Die Wannseekonferenz, international title The Conference, is a German TV docudrama, first aired January 24, 2022 by the

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broadcaster, about the Wannsee Conference held in

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Wannsee Wannsee () is a locality in the southwestern Berlin borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Germany. It is the westernmost locality of Berlin. In the quarter there are two lakes, the larger ''Großer Wannsee'' (Greater Wannsee, "See" means lake) and the ...

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to organise the extermination of the Jews.

Background

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 World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...

to determine the so-called “

Final Solution The Final Solution (german: die Endlösung, ) or the Final Solution to the Jewish Question (german: Endlösung der Judenfrage, ) was a Nazi plan for the genocide of individuals they defined as Jews during World War II. The "Final Solution to th ...

to the

Jewish Question The Jewish question, also referred to as the Jewish problem, was a wide-ranging debate in 19th- and 20th-century European society that pertained to the appropriate status and treatment of Jews. The debate, which was similar to other " national ...

”. It is not the beginning of the

Shoah The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ar ...

but it is a meeting to coordinate various government branches for carrying out the destruction of Jews. Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz 02-2014

Cast

Philipp Hochmair Philipp Hochmair (German: �fɪǀɪp ˈhoːxmɑɪɐ; born 16 October 1973) is an Austrian theater, film and television actor. Early life Hochmair grew up in Vienna (Austria) where he discovered his passion for literature, film and theater. ...

Reinhard Heydrich Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich ( ; ; 7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a high-ranking German SS and police official during the Nazi era and a principal architect of the Holocaust. He was chief of the Reich Security Main Office (inclu ...

, 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 Arnd Klawitter (born 26 July 1968) is a German stage, movie and television actor. Career After his studies at Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts in Munich, Arnd Klawitter joined the ensemble of the Munich Kammerspiele in 1994 fo ...

as Dr.

Roland Freisler Roland Freisler (30 October 1893 – 3 February 1945), a German Nazi jurist, judge, and politician, served as the State Secretary of the Reich Ministry of Justice from 1934 to 1942 and as President of the People's Court from 1942 to 1945. As ...

, for the Reich Ministry of Justice * Markus Schleinzer as Otto Hofmann * Fabian Busch as Dr.

Gerhard Klopfer Gerhard Klopfer (18 February 1905 – 29 January 1987) was a senior official of the Nazi Party and assistant to Martin Bormann in the Office of the (Nazi) Party Chancellery. Klopfer was born in Schreibersdorf, Silesia (now in Poland), in 1905. ...

* Thomas Loibl as

Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger (14 April 189025 April 1947) was a German official and state secretary in the Reich Chancellery during the period of Nazi Germany. He was the deputy head of the Reich Chancellery under Hans Lammers, and was present at ...

* Frederic Linkemann as Dr. Rudolf Lange * Rafael Stachowiak as

Georg Leibbrandt Georg Leibbrandt (6 September 1899 – 16 June 1982) was a Nazi German bureaucrat and diplomat. He occupied leading foreign policy positions in the Nazi Party Foreign Policy Office (APA) and the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territo ...

Simon Schwarz Simon Schwarz (born 10 January 1971 in Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , ...

Martin Luther Martin Luther (; ; 10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) was a German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, and professor, and Augustinian friar. He is the seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation and the namesake of Lutherani ...

* Peter Jordan as Dr.

Alfred Meyer Gustav Alfred Julius Meyer (5 October 1891 – 11 April 1945) was a Nazi Party official and politician. He joined the Nazi Party in 1928 and was the ''Gauleiter'' of North Westphalia from 1931 to 1945, the ''Oberpräsident'' of the Provin ...

* Jakob Diehl as Heinrich Müller, Chief of RSHA Department IV (the

Gestapo The (), abbreviated Gestapo (; ), was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe. The force was created by Hermann Göring in 1933 by combining the various political police agencies of Prussia into one orga ...

) * Matthias Bundschuh as Erich Neumann * Maximilian Brückner as Dr. Eberhard Schöngarth * Godehard Giese as

Wilhelm Stuckart Wilhelm Stuckart (16 November 1902 – 15 November 1953) was a German Nazi Party lawyer, official, and a State Secretary in the Reich Interior Ministry during the Nazi era. He was a co-author of the notorious Nuremberg Laws and was a participan ...

, for the Reich Ministry for the Interior * Lilli Fichtner as Ingeburg Werlemann * Frederik Schmid as Eichmanns adjutant

Awards and nominations

German Television Award * 2022: ''Best Film Made for Television'' * 2022: ''Best Writing Fiction'' – Paul Mommertz and Magnus Vattrodt * 2022: ''Best Actor'' –

(Nominee) * 2022: ''Best Directing Fiction'' – Matti Geschonneck (Nominee)

Grimme Award The Grimme-Preis ("Grimme Award"; prior to 2011: Adolf-Grimme-Preis) is one of the most prestigious German television awards. It is named after the first general director of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk, Adolf Grimme.Civis Media Prize * 2022: ''Entertainment'' (Civis Video Award) New York Festivals TV & Film Awards * 2022: ''Feature Films'' (Gold Award)

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* 2022: ''Favorite Actor'' –

(Reinhard Heydrich) * 2022: ''Best Film TV/Stream'' – Friederich Oetker and Reinhold Elschot * 2022: ''Best Writing TV/Stream'' – Magnus Vattrodt and Paul Mommertz

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* 2022: ''Best European TV Film'' Günter-Rohrbach-Filmpreis * 2022: ''Best Film'' Fernsehfilmfestival Baden-Baden *2022: ''3sat-Publikumspreis'' (Audience Award)

References

External links

''Die Wannseekonferenz''
Press release in the Press portal of the ZDF

(2022, en The Wannsee Conference) * * * Catalogue, exhibition -
The Meeting at Wannsee and the Murder of the European Jews
' {{DEFAULTSORT:Wannseekonferenz, De 2022 films 2022 television films Holocaust films Films about Nazi Germany Films set in Berlin Films set in 1942

Background

Cast

Awards and nominations

See also

References

External links