Werner Dissel
Acting
Born 1912-08-26
Died 2003-01-22
Köln, Germany
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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.
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Polizeiruf 110
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
In aller Freundschaft
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Immenhof
Anatomy
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Barfuß ins Bett
Albert Einstein
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Die Lange Strasse
Liberation - Part 1 : The Fire Bulge
Geheimkommando Ciupaga
The Green Monster
Liberation - Part 3 : Direction of the Main Blow
A Stortebeker Girl
As Long as There’s Life in Me
Motzki
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Ware für Katalonien
Love's Confusion
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Ulzana
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Picknick im Schnee
Sunday's Child Sometimes Runs Wild
Scheusal
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Ernst Thälmann
Zeitzünder
Just Don't Think I'll Cry
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Am Ende der Welt
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Der Prozeß wird vertagt
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