Werner Dissel

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Werner Dissel (born August 26, 1912 in Cologne , † January 22, 2003 in Wildpark-West near Potsdam ) was a German actor and director. He played in films such as Saxony's Glanz and Prussia's Gloria and Coming Out .

Life

In the 1930s Dissel worked as a photo journalist and graphic artist. During this time he belonged to the group that had formed around the journal Der Opponent , published by Franz Jung and Harro Schulze-Boysen . From 1935 he worked with Walter Küchenmeister on the resistance newspaper Wille zum Reich .

Werner Dissel was imprisoned by the Gestapo from 1937 to 1939 because he had joined an anti-fascist movement. In 1942 he escaped the wave of arrests against the Berlin resistance group Rote Kapelle only thanks to the steadfastness of his friends.

After serving in the army in a meteorological unit and the end of World War II, he joined the KPD and found his way back to the stage in Wiesbaden as a set designer and cabaret artist . In 1950 he moved to the GDR , where he worked as an actor and director. From 1960 to 1979 he appeared in the Berliner Ensemble .

In October 1986 Dissel received the GDR Art Prize as a collective.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Dissel appeared in television series such as For all cases Stefanie (2001) and Polizeiruf 110 . From his late colleague Wolfried Lier , he took over the leading role of Wilhelm in the series Immenhof in 1993 .

Filmography (selection)

as an actor:

Director (selection)

  • 1962: The island of Aphrodite
  • 1963: You don't play with love
  • 1963: Much Ado About Nothing

theatre

Radio plays

literature

  • Harro Schulze-Boysen: Today's opponents - tomorrow's comrades-in-arms. (First edition 1932), epilogue Karl-Heinz Pröhuber . Fölbach Verlag, Koblenz 1983, ISBN 3-923532-00-8 .
  • Gert Rosiejka: The Red Chapel. "Treason" as an anti-fascist resistance. - with an introduction by Heinrich Scheel. results, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-925622-16-0 .
  • Alexander Bahar : Social Revolutionary Nationalism between Conservative Revolution and Socialism - Harro Schulze-Boysen and the GEGNER circle. Fölbach Verlag, Koblenz 1992, ISBN 978-3-923532-18-6 .
  • Hans Coppi: Harro Schulze-Boysen - ways in the resistance. Fölbach Verlag, Koblenz 1995, 2nd edition, ISBN 3-923532-28-8 .
  • Frank-Burkhard Habel , Volker Wachter : Lexicon of the GDR stars. Actors from film and television. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-304-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erika Tschernig, Monika Kollega, Gudrun Müller. Our culture: GDR chronological table, 1945-1987 . Dietz Verlag (1989). ISBN 978-3-320-01132-1 . P. 402.

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personal data
SURNAME Dissel, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 2003
Place of death Wildlife Park West near Potsdam