Background
Nikolas Vogel was born 9 March 1967 in Vienna, Austria. He was born into an acting family. His mother Gertraud Jesserer was a well known Austrian theater, cinema and television actress.
Actor journalist cinematographer
Nikolas Vogel was born 9 March 1967 in Vienna, Austria. He was born into an acting family. His mother Gertraud Jesserer was a well known Austrian theater, cinema and television actress.
Nikolas Vogel belonged to a family of famous actors and he also became an actor. Vogel left the acting profession to report the news and worked for a short time as journalist before he was killed in the Ten-Day War as Yugoslavia was dividing in the aftermath of Marshall Josip Broz Tito"s death. He is one of a few actors to become a journalist and die while reporting.
Another example is Sean Flynn who also died while working as a journalist and came from an acting family.
She appeared in theater performances at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, Burgtheater in Vienna, and the Munich Kammerspiele among others She had a starring role and appeared in the Austrian, German-language television show Familie Leitner.
His father Peter Vogel was a well known German actor, whose career included a role in the 1978 United States television Miniseries Holocaust. He did several film productions as well.
Nikolas had a younger brother Michael.
Nikolas Vogel acted in movies and television shows before becoming a journalist. Acting in teenage roles, Vogel had a starring role in The Inheritors (1983). His character, Thomas Feigl, is a young boy who joins a neo-Nazi group.
Requim for Dominic (1991)
Eurocops (television series, 1989 episode)
O zivej vode (television movie, 1988)
Bibos Maenner (1986)
Herzklopfen (1985)
The Inheritors (1983)
Was Kostet Der Sieg? (1981)
Death
They were both killed by missile that struck their car during a Yugoslav Federal Army attack on the airport during Ten-Day War after Slovenia declared its independence.
Context
Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and is populated with around 2 million people. The United States decided to remain neutral during this time of the bombing in 1991 and did criticize the tactics of the Yugoslav Army.
The United States stayed out of the conflict and refused to recognize the declaration of independence in Slovenia and Croatia. Slovenia celebrated its entry into Schengen Treaty with other European countries at the site where Vogel and Werner were killed.
The Schengen Treaty is a signed document from countries of Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain.
The treaty pertaining to checks at each individual border. The two journalists were acknowledged at the celebration.
