Werner Völger

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Werner Völger , born as Werner Vögler (born April 26, 1908 in Crottendorf ; † unknown), was a German director, screenwriter, producer and actor.

Life

After elementary school in the Ore Mountains, Völger completed an apprenticeship as a baker. As a young man he took acting lessons and was soon engaged in various theaters, for example in Chemnitz, Leipzig and Munich (with Otto Falckenberg ). After the Second World War he worked at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf before moving to the Deutsches Theater Berlin in the 1947/48 season. After that, Völger worked as a dubbing director before switching to radio in 1952. First he worked for the broadcaster Free Berlin , then for the NDR, which at that time was still called Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk Hamburg. Völger continued to work as a theater director and particularly enjoyed staging plays by Gerhart Hauptmann . In 1958 he directed the television thriller Der Mann, who changed his name to Edgar Wallace and in 1957 the television thriller Nebel after Hans Schweikart .

Television director

  • 1953 Emergency Housing Department
  • 1953 Lady Leprechaun
  • 1953 ... and now sails downwind
  • 1953 The parting present (also screenplay)
  • 1954 Ingeborg (also screenplay)
  • 1954 Poor father Philipp
  • 1954 The beaver fur according to Gerhart Hauptmann
  • 1955 Night in the Jägerhaus (also screenplay)
  • 1956 The concert
  • 1956 Seagulls over Sorrento (also screenplay)
  • 1956 Philemon and Baucis
  • 1956 The Peace Festival (also screenplay)
  • 1956 Court by Night (also screenplay)
  • 1957 Nebel , thriller by Hans Schweikart
  • 1957 A game of death and love (also screenplay)
  • 1957 Everyone lives alone
  • 1957 The Secret (also screenplay)
  • 1957 The man I'm looking for
  • 1957 The outcast
  • 1958 A White Elephant (also screenplay)
  • 1958 Edgar Wallace: The Man Who Changed His Name (1958) (also screenplay)
  • 1959 Legend of the rental company (also screenplay)
  • 1959 Clavigo (also screenplay)
  • 1959 The Nobel Prize
  • 1959 The refugee
  • 1961 Das Fäßchen (also screenplay)
  • 1963 The fool
  • 1964 Two or three marriages (also screenplay)
  • 1964 The last performance
  • 1965 The most beautiful trip in the world
  • 1965 Tran (also screenplay)
  • 1965 Dangerous Course (also script based on Eugene O'Neill)
  • 1965 Der Strick (also screenplay and production)
  • 1966 railway attendant Thiel
  • 1968 boredom (also production)
  • 1969 abdication

Screenwriter

  • 1953 Der Himmel is e 'Lichterburgn (documentation, also narrator)

Theater director

  • 1955 The beaver fur
  • 1956 The peace festival
  • 1968 railway attendant Thiel

actor

  • 1940 enemies
  • 1942 Attack on Baku as an assassin
  • 1942 June 5th as Retzlaff
  • 1948 The Five of Titan as Hinnerk
  • 1948 Berlin ballad
  • 1953 The big ABC as Martin Sack
  • 1954 The postman passed by as Bardou
  • 1958 Restless night
  • 1958 The Schinderhannes as provost of Mainz
  • 1959 Minna Magdalena as Martin Sack
  • 1960 For last instance as Louis Turpin
  • 1960 The Lady Isn't For The Fire as Hebble Tyson
  • 1966 Münchhausen as publisher Göschen

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kramp, Joachim / Wehnert, Jürgen: Das Edgar-Wallace-Lexikon , Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2002, sv Völger, Werner, p. 674f.