They have been in a relationship for decades and have also been married since 2014: Dieter Wedel and Uschi Wolters. The well-known director died on July 13 at the age of 82. A day later, his wife Uschi Wolters announced Wedel's death. As the "Bild" newspaper reports, citing the couple's closest family circle, the 74-year-old is now dead. She died on July 26 - just 13 days after her husband.
According to the report, both were in the Hamburg-Eppendorf University Hospital, where Uschi Wolters was being treated for a stomach tumor. She died there just a few days after her husband. When Dieter Wedel was cremated near Hamburg on July 28, his wife was already dead.
The director Dieter Wedel and Uschi Wolters had been in a relationship for decades before they married in 2014. For a long time they had a threesome: In addition to the businesswoman Ursula Wolters, a daughter of the former Bremen Senator Hermann Wolters, Wedel was in a relationship with the actress Dominique Voland from 1997 to 2009. The son Benjamin emerged from the relationship. Wedel has a total of six children from six different women - including a son with actress Hannelore Elsner, who died in 2019.
Wedel was one of the most successful German filmmakers. He shot miniseries for ZDF such as "Der Große Bellheim" (1993), "Der Schattenmann" (1996), "Der König von St. Pauli" (1998) or "Die Affaire Semmeling" (2002), all of which were seen by millions of viewers became.
In 2018, however, Wedel was accused of sexual abuse. Actress Jany Tempel accused the director of raping her in a Munich hotel in 1996. Wedel denied the accusation. Although the public prosecutor's office had already brought charges in March 2021, the trial never took place. The now deceased Uschi Wolters had always stood by her husband.
Those: "Bild.de"
