What is Dieter Wedel?
[[File:Hessischer Filmpreis 2016 - Dieter Wedel 3-2.jpg|right|200px]] '''Dieter Karl Cäsar Wedel''' (12 November 1939 – 13 July 2022) was a German television director. He was thought to be one of Germany's best-known television directors.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.medienkorrespondenz.de/leitartikel/artikel/schwerwiegende-anschuldigungen.html|title=Schwerwiegende Anschuldigungen|website=www.medienkorrespondenz.de}}</ref> He also was the artistic director of the [[Nibelung Festival, Worms|Nibelung Festival]]. His career began in 1966 and he retired in 2018. Wedel was born in [[Frankfurt am Main]], [[Germany]]. In January 2018, Wedel was accused of [[sexual harassment]] by multiple actresses that he had worked with.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/dieter-wedel-tritt-als-intendant-der-bad-hersfelder-festspiele-zurueck-a-1189207.html|title = Dieter Wedel tritt als Intendant der Bad Hersfelder Festspiele zurück|newspaper=[[Der Spiegel]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2018-01/dieter-wedel-staatsanwaltschaft-ermittlungen|title=Staatsanwaltschaft ermittelt gegen Dieter Wedel|newspaper=[[Die Zeit]]}}</ref> Wedel died on 13 July 2022 in [[Hamburg]], Germany at the age of 82.<ref>[https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/tv/dieter-wedel-ist-tot-a-7cf8aa55-4f0f-40e4-9ab6-12d02d273aa6 Dieter Wedel ist tot] {{in lang|de}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *{{IMDb name|0917158|Dieter Wedel}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Wedel, Dieter}} [[Category:1939 births]] [[Category:2022 deaths]] [[Category:German television directors]] [[Category:People from Frankfurt]] [[Category:German movie directors]] {{bio-stub}}