Edgar Wenzel

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Edgar Wenzel (born September 12, 1919 in Codlea near Kronstadt , Kingdom of Romania , † February 1980 ) was a German actor and dancer .

Life

After the Second World War , Wenzel first appeared as a ballet dancer in Vienna . He worked as a solo dancer. Wenzel had completed training as a dancer at the Vienna Conservatory in the dance department there. In 1951 he was committed to Düsseldorf . In 1953 he danced at the Städtische Bühnen Düsseldorf in a choreography by Yvonne Georgi to the music of the Symphonie fantastique . In 1955 he danced the male title role in the ballet Pulcinella by Igor Stravinsky at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf ; his partner was the dancer Ulla Söderbaum , daughter of the actress Kristina Söderbaum . The choreography came from Hans Züllig (1914–1992). Later, Wenceslaus turned to acting. From the end of the 1950s, film appearances by him have been proven.

As his first film appearance, the film database leads IMDb the German-Austrian theater production naked as God created from 1958. This was followed in the 1960s appeared in several other movies, mainly in home movies , comedies , comedies and thrillers . He played over fifty roles in film and television between 1958 and his death.

In the West German fairytale film Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten (1959) Wenzel played one of the three robbers. In the Edgar Wallace film The Riddle of the Red Orchid (1962) he played the role of the little gangster Babyface . In the crime film The 7th Victim (1964) he took on the role of the half-silk jockey and blackmailer Giuseppe Ranova.

From the late 1960s onwards, Wenzel appeared several times in shallow film games, film clothes and in some soft sex films. He was mostly used in comical roles, such as the villager Zimmerl in erotic clothes On to the blue- checked four-poster bed (1974). He was the caretaker in the 1976 sex film Schoolgirl Porn . Wenzel did not play sex scenes or nude scenes.

In 1979 he played the role of the caretaker in the drama Baranski ; the film ran in 1979 at the Hof Film Festival . He had his last film role in 1980 in the literary film adaptation of Fabian ; he embodied the role of the lawyer Dr. Moll and husband of the character Irene Moll.

From the 1960s Wenzel also worked for television . In 1962 he worked on ZDF in game scenes in the music show Eine kleine Sehnsucht about the composer Friedrich Hollaender . In November 1963 he was seen on ZDF in the television game A Sheriff for the Coffin . He was also in the television game of the month October 1973 Daniel , of Pete Ariel to see. In 1972 he played the doctorate in a film adaptation of the musicals Happy End by Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill at Südwestfunk under the direction of Heinz Schirk . In 1973, in the multi- part television series The Strange Life Story of Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck , he played the role of the servant Siebengescheit at the side of Matthias Habich .

He had episode roles in the television series Stahlnetz , Die Fifth Kolonne , Derrick and Police Inspection 1, among others . In the ZDF television series It doesn't always have to be caviar (1977), he had a recurring series role as the crook Frédéric, alongside Siegfried Rauch .

Wenzel also worked as a stage actor . Among other things, he was employed at the Bavarian State Theater. In the 1976/77 season he played the roles of Minister / Ludendorff / Marionette in the play History by Witold Gombrowicz ; the premiere was in April 1977 in the Marstall Theater . In the season 1976/1977 he appeared in July 1977 in the roles of Barney and 2nd Policeman in the premiere of the musical Sweet Charity . From July 1977 a total of 73 performances of the musical were played at the Bavarian State Theater. In the 1977/1978 season he took over the roles of citizen and proctophantasmist in a new production of Faust at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel, directed by Michael Degen . The first part of the tragedy ; the premiere was in October 1977 at the Residenztheater in Munich . At the Bavarian State Theater, Wenzel also took on the role of the businessman Abdúlin in the comedy Der Revisor (Premiere: February 1978; Residenztheater Munich) in the 1977/78 season .

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorfs international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1865.
  2. ^ A b Young Artists from the Conservatory of the City of Vienna Vienna 1951: Reports from September 1951
  3. ↑ Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten ( Memento of the original from December 4, 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. Content, cast and film program (www.maerchenfilm.de; with photo by Edgar Wenzel) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / maerchenfilm.pytalhost.com
  4. ↑ Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten Content, cast and scene photos at Cinema.de
  5. ↑ The 7th victim content, cast and photos of the scenes at Cinema.de
  6. ^ The seventh victim, content, cast and photo at film.at
  7. ↑ Edgar Wenzel (entry and photos in The European Girls Adult Film Database )
  8. ↑ Baranski production details and cast (official website of the HFF Munich)
  9. ↑ A little longing ( Memento from July 31, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Fifties singer (Hanne Wieder). Last accessed on February 6, 2014
  10. ↑ A sheriff for the coffin television program on Thursday, November 7, 1963
  11. ↑ Program announcement of the television performance
  12. ↑ Happy End ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Production details and cast
  13. ^ The strange life story of Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck, photo with Mathias Habich and Edgar Wenzel
  14. ↑ a b c d e f ... then they played again. The Bavarian State Theater 1946–1986 . Munich 1986. pp. 232 f .; 253. ISBN 3-765-42059-X
personal data
SURNAME Wenzel, Edgar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and dancer
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Codlea , Kronstadt , Kingdom of Romania
DATE OF DEATH February 1980