Werner Dissel

Werner Friedrich Dissel 26 August 1912 22 January 2003 was a German actor director and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime Dissels began working as a newspaper photographer in the late 1920s After the Nazis rise to power he became a member of an antifascist group headed by Harro SchulzeBoysen and was involved in the resistance newspaper Wille zum Reich Dissel was caught and imprisoned from 1937 to 1939 During his time in prison the Gestapo arranged for Boysen to visit him in the hope that something incriminating would be said while the two would be left alone in a tapped room Boysen passed a cigarette pack to Dissel on which he wrote that the police had no concrete evidence against him After his release Boysen convinced him to volunteer into the Wehrmacht so he could destroy Hitlers army from within Dissel joined the armed forces shortly before the German Invasion of Poland and served in a military meteorology unit At 1942 he barely avoided an arrest during the Gestapos crackdown on the Red Orchestra After the war he openly joined the KPD and decided to pursue his old dream to become an actor Dissel joined a cabaret in Wiesbaden and in 1950 emigrated to East Germany There he appeared in numerous plays TV shows and movies He worked with the Berliner Ensemble DEFA and DFF He continued his acting career after the reunification In total he appeared in more than a hundred film and television productions He received the Art Prize of the German Democratic Republic at a collective awarding in October 1986 Source Article Werner Dissel from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA