Stefan Wigger

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Stefan Wigger (1973)
Stefan Wigger at a reading in Bonn in 1970

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)

Radio plays (selection)

Web links

Commons : Stefan Wigger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Actor Stefan Wigger died . In: welt.de. Retrieved February 13, 2013
personal data
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