Fritz Wagner (actor, 1915)

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Fritz Wagner (born March 19, 1915 in Heilbronn ; actually: Friedrich Karl Wagner ; † January 19, 1982 ) was a German actor and radio play speaker .

Life

Fritz Wagner was born as the son of the cinema worker Karl Friedrich Wagner. Attending middle school was followed by theater training with Elly Förster. This was followed by first roles at theaters in Stuttgart , Munich and Berlin ( Volksbühne and Hebbel-Theater ).

From 1939 he worked in numerous film productions and in later years in various television productions . In addition, from 1945 Fritz Wagner was active as a speaker in many radio plays .

The 1941 film productions included the National Socialist propaganda film Stukas , which today in Germany may only be shown as a reserved film under strict conditions. Fritz Wagner also played in the post-war films In those days by Helmut Käutner with Gert Karl Schaefer , Erich Schellow and Hermann Speelmans and the DEFA production Die Brücke by Arthur Pohl with Karl Hellmer , Arno Paulsen and Steffie Spira . He was also involved in the film Farewell Christina , which is considered an unfinished film because the shooting could not be completed before the end of World War II . In 1956 he played the stable master in the popular entertainment film Black Forest Melody by Géza von Bolváry with Erica Beer , Claus Biederstaedt and Willy Fritsch and embodied the role of Emil in the 1958 crime film Der Greifer von Eugen York with Hans Albers , Hansjörg Felmy and Susanne Cramer .

In TV Fritz Wagner came in 1961 in an episode of the three-part thriller comedy series Macky Pancake on. In 1962, the television adaptation of the drama Der Biberpelz by Gerhart Hauptmann , directed by John Olden with Inge Meysel , Edith Schultze-Westrum , Willi Rose , Ernst Schröder and Konrad Georg .

Fritz Wagner was the speaker in 1945 in the radio play adaptation (production Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk ) of the play Our Little City by Thornton Wilder , directed by Helmut Käutner with Dagmar Altrichter , Ida Ehre and Harry Meyen . He worked under the direction of SO Wagner also in some episodes of the radio dramas The hunt for the perpetrators and , my name is Cox of the North German Radio (NDR) with.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

  • 1945: Our little town
  • 1946: Urfaust
  • 1946: The Dreyfus affair
  • 1946: Akazienallee 4
  • 1946: one - two - three
  • 1946: The trip to Paris
  • 1946: The muzzle
  • 1947: The glorious times
  • 1947: The sold grandfather
  • 1947: The true dream
  • 1947: Silberstrahl (as Sherlock Holmes )
  • 1947: The League of Redheads (as Sherlock Holmes)
  • 1947: The Second Bloodstain (as Sherlock Holmes)
  • 1947: The Musgrave Family Secret (as Sherlock Holmes)
  • 1948: Stalingrad
  • 1948: The thunderstorm
  • 1948: The Axel Petersen case
  • 1948: Oedipus
  • 1948: Ithaca purge
  • 1948: The lesser evil
  • 1948: bigamy
  • 1949: Six men to Aue (The Social Question)
  • 1949: The bells of Oradour
  • 1949: The small border traffic
  • 1950: extortion
  • 1950: The miraculous beggars
  • 1950: The powder puff campaign
  • 1950: Singing in the fiery furnace
  • 1951: The secret of the wax museum
  • 1951: Geronima and the robbers
  • 1951: The soldiers of fortune or Fortuna come to me
  • 1951: One lies from the start
  • 1951: The loner
  • 1952: Tracks blown away
  • 1952: My niece Susanne
  • 1952: The doorbell (6th episode: My aunt - your aunt)
  • 1952: Outside the door
  • 1952: Idol of a night
  • 1952: The doorbell (7th episode: Be Young by Floriana)
  • 1952: The doorbell (8th episode: The Bierbaum case)
  • 1953: the past has no doors
  • 1953: The Solitude of the Bureaucrat: Bartleby
  • 1953: The doorbell (9th episode: Arno as a freelancer)
  • 1954: The east-west divan
  • 1954: Under the milk forest
  • 1955: one hundred crowns (illusion)
  • 1955: facades
  • 1956: The new coat
  • 1956: Thérèse Raquin
  • 1956: The match under the bed
  • 1957: From Aristotle to Hipperich
  • 1957: The Bartschedel idea
  • 1957: We are in the middle of the operation
  • 1958: The dispute over the donkey's shadow
  • 1958: John Every or How Much is Man Worth?
  • 1958: Sardinian Feme (part of the series " The Hunt for the Perpetrator ")
  • 1959: Allow me, my name is Cox
  • 1959: The robbers of Kardemomme
  • 1959: Rogues (part of the series "The Hunt for the Perpetrator")
  • 1960: the crater
  • 1960: The man with the brown floppy hat (part of the series "The hunt for the perpetrator")
  • 1960: seashells and paper flowers
  • 1961: Fantastic cruise
  • 1964: Sunday afternoon
  • 1968: Report of the plague in London, made by citizens of the city, who perished from it in 1665, between May and November
  • 1970: lucky guys

literature

  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , pp. 1811-1812.
  • Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 777.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Macky Pancake in Michael Reufsteck , Stefan Niggemeier Das Fernsehlexikon . All over 7000 programs from Ally McBeal to the ZDF hit parade. Goldmann, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-442-30124-9 , p. 742. The television lexicon online on fernsehserien.de; accessed on March 2, 2019

Remarks

  1. ↑ On filmportal.de Fritz Wagner's date of birth is 9 . March 1915 specified. The Internet database IMDb and Glenzdorfs International Film Encyclopedia Volume 3. (Peit-Zz), Bad Munder 1961, pages 1811 to go from the 19 . March 1915.
  2. ↑ cinema.de lists the following different dates in the biographical entries: * March 27, 1899; † August 19, 1979 . However, overall preference is given to the sources mentioned in Note A 1.
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wagner, Friedrich Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1982