Otto Sander
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
131
Gender
Male
Birthday
1941-06-30
Day of death
2013-09-12 (72 years old)
Place of Birth
Hanover, Germany
Otto Sander
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
Scene of the Crime
Scene of the Crime
NDR Talk Show
DAS!
Polizeiruf 110
Polizeiruf 110
Polizeiruf 110
Wetten, dass..?
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Der Fahnder
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
Vienna Crime Squad
Grimme Award
Das Traumschiff
Das Traumschiff
Through the Night with...
The Tin Drum
Zimmer frei!
Kulturzeit
Krabat
Wolffs Revier
Werner and the Wizard of Booze
Tietjen und Bommes
Werner - Gekotzt wird später!
Lumière & Company
Liebe Lügen
Schlusschor
Aktenzeichen XY… ungelöst
Bauernschach
Die Mutter
Girls under investigation
Rosa Luxemburg
Am I Beautiful?
Happy Too
Tödliches Vertrauen
Das Boot
Movie Days
Summer Guests
Les Misérables
Hölderlin-Comics
The Film Narrator
Ludwig
Die Bakchen
Majestät brauchen Sonne
Palermo or Wolfsburg
100 Pro
Wings of Desire
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
Das Boot
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
Wahnfried
Friedemann Brix - Eine Schwäche für Mord
About Narration
Matulla und Busch
Plastikfieber
Leute am Donnerstag
Vorwärts
A.S. Gefahr ist sein Geschäft
Lehmanns Erzählungen
The Killer Condom
Marlene
Das Jahrhundert des Theaters
Faraway, So Close!
Ein roter Teppich für....
Close Up
The Marquise of O
Meine Sorgen möcht' ich haben
Kaluoka'hina: The Enchanted Reef
Phantom
The Harmonists
The Shop
Das Loch
Time of Vengeance
The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
Der Mond scheint auf Kylenamoe
Fly Away
The Heart Is a Dark Forest
The Promise
A Love in Germany
Das Boot - The Director's Cut
Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story
Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
Life Is Too Long
Inge, April und Mai
Die Schuld der Erben
Three Sisters
Prinz Friedrich von Homburg
The White Horse Inn in St. Wolfgang
Conversation with the Beast
Preußen – Chronik eines deutschen Staates
Sass
One or the Other of Us
Four Against the Bank
The Break
Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois
Bescheiß kein Kind!
Männer sind wie Schokolade
Little King Macius
Nikolaikirche
The Olympic Summer
Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter
Boundaries of Time - Caspar David Friedrich
Trilogie des Wiedersehens
Sonntags am Meer
The Danube
The Case of Mr. Spalt
Der Kuß des Vergessens
Unter kaiserlicher Flagge
Miko: From the Gutter to the Stars
No Pawing, Darling
The Ignoramus and the Madman
Heinrich Zille
Strike Back
Im Schlaraffenland. Ein Roman unter feinen Leuten
Drei Schwestern
Ermittlungen gegen Unbekannt
Wie du mir..
Who's Going Crazy Here, Doctor?
Der Mann im Pyjama
E-m@il an Gott
Die Ängste des Dr. Schenk
Atlantic Affairs
Sonnabend, der 1.
Stan Becker - Auf eigene Faust
Berlin 10. 11. 74 - 28. 1. 75: Exercises in 9 Pieces
Aus Liebe zu Deutschland - Eine Spendenaffäre
Die Ursache
Der Mord mit der Schere
Lyrische Suite. Das untergehende Vaterland
Eine Reise wert… Der Dichter Günter Kunert (be)sucht Berlin
Gesucht wird... Drei Geschichten um nicht ganz ehrenwerte Herren
