Vogel left the acting profession to report the news and worked for a short time as journalist before he was killed in the Ten-Day War as Yugoslavia was dividing in the aftermath of Marshall Josip Broz Tito's death.
[2][3] His father Peter Vogel was a well known German actor, whose career included a role in the 1978 US TV Miniseries Holocaust.
Vogel was working as a freelance photojournalist when he was killed along with colleague Norbert Werner on 28 June 1991 at the Ljubljana Airport, Slovenia.
They were both killed by a missile that struck their car during a Yugoslav Federal Army attack on the airport during Ten-Day War after Slovenia declared its independence.
[16][17][18][19][20] Slovenia celebrated its entry into the Schengen Treaty with other European countries at the site where Vogel and Werner were killed.