Nikolas Vogel (9 March 1967 – 28 June 1991) was an

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film actor and news camera operator. Nikolas Vogel belonged to a family of famous actors and he also became an actor. Vogel left the acting profession to report the news and worked for a short time as journalist before he was killed in the

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was dividing in the aftermath of Marshall Josip Broz Tito's death. Vogel was killed in a missile incident along with his Austrian colleague Norbert Werner.

Personal

Nikolas Vogel was born on 9 March 1967 in Vienna, Austria. He was born into an acting family. His mother,

Gertraud Jesserer Gertraud Jesserer (13 December 1943 – 9 December 2021) was an Austrian film and television actress. Jesserer was the wife of German actor Peter Vogel and the mother of actor-journalist Nikolas Vogel. She died in a house fire in Vienna on 9 De ...

, was a well known Austrian theater, cinema and television actress. She appeared in theater performances at the

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, Burgtheater in Vienna, and the

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among others. She had a starring role and appeared in the Austrian, German-language TV show ''Familie Leitner''. His father Peter Vogel was a well known German actor, whose career included a role in the 1978 US TV Miniseries ''

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''. His grandfather was

Rudolf Vogel Rudolf Vogel (born 10 November 1900, Planegg – died 9 August 1967, Munich) was a German film and television actor. He was the father of Peter Vogel, the father-in-law of Austrian actress Gertraud Jesserer and the grandfather of actor-journalis ...

and also a famous and successful actor. His grandfather was acting at the Landesbühne in Munich, Staatstheater and the Munich Kammerspiele. He did several film productions as well. Nikolas had a younger brother Michael.

Film career

Nikolas Vogel acted in movies and TV shows before becoming a journalist. Acting in teenage roles, Vogel had a starring role in ''The Inheritors'' (1984). His character, Thomas Feigl, is a young boy who joins a neo-Nazi group. Vogel's apparent maturity was reflected in his onscreen portrayals. In his early roles, he was often sexualized and shown naked. In ''The Inheritors'', he has a frontal nude scene. *''Requim for Dominic'' (1991) *''

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'' (TV series, 1989 episode) *''O zivej vode'' (TV movie, 1988) *''Bibos Maenner'' (1986) *''Herzklopfen'' (1985) *''The Inheritors'' (1983) *''Was Kostet Der Sieg?'' (1981)

Journalism career

Death

Vogel was working as a freelance photojournalist when he was killed along with colleague Norbert Werner on 28 June 1991 at the Ljubljana Airport, Slovenia. They were both killed by a missile that struck their car during a Yugoslav Federal Army attack on the airport during Ten-Day War after Slovenia declared its independence.

Memorial

Slovenia celebrated its entry into the

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with other European countries at the site where Vogel and Werner were killed. The two journalists were acknowledged at the celebration.

References

Bibliography

* Holmstrom, John. ''The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995''. Norwich, UK: Michael Russell, 1996, pg. 367.

External links

* Newseum online exhibits fo
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