Jens Wawrczeck

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Jens Wawrczeck in August 2011

Jens Wawrczeck (born July 12, 1963 in Nykøbing Mors (Jutland), Denmark ) is a German actor , voice actor , radio play speaker and audio book interpreter . He is also active as a dubbing director and dialogue book author. His voice is mainly due to the EUROPE - radio drama series The three ??? known, in which he has played the role of second detective Peter Shaw since 1979 .

Live and act

theatre

At the age of thirteen, Wawrczeck made his debut at the Hamburger Kammerspiele in 1976 under the direction of Volker von Collande in Graham Greene's The Binding Lover . After graduating from the Bismarck-Gymnasium in Hamburg, he completed an acting training at the Hamburg Acting Studio Hildburg Frese and at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna from 1986 to 1989 . During a three-and-a-half year stay in the USA, he also studied at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute and at the Eileen Akins Actor's Conservatory in New York. This was followed by engagements at the Kaufman Theater there, at the Ernst Deutsch Theater in Hamburg, at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm in Berlin and in the comedy Winterhuder Fährhaus in Hamburg, including in Sternheim's Die Hose , Brecht's Die Dreigroschenoper , Shakespeare's Was ihr wollt , Lessing's Nathan der Sage and kettle ring arsenic and lace cap . For his portrayal of Edgar in King Lear he was awarded the Hersfeld Prize of Critics and Spectators at the Bad Hersfeld Festival in 1995 . Wawrczeck, who has another residence in New York, leads workshops for European plays there. He belongs beside Olaf Kreutzenbeck , Herbert Trattnigg and Anja pot with members of the theater group The Filmausleser , the film based on successful, but in oblivion guessed, neglected or unpublished in German-speaking theater plays in staged readings represents.

Radio plays

→ Main article: The three ???

from left to right: Jens Wawrczeck, Oliver Rohrbeck and Andreas Fröhlich in October 2011

At the age of eleven, Jens Wawrczeck successfully applied to Norddeutscher Rundfunk as a speaker for school radio. His first work in the radio play sector included the role of Karl Krümel Löwe in Die Brüder Löwenherz according to Astrid Lindgren and the role of Konrad in Konrad or the child from the can according to Christine Nöstlinger on Radio Bremen (1976). In the further course Wawrczeck was used in numerous radio play productions, including in Fünf Freunde , TKKG and Arborex and the secret society KIM . In 1978 Wawrczeck received an engagement for the EUROPA radio play series Die drei ??? in addition to Oliver Rohrbeck as Justus Jonas and Andreas Fröhlich as Bob Andrews. . Since then, he has appeared as the second detective Peter Shaw in all episodes of the radio play classic that has advanced to cult status, and as Peter Crenshaw in DiE DR3i during the legal dispute . Under the program title Master of Chess , Wawrczeck and his colleagues did a nationwide tour in 2002 and 2003, during which a series of radio plays was staged live. In October 2004, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the series, the first episode The Super Parrot appeared in the sold out Color Line Arena in Hamburg. A new stage version with the title The Three Question Marks and The Strange Alarm Clock - Live and Ticking took the trio back to various venues in Germany in autumn 2009, thirty years after the debut episode appeared. The audience honored the ensemble with a standing ovation. In August 2010 they beat their own world record as the largest live radio play in Berlin's Waldbühne with more than 15,000 spectators. Based on their duet parody shown during the tour, Wawrczeck and Fröhlich then published a cover version of the 1973 hit song , just words by Dalida and Friedrich Schütter . He was also seen live on German stages in 2006 and 2008 with other productions in which Fröhlich, Rohrbeck and Wawrczeck worked together, including the readings Drei Stories , Drei Erzählungen and Drei Märchen published by Lauscherlounge Records . Other joint works by the trio are Die Kurzhosengang and The Return of the Kurzhosengang by Victor Caspak and Yves Lanois as well as The Cat Is Looking for a Friend from Meshack Asare . In the fourth part of the youth radio play parody Die Ferienbande , Die Ferienbande and the bumsfidele ghost ship , Wawrczeck took on a guest role.

In the radio scene he had been in the episodes As Tears go by , honorable daughters , blood opera , fjord winds and the last beer was bad with. A selection of other works as a radio play speaker include Baudolino based on Umberto Eco , The Maltese Falcon based on Dashiell Hammett , Snow based on Orhan Pamuk , Frankenstein based on Mary Shelley , Cold Blood based on Truman Capote and Kuckuck, Krake, Cockroach based on Bibi Dumon Tak . The co-production was awarded the German Audiobook Prize 2011, the Prize of the German Record Critics 2011 and the Children's Audiobook of the Year 2010 on the Audiobooks Best List . As a contributor to the three ??? Wawrczeck was also honored with numerous other prizes, including more than one hundred gold and platinum records for over 35 million records sold since 1979.

Audio books

Henrik Albrecht (left) with Jens Wawrczeck (right) (2011)

Since the mid-2000s, Wawrczeck has been increasingly working as an audio book interpreter for productions of all ages. In 2007 he read the Gospel of Mark for the BasisBibel of the German Bible Society , and for Hörverlag he set Darren Shan and Till Eulenspiegel to music . In 2007 he published the Hans Christian Andersen collection Seven Fairy Tales on Lauscherlounge Records , followed by a collection of melodramas based on Charles Perrault , Oscar Wilde and Hans Christian Andersen under the title Die Schlafende Schöne , in which Wawrczeck also made his debut as a singer. Both productions were created in collaboration with the composer Henrik Albrecht ; Wawrczeck realized the latter work in his own edition AuDoBa . As part of this edition, he also published a collection of short stories in 2009 under the title The Man Who Could Walk Through the Wall according to Marcel Aymé and the Julian Gloag novel As if nothing had happened . For The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman , he was in the category "Best reading - Children and Young People" won the ear canoes of 2010. Several of his interpretations also appeared on the audio book best list , including Nennt mich nicht Ismael! by Michael Gerard Bauer and Alabama Moon from Watt Key.

In September 2011, the audio book The Scream was published in the AuDoBa edition based on a template by Robert Graves . In addition to vocal interludes by Wawrczeck, the setting was accompanied by music by the composer Henrik Albrecht. The audio book Snowy Evening followed in October 2011 , consisting of three stories by the authors Conrad Aiken , Hans Christian Andersen and Alexander Puschkin , as well as a reinterpretation of the song Winter Wonderland from 1934. Together with Gert Heidenreich , Wawrczeck also set Umberto's The Cemetery in Prague to music Eco. In the spring of 2016, he read Marcin Szczygielski's children's novel Behind the Blue Door , which was awarded the Grandios seal of the BÜCHER magazine, was awarded the Sankt Michaelsbund audio book of the month and was nominated for the German Record Critics' Prize.

synchronization

Jens Wawrczeck has been responsible for German language versions of various film and television productions since 1989. He directed dialogues among others in the Australian youth series Heartbreak High (1994), in the Australian comedy series Total Genial (2003), in the Chinese love story Suzhou River (2000) for the cultural broadcaster ARTE and in the Danish dogma film A Real Person (2001) for the ZDF . He wrote dialogue books for the science fiction series The Tribe (2001) and the Dutch police thriller Treason in Your Own Ranks (2001), which was awarded the Golden Calf four times .

His voice is known to television viewers from the sitcom King of Queens , in which Wawrczeck dubbed the actor Patton Oswalt in the role of Spence Olchin. In six episodes of the television series 24 he spoke Eric Balfour as Milo Pressman, in the anime Naruto Shippuuden the character Tobi. In the American series Arrested Development he dubbed David Cross in the role of Dr. Tobias Fünke, he could also be heard in the series The Nine as voice actor for John Billingsley in the role of Egan Foote. In the series Pazifikgeschwader 214 he was voice actor for Robert Ginty in the role of Lt. TJ Wiley. Since September 2009 Wawrczeck has lent his voice in the British sitcom The IT Crowd, broadcast on Comedy Central , leading actor Richard Ayoade . He is also the dubbing voice for Patton Oswalt in the role of Billy Stanhope in the German version of the series Two and a Half Men .

Readings

In 2020, Wawrczeck will present his passion for Alfred Hitchcock in staged readings in the Hitch and I series, unleashing the potential of the literature behind the film.

education

Wawrczeck completed his professional acting training in Hamburg, Vienna and New York City.

Filmography

Tours

  • Germany: The three ??? - Master of Chess - Live & Unplugged (2002, 2003)
  • Germany: The three ??? - ... and the Super Parrot 2004 - Live (2004)
  • Germany: The three ??? - ... and the strange alarm clock - Live and Ticking (2009, 2010)
  • Germany: The three ??? - Phonophobia - Symphony of Fear (2014, 2015)
  • Germany: The three ??? Fiery Eye - Live (2019)
  • Germany: The three ??? - ... and the dark Taipan - Live (2019)

Discography

Studio albums

  • 2020: celluloid

Singles

  • 2009: Words Only Words (feat. Andreas Fröhlich )
  • 2015: Count on your fingers published by Various Artists - Gute Nacht Sterne (CD), Sony Music Entertainment Germany GmbH

Nominations

  • 2012: Hörkulino for The Day I Got Cool by Juma Kliebenstein

Awards

Web links

Commons : Jens Wawrczeck  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jens Wawrczeck in the Filmmuseum Hamburg ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on January 26, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmmuseum-hamburg.de
  2. ↑ Der Wertesucher (PDF; 362 kB) hörBücher Magazin issue 01/2009
  3. ^ Official website of the film selectors
  4. ↑ Interview with Jens Wawrczeck ( memento of the original from February 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at xn--hr Spieler-07a.de, accessed on February 18, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / xn--hr Spieler-07a.de
  5. ↑ Press release 25 years The three question marks ( memento of the original from November 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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 / dreifragezeichen.de
  6. ↑ Three question marks set exclamation marks ( memento of the original from November 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. New Braunschweiger from October 28, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.neue-braunschweiger.de
  7. ^ The three question marks live - "We'll take over any case" Hamburger Abendblatt from November 1st, 2009
  8. ↑ Three question marks beat their own world record, the Hamburger Abendblatt of August 22, 2010
  9. ↑ Fröhlich and Wawrczeck: Words, only words ( Memento of the original from August 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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.worturworte.de
  10. ↑ Winner of the German Audiobook Prize 2011 ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the German Audiobook Prize, accessed on September 10, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutscher-hoerbuchpreis.de
  11. ↑ Annual Awards of the German Record Critics 2011 German Record Critics, accessed on September 10, 2011
  12. ↑ Kuckuck, Krake, Kakerlake is children's audio book of the year 2010 Audiobooks magazine on October 28, 2010, accessed on September 10, 2011
  13. ↑ Cult around the three question marks in faz.net, October 30, 2009, accessed on November 1, 2011
  14. ↑ Sony Music - The Newcomer Company ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. musikmarkt.de, October 21, 2011, accessed on November 1, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musikmarkt.de
  15. ↑ Ohrkanus: Winner 2010 ( 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.ohrkanus.de
  16. ↑ Audio book best list April 2009 (PDF; 44 kB) hr-online.de, accessed on March 9, 2012
  17. ↑ Audio book best list October 2008 hr-online.de, accessed on March 9, 2012
  18. ^ Prism Online
  19. ↑ SWR1 BW, SWR1 BW: Jens Wawrczeck. Retrieved April 18, 2020 .
  20. ↑ 2 to 1 - Jens Wawrczeck in an interview with Katrin Krämer ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. radiobremen.de, accessed on June 30, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radiobremen.de
  21. ↑ Our stars: Jens Wawrczeck on Gute Nacht Sterne - Official website from February 16, 2015
  22. ↑ Nominations for the Hörkulino 2012 ( Memento of the original dated November 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. hoerkules.de, accessed on November 25, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hoerkules.de
personal data
SURNAME Wawrczeck, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dubbing and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Nyköbing Falster , Denmark