Wolfgang Petersen was a German film director, screenwriter, and producer. He received two Academy Award nominations for his work on the WWII submarine warfare film Das Boot.
Wolfgang Petersen was born in Emden, Germany, on March 14, 1941. On August 12, 2022, at the age of 81, Peterson died of pancreatic cancer at his home in Brentwood, Los Angeles.
From 1970 to 1978, Wolfgang Petersen was married to Ursula Sieg, a German actress. Following his divorce, he began dating Maria Borgel-Petersen, whom he married in 1978. Maria-Antoinette Borgel is a script supervisor and assistant director from Germany.
Wolfgang Petersen’s wife: Who is Maria Borgel-Petersen?
Maria Borgel-Petersen is the wife of legendary German film director Wolfgang Petersen. Maria-Antoinette Borgel is a German script supervisor and assistant director. Petersen began making movies for German television while working on the well-liked crime drama Tatort (Crime Scene). It was during this time that he met and collaborated with actor Jürgen Prochnow, who would go on to play the U-boat captain in Petersen’s renowned Das Boot and Maria-Antoinette Borgel, while working as a script girl on the set of Smog (1973).
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