Key figure of post-war German cinema whose preoccupation with recent German history anticipated the work of the New German Cinema.As an actor, Wicki's memorable early screen roles include the Yugoslav partisan in Helmut Kautner's anti-war film "The Last Bridge" (1954), one of the officers conspiring against Hitler in G.W. Pabst's "It Happened in Broad Daylight" (1955) and the dying friend in Michelangelo Antonioni's "La Notte" (1961). After a 15-year hiatus, Wicki returned to screen acting in 1976, appearing mostly in character parts (he played the Germanic Dr. Ulmer--in the middle of
Was arrested and incarcerated for ten months at the Nazi concentration camp at Sachsenhausen because of his communist views and his membership in the radical Bauhaus school of architecture
1945
Began stage directing career, working in Switzerland, Monaco and Germany
1950
Screen acting debut in "The Falling Star"
Worked as assistant to film director Helmut Kautner; acted in his "The Last Bridge" (1953)
