Dieter Wagner (actor)

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Dieter Wagner (born February 27, 1934 in Berlin ) is a German stage, film and television actor and an opera director .

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Wagner studied theater studies and received his acting training at the Fritz Kirchhoff School in Berlin. He made his debut as an actor and dramaturge in Bremen. He then went temporarily to the Hamburg State Opera as a director. Wagner also went on guest tours and was also active for radio.

From 1966, Dieter Wagner, who lived in Hamburg, worked intensively as a television actor for a quarter of a century. In front of the camera he took on a wide variety of supporting roles, in individual productions as well as in episodes of several series. From 1968 to 1972 he appeared in a number of ambitious television games (including "Marinemeuterei 1917", "Der Fall Sorge", "Friedrich III. '... died as Kaiser'", "General Oster - traitor or patriot?" And "Not praise - still fear. Count Galen, Bishop of Münster ”), who retold historical events of the late 19th and early 20th centuries or who focused on important personalities. In one of them, "Friedrich Ebert and Gustav Stresemann, fateful years of the republic", Wagner embodied the Reich Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann , in another, civil war in Russia , the brutal Soviet secret service chief Feliks Dzerzhinsky . In a televised reworking of July 20, 1944, Operation Walküre , Dieter Wagner convinced Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim as a staunch resistance fighter and Stauffenberg confidante . Over a decade later, Wagner could be seen as Heinrich Himmler in the American TV World War I panoramas The Firestorm and Firestorm and Ashes .

Wagner's mostly tiny appearances in the cinema (including two Simmel films and four St. Pauli films, three of them with Curd Jürgens ) are of marginal importance. Wagner ended his activities in front of the camera in the early 1990s with appearances in two episodes of the original Hamburg early-evening crime series Großstadtrevier . Dieter Wagner is the father of one son.

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