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Klaus von Wahl-Pajus (born August 10, 1923 , † January 16, 1997 in Berlin ) was a German dubbing director and author of dialogue books .
life and career
Klaus von Wahl came from the Baltic noble family of Wahls . Immediately after graduating from high school, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and survived the war on the Arctic Ocean and Soviet imprisonment. From 1946 to 1951 he studied German at the University of Kiel and theater studies at Yale University in the USA. Back in Germany, he began his professional activity as an actor, including at the Schillertheater in Berlin.
Later Wahl worked for Berliner Synchron in the creation of German dubbing since the 1950s . The German dubbing index lists him as the dubbing director for a total of almost 200 feature films. His work includes classics like The Man Who Knew Too Much , To Be Or Not To Be , Arsenic And Lace , Jules And Jim , What Really Happened To Baby Jane? , The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance , Charade , The Flight Of The Phoenix, and Dr. Strange or: How I Learned to Love the Bomb . In his early activities as a dubbing director, Fritz A. Koeniger wrote the dialogue book for the film very often ; the two were considered a productive team.
From the 1970s, Wahl shifted increasingly to dubbing for television. He was also a regular director on the dubbing of well-known series like Dallas , Twilight Zone , A Duke Seldom Comes Alone , Hotel , The Cases of Harry Fox and Matlock . In later years Wahl wrote numerous dubbing books himself, for example for Dallas .
Klaus von Wahl died unexpectedly of heart failure in January 1997 at the age of 73 while dubbing an Australian family series. He found his final resting place in the Dahlem forest cemetery in Berlin (field 008-178). The tombstone has overturned, the grave seems to be deserted.
Synchronized work (selection)
- 1936: The Petrified Forest (The Petrified Forest)
- 1936: Laurel and Hardy: Das Mädel aus dem Böhmerwald (The Bohemian Girl |)
- 1938: Chicago Angels with Dirty Faces
- 1941: suspected (Suspicion)
- 1942: To be or not (To Be or Not To Be)
- 1944: Arsenic and Old Lace (Arsenic and Old Lace)
- 1945: The spiral staircase (The Spiral Staircase)
- 1949: Leap to Death (White Heat)
- 1955: The Court Jester (The Court Jester)
- 1955: All That Heaven Allows (All That Heaven Allows)
- 1956: The Man Who Knew Too Much (The Man Who Knew Too Much)
- 1957: Duel in the Clouds (The Tarnished Angels)
- 1960: It Started in Naples (It Started in Naples)
- 1961: A pajama for two (Lover Come Back)
- 1962: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance)
- 1962: A Bait for the Beast (Cape Fear)
- 1962: What Really Happened to Baby Jane? (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?)
- 1962: Jules and Jim (Jules et Jim)
- 1962: It started in Rome (The Pigeon That Took Rome)
- 1962: The Mystery of the Eerie Mask (The Phantom of the Opera)
- 1962: Pontius Pilatus - governor of horror (Ponzio Pilato)
- 1963: Charade
- 1963: The Chalk Garden (The Chalk Garden)
- 1963: One Too Many in Bed (Move Over, Darling)
- 1963: Kali Yug: The Goddess of Vengeance (Kali Yug, la dea della vendetta)
- 1963: Kali Yug, Part 2: Riots in India (Il mistero del tempio indiano)
- 1964: Becket
- 1964: Seven Days in May (Seven Days in May)
- 1964: Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to love the bomb (or Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
- 1965: The Flight of the Phoenix (The Flight of the Phoenix)
- 1965: please do not disturb! (Do Not Disturb)
- 1965: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold)
- 1966: Welcome, Mister B. (A Man Could Get Killed)
- 1966: The Moon Calf (Way ... Way Out!)
- 1967: Tobruk
- 1967: The Devil Woman of Texas (The Ballad of Josie)
Web links
- Klaus von Wahl at the German dubbing index
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Bräutigam : Stars and their German voices. Lexicon of voice actors . Schüren, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89472-627-0 , p. 38
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Search | Search results: Klaus von Wahl. Retrieved May 5, 2018 .
- ↑ Marc Hairapetian: End of the soundtrack . In: sueddeutsche.de . 2017, ISSN 0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on May 5, 2018]).
- ↑ General »Information about dialogue directors and authors. Retrieved May 5, 2018 . (here a world article from January 19, 1997 is quoted)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wahl, Klaus von |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wahl-Pajus, Klaus von (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German dubbing director and author of dialogue books |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 10, 1923 |
DATE OF DEATH | January 16, 1997 |
Place of death | Berlin |