Otto Sander
- Acting
- June 30, 1941 · Hanover, Germany
- September 12, 2013
Biography
Otto Sander (German: [ˈɔtoː ˈzandɐ]; June 30, 1941 – September 12, 2013) was a German film, theater, and voice actor. Sander grew up in Kassel, where he graduated in 1961 from the Friedrichgymnasium. After leaving school he spent his military service in 1961/62 with the Bundesmarine and left as reserve fenrik. Sander then studied theatre science, history of art and philosophy. In 1965 he made his acting debut at the Düsseldorfer chamber plays. After his first film work in the same year he abandoned his studies in 1967, and went to Munich to become a full-time actor. His career is closely connected with the Schaubühne theatre in Berlin under the direction of Peter Stein. From 1980 onwards Sander appeared on several of Berlin's theatre stages, among others at the Schillertheater in 1981, at the Freie Volksbühne in 1985 and in 1989 at the Komödie am Kurfürstendamm. More recently he starred in Hauptmann von Köpenick at the Schauspielhaus Bochum (2004). In 1990, he was a member of the Jury at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival. Among his best-known film roles are the angel Cassiel in Wings of Desire and its sequel Faraway, So Close! by Wim Wenders, and a shell-shocked U-boat commander, Kapitänleutnant Philipp Thomsen, in Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot. Sander also appeared in The Tin Drum (1979) as a trumpeter and in Comedian Harmonists, a biopic about the musical group of the same name. He also played a professor in the movie The Promise about the division of Berlin by the wall. In 1999 he played a role in Rosa von Praunheim's movie The Einstein of Sex.
Known for
Filmography
- About Narration
- Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story · Self
- Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter · Self
- Fly Away · Eckehardt Tiedgen
- Die Schuld der Erben · Leonhard Asmussen
- Life Is Too Long
- Krabat · Narrator (Voice)
- The Heart Is a Dark Forest · Helmut
- Little King Macius · Erasmus (Voice)
- Unter kaiserlicher Flagge · Erzähler / Narrator
- Vienna Crime Squad · Conrad Ribarski
- Kaluoka'hina: The Enchanted Reef · Narrator (Voice)
- Leute am Donnerstag · Self
- Aus Liebe zu Deutschland - Eine Spendenaffäre · Voice
- The Danube · Franz
- Werner - Gekotzt wird später! · Erzähler (Voice)
- Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us · Self
- Tödliches Vertrauen · Bernd Kortens
- Atlantic Affairs · Maitre de Plaisir on Stage
- Ein roter Teppich für.... · Self
- Happy Too · Himself / Gert Bastian
- Through the Night with... · Self
- Gero von Boehm begegnet... · Self
- Das Jahrhundert des Theaters · Narrator
- 100 Pro · Narrator
- Sass · Vater Sass
- Preußen – Chronik eines deutschen Staates · Self
- Les Misérables · Monseigneur Bienvenu
- The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld · Professor Steinach
- Marlene · Bühnenmanager
- E-m@il an Gott · Petrus
- Majestät brauchen Sonne · Kaiser Wilhelm II (Voice)
- Girls under investigation · Staatsanwalt Baldur Meixner
- Männer sind wie Schokolade · Vater Lano
- Der Kuß des Vergessens · Herr Jelke
- The Shop
- Stan Becker - Auf eigene Faust · Walker
- Am I Beautiful? · David
- The Johannes B. Kerner Show · Self
- The Harmonists
- Tietjen und Bommes · Self
- Conversation with the Beast · Adolf Hitler Double
- Liebe Lügen · Vater
- Friedemann Brix - Eine Schwäche für Mord · Rainer Kleinhundert
- Killer Condom · Mr. Higgins
- Zimmer frei! · Self
- Matulla und Busch · Korte
- Lumière & Company · Cassiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
- Die Harald Schmidt Show · Self
- Nikolaikirche · kirchlicher Superintendent
- The Promise · Professor Lorenz
- Bauernschach · Dr. Gerold Stadler
- A.S. Gefahr ist sein Geschäft · Freddy Klinke
- Das Loch · Der Mann
- The White Horse Inn in St. Wolfgang · Prof. Hinzelmann
- Hölderlin-Comics
- Movie Days · Maður á hesti
- Three Sisters · Vershinin
- The Film Narrator · Salzmann
- The Olympic Summer · Sprecher
- Faraway, So Close! · Cassiel
- Inge, April und Mai
- Schlusschor
- Wolffs Revier · Schenk
- Lyrische Suite. Das untergehende Vaterland
- Bescheiß kein Kind! · Vater
- DAS! · Self
- Werner and the Wizard of Booze · Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Vorwärts
- Time of Vengeance · Robert
- The Break · Erwin Lubowitz
- Wie du mir.. · Markus Petarka
- The Case of Mr. Spalt · Otto Spalt
- Wings of Desire · Cassiel
- Close Up · Professor Spalt
- Boundaries of Time - Caspar David Friedrich · Gerichtsgehilfe
- Drei Schwestern · Alexander Ignatjewitsch Werschinin
- Miko: From the Gutter to the Stars · Loan officer Grop
- Wahnfried · Richard Wagner
- Rosa Luxemburg · Karl Liebknecht