Karl-Heinz Vosgerau

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Karl-Heinz Vosgerau (born August 16, 1927 in Kiel , † January 4, 2021 in Wolfenbüttel ) was a German actor .

biography

Vosgerau attended the drama school in Kiel and also took private acting lessons from Bernhard Minetti . In 1948 he made his stage debut as Jupiter in Molières Amphitryon in Lüneburg. This was followed by theater engagements in Kiel, Lübeck, Lüneburg, Braunschweig, Düsseldorf, Wuppertal, at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg , in Berlin and Bochum as well as with various touring theaters.

Vosgerau had his first film appearance in the 1956 film drama Das Dorf in der Heide , directed by Hans Müller-Westernhagen . Since the 1970s , the actor has increasingly appeared in film and television productions. He played one of the leading roles alongside Ingmar Zeisberg , Albert Lieven and Paul Hubschmid in the three-part television miniseries Wie ein Blitz after Francis Durbridge . Directed by Rolf von Sydow . In the six-part television science fiction miniseries Die Wächter (1986) based on the dystopian novel of the same name by the English author John Christopher , which tells of a society divided into two classes, Vosgerau played the role of Frank Gifford in three episodes. In 1987 he played the role of Prof. Breeken in several episodes in the Black Forest Clinic and at the beginning of the family saga Das Erbe der Guldenburgs (1987) the patriarch Martin Graf von Guldenburg . In the vacation series Hotel Paradies (1990) Vosgerau fell in love with his role as Dr. Andreas Helm on four episodes in Katinka Neumann, played by Irina Wanka , a much younger woman.

In the crime series METRO - A Team for Life and Death (2006), in which a newly formed task force travels all over the world to curb disease foci, Vosgerau was cast as Professor Sebastian Hansen in two episodes. In the 2007 television film from the Inga Lindström series Emma Svensson und die Liebe , Vosgerau played a butler in his last role, who loyally supports the entrepreneur embodied by Heide Keller until she does something that he cannot and does not want to support .

Vosgerau played under some of the most influential directors of the time such as Peter Zadek ( Der Pott , Die wild fifties ), Rainer Werner Fassbinder ( Eight Hours Are Not a Day , Welt am Draht ), Volker Schlöndorff ( The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum ) and Jiří Menzel ( The Chocolate Sniff ) . He also took regular guest roles in television series such as Ein Fall für Zwei , Der Alte , Derrick and in three episodes of the series The Dream Ship .

Karl-Heinz Vosgerau last lived in Wolfenbüttel , Lower Saxony , where he died on January 4, 2021 at the age of 93. He was married and had a son.

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b TV actor Karl-Heinz Vosgerau is dead. In: t-online.de . January 21, 2021, accessed January 21, 2021 .
  2. ^ Karl-Heinz Vosgerau Death: German Actor Karl-Heinz Vosgerau is Dead. January 18, 2021, accessed January 23, 2021 (American English).
  3. ↑ TV wish list: Actor Karl-Heinz Vosgerau died at the age of 92. In: wunschliste.de. January 22, 2021, accessed January 23, 2021 .
  4. ↑ Stern: Known from "Derrick", "Traumschiff" and "Guldenburgs": Karl-Heinz Vosgerau is dead. In: stern.de. January 22, 2021, accessed January 23, 2021 .
personal data
SURNAME Vosgerau, Karl-Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vosgerau, Karl Heinz
SHORT DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 2021
Place of death Wolfenbüttel