Biography

In 2018 many actresses accused him of sexual harassment, assault and rape in the German media.

Wedel has often been accused of plagiarism, because of strong similarities in his 'original' screenplays - including identical scenes and dialogues - to successful Hollywood features. In one case the author Stefan Esser, who once wrote a screenplay exposé for Wedel, accused him of stealing his work for Mein alter Freund Fritz (2007). In another case the author Manfred Zach successfully sued Wedel in court, because he could demonstrate that parts of Wedel's screenplay for Die Affäre Semmeling (2002) were taken from Zach's published book.

Has a child with actress Hannelore Elsner, Dominik Elstner.

Lived in Hamburg and on Mallorca.

For some years he lived together with two women: Dominique Voland, mother of his youngest child Benjamin, and Uschi Wolters.