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Will Quadflieg as Jedermann and Roswitha Posselt as debt servant's wife, Salzburg Festival 1952

Will Quadflieg (born September 15, 1914 in Oberhausen ; † November 27, 2003 in Osterholz-Scharmbeck ; actually Friedrich Wilhelm Quadflieg ) was a German actor and radio play speaker who also worked as a reciter and theater director . From 1952 to 1959 he played Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival ; the staging of Goethe's Faust. The first part of the tragedy from 1957, in which he played the title role alongside Gustaf Gründgens , was filmed in 1960. He is the father of Christian Quadflieg and Roswitha Quadflieg .

Live and act

Quadflieg grew up as the son of the inspector Franz Quadflieg. His mother Maria was born Schütz. Will Quadflieg took private acting lessons while still at school, later with Vera Prellwitz in Mülheim . After graduating from high school in 1933, he became an apprentice at the Oberhausen Theater , which at the time was still a small theater for the city council, in which operettas were performed. He made his debut in the role of "Weyland" in the operetta Friederike by Franz Lehár . Via the stations in Gießen , Gera , Düsseldorf (with Walter Bruno Iltz ) and Heidelberg , he came to Berlin in 1936 , where he continued his stage career at the Volksbühne with Eugen Klöpfer and at the Schiller Theater, among others with Heinrich George , and rose to become a well-known theater actor. In 1938 Quadflieg played Winnetou based on a book based on the Dimmler version by Ludwig Körner in a performance at the Freie Volksbühne Berlin.

The artistic directors under whom he worked collaborated in part with the Nazi regime . Will Quadflieg himself did not share the views of the National Socialists, but enjoyed advantages through his stage work in that he was not forced to do military service. He was provided by his employer uk (indispensable). But he was also involved in two propaganda films "to raise morale", which he later regretted. Quadflieg remained one of the few artists who dealt self-critically with National Socialism after the war and sought clarification and reconciliation; at an advanced age he was still involved in the peace movement and for the Greens . In his own view, his biggest mistake during the Nazi era had been to lead an apolitical private life without paying sufficient attention to what was happening and the political developments around him. Quadflieg became a member of an animal protection party founded in advance of the Greens .

During the re-establishment of theater culture in Hamburg , Quadflieg was engaged at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus from 1947 and at the same time at the Schauspielhaus Zurich and at the Salzburg Festival as Jedermann in Hugo von Hofmannsthal 's parable play of the same name . From 1956 to 1962 he worked under the management of Gustaf Gründgens . In 1960 he played the title role in the successful theatrical adaptation of Goethe's Faust I , which made him known to an international audience. In the radio play Fährten in der Prärie (1959, by Günter Eich ), Quadflieg once again devoted himself to the role of Winnetou. In 1964 he played the title role in Shakespeare's Macbeth at the Burgtheater in Vienna .

In the 1960s and 1970s, things got quieter around Will Quadflieg, who made no secret of his traditional theatrical conception, which was committed to the authors. In the late 1960s, this brought him into opposition to the new generation of theater makers who were establishing themselves, who politicized conventional, classical theater culture and deliberately thwarted stage traditions in order to place them in contemporary social contexts. It was not until the mid-1970s that Quadflieg appeared on stage again, at this time and later again and again in productions by the director Rudolf Noelte , to whom he felt personally and conceptually connected in his theater work. In Noelte he was including as Alceste in Moliere's Misanthrope , as Thomas Paine in Georg Buchner's Danton's Death and finally in Gerhart Hauptmann's Michael Kramer to see on stage. From 1983 he worked repeatedly at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg (mainly under the direction of Jürgen Flimm), where he performed until his death.

Will Quadflieg in 1998 at the Frankfurt Book Fair

Will Quadflieg was a theater and stage artist who attached great importance to a well-modulated and expressive way of speaking in addition to the acting. While he gained great fame in his younger years primarily through classical roles such as Romeo, Hamlet , Othello , Macbeth , Faust, Mephisto , Tasso , Don Carlos and Nathan , in the second half of his life he turned to contemporary authors just as successfully as Jean-Paul Sartre , John Osborne , Botho Strauss . In addition, he made a name for himself as a reciter with numerous speech records and lecture evenings. He has also appeared in film and television productions, for example in Dieter Wedel's four-parter Der große Bellheim , but also in various crime productions. But he always remained connected to the theater as his actual place of activity.

Quadflieg has been reading well-known poems and literary works (including The Little Prince , The Steppenwolf ) for the classic label Deutsche Grammophon since the 1960s , making him a pioneer of audio books . In the 1980s, Quadflieg was the narrator of the general plot and the overarching context in the successful radio play series We discover composers , including about Johannes Brahms , Ludwig van Beethoven and Johann Sebastian Bach .

From 1940 to 1963 he was married to the Swede Benita von Vegesack (1917–2011) and after the divorce since 1963 in his second marriage to the actress Margarete Jacobs (* 1936).

With his first wife, Benita, he became the father of five children: Isolde (* 1940), Lars (* 1942), Christian (* 1945), Manuel (1948–1981) and Roswitha (* 1949). The daughter Sabina Trooger (* 1955) comes from a relationship with Margot Trooger . The son Christian and the daughter Sabina became actors, the daughter Roswitha became a graphic artist and writer.

Quadflieg spent the last decades of his life in his house in Heilshorn in Lower Saxony . He died of a pulmonary embolism in the Osterholz-Scharmbeck hospital at the age of 89. He was buried anonymously in the Werschenrege municipal cemetery .

Since 2006, the square next to the Oberhausen Theater has been called Will-Quadflieg-Platz in his honor. In Osterholz-Scharmbeck, Will-Quadflieg-Straße is named after him.

Filmography

Radio plays (selection)

Awards

literature

Autobiography

  • “We always play. Memories. ”, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-596-22134-X .

Web links

Commons : Will Quadflieg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. XV. Edition of Degeners who is it ?, Berlin 1967, p. 1519.
  2. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_(Berlin_1938)
  3. ↑ wienerzeitung.at: Extra - A mime with a sonorous voice . Retrieved April 19, 2015 .
  4. ↑ http://www.karl-may-hoerspiele.info/vpersonzuord.php?_id=828
  5. ↑ Theater legend: Will Quadflieg is dead. In: Spiegel Online . December 3, 2003, accessed January 5, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Benita Quadflieg - Benita Quadflieg Foundation. In: benita-quadflieg-stiftung.de. Retrieved January 5, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Roswitha Quadflieg: The death of my brother. The subjective perception of a family . Ark Publishing House. 1985.
  8. ↑ To rename the Theaterplatz to Will-Quadflieg-Platz  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 17, 2010.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.theater.de  
  9. ↑ Entertaining in a sophisticated way. Shakespeare's Hamlet as a radio play for children: Clüversborsteler composed the music. In: Rotenburger Rundschau . May 26, 2003. Accessed July 17, 2012.
  10. ↑ Helmut Soering: Hamburg loses its greatest actor . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , December 4, 2003, p. 8.
personal data
SURNAME Quad fly, Will
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quadflieg, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 2003
Place of death Osterholz-Scharmbeck