Erwin Wirschaz

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Erwin Wirschaz (born April 16, 1923 in Hamburg ; † December 19, 2011 ) was a German actor .

theatre

Born in Hamburg, he first completed an acting training in his hometown before making his stage debut at the Ohnsorg Theater in the 1930s . After the Second World War he was part of the ensemble of the Low German stage for a few years before moving to the theater of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen in the mid-1950s . There he played for several decades under the directors Albert Lippert and Kurt Hübner and directors such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder , George Tabori and Peter Zadek .

watch TV

Wirschaz, whose artistic focus was on stage throughout his life, also took on roles in television productions on a regular basis. At first he was mainly seen in TV recordings of Bremen stage productions such as Held Henry after William Shakespeare's Heinrich V and Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening - both directed by Peter Zadek. Since the mid-1960s, he has also increasingly appeared in television games such as The Cross-rehearsal by Johannes Schaaf , Scrap and Adjustment to a Destroyed Illusion by Eberhard Itzenplitz , Helga Feddersen's Sparks in New Greenland and films from the series Incorrigible and Special Department K1 . In contrast, he was a rare guest in feature film productions. These include the light comedy Otto and the naked wave by Saturn Film AG with Otto Lüthje in the leading role.

Wirschaz became known to a wide audience as a performer in the television series Loriots . He was seen in the yodelling school, among other places .

radio play

Wirschaz also took part in numerous radio play productions. In a setting of the Redentiner Easter play from 1951, he spoke the Archangel Michael under the direction of Hans Freundt . His spectrum ranged from Low German dialect radio plays to some episodes of the crime series Dickie Dick Dickens based on Rolf and Alexandra Becker .

Private

Erwin Wirschaz married his colleague Annelore Kunze in 1950 (born June 5, 1920 - † October 7, 2013). The artist couple lived in Frankenburg , a district of Lilienthal , where they celebrated diamond wedding in 2010. Both daughter Jutta Wirschaz also worked as an actress in the 1970s and 1980s and participated in numerous television film productions.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

As a writer and director

As a director

As a speaker

literature

  • Siegfried Deismann: The stage was his life , obituary in the Weser-Kurier on December 23, 2011
  • Henning Bleyl: The decade actor , in: TAZ from April 11, 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Siegfried Deismann: The stage was his life , Weserkurier from December 23, 2011, accessed on December 24, 2017
  2. ↑ Bleyl: The Decade Actor , in: TAZ from April 11, 2008
  3. ^ Advertisement by Annelore Wirschaz , accessed on December 24, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Wirschaz, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 2011