Thomas Danneberg

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Thomas Danneberg in April 2010

Thomas "Thommy" Dannenberg (* 2. June 1942 in Berlin ) was a German actor , voice actor , dubbing director and dialogue author . He was one of the most prominent and busiest speakers in German-speaking countries and was the standard speaker for Arnold Schwarzenegger , Sylvester Stallone , John Travolta , Terence Hill , Dan Aykroyd , Rutger Hauer , John Cleese , Nick Nolte , Billy Dee Williams , Adriano Celentano , David Soul and the brothers Randy and Dennis Quaid . Through the documentary The Terence Hill Story broadcast in March 2019 , it became known that Danneberg will no longer synchronize for health reasons.

Life

Youth and theater

The son of a graduate engineer and a housewife was born during the Second World War, the younger of two children. After attending the Dreilinden grammar school in Berlin-Nikolassee , Danneberg completed an apprenticeship as a deep-sea fisherman on Iceland from 1959 to 1960 . He then traveled to the United States for half a year and lived there in New York City and New Orleans in order to focus on his interest in jazz . After his return, Danneberg initially worked as an ordinary seaman in Norway before beginning an acting training at the Schauspielhaus Zurich .

In 1962, he joined the private drama school of Marlise Ludwig in Berlin and remained there until his graduation in 1964. It was followed by engagements at various theaters, including as Antipholus of Syracuse in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors at the Hebbel Theater in the majesties of Jean Anouilh with OE Hasse and Peter Mosbacher at the Renaissance Theater , in Mother Courage at the Hamburger Kammerspiele under the directorship of Ida Ehre , in the Battle of Lobositz at the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer , in Terence Frisby's A Girl in the Soup and Neil Simon's Plaza Suite at the theater on Kurfürstendamm and in Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind at the Schiller Theater workshop.

Danneberg first acted in front of the camera in 1963 in the short film The Wind in the Trees by Helmut Ahner , later in the Edgar Wallace film The Blue Hand (1967) and in the German-Italian mercenary films Secret Code: Wild Geese (1984) , Kommando Leopard (1985) and The Commander (1988), all side by side with Lewis Collins . In the films Kommando Leopard and Der Commander he was dubbed himself by Rainer Brandt because he spoke the lead actor Lewis Collins.

synchronization

September 12, 2006: Thomas Danneberg in a speaker's booth during an N24 production

In 1964, Danneberg took on his first dubbed role in the US melodrama David and Lisa , starring Keir Dullea . In the following decades he developed into one of the most famous and busiest speakers of the present in the German-speaking world. Since Two Heavenly Dogs on the Way to Hell (1972) he has been the German voice of Terence Hill , since Welcome back, Kotter (1975) by John Travolta , since 1941 - Where please go to Hollywood (1979) by Dan Aykroyd , since Kaktus Jack (1979) by Arnold Schwarzenegger and since Nachtfalken (1981) by Sylvester Stallone . Since Monty Python's Wonderful World of Gravity (1971), it has also often been cast on John Cleese . Other actors Danneberg regularly voices include Dennis Quaid , Nick Nolte , Adriano Celentano , Rutger Hauer and Michael York . His unexpected line-up for Bruce Willis in Die Hard: Now all the more , which was due to the fact that the regular speaker Manfred Lehmann was unable to attend . In the musical film Hairspray (2007) he dubbed John Travolta for the first time in a female role. In the ensemble action film The Expendables (2010), he spoke to both Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone in the same scene. He also dubbed both actors in the sequel The Expendables 2 (2012), this time in larger roles. In Escape Plan , the two actors met again in the same film. Since Arnold Schwarzenegger's screen presence was much larger than that of the Expendables films, his dubbing voice was changed to Ralph Schicha in order not to confuse the audience with the same voice from Thomas Danneberg. In The Expendables 3 , Danneberg dubbed both actors again. In 2004, 2007 and 2010 he stood next to Sascha Hehn , Marie-Luise Marjan and Esther Schweins in front of the microphone during the dubbing for the Shrek films. Also in 2013 he took over the speaking role of Silas Ramspopo in Despicable Me 2 . He also lent his voice in Baymax - Giant Robowabohu Heathcliff.

Thomas Danneberg took on leading serial roles with the dubbing of David Soul as Kenneth Hutchinson in Starsky & Hutch (1978), Douglas Barr as Howie Munson in A Colt for All Cases (1983), Nick Mancuso as Ray in Stingray (1983), Daniel Hugh -Kelly as McCormick in Hardcastle & McCormick (1985) and Barry Van Dyke as Steve Sloan in Diagnosis: Murder (1995). He was also responsible for the German-language versions of these series as a dubbing director and dialogue book author, as well as for numerous films such as the four James Bond films Goldeneye (1995), Tomorrow never dies (1997), The world is not enough (1999) and Die Another Day (2002). His directorial debut was the British crime series Van der Valk for ZDF in 1979. In the 2001 animated series Invader Zim , he spoke to Sergeant Slab Rankle.

In the online role-playing game The Elder Scrolls Online , published in 2014, he took on several dubbing voices, including a. by Sir Cadwell.

In 2018 he dubbed Terence Hill again in his film My Name is Somebody - Two Fists Return .

Danneberg retired in April 2019 for health reasons, this decision was announced in March.

Audio productions

As a professional spokesman, Thomas Danneberg also works as a voiceover in documentaries, as an advertising voice in radio and television as well as for computer and radio play productions . Together with Simon Jäger , he set the audio book Die Anstalt by John Katzenbach (2008) and crime stories by Jerry Cotton to music . Guest roles he assumed, among other things in The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe (2003), in The Curse of Phararo from the series ghost thriller from Luebbe Audio (2007), The Beast of Amsterdam from the series Dark Trace of Ascan von Bargen ( 2008) as well as in Raven's Secret , Hill of Blutengel and Azazel's Blood Sword from the Faith series - The Van Helsing Chronicles . In addition, he made his voice available to the German music project E Nomine . As a speaker in video games, he may appear. a. in Die Siedler III (1998), Jack Keane (2007), The Book of Unwritten Tales (2009), the computer game series Ankh and StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (2010).

music

Thomas Danneberg learned to play the drums at the age of fourteen and performed monthly over a period of thirty years with Abbi Hübner's formation Low Down Wizards as a jazz musician in the Hamburg Cotton Club as well as in the Star Club , the Onkel Pö , the Hotel Atlantic and other venues Europe. Since 2002 he has been playing in his own band Sons of Ko , which is on stage nationwide at irregular intervals.

Synchronous rollers (selection)

Dan Aykroyd

John Travolta

Sylvester Stallone

Nick Nolte

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Rutger Hauer

John Cleese

Terence Hill

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • 2010 The Silhouette in the "Lifetime Achievement" category

Web links

Commons : Thomas Danneberg  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Explanation on Youtube: Thomas Danneberg never synchronizes again. Retrieved April 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ synchronkartei.de
  3. ↑ The Expendables 3 in the German dubbing index .
  4. ↑ 08.15 : Thomas Danneberg never synchronizes again. April 13, 2019, accessed May 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Danneberg, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Danneberg, Thommy (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, dubbing actor, dubbing director and dialog book author
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin