Volker Prechtel

Birthday: 1941-08-09
Deathday: 1997-08-07
Birthplace: Hopfen am See, Bavaria, Germany
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

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.

Credits

	Year	Title	Character
	1997-04-10	Lorenz im Land der Lügner	Spitzel
	1996-11-14	Alles nur Tarnung	Pfarrer
	1996-04-24	Willkommen in Kronstadt
	1995-01-01	Die Fernsehsaga – Eine steirische Fernsehgeschichte	Fösi
	1994-03-24	Pumuckl und der Blaue Klabauter	Stammtischbruder
	1994-01-09	Das Geheimnis	Staudammwärter
	1993-09-16	Tödliche Lüge	Georg
	1992-11-09	Moritz	Wagner
	1992-04-02	Four Junior Detectives	Pingling / Ritter von Zährenstein
	1991-12-26	Das größte Fest des Jahres	Toni Lederer
	1991-10-03	Scream of Stone	Himalaja-Bezwinger
	1991-09-19	Sisi/Last Minute	Hias von Konnersreuth
	1991-01-31	The Serbian Girl
	1989-10-25	Der Pampelmusenmond	Herzblau
	1989-04-13	Waller's Last Trip	Karg
	1988-05-30	Zimmer 36
	1988-05-12	Starke Zeiten	Hospital Employee
	1986-09-24	The Name of the Rose	Malachia
	1986-01-11	Tanner	Fuhrhalter Suter
	1985-04-26	Big Mäc	Zollbeamter
	1983-01-01	Traumlage
	1982-02-20	Drei gegen Hollywood
	1982-01-14	Piratensender Powerplay	Bailiff
	1982-01-01	Kampftag
	1981-12-24	Der Schluckauf
	1981-02-26	Oh Dear Harry!	Etagenkellner
	1981-01-01	Tarabas
	1979-05-27	Die Farbe des Himmels	Milchfahrer Elfengruber
	1979-05-25	Woyzeck	Handwerksbursche
	1979-04-30	Es begann bei Tiffany
	1979-02-05	Blauer Himmel den ich nur ahne	Girgl
	1979-01-15	The Frozen Heart
	1977-05-13	Natascha - Todesgrüsse aus Moskau	CIA-Agent
	1976-11-12	Heart of Glass	Wudy
	1976-05-19	The Marquise of O	Der Pfarrer
	1976-02-06	Crime and Passion	Innkeeper
	1974-11-01	The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser	Hiltel, the prison guard
	1974-10-17	The Odessa File	Günther Kolb (uncredited)
	1974-10-09	Der Jäger von Fall	Leitner