Volker Prechtel
Born: 1941-08-09 in Hopfen am See, Bavaria, Germany
Died: 1997-08-07
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2022
- An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose as Self (archive footage)
1997
- Lorenz im Land der Lügner as Spitzel
1996
1995
1994
- Der König as Pichler
- Air Albatros
- Das Geheimnis as Staudammwärter
- Pumuckl und der Blaue Klabauter as Stammtischbruder
1993
- Tödliche Lüge as Georg
1992
- Four Junior Detectives as Pingling / Ritter von Zährenstein
- Moritz as Wagner
1991
- Scream of Stone as Himalaja-Bezwinger
- The Serbian Girl
- Das größte Fest des Jahres as Toni Lederer
- Sisi/Last Minute as Hias von Konnersreuth
1989
- Forsthaus Falkenau as Toni Lederer
- Löwengrube as Waldhauser
- Der Pampelmusenmond as Herzblau
- Waller's Last Trip as Karg
1988
- Starke Zeiten as Hospital Employee
- Zimmer 36
1986
- The Name of the Rose as Malachia
- The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' as Self
- Tanner as Fuhrhalter Suter
1985
- Big Mäc as Zollbeamter
1984
- Der Fahnder as Wirt
- Weißblaue Geschichten
1983
1982
- Der Andro-Jäger as Polizist Heinmann
- Piratensender Powerplay as Bailiff
- Tarabas
- Drei gegen Hollywood
- Kampftag
1981
- Der Gerichtsvollzieher as Eisverkäufer Hans
- Tarabas
- Oh Dear Harry! as Etagenkellner
- Der Schluckauf
1980
- Anderland as Postkutscher
1979
- Woyzeck as Handwerksbursche
- Es begann bei Tiffany
- Die Farbe des Himmels as Milchfahrer Elfengruber
- Blauer Himmel den ich nur ahne as Girgl
- The Frozen Heart
1978
- Sachrang as Heckenberger
- Eine Schmugglergeschichte - Die Legende des Tabak-Peter
1977
- Natascha - Todesgrüsse aus Moskau as CIA-Agent
- Geheimtip für Tommy
1976
- Heart of Glass as Wudy
- The Marquise of O as Der Pfarrer
- Crime and Passion as Innkeeper
1975
- Nonstop Nonsens as Sheriff
1974
- Derrick as Ingenieur
- The Odessa File as Günther Kolb (uncredited)
- The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser as Hiltel, the prison guard
- Der Jäger von Fall as Leitner
1970
- Scene of the Crime as Landpolizist