Behind bars / Season 7

Season 7 of Behind Bars
Episodes	26th
Country of production	Germany
First broadcast	February 19, 2001 - September 10, 2001 on RTL
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This article contains all episodes of the seventh season of the German television series Hinter Gittern , sorted according to the first broadcast . They were broadcast from February 19, 2001 to September 10, 2001 on the German broadcaster RTL .

Episodes

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	Original title	Summary	First broadcast D
151	1	Power struggles	Walter loses reputation on the ward. A fight between Walter and Mel should decide who will be the new boss on Station B. By unfair means, Mel clearly wins the fight.	February 19, 2001
152	2	Pirouettes	Elke becomes jealous when she learns that Tom and Denise are using their training times for two hours together.	February 26, 2001
153	3	Dangerous sisters	Martina and Mareike Vattke cause trouble on Ward B. Melanie comes to Prekow innocent. Anna worries about Lilli.	March 5, 2001
154	4th	Lust and atonement	Jutta and Jörg find it difficult to cover up their affair.	March 12, 2001
155	5	The black widow	Anna kills her lover Lutz in cold blood during an outdoor walk. Only Uschi knows about what she did.	March 19, 2001
156	6th	Failed freestyle	Ilse tries to be an author. Denise is raped by Baumann, but nobody believes her. Kittler is forced to terminate the contract by mutual consent, as this is the only way he can save the Vattkes from threatened disciplinary proceedings for help to escape	March 26, 2001
157	7th	ups and downs	The Vattkes lock Walter up in the basement and make it look as if Walter managed to escape from Reutlitz. Ilse becomes a successful author and therefore denies her own husband.	April 2, 2001
158	8th	Buried alive	Bea manages to save Walter from her hiding place at the last minute.	April 9, 2001
159	9	All in white	Jutta and Jörg get married in Reutlitz. Silke comes to visit at this party and becomes Jutta's maid of honor.	April 23, 2001
160	10	Crazy	Anna commits another murder when she is outdoors. This leads to Uschi worrying seriously about Anna's mental state. Uschi's investigations lead to Anna managing to have Uschi declared insane, whereupon Uschi has to go back to psychiatry. Simone kills her suitor in affect.	April 30, 2001
161	11	Strong women	Simone is imprisoned in Reutlitz and has to deal with the harassment of the other inmates and Jutta. The nun Ruth helps her. Mareike Vattke rapes Tom Weber.	May 14, 2001
162	12	Inseparable	When Martina spent more time with Dr. Stein spends, Mareike is plagued by jealousy, so that she fakes a suicide attempt to make Martina feel guilty. Peter starts an intrigue against Jörg. Elke includes Tom in her crooked business.	May 21, 2001
163	13	Reutlitz package	The millionaire spouses Wildhagen blackmail Elke and Tom and allow themselves to be brought into the prison under a false identity as an inmate and keeper in order to refresh their relationship. Walter gets permission to be visited by Bea on her birthday. During the visit, Bea loses her sight, whereupon she is admitted to the hospital. a brain tumor is diagnosed there.	June 11, 2001
164	14th	God's ways	Walter tries to blackmail the prison management for permission to visit Bea in the hospital. To this end, she takes nun Ruth hostage in the nursery. The former locksmith Silke Jakoby is surprisingly brought to Reutlitz as an inmate.	June 18, 2001
165	15th	Forbidden fruit	Denise becomes pregnant by Jörg, who slips pills for her, whereupon she loses her baby. Jutta finds out about it, but hides it up to protect her husband.	June 25, 2001
166	16	Tragic errors	Jutta demotes Birgit and at the same time promotes Jörg to the deputy head of the institution. Thereupon Birgit uses illegal means by helping Silke to escape in order to put it on Jörg. When Jutta thinks Martina Vattke is the escaped inmate, Jutta shoots Silke to stop her. Silke pays for this with her life.	July 2, 2001
167	17th	Love for sale	Jörg intrigues against the relationship between Simone and Helmut. Elke earns her living with horse racing among the inmates. A love wagon causes positive uproar among the prisoners.	July 9, 2001
168	18th	Addiction and longing	Martina's relationship with Christoph leads to a big argument between the Vattke siblings. Elke expands her horse betting and allies with Mareike.	July 16, 2001
169	19th	Pious ruse	Walter and Ruth manage to get Elkes back money stolen from the women. In one execution Anna and Horst approach each other. Simone tells her son the truth.	July 23, 2001
170	20th	Lust for love	Jörg tries to force Denise to hire herself out as a whore, but Puffmother Simone takes her side and throws Jörg into the bill. Jeanette, on the other hand, joins the horizontal trade in order to be able to soothe her libido in this way. Horst makes a love confession to Anna.	July 30, 2001
171	21st	Madly in love	In Anna's madness, Anna kills Horst Dahnke despite Uschi's activities. Denise raises money for her trainer by smuggling drugs for Mareike.	August 6, 2001
172	22nd	The dead maker	When Horst's body is found, Uschi is suspected and thought to be crazy. But Anna is exposed as the real perpetrator.	August 13, 2001
173	23	Shattered dreams	Anna is taken to a psychiatric clinic. Because of the betrayal of Mareike, Martina smashes Denise's knee with a dumbbell. A subsequent hospital stay is inevitable.	August 20, 2001
174	24	war	The assassination attempt on Denise causes a great riot among the prisoners, who have split into two camps. It finally ends in a big fight in which Svea dies after a tragic accident.	August 27, 2001
175	25th	Finally united	Jörg prevents Walter from meeting Bea. Denise suffers from the fact that she can never go back to competitive sports because of the injury. Elke makes it to Dr. To convince Kaltenbach that Tom is not the right person for the post of deputy head in Preekow. Elke and Tom then come closer than ever before.	September 3, 2001
176	26th	The big bang	With Denise's help, Walter wants to blow up Jörg's pimping. But this lures Walter and Bea into a trap, locks Bea and Walter in the love car and blows it up.	September 10, 2001

occupation

The cast of Behind Bars made its appearance in season seven as follows:

Inmates

Role name	actor	consequences	number	Notes and role development in season 7
Tina Stein	Martina Baumann	151-176	26 episodes	Small role
Christine "Walter" Walter	Katy Karrenbauer	151-154, 157-160, 163-170, 173-176	20 episodes	Ringleader in the prison. Friend of Bea. Fights her reputation back on the station and is the victim of an assassination attempt by Jörg Baumann in the season finale.
Simone Bach	Susanne Schlenzig	152-154, 159-170, 173-176	19 episodes	Mother of Alex. Still-wife of Helmut. Works as a prostitute, u. a. from Jörg. In the affect kills a suitor and comes to Reutlitz.
Agnes Herrmann	Dagmar Bertram	151-166, 175-176	18 episodes	Small role
Denise Hartung	Edina Robinson	151-152, 155-158, 163-166, 169-176	18 episodes	Figure skating professional. Continued to train for the Olympics while in custody. Tom's ex-affair. Is forced to have sex and prostitution by Baumann and beaten up by Martina, so that her career as a professional athlete is over.
Mareike Vattke	Sanna Englund	153-158, 161-162, 165-168, 171-175	17 episodes	Sister of Martina. Murdered his own father in cold blood with her sister. Raped Tom and tried to kill Walter.
Martina Vattke	Judith Sehrbrock	153-158, 161-162, 165-168, 171-175	17 episodes	Mareike's sister. Murdered his own father in cold blood with her sister. Begins a relationship with Christoph. Injuries to Denise seriously and tries to kill Walter.
Ilse Wünsche born. Brahms	Christiane Reiff	153-160, 163-164, 169-170, 173-176	16 episodes	Kitchen help in the prison. Wife of Gregor Wünsche. Tries as an author.
Jeanette Bergdorfer	Christine Schuberth	151-152, 155-158, 161-164, 167-170, 175-176	16 episodes	Cleaner in the prison. Prostitutes in prison.
Elke Meier	Maren Schumacher	151-152, 155-156, 161-164, 167-170, 173-176	16 episodes	Change of actors from this season (role was previously played by Monika Guthmann ) Affair of Tom. Does bizarre business on the station.
Ursula "Uschi" König	Barbara Freier	151-152, 155-156, 159-160, 165-166, 170-176	15 episodes	Reveals Anna as the perpetrator.
Anna Talberg	Bettina Kramer	153-160, 165-166, 169-173	15 episodes	Mother of Jan and Lilli. Develops a disturbed relationship with men and kills Horst Dahnke in her madness. Will be taken to a psychiatric hospital.
Ruth Bächtle	Katrein Frenzel	160-164, 167-176	15 episodes	Nun. Killed a policeman in an affect. Works in the nursery and volunteers as a pastor for the inmates.
Melanie "Mel" Schmidt	Sigrid Schnückel	151-153, 167-169, 171-176	12 episodes	In the meantime moved to Preekow due to its aggressiveness.
Svea †	Alexandra from Pervulesco	153-154, 163-164, 173-174	6 episodes	Melanie's henchman. Dies in a fight between inmates when she falls off the railing.
Silke Jakoby †	Judith von Radetzky	159, 164-166	4 episodes	Former turnkey. Arrested for falsely accused of helping to escape. Flees with the help of Birgit, is mistaken for Martina Vattke by Jutta and shot while trying to escape.

Prison staff

Role name	actor	consequences	number	Notes and role development in season 7
Jutta Elisabeth Adler	Claudia Loerding	151-162, 164-166, 169-173, 175-176	22 episodes	Director of the institution, marries Jörg Baumann.
Jörg Johannes Baumann	Armin Dallapiccola	151-162, 164-170, 175-176	21 episodes	Normally open. Marries Jutta Adler. Simone's suitor. Raped Denise and started some intrigue.
Birgit Schnoor	Uta Prelle	151-154, 157-160, 163-166, 171-174	16 episodes	Closer and temporarily deputy director, is demoted by Jutta.
Tom Weber	Marcus Grüsser	151-152, 155-158, 161-164, 167-170, 175-176	16 episodes	Closer of the prison. Elke's affair. Anna's ex-boyfriend. Denise's ex-affair. One night stand from Mona.
Horst Dahnke †	Thomas Engel	153-156, 159, 163-172	15 episodes	Normally open. Begins a relationship with Anna, who murders him by lethal injection.
Peter Kittler	Egon Hofmann	151-152, 155-156, 159, 161-162, 167-168, 171-176	15 episodes	Normally open. Is temporarily terminated, then discontinued and demoted to the porter at the end of the season.
Sybille "Möhrchen" Mohr	Heidi Weigelt	153-160, 165-169, 175-176	15 episodes	Secretary to the prison management.
Dr. Christopher Columbus stone	Atto Suttarp	153-154, 158-162, 166-168, 171-174	14 episodes	Prison doctor. HIV infected. Begins a relationship with Martina Vattke and takes over the guardianship of Lilli Talberg.
Dr. Evelyn Kaltenbach	Franziska Matthus	175	1 episode	Works as State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice. Comes to Reutlitz for an inspection.

Relatives

Role name	actor	consequences	number	Notes and role development in season 7
Beate "Bea" Hansen †	Sonia Farke	151-152, 157-158, 163-164, 174-176	9 episodes	Former turnkey. Friend of Walter. Becomes the victim of an assassination attempt by Jörg Baumann in the season finale.
Lilli Talberg	Anna Herrmann	153-155, 160, 169, 173-174	7 episodes	Daughter of Anna. Jan's sister, Christoph's foster daughter.
Helmut Bach	Christoph Hemrich	159-161, 165-167, 169	7 episodes	Still-husband of Simone. Father of Alex.
Nina Teubner	Marie-Ernestine Worch	163-164, 166, 174	4 episodes	1. Actress of the role (was represented in season 6) Walter's foster daughter.
Dr. Gregor wishes	Santiago Ziesmer	155-157	3 episodes	Ilse's husband.
Jan Talberg	Benjamin Quaiser	155, 158, 173	3 episodes	Head of a record shop. Son of Anna. Brother of Lilli. Elke's ex-boyfriend.
Alex Bach	Alexander Kaspirik	159-160, 169	3 episodes	Son of Simone and Helmut.
Knut Lassmann †	Marc Bischoff	159-161	3 episodes	Pushy suitor from Simone. Is killed by Simone in the affect.
Dieter Windisch	Horst Kotterba	158	1 episode	Jutta's ex-boyfriend.

Relay deaths

episode	person	Kind of death	action
155	Lutz Brand	Slay	Anna Talberg kills him with a stone in her madness.
160	Theo Schmieder	Murdered	Is poisoned in her madness by Anna Talberg.
160	Knut Lassmann	Stabbed	The suitor Knut Lassmann is emotionally killed by Simone with a letter opener.
164	Georg Meine	Fatal coma	Dies after being in a coma after Ruth beat him to death.
165	Denise Hartung's unborn baby	Murdered	Denise suffers a miscarriage after Jörg Baumann slipped pills that are unfit for pregnancy into her.
166	Silke Jakoby	Shot	During an attempt to escape, Silke is mistaken for Martina Vattke and shot by Jutta.
171	Horst Dahnke	Lethal injection	Is poisoned in her madness by Anna Talberg.
174	Svea	Fall from the railing	In a group brawl, falls from the railing in front of the upper cells and dies.
176	Bea Hansen	explosion	Bea and Walter are victims of an assassination attempt by Jörg Baumann in the love car. Bea does not survive this.

Web links

• Season 7 in the Internet Movie Database (English)