Behind bars / Season 2

Season 2 of Behind Bars - Der Frauenknast
Episodes	18th
Country of production	Germany
First broadcast	April 6, 1998 - August 17, 1998 on RTL
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This article contains all episodes of the second season of the German television series Hinter Gittern , sorted according to the first broadcast . They were broadcast from April 6, 1998 to August 17, 1998 on the German broadcaster RTL . Together with the last sixteenth season, the second season with 18 episodes is the shortest season of the series.

Episodes

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	Original title	Summary	First broadcast D
27	1	Bitter disappointment	Mutz is very disappointed in her daughter, who wants to go abroad with her new boyfriend and send her children to boarding school. Mutz wants to finish her life and die. With the help of Ilse and Dr. Beck can be changed to Gaby and so Mutz gets new courage.	Apr 6, 1998
28	2	Greetings from Monaco	Ilse notices that Gregor Wünsche did not go on the trip himself, but sold the trip in order to invest the money for Ilse. At first Ilse is shocked, but she realizes that Gregor only meant well and apologizes to him. Jeanette uses her free time to invest her money and smuggle a cell phone into the prison in order to invest her money in the stock exchange and to participate in these transactions. Dagmar gets wind of it and blackmailed her.	Apr 20, 1998
29	3	Power games	After Daggi put pressure on Katrin, Katrin has to blackmail Goran in order to get the money Daggi asked for. Meanwhile, the other women around Walter also notice that Daggi is again dealing drugs.	Apr 27, 1998
30th	4th	Pyrrhic victory	Katrin has Goran's weapon smuggled into the station. Dagmar wants to use this to kill Walter. However, she does not succeed because Uschi has the cartridges in her care. Uschi notices how strange her daughter has become. Katrin is raped by Goran. A short time later, Goran hangs himself.	May 4, 1998
31	5	Naked truth	When Uschi learns about Sonja's nude photos and notices that she is having a relationship with the same man who put Lollo in prison, she is very worried. She wants to find an apprenticeship for Sonja from prison, but Marc persuades Sonja to go abroad with him. Lollo sacrifices her wedding night with Daniel when she is outdoors in order to visit Marc and to persuade him to move away from Sonja without success. Dr. Kaltenbach later realizes that Lollo had helped Uschi and lets Lollo out of prison again for an afternoon to make up for her wedding night.	May 11, 1998
32	6th	Secret routes	Dagmar uses Ilse to smuggle drugs into the prison. Ilse is punished when the prison management notices that Gregor also smuggled her alcohol into the prison. Katrin forces Daggi to join her business.	May 18, 1998
33	7th	Tricked	Dagmar intrigues that Walter should be innocently moved to Prekow. Vivi is supposed to spy on Jutta so that Walter can be released again. However, Dagmar ensures that Walter comes back to the ward on the condition that he is no longer Walter's body slave. During her imprisonment leave, Uschi notices how critical Sonja is.	May 25, 1998
34	8th	Enemies	To get the stored drugs from the kitchen, Katrin starts an affair with the cook. Jutta starts intrigues against Uschi and Walter in order to prevent Uschi's parole. When Dr. Kaltenbach finds out, she manages in time to get Uschi's parole through the parole commission.	June 8, 1998
35	9	For life and death	In order to get revenge on Dagi, Katrin writes an anonymous letter to the prison management that Dagmar is dealing in drugs. When Dagmar finds out, she makes Katrin's life hell and wants to kill her. At first, Mutz can save Katrin, but in Katrin's cell it seems as if Dagmar has triumphed. Dagmar smuggles the apparently dead Katrin into the kitchen. There Dagi is surprised by Katrin and thrown into the elevator, which is walled up a short time later. Later in the kitchen, Ilse hears a faint whimper from the wall, but she thinks this is only heating air.	June 15, 1998
36	10	The new	Regine is transferred from Reutlitz after Gitting comes to Reutlitz as a turnkey because she knows his machinations from the former imprisonment in Prekow and no one believes her. Mutz has found her connection to faith and suspects Dagmar's predicament. Thanks to Gitting's instincts and investigations, Dagmar is freed from her wall grave - however, Dagmar has had such trauma that she will be disabled forever. Gitting finally forces a confession from Katrin.	June 22, 1998
37	11	Mothers and daughters	Susanne is fighting to get Nina to join her in prison. Uschi celebrates Sonja's birthday on her leave of absence. When Sonja breaks up with Marc and wants to talk to him a day later, he mixes drugs in her drink and wants to force her to do a sex video. Sonja flees with Marc's car, but due to her intoxicated condition she has a car accident that ends fatally for her. A world collapses for Uschi.	June 29, 1998
38	12	revenge	When Dr. Kaltenbach's suggestion about the electronic ankle cuff was rejected, Susanne Teubner encourages her to go to the Ministry of Justice so that her suggestions have more weight there. Their departure is a loss for both staff and inmates. After the death of her daughter, Uschi wants to take revenge on Marc Schneider. Uschi shoots Marc at Sonja's funeral with Goran's gun.	July 6, 1998
39	13	New ways	The women in the institution notice that with Jutta as director, other times are dawning. Vivi and Walter are separated from each other after they carry out a small attack on Jutta. Mutz and Ilse are taking care of an escapee from the men's prison who accidentally promoted himself to the women's prison when he escaped.	July 13, 1998
40	14th	nostalgia	Lollo now also takes more care of Richard. From an initial bet between Walter and Vivi, whether Vivi will manage Susanne to gain lesbian experiences, love develops between Susanne and Vivi. Vivi has a bad conscience. From now on, Uschi doesn't want to contact anyone anymore. So she shields herself from the others and separates from her husband.	July 20, 1998
41	15th	Tokens of trust	Ilse is supposed to put Jeanette's investment money in a safe locker during her free time. However, they are betrayed by Jeanette's tax advisor, who made off with Ilses and Jeanette's money. Ilse has a bad conscience, she lies to Jeanette. When Katrin is assigned to the gardening work, she meets Richard, with whom she begins a liaison. Katrin decides to flee the prison together with Richard.	July 27, 1998
42	16	On the hunt for men	Out of love for Vivi, Walter agrees to sleep with the electrician so that Vivi can start a family. Lollo suffers from the fact that, as a consequence of Ilse's delay, Jutta sends lockers to accompany her and she cannot be alone with Daniel. But Lollo gets support from Silke Jakoby.	Aug 3, 1998
43	17th	Attempts to escape	Katrin's cannabis plants are discovered in the nursery. Katrin has to be detained in a bunker and is suspended from her work in the nursery. Walter steps in for them, who uses Richard's seeds to fertilize themselves. Richard escapes using the tunnel without being able to say goodbye to Katrin beforehand.	Aug 10, 1998
44	18th	Hope and tremble	Lollo's diagnosis at the check-up was cancer. At first she wants to keep it to herself, but Vivi and Mrs. Jakoby advise her to contact her husband and have an operation. Your tumor can eventually be removed successfully. Walter and Vivi wait spellbound to see if Walter is pregnant. Katrin is able to flee Reutlitz after Richard came back to the prison and pretended to be the new pastor Maximilian Ahrens in order to smuggle Katrin out.	Aug 17, 1998

occupation

The cast of Behind Bars appeared in the second season as follows:

Inmates

Role name	actor	consequences	number	Notes and role development in season 2
Agnes Herrmann	Dagmar Bertram	27-44	18 episodes	Small roll; mostly occurs in the background.
Christine "Walter" Walter	Katy Karrenbauer	29-44	16 episodes	Has a relationship with Vivi Andraschek; wants to get pregnant in order to fulfill her friend's desire to have children.
Vivien "Vivi" Andraschek	Annette Frier	29-44	16 episodes	Friend of Walter; has a one-night stand with Susanne; desperately wants to have children and is planning a family with Walter.
Use Brahms	Christiane Reiff	27-28, 31-33, 35-36, 38-44	14 episodes	Good soul of the JVA; Kitchen Help; meets Gregor Wünsche, with whom she starts a relationship.
Ursula "Uschi" König	Barbara Freier	27-31, 33-34, 36-38, 40, 43-44	13 episodes	Soon to be parole; suffers from the change in her daughter Sonja; wants to protect them from Marc Schneider; shoots Marc Schneider, because he is responsible for the death of her daughter; comes back to Reutlitz and isolates himself from everything.
Illona "Lollo" fox	Isabella Schmid	27-28, 31-32, 34, 37-44	13 episodes	Beauty of the prison; suffers from distance from her husband; becomes infected with a tumor that can be successfully operated on and removed.
Susanne Teubner	Cheryl Shepard	29-32, 34, 37-44	13 episodes	Station spokeswoman; works with her lawyer to retrial her trial; gets stones put in the way by her mother-in-law; begins an affair with Vivi.
Katrin Tornow	Tanya Neufeldt	29-30, 32-36, 41-44	11 episodes	Drug addict; gets into Dagmar's drug business; she whistles to the management and is then threatened by Dagmar; meets the prisoner Richard Stern, with whom she escapes from Reutlitz.
Jeanette Bergdorfer	Christine Schuberth	27-28, 30, 33, 35-36, 39, 41-42, 44	10 episodes	Prison spy; rebellious cleaner; lets her money invest in the stock exchange, but makes speculations.
Margarethe "Mutz" Korsch	Brigitte Renner	27, 35-36, 39-44	9 episodes	Oldest inmate; Gardener; deals with religion after her second trial and becomes pious; hides an inmate who has fled the men's prison in the nursery.
Dagmar Friese	Kristiane Kupfer	28-36	9 episodes	Calculating and cold-hearted drug dealer in the prison; is thrown by Katrin Tornow into an elevator shaft that is bricked up; comes to a psychiatric clinic after her release due to an ongoing mental disorder.
Richard Stern	Martin Semmelrogge	39-41, 43-44	5 episodes	Breaks out of the men's prison, but digs into the women's prison; is kept hidden in the nursery by Lollo, Mutz, Ilse and Katrin; begins a love affair with Katrin; escapes with her disguised as a priest from the prison.
Regine Seifert	Ana Fonell	29-30, 33, 36	4 episodes	Terrorist; is quite skeptical and doesn't trust anyone; can be relocated from the prison after Frank Gitting is hired as the new closer.

Prison staff

Role name	actor	consequences	number	Notes and role development in season 2
Jutta Adler	Claudia Loerding	28, 31-44	15 episodes	initially deputy and ward manager of the prison, from episode 39 acting prison manager; unpopular with the inmates.
Peter Kittler	Egon Hofmann	28-32, 34-35, 38-44	14 episodes	Normally open; good friend of Horst.
Dr. Evelyn Kaltenbach	Franziska Matthus	27-38	12 episodes	Initially head of the prison; moves to the Ministry of Justice.
Horst Dahnke	Thomas Engel	32-36, 38-44	12 episodes	Normally open; good friend of Peter.
Silke Jakoby	Judith von Radetzky	27-28, 30-32, 34, 38-39, 42-44	11 episodes	Turnkey; has a good relationship with the inmates; stands up for this in front of the prison management. Station manager during Jutta's absence.
Sybille "Möhrchen" Mohr	Heidi Weigelt	28, 30-31, 34-36, 38-39, 42, 44	10 episodes	Secretary to the prison administration.
Frank Gitting	Karl-Heinz von Liebezeit	35-39, 41-44	9 episodes	New closer and ward manager. Takes over the management of the institution in Jutta's absence.
Birgit Schnoor	Uta Prelle	31, 33, 35, 38-42	8 episodes	Turnkey.
Dr. Bernd Beck	Dirk Mierau	27, 30, 32, 35-36, 44	6 episodes	Prison doctor.
Leo Meinecke	Joey Zimmermann	32-36, 39	6 episodes	unfriendly institutional cook; has an affair with Katrin.
Matthias Goran †	Dieter Bach	29-30	2 episodes	Prison psychologist; has an affair with Katrin; is blackmailed by Katrin; raped Katrin; then hangs himself in his office.

Relatives

Role name	actor	consequences	number	Notes and role development in season 2
Sonja König †	Katharina Wackernagel	30-31, 33-34, 37-38	6 episodes	Daughter of Uschi and Horst. Suffers from the bad influence of her friend Marc Schneider. Is drugged by him and dies in a car accident.
Horst-Wolfgang König	Klaus Wennemann	31, 33-34, 37-38, 40	6 episodes	Husband of Uschi; is looking forward to Uschi's release until his daughter Sonja dies; suffers from the death of his daughter; is left by Uschi.
Dr. Thomas Maybach	Burkhard Heyl	31-32, 37-38, 40	5 episodes	Susanne Teubner's new lawyer; works with her to resume her trial and stands up for her children.
Daniel Fuchs	Rainer Frank	31, 38, 42, 44	4 episodes	Detective inspector; Husband of Lollo; suffers from the distance to his wife; determines Sonja König's death.
Dr. Gregor wishes	Santiago Ziesmer	28, 32, 41	3 episodes	Former inmate. Friend of Ilse Brahms.
Marc Schneider †	Urs Remond	31, 37-38	3 episodes	Ex-boyfriend of Lollo and Sonja; wants to force Sonja to shoot a sex film; give her drugs; is murdered at Sonja's grave by Uschi.
Marlies Teubner	Imke Barnstedt	37-38	2 episodes	Mother-in-law of Susanne; wants to prevent Susanne from being released and intrigues against her.
Nina Teubner	Marie-Ernestine Worch	37, 40	2 episodes	Daughter of Susanne; was raped by her father; misses her mother.
Gaby Kaiser born Korsch	Silvia Rachor	27	1 episode	Daughter of Mutz; wants to emigrate with her new boyfriend; then receives criticism from her daughter and decides against it.
Felix Kaiser	Roman Brauner	27	1 episode	Grandson of Mutz; Twin brother of Sebastian.
Mario Schmidt	Dominik Bender	32	1 episode	Money shark and drug dealer who smuggles drugs into the prison with the help of Katrin and Dagmar.
Martin Teubner	Maximilian Seidenstücker	40	1 episode	Son of Susanne; suffers from the distance to his mother.

Relay deaths

episode	person	Kind of death	action
30th	Matthias Goran	suicide	Hangs himself on a cable after raping Katrin.
37	Sonja König	Car accident under narcotics	After Marc Schneider added drugs to Sonja in her drink and then wanted to force her to record a sex video, Sonja escaped with Marc's car and had a fatal car accident.
38	Marc Schneider	Shot	After Marc Schneider drove Sonja to death, Sonja's mother Uschi shot him at her daughter's grave.

Odds

From April 6, 1998 to August 17, 1998 the second season of Hinter Gittern was shown on RTL. An average of 3.7 million (13.66 percent) viewers opted to watch the series.

Web links

• Season 2 in the Internet Movie Database (English)