Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger

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Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger (born October 11, 1942 in Zeitz ) is a German actor , director and writer .

Life

Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger grew up in Zeitz. In 1957 he moved to West Berlin because he feared that he would not be able to study in the GDR . After graduating from high school in 1963, he studied German and theater studies there at the Free University of Berlin . During his studies he played student theater.

In 1968 Sprenger received his first engagement at the Flensburg City Theaters. This was followed by an engagement at the United City Theaters in Krefeld and Mönchengladbach . There he was on stage in Max Frisch's Andorra and in the title role in Peter Weiss ' Hölderlin . In 1972 he moved to the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg . Sprenger took part in Ödön von Horváth's Faith Love Hope , Ibsen's Ghosts and The Wild Duck , in the production by Peter Zadek . Under Jürgen Flimm he played in Danton's death by Georg Büchner . In 1979 he followed Flimm to the Cologne theater . In Cologne he appeared on stage as “Mephisto” in Goethe's Faust . In 1985 he went back to Hamburg with Flimm to the Thalia Theater . During this time he played the "Truffaldino" in Carlo Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters and the "Malvolio" in Shakespeare's What You Want . Since 1997 he has been working as a freelance actor without a permanent commitment. Most recently, Sprenger was seen as "Henrik" in Ingmar Bergmans After the Rehearsal , directed by Luk Perceval, at the Hanover Theater and the Thalia Theater.

Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger has also worked as a theater director since the early 1980s. For example, he staged Endstation Sehnsucht by Tennessee Williams and Die Ratten by Gerhart Hauptmann at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus . Further productions led him a. a. to the Hamburg Ernst Deutsch Theater , the Schauspielhaus Bochum , the Schauspielhaus Zurich and the Schauspiel Bremen . His production of Pierre Sauvil's Sun for Two was performed in the Renaissance Theater in Berlin in 2002 and in the Comedy Düsseldorf in 2003 .

As an author, Sprenger has written plays, especially for children. These were performed by various German-speaking theaters.

He has been a busy film and television actor since the 1970s. He took part in eleven episodes of the Tatort television series , and in 13 episodes he played the teacher Grützge in the series Our Teacher Doctor Specht . He can be seen again and again in guest roles in well-known television series, for example in Liebling Kreuzberg , Großstadtrevier , Wolffs Revier , Ein Fall für Zwei , SOKO Köln , Polizeiruf 110 . In the remake of And Jimmy went to the rainbow , he played the criminal officer Groll in 2008.

Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger is married to the actress Victoria Trauttmansdorff and has two daughters. The family lives in Hamburg.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger at rowohlt-theaterverlag.de, accessed on November 3, 2014
  2. ↑ a b Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger at komoedie-steinstrasse.de, accessed from the web archive on October 7, 2018
  3. ↑ Audience touched by psychological theater . Armgard Seegers. In Hamburger Abendblatt of September 10, 2009, accessed on Abendblatt.de on November 3, 2014
  4. ↑ Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger at renaissance-theater.de, accessed on November 3, 2014
  5. ↑ Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger , Vita at hsverlag.com, accessed on November 3, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Sprenger, Wolf-Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Time