Winfried Wagner (actor)

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Winfried Wagner (born October 24, 1937 in Sebnitz ; † June 16, 2018 ) was a German actor .

Life

Winfried Wagner was born in 1937 as the seventh of eight children to a Catholic family of teachers in Sebnitz, Saxony. He belonged to the Dresden Kapellknaben until his Abitur , and had a high-pitched baritone singing voice with a wonderful timbre. The actress Antonia Dietrich discovered the theatrical talent of the choir boy during a Christmas performance and he began studying at the Leipzig Theater School .

After this training he came to the Meininger Theater until his former teacher Otto Lang brought him to the German National Theater in Weimar . In 1963 he was appointed to the Volksbühne Berlin by Wolfgang Heinz , of which he was a member until 2006. Here Wagner also found his way to song and reading evenings, and his musical training also helped him. Another large part of his work had television, for which he participated in many films.

From 1990 to 1992 Winfried Wagner was the acting director of the Berliner Volksbühne. He found his final resting place in the forest cemetery in 15712 Senzig , Friedhofsweg.

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Radio plays

Synchronized work

Movie year role actor
The princess with the gold star 1959 Prince Radovan Josef Zima
Planet of Storms 1962 Alyosha Gennady Wernow
war and peace 1966-1967 Andrei Bolkonski Anatoly Ktorov
Anna Karenina 1967 Vronsky Vasily Lanovoi
Crime and Punishment 1970 Rodion Romanowitsch Raskolnikow Georgi Taratorkin
The tall blonde with the black shoe 1972 Francois Perrin Pierre Richard

Awards

  • 1980: Critics' award of the Berliner Zeitung for the role of the cashier in From morning to midnight by Georg Kaiser in the Volksbühne Berlin.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Private obituary notice in the Berliner Zeitung from 23./24. June 2018, p. 22
  2. ^ Obituary notice of the Volksbühne in the Berliner Zeitung of 23/24. June 2018, p. 22
  3. ↑ Neue Zeit of July 2, 1966, p. 6
  4. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of September 27, 1980, p. 7
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Winfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Sebnitz
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 2018