Kurt Wagner (actor)

Kurt Wagner (born May 1, 1953 in Saarlouis ) is a copywriter, musician, screenwriter and actor who became known in Germany and around the world in the early 1980s in the role of "Glasisch Karl" in the first season of Heimat - Eine, shot in 1981/1982 German chronicle of the Hunsrück epic home of Edgar Reitz .

Here he plays an outwardly known as idiot, but in reality a clever individualist who leads through the plot as a kind of village and family chronicler. Wagner, who was not yet 30 years old at the time of shooting, portrays a man of various ages between 19 and 82 in the eleven parts of the series. The character "Glasisch" was originally only planned as a minor supporting role, but it was decided during the shooting Reitz to make it a leading role. It had been shown that Wagner "was ideally suited to the village original and was able to lead through the film plot like a conferencier". His role also benefited from the fact that Kurt Wagner speaks the Moselle Franconian dialect of his hometown Saarlouis, which is closely related to the dialect of the Rhein-Hunsrück district , in which the fictional setting of Schabbach is located. Wagner speaks exclusively dialect in his role.

Before his main role in Heimat , Kurt Wagner was the director of his own amateur theater and had years of acting experience in film and television. In the early 1980s he appeared in two episodes of the television series Mundart at six (author: Alfred Gulden ) of the Saarland broadcasting company . After 1984 he worked as a freelance radio presenter for children and youth radio of the SR. He also played supporting roles in seven episodes of Tatort produced by Saarländischer Rundfunk (as of 2017) , the most important of which in episode no.237, Blue Lady (1990). He also appeared in the television series The Court Reporter (1994) and in nine episodes of the children's television series The Nutcracker , for which he also brought in his own script ("The thing with a grouch"). In 2016 he played a supporting role in the SR's Tatort episode “ Totenstille ”.

In 2005 Wagner was awarded the Tonton Prize awarded by the Saarlouiser Altstadtförderverein . Kurt Wagner lives (2018) with his sons in Saarbrücken- Güdingen and is the owner of the advertising agency "Brain Inc."

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1. ^ Reinhold Rauh: Edgar Reitz. Film as a home. Heyne, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-453-06911-0 , p. 196.
2. ↑ Tonton Prize Winner

Web links

• Kurt Wagner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Information about the performers from Heimat
• Video clips with Kurt Wagner from Heimat