Frank Vogel was born in Limbach in 1929. He studied German, journalism, and history from 1949 to 1951 and also studied drama in Weimar. Vogel trained as a director at the famous school VGIK in Moscow starting in 1951. He became an assistant director to Konrad Wolf and, later, a director at the DEFA Feature Film Studios. Just Don't Think I'll Cry (1965), his film about a young man who is forced to leave school, was banned by East German officials and was not screened until twenty-five years later. Vogel later reflected on his own memories of that repressive period in the mid-1960s in his film Johannes Keppler. He died in 1999.

Filmography

Dr. Ahrendt's Decision (Die Entscheidung des Dr. Ahrendt) 1959; The Man With the Objective (Der Mann mit dem Objektiv) 1961; ... and Your Love too (... und deine Liebe auch) 1962; Juliette Is Still Alive (Julia lebt) 1963; Just Don't Think I'll Cry (Denk bloss nicht, ich heule) 1965; The Seventh Year (Das siebente Jahr) 1969; Johannes Kepler, 1974; A Handful of Hope (Eine Handvoll Hoffnung) 1978; The Geese Of Buetzow (Die Gaense von Buetzow) 1985.