Andreas Wellano

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Andreas Wellano (born November 21, 1948 in Basel ) is a German theater and film actor.

Life

Wellano was born to a German father and a French mother and the great-nephew of the comedian Liesl Karlstadt (real name: Elisabeth Wellano). He grew up in Alsace and later attended the Humboldt Gymnasium in Ulm . After graduating from high school in 1968, he completed an acting training in Munich. In the 1970s and 1980s he played in Frankfurt am Main at the Theater am Turm , after its closure at the Schlicksupp Theatertrupp and at theaters in Bonn, Bremen and Heidelberg.

Since 1989, Andreas Wellano and his partner Angelika Sieburg have been active as artistic director, actor and director at the Wu Wei Theater in Frankfurt, which they founded together.

Since May 2013 Wellano has been on tour as the actor of Karl May in the play Durchgeritten - Alles von Karl May .

Filmography

Wellano played the godfather of death in the famous Sorry commercial for the Mercedes-Benz E-Class . It was speculated that he was selected for this role because of his resemblance to the VW supervisory board chairman Ferdinand Piëch .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data from Andreas Wellano in: Weisbrod - Wiel , KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Company, Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2012, page 3195
  2. Excerpts from Durchgeritten on YouTube
  3. Review by Peter Wayand ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / peter-wayand.blogspot.de
  4. Sorry on Youtube.com
  5. sueddeutsche.de (June 9, 2010): "Mercedes: Piëch-Double in the spot - Diabolic Sensenmann" , accessed on April 16, 2011