Otto Sander
Acting
Born 1941-06-30
Died 2013-09-12
Hanover, Germany
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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.
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Acting
53 credits
Scene of the Crime
Wetten, dass..?
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Polizeiruf 110
DAS!
NDR Talk Show
Vienna Crime Squad
Das Traumschiff
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
Grimme Award
Zimmer frei!
Wolffs Revier
Kulturzeit
Der Fahnder
Tietjen und Bommes
The Tin Drum
Aktenzeichen XY… ungelöst
Les Misérables
Das Boot
Through the Night with...
Wings of Desire
Das Boot
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
A.S. Gefahr ist sein Geschäft
Leute am Donnerstag
Krabat
Faraway, So Close!
Friedemann Brix - Eine Schwäche für Mord
Conversation with the Beast
Ein roter Teppich für....
Das Jahrhundert des Theaters
Lumière & Company
Werner and the Wizard of Booze
The Killer Condom
Am I Beautiful?
Majestät brauchen Sonne
Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story
Rosa Luxemburg
Summer Guests
Die Bakchen
Wahnfried
Liebe Lügen
Werner - Gekotzt wird später!
The Heart Is a Dark Forest
Plastikfieber
The Marquise of O
Preußen – Chronik eines deutschen Staates
Miko: From the Gutter to the Stars
The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
A Love in Germany
Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
The Promise
Kaluoka'hina: The Enchanted Reef
Other credits
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About Narration
The Shop
Die Mutter
The Harmonists
Vorwärts
Der Mond scheint auf Kylenamoe
The Ignoramus and the Madman
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