D83 Characters
Character | Information |
Martin Rauch, Moritz Stamm | Major or Minor Character? Major character Stereotype? Stereotypical east German – is loyal to his country, serves it, does as he’s told Then when moving over to the west he wears stereotypical clothing popular in west Germany such as puma and Adidas. Characteristics?
Contribution to Narrative? Martin is the main storyline that we follow in the series as we watch him go undercover and spy on west Germany for the east along with how he deals and copes with everything as well. |
Lenora Rauch Martin’s Aunt | Major or Minor Character? Major character Stereotype? Yes, and no. her stereotypical traits such as being manipulative yet she argues the stereotype because she is a women and has a lot of power. Characteristics?
Contribution to Narrative? Lenora is the one to offer her nephew martin for this undercover mission. Therefore, is the catalyst of martins new life. |
General Wolfgang Edel | Major or Minor Character? Major character Stereotype? Stereotype. Her serves west Germany and wants the best for it. Takes his job very seriously with high importance. Yet he seems to be quite nurturing and kind to martin which is not typical for someone with this superiority. Characteristics?
Contribution to Narrative? Wolfgang is the main person that martin has to work with (being his assistant) despite martin not being the person that they actually hired. Martin has to take orders for him and do what he says. |
Walter Schweppenstette | Major or Minor Character? Major character Stereotype? Stereotypical east german. Someone to be feared. He wants whats best for his country and will do anything for it Characteristics?
Contribution to Narrative? Comes to collect martin to send him off o west German but when he refuses he spikes his coffee and beaks his finger showing that he is a character to not mess around with. |
Annett Schneider Martins GF | Major or Minor Character? Minor character Stereotype? No. Characteristics?
Contribution to Narrative? Martins girlfriend. She is determined to find where he is due to his sudden disappearance, knows martin ‘isn’t like that’. |
Alex Edel General Edel’s son | Major or Minor Character? Minor character Stereotype? Stereotypical like his father. Serves his country by doing what he is told. Characteristics?
Contribution to Narrative? Martins roommate, introduces him to everyone and is the general’s son. |
Tobias Tischbier Professor | Major or Minor Character? Major character Stereotype? Loyal to his country despite being in the west. Good at being undercover and wants to help his country by helping martin. Characteristics?
Contribution to Narrative? Tobias is the one to train Martin to act like a western and teaches him tricks such as picking locks in order to help succeed in his mission. |
General Arnold Jackson | Major or Minor Character? Major character Stereotype? A counter stereotype due to him being black, not typical for a general at that time. Characteristics?
Contribution to Narrative? One of martins first missions, he holds information that Martin needs to find out about to tell the east side. |
