Stefan Wigger
Stefan Wigger (born March 26, 1932 in Leipzig ; † February 13, 2013 in Munich ) was a German actor and voice actor .
Life
After finishing high school at the Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck and the Thomas School in Leipzig, Stefan Wigger attended the Hanover Theater School and made his stage debut at the Stadttheater Lüneburg . Engagements in Kiel, Baden-Baden, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hanover and Göttingen followed. At the Schillertheater in Berlin he played, among other things, Vladimir in Waiting for Godot , with the playwright Samuel Beckett himself directing. For his services to the stage, Wigger was named Berlin State Actor .
Since the mid-1950s, he also increasingly took on roles in film and television productions. He played under the direction of Frank Wisbar in the war drama Sharks and Small Fish , in Wolfgang Staudte's film adaptation of the Threepenny Opera , in the Curt Goetz comedy Hocus-Pocus or: How do I make my husband disappear ...? , in Axel Corti's television drama The Two Friends (as their murder victim), in the Durbidge crime thriller This portrait is beautiful to kill, and in the family series Veterinarian Dr. Engel and preferably Marlene . He is also known to a wide audience as the family man Julius Donner from the ARD evening series Ein Haus in der Toscana . In addition, he made numerous guest appearances in television series such as Adelheid and their murderers , Derrick , The old man and friends for life .
In addition, he worked as a speaker in numerous radio play productions, for example in Berlin and the Ullsteins ( RIAS 1963) and Robert, ich, Fastnacht and the others (RIAS 1977). As the narrator of the current affairs of each episode, he can be heard after the opening credits of the series A man wants to go up .
As a voice actor he lent his voice to Richard Harris ( The Bible ) , Michael Lonsdale ( The Jackal ) , Michel Piccoli ( murder included in the fare ) and Jean Rochefort ( The Specter of Freedom ), among others .
In 1965 Wigger was awarded the German Critics' Prize.
He was married to actress Uta Hallant . His son Maximilian Wigger also works as an actor.
Filmography (selection)
- 1957: The appeal is dismissed (TV film)
- 1957: sharks and small fish
- 1958: her 106th birthday
- 1960: Dr. Knock (TV movie)
- 1962: The Threepenny Opera
- 1962: Life starts at eight
- 1965: I'm looking for a man
- 1966: Hocus pocus or: How do I make my husband disappear ...?
- 1967: Arcadia Settlement (TV movie)
- 1975: Waiting for Godot (TV movie)
- 1977: Heinrich Zille (TV movie)
- 1978: A man wants to go upstairs (as a narrator)
- 1978: The two friends and their poisoning
- 1984: How They Lived Every Day (TV series, five episodes)
- 1987: This portrait is beautiful to kill (TV movie)
- 1987–1996: The Old One (TV series, four episodes)
- 1988: The Beer King (TV movie)
- 1989–1997: Derrick (TV series, seven episodes)
- 1990: Exchange of notes (TV film)
- 1991–1994: A House in Toscana (TV series, 23 episodes)
- 1992: Happy Birthday, Turk!
- 1995: Wilsberg - And the dead are left to rest
- 1997: Metropolitan area - out of love
- 1998–1999: Preferably Marlene (TV series, ten episodes)
- 2002: Two Old Crooks (TV Movie)
- 2003: Not Without My Lawyer (TV series, seven episodes)
- 2003: Adelheid and her murderers - Too dead to be beautiful
Radio plays (selection)
- 1961: Fjodor Dostojewski : The Strange Lady (Stepan) - Director: Ulrich Lauterbach (RIAS Berlin)
- 1973: ETA Hoffmann : Klein Zaches called Zinnober (narrator) - Director: Siegfried Niemann ( SFB )
- 2003: Dylan Thomas : Under the Milky Forest (Eli Jenkins) - Director: Götz Fritsch (radio play - MDR )
Web links
- Literature by and about Stefan Wigger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Stefan Wigger at filmportal.de
- Stefan Wigger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Stefan Wigger in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ^ Actor Stefan Wigger died . In: welt.de. Retrieved February 13, 2013
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wigger, Stefan |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor and voice actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1932 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig , German Empire |
DATE OF DEATH | February 13, 2013 |
Place of death | Munich , Bavaria, Germany |