Christian Doermer

Christian Doermer (5 July 1935 – 14 July 2022) was a German actor and director. He appeared in more than 80 films and television shows from 1954 to 2022. He starred in the 1966 film No Shooting Time for Foxes. The film was entered into the 16th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize. In 1969, Doermer appeared as a German soldier attending the Christmas truce in Sir Richard Attenborough's satirical World War I musical film Oh! What a Lovely War.

Doermer himself has also directed a fair number of films including documentaries and television films. In 1962, he was one of the 26 authors of the famous Oberhausen Manifesto, demanding a change in German film.

Selected filmography

The Forest House in Tyrol (1955) as Alfons Attinger (1956), as Jochen Teenage Wolfpack (1956), as Jan Borchert All Roads Lead Home (1957), as Michael Der Stern von Afrika (1957), as Unteroffizier Klein Precocious Youth (1957), as Wolfgang Adorable Arabella (1959), as Helmut Hagemann Escape to Berlin (1961), as Claus Baade Das Riesenrad (1961), as Hubert von Hill jr. (1962, TV miniseries), as Gerald Quincey Child of the Revolution (1962, TV miniseries), as Wolfgang Leonhard Terror After Midnight (1962), as Nolan Stoddard The Bread of Those Early Years (1962), as Walter Fendrich Love at Twenty (1962), as Tonio Three for a Robbery (1964), as Mario No Shooting Time for Foxes (1966), as Viktor Die Rechnung – eiskalt serviert (1966), as Tommy Wheeler Girls, Girls (1967), as Mann im Zug The Syndicate (1968), as Kurt Hohmann Joanna (1968), as Hendrik Casson Oh! What a Lovely War (1969), as Fritz Downhill Racer (1969), as the German skier at the Winter Olympics Lettow-Vorbeck: Der deutsch-ostafrikanische Imperativ (1984, directed by Christian Doermer) Väter und Söhne – Eine deutsche Tragödie (1986, TV miniseries), as Dr. Körner The Hothouse (1987), as Felix Keetenheuve (1991, TV film), as Abraham Esau Stauffenberg (2004, TV film), as Field marshal Wilhelm Keitel