Walter Niklaus
Walter Niklaus (born June 8, 1925 in Cologne ) is a German author , actor , radio play and theater director .
Life
From 1949 to 1951 Niklaus received his acting training at the Conservatory in Erfurt. He made his acting debut in Cottbus in 1951 , where two years later he founded the cabaret The Five Sticklebacks together with Ellen Tiedtke , Ursula Wagner, Erhard Köster and Edi Weeber-Fried . Niklaus worked temporarily as a theater director in Cottbus and later in Schwerin and Erfurt .
From 1964 to 1990 Niklaus worked as head of the Leipzig directing group , which employs directors Günter Bormann , Annegret Berger and Klaus Zippel , in the Funkhaus Springerstraße for the main radio drama department of the GDR radio . He worked there as a director and speaker, for example in the 1972 production Der Mann mit dem Fahrrad , in which he was the main speaker alongside Alfred Bohl , with whom he dubbed 10 Sherlock Holmes films two years earlier .
In addition to his radio work, he was guest actor and director on various national stages. Due to his concise voice, he was used extensively as a voice actor, as a speaker in television documentaries and as a "narrator" in television films. At DEFA and DFF , he guided through the great television novels of the 1960s. His most distinctive speaking role is the dubbing of Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes in the Sherlock Holmes films of the 1930s and 1940s. Niklaus had another well-known speaking role in the GDR multi-part series Sachsens Glanz und Prussens Gloria as a narrator (chronicler).
As a film and television actor, Niklaus was often present in crime and justice films, for example as Kriminalsekretär Schmidt in Werner Toelcke's two-part television series He went alone (1967), as Professor Shuman in the documentary aftermath of an interrogation (1981) and above all as CIA agent Wilson in the television series The Invisible Visor (1973-79), which made him famous. According to contemporary criticism, he succeeded in incarnating the American secret service chief in a memorable way , so that behind the mask of the jovial and obliging one could expose and characterize the ice-cold and calculating secret service employee .
He is currently speaking documentary texts in the MDR series "Rätsel, Mythen und Legenden", which is moderated by Janine Strahl-Oesterreich.
Walter Niklaus was awarded the GDR Art Prize (1974). Even after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he was able to continue his artistic work in radio / radio play, the theater and as a voice actor.
Film and television (selection)
- 1955: Ernst Thälmann - leader in his class
- 1955: The Morals of Mrs. Dulska (Director - TV)
- 1958: My wife makes music - author of the scenario
- 1958: Miss Maliczewska (director - TV)
- 1960: Arrogance comes before the bang
- 1960: Today at Krügers (Director, Episode 6 - TV)
- 1961: Humiliated and Offended (TV)
- 1961: Secret front broken (TV)
- 1961: The Fall of Frieders (TV)
- 1961: who pays the bill? (TV)
- 1961: The Other Face (TV)
- 1961: bail (TV)
- 1963: fog
- 1963: Secret Threads (TV)
- 1965: 24 Hours in Atlanta (TV)
- 1965: Filed under 'M' (TV)
- 1965: Fifth wheel on the car (TV)
- 1965: Wolf among wolves (TV)
- 1966: The prosecutor has the floor: Dead souls
- 1967: Little Man - What Now?
- 1967: He walked alone (TV)
- 1967: The Parasite (Director - TV)
- 1970: Everyone dies for himself alone (TV)
- 1972: The Adjutant (TV)
- 1972: The Lautensack Brothers (TV)
- 1973 to 1979: The Invisible Visor (13 episodes - TV)
- 1974: Visa for Ocantros (TV)
- 1975: A fig leaf for Kuhle Wampe (TV)
- 1975: My village (TV)
- 1976: The Ring (TV)
- 1977: Persecution (TV)
- 1977: Don Carlos (TV)
- 1978: Dangerous Manhunt (TV)
- 1978: Dora Lemke's murderous matter (TV)
- 1979: Farewell to Peace (TV)
- 1981: Follow-up to an interrogation (TV)
- 1981: In the Land of Eagles and Crosses (Speaker)
- 1982: Bahnwärter Thiel (TV film)
- 1987: Saxony's glory and Prussia's glory (TV)
- 1991: My brother the clown (TV)
German voice of Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes
Walter Niklaus spoke the role of Sherlock Holmes in all 14 films in the Sherlock Holmes series with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce from 1939–1946. The dubbed versions date from 1969 (films from 1943 to 1946) and were made in the studios of the German TV broadcaster . The other films, which date from 1939 to 1942, were only dubbed by ZDF in the 1990s .
Radio plays (selection)
GDR radio - director
- 1968: Rolf Schneider : Voices afterwards (radio play)
- 1968: In the Ghost Forest (twelve-part series)
- 1969: Brendan Behan : The move / The garden party
- 1970: Erwin Strittmatter : The Miracle Worker - Volume 1 (ten episodes)
- 1970: Gerhard Bengsch : Krupp and Krause (3 parts)
- 1971: The geese from Bützow
- 1971: Kienbusch railway barrier
- 1973: Rudi Strahl : Adam and Eve and no end
- 1973: Irene Rajala : The cattle girl and the ghost in the village
- 1974: Johann Wolfgang Goethe : Elective Affinities
- 1974: Joachim Nowotny : An old model
- 1974: Helmut Richter : chimney builder
- 1976: Johann Wolfgang Goethe: The sufferings of young Werther
- 1976: On station 23
- 1976: Guy de Maupassant : The Punishment
- 1976: Gerhard Rentzsch : youth consecration
- 1976: Helmut Richter: Alfons Köhler (radio play)
- 1977: Lion Feuchtwanger : Foxes in the vineyard
- 1977: Hans Bräunlich : Inspector Bradley and Chance (Director and speaking role: John Hoclay) (detective radio play)
- 1978: Gerhard Rentzsch: The Almanach
- 1978: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach : The barons of Gemperlein
- 1978: Wacky profiles
- 1978: just a moment
- 1979: Peter Goslicki : In good and bad days
- 1979: Cinderella’s shoe
- 1980: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Nathan the Wise
- 1981: My uncle Benjamin
- 1981: Walter Niklaus under pseudonym: Peter Kramer: The silent partner (director and speaker) (detective radio play)
- 1983: Jens Simon : Condolence visit (director and speaker) (detective radio play)
- 1983: Friedemann Schreiter : Laughing like blood , coproduction: Broadcasting of the GDR / ORF-Vienna
- 1984: Manfred Müller : The Wrodowschen
- 1984: Peter Gugisch : A story for Leo
- 1985: Visiting time with Ines
- 1985: Gerhart Hauptmann : Before sunset
- 1985: Brigitte Reimann : Franziska Linkerhand (radio play)
- 1986: Hans Siebe: KLG block station
- 1968: start of a relationship
- 1987: Rudi Strahl: Put it to the test
- 1987: As if nothing had happened
- 1988: Norbert Marohn after Anna Seghers : Grubetsch
- 1989: I'm fine, I'll be careful
- 1989: Alfred's Bar
- 1990: Eckhard Bahr: Mission: Dresden Central Station ( Sachsen Radio )
- 1991: Werner Buhss after Gottfried Keller : The blacksmith of his luck (Sachsen Radio)
Broadcasting of the GDR - speaker
- 1961: Stefan Scherpner : Surveys in the Engelfried case - Director: Edgar Kaufmann (audio play documentation)
- 1961: Anna and Friedrich Schlotterbeck : Model case Brettheim - Director: Detlev Witte (audio play documentation)
- 1961: Rolf Schneider : Trial Richard Waverly (Dr. Martin) - Director: Otto Dierichs (radio play)
- 1962: Günter Koch : Murder on Order (Brown) - Director: Hans Knötzsch (radio play)
- 1962: Max Messer : Death is no business - Director: Hans Knötzsch
- 1962: Klaus Beuchler : The Stetson case (defender) - Director: Werner Grunow
- 1962: Gerhard Stübe : Das Südpoldenkmal (applicant) - Director: Fritz Göhler
- 1963: Rolf Schneider: Die Unbewältigte (Narrator) - Director: Edgar Kaufmann (radio play)
- 1967/68: War and Peace - A radio play based on the novel by Lev Tolstoy , GDR Radio Archive, (12-CD box), running time: approx. 792 min., Icestorm Distribution GmbH 2016
- 1969: Wolfgang Graetz / Joachim Seyppel : What is an auxiliary bishop? Or answers to the Defregger file - directed by Edgar Kaufmann
- 1970: Armand Lanoux : The Keeper of the Bees (Emile Lalande) - Director: Fritz Göhler
- 1970: Hans-Ulrich Lüdemann : Trial without judgment (lawyer) - Director: Helmut Hellstorff
- 1971: Gerhard Rentzsch: Das Amulett - Director: Wolf-Dieter Panse (radio play - 6 parts)
- 1980: Günter Spranger : The rope you will hang on (Holzinger) - Director: Klaus Zippel (detective radio play)
ARD and DeutschlandRadio
- 1991: Gerhard Rentzsch: Scenes from Germany, introduced and provided with interim reports on the journey of a man with a cardboard box (also speaker) (director) (radio play series: Moments No. 4 - DS Kultur / BR)
- 1992: Walter Hasenclever / Kurt Tucholsky : Christoph Columbus or The Discovery of America (director), MDR
- 1992: Friedrich Gorenstein : Dispute over Dostojewski - director (radio play - SFB / DS Kultur)
- 1993: James Thurber : A Moon for Princess Leonore (Director), MDR
- 1994: Handwoven under water (director), MDR
- 1995: Björn Björnson: How the rabbit became an Easter bunny (director and narrator), MDR, as an audio book at: Der Audio Verlag 2004, ISBN 9783898132428
- 1997: Der Aufschwung (director), MDR; Alexandre d. Ä. : Der Graf von Monte Cristo (director), coproduction: MDR / BR / ORF-Vienna
- 1999: The Agostino Case (director), MDR; Twelve photos too many (director and author under the pseudonym Peter Kramer), MDR, as an audio book at Audiobuch 2001, ISBN 9783933199621
- 2000: Donna W. Cross : Die Päpstin (Director), MDR, as an audio book on 2 CDs at: Der Audio Verlag 2000, ISBN 9783898130691
- 2001: Günter Kunert : Am Sexophon: Esmeralda (director)
- 2001: Józef Ignacy Kraszewski : Countess Cosel (General Schulenburg) - (adaptation and direction) (radio play (5 parts) - MDR) as an audio book at Der Audio Verlag 2001, ISBN 9783898131568
- 2003: Ingomar von Kieseritzky : Fortune or Die Tücke des Objekt (director), coproduction: MDR / SWR
- 2004: Rolf Schneider : Die Affäre d'Aubray (Nivelin, lawyer) - (director) (radio play - MDR / RBB)
- 2004: The Great Deeds of a Young Don Juan (director), MDR; Günter Kunert: The doll (director), MDR
- 2005: Rolf Schneider: Die Affaire D'Aubrey (director), coproduction: MDR / RBB
- 2006: Michael Ende : Das kleine Lumpenkasperle / Das Traumfresserchen (director), MDR; Dragons, cats, royal children (actor and director), MDR
- 2007: Frieder Faist : Ballad of Art, Vengeance, Greed and Loyalty (Director), MDR; Michael Ende: The Teddy and the Animals (Director), MDR
- 2009: Rolf Schneider: Die Affaire Winckelmann (director), coproduction: MDR / ORF
- 2010: Farewell at the River (Director), MDR
- 2011: Günter Kunert: The Gondolier von Itzehoe (director), MDR
- 2012: It's not all evening yet (actor and director), MDR
- 2015: Deadly (author, director and speaking role) (detective radio play - MDR)
Theater productions (selection)
- 1957: Sappho , tragedy by Franz Grillparzer , Stadttheater Cottbus
- 1965: Stormy crossing in a mirror-smooth sea , comedy by Jacques Deval , Leipziger Kammerspiele
- 1966: Plea for seekers , play by Rainer Kerndl , Leipziger Kammerspiele
- 1966: The Parasite , drama by Friedrich Schiller , Moritzburg TV theater
- 1978: Machiavelli , musical by Jerzy Wasowski, Dresden State Operetta
- 1980: Don Karlos , drama by Friedrich Schiller, Weimar National Theater
- 1982: The Fantastics , musical by Tom Jones / Harvey Schmidt , Dresden State Operetta
- 1984: The Opera Ball , operetta by Richard Heuberger , Metropol-Theater Berlin
- 1984: The Aunt from Brazil ( Charley's Tante ), musical farce by Wladimir Polyakow / Robert Roschdestwenski / Oskar Felzman , Metropol-Theater Berlin
- 1987: Evita , musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice , Dresden State Operetta, GDR premiere
- 1988: The musical canopy bed , musical by Tom Jones / Harvey Schmidt, Metropol-Theater Berlin
- 1989: The King David Report , rock opera based on Stefan Heym , music: Gabor Kemeny and Tibor Kocsak. German stage version: Kurt Demmler , Dresden State Operetta, GDR premiere
- 1991: It was the nightingale , musical by Dov Seltzer and Ephraim Kishon / Yvette Kolb , Metropol-Theater Berlin
- 1992: Hello, Dolly! , Musical by Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart , Deutsch-Sorbisches Volkstheater Bautzen
- 1995: Gigi , musical by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner , Dresden State Operetta
- 1996: The great hour of Josef Bieder , revue for a theater prophet by Eberhard Streul and Otto Schenk , German-Sorbian People's Theater Bautzen
- 1998: The measure didactic piece by Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler , MDR Leipzig Chamber Philharmonic, MDR Leipzig Radio Choir, Johannes Kalitzke , conductor, Dresden-Hellerau and Konzerthaus Berlin
- 1998: Grillparzer in Porn Shop of Peter Turrini , German-Sorbian Volkstheater Bautzen
- 2004: Gretchen 89 ff. , By Lutz Hübner , Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landestheater Flensburg
Readings
- 1992: The Power of Blood by Miguel de Cervantes , MDR KULTUR, as an audio book at Audiobuch Freiburg, 1 MC, ISBN 3-9804371-6-7
- 1995: From the earth to the moon by Jules Verne, 332 min, MDR CULTURE
- 2008: Report on a trip to Saxon Switzerland by Hans Christian Andersen , 1 CD, Buschfunkverlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-931925-75-8
- 2016: The sleepless world by Stefan Zweig , edited as an audio book by Uwe Steimle , 1 CD, 66 min., Buschfunkverlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-944058-66-5
Prices
- Art Prize of the GDR 1974
- Critics' directorial award 1985 for Willi and the others by Katrin Lange
- Hörkules 2005 for: The Popess by Donna W. Cross - Directed
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Niklaus in the catalog of the German National Library
- Walter Niklaus in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Walter Niklaus at filmportal.de
- Walter Niklaus at Discogs (English)
- Kriminalhörspiel Todsicher (47 minutes MDR Figaro 2015) for reminiscence
- Walter Niklaus reads: Münchhausen's wonderful travels
Individual evidence
- ^ Norbert Wehrstedt: Player with the voice in: Leipziger Volkszeitung from June 8, 2015, p. 8
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Niklaus, Walter |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kramer, Peter |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor and director |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1925 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |