Jürgen Goslar

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Jürgen Goslar (born March 26, 1927 in Oldenburg ) is a German actor and director , voice actor and painter .

Life

After the war he studied theater studies and then made his stage debut in 1948 in Heinrich von Kleist's Der zerbrochne Krug in Cologne . Goslar quickly advanced to become an important actor in both classical and modern plays.

Jürgen Goslar lives in Ainring today ; his daughter Isabel from his first marriage was married to the actor Jürgen Prochnow . There are two sons from two other marriages.

theatre

His theater stations as an actor were in Cologne, Neuss, Krefeld, Bonn, Baden-Baden, Hamburg ( Thalia Theater ) and Munich ( Residenztheater ). Role selection u. a .: title role in Hamlet , Petruccio in The Taming of the Shrew , Proctor in Witch Hunt , title role in A Man Named Judas , Pelegrin in Santa Cruz . Also: Jason, Orest, Pylades, Bassanio, Cassio, Benvolio and many more.

He last went on tour as an actor with the plays: Do you know the Milky Way? (1988) with Hans Jürgen Diedrich as partner and Who murdered Agatha Christie? (1990) with Klaus Wennemann as partner.

In between he staged at the theater (Bonn, Munich, Hamburg), most recently Friedrich Hebbel's Maria Magdalena (1987), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Egmont (1989), Arthur Miller's Der Preis (1990).

movie theater

He became known to a wide audience from the mid-1950s through roles in various cinema productions. He played in the films Wo der Wildbach rushes (1956), We Wunderkinder (1958), And Eternal Sing the Forests (1959), The Last Witness (1960) and in the Austrian film Purgatory .

Goslar has been the director of several successful cinema productions and television plays with renowned German and international actors; Thus, among other things, there were cinema productions such as Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt (1962) with the young Götz George and Elke Sommer , the thriller Ninety Minutes After Midnight (1962) with Christine Kaufmann and Martin Held .

Later the literary film adaptation followed … and the night knows no mercy (1974) based on the novel Disenfranchised by Heinz Günther Konsalik , the adventure film The Whispering Death (1976) with Christopher Lee and Slavers - Die Sklavenjäger (1976) with Trevor Howard . He was also the producer of the last three films mentioned . In 1978 he was the line producer for the soft sex film Melody in Love .

Television actor

He took on a number of roles for television: in 1956 he was cast by John Olden in Nobody dies easily , in 1959 he stood in front of the camera for Hans Lietzau with the title role of Herbert Engelmann .

Directed by Hans Quest , he played the main role of the nuclear researcher Clive Freeman in the six-part crime thriller Es ist geht (1960), one of the first Francis Durbridge films on German television (later also as Robert Drury in the Durbridge film The Visit ).

In Die Zeit und die Conways (1960) he played Gerald Thornton at the side of Inge Meysel .

Roles like Hector ( Jean Giraudoux : The Trojan War Does Not Take Place, Director: RG Sellner), Söller in Goethe's Die Mitschuldigen (Director: Hans Schweikart ) and Mozart's Figaro (Director: K. Wilhelm), playback live , Christmas 1956.

He made guest appearances in crime series such as Die Fifth Kolonne , Der Kommissar , Der Alte , Derrick or Das Kriminalmuseum ; Series for which he directed, among other things.

In the 1990s he only appeared sporadically in front of the camera, for example in An Unforgettable Weekend in Venice (1993), in the series Der Nelkenkönig (1994) or in the humorous play Dead Never Die (1996), in which he also Directed by.

His most recent appearances as an actor include the role of Rainer Pohl in TEAM Berlin - The Crusade (2000), the role of Arno von Stahl in Medicopter 117 - Every Life Counts (2002) as well as the 2004 television play Georgisches Liebeslied (director: Tatiana Brandrup ), the Inga Lindström film adaptation Stars over Liljesund (2005) and the role of the father in the series Siska (2006) and Der Dicke (2012).

TV direction

His career as a television director began in 1958 with Romeo and Jeanette ( Jean Anouilh ), then still live. In addition to the aforementioned crime series, Goslar's directorial work for television includes, for example, Almost a Poet (O'Neill, 1961), Klabund's Der Kreidekreis (1962) and, in Mexico, eight episodes of B. Traven's The Cotton Pickers (1963), Jörg Preda travels around Welt (1965), with Pinkas Braun , The Rivonia Process (1966), Im Busch von Mexico - Das Rätsel B. Traven (1967, with Gerd Heidemann ), Mexican Revolution (1968), 52 episodes Read yesterday with Erik Schumann , the Crime series Diamond Detective Dick Donald (1971), with Götz George as the title hero, and at the end of the 80s, in collaboration with Gero Erhardt , the quota racer Das Erbe der Guldenburgs , in which Goslar also played the role of Dr. Max von Guldenburg embodied.

Jürgen Goslar in southern Africa

In the countries of southern Africa, Rhodesia (today: Zimbabwe) and South Africa, which were then ruled by white settler regimes, Goslar worked several times as a filmmaker, although these regimes were generally known for restrictive censorship regulations. The film The Whispering Death (1976), based on the novel of the same name by the Rhodesian settler Daniel Carney, was marketed as an adventure film and was shot during the illegal acts of war by the white settlers against the opposition movement of the African majority population; Goslar worked as a director in apartheid South Africa on the ZDF -Series diamond detective Dick Donald (1971) with Götz George in the leading role or for the ZDF film The Rivonia Trial (1966), in which he also took on the role of Mandela prosecutor Percy Yutar in addition to directing .

Teacher, painter, poet

Jürgen Goslar was an acting teacher, including at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and as a professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz . At the same time Jürgen Goslar developed a passion for painting and writing poetry. Several exhibitions and a book about his pictures followed.

Speaker, reciter

Since 1950 Goslar has been heard in around 200 radio plays on all German broadcasters, some of which, however, are no longer available on the radio stations. Not only as Hamlet, Orestes, Clavigo, etc., but also as Oedipus in German and ancient Greek. At that time Ariola released the first records ( famous ballads , famous monologues ).

In addition to his extensive work for theater, film and television, Jürgen Goslar still holds recitation evenings today, during which he has developed into a Rilke specialist; Even as a young actor he presented the Duinese elegies in recitation evenings , including during the Salzburg Festival in 1980. He worked and continues to work as a speaker on numerous audio book productions: works by Rilke, Goethe, Schiller , Heine , Morgenstern , Ringelnatz , Tucholsky on his own CDs.

He also made a name for himself as a voice actor: he spoke u. a. Toshirō Mifune in Rashomon , Peter O'Toole in Becket , Stephen Boyd in Ben Hur .

He is also the author of various books, edited novels and plays, and wrote various film scripts.

Radio plays (selection)

Filmography (selection)

Synchronizations (selection)

Awards

The awards he has received during his work include 1st prize at the São Paulo International Film Festival and three gold screens from TV Hören undsehen magazine as the most popular actor (1959–1961).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anthony Chennells, Professor of English, University of Zimbabwe . Retrieved May 14, 2011.
  2. ^ Google Books, The cinema of apartheid: race and class in South African film, Keyan G. Tomaselli . Google Books. Retrieved May 12, 2011.
  3. ^ Wikipedia, Albino (film) . engl. Wikipedia. Retrieved May 12, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Goslar, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director, reciter
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg