Edzard Desert Villages

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Edzard Wüstendörfer (born April 14, 1925 , † March 5, 2016 in Zurich ) was a German theater actor and speaker. His daughter is the conductor Lena-Lisa Wüstendörfer .

biography

Wüstendörfer had first engagements as an actor in the 1954/55 season at the theater of the district cultural community Wolfenbüttel and in the 1955/56 season at the Baden-Baden theater. From 1956 to 1959 he was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Stadttheater Trier . In the 1959/60 season he had a one-year engagement at the Rheinisches Landestheater Neuss . Since 1960 Wüstendörfer lived and worked in Switzerland .

From 1960 to 1963/64 he worked under the directors Raoul Alster and Rudolf Wessely at the Atelier-Theater Bern. There he played the soldier in Max Frisch's Andorra , Möbius in Dürrenmatt's Die Physiker and James Tyrone junior in One Long Day's Journey into the Night by O'Neill.

From 1964 until his retirement in 1994 he was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Schauspielhaus Zurich . There he played over 80 small and medium-sized roles. In 1966 he was Major Friedli in the world premiere of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's tragicomedy Der Meteor , 1968 Meyers in Saint Joan of Slaughter , 1971 Judge Lyapkin-Tjapkin in Nikolai Gogol's comedy Der Audisor , 1974 Archbishop of Canterbury in Richard III. von Shakespeare, Count Terzky in Schiller's Wallenstein in 1976 and in 1986, alongside Maria Becker as Elisabeth I , the courtier Count Aubespine in Schiller's Maria Stuart . He also took part in other world premieres at the Schauspielhaus Zürich.

Desert Villages can be seen in a few film roles; these are mainly TV recordings of theater performances ( Der Meteor , 1968; Max Frisch's biography: Ein Spiel , 1970).

Desert Villages often spoke for radio and television. He also read audio books and radio play cassettes, including the non-fiction book Even More Successful! by Alex S. Rusch .

From 1969 to 1995 he was chairman of the local theater group of the Swiss Association of Stage Artists (SBKV).

Desert Villages died at the age of 90. The urn is buried in the family grave in the north of East Friesland.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Edzard desert villages ; Obituaries in: Tages-Anzeiger from March 8, 2016. Accessed March 10, 2016
  2. ↑ a b c d : Wilhelm Kosch (Ed.): Deutsches Theaterlexikon. Volume 7. De Gruyter, Wolbring - Zysset. Berlin [ua] July 2015, ISBN 978-3-908255-52-9 , page 3635/3636. (Retrieved from De Gruyter Online).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Edzard desert villages ; Entry in: Andreas Kotte (ed.): Theaterlexikon der Schweiz , Chronos Verlag Zürich 2005, Volume 3, pp. 2123–2124. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b c d Edzard Wüstendörfer is dead. In: Tages-Anzeiger from March 8, 2016. Accessed March 10, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Desert villages, Edzard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actor and speaker
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1925
DATE OF DEATH 5th March 2016
Place of death Zurich