Werner Dissel was born in Cologne, Germany on August 26,
1912. In the 1930s Dissel worked as a photojournalist and graphic artist.
During this time he was part of the circle that had formed around Franz Jung
and Harro Schulze-Boysen magazine opponents. In 1935 he worked closely with
Walter Küchenmeister with the opposition newspaper Wille zum Reich.
A wave of arrests against the Berlin Red Orchestra
resistance group by the Gestapo led to the imprisonment of Dissel from
1937-1939 because he had joined the anti-fascist movement.
After the Second World War he lived in Wiesbaden and
worked as a stage designer and appeared on stage as a comedian. In 1950 he
resigned from the Communist Party and emigrated to the GDR. It was here he
worked as an actor and director. In the period from 1960 to 1979, he appeared
in the Berliner Ensemble. In October 1986, Dissel received the Art Prize of the
GDR. Here he appeared in his only Euro-western “Ulzana” in 1974.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall came Dissel was seen in
several television series such as “Polizeiruf 110 auf” (1999) and “Fälle
Stefanie” (2001)
Today we remember Werner Dissel on what would have been
his 100th birthday.
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