Jürgen Wilke (actor)

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Wilke in 2013

Jürgen Wilke (born November 21, 1928 in Berlin-Karlshorst ; † May 27, 2016 ) was a German actor and theater director .

Life

Jürgen Wilke, born in Berlin in 1928, spent the first years up to elementary school in Berlin, but then moved to Königsberg in Prussia. During the Second World War , he had to serve as an air force helper despite attending school . Towards the end of the war, his family was able to flee from Königsberg and tried to escape with his siblings on the waterway with the hospital ship Wilhelm Gustloff , but had to leave the ship again due to overloading. This was the only way his family survived, as the Gustloff sank after being hit by Soviet torpedoes. He himself was initially supposed to defend Königsberg, but eventually came back to his hometown Berlin, where he finished his schooling. He then completed an acting training in West Germany, while the family stayed in the East. He was later able to bring his sister to West Germany.

In the 1950s Wilke was a sought-after film and theater actor and worked with many well-known greats such as Gert Fröbe , Hans Albers , Gustaf Gründgens and Elisabeth Flickenschildt . In 1956 he went to Vienna and played in the theater in der Josefstadt and at the Burgtheater . From 1966 he took over the directorship of various summer festivals, first in Andernach and from 1971 in Stockerau . As a result, Wilke was director of the Perchtoldsdorfer Sommerspiele from 1981 to 1996 and in 1980 founded the “ Laxenburger Kultursommer”. He himself was responsible for more than 60 productions. In 1982 Wilke was given the professional title of professor.

Wilke was married three times and had two children. Wilke had been living with the former US diplomat Helene von Damm since 2000 . In 2011 he stopped acting. Adi Hirschal succeeded him in October 2011 as director of the Laxenburg cultural summer .

Jürgen Wilke was laid to rest in the local cemetery in Laxenburg.

Act

Direction and mostly leading role:

Filmography

Radio plays

Publications

  • 2012: ... and over and over again: my life , recorded and supplemented by Wolff A. Greinert, Amalthea-Verlag, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-85002-786-1

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General manager and actor Wilke has passed away
  2. ↑ Jürgen Wilke: "I had an insane life" ( Memento from September 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), Kurier
  3. ↑ Jürgen Wilke aufnoe.orf.at
  4. ↑ Jürgen Wilke says goodbye in the Niederösterreichische Nachrichten , week 26/2011
  5. ^ Laxenburg cultural summer: Adi Hirschal new director . Article dated October 20, 2011, accessed February 2, 2019.

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personal data
SURNAME Wilke, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Karlshorst
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 2016