Peer Augustinski

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Peer Augustinski in May 2009
Signature of Peer Augustinski

Peer Augustinski (born June 25, 1940 in Berlin ; † October 3, 2014 in Overath ) was a German actor , voice actor , radio play speaker and audio book interpreter . He became known to a wide audience in the mid-1970s through the sketch series Klimbim . Augustinski lent his voice to the American actor Robin Williams , among others .

Life

The son of a concert master and a cellist learned to play the piano at the age of eight. In his youth between the ages of 7 and 17, he grew up in the Ribnitz-Damgarten region . From 1954 he began studying music as a student in Neustrelitz . In 1957 he moved to the Federal Republic of Germany and attended the Max Reinhardt School for Drama in Berlin from 1961 to 1964 .

theatre

From 1964 he was engaged as a theater actor at the Franconian Theater Schloss Maßbach for two years . Further stations in his artistic career were the Städtebundtheater Hof (1966–1968), the Schleswig-Holstein State Theater in Flensburg (1968–1970) and the stages of the cities of Kiel (1970–1972) and Cologne (1972–1977). Augustinski acted in classics such as The Righteous by Albert Camus , The Robbers by Friedrich Schiller , The Rats by Gerhart Hauptmann , Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and at the Bad Hersfeld Festival in 1978 in The Servant of Two Lords by Carlo Goldoni . Afterwards Augustinski worked as a freelance actor. From 2001 to 2005 he completed a theater tour through Germany, Austria and Switzerland with Ephraim Kishon's tragedy Es war die Lerche . Although he was a versatile musician and played six instruments, including drums, cello, and piano, he never used this skill professionally.

Movie and TV

In 1975 Augustinski was discovered for television by the director Michael Pflegehar and gained a high degree of popularity through his sketch series Klimbim . Also under the direction of Pflegehar and alongside Ingrid Steeger , he played at the same time in the comedy television series Two Heavenly Daughters . In the years that followed, Augustinski remained a fixture in film and television. He has worked in literary adaptations such as Christine Brückner's Jauche und Levkojen (1979) and its sequel Nirgendwo ist Poenichen (1980) and Feuchtwanger's Exil (1981), in slapstick films such as Drei gegen Drei by the NDW group Trio (1985), family series such as Our Most Beautiful Years alongside Elmar Wepper and Uschi Glas (1983) and crime series such as Der Alte and Derrick or the television series Das Traumschiff . In addition, Augustinski acted as moderator of the Sat.1 show Mann-o-Mann from 1992 to 1995 and presented the satirical magazine Fiktiv on kabel eins in 1998 , which was awarded the Silver Rose of Montreux the following year .

synchronization

From the mid-1980s, Augustinski also worked extensively as a voice actor. Against the background of his theater experience and musicality, Arne Elsholtz first cast him on Robin Williams as an eloquent radio presenter in Good Morning, Vietnam (1987). Since then, Augustinski has been considered the German voice of the character actor. As part of the Oscar win for Good Will Hunting , Williams sent him a replica of the trophy with the words "Thank you for making me famous in Germany."

In addition, he has dubbed internationally known colleagues such as Dudley Moore in Santa Claus (1985), Jeff Daniels in Dumm and Dumber (1994), Jean Reno in Zwei Irre und ein Schwein (1995) and Tim Allen in From the jungle to the jungle ( 1997). In the cartoon Asterix in America (1994) he played the title role of the potion-fortified Gaul, in the Disney production Aladdin the genie "Dschinni ". He also voiced the cowboy “Woody” in the first two Toy Story films and the Bat Bartok in Anastasia (1997) by Don Bluth . Less known is that he dubbed director Peter Jackson in Bad Taste and Dom Joly in Trigger Happy TV . As voice actor for British comedian Steve Pemberton , he voiced over 20 characters in the television series The League of Gentlemen .

Audio productions

In addition to his voice acting , Peer Augustinski has recorded audiobooks , including Die Nachtwächter , Gevatter Tod and Ab die Post by Terry Pratchett, as well as several crime stories by Edgar Wallace and children's audiobooks such as Lisabeth and the tough pirates by Richard Hamilton (2005) and Mein 24 December by Achim Bröger (2007). He also took on guest roles in various radio play series such as Horror Cabinet , Ghostbusters John Sinclair , Sherlock Holmes and Das Sternentor . In the BR radio play series The Last Detective , he played the role of the computer "Sam" from 1985 to 2008 in episodes 5 to 42.

In 2007 Augustinski took part in the role of Pontius Pilate in the first staged reading of the Bible based on Martin Luther , which was initiated by the German Bible Society .

Private life

Peer Augustinski was the cousin of the theater actor and voice actor Rolf Schult . His son Peer Augustinski and daughter Olivia Augustinski come from his first marriage to Ute Augustinski . Olivia has also taken up the acting profession and was seen in the ARD series Marienhof . Peer Augustinski was married to his fellow actor Gisela Ferber since 1972, his son Bernd comes from this marriage.

On November 5, 2005, Augustinski suffered a stroke while producing an audio book . Since then he has been in need of care and has been paralyzed on one side. He described this stroke of fate in a book. During several public appearances on programs such as Johannes B. Kerner , Augustinski reported on the consequences of his illness and his recovery progress.

In 2007 he took over the dubbing of Robin Williams in Der Klang des Herzens again after he had to be replaced by Bodo Wolf under license to marry . In June 2008 he appeared for the first time in Cologne at a reading of Chandler McGrew's thriller Eiskalt . In 2010, his book Out of the Blue: My Moving Life Before and After the Stroke , in which Augustinski describes his therapeutic successes with the help of the training designed by the physiotherapist Doris Brötz, was published. He also read the audio book himself.

Augustinski died on October 3, 2014, less than two months after Robin Williams ' death, at the age of 74 in a Cologne hospital after he had become weaker and weaker after an epileptic fit . He last lived in Overath near Cologne .

Filmography (selection)

Synchronization (selection)

Barry Humphries

Dudley Moore

  • 1984: Not Tonight, Please ... as Claude Eastman
  • 1985: Santa Claus ... as a patch

Jean Reno

  • 1993: The visitors ... as Godefroy (2nd dubbing)
  • 1995: Two madmen and a pig ... as Patrick

Robin Williams

Tim Allen

Movies

Series

Radio plays and features

Publications

  • Out of the blue: My eventful life before and after the stroke: Become independent again with the Brötz training. Trias Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8304-3534-1 .

Awards

  • 1999: Silver Rose from Montreux for Fictional
  • 2009: Synchron Listener Award Die Silhouette in the category "Lifetime Achievement Synchronized Actor"

Web links

Commons : Peer Augustinski  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ Prime Productions ( Memento of the original from January 18, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.prime-productions.de
  3. ↑ Hollywood actor Robin Williams hanged himself. In: morgenpost.de. August 12, 2014, accessed August 12, 2015 .
  4. ↑ The large HörBibel German Bible Society
  5. ↑ Augustinski's widow Gisela Ferber talks about the death of her husband. Report on t-online.de from October 6, 2014 (accessed October 6, 2014).
personal data
SURNAME Augustinski, peer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 3rd October 2014
Place of death Cologne