She acted as Clarissa von Anstetten for almost three years, before being temporarily written out in a kidnapping storyline which went on for almost six months.
She left the show permanently in the summer of 2001 in a high-profile exit storyline involving a final battle with her archenemy, Tanja von Anstetten, played by Miriam Lahnstein.
Jank returned to television in October of 2005, in the role of the antagonist Annabelle Gravenberg in the ZDF telenovela Wege zum Glück.
Jank stayed with the telenovela for three years until Annabelle died on-screen in November of 2008, shortly before the show ended.
She first reappeared in June of 2011, and was part of a six-month special that was filmed on the Spanish island of Mallorca before joining her colleagues in Cologne.