Erich Ludwig (actor)

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Erich Ludwig in May 2011

Erich Ludwig (born May 14, 1939 in Dortmund ) is a German actor and voice actor .

Life

Ludwig completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk . He received his artistic training from 1960 to 1963 at the Folkwang University of the Arts .

After training as an actor, he had a first stage engagement from February to July 1963 at the Landesbühne Frankfurt (later Theater am Turm ), then until 1965 at the Bielefeld City Theater .

From 1965 to 1970 he worked at the Lower Saxony State Theater in Hanover . His roles there were Monsieur Marquis in The Talisman (1965), Clov in Endgame (1966), Fool in What You Want (1966), Peter in Romeo and Juliet (1967), Dauphin in St. Johanna (1968), Mockinpott in the World premiere of How Mockinpott's Suffering Is Driven Out by Peter Weiss (1968), Lanz in The Two Veronesians (1968), Joe in the world premiere of Magic Afternoon by Wolfgang Bauer (1968), Chlestakov in Der Revisor (1969) and Achilles in The beautiful Helena by Peter Hacks (1969).

From 1970 to 1981 he was engaged at the Bavarian State Theater. In the season 1970/1971 he became a servant Just in Minna von Barnhelm (Premiere: November 1970 Cuvilliés Theater ), as Kevin in the kitchen of Arnold Wesker (Premiere: January, 1971), as a servant Tranio in The Taming of the Shrew (directed : Otto Schenk , premiere: April 1971), as Clov in Samuel Beckett's play Endspiel (premiere: May 1971) and as a comrade in Italian Night by Ödön von Horváth (premiere: July 1971). The production of The Taming of the Shrew was recorded on television . In the 1971/72 season he took over Wagner in Goethe's Urfaust (premiere: April 1972), the roles of arquebusier and Deveroux in Wallenstein (premiere: July 1972) and Nestor in Troilus and Cressida (premiere: August 1972) at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel . The 1972/73 season was followed by the fool Karl in Woyzeck (premiere: November 1972) and the Bretschneider in The Adventures of the Good Soldier Schwejk (premiere: December 1972). In the season 1973/1974 he took over the role of Hollarcut in the drama The Lake of Edward Bond (Premiere: November 1973); this production was also recorded on television. Other roles this season were Mr. Serknitz in Das weite Land (premiere: January 1974), Schüler in Faust (premiere: March 1974) and Ede in Die Dreigroschenoper (premiere: May 1974). In the season 1974/1975 he was seen at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel as Ted Ragg in Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui (premiere: April 1975) and as brother Martin Ladvenu in Shaw's Die heilige Johanna (premiere: June 1975). Ludwig's other roles at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel in the following years were: Miserable in Mr Puntila and his servant Matti (1975/76 season; premiere: September 1975), Christopher Mahon in A true hero by John Millington Synge (1975/76 season; premiere: February 1976), the confessor in Tales from the Vienna Woods (1977/78 season; premiere: March 1978), Bagot in Richard II. (1977/78 season; premiere: April 1978), Ruprecht in Der zerbrochne Krug (1978/79 season ; Premiere: April 1979), Nil in Kleinbürger by Maxim Gorki (season 1979/80; premiere: January 1980) and Nöjd in Der Vater von August Strindberg (season 1980/81; premiere: December 1980).

From 1981 to 1984 he had an engagement at the Thalia Theater Hamburg and from 1984 to 1986 again at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich, a. a. as “The Little Monk” in the Life of Galilei (season 1984/85; premiere: February 1985) and as Rosencrantz in Hamlet (season 1985/86; premiere: December 1985).

From 1986 Ludwig had engagements as a freelance actor from 1986 to 1987 at the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart , 1990–1998 (each summer) at the Luisenburg Festival in Wunsiedel and 1993–1995 at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. In the 2003/04 season he appeared at the Munich Volkstheater as Maximilian, Graf von Moor and as Pater in Schiller's play Die Räuber in a production by Christian Stückl .

Since the 1970s, he also took on film and television roles. He had u. a. Appearances in Tatort productions with Hansjörg Felmy . In the crime scene crime thriller Schweigegeld (1979) he played, alongside Liane Hielscher , the brother of the wife of a dead burglar, who himself comes under suspicion. In 1989 he had an episode role in the ZDF crime series Derrick .

Ludwig works extensively as a voice actor. The German dubbing index has over 500 dubbed roles for Ludwig. He lent his voice u. a. Tom Skerritt , Tom Gallant , Malcolm McDowell , Alan Alda , Martin Landau , James Caan and Sylvester McCoy . For Sylvester McCoy, he speaks the role of Radagast in the film trilogy The Hobbit (2012-2014). He has also spoken several roles in Star Trek and has played the role of Grand Maester Pycelle in the Game of Thrones series , played by Julian Glover , since 2011 . In 2014 he took on the role of the ninjutsu master Splinter in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) .

He also takes on roles in radio plays such as the setting of the case The Bund der Rotschöpf in the Sherlock Holmes series by Titania Medien in 2014 . He also lent his voice to Captain Pellaeon in the radio play adaptation of Timothy Zahn's Thrawn trilogy (director: Oliver Döring ).

He is married, has two children and lives in Munich.

Filmography (selection)

As an actor

As a voice actor

for Tom Skerritt

Movies

Series

literature

  • Association of Friends of the Bavarian State Theater (ed.): ... then they played again. The Bavarian State Theater 1946–1986. Munich 1986, ISBN 3-7654-2059-X . Texts: Monika Faber. Documentation: Loni Weizert. Pp. 220-237 (documentation).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Die Räuber, play by Friedrich von Schiller: Münchner Volkstheater 2003–2004, premiere on April 16, 2003. Accessed on December 31, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Hush money production dates , plot and cast. Retrieved December 31, 2013.
  3. ↑ Episode 182: A Strange Day in the Country. Occupation. Retrieved December 31, 2013.
  4. ^ Review of the radio play Der Bund der Rotschöpfen. Retrieved February 11, 2015.
  5. ↑ Achim Klünder (Ed.): Lexikon der Fernsehspiele / Encyclopedia of television plays in German speaking Europe. 1978/87 . Walter de Gruyter, Munich / London / New York / Paris 1991, ISBN 3-11-141194-X , p. 544 ( books.google.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Ludwig, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund