Native name Nikolas Vogel Other names Nik Siblings Michael Vogel | Role Film actor Full Name Nikolas Vogel Name Nikolas Vogel | |
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Born March 9, 1967 Vienna, Austria Cause of death Missile strike, Yugoslav Federal Army Occupation Actor and news camera operator Movies The Inheritors, Requiem For Dominic Parents Gertraud Jesserer, Peter Vogel Similar People | ||
Die Erben (The Inheritors) (1982) - Trailer
Nikolas Vogel (March 9, 1967 – June 28, 1991) was an Austrian-German film actor and news camera operator. Nikolas Vogel belonged to a family of famous actors and he also became an actor. Vogel left the acting profession to report the news and worked for a short time as journalist before he was killed in the Ten-Day War as Yugoslavia was dividing in the aftermath of Marshall Josip Broz Tito's death. He is one of a few actors to become a journalist and die while reporting; another example is Sean Flynn who also died while working as a journalist and came from an acting family. Vogel was killed in a bomb incident along with his German colleague Norbert Werner.
Contents
- Die Erben The Inheritors 1982 Trailer
- Nikolas Vogel Norbert Werner
- Personal
- Film career
- Death
- Context
- Memorial
- Filmography
- References
Nikolas Vogel & Norbert Werner
Personal
Nikolas Vogel was born 9 March 1967 in Vienna, Austria. He was born into an acting family. His mother Gertraud Jesserer was a well known Austrian theater, cinema and television actress. She appeared in theater performances at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, Burgtheater in Vienna, and the Munich Kammerspiele among others. She had a starring role and appeared in the Austrian, German-language TV show Familie Leitner. His father Peter Vogel was a well known German actor, whose career included a role in the 1978 US TV Miniseries Holocaust. His grandfather was Rudolf Vogel and also a famous and successful actor. His grandfather was acting at the Landesbühne in Munich, Staatstheater and the Munich Kammerspiele. He did several film productions as well. Nikolas had a younger brother Michael.
Film career
Nikolas Vogel acted in movies and TV shows before becoming a journalist. Acting in teenage roles, Vogel had a starring role in The Inheritors (1983). His character, Thomas Feigl, is a young boy who joins a neo-Nazi group.
Death
Nikolas Vogel was working as a freelance photojournalist when he was killed along with colleague Norbert Werner on 28 June 1991 at the Ljubljana Airport, Slovenia. They were both killed by missile that struck their car during a Yugoslav Federal Army attack on the airport during Ten-Day War after Slovenia declared its independence.
Context
Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and is populated with around 2 million people.
The United States decided to remain neutral during this time of the bombing in 1991 and did criticize the tactics of the Yugoslav Army. The U.S stayed out of the conflict and refused to recognize the declaration of independence in Slovenia and Croatia.
Memorial
Slovenia celebrated its entry into Schengen Treaty with other European countries at the site where Vogel and Werner were killed. The Schengen Treaty is a signed document from countries of Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. The treaty pertaining to checks at each individual border. The two journalists were acknowledged at the celebration.