Wolfgang Ostberg

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Wolfgang Ostberg (born August 4, 1939 in Berlin ; † May 13, 2011 in Sankt Michaelisdonn ) was a German actor , radio play speaker and singer .

Life

Education and theater

Ostberg originally wanted to be a teacher . His stepfather was a Jew and a communist , a comrade loyal to the line in the GDR . He served in the National People's Army for two years . During his time in Schwerin he discovered his enthusiasm for the theater. From 1959 to 1962 he completed an acting training at the Leipzig Theater Academy ; his fellow students included Peter Ensikat and Peter Sodann .

From 1962 to 1968 he was a permanent member of the theater of friendship . There he took over the title role of Fritz Weineck in October 1963 in the world premiere of the piece Our Little Trumpeter by Hans-Albert Pederzani . He also appeared in the play First Encounter by Tatjana Sytina (premiere: October 1962; as a music student Lewa Strushanowski), in the Shakespeare comedy What you want (premiere: October 1963), in the fairy tale play Little Red Riding Hood by Yevgeny Schwarz ( Premiere: November 1963), in the play Tatort teachers' room by Rainer R. Lange (world premiere: February 1964; as Georg Kässner, known as Spinner), in the play A terrible day by Juri Sotnik (premiere: April 1965; as pioneer Sewa Koslow) , in the comedy Die Scapin von Molière (Premiere: October 1965) and in the revue Young People Here and Today (1964/1965).

After a guest performance in 1968 he was engaged at the Berlin Metropol Theater . There he remained a permanent member of the ensemble until the house was closed in 1997. His stage roles included: Hans Styx in Orpheus in der Unterwelt , Frosch in Die Fledermaus , Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream , Theophil in Frau Luna , Colonel Pickering in My fair Lady and Petrucchio in Kiss me Kate . In the latter role, he was on the stage of the Metropol Theater in August 1981 with the GDR comedian Rolf Herricht , when the latter suffered a heart attack and died. In the 1992/93 season he performed at the Metropoltheater as Kilian in the operetta Mask in Blue and in this role offered a “delicious character study” and an acting “type”.

Movie and TV

Since the 1960s, Ostberg also took on roles in feature films at DEFA and on GDR television . Ostberg played the young worker Ernst Lemke in the DEFA film biography So long life is in me (1965) about the life of Karl Liebknecht . In the GDR production Spur der Steine (1966), which is now considered a cult film , he had a small role as a brigade member. In film and television, he was mostly used in cheerful and comical roles. Ostberg's cheerful roles, however, never lapsed into superficiality. Ostberg also impressed in entertainment comedies or GDR TV drama such as Three Lovely Sisters , without slipping into superficial slapstick.

Ostberg also starred in episodes of the crime series Polizeiruf 110 (1975, as shunter Dieter Schaffrath in the episode Between the Gleisen ; 1977 as Klaus, friend of the fraudster Herta Tuch in the episode wanted con artist ) and The Public Prosecutor Has the Word (1972, as Thilo Bölke , Employee at VEB Stahlbau, subsequently the illegal project engineer ) with.

Radio play, opera and dubbing

Ostberg also worked as a radio play speaker . With the record label Litera radio plays appeared in which Ostberg participated. He spoke the role of poor Johannes in a radio play version of the novel Die Gerechten von Kummerow by Ehm Welk . He also took on the title role in the radio play version of the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn under the title Huckleberry Finn . The radio plays were published in 1973 and 1976 by Litera.

For the record he was the first rascal in the opera Die Kluge in 1982 ; Harald Neukirch sang the tenor part of this role . The recording was released in the GDR on the record label Eterna .

Ostberg also worked intensively as a voice actor. He lent Dustin Hoffman the voice in the DEFA version of Little Big Man . He spoke, among others, Georges Marchal in The Adventures of the Three Musketeers (1953), Dean Reed in Blood Brothers and Pierre Richard in the GDR dubbed version of Two crazy jesters .

Private

In 1969 he married the actress and operetta singer Maria Alexander , who was engaged at the Berlin Metropol Theater . The couple were married for almost 42 years. They raised three children together. Ostberg had a son from a previous marriage; Alexander a daughter from a previous relationship. Ostberg lived with his family in a house in East Berlin, in Berlin-Mahlsdorf . Their son Marcus Ostberg (* 1972 in Berlin ) also became an actor and voice actor.

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Radio plays (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d A contentious comedian. The actor and singer Wolfgang Ostberg is dead . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 21, 2011
  2. ↑ a b c d e f He thought that one should do useful things. He only called great artists "Künschtler" . In: Der Tagesspiegel , August 25, 2011; obituary
  3. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Ostberg ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Vita ( Theater of Friendship )
  4. ↑ Stefan Lauter: JAJA, THE WOMEN . Performance review. In: Orpheus . Edition 12/13. December 1992. page 129.
  5. ↑ a b c d e Wolfgang Ostberg entry at Discogs
personal data
SURNAME Ostberg, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, radio play speaker and singer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 2011
Place of death Sankt Michaelisdonn