Edgar Wiesemann

Edgar Wiesemann (born December 8, 1927 in Remscheid ) is a German stage, film and television actor .

Live and act

Wiesemann received his artistic training in Bonn in the early post-war period. From 1951 engagements followed at the Städtische Bühnen von Münster (1951 to 1955), the Staatstheater Oldenburg (1955 to 1959), the Städtische Bühnen Lübeck (1959 to 1961), the Kammerspiele Düsseldorf (1961/62), the Komödie Basel (1962) until 1964) as well as further engagements to Hanover, Cologne, Hamburg (Kammerspiele) and the Zürcher Schauspielhaus, where Wiesemann was engaged between 1969 and 1975 and had Leopold Lindtberg as a director.

In addition to classic theater roles, Wiesemann preferred to play characters in modern plays. Among his most important roles in those early years are the puck in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream , the driver in Walser's The Detour , the Hotz in Frisch's Die große Wut des Philipp Hotz , the Mephisto in Goethe's Urfaust , the devil in Grabbe's joke, satire, and irony deeper meaning , the title role in Camus ' Caligula , the Kratos in Aeschylus' Prometheus , the judge in Jonsons Volpone , the rabbi in Bethencourt's The Day the Pope was kidnapped and the slouch in Zuckmayer's The Pied Piper .

In addition, he took part in numerous radio play recordings and began to stand in front of television cameras from 1963. In the 1960s in particular, Wiesemann was busy with small to medium-sized roles, but after 1970 the television offerings became less and less. Still, he stayed in business until 1989. After that, Edgar Wiesemann concentrated entirely on the theater again. In his later years he was a member of the Nuremberg Municipal Theaters from 1975 to 1978, and from 1978 to 1994 he worked at the Freiburg Municipal Theaters. There you saw him alone in the play The Apology of Socrates over two hundred times.

Filmography

• 1963: In the shadow of war
• 1964: Citizen Schippel
• 1965: Comedy of Errors
• 1967: Arcadia settlement
• 1967: The Schpunz
• 1968: The blue straw hat
• 1968: Madame Bovary
• 1969: Pull out the plug, the water boils
• 1969: The heirs of the great Bomberg
• 1970: The pigeon affair
• 1974: Special Department K1 (TV series, one episode)
• 1977: the day the Pope was kidnapped
• 1985: The crime scene: The murder afterwards
• 1986: The Polish Pond
• 1989: the last guest

literature

• Thomas Blubacher : Edgar Wiesemann . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 2101.

Web links

• Edgar Wiesemann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Edgar Wiesemann at filmportal.de