Walter Bockmayer

Birthday: 1948-07-04
Deathday: 2014-10-07
Birthplace: Fehrbach, Germany
Gender: Male
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Walter Bockmayer (4 July 1948 – 7 October 2014) was a German film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed seven films between 1975 and 1988. His 1978 film Flaming Hearts was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival. He found a new home with the Scala Theater in Cologne, where the first stage play Ich möch zu Foß noh Kölle jonn was performed in 2003. Bockmayer's new plays were performed annually in the theater, which had a capacity of 260 people. He relocated famous operas such as Carmen (1995) or La traviata (1998) to the setting of the Klapperhof in Cologne or to a massage parlor. He died of lung cancer in 2014.

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Credits

Year Title Character
1988-01-28 Geierwally Christel von der Post
1984-10-31 Im Himmel ist die Hölle los Mrs. Sommer
1984-03-22 Grundfleisch
1978-11-17 In a Year with 13 Moons Seelen-Frieda
1976-01-01 Salzstangen-Geschrei
1975-01-01 Salzstangen-Geflüster Marianne Gewöhnlich
1974-04-29 La Traviata
1974-01-01 Rivalinnen unter griechischer Sonne Bette Davis
1974-01-01 Gay West Doc Holiday
1972-01-01 Carmen Micaela