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ALLES WAS ZÄHLT

DRAMA / ROMANTIC DRAMA 

GERMANY

2006-now

ALLES WAS ZÄHLT (Int. Title: All That Matters) is a German television soap opera first broadcast on RTL on 4 September 2006. AWZ is the third daily soap on RTL, created after Gute Zeiten, Schlechte Zeiten and Unter Uns. While the show is set in Essen, filming takes place in Cologne. ALLES WAS ZÄHLT consists of 4523 episodes of 25 minutes.

STORY: The original plot revolved around Diana Sommer's (Tanja Szewczenko) dream to become a world class ice skater. She fell in love with Julian Herzog (Thorsten Grasshoff), who signed her at the prestigious Steinkamp Sport and Wellness Center, run by the unscrupulous Steinkamp dynasty. Diana and Julian became a couple, but in November 2007 Julian suffered a brain haemorrhage and died during their wedding. The story continues to revolve around the Steinkamp Sport. 

GAY COUPLE STORYLINE: Deniz Özturk (Igor Dolgatshew) is co-owner of "Pumpwerk" together with Jenny (Sylvia Maleen) and is also Jenny's boyfriend. He was intern/personal assistant at "Steinkamp Sports and Wellness"; formerly pursued careers as hockey player, rent boy and pair skater with Stella Steinkamp. He has many relationships with women, but also with Roman Wild (Dennis Grabosch), who is a figure skater, placed third in both the World and European championships before pursuing a career as a trainer and then as sports manager of "Steinkamp Sports and Wellness". Roman died of a brain tumour.

Deniz Özturk (Igor Dolgatschew) & Roman Wild (Dennis Grabosch)






IGOR DOLGATSCHEW  (2007-2021) 
November 22, 1983, Novohrad-Volynskyi, Ukraine 






DENNIS GRABOSCH (2006-2011) March 2, 1978, Wedel, Germany

SPECIAL: Igor: “Dennis calls me a ‘cute one’ in private, but if the fans like to call us by the portmanteau “DeRo,” that’s fine with me. The good thing about it is that “De” stands first and “Ro” behind, which is much better than the other way round”.

AWARDS:  ‘ALLES WAS ZÄHLT’ none

  3.8 IMDB