Rolf Defrank

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Rolf Defrank (born December 24, 1926 in Leipzig ; † July 14, 2012 ) was a German actor and author .

Life

Defrank began his artistic career as an actor at the Mainz City Theater, where he was engaged until 1953. Further stages were Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden and the Volksbühne on Luxemburgplatz in Berlin. He played Paris in Georg Büchner's Dantons Tod , the Curio in William Shakespeare's Was Ihr wollt and Franz von Sickingen in Goethe's Götz von Berlichingen . He also worked as a film and television actor in both West and East German productions. For DEFA , he played in Grube Morgenrot under the direction of Wolfgang Schleif and in Where you go ... and Yvette's millions under the direction of Martin Hellberg .

In addition to acting, Defrank also directed, to which he finally temporarily shifted his artistic focus. Defrank not only staged for the theater, but also television productions. Until 1972 he was also head of the television game department at Sender Free Berlin. He then worked as a freelance writer and wrote numerous plays such as the one-act play Echo , radio plays and scripts for documentaries such as manifestation Mensch: Adolf Eichmann , television plays and television series such as the ARD series Karschunke & Sohn with Carl-Heinz Schroth and Walter Giller, broadcast in 1978, and that directed by Erik Ode with Sonja Ziemann and Charles Regnier television play After all the years . As the editor in charge, he was responsible for the production of The False Weight with Helmut Qualtinger and Rainer Werner Fassbinder's drama Wildwechsel .

In addition, he lent his voice as a dubbing actor, including Robert J. Wilke in Spartacus

Filmography (selection)

actor

  • 1948: Morgenrot pit
  • 1956: The Yvette's millions
  • 1957: Where are you going ...
  • 1959: The man who was Thursday
  • 1959: The lighter
  • 1960: The Mary Dugan Trial
  • 1974: Death of a mannequin
  • 1976: Dorothea Merz
  • 1977: Do you have nothing to declare?
  • 1977: Walter Hasenclever
  • 1979: fire sign
  • 1980: a man from yesterday
  • 1981: The King and His Fool
  • 1984: love makes all flowers bloom
  • 1984: Black, Red, Gold: Around the button and collar
  • 1986: The application

Screenwriter

  • 1965: guilty
  • 1965: time out
  • 1966: attempted escape
  • 1967: After All These Years (TV series Love Stories )
  • 1971: Napoleon and yogurt
  • 1977: Walter Hasenclever
  • 1986: The application
  • 1978: Human appearance: Adolf Eichmann (also director)

In another function

  • 1969: woe to him who inherits (editor)
  • 1969: Haunted Dawn (producer)
  • 1970: The wrong weight (editor)
  • 1972: Crime Scene: Rattennest (producer)
  • 1973: Wildwechsel (editor, producer)

theatre

Radio plays (selection)

  • 1958: Peter Erka : Cars make people (student) - Director: Werner Wieland ( GDR radio )
  • 1978: For an unexplained cause (WDR)
  • 1979: Solid relationships (WDR)
  • 1980: My case is different (WDR)
  • 1980: Roman Holiday (WDR)
  • 1981: First wait (WDR)
  • 1982: The sleeping guitar (WDR)
  • 1984: disembarking (SR)
  • 1984: Your name is in the minutes (WDR)
  • 1987: The application (WDR)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ trauer.sueddeutsche.de
  2. ↑ klaushoerspiel.de ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2014 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.klaushoerspiel.de
  3. ↑ viaf.org
  4. ↑ On TV this week . In: Der Spiegel . No. 31 , 1978 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Defrank, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, author
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig , Germany
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 2012