Wilhelm Koch-Hooge

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Wilhelm Koch-Hooge (born February 11, 1916 in Patschkau , Upper Silesia , † September 2, 2004 in Berlin ) was a German actor who was awarded the GDR National Prize in 1955 .

Life

Gravesite of Wilhelm Koch-Hooge and his wife Ruth

His father was a chimney sweep and was a district chimney sweep. Wilhelm Koch-Hooge was the eleventh of thirteen children. As the only one of his siblings he went to high school and graduated from high school . After finishing school he wanted to be an actor, but his father demanded that he have a solid job. Wilhelm Koch-Hooge then worked temporarily as a chimney sweep , went to Hamburg and hired himself there as a seaman .

Nevertheless, Koch attended the drama school of the German Theater in Berlin. He made his debut in 1938 at the Kaiserslautern City Theater . As a stage actor, he received engagements in Heidelberg and at the Magdeburg City Theater . He was drafted during the war and was taken prisoner by the Americans in 1944/45. In the prisoner of war camp in Aliceville (Alabama) he participated as a speaker teacher and dramaturge in the puppet theater group founded and led by puppeteer Walter Büttner .

He settled in East Berlin in 1950 and played with the Berliner Ensemble for years . He made his breakthrough as a film actor in 1954 with Stronger Than the Night . The collective for this film with Slatan Dudow , Jeanne and Kurt Stern as well as Koch-Hooge was awarded the National Prize of the GDR in 1955.

Numerous appearances in film and television productions in the GDR and the ČSSR were to follow and made Koch-Hooge one of the most popular GDR actors, who remained active in his profession until the end of the 1980s.

He had one of his last roles in 1988 in the popular West German television series Liebling Kreuzberg .

Wilhelm Koch-Hooge died at the age of 88. His final resting place is in the family grave in the cemetery of the St. Hedwig and St. Pius parishes in Berlin-Alt-Hohenschönhausen .

His written estate is in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Filmography

theatre

Radio plays

literature

  • Heinz Hofmann: Artists of Our Time - Wilhelm Koch-Hooge . Berlin 1960.
  • Dieter Reimer: DEFA Stars - Legends from Babelsberg . Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-86189-717-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Knerger.de: The grave of Wilhelm Koch-Hooge
  2. ^ Wilhelm Koch Hooge archive inventory overview on the website of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin.
personal data
SURNAME Koch-Hooge, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Patschkau , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 2004
Place of death Berlin