Otto Sander

Known for ActingBorn 1941-06-30Died 2013-09-12Hanover, Germany

Otto Sander (German: [ˈɔtoː ˈzandɐ]; June 30, 1941 – September 12, 2013) was a German film, theater, and voice actor. Sander grew up in Kassel, where he graduated in 1961 from the Friedrichgymnasium. After leaving school he spent his military service in 1961/62 with the Bundesmarine and left as reserve fenrik. Sander then studied theatre science, history of art and philosophy. In 1965 he made his acting debut at the Düsseldorfer chamber plays. After his first film work in the same year he abandoned his studies in 1967, and went to Munich to become a full-time actor. His career is closely connected with the Schaubühne theatre in Berlin under the direction of Peter Stein. From 1980 onwards Sander appeared on several of Berlin's theatre stages, among others at the Schillertheater in 1981, at the Freie Volksbühne in 1985 and in 1989 at the Komödie am Kurfürstendamm. More recently he starred in Hauptmann von Köpenick at the Schauspielhaus Bochum (2004). In 1990, he was a member of the Jury at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival. Among his best-known film roles are the angel Cassiel in Wings of Desire and its sequel Faraway, So Close! by Wim Wenders, and a shell-shocked U-boat commander, Kapitänleutnant Philipp Thomsen, in Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot. Sander also appeared in The Tin Drum (1979) as a trumpeter and in Comedian Harmonists, a biopic about the musical group of the same name. He also played a professor in the movie The Promise about the division of Berlin by the wall. In 1999 he played a role in Rosa von Praunheim's movie The Einstein of Sex.Read more

Movies & web series

Conversation with the Beast

Lyrische Suite. Das untergehende Vaterland

Wie du mir..

Die Ängste des Dr. Schenk

Die Bakchen

Ermittlungen gegen Unbekannt

Die Mutter

Das Jahrhundert des Theaters

Der Kuß des Vergessens

Tietjen und Bommes

Friedemann Brix - Eine Schwäche für Mord

Das Loch

The Film Narrator

The Case of Mr. Spalt

Der Mord mit der Schere

Der Mond scheint auf Kylenamoe

The White Horse Inn in St. Wolfgang

Through the Night with...

Who's Going Crazy Here, Doctor?

Das Boot

Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us

About Narration

Kaluoka'hina: The Enchanted Reef

Aus Liebe zu Deutschland - Eine Spendenaffäre

Atlantic Affairs

Ein roter Teppich für....

E-m@il an Gott

Majestät brauchen Sonne

Stan Becker - Auf eigene Faust

A.S. Gefahr ist sein Geschäft

Vorwärts

Das Boot

Drei Schwestern

Lehmanns Erzählungen

Meine Sorgen möcht' ich haben

Wings of Desire

Aktenzeichen XY… ungelöst

The Johannes B. Kerner Show

Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story

No Pawing, Darling

Die Harald Schmidt Show

Der Fahnder

Leute am Donnerstag

Boundaries of Time - Caspar David Friedrich

Happy Too

Summer Guests

Girls under investigation

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