died at the age of 74
Dieter Wedel: Wife Uschi Wolters died just a few days after the director
Uschi Wolters died just a few days after her husband Dieter Wedel
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Dieter Wedel died two weeks ago at the age of 82. As has now become known, his wife Uschi Wolters also died – only 13 days after the director.
They have been in a relationship for decades and have also been married since 2014: Dieter Wedel and Uschi Wolters. The well-known director died on July 13 at the age of 82. A day later, his wife Uschi Wolters announced Wedel’s death. As the “Bild” newspaper now reports, citing the couple’s closest family circle, the 74-year-old is now dead. She died on July 26 – just 13 days after her husband.
According to the report, both were in the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, where Uschi Wolters was treated for a stomach tumor. She died there just a few days after her husband. When Dieter Wedel was cremated near Hamburg on July 28, his wife was already dead.
Dieter Wedel and Uschi Wolters have been in a relationship for a long time
The director Dieter Wedel and Uschi Wolters had been in a relationship for decades before they married in 2014. For a long time they had a three-way relationship: in addition to the businesswoman Ursula Wolters, a daughter of the former Bremen Senator Hermann Wolters, Wedel was in a relationship with the actress Dominique Voland from 1997 to 2009. From the relationship the son Benjamin emerged. Wedel has a total of six children from six different women – including a son with actress Hannelore Elsner, who died in 2019.
Wedel was one of the most successful German filmmakers. For ZDF he filmed miniseries such as “Der Große Bellheim” (1993), “Der Schattenmann” (1996), “Der König von St. Pauli” (1998) and “Die Affaire Semmeling” (2002), all of which were seen by millions of viewers became.
In 2018, however, Wedel was accused of sexual abuse. Actress Jany Tempel accused the director of raping her in a Munich hotel in 1996. Wedel denied the accusation. Although the public prosecutor’s office had already brought charges in March 2021, the trial never took place. The now deceased Uschi Wolters had always stood by her husband.
source: “Bild.de”