Verbotene Liebe is a German television soap opera created by Reg Watson for Das Erste. The show was set primarily in the German city of Düsseldorf although, at times, the city of Cologne and the Spanish island of Mallorca figured prominently in the show's story lines. First broadcast on 2 January 1995, Verbotene Liebe was originally broadcast in 24-minute episodes, five times a week. It expanded to 45-minute episodes on 21 June 2011 and trimmed back to 40-minute episodes on 23 January 2012 to accommodate an adjusted time-slot. In 2006, Pay-TV network Passion began broadcasting episodes of the show from the beginning.
Nina Bott is a German actress.
Tanja von Lahnstein is a fictional character from the German soap opera Verbotene Liebe on Das Erste, portrayed by actress Miriam Lahnstein from 1995 to 1998, in 2001, and again from 2004 to 2015. Lahnstein reprised the role in the 2020–2021 TVNOW revival series, Verbotene Liebe: Next Generation.
Joscha Kiefer is a German actor and best known for his role as Dominik Morgenstern on the series Soko München.
Vanessa Jung is a German actress.
Horst Janson is a German actor.
Krystian Martinek is a German actor, writer and director.
Wolke Alma Hegenbarth is a German actress, best known for starring in the sitcom Mein Leben & Ich. She is related to illustrator Hannes Hegen and the painter Josef Hegenbarth.
Anja Knauer is a German actress who has played the leading female role in some German films.
Thomas "Tommi" Ohrner is a German actor, singer and television host. Beginning a career as a child actor at the age of four, Ohrner rose to prominence as a teen idol during the early 1980s, starring in the television series Timm Thaler, Merlin and Manni, der Libero, as well as achieving crossover success as a singer with his English-language pop singles, "Rock 'n' Roll in Old Blue Jeans" and "5 O'Clock Rock". In the 1990s, Ohrner turned to work as a television and radio host before once again returning to acting, most notably as Matthias Brandner on the German soap opera, Verbotene Liebe.
Angela Roy is a German actress and director.
Ursela Monn is a Swiss actress and singer.
Bettys Diagnose is a German television series that premiered on 9 January 2015 on ZDF.
Inge Maux is an Austrian actress.
Simone Rethel-Heesters is a German actress and writer.
Rolf von Sydow was a German film director and author.
Lilli Hollunder is a German actress recently appearing in the American television series The Outpost, filmed in Serbia.
Theresa Scholze is a German actress.
Anna Herrmann is a German actor.
