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Volker Prechtel


Volker Prechtel

Birthday:

08/09/1941

Place of birth:

Hopfen am See, Bavaria, Germany:

Biography:

Volker Prechtel (born August 9, 1941, in Hopfen am See; died August 7, 1997, in Gröbenzell) was a German theater, film, and television actor. Prechtel initially studied pedagogy and worked as a schoolteacher for several years before finding his way to professional acting through amateur theater stages. With his striking face and distinctive nose, he became a sought-after character actor in film and television, appearing in more than one hundred productions. Prechtel was also a regular presence on the theater stage. He performed at venues including the Münchner Kammerspiele, the Münchner Volkstheater, the Freie Volksbühne Berlin, and the Münchner Theater für Kinder. He achieved international recognition in 1986 for his role as the monk Malachias in *The Name of the Rose*, based on the novel by Umberto Eco. In that film, he acted alongside Sean Connery and Helmut Qualtinger. Additionally, he appeared as a public bus driver in the crime series *Der König*. Volker Prechtel died in 1997—two days before his 56th birthday—from complications related to cancer.


Credits

An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Lorenz im Land der Lügner (1997)
as Spitzel
Alles nur Tarnung (1996)
as Pfarrer
Willkommen in Kronstadt (1996)
as
Die Fernsehsaga – Eine steirische Fernsehgeschichte (1995)
as Fösi
Pumuckl und der Blaue Klabauter (1994)
as Stammtischbruder
Das Geheimnis (1994)
as Staudammwärter
Tödliche Lüge (1993)
as Georg
Moritz (1992)
as Wagner
Ein Fall für TKKG: Drachenauge (1992)
as Pingling / Ritter von Zährenstein
Das größte Fest des Jahres (1991)
as Toni Lederer
Cerro Torre: Schrei aus Stein (1991)
as Himalaja-Bezwinger
Sisi und der Kaiserkuß (1991)
as Hias von Konnersreuth
Das serbische Mädchen (1991)
as
Der Pampelmusenmond (1989)
as Herzblau
Wallers letzter Gang (1989)
as Karg
Zimmer 36 (1988)
as
Starke Zeiten (1988)
as Hospital Employee
Die Abtei des Verbrechens - Umberto Ecos „Der Name der Rose“ wird verfilmt (1986)
as Self
The Name of the Rose (1986)
as Malachia
Der schwarze Tanner (1986)
as Fuhrhalter Suter
Big Mäc (1985)
as Zollbeamter
Traumlage (1983)
as
Drei gegen Hollywood (1982)
as
Piratensender Powerplay (1982)
as Bailiff
Kampftag (1982)
as
Der Schluckauf (1981)
as
Ach du lieber Harry (1981)
as Etagenkellner
Die Farbe des Himmels (1979)
as Milchfahrer Elfengruber
Woyzeck (1979)
as Handwerksbursche
Es begann bei Tiffany (1979)
as
Blauer Himmel den ich nur ahne (1979)
as Girgl
Das gefrorene Herz (1979)
as
Natascha - Todesgrüsse aus Moskau (1977)
as CIA-Agent
Herz aus Glas (1976)
as Wudy
Die Marquise von O... (1976)
as Der Pfarrer
Ace Up My Sleeve (1976)
as Innkeeper
Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle (1974)
as Hiltel, the prison guard
The Odessa File (1974)
as Günther Kolb (uncredited)
Der Jäger von Fall (1974)
as Leitner