Walter Bockmayer

{{short description|German film director}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}}

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| name = Walter Bockmayer

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1948|7|4|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Fehrbach, Germany

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2014|10|7|1948|7|4}}

| death_place = Cologne, Germany

| occupation = Film director, screenwriter, actor

| yearsactive = 1975–1988

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Walter Bockmayer (4 July 1948 – 7 October 2014) was a German film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed seven films between 1975 and 1988. His 1978 film Flaming Hearts was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077560/awards |title=IMDB.com: Awards for Flaming Hearts |accessdate=7 August 2010 |work=imdb.com}} He found a new home with the Scala Theater in Cologne, where the first stage play Ich möch zu Foß noh Kölle jonn was performed in 2003. Bockmayer's new plays were performed annually in the theater, which had a capacity of 260 people. He relocated famous operas such as Carmen (1995) or La traviata (1998) to the setting of the Klapperhof in Cologne or to a massage parlor.{{Cite news |date=1995-10-15 |title=Carmen klappert kölsch |language=de |work=Der Spiegel |url=https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/carmen-klappert-koelsch-a-4bf5049a-0002-0001-0000-000009223231 |access-date=2023-11-13 |issn=2195-1349}} He died of lung cancer in 2014.{{cite news |date=7 October 2014 |title=Lungenkrebs – Walter Bockmayer ist tot |url=http://www.rundschau-online.de/kultur/-walter-bockmayer-ist-tot,15184894,28668178.html |language=de |newspaper=Kölnische Rundschau |location=Cologne |access-date=8 October 2014 |archive-date=23 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123031745/http://www.rundschau-online.de/kultur/-walter-bockmayer-ist-tot,15184894,28668178.html |url-status=dead }}