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The tombstone of Klaus von Wahls in the Berlin forest cemetery in Dahlem

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)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Bräutigam : Stars and their German voices. Lexicon of voice actors . Schüren, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89472-627-0 , p. 38
  2. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Search | Search results: Klaus von Wahl. Retrieved May 5, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Marc Hairapetian: End of the soundtrack . In: sueddeutsche.de . 2017, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on May 5, 2018]).
  4. ↑ General »Information about dialogue directors and authors. Retrieved May 5, 2018 . (here a world article from January 19, 1997 is quoted)
personal data
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