Christian Doermer (5 July 1935 – 14 July 2022) was a German actor and director. He appeared in more than 80 films and television shows from 1954 to 2022. He starred in the 1966 film ''

No Shooting Time for Foxes ''No Shooting Time for Foxes'' (german: Schonzeit für Füchse) is a 1966 West German drama film directed by Peter Schamoni. It was entered into the 16th Berlin International Film Festival The 16th annual Berlin International Film Festival w ...

''. The film was entered into the

16th Berlin International Film Festival The 16th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 24 June – 5 July 1966. The Golden Bear was awarded to the British film '' Cul-de-sac'' directed by Roman Polanski. Jury The following people were announced as being on the ju ...

, where it won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize. In 1969, Doermer appeared as a German soldier attending the

Christmas truce ckb: ئاگربەستی کریسماس The Christmas truce (german: Weihnachtsfrieden; french: Trêve de Noël; nl, Kerstbestand) was a series of widespread unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front of the First World War around Christm ...

in Sir

Richard Attenborough Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, (; 29 August 192324 August 2014) was an English actor, filmmaker, and entrepreneur. He was the president of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and the British Academy of Film and Televisio ...

's satirical

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...

musical film ''

Oh! What a Lovely War ''Oh! What a Lovely War'' is a 1969 British comedy musical war film directed by Richard Attenborough (in his directorial debut), with an ensemble cast, including Maggie Smith, Dirk Bogarde, John Gielgud, John Mills, Kenneth More, Laurence Oli ...

''. Doermer himself has also directed a fair number of films including documentaries and television films. In 1962, he was one of the 26 authors of the famous

Oberhausen Manifesto The Oberhausen Manifesto was a declaration by a group of 26 young German filmmakers at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia on 28 February 1962. The manifesto was a call to arms to establish a "new German featur ...

, demanding a change in German film.

Selected filmography

* '' The Forest House in Tyrol'' (1955) as Alfons Attinger * ' (1956), as Jochen * '' Teenage Wolfpack'' (1956), as Jan Borchert * ''

All Roads Lead Home ''All Roads Lead Home'' is a 2008 drama film directed by Dennis Fallon and starring Peter Boyle, Patton Oswalt, Jason London, Vivien Cardone, Vanessa Branch, Peter Coyote, Garrett Smith, Stephen Milton, and Allan Kayser. It was released on Septem ...

'' (1957), as Michael * ''

Der Stern von Afrika ''Der Stern von Afrika'' () is a 1957 black-and-white German war film portraying the combat career of a World War II Luftwaffe fighter pilot Hans-Joachim Marseille. The film stars Joachim Hansen and Marianne Koch and was directed by Alfred Wei ...

'' (1957), as Unteroffizier Klein * '' Precocious Youth'' (1957), as Wolfgang * ''

Adorable Arabella ''Adorable Arabella'' (German: ''Bezaubernde Arabella'') is a 1959 West German comedy film directed by Axel von Ambesser and starring Johanna von Koczian, Carlos Thompson and Hilde Hildebrand. It is an adaptation of the 1949 novel ''Arabella'' ...

'' (1959), as Helmut Hagemann * ' (1961), as Claus Baade * '' Das Riesenrad'' (1961), as Hubert von Hill jr. * ' (1962, TV miniseries), as Gerald Quincey * ''Die Revolution entläßt ihre Kinder'' (1962, TV miniseries), as

Wolfgang Leonhard Wolfgang Leonhard (16 April 1921 – 17 August 2014) was a German political author and historian of the Soviet Union, the German Democratic Republic and Communism. A German Communist whose family had fled Hitler's Germany and who was educat ...

* ''

Terror After Midnight ''Terror After Midnight'' (german: Neunzig Minuten nach Mitternacht) is a 1962 German drama film directed by Jürgen Goslar and starring Christine Kaufmann, Martin Held, and Hilde Krahl. In this film, a gangster kidnaps a teenage girl and holds h ...

'' (1962), as Nolan Stoddard * ''

The Bread of Those Early Years ''The Bread of Those Early Years'' (german: Das Brot der frühen Jahre) is a 1962 West German film directed by Herbert Vesely, based on the novel '' The Bread of Those Early Years'' by Heinrich Böll. It was entered into the 1962 Cannes Film Fe ...

'' (1962), as Walter Fendrich * '' Love at Twenty'' (1962), as Tonio * ' (1964), as Mario * ''

'' (1966), as Viktor * '' Die Rechnung – eiskalt serviert'' (1966), as Tommy Wheeler * '' The Syndicate'' (1968), as Kurt Hohmann * ''

Joanna Joanna is a feminine given name deriving from from he, יוֹחָנָה, translit=Yôḥānāh, lit=God is gracious. Variants in English include Joan, Joann, Joanne, and Johanna. Other forms of the name in English are Jan, Jane, Janet, Janic ...

'' (1968), as Hendrik Casson * ''

'' (1969), as Fritz * '' Downhill Racer'' (1969), as the German skier at the Winter Olympics * ''Lettow-Vorbeck: Der deutsch-ostafrikanische Imperativ'' (1984, directed by Christian Doermer) * '' Väter und Söhne – Eine deutsche Tragödie'' (1986, TV miniseries), as Dr. Körner * ''

The Hothouse ''The Hothouse'' (1958/1980) is a full-length tragicomedy written by Harold Pinter in the winter of 1958 between '' The Birthday Party'' (1957) and '' The Caretaker'' (1959). After writing ''The Hothouse'' in the winter of 1958 and following the ...

'' (1987), as Felix Keetenheuve * ' (1991, TV film), as Abraham Esau * ''

Stauffenberg The Schenk von Stauffenberg family is a noble (''Uradel'') Roman Catholic family from Swabia in Germany. The family's best-known recent member was Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg – the key figure in the 1944 "20 July plot" to as ...

'' (2004, TV film), as Field marshal

Wilhelm Keitel Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel (; 22 September 188216 October 1946) was a German field marshal and war criminal who held office as chief of the '' Oberkommando der Wehrmacht'' (OKW), the high command of Nazi Germany's Armed Forces, durin ...

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* 1935 births 2022 deaths People from Rostock German male film actors German male television actors 20th-century German male actors German Film Award winners {{Germany-actor-stub