Walter Bockmayer

Directing

Born 1948-07-04 · died 2014-10-07 · Fehrbach, Germany

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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter Bockmayer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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GeierwallyIn a Year with 13 MoonsIm Himmel ist die Hölle losTalk 2000