Jens Hartwig (born April 16, 1980) is a German

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), lit ...

. Jens completed successfully his education as in actor in the Center for Film and Television in

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...

. He appeared first in a secondary role as Georg Kramer in the feature film ''Eine indiskrete Reise (An indiscreet journey)'' in 2004. In the following years, Hartwig was seen in guest appearances in the sitcom ''

Mein Leben & Ich ' 'My Life & Me''is a German sitcom produced by Sony Pictures in association with RTL Television. Original ran was from September 14, 2001 to December 20, 2009. The series, which was created by Paula A. Roth and directed by , is loosely based o ...

'' as Karl and in the

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Unter uns ''Unter uns'' (''"Between Us"'') is a German television soap opera, based on the Hungarian soap opera Barátok közt, first broadcast on RTL on 28 November 1994. It is centered on the lives of the people in a residential house, which is set i ...

'' as Stefan Metzger. In 2009, he was part of the ensemble of the sketch comedy ''Broken Comedy'', produced by

ProSieben ProSieben (, ''sieben'' is German for "seven"; often stylized as Pro7) is a German free-to-air television network owned by ProSiebenSat.1 Media. It was launched on 1 January 1989. It is Germany's second-largest privately owned television company ...

as a web show. Over the years, Jens Hartwig also followed the occupation as a stage actor and was seen in plays such as '' Inkheart'', ''The Storm'' and ''The Process''. In August 2009, he took the contract role as Tristan von Lahnstein in the popular soap opera ''

Verbotene Liebe ''Verbotene Liebe'' (, "Forbidden Love") was 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 Ma ...

(Forbidden Love)''. Jens appeared for the first time on-screen on October 23, 2009. Next to German, he speaks

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and

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. Jens Hartwig currently lives in

, where ''Verbotene Liebe'' is filmed.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hartwig, Jens 1980 births Living people German male film actors German male soap opera actors Actors from Bonn German male television actors 21st-century German male actors