Overview

• Schornagel died on July 8 in Wester-Ohrstedt near Husum at age 85, four days before his 86th birthday, his family told the Deutsche Presse-Agentur.
• He trained at the Folkwang Hochschule and earned the 1987 Berlin Theater Prize after performances at the Berliner Volksbühne, Staatstheater Stuttgart and Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg.
• Audiences knew him best as Kriminalhauptkommissar Winter in RTL’s crime series “Doppelter Einsatz,” a role that won him the Deutscher Fernsehpreis in 2002.
• His screen work included the RTL drama “Hindenburg,” the literary adaptation “Die Schatzinsel” and Joseph Vilsmaier films such as “Schlafes Bruder” and “Comedian Harmonists.”
• “Tatort” star Klaus J. Behrendt remembered him as warm-hearted and humorous, noting their shared Ruhrgebiet roots.