Willi Schwabe

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Schwabe with students from the Anton-Saefkow-Oberschule (Prenzlauer Berg) at the youth consecration in 1976

Willi Schwabe (born March 21, 1915 in Berlin ; † July 12, 1991 there ) was a German actor , singer and presenter .

Life

Willi Schwabe was born the son of opera singers. After training as a set designer at the School of Applied Arts in Berlin, Willi Schwabe took private acting lessons in Berlin from 1934 to 1936 and worked on various traveling stages. He then appeared in small roles at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. After he returned from English captivity, he was engaged at the Schlosspark Theater in Steglitz, then at the Youth Stage. From 1949 he worked at the Berliner Ensemble , where he mainly appeared in works by Brecht .

He achieved particular popularity through the television program Willi Schwabes Rumpelkammer , which he presented almost 400 times on GDR television from 1955 to 1990 . In it he guided entertainingly through German film history with excerpts, props and sequences. After his illness, Friedrich Schoenfelder continued to run the junk room several times before it was discontinued in the course of the liquidation of the German television broadcasting company (DFF).

Willi Schwabe was married to the actress Dorothea Thiesing (1909–1990). His daughter Gabriele, born in 1945, is an opera singer. The family also has a younger son. In 1972 he was awarded the Art Prize of the GDR and in 1985 the Heinrich Greif Prize . In May 1990, he suffered severe cerebral haemorrhage as a result of a bicycle fall, from which he did not recover.

In Berlin-Adlershof there has been a Willi-Schwabe-Strasse since 2002 .

Creation (selection)

Grave of Willi Schwabe in the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof in Berlin

theatre

Filmography

watch TV

Radio plays

literature

Web links

Commons : Willi Schwabe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willi Schwabe (†) brought us back the glamor of the UFA stars. Retrieved April 17, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Winner of the GDR Art Prize 1972 , In: Neues Deutschland , June 7, 1972, p. 6
  3. ^ DEFA chronicle for 1985, entry March 15. DEFA Foundation , accessed on March 21, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Joachim Schmidt: In memory of an Altglienicker village legend - On the 100th birthday of Willi Schwabe. In: Der Dörferblick, edition 04/2015. Retrieved October 4, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Schwabe, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, singer and presenter
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1991
Place of death Berlin