Peter Weis

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Peter Weis (* in Bremen ; bourgeois Peter Weis-Briel ) is a German actor , voice actor , radio play speaker and audio book interpreter .

Act

theatre

From 1960 to 1963, Peter Weis completed his acting studies at the Hanover University of Music and Theater . During his training he performed in the cabaret Die Alte Leier . His diploma was followed by a three-year engagement at what was then the State Theater, today's State Theater in Darmstadt , followed by a two-year engagement at the Deutsches Theater Göttingen . There Weis acted as Mortimer in Friedrich Schiller's tragedy Maria Stuart and in Autobus S by Raymond Queneau . During the 1968/69 season, Peter Weis was active at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg , including as Moritz Spiegelberg in Schiller's drama Die Räuber , a production that was also recorded by ARD. Further stations were the Hamburger Kammerspiele , the Hamburg Theater im Zimmer under the direction of Gerda Gmelin and the Hamburg Kleckstheater, in which Weis appeared in various youth plays. In 1981 he took on the leading role of Lieutenant Vukhov in the war monodrama The Judgment by Barry Collins in the Hamburg Trieb und Feder Theater . In this two and a half hour solo play, which is based on a true story, a soldier defends his survival at the expense of his comrades before a military tribunal that is identical to the theater audience and is supposed to judge the captain's sanity. In 1990 Weis acted in the role of Assessor Brack in Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler at the Theater im Zimmer in Hamburg. In the context of cabaret performances, Weis occasionally appears today with Henning Venske in Alma Hoppe's comedy theater .

Audio productions

Peter Weis has been working as a freelancer since 1969. In addition to his theater work, he initially worked as a speaker for several radio companies in the form of radio plays, radio features and literary readings. The works he has read include, among others, The words of Jean-Paul Sartre for the WDR , The Rabbi von Bacharach by Heinrich Heine and Not the murderer, the murdered is guilty! by Franz Werfel for Radio Bremen , Reisen then , a series with historical travel reports for the NDR , Der long Weg zu Dir , a radio play based on Hedwig Courths-Mahler for the SDR as well as other productions for the Hessischer and Bayerischer Rundfunk .

In the further course Weis took on leading, supporting and guest roles in publications of various radio play publishers, including in the adventure series from EUROPA , in the series Pater Brown and Hercule Flambeau's Verbrechen for the publishing house Maritim, The Forgotten World for Ripper Records, Lost Illusions , Night train to Lisbon and The Clouds Trilogy for Hörverlag Munich and Die Schwarze Sonne by Lausch - fantastic radio plays . As an audio book interpreter, Weis has set numerous Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle , Der seltsame Fall des Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie .

In addition, Peter Weis was and can be heard in public live readings, including texts by the writer Arno Schmidt in the Schlosstheater Celle , Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs in the Hamburger Honigfabrik (2009), The craftsmen come by and with Peter Rühmkorf , Ulysses by James Joyce and with various poetry programs. As part of the nationwide three question mark tour The strange alarm clock - Live and Ticking , Peter Weis appeared in autumn 2009 as a guest speaker in front of around one hundred thousand spectators. He also read Jonas Jonasson's work The Hundred Years Old Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared as an audio book .

synchronization

In the US, multiple award-winning series Die Sopranos , Weis dubbed actor Tony Sirico in the role of Paulie "Walnuts" Gualtieri from 2001 , and from 2003 he appeared in the Australian children's and youth series The Pirate Island on Jim Daly as Dugal. In addition, he lent and lends his voice to numerous cartoon characters, including in the series Rugrats (from 1995) and All Grown Up - Fast Adult (from 2006).

Cinema and television

In addition to his acting work at various theater stages, Peter Weis also worked in front of the camera for film and television productions. In the ARD television series Tatort , he took on the leading role of the sailor Walter Hubert in the 1971 episode Auf Offener Straße . In the same year, directed by Tom Toelle , the drama I am not a bird followed . In Die Hermannsschlacht , a historical movie from 1996, Weis appeared in the role of the Roman emperor Augustus, whose dialogues were spoken in Latin . In 2005, Weis acted as narrator Louis Ferdinand Céline in the film tank production Die Finsternis, directed by Thomas Tielsch .

Private life

Peter Weis is married and has two daughters. He lives in Hamburg.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Three question marks: Participants of the 2009 tour ( memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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.dreifragezeichen.de
  2. ↑ Cult around the three question marks: Lots of big children FAZ.net of October 30, 2009
  3. ↑ List of the audio books spoken by Weis in Audible
personal data
SURNAME Weis, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weis-Briel, Peter (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, voice actor, radio play speaker and audio book interpreter
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen