Wilhelm Wieben

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Wilhelm Wieben, 2010

Wilhelm Wieben (born June 2, 1935 in Hennstedt , Norderdithmarschen district ; † June 13, 2019 in Hamburg ) was a German news anchor , actor and author . From 1973 to 1998 he was the spokesman for ARD - Tagesschau .

biography

After his first job in local government, Wieben completed an acting training at the Max Reinhardt School for Drama in Berlin with smaller roles at the theater. He then worked as a broadcaster at the Sender Freies Berlin before he switched to Radio Bremen , where he was used more often. He made his television debut as an announcer in 1963. Among other things, he announced the first broadcast of the Beat Club .

He worked in the Tagesschau editorial team in Hamburg from 1966, initially as an off-speaker , before he made his debut as an on-speaker for the Tagesschau in 1973. On May 5, 1974, he first spoke the 8 p.m. edition, and for the last time on June 24, 1998. Wieben's last assignment as spokesman for the Tagesschau was on June 29, 1998. He left the show at his own request and said goodbye with the brief words “Thank you, that's it”.

Wieben remained connected to the drama by repeatedly taking on smaller and larger roles. In the 1980s, he played the speaking role of Bassa Selim in Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail on the stage of the Hamburg State Opera for nine seasons . In the mid-1990s he played Emperor Franz Joseph more than 70 times in the White Horse Inn in Hamburg's Tivoli Theater .

In the title Jeanny by the Austrian singer Falco from 1985, Wieben spoke for a fee of 2000  marks the newsflash that occurs in it , in the music video for the song he can be seen briefly as a newscaster. He made a short film appearance in the 1995 comedy Club Las Piranjas with Tana Schanzara . In 2007 Wieben contributed the intro of the 80's flashback sampler, on which well-known German hip-hop artists reinterpreted the successes of the 1980s. He is also mentioned in the songs Mein Ding by Udo Lindenberg and Can these eyes lie? by the Hamburg hip-hop group Fettes Brot . In 2004 he dubbed a newscaster in the animated film The Incredibles .

Most recently Wieben, who lives in Hamburg-Winterhude , wrote mainly books in Low German and recited from them. He saw Low German as his mother tongue ; He only learned standard German at school. In addition to his own books, he also read from numerous other works, recorded audio books and was occasionally active as a television presenter .

Private life

Wieben was homosexual , but always treated it discreetly. Inge Meysel outed him in 1995 when she stated in an interview with the star : “Actually, I only have gay friends. For example, I like to travel with Wilhelm Wieben. ”He did not resent Meysel for the involuntary outing and agreed with Stern that the interview passage should be published.

Wilhelm Wieben died in June 2019 at the age of 84. He was cremated , and the urn in the Baltic seebestattet . His estate was auctioned off by the Hamburg auction house Kendzia according to his last will .

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Works

Books

Sound carrier (as speaker)

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Wieben  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Former "Tagesschau" spokesman Wilhelm Wieben is dead. In: spiegel.de. June 13, 2019
  2. Anonymous: You always have the last word. The TV announcers have already been introduced. Today it is the turn of the gentlemen . In: Hörzu (?), March 1964.
  3. a b mourning for the tagesschau spokesman: Wilhelm Wieben is dead. In: tagesschau.de. June 13, 2019, accessed June 15, 2019.
  4. a b c d Alexander Josefowicz: Wieben is celebrating his 80th birthday with Berghoff. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . June 2, 2015, accessed May 17, 2017.
  5. Wieben gets out of the "Tagesschau". In: Abendblatt.de. July 10, 1998, accessed July 18, 2019.
  6. On the death of Wilhelm Wieben - clear announcement. In: faz.net. June 13, 2019, accessed June 13, 2019
  7. Katja Schwemmers: Wilhelm Wiebens last interview - The “Tagesschau” star and the rape scandal. In: mopo.de. June 13, 2019, accessed June 13, 2019 .
  8. Ex- "Tagesschau" spokesman Wilhelm Wieben is dead. In: queer.de. Retrieved June 14, 2019 .
  9. Note at synchron.stimme.com , accessed on May 17, 2017.
  10. Wilhelm Wieben reads on Platt. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . September 15, 2009, accessed June 13, 2019 .
  11. Evelyn Holst: 8 p.m. In: The time . August 28, 2008, accessed June 13, 2019 .
  12. ^ The grave of Wilhelm Wieben. In: knerger.de. Klaus Nerger, accessed on July 24, 2019 .
  13. The missing sailor. Retrieved June 30, 2020 .