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| Matriarch of the Brandner family and, later, of the Lahnstein family | |
| Obsessed with twin sister, Helena, and wants incestuous relationship with her; sets up her boyfriend to be charged with rape to get him out of the way | |
| Cousin of Gregor and Christian; finds love with Carla von Lahnstein | |
| 'Charming bad boy'; illegitimate son of Johannes von Lahnstein and Maria di Balbi; unknowingly falls in love with his own daughter, Kim | |
| Daughter of Ludwig von Lahnstein, twin sister of Tristan, studies archaeology at the University of Heidelberg | |
| Brother of Christian; former call boy; former pilot; former owner of helicopter service | |
| Great love of her life is twin brother, Jan; unable to resist him, leaves country and starts new life in Spain, marrying and raising a son; finally family reunites | |
| Father of Julia, Jan, Florian, and Susanne; owner of a construction company; goes to Spain to see his daughter; finds there also his son, and his first love, Clarissa | |
| Horse trainer; former boxer; married twice to husband Oliver; brother of Gregor | |
| Talented pianist; illegitimate daughter of Johannes von Lahnstein and his maid Elke Käppler; after marrying Leonard, the couple moves to Boston so she can study music | |
| Falls in love with Julia, not knowing she is his twin sister, and that they were separated at birth; he becomes a Catholic priest; assigned to Spain where Julia now lives | |
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| Mother of Jan and Julia; enemy of Tanja; apparently married while still a girl; presumed dead in a plane crash ten years before reappearing to visit her family in Spain | |
| Con artist who uses wealthy older women to finance his lifestyle; hit by a car and declared brain dead | |
| Lydia breaks up with him, so he sleeps with her mother, who winds up pregnant; Lydia forgives and marries him anyway; currently married to Tanja | |
| Came out as gay after falling in love with housemate Tom Seifert | |
| Has an affair with stepmother, Cécile de Maron, and later marries her; heartbroken when she and their unborn son die in a car accident, becomes addicted to pain killers | |
| Owner of coffee lounge NoLimits with husband Christian; nephew of Charlie and Lars | |
| Close friend of Oliver and Christian; former art student; former construction worker; leaves for a time to pursue his dream of traveling the Panamerican Highway on motorcycle | |
| Golddigger and murderous vixen; married her stepson to get his inheritance, then killed him; kills anyone who gets in her way; vows to destroy Clarissa | |
| Fashion designer, just returned from New York; had crushes on Gregor and Christian before having an affair with Miriam Pesch | |
| Pretended that Andi raped her in order to break up his relationship with Helena; former fiancée of Tristan; claims she had a threesome with a drunk Andi and Christian | |
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