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- Birth nameWolfgang Georg Friedrich Staudte
- Wolfgang Staudte was born on October 9, 1906 in Saarbrücken, Germany. He was a director and actor, known for Ciske de Rat (1955), Murderers Among Us (1946) and Herrenpartie (1964). He was married to Angelika Hoffmann, Rita Heidelbach, Ingmar Zeisberg and Renate Praetorius. He died on January 19, 1984 in Zigrski Vrh near Sevnica, Slovenia, Yugoslavia.
- SpousesAngelika Hoffmann(1977 - ?)Rita Heidelbach(1967 - 1976) (divorced)Ingmar Zeisberg(1958 - 1964) (divorced)Renate Praetorius(? - 1954) (divorced)
- Began as an actor with Max Reinhardt, making his professional stage debut in 1929 in Berlin. Entered films in 1933 as writer/director of advertising shorts. Became a key figure in the reconstruction of the German film industry after the war, turning out two highly regarded films with an anti-fascist theme: Murderers Among Us (1946) and Rotation (1949).
- The director Wolfgang Staudte was one of the great post-war director. Staudte had the honour to direct the first post-war German movie - the masterpiece "Die Mörder sind unter uns" (1946).
- His work in anti-Nazi films, such as Murderers Among Us (1946), was also a personal working through of his film career under the Nazis (he acted in the anti-Semitic film Jud Süß).
- His father was the actor Fritz Staudte.
- Great-uncle of director Andy Siege.
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