trivia

* Both he and co-star Ludwig Trepte starred in the first season of the German minseries *Tannbach* (*Line of Separation*) in 2015 with a second season released in 2018.
* He mentioned in an interview with British newspaper *The Guardian* that it was only after filming the scene in the first episode of *Deutschland 83* where his character Martin Rauch has his finger twisted while being questioned about his abilities (to see if they match up to Moritz Stamm's) that Anna Winger apologised since she was not aware that he could actually play the piano while his character is unable to do so. As an apology, his character is first seen playing the piano in the episode Tar Baby.
* Due to the show's success abroad, he has said that he is recognized more overseas than he is in his home country.

## Official links

* Jonas Nay on Twitter
Alexej Stepanov

**Alexej Stepanov** is a minor character in *Deutschland 83*.

## Biography

He is a Soviet government official who takes praise along with Walter Schweppenstette in the episode Cold Fire for a bombing that they believe will be blamed on notorious terrorist Carlos the Jackal.

They think that West Germany will not be able to prove that they were involved.
In the episode Bold Guard, he, along with Schweppenstette outline Case RYAN, a protocol for a nuclear strike which the Soviets see as inevitable.

In the episode Able Archer, he is present when Martin bursts into the conference room and reveals that he blew his cover by admitting that Able Archer is just a war game.

## Appearances

* Cold Fire
* Brandy Station
* Bold Guard
* Able Archer
Shiriyuki

Shiriyuki is one of the female hero's in the anime Akagami No Shirayukihime

or snow white with the red  hair. It says that Shiriyuki was born in the mountins but lived with her granparents in there bar in tomberune. Ofer the course of the first season Shiriyuki starts to fall in love

with Zen but at first she thought she just cared about him but realized it was more.

It is noted that in the anime that Shiriyuki is one of a kind usaly because

of her unnatural hair, Earning her the nickname "red".