Walter Jokisch

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Walter Jokisch (born December 9, 1914 in Breslau ; † February 23, 1984 in Munich ) was a German actor , theater director , radio play speaker and voice actor .

Life

Walter Jokisch, who was born in Breslau in Lower Silesia , took acting lessons from Walter Franck after completing his school education . After that he received various engagements at German theaters. Since he could not work his way up to the front row of German actors at that time, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and thus became a US prisoner of war in the last year of the war.

After the end of the war he was able to quickly get back to his old job. In 1946 he first went to the theater in Bamberg . Then he worked at the theater of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . He stayed there for a number of years. Here he was not only active as an actor, but also as a director. One saw him on stage in:

As a director, for example, he directed

From around 1961 Jokisch worked as a freelance actor. He has made guest appearances at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm in Berlin and with Ida Ehre at the Hamburger Kammerspiele . He also went on tour more often with plays like Heinrich von Kleist's Der zerbrochne Krug as village judge Adam.

Walter Jokisch came to radio as early as 1949 and from then on appeared in a large number of radio plays in leading and secondary roles, including one of the famous Paul Temple radio plays , namely in 1966 in Paul Temple and the Geneva case , which the WDR over the years produced from 1949 to 1967. He also played in most of the episodes in the series about the Chicago “super gangster” Dickie Dick Dickens , which Radio Bremen brought out in 1960/61 based on a template by Rolf and Alexandra Becker . In general, it was mainly crime novels in which he could be heard. In addition, he was heard in songs like Animal Farm by George Orwell , test flight of Stanislaw Lem , house search by Siegfried Lenz and The Subject of Heinrich Mann .

It was not until the early 1960s that he came to television, which from then on became his main field of activity. He only appeared occasionally in films. He became known in January 1963 when he played the likable innkeeper Norman Gibson in the Durbridge six-part film Tim Frazer . His film daughter played the later popular actress Lotti Krekel . Since the street sweeper achieved ratings between 80 and 93%, this also boosted the popularity of his actors. Jokisch has appeared in many television series and multi-part series over the years, including in the port police , police radio calls , The crime story , The red scarf or The rope around the neck . His late films include, for example, the thrilling crime thriller Schöne Weekend, Mr. Bennett and There are still hazelnut bushes .

As a voice actor he was rarely used. He spoke the title role in the German version of the internationally produced cartoon series Doctor Snuggles .

Walter Jokisch, who lived in Bremen for a long time , was married to the journalist Lilo Weinsheimer . He died at the age of 69 in Munich and was buried in the Riensberg cemetery in Bremen.

Filmography

Radio plays

Research note

Due to the similarity of names, Walter Jokisch is often confused with the opera director and manager Walter Jockisch .

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