Name
Volker Prechtel
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1941-08-09
Deathday
1997-08-07 (56 years old)
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.
Known For
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14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a confe...
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The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in...
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Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets...
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A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russia...
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A meeting of two world famous climbers, one an experienced mountaineer the other a sport c...
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A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the fo...
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Down-on-his-luck private detective Harry Werner just wants a quiet life, but trouble alway...
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Tommy and Mike operate a famous pirate radio station, Germany's most listened-to radio sta...
- 1996 Alles nur Tarnung as Pfarrer
- 1979 Woyzeck as Handwerksbursche
- 1991 Scream of Stone as Himalaja-Bezwinger
- 1989 Der Pampelmusenmond as Herzblau
- 1994 Pumuckl und der Blaue Klabauter as Stammtischbruder
- 1985 Big Mäc as Zollbeamter
- 1982 Piratensender Powerplay as Bailiff
- 1988 Starke Zeiten as Hospital Employee
- 1989 Waller's Last Trip as Karg
- 1991 The Serbian Girl
- 1991 Das größte Fest des Jahres as Toni Lederer
- 1974 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser as Hiltel, the prison guard
- 1976 Heart of Glass as Wudy
- 1979 Blauer Himmel den ich nur ahne as Girgl
- 1979 Die Farbe des Himmels as Milchfahrer Elfengruber
- 1979 The Frozen Heart as Sargmacher
- 1981 Der Schluckauf
- 1993 Tödliche Lüge as Georg
- 1986 The Name of the Rose as Malachia
- 1986 Tanner as Fuhrhalter Suter
- 1976 Crime and Passion as Innkeeper
- 1977 Natascha - Todesgrüsse aus Moskau as CIA-Agent
- 1992 Four Junior Detectives as Pingling / Ritter von Zährenstein
- 1995 Die Fernsehsaga – Eine steirische Fernsehgeschichte as Fösi
- 1996 Willkommen in Kronstadt
- 1997 Lorenz im Land der Lügner as Spitzel
- 1994 Das Geheimnis as Staudammwärter
- 1983 Traumlage
- 1982 Drei gegen Hollywood
- 1992 Moritz as Wagner
- 1982 Kampftag
- 1991 Sisi/Last Minute as Hias von Konnersreuth
- 1988 Zimmer 36
- 1981 Oh Dear Harry! as Etagenkellner
- 1976 The Marquise of O as Der Pfarrer
- 1974 Der Jäger von Fall as Leitner
- 1986 The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' as Self
- 1974 The Odessa File as Günther Kolb (uncredited)
- 1979 Es begann bei Tiffany
- 2022 An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose as Self (archive footage)
- 1970 Scene of the Crime ( 1 episode ) as Landpolizist
- 1970 Scene of the Crime ( 1 episode ) as Dallinger
- 1994 Der König ( 2 episodes ) as Pichler
- 1975 Nonstop Nonsens ( 1 episode ) as Sheriff
- 1984 Der Fahnder ( 1 episode ) as Wirt
- 1989 Forsthaus Falkenau ( 321 episodes ) as Toni Lederer
- 1982 Der Andro-Jäger ( 26 episodes ) as Polizist Heinmann
- 1989 Löwengrube ( 1 episode ) as Waldhauser
- 1977 Geheimtip für Tommy ( 8 episodes )
- 1980 Anderland ( 1 episode ) as Postkutscher
- 1970 Scene of the Crime ( 1 episode )
- 1981 Der Gerichtsvollzieher ( 1 episode ) as Eisverkäufer Hans
- 1994 Air Albatros ( 1 episode )
- 1974 Derrick ( 1 episode ) as Ingenieur
- 1978 Sachrang ( 3 episodes ) as Heckenberger
- 1978 Eine Schmugglergeschichte - Die Legende des Tabak-Peter ( 1 episode )
- 1984 Weißblaue Geschichten ( 2 episodes )
- 1982 Tarabas ( 2 episodes )
- 1996 Die Fernsehsaga – Eine steirische Fernsehgeschichte ( 2 episodes ) as Fösi
