Christian Mann
_Christian is the younger brother of Gregor Mann
(Andreas Jancke). During his childhood he had to cope with his mother's
suicide and his father's gambling addiction. He was convicted when he
took the blame for a crime commited by his father, Wolfgang (Jürgen
Haug), who died when Christian was in prison, and after being released,
Christian moved to Düsseldorf with Gregor.
He starts dating Nico von Lahnstein (Verena Zimmermann), but breaks up with her and starts a relationship with Coco Faber (Mariangela Scelsi), when he discovers Nico made Coco write love letters to him and sign them as Nico, during a time he was in prison, falsely acused of asaulting Nico's boss. Later, he meets Olivia's cousin and Charlie (Gabriele Metzger) and Lars' nephew Oliver Sabel (Jo Weil), who moves to the apartment Christian and Coco share with Lars, even if he's not totally comfortable with Oliver's bisexuality. Coco starts falling in love with Oliver after sharing a kiss that they keep secret from Christian, but at the same time Oliver develops feelings for Christian during a camping trip to which he was invited by Coco. When Christian finds out about Coco's kiss with Oliver, he confronts Oliver and accuses him of pretending to be gay in order to get at his girlfriend. On a second confrontation, at the boxing club, Oliver kisses him by surprise. Against his will, and despite being angry because Oliver sent a sports college application for him, Christian starts dreaming and fantasizing about the kiss and becomes confused about his relationship with Coco, and ends up breaking with her. After he admites his confusion to Coco, she leaves for Goa, India. He talks about his confused feelings with another man on an anonymous chat room, and when he discovers the other man is Oliver (who was unaware that he was chatting with Christian), the confrontation that ensues brings all their feelings to a head and results in Oliver and Christian having sex for the first time. Afterwards, Christian tells Oliver this first experiment convinced him he is not gay, but he still thinks about him and his track entrance trial at the sports college doesn't go well until Oliver shows up to support him. On a date with co-worker and friend Miriam Christian feels jealous when he sees Oliver dancing with another guy and starts a fight. Oliver manages to stop the fight and accuses Christian of being jealous, and follows him upstairs locked in his room. They both confess their mutual feelings and Christian lets Oliver in and they make love, becoming a couple. They try to hide their relationship from other friends but it is later discovered by Judith, their flatmate, and Olivia. To Christian and Oliver's surprise, the friends who discovered their relationship are fine with it and promises to keep it a secret. In the meantime, Christian gets a boxing contract. He fires his first manager, a homophobic man, and hires Gregor, who turns out to be supportive when he discovers Christian in bed with Oliver, but he has to keep his relationship wih Oliver hidden due to homophobia in the boxing scene, going as far as pretending to date Judith. Christian wins his first fight and then comes out by publicly kissing Oliver in the ring, but Axel, the boxer defeated by Christian and who had before mocked Christian for suspecting he was in a gay relationship, attacks Oliver when he finds him alone. The charges against Axel are dropped due to lack of evidence. Despite an apparent successful recovery, Oliver develops an aneurysm that puts his life at danger as a result of the attack, and most of Christian partners become supportive of them, and the lesion gives the police enough evidence to arrest Axel. However, some time after Christian's career ends abruptly when he discovers he suffers from myocarditis, which impairs him from doing any kind of professional sport. After a short time working as a park and forest administrator at the Königsbrunn Castle, Stella Mann notices that he has a gift for taming horses, and he starts training at Köningsbrunn as a professional Horse Trainer. Christian and Oliver's first relationship trouble is caused by Rob, a party planner who is interested in seducing Oliver, and catches his attention by proposing business deals, while secretly attempting to use Oliver's bar, No Limits, as a base for drug dealing. Oliver perceives the suspicions of Christian as mere jealousy, and their relationship is further strained by Rebecca von Lahnstein having feelings for Christian. At the end, Christian and Oliver recoincile thanks to a romantic trip to New York, and Rebecca manages to expose Rob, who is imprisoned. When Christian suffers an episode of chest pain, and Oliver is not allowed to know any details about him at the hospital as he's not a relative of Christian, Sebastian von Lahnstein suggest both get married to avoid these limitations. Despite some conflict about how the wedding should be, they finally get married, and start talking about adopting a child. After learning that adoption takes up to several years for gay couples, they make an attempt to get known with a lesbian couple, in order to try for in-vitro fertlization. However, the other couple demands Christian and Oliver to sign a contract, planning their future activities and decisions to ensure they will always be close to the child, and Christian and Oliver, unwilling to commit to a rigid plan, break up the agreement. Later they start acting as foster parents for Lilly, daughter of a Cameroonian man, during the time he is in prison, and while he looks for a job after his release. Their relationship takes a turn when Christian and Andi Fritzsche wake up after a party with Jessica Stiehl, who claims both of them had sex with her. This fuels Oliver's fear that Christian might leave him for a woman, and he asks Christian to move out. Christian lives at the stud farm in Königsbrünn for a while, until a fire destroys all his possessions, forcing him to move with Oliver's aunt Charlie, right infront of the apartment in which Oliver lives. The couple drifts even more apart after Oliver witnesses Phillip zu Hohenfelden being hit by a car and thinks himself responsible, falling into depression. Christian starts an affair with Theresa Erzberger, a coworker at the stud farm, but breaks up with her when Theresa sabotages the training of Dana Wolf. Oliver attempts a relationship with Rafael Velasquez, whom he had met at vacations on Ibiza, and both agree to disolve their marriage. Distressed, Christian seeks for relief returning to his box training club and accepts a challenge by a friend of Axel's. The fight triggers his heart condition, sending him to the hospital. The fear of losing him makes Oliver admit that he still loves Christian and break up with Rafael, reconciling with Christian and restarting their relationship. The heart episode severely impairs Christian, since any activity or situation that rises his heart rate would endanger his life. On January 3rd 2012 Oliver and Christian got married for a second time in the cabin outside which they first fell in love. |
Oliver Sabel
_Oliver is the nephew of Charlie Schneider (Gabriele Metzger) and cousin of Olivia (Kristina Dörfer).His
mother, Henriette is in bad terms with Charlie and has kept her away
from Oliver during his childhood. It was mentioned once that he has a
younger brother.
Jo Weil started has career in the background- as an extra portraying an unnamed bartender at NoLimits, the show's resident bar. Viewer reaction to the cute guy in the background was strong enough that he got a name, Oliver Sabel, was magically all of a sudden related to one of the main characters (he's Charlie Schneider's nephew) and the show's token gay, med student Tom (Kay Boeger), fell in love with him. It takes a while for Olli to accept he loves another man. But during a romantic trip to a mountain cabin, Tom and Olli sleep with each other for the first time. Shortly after, Oliver and his mother have a fall out, prompting her to cut of financial support and him to move in with Tom. Couples never stay happy for too long on VERBOTENE LIEBE and sure enough, dark clouds soon start to appear. In this case, Tom's ex boyfriend Ulli appears and Oliver suspects that the two are still in love. Sure enough, Tom sleeps with Ulli. Oliver spends a night with Jule in return, from which moment on Oliver is defined as bisexual (though later actions will definitely put him at the rainbow end of the Kinsey scale). Tom and Olli's relationship grows further and further apart, until they finally break up. Olli falls in love with Lukas, who pretends to love him back, but only to get access to Charlie Schneider's money. When Oliver starts working as a pusher for a friend, things are going downhill: He loses some cocain in panic and now has debt with a dealer. It's his aunt Charlie that comes to the rescue once more, but Oliver is somewhat done with Duesseldorf. He leaves as crew member on a ship and is not seen again until November 2007. Five years later, Oliver returns to the show, reuniting with Charlie and moving into a flat-share with Coco Faber (Mariangela Seclsi) and her boyfriend Christian Mann (Thore Schölermann). After kissing him, Coco develops feelings for Oliver, but he falls in love with Christian. After Christian discovers that Coco and Oliver kissed, an angry confrontation prompts Oliver to kiss him and confess his feelings. Christian becomes confused and breaks up with Coco, but isn't willing to admit he has feelings for Oliver too. Later, Oliver chats with a man who is confused about his sexuality, unaware that it's Christian. When the truth comes out, their confrontation leads to them having sex, but afterwards Christian claims that he was only testing his sexuality. However, when he sees Oliver dancing with another guy in a party, he can't hide his jealousy and admits his feelings for Oliver and they start a relationship. Oliver supports Christian's boxing aspirations, hiding their relationship from his manager and from the public, and enduring harassment from Axel, a homophobic fighter who is the main competitor of Christian. After Christian wins his first professional fight against Axel, he comes out by kissing Oliver on the ring. After the celebration part, Oliver is attacked by Axel, and despite being dismissed as healthy at the hospital, a few days later he suffers a brain hemorrage as a consequence of the attack and undergoes brain surgery to save his life. The next test of their relationship comes from Rob, a successful party planner that bonds with Oliver by planning events at Oliver's bar, No Limits, while secretly attempting to use it as a drug dealing joint. At the same time, he attempts to seduce Oliver, who dismisses Christian's suspicion about Rob as mere jealousy. At the same time, Oliver starts to doubt that Christian is really attracted to him, suspecting that he prefers women, as a consequence of Rebecca von Lahnstein falling in love with Christian. At the end, Rebecca exposes Rob, who gets arrested, and Oliver and Christian make amends. On september 2010, Oliver marries Christian on a church wedding, and after a failed attempt of adoption, act as foster parents for a Cameroonese girl. The strain of losing her after her father takes her back to Cameroon damages their relationship, and a fight leads to Christian partying with Jessica Stiehl, who later claims both of them have sex. This triggers again Oliver's doubts about Christian's attraction to him, and calls for a break on the relationship, making Christian move out and distracting from his pain by partying. Oliver then suffers another deep blow after witnessing Phillip zu Hohenfelden being hit by a car while he stopped on mid-street to greet Olli, being struck with guilt by thinking he made Phillip to stop, thus causing the accident, and shuts himself in his appartment for several days. Christian later has sex with a female coworker, adding another trouble to their relationship. After coming out of his depression, Oliver models for a publicity campaign and starts a fling with Rafael, a young man he met on Majorca during a vacation. He and Christian divorce, but when Christian suffers a heart attack and nearly dies, Oliver realizes he still loves him and breaks up with Rafael. On January 3rd 2012 Oliver and Christian got married for a second time in the cabin outside which they first fell in love. |
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