Walter Bockmayer
Walter Bockmayer (4 July 1948 – 7 October 2014) was a German film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed seven films between 1975 and 1988. His 1978 film Flaming Hearts was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival.
Walter Bockmayer
- Name
- Walter Bockmayer
- Born
- 4 July 1948
- Birthplace
- Fehrbach, Germany
- Died
- 7 October 2014
- Place of death
- Cologne, Germany
- Occupation
- Film director, screenwriter, actor
- Nationality
- Germany
- Honours
- German Film Award for Best Direction
- Languages
- German
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He found a new home with the Scala Theater in Cologne, where the first stage play Ich möch zu Foß noh Kölle jonn was performed in 2003. Bockmayer's new plays were performed annually in the theater, which had a capacity of 260 people. He relocated famous operas such as Carmen (1995) or La traviata (1998) to the setting of the Klapperhof in Cologne or to a massage parlor. He died of lung cancer in 2014.
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Walter Bockmayer died on 7 October 2014 in Cologne.
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• Name — Walter Bockmayer • Born — 4 July 1948 • Birthplace — Fehrbach, Germany • Died — 7 October 2014 • Place of death — Cologne, Germany • Occupation — Film director, screenwriter, actor • Years Active — 1975–1988
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Walter Bockmayer (4 July 1948 – 7 October 2014) was a director, writer, screenwriter, theatre director and film director. Walter Bockmayer was born on 4 July 1948 in Pirmasens.
Selected filmography
Selected filmography
Director • Jane Is Jane Forever (1977) • Flaming Hearts (1978) (Deutscher Filmpreis: Filmband in Silber (Enten-Produktion)) • Looping (1980 film) (1981) (Deutscher Filmpreis: Filmband in Gold) • Kiez (film) (1983) • The Vulture Wally (1988 film) (1988) Actor • In a Year of 13 Moons (1978), as Seelenfrieda • Im Himmel ist die Hölle los (1984), as Marianne Sommer • The Vulture Wally (1988 film) (1988), as Christel von der Post
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