Wilhelm Utermann

Wilhelm "Utz" Utermann (3 December 1912 – 11 August 1991) was a German writer, journalist, screenwriter and film producer.

Wilhelm Utermann
Born	3 December 1912 Annen, German Empire
Died	11 August 1991 Roggersdorf, Gemeinde Holzkirchen, Germany

He used the following pseudonyms: William Utermann, William Roggersdorf and Mathias Racker. Utermann was a former editor of the Nazi Party's newspaper Völkischer Beobachter and had been a Nazi bestselling author.^[1]

As Wilhelm Roggersdorf, he edited Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods? and extensively rewrote the book.^[2][3]

He was married to Clementine zu Castell-Rüdenhausen.

Selected filmography

• Portrait of an Unknown Woman (1954)
• Roses in Autumn (1955)
• The Golden Bridge (1956)
• Taiga (1958)
• The Ideal Woman (1959)
• You Don't Shoot at Angels (1960)
• Max the Pickpocket (1962)
• Life Begins at Eight (1962)
• He Can't Stop Doing It (1962)
• My Daughter and I (1963)
• A Mission for Mr. Dodd (1964)

References

• Wilhelm Utermann at IMDb
• Literature by and about Wilhelm Utermann in the German National Library catalogue
• Works by and about Wilhelm Utermann in the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library)

1. "Wilhelm Utermann" (in German), Lexikon westfälischer Autorinnen und Autoren.
2. Story, Ronald (1976). The space-gods revealed : a close look at the theories of Erich von Däniken. New York: Harper & Row. p. 2. ISBN 0-06-014141-7. Citing Der Spiegel, in issue 12/1969 (March 17, 1969), p. 184 and issue 12/1973 (March 19, 1973), p. 145.
3. Fritze, Ronald H. (2009), Invented Knowledge: False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-religions, Reaktion Books, pp. 206, 212, footnote 76 in p. 286, ISBN 978-1-86189-817-3