Nikolas Vogel

Nikolas Vogel (born March 9, 1967 in Vienna ; † June 28, 1991 in Ljubljana , Slovenia ), also called Nik Vogel , was an Austrian actor and photographer .

Life

Nikolas Vogel was the son of the actress Gertraud Jesserer and the actor Peter Vogel and the grandson of the actor Rudolf Vogel .

He played his first film roles as a teenager in films by the Austrian director Walter Bannert . In the late 1980s, his path as a freelance press photographer took him to the then crisis regions of the world. He photographed in the Northern Ireland conflict , in the war in Afghanistan and finally in the upheavals in the Balkans during the collapse of the Eastern bloc . His last film, Requiem for Dominic , a game documentary by Robert Dornhelm , shows Nik Vogel on his way to Romania in the turmoil after the fall of the dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu .

He died as a war correspondent (camera) during the 10-day war in Slovenia in a bombing at Ljubljana airport (together with Norbert Werner , his driver). During the celebration of Slovenia's final entry into the Schengen area in 2008, Prime Minister Janez Janša commemorated the two dead on the Ljubljana airfield.

Filmography

1981: What does victory cost? (as Peter) - Director: Walter Bannert
1982: The Heirs (as Thomas Feigl) - Director: Walter Bannert
1984: Heartbeat (as David) - Director: Walter Bannert
1986: Bibos Männer (as Mischi) - Director: Klaus Lemke
1987: The Water of Life (O živej vode) (as Prince Konrad) - Director: Ivan Balaďa
1989: Eurocops : Stolpersteine (as Nikki) - Director: Walter Bannert
1990: Requiem for Dominik (as Nick) - Director: Robert Dornhelm

Web links

Nikolas Vogel in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Vogel, Nikolas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian actor and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 9, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	June 28, 1991
Place of death	Ljubljana , Slovenia

[1] Focus online (January 3, 1994): War reporter - The witnesses of horror

[2] Address by the Slovenian Prime Minister and the President of the European Council Janez Janša on the occasion of the abolition of internal air border controls and the definitive entry of the Republic of Slovenia into the Schengen area

[3] Prime Minister Janez Janša proclaims the single Schengen area one of the foundations of freedom, cooperation and progress in the European Union. Prime Minister's website, March 31, 2008 ( Memento of August 5, 2012 in the archive.today web archive ).