Walter Sedlmayr

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Walter Sedlmayr (born January 6, 1926 in Munich ; † July 14, 1990 there ) was a German folk actor .

Life

youth

The son of the tobacconist Richard Sedlmayr and the housewife Maria Rott changed hands several times to school because of poor grades, before the 1945 Schwabing Gisela Gymnasium a Notabitur made. Shortly before the end of the Second World War , Sedlmayr was drafted as an anti-aircraft helper.

Acting and broadcasting

After his return from the war, Sedlmayr played in several Munich theaters . He remained loyal to the Münchner Kammerspiele for over 25 years, although he was never allowed to play a leading role. In the 1940s and 1950s Sedlmayr played in numerous homeland films, mainly in small supporting roles alongside stars such as Heinz Rühmann , Liselotte Pulver and O. W. Fischer .

In 1971 the Blutenburg Madonna, stolen from the Blutenburg Palace Chapel, was found in Walter Sedlmayr's house in Feldmoching . The now one of the "House actor," directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ascended Sedlmayr was because of suspicion of theft and handling stolen goods in custody taken. After five days the arrest warrant against Sedlmayr was overturned by the Munich District Court I ; however, the case was never resolved. The incident made him known suddenly and helped him to bigger roles, including the tailor-made main role in the Syberberg film Th. Hierneis or: How to become a former court chef , which also gave him his artistic breakthrough.

In the period that followed, Walter Sedlmayr played in numerous television series, including Munich Stories , Der Herr Kottnik and The Millionaire Farmer . The success of the Police Inspection 1 series from 1977 to 1988 with Uschi Glas and Elmar Wepper contributed greatly to Sedlmayr's popularity and fame. From 1982 Sedlmayr performed every year at the traditional strong beer tasting on the Nockherberg and read the riot act to the politicians at Derbleck'n . He also shot sophisticated travel documentaries and worked as an advertising medium for the Paulaner brewery.

Since the 1980s, he has also worked for Bayerischer Rundfunk and, among other things, had the weekly radio show Beehren uns soon on Bayern 1 . He also played in the radio series Er und Sie together with Ruth Kappelsberger . In 1990 he hosted a weekly program on the private classical radio station Radio Belcanto .

Business

Through film and advertising income , inheritances , the purchase and sale of antiques and art objects as well as real estate trading , Sedlmayr had become a multiple millionaire. In February 1989 he opened the inn at Beim Sedlmayr (formerly Fischerwirt ) on Westenriederstrasse 14 in Munich, near the Viktualienmarkt , and entrusted his foster son Wolfgang Werlé to run it. This led to a serious rift in May 1990 because Sedlmayr accused him of having cheated on his business.

assassination

Grave of the Sedlmayr family

On July 15, 1990, Sedlmayr was found dead by his private secretary in the bedroom of his apartment at Elisabethstrasse 5 in Munich-Schwabing . The actor was stabbed several times in the neck and kidneys and then hit with a hammer.

It was through the investigation that the public first learned of the popular actor's private life. Sedlmayr's life was caught in the tension between his bourgeois , conservative image as a “model Bavarian” and his homosexuality, which he concealed . He had always tried to hide his sexual preferences, even from his parents. Alleged tendencies of Sedlmayr to sadomasochistic sexual practices were denied by the head of the Munich homicide squad, Josef Wilfling .

The investigation of the police, which also used V-men , initially focused on a perpetrator from the sex scene . It soon turned out, however, that the situation had been massive. The private secretary came under suspicion because of an amateurish forged will and was later convicted of forging documents .

On May 21, 1991 Sedlmayr's former foster son Wolfgang Werlé and his half-brother Manfred Lauber were arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in a circumstantial trial in 1993 , whereby Werlé was found to be particularly guilty. The fiancée of one of the perpetrators had confessed to an informant that the murder weapon came from her household, but later revoked it. The main perpetrator was charged with a revoked confession in front of fellow inmates. The half-brothers continued to deny the offense, but attempts to retrial failed several times, most recently in 2005 when the defense lawyers relied on the testimony of a cleaning lady and the fingerprints found on a door frame of a previously convicted man who had stayed in Sedlmayr's apartment and after Murder fled to Spain .

Werlé was paroled in August 2007 and Lauber in January 2008. Since Werlé determined that the guilt was particularly serious, probation would not actually be possible after 15 years, but it was granted on the basis of a positive social prognosis. Both tried to have their names deleted with numerous injunctions against online archives. Such a deletion was also carried out temporarily in the German-language Wikipedia . In November 2009, the Federal Court of Justice brought an action by one of the perpetrators to the European Court of Justice not to mention his name on the Internet site of an Austrian media company in order, among other things, to clarify the jurisdiction of German courts.

The Federal Court of Justice ruled on December 15, 2009 that the convicts are not entitled to have their names removed from Internet archives, this would mean an inadmissible restriction of freedom of expression and freedom of the media. The attempt to forbid the American Wikimedia Foundation to mention the names on the English-language page of Wikipedia never had any effect there, but even persuaded American newspapers such as the New York Times to use the names with reference to those in the first amendment to the US Constitution to call guaranteed freedom of speech. The European Court of Human Rights confirmed the view of the Federal Court of Justice in June 2018, according to which the media have the task of participating in the formation of opinions by making the information stored in their archives available to the public. This outweighs the right of convicted criminals to be forgotten.

funeral

The funeral service took place in the funeral hall of Munich's north cemetery . After the cremation , his urn was buried in the Bogenhausen cemetery in Munich. No celebrities appeared at Sedlmayr's funeral.

Representation in the film

  • In 2001, Sedlmayr's story was filmed in the television production Wambo by Jo Baier with Jürgen Tarrach in the leading role.
  • The Sedlmayr case was recreated in the ARD series The Great Criminal Cases (Season 1, Episode 6).
  • In the ZDF documentary Enlightened - Spectacular Criminal Cases (Wrong Traces: The Walter Sedlmayr Case) , the murder investigation by the psychologist Katinka Keckeis and the former profiler Axel Petermann is reopened.

Filmography

movie theater

watch TV

Television films

  • 1960: A certain rattle
  • 1961: Judgment Day
  • 1962: He wants to make a joke
  • 1964: day and night
  • 1965: Radetzky March
  • 1966: Italian night
  • 1966: Magdalena
  • 1969: Free until the next time
  • 1969: The relapse
  • 1970: Baal
  • 1970: Niklashauser Fart
  • 1971: Rio das Mortes
  • 1971: Pioneers in Ingolstadt
  • 1972: Bremen freedom
  • 1973: Welt on the wire
  • 1973: Get in and die
  • 1973: The target practice
  • 1974: The reform
  • 1974: The quack
  • 1975: A German assassination attempt
  • 1976: Hands good, all good
  • 1976: The sold grandfather
  • 1977: Probation period
  • 1979: Anton Sittinger
  • 1981: My friend the Sheikh
  • 1984: Rambo Zambo

TV Shows

Further series

Radio plays

Awards

Publications

literature

Web links

Commons : Walter Sedlmayr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Sedlmayr , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 39/1990 of September 17, 1990, in the Munzinger Archive , accessed on November 14, 2013 ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  2. ↑ Gisela Friedrichsen: “Are you shitting me?” In: Der Spiegel . No. 49 , 1992 ( online - Nov. 30, 1992 ).
  3. ↑ a b c faz.net: Murder of Rudolph Moshammer - memories of the Sedlmayr case.
  4. ↑ Compare Rudolf Schröck: The great criminal cases , death of a folk actor. Campus, Danuta Harrich-Zandberg and Frank Fux
  5. ↑ a b Hendrik Steinkuhl: Aftershocks at Wikipedia: The actor Walter Sedlmayr died 25 years ago. In: NOZ . July 14, 2015, archived from the original on December 9, 2015 ; accessed on June 29, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Ralph Hub: 20 years later - Sedlmayr: A murder out of greed. In: Evening newspaper of July 13, 2010.
  7. ↑ Sedlmayr murderer is free again. queer.de, August 10, 2007
  8. ↑ Sedlmayr murder - second perpetrator released from prison.
  9. ↑ Sedlmayr murderer released from custody
  10. ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Sedlmayr case - do the names of the murderers have to be deleted on the net? ( Memento of January 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) of November 11, 2009.
  11. ↑ Compare for example Torsten Kleinz: Again legal dispute over attribution in Wikipedia. November 12, 2009, at heise.de and the New York Times article from November 13, 2009: Two German Killers Demanding Anonymity Sue Wikipedia's Parent.
  12. ↑ Deutschlandradio is still allowed to keep transcripts of radio broadcasts that are no longer up-to-date, in which the name of the convicted person is mentioned in connection with the murder of Walter Sedlmayr, available in their “online archive”. In: Press office announcement No. 255/2009. Federal Court of Justice, December 15, 2009, accessed December 15, 2009 .
  13. ↑ Two German Killers Demanding Anonymity Sue Wikipedia's Parent. NY Times, November 12, 2009
  14. ↑ tagesschau.de: ECHR judgment: names of the Sedlmayr murderers remain on the net Retrieved June 28, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Attribution of convicted criminals permitted in online archives.
  16. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Walter Sedlmayr.
  17. ↑ billiongraves.de: Walter-Sedlmayr
  18. ↑ ZDF documentary Enlightened - Spectacular criminal cases Wrong tracks: The Walter Sedlmayr case from December 28, 2019, accessed on January 6, 2020.
  19. ^ Political comedy, broadcast on January 8, 1975 at 10:05 pm on ZDF , playing time 95 minutes. Directed by Norbert Kückelmann, camera Jürgen Jürges, cast alongside Sedlmayr a. a. or Wilfried Klaus and Maximilian Raab (cf. Kückelmann filmography , entry in the online film database , entry in TV Spielfilm ) and this week on television . In: Der Spiegel . No. 1 , 1975, p. 95 ( Online - Jan. 6, 1975 ).
personal data
SURNAME Sedlmayr, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1990
Place of death Munich