Peter Wieland

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Peter Wieland (right), with Michael Hansen and Dagmar Frederic , 1973

Peter Wieland (bourgeois Ralf Sauer; born July 6, 1930 in Stralsund ; † March 1 or March 2, 2020 in Berlin ) was a German musical and pop singer , entertainer and music teacher . In the GDR he was one of the most famous entertainers.

Life

Ralf Sauer came after the Second World War as a refugee with his family from Szczecin to Köthen , where he the profession of carpenter learned. His talent was discovered while singing in the local church choir. In the mid-1950s he won a main prize at the All-German Singing Competition in Leipzig and thus began his career as a singer in the GDR. He studied at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin , where he was trained as a lyric baritone in the opera field . After the state examination he got his first engagement at the theater in Neustrelitz . After three years as an opera singer, he turned to the genre of musicals, which was new at the time. With musical melodies he was a soloist with the radio orchestra of the Deutschlandsender in East Berlin and with the Leipzig transmitter . It was here in 1957 that he used the stage name Peter Wieland .

With a role in the musical revue Das goldene Prag, he began his long career as an actor in Berlin's Friedrichstadt-Palast , where he later also appeared as an entertainer and presenter. Wieland recorded some records, most of which had musical and operetta melodies. He had a series of programs on the radio called Show in Stereo . There were television appearances and tours, mostly in the then socialist countries.

As a music teacher he has been teaching the young Dagmar Frederic since 1966 . Later both performed regularly in duets and were married to each other from 1977 to 1983. In 1979, Frederic and Wieland presented the program Ein Kessel Buntes on GDR television . As a collective, they received the GDR National Prize on October 6, 1981 from Erich Honecker .

After the fall of the Wall, Wieland continued to appear on TV at the Sommermelodien ( ARD ), the operetta gala at the Elblandfestspiele Wittenberge and at Christmas with us on the MDR. Until 2008, Wieland performed occasionally as a singer, including with his program Peter Wieland - Up Close. Furthermore, he had another engagement in Flensburg at the theater. In 1992 he also worked for several episodes in the daily soap Gute Zeiten, haben Zeiten as Walter Bornat, the fiancé of Helga Markmann ( Nora Bendig ).

In 1999 and 2000 he played the role of Emperor Franz Joseph more than 50 times in the operetta Im Weißen Rößl under the open sky in Berlin-Treptow . In 2003 he brought out the world premiere of the play on the 100th birthday of the actor Heinz Rühmann, whom he admired, at the Festspielhaus Wittenberge, based on an idea by Heiko Reissig and directed by Hans-Hermann Krug. Peter Wieland also dedicated his successful title Memory to Rühmann.

Peter Wieland was a sought-after singer and entertainer for a long time. In May 2008 he had an appearance at the spring festival in Fürstenwalde as Emperor Franz Joseph. In August 2008 he appeared in the summer revue in Berlin's Friedrichstadt-Palast.

On June 7, 2010 he celebrated his 80th birthday with many well-known colleagues in the sold-out Friedrichstadt-Palast Berlin. On stage, Renate Holm and President Heiko Reissig made him an honorary member of the Europäische Kulturwerkstatt e. V. (EKW) appointed. On March 18, 2014, Peter Wieland was appointed Köthen ambassador for the 900th anniversary celebration in 2015.

Wieland lived with his third wife Marion Sauer in Berlin-Rudow until their death in August 2017 .

Peter Wieland died on the night of March 2, 2020 at the age of 89 in a Berlin hospital, where he was being treated for a fractured femur.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 50 years of Peter Wieland. Ralf Sauer sings and sings ... Sächsische Zeitung online, July 14, 2004
  2. ↑ Studio guest Peter Wieland ( memento from August 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at mdr.de , broadcast on July 11, 2005
  3. ↑ Köthen900 starts with cheers . Mitteldeutsche Zeitung online, March 19, 2014
  4. ↑ Patrick Ziob: Schlager star Peter Wieland is dead . In: superillu.de of March 2, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Wieland, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sauer, Ralf (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musical and pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Stralsund
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 2020 or March 2, 2020
Place of death Berlin