Wolfgang Kühne (actor, 1905)

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Wolfgang Kühne (born January 30, 1905 in Berlin ; † March 17, 1969 there ) was a German voice actor and actor who was seen on the theater stage, in films and on television.

Life

Wolfgang Kühne was born in Berlin in 1905 as the son of the actor couple Emil Kühne and Elsa Kardaetz. He studied at Berlin University from 1924 to 1926 and made his debut at the Berliner Volksbühne . From 1927 Wolfgang Kühne also worked on smaller stages as a director and dramaturge. Gustaf Gründgens engaged him in 1939 at the Prussian State Theater in Berlin .

When his friend Lothar Erdmann died on September 19, 1939 after being mistreated in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp , Wolfgang Kühne gave one of the funeral speeches in the presence of Nazi informers . From January to April 1940 he was imprisoned in Berlin-Moabit for possession of an illegal leaflet .

After his acting career was interrupted by the Second World War , Wolfgang Kühne was one of the pioneers who restored theater operations at the Deutsches Theater , where he worked until 1951. He then moved to the State Drama Theater in the western part of Berlin and was seen in a number of DEFA roles.

Wolfgang Kühne has held numerous literary reading evenings and had his own radio programs. He had a friendly relationship with the theologian Johannes Pinsk , who had accepted him into the Catholic Church , and was often invited to readings in his parish Mater Dolorosa in Lankwitz .

Wolfgang Kühne was married to the pianist Henriette Kühne, née Braun. After his death in 1971 the book Un lost Time - Letters in Custody with letters that he wrote to his wife during the Second World War was published by Habbel Verlag . He is buried in the St. Matthias Cemetery in Berlin-Tempelhof .

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Director

actor

Radio plays

literature

  • Hannes Heer ; Sven Fritz; Heike Brummer; Jutta Zwilling: Silent voices: the expulsion of the "Jews" and "politically intolerable" from the Hessian theaters 1933 to 1945 . Berlin: Metropol, 2011 ISBN 978-3-86331-013-4 , pp. 338–341
  • German stage yearbook

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personal data
SURNAME Kühne, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 17th March 1969
Place of death Berlin