Alexander Ziegler was a Swiss

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 author

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 and actor

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.

Ziegler studied drama

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 at the Max Reinhardt Seminar

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 in Wien

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 (1960/1961). He was an actor in Spring Awakening, a play by Frank Wedekind

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, in 1964. He was also an actor in the American television series Boys and Girls, created by Fred Mallow.

In 1966, he was imprisoned for two years because of his gay

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 friendship with a 16-year old named Stephan. While in prison, he wrote his first work, Labyrinth (1966). After he was released from prison, he worked as a journalist

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 and author from 1971 to 1979 for the German

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 gay magazine DU&ICH

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. He wrote many other articles and books.

In November 1977, his work Die Konsequenz was filmed and shown on German television. Actors of the film Die Konsequenz

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Die Konsequenz is a West German film from 1977. It is an adaptation of the 1975 autobiographical novel with the same name by Swiss author Alexander Ziegler and directed by Wolfgang Petersen. The film has a pederastic theme...

were Jürgen Prochnow

Jürgen Prochnow

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 as Martin Kurath and Ernst Hannawald

Ernst Hannawald

Ernst Hannawald is a German television actor.-Movies:* 1977 - Die Konsequenz * 1978 - L'ingorgo - Una storia impossibile...

 as Thomas Manzoni.

Works by Ziegler

• Labyrinth, 1970
• Die Konsequenz, 1975
• Kein Recht auf Liebe, 1978
• Eines Mannes Liebe, 1980
• Gesellschaftsspiele, 1980
• Angstträume, 1981
• Die Zärtlichen, 1982
• Ich bekenne, 1985
• Halunkengelächter, 1985

External links

• Films as actor in Internet Movie Database
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