Otto Sander
Acting
1941-06-30 · Hanover, Germany
Otto Sander (German: [ˈɔtoː ˈzandɐ]; June 30, 1941 – September 12, 2013) was a German film, theater, and voice actor. Sander grew up in Kassel, where he graduated in 1961 from the Friedrichgymnasium. After leaving school he spent his military service in 1961/62 with the Bundesmarine and left as reserve fenrik. Sander then studied theatre science, history of art and philosophy. In 1965 he made his acting debut at the Düsseldorfer chamber plays. After his first film work in the same year he abandoned his studies in 1967, and went to Munich to become a full-time actor. His career is closely connected with the Schaubühne theatre in Berlin under the direction of Peter Stein. From 1980 onwards Sander appeared on several of Berlin's theatre stages, among others at the Schillertheater in 1981, at the Freie Volksbühne in 1985 and in 1989 at the Komödie am Kurfürstendamm. More recently he starred in Hauptmann von Köpenick at the Schauspielhaus Bochum (2004). In 1990, he was a member of the Jury at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival. Among his best-known film roles are the angel Cassiel in Wings of Desire and its sequel Faraway, So Close! by Wim Wenders, and a shell-shocked U-boat commander, Kapitänleutnant Philipp Thomsen, in Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot. Sander also appeared in The Tin Drum (1979) as a trumpeter and in Comedian Harmonists, a biopic about the musical group of the same name. He also played a professor in the movie The Promise about the division of Berlin by the wall. In 1999 he played a role in Rosa von Praunheim's movie The Einstein of Sex.
Filmography
About Narration
2025 · Movie
Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story
2021 · Movie
Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter
2013 · Movie
Fly Away
2012 · Movie
Die Schuld der Erben
2012 · Movie
Life Is Too Long
2010 · Movie
Krabat
2008 · Movie
The Heart Is a Dark Forest
2007 · Movie
Little King Macius
2007 · Movie
Unter kaiserlicher Flagge
2006 · Series
Vienna Crime Squad
2005 · Series
Kaluoka'hina: The Enchanted Reef
2004 · Movie
Leute am Donnerstag
2004 · Series
Aus Liebe zu Deutschland - Eine Spendenaffäre
2003 · Movie
The Danube
2003 · Movie
Werner - Gekotzt wird später!
2003 · Movie
Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
2003 · Movie
Tödliches Vertrauen
2002 · Movie
Atlantic Affairs
2002 · Movie
Ein roter Teppich für....
2002 · Series
Happy Too
2002 · Movie
Through the Night with...
2002 · Series
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
2002 · Series
Das Jahrhundert des Theaters
2002 · Series
100 Pro
2001 · Movie
Sass
2001 · Movie
Preußen – Chronik eines deutschen Staates
2000 · Series
Les Misérables
2000 · Series
The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
2000 · Movie
Marlene
2000 · Movie
E-m@il an Gott
1999 · Movie
Majestät brauchen Sonne
1999 · Movie
Girls under investigation
1999 · Movie
Männer sind wie Schokolade
1999 · Movie
Der Kuß des Vergessens
1999 · Movie
The Shop
1998 · Series
Stan Becker - Auf eigene Faust
1998 · Movie
Am I Beautiful?
1998 · Movie
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998 · Series
The Harmonists
1997 · Movie
Tietjen und Bommes
1997 · Series
Conversation with the Beast
1997 · Movie
Liebe Lügen
1997 · Movie
Friedemann Brix - Eine Schwäche für Mord
1996 · Series
The Killer Condom
1996 · Movie
Zimmer frei!
1996 · Series
Lumière & Company
1995 · Movie
Matulla und Busch
1995 · Movie
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995 · Series
Nikolaikirche
1995 · Movie
The Promise
1995 · Movie
Bauernschach
1995 · Movie
A.S. Gefahr ist sein Geschäft
1995 · Series
Das Loch
1995 · Movie
The White Horse Inn in St. Wolfgang
1994 · Movie
Hölderlin-Comics
1994 · Movie
Movie Days
1994 · Movie
Three Sisters
1994 · Movie
The Film Narrator
1993 · Movie
The Olympic Summer
1993 · Movie
Faraway, So Close!
1993 · Movie
Inge, April und Mai
1993 · Movie
Schlusschor
1993 · Movie
Wolffs Revier
1992 · Series
Lyrische Suite. Das untergehende Vaterland
1992 · Movie
Bescheiß kein Kind!
1992 · Movie
DAS!
1991 · Series
Werner and the Wizard of Booze
1990 · Movie
Time of Vengeance
1990 · Movie
Vorwärts
1990 · Movie
The Break
1989 · Movie
Wie du mir..
1989 · Movie
The Case of Mr. Spalt
1988 · Movie
Wings of Desire
1987 · Movie
Close Up
1987 · Movie
Boundaries of Time - Caspar David Friedrich
1986 · Movie
Drei Schwestern
1986 · Movie
Miko: From the Gutter to the Stars
1986 · Movie
Wahnfried
1986 · Movie
Rosa Luxemburg
1986 · Movie
Eine Reise wert… Der Dichter Günter Kunert (be)sucht Berlin
1986 · Movie
Das Boot
1985 · Series
Der Fahnder
1984 · Series
Der Mord mit der Schere
1984 · Movie
A Love in Germany
1983 · Movie
Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois
1982 · Movie
Der Mann im Pyjama
1981 · Movie
Das Traumschiff
1981 · Series
Who's Going Crazy Here, Doctor?
1981 · Movie
Das Boot
1981 · Movie
Strike Back
1981 · Movie
Gesucht wird... Drei Geschichten um nicht ganz ehrenwerte Herren
1981 · Movie
Wetten, dass..?
1981 · Series
Im Schlaraffenland. Ein Roman unter feinen Leuten
1981 · Movie
Die Ursache
1980 · Movie
Der Mond scheint auf Kylenamoe
1980 · Movie
Palermo or Wolfsburg
1980 · Movie
The Tin Drum
1979 · Movie
Trilogie des Wiedersehens
1979 · Movie
Phantom
1979 · Movie
NDR Talk Show
1979 · Series
Plastikfieber
1979 · Movie
Die Ängste des Dr. Schenk
1978 · Movie
Heinrich Zille
1977 · Movie
Four Against the Bank
1976 · Movie
The Marquise of O
1976 · Movie
Summer Guests
1976 · Movie
Lehmanns Erzählungen
1975 · Movie
Berlin 10. 11. 74 - 28. 1. 75: Exercises in 9 Pieces
1975 · Movie
Meine Sorgen möcht' ich haben
1975 · Movie
Die Bakchen
1974 · Movie
One or the Other of Us
1974 · Movie
Ermittlungen gegen Unbekannt
1974 · Movie
Prinz Friedrich von Homburg
1973 · Movie
The Ignoramus and the Madman
1972 · Movie
Polizeiruf 110
1971 · Series
Die Mutter
1971 · Movie
Sonntags am Meer
1970 · Movie
Scene of the Crime
1970 · Series
No Pawing, Darling
1970 · Movie
Sonnabend, der 1.
1970 · Movie
Aktenzeichen XY… ungelöst
1967 · Series
Ludwig
1964 · Movie
Grimme Award
1964 · Series