Volker Prechtel (born August 9, 1941, in Hopfen am See; died August 7, 1997, in Gröbenzell) was a German theater, film, and television actor.
Prechtel initially studied pedagogy and worked as a schoolteacher for several years before finding his way to professional acting through amateur theater stages. With his striking face and distinctive nose, he became a sought-after character actor in film and television, appearing in more than one hundred productions.
Prechtel was also a regular presence on the theater stage. He performed at venues including the Münchner Kammerspiele, the Münchner Volkstheater, the Freie Volksbühne Berlin, and the Münchner Theater für Kinder.
He achieved international recognition in 1986 for his role as the monk Malachias in *The Name of the Rose*, based on the novel by Umberto Eco. In that film, he acted alongside Sean Connery and Helmut Qualtinger. Additionally, he appeared as a public bus driver in the crime series *Der König*.
Volker Prechtel died in 1997—two days before his 56th birthday—from complications related to cancer.
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Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hu...
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The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny ce...
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A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of t...
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Financier persuades his mistress to marry a rich industrialist for his money, then discovers that he...
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A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count....
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Down-on-his-luck private detective Harry Werner just wants a quiet life, but trouble always finds hi...
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Recent movies
| # | Name | Character | Rating | |
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| 1 | The Name of the Rose (1986) | Malachia | 7.5 | |
| 2 | Oh Dear Harry! (1981) | Etagenkellner | 5 | |
| 3 | Woyzeck (1979) | Handwerksbursche | 4.3 | |
| 4 | Heart of Glass (1976) | Wudy | 6 | |
| 5 | Crime and Passion (1976) | Innkeeper | - | - |
| 6 | The Marquise of O (1976) | Der Pfarrer | 3 | |
| 7 | The Odessa File (1974) | Günther Kolb (uncredited) | 6 | |
| 8 | The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) | Hiltel, the prison guard | 7 |
