Willi Kowalj
Willi Kowalj (born February 6, 1943 in Berlin ; † 1988 ) was a German actor .
Life
Kowalj was the son of a Russian woman and a German woman. After his theater training in the early 1960s , stage engagements followed in Coburg , Dortmund , Düsseldorf , Munich , Bad Hersfeld and Stuttgart . In Dortmund he had a particular success with the Romeo in Romeo and Juliet in the 1960s, although fencing is said to have caused him great difficulties. In 1979 he played in Hamburg under Rudolf Noelte in Shaw's The Doctor at the Crossroads .
He became known in 1971 with the role of "Aloysius Pankburn" in The Sea Wolf . He later appeared in the series PS - Feuerreiter (1979). Kowalj was also frequently seen in the Derrick and Der Alte ranks . He died at the end of the 1980s -years, according to his former stage partner Katerina Jacob to AIDS .
Web links
- Willi Kowalj in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Date and place of birth according to the television archive of Kay Less
- ↑ a b Katerina Jacob: Everything just theater: My crazy life on tour. MVG-Verlag, 2016. ISBN 9783864159558
- ↑ Benjamin Henrichs: Noelte in need. Die Zeit, September 28, 1979, accessed on May 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Thomas Bräutigam: Classics of television films: The best of 60 years of television history. Schüren Verlag 2013. ISBN 9783894728038
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kowalj, Willi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1988 |