Wolfgang Grossmann

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Wolfgang Grossmann (2014)

Wolfgang Grossmann (* 1953 in Dresden ) is a German actor , musician, journalist and photographer.

life and career

Grossmann was born in Dresden as the son of a teacher couple. There he also attended school until he graduated from high school in 1972. After completing basic military service in Berlin, where he sat on drums for an NVA amateur cabaret and in an army dance band, he studied journalism in Leipzig . At the Karl Marx University he worked in the Poetic Theater Louis Fürnberg and after graduating in 1978 and briefly as an editor at the Sächsische Zeitung Dresden, he decided to no longer be a journalist but to become an actor. Therefore, he initially worked in public relations at the Dresden Theater of the Young Generation . There he directed a. a. a youth club that was mainly oriented towards art, music and non-conformist lifestyles.

From 1979 until its dissolution in 1983, Grossmann was the drummer of the GDR punk band Zwitschermaschine , which illegally released the LP GDR from below in West Berlin in 1983 together with the punk band Schleimkeim . Parallel to his acting engagement from 1982 to 1984 at the Thomas-Müntzer-Theater Eisleben and from 1984 to 1986 at the Theater Anklam , he graduated from the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin.

In 1986 Grossmann traveled to Pinneberg for a relative's birthday and stayed in West Germany. After a stopover in West Berlin, he was employed at the Osnabrück Municipal Theaters from 1987 to 1989 . 1989/90 he lived in Munich. From 1990 to 1995 he was part of the drama ensemble of the Braunschweig State Theater . Since 1995 he has been freelance and self-employed, lived and worked as an actor in Cologne until 2000, then also in Dresden and since 2006 mainly in Berlin again.

Grossmann first appeared in 1997 in an episode of the television series Lindenstrasse . He played in two episodes of the Heinz Becker family series : in 1998 as a car salesman Schäter and in 2001 as police officer Lang. He also had a role in the Heinz Becker film Tach, Herr Dokter! . This was followed by other appearances in series such as Die Motorrad-Cops - Hart am Limit , Verbotene Liebe and Der Pfundskerl . Further roles in films were in 2004 in Günter Meyers , with the Fox Kids Award in the category “Best Children's Film”, The Dagger of Batu Khan, 2007 in Blindflug , 2008 in Operation Walküre - The Stauffenberg Assassination , 2010 in In the Face of Crime and Don 2 - The King Is Back , 2011 in The Tower and 2012 in His Last Race . After his father had a stroke, he took a career break and cared for it for five years.

He also played in 2011 at the Zwinger Festival in Dresden under the direction of Dieter Wedel and in 2012 and 2013 at the Ostseefestspiele in Greifswald . In addition to his acting work, Grossmann also works as a freelance journalist , photographer and DJ . In 2018 he released the band w ill not to the big-eared elefanten , poems, lyrical pictures and pieces by Michael Rom , the singer and lyricist of the GDR punk band Zwitschermaschine.

He was married twice and lives in Berlin.

Sound carrier

Twitter machine : Cornelia Schleime , Ralf Kerbach and Wolfgang Grossmann

Literature about twittering machine as well as the LP GDR from below

  • Christoph Tannert: Fourth root from the twittering machine . In: We always want to be good ... Punk, New Wave , HipHop , Independent scene in the GDR 1980–1990 . Edited by Ronald Galenza and Heinz Havemeister. Berlin: Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf 1999. pp. 196-200.
  • Michael Boehlke and Henryk Gericke (editors): Ostpunk! - Too Much Future. Punk in the GDR 1979–1989 . Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-935843-91-7
  • Ronald Galenza and Heinz Havemeister (editors): We always want to be good…. Punk, New Wave, HipHop, independent scene in the GDR 1980–1990 . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-306-3
  • Anne Hahn and Frank Willmann: Satan, can you forgive me again. Otze Ehrlich, Schleimkeim and all the rest. Ventil Verlag, Mainz 2008, ISBN 978-3-931555-69-6
  • Cornelia Schleime: "Every satellite has a killer satellite", if we had only taken it literally . In: Michael Boehlke and Henryk Gericke (editors): Ostpunk! - Too Much Future. Punk in the GDR 1979–1989 . Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-935843-91-7 , pp. 177–190
  • Torsten Preuß: Zone punk in slices: The first punk record from the Middle East. In: Ronald Galenza and Heinz Havemeister (editors): We always want to be good…. Punk, New Wave, HipHop, independent scene in the GDR 1980–1990 . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-306-3 , pp. 66-71

Filmography

Theater (excerpt)

  • 1999: cormorant
  • 1999: Oedipus in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
  • 2002: Harold & Maude , Komödie Dresden
  • 2002–2006: Ladies Night , Theater Wechselbad Dresden
  • 2003: The money is in the bank
  • 2005–2006: Polo in Monsieur Amedee
  • 2007: Junkspace , Theater de Ponnent Barcelona
  • 2008: Max in An Evil Animal Chases You
  • 2010: Dunckler Enthusiasmo
  • 2011: Captain in The King's Mistress , Zwinger Festival Dresden
  • 2013: The Caucasian Chalk Circle , Theater Neustrelitz
  • 2018–2019: The Miser
  • 2018–2019: Pension Lilienthal , Vorpommersche Landesbühne
  • 2019–2020: Fool in What you want , Vorpommersche Landesbühne

publication

  • Wolfgang Grossmann (Ed.): Does not want to go to the big-eared elephants. poems, lyrical pictures, pieces and. Vorwerk 8, Berlin 2018, 192 pages, ISBN 978-3-940-38493-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Regine Sylvester : Das Stehaufmännchen , Berliner Zeitung of May 8, 2008, accessed on May 31, 2008.
  2. ^ Vorpommersche Landesbühne : Wolfgang Grossmann , accessed on February 20, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b c Simone Schmollack : “I have a lot of time”, taz from 12./13. October 2013, p. 29.
  4. ↑ Uwe Salzbrenner: Everywhere detours, astray, jumps. Sächsische Zeitung, April 21, 2018, accessed on February 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Grossmann, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, musician, journalist and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden