Director

Walter Bockmayer

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Directed movies: 7Directed series: 0All crew credits: 7

TMDB ID: 38991

IMDb ID: nm0090707

Known for: Directing

Born: July 4, 1948

Died: October 7, 2014

Age: 66

Place of birth: Fehrbach, Germany

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1977 - 1997

Years active: 21

Average TMDB rating: 6.6

Wikidata: Q108617

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Biography

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.