The cast of the ZDF highlight features Julia Beautx and 5 Netflix stars

Why did Anna Klettmann have to die? This question stands at the beginning of Yesterday we were still children, the new event series that from Monday 8.15 p.m. on ZDF is broadcast. In it, a crime stirs up numerous dark secrets in a family.

The cast of the series by author Natalie Scharf (Frühling) should look familiar to you. Well-known influencers, various Netflix stars and veterans of German television and cinema play here. Since the series keeps flashing back in time, some roles are played by adult and child star actors. We present you the Cast from Yesterday we were still children with the young and older stars.

Julia Beautx plays Vivi Klettmann in Yesterday We Were Children

As a student, Julia Beautx started her own YouTube channel, which today has over 2 million subscribers. She has also been working as an actress for several years. In 2018, the influencer appeared in the musical romance The most beautiful girl in the world and worked with author Natalie Scharf on the ZDF series Frühling.

In Yesterday we were still children, Julia Beautx plays the student Vivi Klettmann, who leads an unspectacular teenage life at a private school until her mother is murdered – presumably by her father.

Torben Liebrecht plays Peter Klettmann, the alleged murderer

In recent years, actor Torben Liebrecht has appeared in the Netflix series Altered Carbon – The Immortality Program, in the second season of which he played the new body of villain Jaeger. In addition, Liebrecht is the German voice of Tom Hardy.

His character Peter Klettmann leads an idyllic life with an outwardly happy family. But then he calls the police and confesses to the murder of his wife.

Damian Hardung plays the young Peter Klettmann

Damian Hardung also has Netflix experience as he is a regular cast member of How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast). He played Jonas in The Red Ribbon Club, courted Luna Wendler in The Most Beautiful Girl in the World and Hardung played a leading role alongside John Turturro in the remake of The Name of the Rose.

In Yesterday We Were Kids, Damian Hardung takes on the role of the younger Peter Klettmann, who is being pressured by his strict father and makes a terrible mistake on prom night.

Maria Simon plays Anna Klettmann, the victim

Maria Simon determined ten years as a police call 110 commissioner Olga Lenski in Brandenburg. She was also seen in Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life, among others.

As Anna Klettmann, Simon is at the center of the mystery of yesterday we were still children. Was the loving mother really murdered by her own husband?

Rieke Seja plays the young Anna Klettmann

Rieke Seja works at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden and has so far acted in films such as Papa auf Wolke 7 and Get Lucky – Sex changes everything.

But her biggest role is that of young Anna in the new ZDF series. The schoolgirl fell in love with Peter Klettmann, but he only has eyes for her modeling friend Luisa.

Julius Nitschkoff plays Tim Muenzinger, the policeman with secrets

Julius Nitschkoff was honored last year for his performance in the drama Bulldog and counts appearances in Parfum, Das Boot and Der Lehrer in his CV.

In the new ZDF series, Nitschkoff plays the policeman Tim Münzinger, who initially seems like an uninvolved observer, but he too has secrets that connect him to the Klettmanns.

Ulrich Tukur plays the tyrannical Hans Klettmann

The actor, writer and singer Ulrich Tukur regularly attracts attention with his unorthodox Tatort episodes about Felix Murot and showcased his talent in films such as The Lives of Others, The White Ribbon – A German Children’s Story and most recently It’s Only One Phase, Rabbit Under Proof.

In Yesterday we were still children, Tukur plays Peter Klettmann’s overbearing father in flashbacks, who wants to urge his son to pursue a career in law and only shows incomprehension that his wife has not gotten over the death of their daughter.

Dark star Karoline Eichhorn plays Heide Klettmann

Netflix subscribers and sci-fi fans may know Karoline Eichhorn thanks to the series Dark, in which she starred as police officer Charlotte Doppler. Over the years she has shown her skills in numerous television and cinema films, such as The Sandman, In the Shadow and The Last Silence.

Her character Heide Klettmann – Peter’s mother and Vivi’s grandmother – is one of the most tragic in the ZDF series. She suffers from her cold husband and loses herself in grief over her dead daughter.

Katharina Heyer plays the mysterious Luisa

In five episodes of the Netflix series Barbaren, Katharina Heyer immersed herself in Germanic history as Odarike. In addition, she has appeared in numerous German thrillers in recent years, from Notruf Hafen Kante to Ein Starke Team.

In Yesterday we were still children, Katharina Heyer takes on the role of the older Luisa, Anna’s childhood friend.

Netflix star Milena Tscharntke plays the young Luisa

Milena Tscharntke has been in Karoline Herfurth’s Simply Something Beautiful in German cinemas since November. Before that, she appeared in Alles Isy, the Netflix series Wir sind die Welle and the teen comedy Bruder vor Luder.

Tscharntke’s character Luisa is described as the “prettiest girl in school”. Anna’s best friend dreams of a career on Broadway.

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Yesterday we were still children: broadcast dates and the ZDF media library

Yesterday we were children consists of seven episodes. The mini-series will be shown as a three-part series on ZDF on the following days:

If you already want to know how the series ends, you can stream it in full in the ZDF media library.

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