Günter Rüger

Günter Rüger (born July 24, 1926 in Leipzig ; † May 14, 2015 ) was a German director and actor .

Life

Günter Rüger was trained as an actor and director in his hometown of Leipzig . He then went to the newly founded Theater Junge Generation in Dresden for a short time . From here he was committed to the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam in 1954 , where he worked for almost 55 years until his retirement. He was also hired regularly for film and television roles.

Günter Rüger was married to the actress Inge Noack. His grave is in the New Cemetery in Potsdam.

Filmography

• 1960: New Year's Eve punch
• 1961: Conscience in turmoil (TV film, 5 parts)
• 1962: The black galley
• 1962: Oh, you happy ...
• 1963: Naked among wolves
• 1963: carbide and sorrel
• 1964: The Flying Dutchman
• 1965: the ancient coin
• 1967: wedding night in the rain
• 1968: Shots under the gallows
• 1971: Optimistic tragedy
• 1971: Hussars in Berlin
• 1972: The stolen battle
• 1972: Zernik's corpse case
• 1973: The pigeon on the roof
• 1973: Knight von Bredow's pants
• 1974: The naked man on the sports field
• 1974: Still too skinny for love?
• 1975: Banquet for Achilles
• 1976: Beethoven - Days in One Life
• 1977: The escape
• 1977: a stone's throw away
• 1977: El Cantor
• 1978: Jörg Ratgeb, painter
• 1979: The executioner's brother
• 1980: The construction lion
• 1980: Levin's Mill
• 1981: If the earth weren't round
• 1984: Classmates (TV Movie)
• 1985: My wife Inge and my wife Schmidt
• 1985/1987 Saxons Glory and Prussia's Glory (TV movie, 6 parts)
• 1986: The bearskin
• 1986: Raven father
• 1986: The brigadier's hat
• 1986: The Bush Ghost (TV film, 2 parts)
• 1988: the actress
• 1990: Break for Wanzka (TV film)
• 1991: Farßmann or Walking to the Dead End
• 1992: Miraculi
• 1993: Anna annA
• 1994: Police call 110: dead track

Theater (director)

• 1960: Fred Reichwald : Educator in the exam - ( Hans Otto Theater , Potsdam)
• 1963: Ben Jonson : Volpone - (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)
• 1965: Brenda Behan : The Hostage - (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)
• 1966: Dorothy Lane : Happy End - (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)
• 1968: Alfred Matusche : The Rainy Weather Man - (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)
• 1969: Lotar Olias : Millions for Penny - (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)
• 1971: Wolfgang Borchert : Outside the door - (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)
• 1973: Friedrich Schiller : Don Carlos - (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)
• 1973: Ulrich Plenzdorf : The new sorrows of young W. - (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)
• 1974: Alexei Nikolajewitsch Arbusow : The fairy tale of old Arbat - (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)
• 1974: Ferenc Molnár : Liliom - (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam - Palace Theater of the New Palace )
• 1974: Bertolt Brecht : Frau Carrar's rifles - (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)
• 1976: Friedrich Dürrenmatt : Play Strindberg - (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)
• 1977: William Shakespeare : A Midsummer Night's Dream - (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)
• 1977: Ákos Kertész : Widows - (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)
• 1977: Alexander Vampilow : Last summer in Tschulimsk - (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)
• 1979: Esteban Navajas Cortés : The agony of a blissfully fallen asleep - (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam - Kleines Theater am Altmarkt)
• 1979: Friedrich Schiller: Maria Stuart - (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)
• 1979: Maxim Gorki : The Sykows - (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)
• 1980: John Millington Synge : The Hero of the Western World - (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)
• 1980: Sophocles : Antigone - (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)
• 1981: Louis Angely : Die Schneidermamsells - (Small stage "Das Ei" - Berlin)
• 1982: Heinrich von Kleist : Prince Friedrich von Homburg - (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)
• 1984: Daniil Granin : The Painting - (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)
• 1985: Emily Mann : Still life - (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)
• 1986: Mattias Braun : The Persians of Aeschylus - (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)
• 1987: Theodor Fontane : Mrs. Jenny Treibel - (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)
• 1988: Thomas Heise : Schweigendes Dorf - fragment of a documentary made of paper 1984 - (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)
• 1990: Luigi Pirandello : The man, the animal and virtue - (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)
• 1990: Athol Fugard : People live there - (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)
• 1991: Jürgen Hofmann : Poland is not yet lost - (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)
• 1991: Edward Albee : Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)
• 1992: Norbert Silberbauer : Heaven above - (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)
• 1993: George Tabori Der Großinquisitor - (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam - Theater am Altmarkt)

Theater (actor)

• 1974: Alfred Matusche : On both banks - Director: Rolf Winkelgrund ( Hans Otto Theater , Potsdam)
• 1990: William Shakespeare : Life and Death of King Richard the Third (widow Margareta) - Director: Gert Jurgons (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)
• 2008: Eduardo de Filippo : Filumena (Alfredo) - Director: Petra Luisa Meyer (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)
• 2009: Anton Chekhov : The Cherry Orchard (Servant) - Director: Uwe Eric Laufenberg (Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam)

Radio plays

• 1998: Andreas Ammer : Frost - Robert F. Scotts Tod im Eis (Robert Falcon Scott) - Director: FM Einheit / Andreas Ammer (pop radio play - WDR )
• 2000: Kerstin Specht : Der Flieger - Director: FM Einheit / Kerstin Specht (radio play - BR )
• 2001: Andreas Ammer / FM Einheit / Sebastian Hess : Marx Engels Werke (Lenin) - Director and composer: Andreas Ammer / FM Einheit (pop radio play - BR)
• 2002: Andreas Ammer / FM unit: Alzheimer 2000 / Toter Trakt (Mr. Baader) - Director: Andreas Ammer / FM unit (radio play - WDR / RB )
• 2004: Andreas Ammer / FM Einheit: Lost & Found: Das Paradies - Director: Andreas Ammer / FM Einheit (pop radio play - BR)

Awards

• 1979: Theodor Fontane Prize of the Potsdam district for art and literature

Web links

• Günter Rüger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Günter Rüger at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Günter Rüger: Obituary notice , Märkische Allgemeine from May 30, 2015
2. ↑ On the death of the director and actor , Potsdamer Latest News of May 18, 2015
3. ↑ Neues Deutschland, October 6, 1979, p. 4