Jens Hartwig is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

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

Cologne

Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...

. 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

Mein Leben & Ich

Mein Leben & Ich is a German situation comedy produced by Sony Pictures in association with RTL Television for RTL. The series was created by Paula A. Roth and loosely based on ABC's 1994 teen drama My So-Called Life...

as Karl and in the soap opera

Soap opera

A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...

 Unter uns

Unter Uns

Unter uns is a German television soap opera, first broadcast on RTL on 28 November 1994. Centered around the lives of the people in a residential house, which is set in the fictional Schillerallee in Cologne. Since the show debuted the baker's family Weigel is the series core family...

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

Inkheart

Inkheart is a young adult-child fantasy novel by Cornelia Funke, and the first book of the Inkworld trilogy....

, The Storm and The Process. In August 2009, he took the contract role as Tristan von Lahnstein

Tristan von Lahnstein

Tristan von Lahnstein is a fictional character of the German soap opera Verbotene Liebe . The character is played by actor Jens Hartwig since October 23, 2009.-Personality:...

 in the popular soap opera Verbotene Liebe

Verbotene Liebe

Verbotene Liebe , often abbreviated to VL, is a Rose d'Or Award-winning German television soap opera. The show was created by Reg Watson and first broadcast on Das Erste on 2 January 1995...

 (Forbidden Love). Jens appeared for the first time on-screen on October 23, 2009.

Next to German, he speaks English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 and French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

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Jens Hartwig currently lives in Cologne

Cologne

Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...

, where Verbotene Liebe is filmed.