The court finally wanted to announce on Wednesday whether there would be a trial against Wedel. According to the court, the case against him is now being discontinued.
The public prosecutor had accused Wedel in March of last year of an allegation from 1996. The actress Jany Tempel states that Wedel (“The Great Bellheim”, “The Shadow Man”) raped her in a Munich luxury hotel at the time – an accusation that Wedel has denied. When the charges were brought, Wedel’s lawyers spoke of preliminary conviction and emphasized the likelihood that the charges could not be admitted at all – although that hardly ever occurs in the German judiciary.
One film success chased the other
Wedel was one of the most successful German filmmakers. With his multi-part series, he delighted an audience of millions and wrote television history. Wedel, about whose date of birth there is conflicting information and who was probably around 80 years old when he died, started out in the 1990s in particular. One success followed the next: “The Great Bellheim” (1993), “The Shadow Man” (1996), “The King of St. Pauli” (1998) and “The Semmeling Affair” (2002). When the storyteller published his latest work, people spoke of the “new wedel” with a mixture of awe and curiosity. That sounded like a seal of approval – and often proved to be true. After his success on television, Wedel switched to the theatre. He first directed the Nibelungen Festival in Worms (2002/2003), from 2004 to 2014 he was director. Then in autumn 2014 he went to the Bad Hersfeld Festival.
Source: Nachrichten
