Annegret Wittkamp

Annegret Wittkamp is a fictional character on the German soap opera Verbotene Liebe (Forbidden Love). She was portrayed by Gabriele Kastner from August 24, 1996 to August 28, 1996. In 2008 the actress Ursula Heyer, who is well known as the dubbing voice of Joan Collins, took over the role and debuted on-screen on August 26, 2008.^[1] She left the show on November 25, 2008 after her three months contract was up.

Character's background

Annegret is the alcoholic mother of Tanja von Anstetten and comes 1996 to Düsseldorf. She disgraced herself and Tanja in front for aristocratic Anstetten family and the press. Soon after, Annegret leaves town and was not seen for years.

But in August 2008, Annegret comes back to Düsseldorf to look after her daughter, after she heard that she will marry the rich aristocratic Ansgar von Lahnstein. Charlie Schneider is the first to know, that Annegret is back in town and uses this information to shock her old enemy, Tanja. Annegret wants to make peace with her daughter and have a place in her life, after she mentions that her husband Walter died not long ago. But Tanja refuses to let her mother back in her life, after all what happened between them. Soon, Ansgar, who not marries Tanja out of love and wants her out of his life, and his former wife and current lover Nathalie get suspicious about Tanja's relationship with her mother and want to find out what really happened between back then. Ansgar finds a big lead, when he is asking after Tanja's younger brother Thomas, who died under mysterious circumstance with young eight years. Ansgar believes that Tanja might have something to do with the death of her brother and wants to use Annegret for that. But the old lady refuses to help him and tries to find her way back in Tanja's life. But Tanja can't forgive her mother and rejects her again and again. Annegret, an alcoholic, starts drinking again after a fight with her daughter. Ansgar finds her and finally sees his chance to find out what really happened. But Tanja can rescue herself and takes "care" of her mother. She employs the former jail-keeper Ulla Müller to hold her mother as a hostage and give her pills, so she couldn't remember anything and would go crazy with time. However, when Tanja is out of town, Ansgar and Nathalie try to find Annegret. After some misleads, they do and get locked-up by Ulla Müller too. But the police is already informed and can rescue them and Annegret's life. When Annegret is getting better and comes back to Castle Königsbrunn, Ansgar is sure that she is ready to tell the truth about Tanja, the kidnapping and about what happened to her brother Thomas. But when the police is already there, Annegret refuses to turn Tanja in and takes side with her daughter once again. But then finally, Annegret wants to open up to the entire Lahnstein family, but it's not what Ansgar hoped for. Annegret begins to tell what really happened in Tanja's childhood. She tells them about the beats from her own father and how her younger brother Thomas tried to protect Tanja. But he fell down the stairs after his father pushed him, when he tried again to look out for his older sister. Thomas died right after the fall. Tanja's father took the blame on her. Annegret didn't stud up for her daughter and both made Tanja responsible for Thomas death. After that Tanja was in a psychiatric institution for two years. When Annegret tells that in front of the entire Lahnstein family, she also begs for Tanja's forgiveness, when Tanja breaks down in tears.

After the Lahnstein's know everything about Tanja's past, Ansgar tries to use his mother-in-law once again to get out of his marriage with Tanja. He tries to provoke her with Annegret, which leads to Tanja to pressure her mother to leave Düsseldorf for good. Annegret agrees, but only under one condition: Tanja needs to bring her to the airport. On the way, Annegret gives the situation a last try and tries to make peace with Tanja. She goes so far, that she blackmails Tanja to commit suicide. Tanja won't listen and believes it's only an emotional blackmail from her mother, when Annegret surprises her daughter for the first time and kills herself.

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