Herwig Walter

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Herwig Walter (born August 8, 1911 in Hanover , † December 26, 1986 in Abenberg near Nuremberg ) was a German actor .

Life

The parents of the Hanover-born actor were the schoolteacher Ludwig Walter and his wife Christiane, née Becher. He grew up in Berlin , where he also graduated from high school in 1930. In the same year he began a two-year acting training at the Max Reinhardt School there . He received his first engagement in 1932 at the Gera Theater . In 1935 he came to the Theater Baden-Baden and three years later became a member of the ensemble at the Schauspielhaus Bochum . During this time he was seen in the following roles:

After the Second World War he initially stayed in Bochum , but moved to the Städtische Bühnen in Nuremberg in 1947 and stayed there until 1975. His many roles that he played in this company included:

After his long time at this theater, he did not accept any permanent engagements and in 1976 moved from Nuremberg to neighboring Abenberg, where he stayed until his death.

From around 1960 he also accepted some offers in film and television. Here he often worked under the director Fritz Umgelter . He probably had his first role with Umgelter in 1960 in the second part of the street sweeper Am Green Beach on the Spree , where he played Captain Götzke, a Nazi command officer who involuntarily helped a comrade condemned to death in Murder Norway to escape. His partners were, among others, Wolfgang Büttner , Hans Pössenbacher , Utz Richter and Adolf Ziegler . He played leading roles, for example, in a friendly with Hanns Lothar and in The Story of Joel Brand with Harry Kalenberg . He is also known from the SF series Raumpatrouille , where in the third part he portrayed the guardian of the law , alongside Dietmar Schönherr , Eva Pflug , Wolfgang Völz and Claus Holm , the head of an alien colony.

Herwig Walter, who died on December 26, 1986, was married and had two sons.

Adolf Grimme Prize

On some Internet pages you can read that Herwig Walter is said to have received the Adolf Grimme Prize in 1964 . According to the Adolf Grimme Institute in Marl , this is not correct. Instead, there was a special recognition of the press jury for Gerd Oelschlegel for the TV movie special leave , which is about a failed escape from the GDR is where Walter beside Fritz Wepper embodied one of the leading roles.

Filmography

Radio plays

literature

  • Langen Müller's Actor Lexicon of the Present (1986, Verlag GmbH, Munich, Vienna)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Abenberg residents' registration office (all life data)
  2. ↑ Winner of the Adolf Grimme Prize 1964 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.grimme-institut.de
personal data
SURNAME Walter, Herwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1986
Place of death Abenberg near Nuremberg