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Walter Bockmayer

Walter Bockmayer

German film director

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.[1] 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.[2] He died of lung cancer in 2014.[3]

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Selected filmography

Director

Actor

  • In a Year of 13 Moons (1978), as Seelenfrieda
  • Im Himmel ist die Hölle los (1984), as Marianne Sommer
  • The Vulture Wally [de] (1988), as Christel von der Post

References

  1. [1]
    "IMDB.com: Awards for Flaming Hearts". imdb.com. Retrieved 7 August 2010.
  2. [2]
    "Carmen klappert kölsch". Der Spiegel (in German). 15 October 1995. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
  3. [3]
    "Lungenkrebs – Walter Bockmayer ist tot". Kölnische Rundschau (in German). Cologne. 7 October 2014. Archived from the original on 23 November 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2014.
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