SO Wagner

SO Wagner (born November 23, 1902 in Purulia near Calcutta , India ; † May 17, 1975 in Hamburg ), actually Siegfried Oswald Wagner , was a German actor , director , radio play speaker and author .

biography

Siegfried Wagner apparently grew up in Hamburg, where he attended a humanistic grammar school and also did his Abitur . He then completed a degree in theater history and took acting lessons with Gustav Kirchner at the Thalia Theater , where he began an internship in 1922 . Later he got piece contracts with various German theaters in Berlin , the East Prussian State Theater in Königsberg and at the Stadttheater Neisse . He was engaged as a director at the State Theater Southeast Prussia in Allenstein and at the New City Theater Greifswald . He was a soldier from 1939 to 1945. From the end of the war until 1949 he worked as a copywriter and lecturer for practically all Hamburg cabarets . At that time, these included the kaleidoscope , the bonbonniere and the bronze cellar . He also gave guest performances on various stages, including the New Theater in Hamburg . Here you could see him, for example, as father Jonathan in the play In the Seventh Heaven by Albin Stuebs .

Wagner also wrote plays himself, such as shadows, a mystical play , which premiered in Berlin in 1931, or Godiva with the veil , a play in 7 scenes.

Occasionally he also worked as a director for television. From 1960 to 1961 he directed the television series Above and Below , in which Lilly Towska , Otto Braml , Ursula Dartsch and Hans Irle were among the leading actors.

He has been working as a speaker and author for radio since 1928 . From 1934 to 1939 he was also under contract as a director with the Reichsender Königsberg . From 1946 to 1949 he worked as a freelancer for various broadcasters; from 1949 to 1951 in the same position at NWDR Hamburg . Since 1951 he was permanently employed by the broadcaster and remained there with the legal successor, the Norddeutscher Rundfunk, apparently until his retirement.

His extensive work as a radio play director includes the series The Hunt for the Perpetrator , of which he himself staged 110 of the 129 episodes between 1957 and 1964. Other series were Adventure of the Future and Espionage , both of which had 10 episodes each. In 1959 he performed on Season 3 of Gestatten, my name is Cox ; Murder on luggage ticket 3311 directed. After the first two seasons were under the direction of Hans Gertberg and in which Carl-Heinz Schroth spoke the title role, it was Erwin Linder who now took over his part. Other speakers included Manfred Steffen , Georg Eilert , Rolf Nagel and Verena Wiet . As a radio play speaker he could be heard in 1959 in All inclusive (director: Wolfgang Schwade ) and in 1972 in The Story of Dwarf Casimir and Princess Sismonda (director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn ).

SO Wagner died on May 17, 1975 in Hamburg. He was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery. The grave location read: M20-306. The grave has since been cleared, as neither a relative has applied for an extension, nor has the cultural authority placed the grave under protection.

Filmography

• 1960–61: Above and Below - TV series

Radio plays (director)

Series: The hunt for the perpetrator (selection)

• 1957: The house in Mexico City - Author: Harald Vock
• 1957: The first customer - Author: Walter Niebuhr
• 1957: Two green limousines - Author: Heinz Losecaat van Nouhuys
• 1957: Jungle murder - Author: Irmgard Köster
• 1957: Suspected of murder - Author: Walter Niebuhr
• 1957: The Lost Memory - Author: Maria Lamballe
• 1957: The Mason - Author: Irmgard Köster
• 1957: The Barker Gang - Author: Karl Heinz Zeitler
• 1957: Call after midnight - Author: Gisela Prugel
• 1958: The Secret of the Teikoku Bank - Author: Wolfgang Menge
• 1958: The dead from harbor basin 1 - Author: Wolfgang Menge
• 1958: Letters from another hand - Author: Hellmut Kleffel
• 1958: The Death of the Old Lady - Author: Lillian Aye
• 1958: The dead from the Moldau - Author: Hans Robert Luety
• 1958: Poste restante Bombay - Author: Hans Robert Luety
• 1958: The Villa at Teufelssee - Author: Karl Heinz Zeitler
• 1958: The monkey mask - Author: Walter Kolbenhoff
• 1958: Poisoning in the Rue des Écoles - Author: Hellmut Kleffel
• 1958: The Maragat case - Author: Walter Niebuhr
• 1959: Spitzbuben - Author: Irmgard Köster
• 1959: The Loop - Author: Maria Lamballe
• 1959: The Messenger of Flowers - Author: Walter Kolbenhoff
• 1960: Poison - Author: Joachim Jomeyer
• 1960: The girl from the Seine - Author: Maria Lamballe
• 1961: Camels in Cairo - Author: Joachim Jomeyer
• 1961: Too Much Confessions - Author: Francis Durbridge
• 1961: The Last Game - Author: Paul Ickes
• 1962: The Night in Badmer's Hamlet - Author: Jochen Schöberl
• 1962: Only space for four ... - Author: Nicolaus Hix
• 1962: A shot in Studio 9 - Author: Nicolaus Hix
• 1963: Death travels with the circus - Author: Harald Vock
• 1963: The Divorce - Author: Lillian Aye
• 1963: Sweet Home - Author: Günter Dahmen
• 1964: The Voice from the Grave - Author: Agatha Christie
• 1964: Salon Frederico - Author: Jürgen Paul

Row: espionage

• 1959: Part 1: Code name Gustav - Author: Joachim Jomeyer
• 1959: Part 2: Location of grid square X - Author: Karl Heinz Zeitler
• 1959: 3rd part: Back to the sender - Author: Karl Heinz Zeitler
• 1959: 4th part: Anton Dora - please come! - Author: Karl Heinz Zeitler
• 1959: Part 5: The Dimitrios Affair - Author: Joachim Jomeyer
• 1959: Part 6: The Albrechtshof Spy - Author: Karl Heinz Zeitler
• 1959: 7th part: Bock to the gardener - Author: Karl Heinz Zeitler
• 1959: 8th part: The fat man and the doves - Author: Joachim Jomeyer
• 1959: Part 9: The Rat Trap Company - Author: Hellmut Kleffel
• 1959: 10th part: The pigeon egg - Author: Joachim Jomeyer

Series: Future Adventures

• 1958: Spaceship Alpha is silent - Author: Fritz Puhl
• 1958: Ariane, the desert ship - Author: Fritz Puhl
• 1959: The Dead Singer - Author: Fritz Puhl
• 1959: The 3000th of a second - Author: Fritz Puhl
• 1960: A journey back in time - Author: Fritz Puhl
• 1960: The Tower of the Winds - Author: Fritz Puhl
• 1964: Atollopur, the city on the sea - Author: Fritz Puhl
• 1964: Fate series of experiments - Author: Fritz Puhl
• 1964: The Slave - Author: Bogislav von Puttkamer

Others

• 1951: Stroll through July - Author: Dieter Rohkohl
• 1952: The doorbell (episode 6: My aunt - your aunt) - Author: Johannes D. Peters
• 1952: The doorbell (Part 7: Be young through Floriana) - Author: Johannes D. Peters
• 1952: The doorbell (episode 8: The Bierbaum case) - Author: Johannes D. Peters
• 1953: The doorbell (episode 9: Arno as a freelancer) - Author: Johannes D. Peters
• 1953: The Besenmärchen - Author: Simon Glas
• 1954: The man - and the other's pot holder - Author: Renate Singhofen
• 1954: The Sea Fog - Author: Maria Lamballe
• 1955: The man with the cold - Author: Renate Singhofen
• 1955: The hunt for the camera - Author: Renate Singhofen
• 1955: The Minister's wife - Author: Simon Glas
• 1955: Interlude - Author: Joachim Friedrich Meyer
• 1955: The Beauty King - Author: Renate Singhofen
• 1955: Oskar arrives on the third elevated train - Author: Max Gundermann
• 1955: We are looking for Heinrich Wächter - Author: Harald Vock
• 1955: To all police control centers ... From the work of Interpol - Author and speaker: Harald Vock
• 1955: Scrabs are not at home - Author: Hellmut Kleppel
• 1955: Control is everything! (Grotesque) - Author: Joachim Friedrich Meyer
• 1955: Half Pulled Him - An Amusing Weekend Story - Author: Kurt Haase
• 1956: Vacation - Author: Kurd E. Heyne
• 1956: The Burglar - Author: Christian Bock
• 1956: In front of the door to seventh heaven - Author: Heilwig von der Mehden
• 1957: Make me a Minna - parody of a musical based on Lessing - Author: Walter Niebuhr
• 1958: The Comforter of the Soul - A Grotesque - Author: Walter Niebuhr
• 1958: It happened at Blockstelle 13, from the series Gruseln before midnight - Author: Karl Heinz Zeitler
• 1958: The black rickshaw, from the series Scary before midnight - Author: Karl Heinz Zeitler
• 1959: Allow me, my name is Cox ; Murder on luggage ticket 3311 (3rd season: 7 parts) - Authors: Rolf and Alexandra Becker

literature

• Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 779.

Web links

• SO Wagner in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Administration of the Ohlsdorf cemetery: Dates of death and information on the grave, as well as confirmation of the dates of birth