Mathias Wieman

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Mathias Carl Heinrich Franz Wieman (born June 23, 1902 in Osnabrück , † December 3, 1969 in Zurich ) was a German theater and film actor .

Life

Grave site of the Wieman family on the 4th Johannisfriedhof in Osnabrück

The son of the Osnabrück lawyer Carl Wieman and nephew of the writer Bernard Wieman grew up after the early death of his father, first in Wiesbaden and after the remarriage of his mother Elise, born Altmann, with an art historian in Berlin. He attended the Schillergymnasium and studied philosophy and art history in Berlin for four semesters. He attended the drama school of the German Theater for three months . In 1926 he married the actress Erika Meingast .

Coming from the Holsteiner Wanderbühne Holtorf troupe , he was permanently engaged at the Deutsches Theater Berlin during Max Reinhardt's era , later as a freelance actor. At the theater, Wieman was seen particularly often as Faust in Goethe 's tragedy of the same name .

Wieman's film career began with silent film; his first sound film was in 1929, The Land Without Women . “When I saw the world premiere of this very first sound film in the Berlin Capitol , I was seized with paralyzing horror: that was my voice - that hoarse tone?” In 1932 Wieman took on the role of the painter Vigo in Leni Riefenstahl's directorial debut The Blue Light .

Among his most famous roles on the big screen the film adaptation belonging Theodor Storm - novella Der Schimmelreiter of the 1,933th

In 1936 Wieman staged the Frankenburger dice game for Eberhard Wolfgang Möller on the Dietrich-Eckart open-air stage and also played the Black Knight himself.

Also of note is his participation in the film I accuse of 1941, which deals with euthanasia employed, while the " euthanasia program " of the Nazi propaganda should support.

Furthermore, Wieman often worked as a reciter on the radio , conveying mainly German poetry on speech records . Examples of this are the extensive series programs Schatzkästlein on the National Socialist German broadcaster and Goethe tells his life for the Hamburger Rundfunk (which he also directed in individual episodes) and later for the record series Mathias Wieman's small discotheque .

Wieman also recited extensive excerpts from the Odyssey of Homer on record. His role as the narrator in two recordings of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf is legendary ; these were composed in 1950 with the Berliner Philharmoniker under the direction of Fritz Lehmann and in 1962 with the Orchester National de France under Lorin Maazel .

In addition, Wieman was a sought-after advertising spokesperson in the 1960s, for example for the brandy Asbach Uralt : "When so much good happens to you ..."

He had his last stage appearance on November 19, 1969 as Pastor Manders in Henrik Ibsen's “Ghosts” at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg. He died three weeks later after an abdominal operation in Zurich. His wife Erika Meingast survived him by three years. The urns of both were buried in the Wieman's grave at the Osnabrück Johannisfriedhof .

Filmography

Radio plays (selection)

Awards

In 1937 Mathias Wieman was appointed state actor . In 1958 he received the city of Osnabrück's highest distinction alongside honorary citizenship, the Justus Möser Medal . The award was given to him during a guest performance with the play Zeitbegriff on February 19, 1958 on the stage of the Osnabrück Theater . In 1965 Wieman was awarded the Bambi .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from Reinhard Krollage: Mathias Wieman - Bühnen und Filmschauspieler, Recitator In: Heimat-Jahrbuch für das Osnabrücker Land, Osnabrück 2002, p. 89
personal data
SURNAME Wieman, Mathias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wieman, Mathias Carl Heinrich Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 1969
Place of death Zurich