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Die Wannseekonferenz, international title The Conference, is a German TV
docudrama Docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of television and film, which features dramatized re-enactments of actual events. It is described as a hybrid of documentary and drama and "a fact-based representation of real event". Docudramas typic ...
, first aired January 24, 2022 by the ZDF broadcaster, about the Wannsee Conference held in Berlin- Wannsee in
1942 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Declaration by United Nations is signed by China, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and 22 other nations, in wh ...
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 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.


Cast

* Philipp Hochmair as Reinhard Heydrich, Chief of the
Reich Security Main Office The Reich Security Main Office (german: Reichssicherheitshauptamt or RSHA) was an organization under Heinrich Himmler in his dual capacity as ''Chef der Deutschen Polizei'' (Chief of German Police) and ''Reichsführer-SS'', the head of the Nazi ...
(RSHA) * Johannes Allmayer as
Adolf Eichmann Otto Adolf Eichmann ( ,"Eichmann"
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RSHA IV B4 * Sascha Nathan as Dr.
Josef Bühler Josef Bühler (16 February 1904 – 22 August 1948) was a state secretary and deputy governor to the Nazi Germany-controlled General Government in Kraków during World War II. Background Bühler was born in Bad Waldsee into a Catholic family. ...
* Arnd Klawitter as Dr. Roland Freisler, for the Reich Ministry of Justice * Markus Schleinzer as
Otto Hofmann Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', ''Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity". The name is recorded fro ...
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Fabian Busch Fabian Busch (born 1 October 1975) is a German actor. He has appeared in more than sixty films since 1993.Kino 1995- Issues 58-70 - Page 270 "Koch and his buddy David (Fabian Busch) find employment in the services of the KGB, thanks to Lupo (Die ...
as Dr. Gerhard Klopfer * Thomas Loibl as Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger * Frederic Linkemann as Dr.
Rudolf Lange Rudolf Lange (18 April 1910 – 23 February 1945) was a German SS functionary and police official during the Nazi era. With the invasion of the Soviet Union, he served in ''Einsatzgruppe A'' before becoming a commander in the ''Sicherheitsdienst ...
* Rafael Stachowiak as Georg Leibbrandt * Simon Schwarz as Martin Luther * Peter Jordan as Dr. Alfred Meyer * Jakob Diehl as
Heinrich Müller Heinrich Müller may refer to: * Heinrich Müller (cyclist) (born 1926), Swiss cyclist * Heinrich Müller (footballer, born 1888) (1888–1957), Swiss football player and manager * Heinrich Müller (footballer, born 1909) (1909–2000), Austrian fo ...
, Chief of RSHA Department IV (the Gestapo) * Matthias Bundschuh as Erich Neumann *
Maximilian Brückner Maximilian Brückner (born 10 January 1979) is a German actor. He has won numerous awards including the Deutscher Kritikerpreis in 2006 and received a European Shooting Stars Award in 2007. Career Maximilian Brückner graduated from the Otto Fa ...
as Dr. Eberhard Schöngarth * Godehard Giese as Wilhelm Stuckart, for the Reich Ministry for the Interior * Lilli Fichtner as
Ingeburg Werlemann Ingeburg Gertrud Werlemann (also ''Ingeburg Gertrud Wagner'') (* 28 April 1919 in Berlin-Altglienicke; † 12 September 2010) was a German secretary and photographer. During the Second World War, she was a secretary to Adolf Eichmann and noted dow ...
* Frederik Schmid as Eichmanns adjutant


Awards and nominations

German Television Award The Deutscher Fernsehpreis (''German Television Award'') is an annual German award for television programming, created in 1999 by German television channels Das Erste, ZDF, RTL and Sat.1. It was created to be an equivalent to the Emmy Awards, tho ...
* 2022: ''Best Film Made for Television'' * 2022: ''Best Writing Fiction'' – Paul Mommertz and Magnus Vattrodt * 2022: ''Best Actor'' – Philipp Hochmair (Nominee) * 2022: ''Best Directing Fiction'' – Matti Geschonneck (Nominee) Grimme Award * 2023: ''Fiction'' Barcelona-Sant Jordi International Film Festival * 2022: ''Best Film'' Civis Media Prize * 2022: ''Entertainment'' (Civis Video Award) New York Festivals TV & Film Awards * 2022: ''Feature Films'' (Gold Award) Romy * 2022: ''Favorite Actor'' – Philipp Hochmair (Reinhard Heydrich) * 2022: ''Best Film TV/Stream'' – Friederich Oetker and Reinhold Elschot * 2022: ''Best Writing TV/Stream'' – Magnus Vattrodt and Paul Mommertz Prix Europa * 2022: ''Best European TV Film'' Günter-Rohrbach-Filmpreis * 2022: ''Best Film'' Fernsehfilmfestival Baden-Baden *2022: ''3sat-Publikumspreis'' (Audience Award)


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


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
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