Wolf Ackva

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Wolf Ackva (born July 30, 1911 in Montigny-lès-Metz , Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine / German Empire , today France , † January 16, 2000 in Viehbach , Bavaria ) was a German actor and voice actor .

Life

Ackva initially worked in Berlin as an author for the Mosse publishing house. In 1931 he began studying medicine in Leipzig, but then took up acting studies with Otto Falckenberg in Munich. Ackva made his theatrical debut in Düsseldorf, but after stints in Berlin and Königsberg during the 1930s, he found his artistic home at various stages in Munich, especially the Munich Kammerspiele . In the Second World War he was drafted into military service and did not return home from captivity until 1948 .

His first major theatrical success in Munich was in 1950 at Herbert Weicker's Atelier Theater, the role of "Fred" in Jean-Paul Sartre's The Honorable Whore . At the Munich Kammerspiele, Ackva took part in the famous performance of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's The Visit of the Old Lady with Therese Giehse in 1956 , while he appeared in comedies and detective plays on the Little Comedy .

Wolf Ackva also went on tour more often. His star roles included consul Werle in Henrik Ibsen's Die Wildente , Sultan Saladin in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Nathan the Wise and Sir Wilfrid Robarts in Agatha Christie's witness for the prosecution .

Ackva also worked as an actor in film and television. Films he has appeared in include Night On The Streets (1952) and Rommel Calls To Cairo (1959). He became known to a wide audience primarily through his role as Beppo Brems colleague Oberinspektor Steiner , whom he played in 100 episodes of the ARD crime series The Strange Methods of Franz Josef Wanninger from 1965 .

Ackva also worked as a director and also extensively in the dubbing. He lent his voice to internationally known colleagues such as Henry Fonda ( No Time for Heroism ); Clark Gable ( U23 ); Marcello Mastroianni ( A woman for weak hours ); Gregory Peck ( Bury the Wolves in the Gorge ); Dirk Bogarde in The Arnhem Bridge or Vincent Price in Theater des Grauens . In the role of secret service chief M , he even dubbed two different actors in a total of seven films in the James Bond series: Bernard Lee in The Man with the Golden Gun ; The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker and Robert Brown in Octopussy ; In the face of death ; The breath of death and license to kill . The dubbing role he liked best was William Holden on Network . His dignified, patriarchal voice was an excellent match for the self-important Muppet character Sam the eagle . Ackva also spoke the texts of the animal documentaries by Eugen Schuhmacher .

The versatile artist also painted and composed.

Wolf Ackva died at the age of 88. His grave is in the cemetery in the Viehbach district of the Fahrenzhausen community in the Freising district .

Theater roles (selection)

Wolf Ackva was known as a film actor, but his career and passion were "on the boards that mean the world".

The following list was made by his wife Els Ackva based on her or her husband's notes.

Wolf Ackva began his career in the summer of 1940 in Berlin in the “Cabaret of Comedians” with a tour with a guest appearance in Leipzig. The motto: "Spring and love". In addition to Wolf Ackva, participants were also Hermann Noack, Marianne Santor, Günther Schmerkolt, Edith von Ebeling and Henry Lorenzens. During this tour, the draft came to the front.

  • 1949, autumn (3 months tour): THE SECRET OF THE HOLY MASS by Lope de Vega; His role: Christ; Director: Wolfgang Langhoff
  • 1949, May: TRAN and BEFORE BREAKFAST by O'Neill; Ateliertheater Munich; Director: Wolf Ackva
  • 1950, July to October (81 sold out performances!): THE HONORABLE WHORE by Jean Paul Sartre; Ateliertheater Munich; Role: Fred (with Mady Rahl as Lizzie); Director: Beate von Molo
  • 1950, October 19th: WHEN THE WAR WAS TO END by Max Frisch; Ateliertheater Munich; Role: Horst Anders (with Sybille Schmitz as Agnes Anders); Director: Beate von Molo
  • 1950, December 6th: THE CASE EINSLOW by Terence Rattigan; Little Comedy Munich; Role: John Watherstone; Directed by Gerhard Metzner
  • 1950, 10. – 17. December and 1951, February 26 - April 14 (160 performances): THE HONORABLE WHORE (repetition as a night performance); Ateliertheater Munich; Role: Fred (with Mady Rahl as Lizzie); Director: Beate von Molo
  • 1952, August 7th: DO YOU FIND THAT CONSTANZE IS CORRECT? from Somerset Maugham; Little Comedy Munich; Role: Bernhard Kersal (in other roles Marianne Hoppe, Karl Ludwig Diehl); Director: Gerhard Metzner
  • 1953 June 16: CAROUSEL by Louis Verneuil; Theater in the Regina Palace Munich; Director: Jürgen van Alten (Dorit Kreysler)
  • 1953 August 1st: THE HONORABLE WHORE; Regina Palast Munich (Intimate Theater); Repetition
  • 1954, June: THE HALLER GAME FROM THE PASSION by Bernt Heiseler; Festival open-air stage Schwäbisch Hall; Role: Christ; Director: Wilhelm Speidel
  • 1954 July 20: ON CALL MURDER by Frederick Knott; Little Comedy Munich; Role: Captain Lesgate (in other roles Paul Dahlke, Elfie Gerhard); Director: Heinz Günther Stamm / Gerhard Metzner
  • 1955, July 10th: JEANNE or THE LARCH by Jean Anouilh; Münchner Kammerspiele; Role: Prosecutor (in other roles Gertrud Kückelmann, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Siegfried Lowitz, Hans Pössenbacher); Director: Ernst Lothar
  • 1955, September 28: ELISABETH VON ENGLAND by Ferdinand Bruckner; Münchner Kammerspiele; Role: Northumberland (in other roles Maria Niklisch, Arno Assmann, Charles Regnier, Mario Adorf, Friedrich Domin); Director: Hans Schweikart
  • 1955, December 30th: MAMSELLE NITOUCHE von Weigel and Steinbrecher; Kammerspiele Munich; Role: Don Juan (in other roles Elfie Pertramer, Gerhard Riedmann, Mario Adorf, Walter Sedlmayr); Director: Paul Verhoeven
  • 1956, February 21: WALLENSTEIN by Friedrich Schiller; Kammerspiele Munich; Role: --- (in other roles Maria Niklisch, Ernst Fürbringer, Arno Asmann); Director: Hans Schweikart
  • 1957, July: THE VIRGIN OF ORLEANS By Friedrich Schiller; Bad Hersfeld open-air festival; Role: Dunios (in other roles Hilde Krahl, Ewald Balser, Ida Wüst, Elisabeth Flickenschild, Gustav Fröhlich); Director: Ulrich Erfurt
  • 1957, July: ROMEO AND JULIET by Shakespeare; Summer Festival Hersfeld; Role: Thybald; Director: ---
  • 1957, July: EVERYONE by Hugo von Hofmannsthal; Role: Devil (Buhlschaft: Hilde Krahl, Everyone: Gustav Fröhlich); Director: Johann Kleine
  • 1958, April 18th: MY WIFE IS PERSONAL by Miguel Mihura; Theater under the arcades; Role: Mr. Norton; Director: Beate von Molo
  • 1959, November 15th: DIE FLEDERMAUS by Johann Strauss (broadcast as live broadcast on Bayer. Rundfunk Fernsehen Studios Geiselgasteig); Role: Dr. Falke (in other roles: Benno Kusche, Gerlinde Locker, Nadja Gray, Friedrich Schoenfelder); Director: Kurt Wilhelm
  • 1959, November 17: 15 STRINGS OF MONEY (Old Chinese. Crime comedy by Chu Su Chen); Theater in Briennerstrasse Munich; Role: Kuang Chung, Prefect of Soochow (in other roles Karin Baal, Carl Schell); Director: Günther Weisenborn
  • 1960 March 3rd: THE CONTESSA COLARRI by Peter Blackmore; Theater under the Arcades Munich; Role: Doctor Paul Martin (in other roles Erica Beer, Marte Harell); Director: Beate von Molo
  • 1960, April: THE COUNTESS AND THE KILLER (two hours for young people, Schweinfurt - broadcast on BR on September 16, 1960); (other contributors Horst Raspe, Wolfgang Büttner, Elmar Wepper); Director: Otto Arneth, Direction: Dr. Hans Heigert
  • 1960, November 19th: THE STRANGER FROM PARIS Dance play by Alix du Frenes and Kurt Wilhelm; Music based on François Couperin and Richard Strauss; Role: From rasps; Director: Kurt Wilhelm
  • 1960, December 27: DANGEROUS WEEKEND (TEN LITTLE NIGGERS) by Agathe Christie; Festival Tribune Munich Criminal Theater; Role: Sir Lawrence Wargrave; Director: Arthur Maria Rabenalt
  • 1961, February 18: THE TRICK crime play by Roger Tambin; Theater Die Tribüne Munich; Role: Public Prosecutor (Brigitte Rau, Werner Lieven in other roles); Director: Isebill Sturm
  • 1961, March 25th: PREVIOUSLY crime play by Alex Atkinson on BR television; Role: Philip Benson (in other roles Margot Trooger, Alexander Golling); Director: Konrad Wagner
  • 1962, March 2: MADEMOISELLE by Jaques Deval; City Theater Ingolstadt; Role: Lucien Galvoisier; Director: Maximilian Sigg
  • 1962, April 26th: THE TRUE LYER Comedy by Marcel Achard; Theater under the Arcades Munich; Role: Benjamin Beaurevers, banker (in other roles Peter Vogel); Director: Peter Loos
  • 1962, June 5th: MONSIEUR LAMBERTIER two-person piece by Louis Verneuil (star of the week !!); Theater under the Arcades Munich; Role: Maurice (in another role Ellen Umlauf - Aline); Director: Margit Weiler
  • 1963, February 27: TURN OF THE MIDDLE by Paul Claudel; Tour theater “The Green Car” - Tour Germany, Switzerland, Austria; Premiere at the Markgrafentheater in Erlangen; Role: De Ciz (in other roles Hilde Krahl, Pinkas Braun, Werner Schumacher); Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner
  • 1963, September 6th: GUTEN EVENING, MRS.SONSHINE Comedy by Artur Lovegrove; Comedy in the Marquardt, Stuttgart; Role: Stephen Parker (in other roles Ursula Herking, Gabriele Reismüller, Klaus Wildbolz); Director: Helmut Weiß
  • 1963, November: THE RING WILL BE IN MADAME Comedy by François Campaux; Theater under the arcades (150 performances); Role: Georges Boussot (in other roles Elvira Schalcher, Elisabeth von Molo, Ellen Umlauf); Director: Peter Goldbaum
  • 1964, April 18th: THE WIDE WAY / LOST IN THE STARS Musical tragedy by Kurt Weill based on Alan Paton's novel “Cry Theater beloved Country”; Cuvilliestheater Munich; Role: Richter (in other roles Felicita Weathers, choir of the Bavarian State Opera); Director: Heinz Rosen
  • 1964, August 16: ONLY NO FLOWERS (Send me no flowers) Comedy by Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore; Little Comedy Munich (star of the week!); Role: Arthur (in other roles Gundel Thormann, Carl Heinz Schroth, Jan Hendriks); Director: Carl Heinz Schroth
  • 1964, August 16: ONLY NO FLOWERS (Send me no flowers) Comedy by Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore; Little Comedy Munich (star of the week!); Role: Arthur (in other roles Gundel Thormann, Carl Heinz Schroth, Jan Hendriks); Director: Carl Heinz Schroth
  • 1967, June 19th: THE CITIZENS OF CALAIS by Georg Kaiser; Schwäbisch Hall Festival; Role: ...
  • 1967, beginning of June: THE BRIDE OF MESSINA by Friedrich Schiller; Gandersheim Cathedral Festival; Role: Bohemond; Directed by Wilhelm Speidel
  • 1968, January 29: THE WOMAN WITH THE RED HAIR crime game by Sam Locke and Paul Roberts; Criminal Theater Tribune in Munich; Role: Viktor Karlton (in other roles Mady Rahl, Rolf Wanka); Director: Isebil Sturm
  • 1968, July 30th: THE KRONZEUGE crime play by Gordon Stock; Criminal Theater Tribune in Munich; Role: Geoffrey Drake (in other roles Julio Pinheiro, Dieter Wieland, Cora Roberts); Directed by Isebil Sturm
  • 1973, summer: GÖTZ VON BERLICHINGEN by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Jagsthausen Castle Festival; Role: Weislingen (in other roles Eva Pflug, Günter König); Directed by Peter Jacob
  • 1973: WAS IHR WOLLT by Wilhelm Shakespeare; Jagsthausen Castle Festival; Role: Malvolio, Olivia's caretaker (in other roles Hans Jochen Frick); Direction: Jean Grädel and Ellen Schwiers
  • 1973 October 23: THE CIRCLE Somerset Maugham comedy; Theater in Leopoldstrasse Munich (from August 1974 then 3 months in the theater “Die kleine Freiheit” Munich); Role: Clive Champion-Cheney (in other roles Helma Seitz, Tonie von der Meden); Director: Thomas Reiner
  • 1974, summer: LA MAMA comedy by Andre Roussin; Little comedy in the Bayerischer Hof Munich; Role ... (in other roles Hannelore Schroth, Eric Jelde, Ulrich Beiger, Herbert Hermann, Sky du Mont); Director: Dieter Wieland
  • 1974, December: THE WILD DUCK by Henrik Ibsen; Tour; Role: Consul Werle, wholesale merchant and mine owner (in other roles Walter Feuchtenberg, Ilse Neubauer); Director: Wilm ten Haaf
  • 1977, July 9th: NATHAN THE WISE dramatic poem by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; Tour and Weilheim Summer Theater; Role: Sultan Saladin (in other roles Elisabeth Brahms, Albert Lippert, Walter Feuchtenberg, Ado Riegler); Director: Thomas Reiner
  • 1978, October 7th: JEAN comedy by Ladislaus Bus-Feteke; Weilheim theater summer and tour (2nd premiere on January 12, 1979 at the Kleine Freiheit theater in Munich); Role: Ferdinand Dehlen, Prime Minister (in other roles Fee von Reichlin, Yvonne Brosch, Wilfried Klaus); Directed by Gerd Potyka
  • 1978, December 20: BEHIND THE FENCE An apocalyptic fairy tale by Frederic Wheel; Music Richard Strauss, Mussorgsky, Tschaikowsky, Abi Ofarim, Beethoven; Böblingen Congress Hall; Role: The good guy; Directed by Victor Kovacs
  • 1979 July 4th: THE MOUSE by Philip King and Falkland L. Cary; Farce Theater Die kleine Freiheit Munich and tour; Role: Mr. Price-Hargraves (in other roles Gardy Granass, Frithjof Vierock); Directed by Gerd Potyka
  • 1979 November 8th: JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN drama by Henrik Ibsen; Tour; Role: John Gabriel Borkman (in other roles Ruth Hellberg); Director: Thomas Reiner
  • 1980, summer: IPHIGENIA ON TAURIS Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Hirsau Abbey Summer Festival and tour; Role: Thaos, King of the Taurians (in other roles Ruth Niehaus as Iphigenie); Director: Thomas Reiner
  • 1980, September 25th: MORAL comedy by Ludwig Thoma; Tour; Role: Freiherr von Simbach, Herzogl. Police President (in other roles Dieter Brammer, Elisabeth Brahms, Viktoria Brahms, Werner Zeussel); Directed by Thomas Reiner
  • 1981, January 15th: THIS IS THE SUMMIT Comedy by Hans Breinlinger; Tour; Role: Miller-Silvana (in other roles Viktoria Brahms); Director: Gerd Potyka
  • 1981 August: DIE CHEFIN by comedy Michael Brett; Small comedy at the Maxdenkmal in Munich; Role: Hermann Waldinger, politician (in other roles Ruth Kappelsberger, Tonio von der Meden, Mona Freiberg, Norbert Castell, Bernd Helfrich, Wilfried Klaus, Hansi Zacher) Director: Isebil Sturm
  • 1981, November 4th: JOHANNISFEUER play by Hermann Sudermann; Tour; Role: Heinrich Vogelreuther, landowner (Elisabeth Brahms in other roles); Director: Christian Dorn
  • 1982, March 20: ALMOST A POET play by O 'Neill; Weilheim theater summer and tour; Role of Cornelius Melody; Directed by Werner Schlechte
  • 1982, September 30: GRÜSS GOTT, FRAU SONNENSCHEIN Comedy by Arthur Lovegrave; Small comedy at the Maxdenkmal in Munich; Role: Stefan Preis (in other roles Ernie Singerl, Harry Kahlenberg, Katharina de Bruyn, Monika Strauch, Frithjof Vierock, Tonio von der Meden) Director: Dieter Wieland
  • 1983 March 4: MARY ROSE by James Matthew Barrie; Tour; Role of Mr. Morland; Directed by Helmut Brennicke
  • 1983, September 25th: A BETTER MAN Comedy by Walter Hasenclever; Little Comedy in the Bayerischer Hof Munich, Big House; Role: Herr Compass (in other roles Harald Leipnitz, Michaela May, Herta Worell, Mogens von Gadow) Director: Jürgen Wölffer
  • 1984 March 30: HAROLD AND MAUDE by Colin Higgins; Tour; Role: Father Finnegan; Director ...
  • 1984, October 8: PARTY IN THE DARK Comedy by Peter Schaffer; Little Comedy in the Bayerischer Hof Munich, Great House Munich; Role: Colonell Melket (in other roles Herbert Hermann, Elisabeth Wiedemann, Wolfgang Spier, Heide Keller, Nino Korda, Siegfried Schmidt) Director: Wolfgang Spier
  • 1985, February: WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION crime play by Agatha Christie; Tour; Role: Sir Wilfried Robarts (in other roles Ruth Niehaus); Director: Michael Hinz
  • 1985 Summer: GÖTZ VON BERLICHINGEN play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Jagsthausen Summer Festival; Role: Emperor Maximilian and elder in the distance (in other roles Wolfgang Reichmann-Götz); Director: Ellen Schwiers
  • 1985: THE THREE MUSKETEERS based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas; Jagsthausen Summer Festival; Role: Cardinal Richelieu; Director: Christian Quadflieg
  • 1986, Summer: A VILLA IN NICE Comedy by Miguel Mihura; Kleine Freiheit Munich and tour; Role: Michael Beamont (in other roles Edith Teichmann, Herbert Weicker); Director: Gerd Potyka (recorded for ZDF <AÜ> director Alfred Anders, editing by Els Ackva)
  • 1986, October: ONCE MOSCOW AND BACK Comedy by Alexander Galin; Munich and tour; Role: Nikolai Tschmutin (in other roles Fee von Reichlin, Viktoria Brahms) Director: Michael Hinz (recorded for ZDF <AÜ> Director Alfred Anders, editing by Ela Ackva)
  • 1987, March: FRAU WARRENS GEWERBE by Bernhard Shaw; Tour, role Sir George Crofts (in other roles Elisabeth Brahms, Herbert Weicker), director: Joseph Saxinger
  • 1987 July: MIRANDOLINA comedy by Carlo Goldone; Tour; Role: The Cavaliere von Ripafratta (in other roles Hans Wengefeld) Director: Joseph Saxinger
  • 1987, September 2nd: THE LAKE HOUSE Comedy by Ernest Thompson; Tour; Role: Norman Thayer; Director: Erich Neureuther
  • 1988, January 7th: THE RAUB DER SABINERINNEN Schwank by Franz and Paul Schönthan; Kleine Freiheit Munich and tour; Role: Martin Gollwitzer, Professor (in other roles Dieter Brammer, Elisabeth Brahms, Helga Lehner, Wolfgang Uhl) Director: Gerd Potyka
  • 1988, April 22nd: THE WINNING CITY Historical drama by Christian Buck; Open-air exhibitions in Weilheim; Role: Peter Fasser, Mayor; Direction: Joseph Saxinger and Thomas Röttger
  • 1989, summer: GÖTZ VON BERLICHINGEN by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Jagsthausen Summer Festival; Role of Emperor Maximilian; Director: Ellen Schwiers
  • 1989: THE TAMING OF THE DISPOSED by William Shakespeare; Jagsthausen Summer Festival; Role: Baptista, a wealthy nobleman from Padua; Directed by Rüdiger Bahr
  • 1989, October: MARIA MAGDALENA by Friedrich Hebbel; Munich and tour; Role master Anton, carpenter; Director: Eckhart Neuberg
  • 1990, January 26th: POSSIBLE ENCOUNTER by Paul Barz; Comedy Munich and tour; Role: Georg Friedrich Händel (in other roles Sepp Leinen-Johann Sebastian Bach) Director: Michael Z. Hoffmann
  • 1993, summer: GÖTZ VON BERLICHINGEN by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Jagsthausen Summer Festival; Role of Emperor Maximilian; Director: Ellen Schwiers

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

  • Georges Simenon : Maigret and the yellow dog . Processing: Gert Westphal . Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm BR 1961. The Audio Verlag 2005. ISBN 978-3898133906 .
  • 1957, January 7th: FROM TWELVE TO TWELVE by Hermann Stahl; Radio play Bayerischer Rundfunk
  • 1957 January 23: THE SEVENTH VEIL - by Muriel and Sidney Box; Radio play Bayerischer Rundfunk; Role: Doctor (patient Eva Ingeborg Scholz); Director: Fritz Benscher
  • 1959, November 3rd: DIE KARLSCHÜLER by Heinrich Laube; Radio play Bayer. Radio / Lutz Neuhaus; Role: Captain von Silberkalb, Chamberlain (in other roles: Gertrud Kückelmann, Walter Richter); Director: Heinz Günther Stamm
  • 1984, August: WHERE IS MRS FELS ?; Radio play Bayer. Radio (in other roles Gisela Hoeter, Lore Bronner)

Wolf Ackva also worked on numerous radio plays for the Bavarian radio and for the school radio.

literature

  • Hermann J. Huber : Langen-Müller's Actor Lexicon of the Present: Germany, Austria, Switzerland . Langen-Müller, Munich-Vienna 1986.
  • Gerhard J. Bellinger and Brigitte Regel-Bellinger : Schwabings Ainmillerstrasse and its most important residents. A representative example of Munich's city history from 1888 to today. Norderstedt 2003, pages 327-328 - ISBN 3-8330-0747-8 ; 2nd edition 2012, ISBN 978-3-8482-2883-6 ; E-Book 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-6264-9 .
  • Thomas Groom : Wolf Ackva . In other words: Stars and their German voices. Lexicon of voice actors . Schüren, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89472-627-0 , pp. 45-46.
  • Wolf Ackva . Obituary in: Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, 109th year 2001 - season 2000/2001. The big address book for stage, film, radio, television . Cooperative of German Stage Members in the publishing house of the Bühnenschriften-Vertriebs-Gesellschaft, Hamburg 2001, ISSN  0070-4431 , p. 843

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b knerger.de: The grave of Wolf Ackva
  2. ↑ a b c d Thomas Groom : Wolf Ackva . In other words: Stars and their German voices. Lexicon of voice actors . Schüren, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89472-627-0 , p. 45
  3. ^ Obituary in: Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, 109th year 2001 - season 2000/2001 . Verlag der Bühnenschriften-Vertriebs-Gesellschaft, Hamburg 2001, ISSN  0070-4431 , p. 843
personal data
SURNAME Ackva, wolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Montigny-lès-Metz , Lorraine
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 2000
Place of death Fahrenzhausen , Bavaria, Germany