Wilfried Dotzel

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Wilfried Dotzel (born July 10, 1947 in Schweinfurt , † November 26, 1993 in Hamburg ) was a German director and screenwriter who was particularly successful as a director of early evening series.

Wilfried Dotzel (1982)
Wilfried Dotzel grave ,
Ohlsdorf cemetery

biography

Wilfried Dotzel was born into a merchant family. He graduated from the Alexander-Humboldt-Gymnasium in Schweinfurt, after which he studied theater studies, political science and history at the Free University in West Berlin. During his studies he worked as an actor at the Schillertheater for six months. In 1970 he was an assistant at the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer, after which he went to the National Theater in Mannheim in the same capacity. He was particularly successful in the productions of Erdmann's The Suicide , Wedekind's The Marquis by Keith and Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm . In 1974 he went to television as a writer and director. On June 4, 1992, he married the actress and screenwriter Monika Gabriel .

Wilfried Dotzel died of cancer and was buried in the main cemetery Ohlsdorf in Hamburg in grid square O 11 (between Cordesallee and fire department graves ).

Directed episodes and series

Dotzel also directed the two episodes Paul Trimmel - Hauptkommissar with Gerd Kunath . The originally planned third episode of the NDR with the author Friedhelm Werremeier was no longer produced because the series could not build on the success of the Trimmel crime scene episodes; the audience connected the main character with the late main actor Walter Richter .

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personal data
SURNAME Dotzel, Wilfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweinfurt
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1993
Place of death Hamburg