{{Short description|German actor (1935–2022)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2019}} {{Infobox person | image = | name = Christian Doermer | birth_date = {{Birth date|1935|7|5|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Rostock]], [[Mecklenburg]], Germany | death_date = {{death date and age|2022|7|14|1935|7|5|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Nußdorf am Inn]], [[Bavaria]], Germany | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1954–2022 }}

'''Christian Doermer''' (5 July 1935 &ndash; 14 July 2022) was a German actor and director.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/christian-doermer_c1a3523934bd4174a524efb2c8f96286 |title=Christian Doermer |work=Film Portal |access-date=25 July 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.swyrl.tv/article/schauspieler-und-autorenfilmer-christian-doermer-ist-tot|title=Schauspieler und Autorenfilmer: Christian Doermer ist tot|website=SWYRL}}</ref> 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 [[Jury Grand Prix|Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize]].<ref name="berlinale 1966">{{Cite web|url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1966/03_preistr_ger_1966/03_Preistraeger_1966.html |title=Berlinale 1966: Prize Winners |access-date=25 February 2010 |work=berlinale.de}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Oberhausen Manifesto 1962: Short Films by the Signatories, 1958–67 |website=Museum of Modern Art |date=2012 |url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1287 |access-date=9 June 2025}}</ref>

==Selected filmography== {{Div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''[[The Forest House in Tyrol]]'' (1955) as Alfons Attinger * ''{{Interlanguage link|Viele kamen vorbei|de}}'' (1956), as Jochen * ''[[Teenage Wolfpack]]'' (1956), as Jan Borchert * ''[[All Roads Lead Home (1957 film)|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. * ''{{Interlanguage link|Das Halstuch|de}}'' (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 (film)|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 film)|The Syndicate]]'' (1968), as Kurt Hohmann * ''[[Joanna (1968 film)|Joanna]]'' (1968), as Hendrik Casson<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1968/11/25/archives/screen-joanna-story-of-a-wideeyed-london-girlimport-at-cinema-i-is.html |title=Screen: 'Joanna,' Story of a Wide-Eyed London Girl:Import at Cinema I Is by Michael Sarne ' Faces' by Cassavetes at Little Carnegie |work=[[New York Times]] |date=November 26, 1968 |access-date=June 9, 2025 |first=Renata |last=Adler}}</ref> * ''[[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 film)|The Hothouse]]'' (1987), as Felix Keetenheuve * ''{{Interlanguage link|Ende der Unschuld|de}}'' (1991, TV film), as Abraham Esau * ''[[Stauffenberg (film)|Stauffenberg]]'' (2004, TV film), as Field marshal [[Wilhelm Keitel]] {{Div col end}}

==See also== * [[New German Cinema]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0230418|Christian Doermer}}

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