Wilfried Elste

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Wilfried Elste (born February 9, 1939 in Neukretscham Silesia , German Empire ) is a German actor and radio play speaker .

Life

Wilfried Elste is the son of an artist and a farmer. After fleeing his Silesian homeland due to the war, the family first settled in Bad Sachsa before moving to Hanover, where the father found work as a graphic designer. Elste himself learned the carpentry trade, also played theater in an amateur drama group and, after completing the journeyman's examination, took acting lessons at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media from 1958 to 1961 . In 1962, Karl Vibach signed him to the Nordmark-Landestheater Schleswig, of which he was a member until 1964. In the same year Elste moved to the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart. There he met the director Peter Palitzsch , whom he followed to the Schauspiel Frankfurt in 1972, where he began an engagement that would last 32 years. In addition, Elste repeatedly had guest performance contracts, for example at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, at the Landesbühne Hanover , at the Lower Saxony State Theater Hanover and at the Avignon Festival . Freelance since 2004, he continues to play at Frankfurt theaters such as the Volkstheater , the Fritz Rémond Theater , the Frankfurt Opera and, as before, also at the theater.

Under directors such as Peter Eschberg , Hans Hollmann , Thomas Langhoff , Wilfried Minks , Hans Neuenfels , Claus Peymann , Einar Schleef and Peter Zadek , Elste played in Endstation Sehnsucht by Tennessee Williams , The poor cousin of Ernst Barlach , in Friedrich Schiller's Robber and Gogol's Auditor , as Isaac Newton in the physicists of Friedrich Dürrenmatt or in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night 's Dream the role of Peter Sequence .

In addition, Elste has been working as a lecturer in the field of drama at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts since 1988 .

In addition to theater engagements and teaching, Wilfried Elste has also found time to work in front of the camera since the mid-1960s. He worked in various film and television productions and was a guest actor in series such as The Strange Methods of Franz Josef Wanninger , Notarztwagen 7 , Mit Leib und Seele or Rosa Roth . Elste was also seen several times in the series Ein Fall für Zwei and in Tatort .

Also in the mid-1960s, Elste began to work as a radio play speaker, initially in productions for the Süddeutscher Rundfunk , and after moving to Schauspiel Frankfurt, then mainly for the Hessischer Rundfunk .

In 2013 Wilfried Elste was appointed honorary member of the Frankfurt Municipal Theaters by the City of Frankfurt's Magistrate . He is married and lives in Frankfurt am Main.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Wilfried Elste's website , accessed on December 16, 2015
  2. ↑ Claudia Schülke: Feelings have no place on the stage , FAZ from April 1, 2013 , accessed on December 16, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Elste, Wilfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Neukretscham , Silesia , German Empire