Werner Dissel

Known for ActingBorn 1912-08-26Died 2003-01-22Köln, Germany

Werner Friedrich Dissel (26 August 1912 – 22 January 2003) was a German actor, director, and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. Dissel's began working as a newspaper photographer in the late 1920s. After the Nazis' rise to power, he became a member of an antifascist group headed by Harro Schulze-Boysen, and was involved in the resistance newspaper Wille zum Reich. Dissel was caught and imprisoned from 1937 to 1939. During his time in prison, the Gestapo arranged for Boysen to visit him, in the hope that something incriminating would be said while the two would be left alone in a tapped room; Boysen passed a cigarette pack to Dissel, on which he wrote that the police had no concrete evidence against him. After his release, Boysen convinced him to volunteer into the Wehrmacht, so he could "destroy Hitler's army from within". Dissel joined the armed forces shortly before the German Invasion of Poland, and served in a military meteorology unit. At 1942, he barely avoided an arrest during the Gestapo's crackdown on the Red Orchestra. After the war, he openly joined the KPD and decided to pursue his old dream to become an actor. Dissel joined a cabaret in Wiesbaden, and in 1950 emigrated to East Germany. There he appeared in numerous plays, TV shows and movies. He worked with the Berliner Ensemble, DEFA and DFF. He continued his acting career after the reunification. In total, he appeared in more than a hundred film and television productions. He received the Art Prize of the German Democratic Republic at a collective awarding in October 1986. Source: Article "Werner Dissel" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.Read more

Movies & web series

The German Bronx

Späte Ankunft

Die Schöne und das Tier

Die Lange Strasse

Jörg Ratgeb, Painter

Black Panthers

As Long as There’s Life in Me

Before lightning strikes

Farssmann oder Zu Fuß in die Sackgasse

Das wirkliche Blau

Jede Woche Hochzeitstag

Johannes Kepler

Immenhof

Ernst Thälmann

Sunday's Child Sometimes Runs Wild

Scheusal

Geheimkommando Ciupaga

Der Fremde

Verlorene Landschaft

Man against Man

Liberation: The Fire Bulge

Just Don't Think I'll Cry

Andy

Unser Haus

The Architects

Albert Einstein

Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth

Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell

Les Misérables

Am Ende der Welt

Liberation: Breakthrough

The Captain from Cologne

Zejście do piekła

Lebende Ware

Ärzte

Entdeckung des Julian Böll

The Green Monster

Die Liebe und der Co-Pilot

Ein Mädchen von 16 ½

The Gleiwitz Case

Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police

Liberation: The Battle of Berlin

Auf eigene Gefahr

Coming Out

Childhood

Stories of That Night

The Opportunists

In aller Freundschaft