publishedJul 20, 2022 at 11:54 am
At 82 years oldStar director Dieter Wedel is dead
The filmmaker passed away at the age of 82. This was announced by the Munich I district court on Wednesday. Criminal proceedings for rape once morest Wedel were pending there.
This was announced by the regional court in Munich, where a decision should have been made on Wednesday whether and when the trial would take place. The actress Jany Tempel accused him of raping her in a luxury hotel in Munich in 1996.
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Wedel vehemently denied the allegations.
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The director Dieter Wedel is dead. He died on July 13 in Hamburg, as the Munich I Regional Court announced on Wednesday, where criminal proceedings once morest Wedel were pending. The court finally wanted to announce whether there would be a trial once morest Wedel. According to the court, the case once morest him is now being discontinued.
The public prosecutor had accused Wedel in March of last year of an allegation from 1996. The actress Jany Tempel states that the director of “Der Schattenmann” raped her in a Munich luxury hotel at the time – an accusation that Wedel has denied. When the charges were brought, Wedel’s lawyers spoke of prior conviction and emphasized the likelihood that the charges might not be admitted at all – although that hardly ever occurs in the German judiciary.
14 months have passed since the indictment
The lawyer for the joint plaintiff Tempel, on the other hand, only recently complained regarding the delay in the proceedings once morest the 82-year-old. “More than 14 months have now passed since the indictment was filed,” lawyer Alexander Stevens wrote in mid-May in a complaint of delay to the court. Temple suffers “very much from the long duration of the procedure”. She even went on a brief hunger strike to protest that the court had taken so long to reach a decision. Even before the public prosecutor’s office even filed charges, they had been investigating for three years.
Wedel was one of the most successful German filmmakers. With his multi-part series, he delighted an audience of millions and wrote television history. He started his work in the 1990s. One success followed the next: “The Big Bellheim” (1993), “The Shadow Man” (1996), “The King of St. Pauli” (1998) and “The Semmeling Affair” (2002).
6 children with 6 wives
Before the allegations once morest him became known as part of the so-called #MeToo debate, Wedel was director of the Bad Hersfeld Festival. At the open-air theater festival, the doctorate in theater studies set audience records and ensured that many celebrities walked the red carpet at the opening.
Things were turbulent in Wedel’s private life. He has six children from six women, a son with Hannelore Elsner, who died in 2019. There were contradictory statements regarding his date of birth during his lifetime. According to current information from the Munich court, he was born on November 12, 1939. He was 82 years old at the time of his death.
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