Peter Chatel
Peter Chatel (born December 7, 1943 in Bad Segeberg ; † August 25, 1986 in Hamburg ; actually: Peter Schlätel ) was a German actor .
life and career
According to his own admission, he only knew one career goal as a child: an actor. "As a schoolboy I went to the theater more than 200 times a year and was later allowed to attend rehearsals for Gustaf Gründgens , for whom I later wanted to work as an assistant director."
Chatel was not discovered in the theater, but on television. At 25 he played a convincing junkie in an episode of the crime series Der Kommissar and received numerous TV offers afterwards.
Instead of embarking on a television career, however, he moved to Italy , where he worked with well-known directors. For his role in Giorgio Albertazzi's film Gradiva (based on the Relief Gradiva ), Chatel was awarded the Actor Prize at the Locarno Film Festival in 1970. He also played under the direction of cult director Radley Metzger in the erotic drama Camille 2000 and under Joseph Losey in The Assassination of Trotsky .
Chatel was sentenced to two years in prison in Italy for possession of 40 grams of marijuana; on the mediation of the German embassy and after requests for pardon, which u. a. Heinrich Böll , Ingeborg Bachmann and Peter von Zahn as well as Luchino Visconti had signed, he was later not arrested, but expelled. Back in Germany, a very fruitful collaboration began with Rainer Werner Fassbinder , whose ensemble at the Frankfurt Theater am Turm (TAT) included Chatel and with whom he made a total of seven films. In addition, Chatel began to write and stage plays himself - with great success with critics and audiences both in Germany and in France, where he has lived since then.
He died of AIDS at the age of 42 .
Filmography
- 1969–1974: The Commissioner (4 episodes)
- 1969: Helgalein
- 1971: Dealer of the four seasons
- 1971: The Commissioner - The Dead of Room 17 (TV)
- 1972: The Girl and the Murderer (L'assassino di Trotsky / L'assassinat de Trotsky)
- 1972: The Child - The city becomes a nightmare (Chi l'ha vista morire?)
- 1972: Tonight or never
- 1973: Welt on the wire
- 1974: Karl May
- 1974–1976: Motive love (TV series, 26 episodes)
- 1974: Martha
- 1974: Freedom of fist law
- 1974: La Paloma
- 1974: 1 Berlin-Harlem
- 1974: The Commissioner - Dreams (TV)
- 1975: Roast Satan
- 1975: Derrick - Alarm on Revier 12 (TV)
- 1975: Mother Küsters' journey to heaven
- 1975: Shadow of the Angels
- 1976: The stories of Bjelin
- 1977: Jane remains Jane
- 1980: Lili Marleen
- 1980: Malou
- 1980: looping
- 1981: Today we play the boss - where are the films here?
- 1983: Derrick - Via Genua (TV)
- 1983: Derrick - Little Ahrens (TV)
- 1986: It's the birthday of the future (film in the TV show)
Web links
- Peter Chatel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chatel, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schlätel, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Segeberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 25, 1986 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |