Werner Oehlschläger

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Werner Oehlschläger (born September 24, 1904 , † April 6, 1980 ) was a German actor , cabaret artist and director .

Life

Werner Oehlschläger studied law in Berlin, but then trained as an actor and worked both in the theater and in cabaret. He began his artistic career in Breslau, from there he went to Vienna. Between 1925 and 1933 Oehlschläger performed as a guest at various theaters, at which time he began to write and compose for the stage. In the 1930s he came to Berlin radio, from 1938 he was also employed by the then still young medium of television.

During the Second World War , Oehlschläger played on soldiers' stages at home and abroad and was able to work as a director and actor at the Theater am Nollendorfplatz - at times as a Wehrmacht truck driver in the Mark Brandenburg . After his release from Soviet captivity at the end of 1945, he worked in the stands , at the Lustspielhaus des Westens and at the Ulenspiegel cabaret . In particular, however, Oehlschläger worked on the radio after the war. After a brief guest appearance as head of entertainment in the Berlin studio of the then Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk , he took up a position at RIAS in the same function in May 1948 , which he held until his retirement in 1970.

Many well-known programs of the time are associated with Oehlschläger, such as the RIAS coffee table he created or the series Es Happened in Berlin , but especially the cabaret Die Insulaner by and with Günter Neumann , for whose 148 programs he was responsible as director.

One of the few works by Oehlschläger in front of the camera was a role in Günter Neumann's film Berliner Ballade from 1948, after he had already participated in the stage version of the Schwarzer Jahrmarkt . Werner Oehlschläger was married to the actress Inge Landgut until his death and was buried in the Zehlendorf forest cemetery in Berlin.

Filmography

Radio plays

As a director

As a speaker

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Herbert Kundler : RIAS Berlin, A radio station in a divided city. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin, 2nd edition 2002, ISBN 3-496-02536-0 , pp. 380-381.
  2. ↑ a b Father of the "Insulaner" , The evening of April 11, 1980, printed in the booklet accompanying the 8-CD edition Günter Neumann and his Insulaner. Bear Family Records, BCD 16005 HD, p. 68.
personal data
SURNAME Oehlschläger, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, cabaret artist and director
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1904
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1980