Dieter Wedel was accused of rape, and the district court in Munich I wanted to declare whether or not a trial would be held against him and when it would take place. Due to the director's passing at the age of 82, there will be no further opportunities for discussions.
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Dieter Wedel is deceased. According to the Munich Regional Court, where criminal proceedings against Wedel were underway at the time of the director's death on July 13, the director passed away in Hamburg. On Wednesday, the court planned to make its final decision about whether or not there will be a trial against Wedel. The court has announced that the case that was brought against him will be dropped at this time.
Wedel had already been indicted by the public prosecutor in March of the previous year for an accusation that occurred in 1996. The actress Jany Tempel claims that Wedel (known for his roles in "Der Große Bellheim" and "Der Schattenmann") sexually assaulted her at the time at a Munich luxury hotel; however, Wedel has disputed this allegation.
Even before the accusations were presented, the attorneys for Wedel discussed the possibility of a previous conviction and underlined the chance that the charges could not be allowed at all, despite the fact that this scenario is very rare in the German judicial system.
On the other hand, the attorney representing the joint plaintiff Tempel, who has just lately voiced their dissatisfaction with the protracted delay in the proceedings against the director, Midway through May, defense attorney Alexander Stevens filed a complaint with the court over the delay, writing that "it has already been more than 14 months since the indictment was filed." The lengthy nature of the procedures has a significant negative impact on Tempel.
As a kind of protest at the length of time it took the court to reach a verdict, she even went on a short hunger strike. They had been investigating for a period of three years prior to ever filing charges, which was done by the public prosecutor's office.
Wedel "died after a lengthy, critical illness," according to a letter that was issued by his attorneys after it became known that Wedel had passed away. The lawyer's letter that Peter Gauweiler and his colleagues distributed on Wednesday criticized the media coverage of their client and stated that the case against the 82-year-old man for the allegation of rape was "completed without further ado." According to the letter, the case against the man for the alleged act of rape was "completed without further ado."
At the beginning of 2018, it became public knowledge that accusations had been made against Wedel. At that time, three actresses, including Tempel, accused him of sexually harassing them in the 1990s in an article that was published in Zeit-Magazin. The discussion around #MeToo in Germany began in 2017, and this particular instance became the most well-known of such cases. On social networks, millions of people, mostly women, have shared their stories of having been the victim of sexual assault under the hashtag #MeToo.
One of the most successful directors to come out of Germany was Wedel. He captivated an audience numbering in the millions with his multi-part series, which contributed to the annals of television history.
In the 1990s, Wedel had a very successful beginning to its business. The films "The Great Bellheim" (1993), "The Shadow Man" (1996), "The King of St. Pauli" (1998), and "The Semmeling Affair" (1999) were all commercially successful in quick succession (2002). People talked about the "new wedel" with a combination of astonishment and fascination when the storyteller released his most recent work. They referred to it as the "new wedel." That seemed like a stamp of approval, and in many cases, it really turned out to be the case.
Wedel served as the director of the Bad Hersfeld Festival prior to the claims made against him being public as part of the discussion around the #MeToo movement. The PhD in theater studies broke attendance records at the open-air theater festival and assured that a large number of celebrities walked the red carpet at the opening.
Wedel has six children by six different women, one of which, Hannelore Elsner, is the mother of one of his children who passed away in 2019.