Wolf Euba
Wolf Euba (born April 3, 1934 in Nuremberg ; † January 24, 2013 in Munich ) was a German reciter , actor , director and author of radio features .
Life
Wolf Euba grew up in Munich. After completing his English and French studies and a Fulbright scholarship in the United States , he completed an actor's training. From 1962 he became known as "the voice of Bavaria" ( SZ ) because he worked for Bavarian Radio on radio and television as a speaker, director and author.
In literary and musical solo programs, Wolf Euba worked with the accordionist Maria Reiter , the cellist Heinrich Klug, the drummer Stefan Blum, the harpsichordist Michael Eberth , the Schwabing piano trio and the conductor Markus Elsner . In addition, he took on speaking roles in oratorios (e.g. In terra pax by Frank Martin ) and melodramas (e.g. Das Hexenlied by Max von Schillings / Ernst von Wildenbruch ).
Wolf Euba died unexpectedly on January 24, 2013 in Munich.
Honors
- 1989: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis (together with Wolfgang Jeschke for the radio play Jona im Feuerofen or Das verseten Leben )
- 1999: Günther-Klinge-Kulturpreis der Gemeinde Gauting (together with Ingolf Turban )
- 2001: Silver rose from tz
- 2008: Annual Prize of the Pocci Society
- 2010: Citizen's Medal of the community of Gröbenzell
Works
Radio features
- Myths - interpretations of human life: Medea
- Contra Galileum Galilei . The chastisement of a free mind
- The cold revolution. Napoleon , Max Joseph and Montgelas , or: how Bavaria became a modern state
- "Germany, we weave your shroud" - on the Silesian weaver revolt of June 1844
- Joseph Roth : Radetzky March
- "Pieck came from the left and I came from the right" - Otto Grotewohl and the merger of the SPD and KPD to form the SED (BR June 7, 1999)
- J. Edgar Hoover - A Shadow Over America's Democracy (BR February 11, 2002)
- and many others
Radio plays
As a speaker / director / writer
- Edgar Allan Poe : The Murder on Rue Morgue (1965; role: Edgar Allan Poe)
- Carl Orff : Ein Osterspiel (Comoedia de Christi Resurrectione) (BR 1971; role:?)
- Molière : The Imaginary Sick (1972; director)
- Georg Lohmeier : Transition or Patience (1977; role: Michael)
- Hermann Moers : Die Qualle (BR 1977; director)
- Louis C. Thomas: Vigilante Justice (1978, German by Maria Frey; director)
- Carl Orff : Die Bernauerin (1980; director; role: Richter)
- Rolf and Alexandra Becker : The Experts (series, 1980–82; role: narrator)
- Ödön von Horváth : Faith, Love, Hope (1982, adaptation and direction)
- Bernhard Pfletschinger : Transit (1983, based on Anna Seghers ; director)
- HG Wells : People Equal to Gods (1983; director)
- Aldous Huxley : Brave New World (1984; director)
- Jules Verne : The Shipwrecked Jonathan (1984; director)
- Karel Čapek : The War with the Newts (1984; director)
- Kurd Laßwitz : On Two Planets (1984; director)
- Karl Amadeus Hartmann / Hermann Scherchen , Wolfgang Petzet: Simplicius Simplicissimus . Opera (radio equipment, BR 1985; role: speaker)
- Georges Simenon : Letter to my judge (1985, based on the novel of the same name ; director)
- Yevgeny Zamyatin : We (1985; director)
- Bernhard Kellermann : The Tunnel (1985; director)
- Albert Sigl : Kopfham (1986; director)
- Wolfgang Jeschke : Jona in the Fiery Furnace or The Damaged Life (June 20, 1988; director)
- Wilhelm Killmayer / Tankred Dorst : Yolimba or The Limits of Magic (BR 1991; role: speaker)
- Bernd Grashoff: The Man Who wrote Dracula (BR 1992; director)
- Michael Koser : The Last Detective - Virtuella (BR 1995; role: Dr. Mandelbrot)
- Wilhelm Busch : The Knopp Trilogy: Adventures of a Bachelor (2007; role: narrator)
- Sven Hinz: “Compose an operetta? Out of the question at all! " (BR 2009; role: Giacomo Puccini )
Radio readings, audio books
- Wilhelm Hauff : The Cold Heart (BR 1977)
- Klaus Kamphausen: The Indians of North America (2002)
- Ödön von Horváth : Little People (2003; with Martina Gedeck )
- Gustav Meyrink : The Golem (2003)
- Window to the Orient . Poems by Friedrich Rückert (2003; with Rufus Beck , Ulrike Kriener , Mareike Carrière , Doris Kunstmann , Ulrich Pleitgen , Martina Gedeck and others)
- The audio book of disasters . Texts by Hermann Harry Schmitz (with Adele Neuhauser , Alexander Netschájew, Manes Meckenstock ); Music: Duo Out Of Vienna (Wolfgang Roth, Antje Uhle )
- Ludwig Thoma : The Ruepp (2004)
- Michael Schulte : The Life of Karl Valentin (2002/04; with Josef Bierbichler , Walter Schmidinger )
- Large checkered . Worrying & Pleasing by Oskar Maria Graf (2006)
- Herbert Rosendorfer : Suburban Miniatures (2007; with Veronika-Marie von Quast )
- Johann Eisenmann: Saints and Sinners - The History of the Popes (2007)
- Peter Rosegger : When I was the forest farmer's boy (2008)
- Karl Scheffler : Thoughts on the purposeless. Essays (2008)
- Joseph Opatoshu : One day in Regensburg . German by Evita Wiecki and Sabine Koller (2009; with Evita Wiecki)
- Christmas under the snow . Two Christmas stories by Karel Klostermann (2009; with music by Johann Kaspar Mertz , played by Yvonne Zehner [guitar])
Movies
As an actor / speaker
- How I became a negro (1969; script: Helga Wittenborg, Roland Gall [based on Ödön von Horváth's novel Jugend ohne Gott ]; director: Roland Gall; role: pastor)
- Céleste (1981; screenplay and direction: Percy Adlon ; role: Robert Proust)
- Confessions of the impostor Felix Krull (1982; screenplay: Alf Brustellin ; director: Bernhard Sinkel ; role: teacher)
- Pumuckl and the Blue Klabauter (1993/94; dubbing voice for Gustl Bayrhammer )
- Das Zimmer im Spiegel (2008; screenplay and direction: Rudi Gaul; role: Weber)
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolf Euba in the catalog of the German National Library
- Wolf Euba in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Directory: Audiobooks by Wolf Euba
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Euba, wolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German reciter, radio play director and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg , Bavaria, German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 24, 2013 |
| Place of death | Munich , Bavaria, Germany |