Jürgen Wölffer

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Jürgen Reinhard Wölffer (born October 22, 1936 in Berlin ) is a German actor , theater director and theater founder and director.

Life

Jürgen Wölffer was born the son of Hans Wölffer and his wife Else Boy, an actress. His father headed the theater and comedy on Kurfürstendamm from 1933 to 1942 and then again from 1950 . One of Wölffer's career aspirations was an architect, but his application to the Hochschule der Künste was rejected. Instead, he took private acting lessons from Herma Clement . He made his stage debut in 1958 in the role of Sylvius in William Shakespeare's As You Like It at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf . Other stations included the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and the Berlin Schiller Theater . Wölffer played mostly classical roles, including the title characters in Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller's drama Don Karlos .

In 1964, Wölffer took over the management of the stages on Kurfürstendamm together with his father and his brother Christian, who had since passed away. After his father's death in 1976, he was sole director until he handed over the business to his son Martin in 2004. In 1988 Wölffer founded the comedy Winterhuder Fährhaus in Hamburg , followed by the comedy Dresden in 1996 .

Wölffer has been directing since 1971, initially under his pseudonym Reinhard Boy (after his middle name and his mother's maiden name). His first production was in Erlangen, the play This is not from yesterday with Elke Sommer and Karl John in the leading roles. In 1977 he made his directorial debut in Berlin with Fantastic Night . A large number of other productions followed in Berlin, Hamburg and Dresden.

Wölffer also worked sporadically in front of the camera, for the first time in 1957 as Wolfgang Stresemann in the biography Stresemann by Alfred Braun . In the mid-1960s he gained greater popularity through his role as Christian Schulz in the 20-part family series Our Pauker with Georg Thomalla in the title role.

Jürgen Wölffer has been married to his colleague Christine Schild since 1995 , whom he met in the mid-1980s during rehearsals at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm. In 1996 he received the Berlin Bear , the culture award of the Berlin tabloid BZ .

Trivia

Else Boy was sitting with Gisela Schlueter and the unborn Jürgen in a Berlin café, heavily pregnant, when labor began. Together, the two women made it to the Westend sanatorium on Joachimsthaler Strasse at the corner of Kurfürstendamm . Gisela Schlüter is said to have acted so hysterically in the clinic that she was initially thought to be the mother-to-be.

Filmography

  • 1957: Stresemann
  • 1959: a dream game
  • 1961: We got away with it again
  • 1962: Daphne Laureola
  • 1962: Before sunset
  • 1965–1966: Our timpanist
  • 1966: trials and tribulations
  • 1966: father of a daughter
  • 1969: The miser
  • 1970: Cher Antoine or Die Missed Liebe
  • 1975: Sergeant Berry - The murder ordered
  • 1976: The man who doesn't dare
  • 1988: A delicate case - The Savior

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Elisabeth Binder: Jürgen Wölffer on his 80th birthday , Der Tagesspiegel from October 22, 2016 , accessed on July 27, 2017
  2. ↑ Jän: Theater man Jürgen Wölffer celebrates his 70th birthday , Die Welt on October 23, 2006 , accessed on July 27, 2017
  3. ↑ a b c Carolin Brühl: Theater legend Jürgen Wölffer turns 80 , imwestenberlins.de , accessed on July 27, 2017
  4. ↑ Jürgen Wölffer's biography at kurfuerstendamm.de , accessed on July 27, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Wölffer, Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wölffer, Jürgen Reinhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, theater director and theater founder and director
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin