Director Dieter Wedel died at the age of 82

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Director Dieter Wedel is dead

07/20/2022, 10:50 am

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Director and screenwriter Dieter Wedel has died at the age of 82.

The director Dieter Wedel is dead. He died on July 13 in Hamburg, as the Munich I Regional Court announced on Wednesday, where criminal proceedings against Wedel were pending. The court actually wanted to finally announce on Wednesday whether there would be a trial against Wedel. According to the court, the case against him is now being discontinued.

Dieter Wedel is dead

The public prosecutor had accused Wedel in March of last year of an allegation from 1996. The actress Jany Tempel states that Wedel (“The Great Bellheim”, “The Shadow Man”) raped her in a Munich luxury hotel at the time – an accusation that Wedel has denied.

When the charges were brought, Wedel’s lawyers spoke of prior conviction and emphasized the likelihood that the charges could not be admitted at all – although that hardly ever occurs in the German judiciary.

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The lawyer for the joint plaintiff Tempel, on the other hand, only recently complained about the delay in the proceedings against the director. “More than 14 months have passed since the indictment,” lawyer Alexander Stevens wrote in mid-May in a complaint of delay to the court. Temple suffers “a lot from the long process.”

She even went on a brief hunger strike to protest the court’s delay in making the decision. Even before the public prosecutor’s office even filed charges, they had been investigating for three years.

Wedel was one of the most successful German filmmakers. With his multi-part series, he delighted an audience of millions and wrote television history.

Wedel, about whose date of birth there is conflicting information and who was probably around 80 years old when he died, started out in the 1990s in particular. One success followed the next: “The Great Bellheim” (1993), “The Shadow Man” (1996), “The King of St. Pauli” (1998) and “The Semmeling Affair” (2002). When the storyteller published his latest work, people spoke of the “new wedel” with a mixture of awe and curiosity. That sounded like a seal of approval – and it often turned out to be true.

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Before the allegations against him became known as part of the so-called #MeToo debate, Wedel was director of the Bad Hersfeld Festival. At the open-air theater festival, the doctorate in theater studies had set audience records and ensured that many celebrities walked the red carpet at the opening.

Things were turbulent in Wedel’s private life. He has six children from six women, a son with Hannelore Elsner, who died in 2019.

Source: DPA news agency

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