Peter Groeger
Peter Groeger (born June 1, 1933 in Gröbzig , Dessau-Köthen district , Anhalt ; † January 16, 2018 in Berlin ) was a German actor , director and voice actor .
Life
Groeger grew up in Gröbzig near Koethen , visited a. a. from 1948 to 1951 the traditional Pforta State School in Schulpforte near Naumburg (Saale) and passed his Abitur here. His former classmate Karlheinz Klimt , who later switched from biology to the world of theater and writers, has set a literary monument with Eine neue Klasse - Memories and Evaluations of someone who was there in Schulpforte during this time together. Groeger then studied and from December 1951 belonged to the first class of the then newly founded State Drama School in Berlin-Niederschöneweide. He was then assistant director to Wolfgang Langhoff at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin.
After studying directing at the GITIS theater institute in Moscow for almost three years and returning to the German Theater, he switched to the GDR radio on the advice and recommendation of director Fritz Göhler , where he worked as a director from 1966 and, from 1970 to 1991, in the international radio drama department, primarily radio play - Staged adaptations by foreign language authors.
From 1973 to 1978 he could be seen as MAD man Roloff in the first 14 episodes of the TV series Das invichtbare Visier . Peter Groeger is best known for his numerous radio play productions and as the voice actor for the bartender Quark ( Armin Shimerman ) in the science fiction series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . For a period of ten years (2006–2017) he was the regular German speaker for Stan Lee . In 1996, Groeger was Richard Graf # 2 in Gute Zeiten, Schleier Zeiten . From 1998 to 2002 he played the character of Dr. Iron wire in several commercials for the DEA gas station chain . From August 2009 he was seen in this role again, this time in similarly designed commercials for RWE -Autostrom. From 1998 to 2007 he took on the role of director Schwalbe in the television series Anja & Anton .
Since 2003 he was also in the Sherlock Holmes radio play series of the publishing group Maritim und Romantruhe in the role of Dr. Watson can be heard alongside Holmes spokesman Christian Rode . He is also known to fantasy fans as the dubbing voice of the dwarf Forgrimm from the computer games Das Schwarze Auge: Drakensang and Drakensang: On the River of Time . He was also the narrator in the Drakensang radio plays. Since 2009 he has also spoken a few supporting roles in the MDR radio crime scene .
Since 2007 he has been part of the ensemble of the Berlin Criminal Theater , where he appeared in Arsenic and Lace Cap , The Name of the Rose , Inspector Campbell's Last Case , Murder in the Rectory and The Therapy . In January 2018 he was made an honorary member of the theater.
Groeger died of blood cancer in Berlin in January 2018 at the age of 84 after standing on stage for the last time on December 20, 2017.
Filmography (selection)
- 1954: Ernst Thälmann - leader in his class
- 1956: Incident in Benderath
- 1957: Sheriff Teddy
- 1959: Nasreddin and the Usurer (TV)
- 1959: Little Kuno
- 1959: On a special order
- 1963: Blaulicht : Hot money (TV series)
- 1964: Double or Nothing (TV)
- 1966: Shadows Over Notre Dame (TV series)
- 1966: The trip to Sundevit
- 1972: Police call 110: Pollen (TV series)
- 1975–1978: The Invisible Visor (TV series)
- 1983: Evenings in the chalice (TV)
- 1983: The prosecutor has the floor: A dangerous find (TV series)
- 1984: Police call 110: The forgotten laboratory
- 1986: Police call 110: Parking lot of love
- 1988: Police call 110: A restless night
- 1995: Police call 110: Taxi to the bank
- 1995: Police call 110: Old friends
- 1996: Good Times, Bad Times (TV Series)
- 1998: Walli, the ice cream woman (TV)
- 1998–2006: Anja & Anton (TV series)
- 1999: The Last Chance (TV)
- 2008: Our Charly (TV series, one episode)
- 2013: History of Central Germany - The magazine : Erich Honecker - The way to power
Synchronous rollers (selection)
- 2006–2012: as Dr. Generalissimo Lee in Eureka - The Secret City
- 2007–2012: as Stan Lee in Chuck
- 2007–2015: as a hot dog seller in Phineas and Ferb
- 2012: as Stan Lee in Marvel's The Avengers
- since 2012: as Stan, the caretaker in The Ultimate Spider-Man
- 2013: as an old man in Thor - The Dark Kingdom
- since 2013: as Senior Man in Marvel's Agents of SHIELD
- 2014: as a guest at the closing ceremony in The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise of Electro
- 2014: as Fred's father in Baymax - Huge Robowabohu
- 2014: as Xandarian Ladies' Man in Guardians of the Galaxy
- 2014: as a museum employee in The Return of the First Avenger
- 2015: as Stan Lee in Avengers: Age of Ultron
- 2015–2016: as a man on the bench in Marvel's Agent Carter
- 2016: as a strip club DJ in Deadpool
- 2016: as a bus passenger in Doctor Strange
- 2016: As a FedEx driver in The First Avenger: Civil War
- 2017: as an astronaut in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
- 2017: as Gary in Spider-Man: Homecoming
- 2017: as a hairdresser in Thor: decision day
- 2005–2010: as administrator in Numbers - The Logic of Crime
- 2005–2017: as Gregory Gering in Bones
- 2007: as Boot Salesman in No Country for Old Men
- since 2013: as Frank Gordon in The Blacklist
- since 2017: as Nabakov in The Tick
- 1987–1994: as Quark in Spaceship Enterprise - The Next Century (TV dubbing)
- 1993–1999: as Quark in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- 1995–2001: as Quark in Star Trek: Spaceship Voyager
- 2012–2015: as Dr. Cutler in Perception
Movies
- 1998: James Greene as Bile in Patch Adams
- 1999: Ian McDiarmid as Dr. Lancaster in Sleepy Hollow
- 2002: Robert Symonds as Mr. Rosen in Catch Me If You Can
- 2003: Vince Lozano as Jacoby in Pirates of the Caribbean
- 2004: Ron Canada as Guardian Woodruff in The Legacy of the Knights Templar
- 2006: Shunji Fujimura as Watari in Death Note
- 2007: Floyd Levine as Abe the Tailor in Norbit
- 2007: Philip Baker Hall as Captain William Diel in Rush Hour 3
- 2010: Karl Maier as a German angler in The A-Team - The Film
- 2010: Russell Brand as Dr. Nefario in Despicable Me
- 2010: Earl Cameron as elderly gentleman in Inception
- 2010: Jim Broadbent as Winston Tortoise in Conference of Animals
- 2011: Terence Kelly as Grandpa in Greg's Diary 2 - Are there any problems?
- 2011: Gore Verbinski as Sergeant Turley in Rango
- 2011: Jim Broadbent as Arthur in The Time That Left Us
- 2012: John Jarratt as Floyd in Django Unchained
- 2012: George Touliatos as Anthony Adubato in Cosmopolis
- 2013: William Russell as Harry in An Adventure in Time and Space
- 2013: Russell Brand as Dr. Nefario in Despicable Me 2
- 2013: Trevor Allan Davies as an old man in Kick-Ass 2
- 2013: Bjørn Sundquist as Leif in Dragon Warriors - The Secret of the Vikings
- 2013: Bruce Dern as Woody Grant in Nebraska
- 2013: Norm Crosby as a Kmart employee in Grown Ups 2
- 2013: Richard J. Mooney as Ira in Last Vegas
- 2016: Blaque Fowler as the rabbi in Dirty Grandpa
- 2016: Stephen Stanton as Admiral Raddus in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
- 2017: Edward James Olmos as Chicharrón in Coco - More Alive Than Life!
Series
- 1959–1964: various characters in the Twilight Zone
- 1987–1994: various characters in Spaceship Enterprise - The Next Century
- 1993–2001: various figures in diagnosis: murder
- 1993–2002, since 2015: various characters in the X-Files - The FBI's Scary Cases
- 1994–2009: various characters in the Emergency Room - the emergency room
- 1995–2005: various figures in JAG - On behalf of honor
- 1996–1999: various characters in The Sentinel - In the Eye of the Hunter
- 2001–2010: various characters in Scrubs - The Beginners
- 2002–2009: various figures in Monk
- 2003–2004: Tadashi Miyazawa as grandfather Muto in Yu-Gi-Oh!
- 2008: Earl Schuman as Peter Beal in Little Britain USA
- since 2012: Len Cariou as Henry Reagan in Blue Bloods - Crime Scene New York (1st voice)
- 2013–2018: Morley Safer as Morley Safer in House of Cards
- 2016: Robin Soans as Sir James Clar k in Victoria
Plays (selection)
- 1954: Molière : The Citizen as a Nobleman - Director: Otto Dierichs ( Theater of Friendship )
- 1955: Vera Lyubimowa : Snowball - Director: Josef Stauder (Theater of Friendship)
- 1956: Herta Greef : Man and Woman in a Essigkrug - Direction: Hans-Dieter Schmidt (Theater of Friendship)
- 1956: Curt Corrinth : Trojaner - Direction: Robert Trösch / Benno Bentzin (Theater of Friendship)
- 1958: Virgil Stoenescu / Oktavian Sava : Behavior inadequate - Director: Josef Stauder (Theater of Friendship)
- 1958: Wera Küchenmeister / Claus Küchenmeister : Back then 18/19 - Director: Lothar Bellag (Theater of Friendship)
- 1958: Sergej Michalkow : Sombrero - Director: Josef Stauder / Manfred Dorschan (Theater of Friendship)
- 1959: Werner Heiduczek : Jule finds friends - Direction: Helmut Hellstorff (Theater of Friendship)
Radio play and feature management (selection)
- 1965: Albert Maltz : The Flame Sign (radio play)
- 1965: Henryk Keisch : The Expert (radio play)
- 1967: Rolf Wohlgemuth : betrayed and sold (radio play)
- 1968: David Medvedenko : Dr. Krassow and his friends (radio play)
- 1968: Manfred Streubel : A young king's son came (radio play)
- 1969: Friedrich Schiller : The Fiesco Conspiracy in Genoa (radio play)
- 1969: Rolf Haufs : Harzreise (radio play)
- 1970: Driss Chraïbi : The power of attorney . Music: Georg Katzer (radio play)
- 1970: Boris Evsejew : And the third is not superfluous either (comedy)
- 1970: Klaus G. Zabel : Napoleon and the tax collectors (radio play)
- 1972: Czesław Chruszczewski : Five meet in Konin (radio play)
- 1972: Gunnar Ohrlander : Strike in the forest (radio play)
- 1972: Guy Foissy : At the beginning of the journey (radio play)
- 1973: Alfred Matusche : Van Gogh Music: Ruth Zechlin (radio play)
- 1973: Ralph Knebel : Declaration of love on a cool morning ( radio feature about the World Youth Games in East Berlin)
- 1973: Esko Korpilinna : The Voice of the Lord (radio play)
- 1974: Augusto Boal : Torquemada (radio play)
- 1974: Giorgio Bandini : The Lost Warrior (radio play)
- 1975: Anatoly Grebnjew : Scenes from the life of a woman (radio play)
- 1975: Branko Hribar : Boom! Boom! Bang! And from! (Children's radio play)
- 1975: Erik Knudsen : Need has no commandment or the will to make sacrifices (radio play)
- 1976: Robert Soulat : Malembreuse or Exaggerated Politeness (radio play)
- 1976: Tschingis Aitmatow : Der Aufstieg auf dem Fudschijama Arrangement and dramaturgy: Mechthild Schäfer, music: Reiner Bredemeyer (radio play), first broadcast canceled and only 13 years later, in December 1989.
- 1977: Ingeborg Bachmann : The Good God of Manhattan (radio play)
- 1978: Erika Runge : The transformations of a hard-working, always reliable and ultimately inconspicuous chief secretary (radio play)
- 1979: Michail Schatrow : Blue horses on red grass (radio play)
- 1980: Ernst Barlach : The Blue Boll (radio play)
- 1980: Alfred Matusche: On both banks (radio play)
- 1980: Mikhail Welitschkow : Late Beginning (radio play)
- 1981: Günter Eich : Dreams (also speaker) (radio play)
- 1981: Albert Wendt : The Hexenhaus (children's radio play)
- 1982: Albert Wendt: My thick coat (radio play)
- 1983: August Strindberg : Traumspiel (radio play)
- 1983: Horst Ulbricht : Kinderlitzchen (radio play)
- 1983: Eva Dessarre : The sea always returns (radio play)
- 1983: August Strindberg : Ein Traumspiel (fairy tales for adults)
- 1984: Yoshikichi Furui : The Holy Man (radio play (artificial head))
- 1984: Albert Wendt: Heduda on the plum tree (radio play)
- 1987: Leonid Leonow : The Taming of Badadoschkin (radio play)
- 1989: Ilse Aichinger : Buttons (radio play)
- 1989: Bert Koß : And behind us the front man (radio play)
- 1989: Michail Bulgakow : Dog Heart (radio play)
- 1990: Lew Lunz : The City of Justice (radio play - Funkhaus Berlin )
ARD and DeutschlandRadio
- Randow by Christoph Hein ( DLR )
- Missing Müller by John von Düffel , Prod .: ORB
- 1991: Edgar Hilsenrath : The fairy tale of the last thought (radio play - SFB / HR)
- 1992: Günter Eich : The other and me (MDR)
- 1992: Fitzgerald Kusz : Schdille bisde (Mundarthörspiel - MDR)
- 1992: Heinrich Traulsen : König und Besenbinder (children's radio play - DS Kultur )
- 1992: Clemens Brentano : The fairy tales from the Rhine and the Müller Radlauf (children's radio play - DS Kultur)
- 1993: Adam Bodor : The Branch Office (radio play - MDR / ORF)
- The moon flower by Mario Göpfert (DS Kultur)
- 1995: Jürgen Ebertowski / Joy Markert : Esbeck and Mondrian (detective radio play - SFB )
- 1996: Akos Németh : Julia and her lieutenant ( DLR Berlin)
- 1996: Taking a certificate according to Victor Klemperer (DLR)
- 2002: Henning Mankell : Dogs from Riga (radio play - STIL on behalf of the audio publisher)
Radio plays (selection)
speaker
- Speaker of the Dr. Watson in the radio play series Sherlock Holmes of the publishing group Hermann / maritim-produktionen.
- Speaker of the Dr. Watson in the series Sherlock Holmes - The New Cases of Romantic Rest / All Score Media
- 1958: Wera Küchenmeister / Claus Küchenmeister : Back then eighteen - nineteen - Director: Helmut Hellstorff (documentary radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1959: Kasper Germann : Holidays with Ebbo (classmate) - Director: Theodor Popp (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1959: Friedrich Karl Kaul / Walter Jupé : Everything is the same - Director: Gert Beinemann (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1961: Jane Kavcic : Train No. 612 (illegal) - Director: Wolfgang Brunecker (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1963: Manfred Bieler : Night Watch - Director: Helmut Hellstorff ( Broadcasting of the GDR )
- 1964: Rudolf Kirsten : Die Teufelsmühle (Heiner) - Director: Flora Hoffmann (children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1966: Nikolai Nossow : Nimmerklug im Knirpsenland (Immerklug) - Director: Ingeborg Milster (children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1967: Michail Scholochow : Fremdes Blut (Mitja) - Director: Werner Grunow (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1967: Petko Todorow : The Dragon Wedding (Shepherd) - Director: Wolfgang Brunecker (Radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1967: Horst Enders : The Rescue Medal (Bernd Burchardt) - Director: Ingeborg Milster (Children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1968: Alexander Lukin / Dimitri Poljanowski : Let's assume it's love - Director: Ingeborg Milster (children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1968: Horst Girra : Brennpunkt Autowolf (Rolf Wendt) - Director: Joachim Gürtner ( Detective radio play from the series Traces, Part 6 - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1969: Kikuta Kazuo : Die Taube Dankuro (student) - Director: Horst Liepach (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1970: Helga Pfaff : Die Schildbürger (Bote) - Director: Horst Liepach (children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1970: Hans Pfeiffer : Identification of an Unknown Dead - Director: Horst Liepach (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1970: Stephan Hermlin : Scardanelli (Waiblinger's companion) - Director: Fritz Göhler (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1970: Arne Leonhardt : Charm and Electronics (Arne) - Director: Joachim Gürtner (Radio play: Neumann, two rings no.1 - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1970: Tschingis Aitmatow : The Street of the Sower (Bektasch) - Director: Werner Grunow (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1970: Hansgeorg Meyer : Familienperspektiven (Arne) - Director: Joachim Gürtner (Radio play series: Neumann, ring twice - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1971: Bruno Gluchowski : Stahl von der Ruhr (Henssler) - Director: Helmut Hellstorff (radio play based on "Bloody Steel" (3 parts) - GDR radio)
- 1973: Lia Pirskawetz : Spinnen-Palaver (Spinnenmann) - Director: Barbara Plensat (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1974: Wolf D. Brennecke : Demolition of a house - Director: Fritz-Ernst Fechner (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1974: Tom Wittgen : The man with the stool (Lomm) - Director: Joachim Gürtner (radio play series: Neumann, ring twice - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1976: Hans Skirecki : Behind Wittenberge (The Little One) - Director: Barbara Plensat (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1980: Joachim Walther : Application at court (Poisson) - Director: Fritz Göhler (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1980: Lia Pirskawetz: Stille Post - Director: Horst Liepach (Biography - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1981: Giorgio Bandini : Our inhuman house - Director: Helmut Hellstorff (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1984: Erwin Ziemer : Vatersorgen (Rolly) - Director: Joachim Gürtner (short radio play from the series Waldstrasse 7 - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1985: Vaclav Cibulka : Der Golem (Nathan) - Director: Uwe Haacke (children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1986: Jacob Grimm / Wilhelm Grimm : The Princess and the Minstrel (Robber) - Director: Manfred Täubert (Children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1991: Gabriel Josipovici : Obituary for LS (interviewer) - Director: Robert Matejka (radio play - RIAS Berlin)
- 1991: Thomas Fuchs : Lisa (Herr Franke) - Director: Wolfgang Rindfleisch (children's radio play - Funkhaus Berlin / SFB )
- 1998: Michail Bulgakow : The Master and Margarita - Director: Petra Meyenburg (radio play (30 parts) - MDR )
- 2001: Matthias Scheliga : Schnecks Heimweg (artist) - Director: Barbara Plensat (radio play - SFB / ORB )
- 2005: Jules Verne : Around the World in 80 Days (Detectiv Fix) - Director: Stefan Dutt (Radio play in 2 parts - MDR )
- 2010: Hugo Rendler : It's your turn - Director: Martin Zylka (crime radio play - WDR )
- 2017: Joseph Conrad : The Secret Agent , radio play with Peter Groeger, 2 CDs, WDR 2004 / Der Audioverlag, ISBN 978-3-7424-0064-2
Audiobooks (selection)
- 2018: Hermann Bote: Till Eulenspiegel. An entertaining book by Till Eulenspiegel from Braunschweig in 96 histories , unabridged reading with Peter Groeger, 334 min., Mp3 CD, MDR / Der Audio Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7424-0752-8
Computer games (selection)
- 2008: The Black Eye - Drakensang (Forgrimm)
- 2009: The Book of Unwritten Tales
- 2010: Drakensang - On the River of Time (Forgrimm)
- 2013: The Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief (Jakob Anton Zellner)
- 2018: Far Cry 5
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter Groeger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Peter Groeger at filmportal.de
- Peter Groeger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Peter Groeger in the German dubbing file
- Obituary by Matthias Thalheim in Neues Deutschland on January 19, 2018, page 17
Individual evidence
- ↑ Actor and director Peter Groeger is dead . ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2018 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. MDR Kultur , January 17, 2018, accessed January 19, 2018.
- ^ Karlheinz Klimt : A new class - memories and evaluations of someone who was there in the school gate. Projekt-Verlag Cornelius, Halle / Saale 2009, ISBN 978-3-86634-819-6 , pp. 42–43.
- ↑ Now heaven is its stage in: Berliner Kurier from January 18, 2018
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↑ For Sunday, March 28th 1976, 8 pm, the first broadcast of the radio play “The Ascent to Fudschijama” based on Tschingis Aitmatov's latest stage play was announced in the program magazine “FF-Hier” for the cultural program “Radio DDR II”. The radio play was produced in January 1976 with a top-class cast - including Jutta Hoffmann , Kurt Böwe and Jürgen Hentsch - directed by Peter Groeger and with radio play music by Reiner Bredemeyer . But on the said Sunday evening, the evening speaker briefly warned the audience of a change in the program and was offered a repeat of Alexander Gelman's production piece “Minutes of a Meeting”.
The original broadcast of the Aitmatov drama “The Ascent to Fudschijama” had been banned at short notice by an instruction from the SED Central Committee. When the chairman of the radio committee, Rudi Singer , referred to the fact that Aitmatov's text had appeared as a book in a selection of Soviet time pieces in 1975 by the GDR publisher Volk und Welt, the Central Committee replied that the release for a book still meant Far from saying that the work can be distributed in a mass medium.
The tapes with the radio play staging disappeared in the safe of the then head of the radio drama department - Hans Bentzien . He and the staff involved in the production were reprimanded. In the midst of the Brezhnev Doctrine, Aitmatov's memories of the grave injustice of the Stalin era were not intended to reach a wide audience. It was not until after the fall of 1989 that the production had its actual radio premiere on the radio of the GDR on December 20, 1989. Before that, the play had its GDR premiere at the theater in January 1986 in the Schauspielhaus Leipzig with a ten-year delay. (Hans Bentzien: My Secretaries and I , Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1995, p. 262ff.) - ↑ Frank Olbert: Under the Layer of Normal Needs. On the radio: Victor Klemperer's “testimony” . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 9, 1996, p. 34.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Groeger, Peter |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor, director and voice actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 1, 1933 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Gröbzig , Dessau-Köthen district , Anhalt |
DATE OF DEATH | January 16, 2018 |
Place of death | Berlin |