Die Wannseekonferenz (2022 film)
Die Wannseekonferenz (en The Wannsee Conference) is a German TV docudrama, first aired January 24th 2022 by the ZDF broadcaster, about a conference held in Berlin-Wannsee in 1942 to organise the extermination of the Jews. Director Matti Geschonneck shows a reenactment of the real Wannsee Conference held January 20, 1942, based on a script by Magnus Vattrodt. German Nazi officials meet midst the Second World War to determine the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". It is not the beginning of the Shoah but it is a meeting to coordinate various government branches for carrying out the destruction of Jews.[1][2]
Cast
- Philipp Hochmair as Reinhard Heydrich, Chief of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA)
- Johannes Allmayer as Adolf Eichmann, Head of RSHA IV B4
- Sascha Nathan as Dr. Josef Bühler
- Arnd Klawitter as Dr. Roland Freisler, for the Reich Ministry of Justice
- Markus Schleinzer as Otto Hoffmann
- Fabian Busch as Dr. Gerhard Klopfer
- Thomas Loibl as Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger
- Frederic Linkemann as Dr. Rudolf Lange
- Rafael Stachowiak as Georg Leibbrandt
- Simon Schwarz as Martin Luther
- Peter Jordan as Dr. Alfred Meyer
- Jakob Diehl as Heinrich Müller, Chief of RSHA Department IV (the Gestapo)
- Matthias Bundschuh as Erich Neumann
- Maximilian Brückner as Dr. Eberhard Schöngarth
- Godehard Giese as Wilhelm Stuckart, for the Reich Ministry for the Interior
- Lilli Fichtner as Ingeburg Werlemann
- Frederik Schmid
See also
- Heinz Schirk (director): The Wannsee Conference, a 1984 German TV film
- Conspiracy – a 2001 English language film
- Fatherland – an alternate history novel dealing in large part with the Wannsee Conference - 1992
- List of Holocaust films
References
- Peter Kümmel: Unter Verbrechern (Amongst Perpetrators). In: Die Zeit. 20 January 2022. Feuilleton.
- Wolfgang Höbel: Die Brillanz des Bösen. (The Brilliance of Evil) Der Spiegel #3/2022. 15 January 2022, pp 120–121: A nearly "normal" meeting of bureaucrats for optimising of the mass murder (transl.)
- GHWK, Berlin - Dauerausstellung "Die Besprechung am Wannsee und der Mord an den europäischen Jüdinnen und Juden"
- '80 Years Ago the Nazis Planned the ‘Final Solution.’ It Took 90 Minutes. As Germany observes the anniversary of the Wannsee Conference, witnesses of the Nazi era are dying … ' NYT 21 January 2022
External links
- Die Wannseekonferenz Press release in the Press portal of the ZDF
- Die Wannseekonferenz (2022, en The Wannsee Conference)
- Die Wannseekonferenz at IMDb
- Matti Geschonneck at IMDb
- Catalogue, exhibition - The Meeting at Wannsee and the Murder of the European Jews
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