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"He was having an a-air. It wasn't the 3rst one.

Old Adult Young
And the night Mads disappeared... he was with her.
While your brother disappeared, he was sleeping
with another woman.... Claudia... Claudia
Tiedemann."
―Tronte's wife Jana to their son Ulrich[src]

Tronte Nielsen is the father of Ulrich and Mads

Nielsen. He is married to Jana Nielsen. He is the son of Tronte Nielsen
Agnes Nielsen and the Unknown, the nameless son of
Date of Birth 1941[1]
Jonas Kahnwald and Martha Nielsen. Throughout his
life, he had a close relationship with Claudia Status Ceased to exist[2]

Tiedemann. Residence Winden

Occupation Journalist (retired)

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Tronte Nielsen
Biography

Background
Tronte Nielsen was born in 1941 to his mother Agnes Nielsen and the Unknown, the nameless son of
Jonas Kahnwald, Tronte's own great-grandson and Martha Nielsen, Tronte's own granddaughter. Little
is known about his life growing up. However, his father was never in his life, and Tronte never knew the
man and believed him to be a bad person, as his mother told him.[3] Tronte's early life was spent
seemingly very little under the care of his mother. He spent a period of his childhood in a home, where
he was physically abused, during which it is not known where his mother was.[3][4] At a certain point
close to the fall of 1953 (by the looks of his wounds in early November), his mother collected him from
the home he was in and the two moved to the town of Winden, where Agnes's grandmother
purportedly had been from.[4]

Tronte would later describe his mother as often sad. He was aware that she had a brother, but he had
never met him and sensed the siblings hated each other.[5]

1953

November 10
Tronte moved to Winden in 1953 with his mother, Agnes. They rent rooms in the house of Egon and
Doris Tiedemann, where he brst meets their young daughter, Claudia, one year his junior. Doris asks
Agnes about her husband, to which she replies he is dead. Mother and son share a glance at the
response.

Claudia takes Tronte on a tour of the forest, rejecting the company of the nine-year-old Helge
Doppler, who sends her dog Gretchen into the Winden Caves out of spite. Later, when alone, Tronte
pulls up his sleeve to reveal apparent cigarette or cigar burns made on his arms.[4]

November 11
The next day, Tronte accompanies Claudia to look for Gretchen in the woods. The girl compliments his
good looks, comparing him to James Dean and saying that the girls will be after him in droves, and
Tronte smiles. Claudia inquires why the two left where they came from, wondering if they might be
bank robbers on the run. Tronte gives a rehearsed-sounding answer that his mother wanted a change.
Claudia then compliments Agnes, stating that she's never seen anyone who is so elegant.[6]

1954

June 23
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On their way to school through the forest, Claudia complains to Tronte that her mother acts like she
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doesn't understand anything. She says when she becomes a mother she will be dieerent. She asks
him about his time before they came to Winden. He says his mother was sad all the time, and that she
has a brother, but they seem to hate each other. She asks him if she is happy here, but he shrugs. She
then asks Tronte if he will "show it" to her now, and after a brief hesitation, he pulls down his pants.[5]

June 26
After June 26, Tronte's mother Agnes goes missing.[3][7] It is not known if the two ever reunite in their
lifetimes, but it seems that they never do.

September 24
In the morning, on his way to school through the woods, Tronte encounters a strange man near the
cave entrance. The man tells Tronte that he's grown. When Tronte asks if they know each other, the
man replies that he knew his mother, but it was a long time ago. He tells Tronte that he resembles his
mother. The boy asks who he is, and the man says strangely that he has no name, that he was never
given one. But he chose Tronte's.

Just then, two others approach: a young boy and an old man. When Tronte
1-9gets spooked, the brst man
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oeers him a gift: an ouroboros bracelet, which belonged to Agnes. Tronte accepts it and iees the
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Later that day, Tronte is sitting by the lake looking at the necklace. Jana, a girl from school,
approaches him. The two greet each other and the girl sits down. She notices the bracelet and notes
its beauty. Tronte quickly pockets it. She asks where he was that day at school. When he doesn't
answer immediately, she asks what he's doing here. He says he likes it there, in its desolation. He then
shares that he likes to write, stories. Jana smiles, and Tronte compliments the beauty of the sight.

The two walk together through the woods at twilight. Jana inquires about Tronte's mother, and he
ajrms he has no idea where she is. She asks about the man he saw that morning, and whether he
thinks that could actually be his father. Tronte shares what his mother told him about his father. He
admits he was in a home for a long time. When she asks what that was like, he reveals the scars on his
arm. He then reveals a secret: He doesn't want to know whether the man that morning was his father,
and he doesn't care if his mother ever returns. He gives Jana the bracelet, which she takes.

Just then they are interrupted by Claudia, who is surprised to see Jana there. Claudia collects Tronte,
saying that her mother is surely waiting with dinner, and takes him by the hand back home. At home,
they encounter Claudia's father Egon at the dining room table, taking shots and not responding to
questions. The two go upstairs. Later that night, Claudia enters Tronte's bedroom. She drops her night
gown, revealing her body to him.[3]

Adult life
Tronte eventually marries Jana, and the two have two sons, Ulrich in 1971 and Mads in 1973. At a
certain point Tronte acquires the Tiedemann family home, in which he lived in his youth. Whatever
nice feelings the marriage might have been built on, Tronte's eyes are rarely on his wife. He apparently
has multiple aeairs during the course of his marriage. The most notable is that with Claudia
Tiedemann, his childhood iame. All this cheating at a certain point leads Jana to desire a divorce, but
it never comes to pass.[8]

Tronte works as a journalist to support the family.[9] It is not known what paper he writes for, but it is
possibly the town's local paper, the Windener Tageblatt.

1986

October 9
On the night that Tronte and Jana's son Mads disappears, Tronte is with Claudia. Later when Jana is
interviewed by the police, she lies, saying that the three of them—she, Tronte, and Ulrich—were at
home that night.[8]

The disappearance of Mads shatters the family. Jana becomes distraught and withdrawn, and Ulrich
becomes rebellious.[9]

November 5
Tronte approaches Claudia at the Winden Nuclear Power Plant on her brst day as director before she
takes over fully from Bernd Doppler the next day. He is ostensibly there for an interview, given the
historic nature of her appointment to the post, but really he feels the undying urge to cheat on his
wife. Claudia is resistant, but Tronte begs her. She eventually concedes to consider it and walks oe.

That night, Tronte waits by the bus stop for an outing with Claudia, but she never comes. He returns
home and gets into bed as his wife lies awake silently beside him.[9]

1987

Summer
After the disappearance of Claudia on June 26, Tronte spends his time in search of answers,
gathering newspaper clippings and other items in a vain attempt to bnd his old iame.[10]

September 22
Almost a year after the disappearance of Mads, Tronte suggests that they place a gravestone for their
son, to get closure. But Jana never gets closure—the grave is empty, and she always holds onto hope
that her son is somewhere alive, free and happy.[8]

After the mock burial at the St. Christopher church, the Nielsens hold a wake at their house. Hermann
Albers commends the parents for doing what they did, to get closure, and says that at least they still
have each other. Jana makes a mock toast to this idea, knowing her marriage better than strangers.
Tronte comes over to take the bottle of alcohol away from her. Jana demands he tell everyone where
he was when Mads disappeared. When he does not respond, she proclaims that he was "screwing
Claudia Tiedemann." She then says that if he put as much eeort into bnding his son as he did into
bnding his mistress, then Mads might be back by now. Tronte feigns ignorance, and Jana leaves the
room and returns with her purse, which she dumps out to reveal that she found all his "research".
Tronte takes his coat and leaves the house.

Tronte goes to the nuclear power plant to speak with Jasmin Trewen, Claudia's secretary. Jasmin is
reticent to talk because she already told everything to the police, but Tronte just wants to know if she
noticed anything about Claudia the week before she disappeared. Jasmin shares that Claudia's
appearance, usually so important to her, became increasingly disheveled over the week, and she
seemed distracted. Jasmin states that she thinks it must have had something to do with the old
woman who visited Claudia a few days before she disappeared, claiming that the dog Claudia had
found was in fact hers, but then not taking it with her when she left. After that, Claudia was not the
same.

Later Tronte is driving by the bus stop when he notices Claudia's now-orphaned daughter Regina
sitting there with a poodle. He inquires about the dog and if it is hers, and Regina says it belonged to
her mother. Tronte oeers her a ride. In the car, he is distracted by the dog, feeling it looks like
Gretchen, Claudia's dog he once met in his youth. Regina says she thinks that's why her mother kept
the dog. She asks if Tronte thinks there might be a connection between the disappearances of her
mother and his son Mads, but he says he doesn't know. He asks about the week before Claudia's
disappearance and if she ever mentioned an old woman, but Regina shakes her head. He asks if her
mother ever mentioned him, but Regina shakes her head quickly again, tears forming in her eyes.
Tronte laments that he thought she might have said something. Regina asks to be let out. Tronte
stops and oeers her anything she might need before she gets out.

When he returns home that night, Jana is sitting on the couch. He sits down beside her. She tells him
that he will have to decide at some point, either for them or against them. Tronte tells her he saw
Regina that day, remarking how much she's grown. Jana notes how Claudia never did tell anyone who
the father really was. Tronte says simply that she is right: He has to make a choice. He takes her hand
in his.[10]

2019

June 20
Tronte and Jana attend Ulrich and his wife Katharina's twenty-bfth
anniversary party at their house. They congratulate Magnus for
something, and Tronte oeers to buy him his driver's license.[11]
Photographs of Tronte in 1953,
1986, and 2019, on the string
wall November 4
Tronte is called out to the Doppler cabin by Peter Doppler late at night.
Peter says it's to do with his son—not Ulrich, Mads.

Tronte arrives at the bunker, where he bnds what Peter has discovered: the corpse of the missing
Mads. Tronte weeps over the body. At that moment, an elderly and long-missing Claudia Tiedemann
arrives and has them move Mads body into the forest where it will be later found by the police.[12]

That same night, Tronte's grandson Mikkel goes missing under very similar circumstances as Mads did
thirty-three years ago.[13]

November 5
At their apartment the following morning, Tronte stues the sweater he was wearing the night before,
covered in red soil, into the washing machine. Jana enters the room and confronts him about where
he was the night before. He says he was in the garden, getting the bushes ready for winter. When she
counters that she looked out there and saw no one, he says that he went to the gas station to get
more wire. He leaves then to join a search party for Mikkel. Jana laments about the similarity between
the two disappearances.

Tronte combs through the forest half-heartedly. A woman joins him, also lamenting about the tragic
recurrence in Tronte's life. She assures him they will bnd Mikkel. He responds, "Maybe, maybe not." It
seems clear he knows that Mikkel is never returning. Claudia explained much the night before. Tronte
secures the triquetra notebook given to him by Claudia in his pocket.[14]

November 8
Ulrich comes to visit Jana. As Ulrich is standing alone in the kitchen, Tronte enters and hugs him. He
inquires about the family and how they're doing. Ulrich ignores this and asks about Jana, and Tronte
says she's sleeping. Ulrich asks about the Mads case and if there was ever a suspect, if Egon
Tiedemann ever found anything. Tronte denounces the ojcer as an idiot and says he wanted only to
retire. Ulrich then brings up the dead boy found in the woods and ADVERTISEMENT
how he was dressed in '80s
clothing. He suggests this all might have something to do with the case back then, that the
perpetrator might be the same. He begins asking forcefully where he was the night Mads disappeared,
knowing that Jana lied to the police about his being at home. Tronte is aeronted at the suggestion
that he might have something to do with his son's disappearance. Ulrich assaults his father, grabbing
him by the face and asking where he was the night Mikkel disappeared. Jana enters and attests that
he was home. Tronte takes his coat and leaves.

That night in the bunker, Tronte and Peter wait for the passage in the caves to be used. At 9:17, Jonas
Kahnwald uses the wormhole to travel to the year 1986. The two men are shocked at the notebook's
accuracy, looking at a table of times.[8]

November 12
Tronte and Peter are sitting in the bunker. Peter, distressed, shares that his wife Charlotte asked him
about the cabin and his father Helge and what happened there in 1953—a key event in the sequence
of interconnected events between 1953, 1986, and 2019 of the past eight days that Tronte is surely
aware of. Tronte says just a few more hours, and it'll be over; Mads will live. Peter asks if he trusts
Claudia. Tronte says simply that everything she predicted has happened the past eight days, just as
it's written in the notebook. Peter asks about the bulk of pages that are missing from it and what's
supposed to happen after today. Tronte states that after today, everything will be new.

At 11:59 that night, Tronte and Jana are hugging each other in their apartment as the lights iash
wildly around them. Unbeknownst to them, a middle-aged Jonas Kahnwald is attempting to destroy
the wormhole in 1986. He's really only shutting it.[12]

2020
Tronte survives the apocalypse of June 27, 2020, though it is not clear how he did it. Jana's fate is not
known.[10]

2053 (time travel)

An older Claudia Tiedemann, though not quite as old as the one he met the year before, brings him to
Regina's grave in 2053. She reveals that Regina is not in fact his daughter, despite the suspicions of
many. Tronte says that even he believed she was his daughter. Claudia reassures him that it's better
this way, because then Regina is not a part of the knot: She will live once it is destroyed. However, she
instructs him to kill Regina in order to maintain the knot for now. With the death of Regina, Claudia will
become who she is and will try to bnd any way to make her survive. The two old lovers part ways, for
the last time for Tronte, but not for Claudia.[2]

2020 (time travel)

September 22
Tronte returns to 2020. He meets Regina in the Winden Police station, where she and her mother (a
younger version of the one he just met) are staying in the wake of the apocalypse. He apologizes
before sueocating her with a pillow.[10]

Appearances

Season 1
Episode 2 "Secrets" (2019)
Episode 3 "Past and Present" (1986, 2019)
Episode 4 "Double Lives" (2019)
Episode 5 "Truths" (1986)
Episode 6 "Sic Mundus Creatus Est" (2019)
Episode 8 "As You Sow, so You Shall Reap" (1953)
Episode 9 "Everything Is Now" (1953, 1986, 2019)
Episode 10 "Alpha and Omega" (2019)

Season 2
Episode 3 "Ghosts" (1954)
Episode 6 "An Endless Cycle" (2019)

Season 3
Episode 2 "The Survivors" (1987, 2020)
Episode 4 "The Origin" (1954)
Episode 8 "The Paradise" (2020)

References
o. ↑ https://dark.netiix.io/en/event-timeline/tronte-nielsen
q. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Dark Season 3 Episode 8: "The Paradise"
r. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Dark Season 3 Episode 4: "The Origin"
s. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Dark Season 1 Episode 8: "As You Sow, so You Shall Reap"
t. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Dark Season 2 Episode 3: "Ghosts"
u. ↑ Dark Season 1 Episode 9: "Everything Is Now"
v. ↑ Dark Season 2 Episode 8: "Endings and Beginnings"
w. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Dark Season 1 Episode 6: "Sic Mundus Creatus Est"
x. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Dark Season 1 Episode 3: "Past and Present"
oy. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Dark Season 3 Episode 2: "The Survivors"
oo. ↑ Dark Season 2 Episode 6: "An Endless Cycle"
oq. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Dark Season 1 Episode 10: "Alpha and Omega"
or. ↑ Dark Season 1 Episode 1: "Secrets"
os. ↑ Dark Season 1 Episode 2: "Lies"

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