Michael Gwisdek (14 January 1942 – 22 September 2020) was a German actor and film director.^[1]

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (January 2022) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the German article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 9,118 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Michael Gwisdek]]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated|de|Michael Gwisdek}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Quick Facts Born, Died ...

Michael Gwisdek
Born	(1942-01-14)14 January 1942 Berlin-Weissensee, Germany
Died	22 September 2020(2020-09-22) (aged 78)
Occupation(s)	Actor, film director
Years active	1968–2020

Close

He began his acting career in East Germany and has appeared in more than 130 films and television shows since 1968. His debut film as a director, Treffen in Travers, was the first East-German film^[2] screened at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section.^[3] His 1998 film The Big Mambo was entered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival.^[4] The following year, he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival, for his role in the film Nightshapes.^[5]

He married the actress Corinna Harfouch in 1985 and they divorced in 1997. They had two sons together before they married; the musician Johannes Gwisdek (born 1980) and the actor Robert Gwisdek (born 1984). He married his second wife, Gabriela, shortly after divorcing Harfouch.^[6]

Gwisdek died on 22 September 2020 aged 78.^[2]