Dieter Wedel

Dieter Wedel
Wedel in 2016
Born
Dieter Karl Cäsar Wedel

12 November 1939
Frankfurt am Main, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Germany
Died13 July 2022 (aged 82)
Hamburg, Germany
Occupation(s)Film director
Screenwriter
Years active1966–2018

Dieter Karl Cäsar Wedel known as Dieter Wedel (German: [ˈdiːtɐ kaʁl ˈt͡sɛːzaʁ ˈveːdl̩]; 12 November 1939 – 13 July 2022) was a German director.

Biography

Wdel was born on 12 November 1939. He has directed several television productions since the late 1960s, among them very popular mini-series like The Great Bellheim [de], The Shadow Man [de], The King of St. Pauli [de] and Die Affäre Semmeling. He is considered to be one of Germany's best-known television directors.[1] He also served as the artistic director of the Nibelung Festival in Worms between 2003 and 2014.

In the Me Too campaign, Wedel was accused in January 2018 by several actresses of sexual harassment, and in the case of actress Jany Tempel, even rape.[2] There have been official concerns about the alleged long-time coverup of Wedel's actions because most of his work was done through public broadcasting and received government money. After official investigations against him, Wedel resigned from his post as the artistic director of the Bad Hersfelder Festspiele.[3]

Wedel was married to Ursula Wolters for many years, but in the past he has also had relationships with other women, among them actresses Hannelore Elsner and Ingrid Steeger. He had six children.[4]

Wedel died from leukemia on 13 July 2022 in Hamburg, at the age of 82.[5]

Filmography

Source:[6]

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References

  1. ^ "Schwerwiegende Anschuldigungen". www.medienkorrespondenz.de.
  2. ^ "Staatsanwaltschaft ermittelt gegen Dieter Wedel". Die Zeit.
  3. ^ "Dieter Wedel tritt als Intendant der Bad Hersfelder Festspiele zurück". Der Spiegel. 22 January 2018.
  4. ^ "Dieter Wedel und die Frauen: Sein bewegtes Leben". Abendzeitung München (in German). 4 January 2018. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
  5. ^ "Star-Regisseur Dieter Wedel ist tot". Focus (in German). 20 July 2022. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
  6. ^ "Filmografie Dieter Wedel". fernsehserien.de (in German). 26 April 2022. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
  7. ^ Die Rakete: Komödie mit einem Körnchen Wahrheit, HA 20 December 1975 (retrieved 6 January 2018)
  8. ^ Lexikon der Fernsehspiele, Achim Klünder (1991), Band II, S. 145