Hermann Wächter (actor)

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Hermann Wächter, 2005
Hermann Wächter, 2015

Hermann Wächter (born January 17, 1937 in Augsburg ) is a German actor and author .

Life

After high school he completed a commercial apprenticeship, took acting lessons while working and passed the stage maturity test. From 1953 to 1987 he worked in the private sector in Augsburg, Munich and Stuttgart. He was a member of the examination board of chambers of industry and commerce for 22 years. From 1987 he worked in the head office of the Swabian district in the public relations and cultural department. Event organization, exhibition organization in Bavarian Swabia and foreign partner regions as well as the preliminary work of the District Assembly President (congratulations, condolences, speech sketches and other texts) were part of his area of ​​responsibility. From 1987 to 2007 he also advised amateur theaters in Bavarian Swabia. Wächter led advanced training seminars for amateur theater, in which acting on stage was the focus. He also devoted himself to the compilation of piece catalogs (“What should we play?”).

For more than 30 years he worked on the radio, as a speaker in radio plays (among other things he was the father of the Schwärmle family) and moderated around 200 of the program “ Heimatspiegel ” ( BR ). As a folk actor, he played mostly down-to-earth types in television roles, including pastors, whereby, in addition to professional acting training, he also benefited from being an altar boy for years as a boy . In 1963/64 he was a member of the ensemble at the Augsburg cabaret "Die Scheibenwischer". Theater guest performances took place at home theaters, at the Augsburg Theater and in the Parktheater in the Kurhaus Göggingen . He was also the speaker in the Augsburger Puppenkiste and for over 20 years a narrator at the Augsburg Advent Singing in the Congress Hall.

In 1979 he started writing and wrote 15 books. He wrote literature on customs in Bavarian Swabia, cheerful and contemplative stories and poems in High German and Swabian dialect. He prefers to write about his homeland, about the country and its people, the seasons in nature. Some textbook contributions in Swabian dialect and class visits (poetry in class). He learned the Middle Swabian dialect as a child in the 1940s, where he lived for over 4 years on a farm in Hochwang (near Günzburg) due to the war. He had around 400 readings and presentations in Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Austria, Bucovina, as well as in Bonn, Berlin and Brussels. Wächter is married and lives in Augsburg.

Filmography (selection)

ZDF dispute over three, 1999
ZDF dispute over three, 1999
  • 1986: Liddl 17
  • 1987: Den of Lions (TV series)
  • 1989: Josef Filser (TV series)
  • 1990: success (cinema and television)
  • 1990: The King of Bärenbach
  • 1990: Portrait: a Swabian poet
  • 1992: arsenic and hammer beards
  • 1995: The Swabian year
  • 1995: Mali (two-part)
  • 1995: Christmas reading
  • 1996: Swabian Christmas
  • 1996: jury trial
  • 1999: Quarrel over three (TV series)
  • 1999: Picture Book Germany - Augsburg (TV series)
  • 2000: Dispute over three
  • 2003: Author reading
  • 2007: Christmas in Swabia
  • 2016: Dahoam is Dahoam

Theater (selection)

Christmas reading Parktheater in the Kurhaus Göggingen December 2011
Christmas reading Parktheater in the Kurhaus Göggingen, 2011

Fonts (selection)

  • Under the Swabian sky. Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten 1989, ISBN 3-88006-141-6 .
  • Augschburger Gschichtla. Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten 1989, ISBN 3-88006-144-0 .
  • Whenever it's Christmas time. Franz Brack Verlag, Altusried 1993, ISBN 3-928934-11-2 .
  • Yes, the Swabians! Franz Brack Verlag, Altusried 1995, ISBN 3-930323-04-4 .
  • Hello in Bavarian Swabia. Brigitte Settele Verlag, Augsburg 1997, ISBN 3-932939-30-1 .
  • Under the white-blue Swabian sky. Franz Brack Verlag, Altusried 2001, ISBN 3-930323-30-3 .
  • Swabian dictionary. Franz Brack Verlag, Altusried 2001, ISBN 3-930323-27-3 .
  • Fortunately there are the Swabians. Franz Brack Verlag, Altusried 2002, ISBN 3-930323-38-9 .
  • Laughing Swabia. Franz Brack Verlag, Altusried 2003, ISBN 3-930323-44-3 .
  • It will be Christmas soon. Franz Brack Verlag, Altusried 2005, ISBN 3-930323-55-9 .
  • We in Augsburg. Franz Brack Verlag, Altusried 2010, ISBN 978-3-930323-95-1 .
  • An evening with the Schwärmle family. One act 1989.
  • Transfer of the Fitzgerald Kusz pieces , “Schweig, Bub!” And “Der last Wille” from Franconian into Bavarian-Swabian dialect, 1990 and 1995 Verlag der Autor, Frankfurt am Main
  • Freelance / permanent freelance work in the press 1961–1986 # u. a. regular column

Sound carrier (LP, MC, CD) selection

  • Christmas in Swabia
  • Swabian walks
  • Under the white-blue Swabian sky
  • Cheerful Swabia
  • Whenever it's Christmas time
  • Christmas at home
  • At home in Bavarian Swabia - the best

Awards

  • 1986 Gold Medal of Honor from the Chamber of Industry and Commerce for Augsburg and Swabia
  • 1992 Silver Medal of Honor from the Ichenhausen Synagogue
  • 2005 Inclusion in the anthology of the National Library of German-Language Poems
  • 2007 Seven Swabian Medal from the Swabian district

literature

  • Kürschner's German Literature Calendar
  • Augsburg Profiles (1988)
  • A Swabian poet , in: BR Fernsehen, portrait 1990
  • A “baroque pastor” from Swabia , in: Kath. Sunday newspaper 1993
  • Hermann Wächter, author and popular actor , in: Katholische Sonntagszeitung 1995
  • Down-to-earth, affable and dignified , in: Augsburger Allgemeine 1997
  • Stations: Hermann Wächter , in: Augsburg Journal 1997
  • Home always plays a role , in: Augsburger Allgemeine 2000
  • Portrait on a.tv television for Swabia 2002
  • Always liked to play the pastor , in: Kath. Sunday newspaper 2002
  • About the person on a.tv television for Swabia 2007
  • A decent whistle turns 70 , in: Augsburger Allgemeine 2007
  • A jack of all trades celebrates his 75th birthday , in: Augsburger Allgemeine 2012

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Guardian, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg