Walter Andreas Müller

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Walter Andreas Müller (born September 3, 1945 in Zurich ) is a Swiss actor and radio host . In Switzerland it is also known by its abbreviation WAM .

Career

After training as a publishing clerk, Walter Andreas Müller trained as an actor from 1966 to 1969 at the Zurich stage studio. After that he had permanent engagements in Germany on the stages of Bielefeld , Cologne and Rendsburg . In 1972 he returned to Switzerland, where he played for several years at the Zurich Theater an der Winkelwiese . Since 1975 Walter Andreas Müller has worked as a freelance actor at various theaters, as a cabaret artist , radio presenter, radio play speaker and impersonator .

Together with Birgit Steinegger acted Walter Andreas Müller 28 years in the satire telecast two-gurdy on Swiss radio DRS . In programs like Viktor's late program or Punkt CH , Müller and Steinegger parodied Swiss politicians, especially the Swiss federal councilors . They could be seen in Benissimo until the beginning of 2012 . Until the end of February 2013, he and Birgit Steinegger were on tour with Zweierleier live - radio for the eye on small Swiss stages.

The end of the 1990s played the Müller "Hans Meier" in Fascht s family , the first sitcom of the Swiss television with 100 episodes. In the TV soap Lüthi und Blanc he acted as the gay fashion designer «Bela Straub». Together with Ursula Schaeppi , he received the TV audience awards Prix Walo and TV Tell . In 1996 he hosted a TV recording at the Arosa Humor Festival . Müller has been on tour again and again with countless comedies and tabloids by Hans Gmür and Kamil Krejčí .

He lent his voice to numerous children's programs and radio plays: Since 1976 he has played Globi with over 3 million records sold. He wrote, spoke and staged the production Globi im Europa-Park (2000) himself for the first time. Since then, another 20 records have been released; in January 2020 the 22nd radio play production: "Globi im Spital".

At the St. Gallen Theater in 2000 he played the prison guard "Frosch" for the first time in a Swiss-German version of the operetta Die Fledermaus . In 2008 and 2009 he was seen in the musical Hairspray as "Wilbur Turnblad" and in the operetta The Merry Widow as "Njegus" at the St. Gallen Theater. He also played the narrator in The Rocky Horror Show, alternating with Bernard Thurnheer at Theater 11 in Zurich . He then took over the role of “Frau Galli” in the musical Die Schweizermacher from Maja Stolle . Together with Swisspäck , he took part in various parodies in the Swisspäck Comedy Christmas Show in the Maaghalle Zurich.

At the castle festival in the summer of 2012 at Hagenwil Castle , Canton Thurgau , he was seen as "Argan" in Molière's comedy The Imaginary Sick , and has also been the artistic patron since it was founded in 2010. In autumn 2012 he played 16 different roles in the new version of the crook musical Bibi Balù in the Bernhard Theater in Zurich . In 2013 and 2015, parodies in the "Comedy Christmas Show" in the Maaghalle in Zurich followed. He took on the role of the narrator in the musical fairy tale "Pinocchio" in performances by Stadtmusik Frauenfeld. In 2014/2015 he could be seen as Prince Populescu in "Countess Mariza" by E. Kálmán (directed by Stefan Huber). 2016 in the world premiere of the musical "Don Camillo and Peppone" as Nonno. (Director: Andreas Gergen) and at the Thuner Seespiele in "Sugar - Some like it hot" as Osgood Fielding III. In the summer of 2018 he played Lenglumé in "The Affair Rue de Lourcine" by Eugène Labiche at the Hagenwil Castle Festival. Then at the Theater St. Gallen in the musical "Hello, Dolly!" Horace Vandergelder. From November 2019 until May 2020 he will play Pope Albert IV in the comedy "The day on which the Pope was kidnapped" by Joao Bethencourt at the Kammerspiele Seeb and in the Hechtplatztheater Zurich.

As a presenter he was active on Swiss television SRF ("Comedy Legenden") and on Radio SRF1 and SRF-Musikwelle until the end of 2017 as a presenter of the "wish concert" on Monday evening and in the "music pavilion".

In May 2017 the International Dialect Archive in Dormagen-Zons awarded him the Zons Actor Award for "extraordinary acting performance" for the SRF radio play "Warte uf Bodo".

Private

Walter Andreas Müller lives with his partner - a German teacher whom he met at the theater in 1986 - in an earth house in the Zurich Oberland .

Filmography

Radio plays

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Prices for Walter Andreas Müller and Pierre Kretz at Zonser Hörspieltage Article by SRG Deutschschweiz from May 15, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Walter Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES WAM
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actor and radio host
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich , Switzerland