Wolfgang Buettner

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Wolfgang Büttner (born June 1, 1912 in Rostock ; † November 18, 1990 in Gauting - Stockdorf ) was a German actor , radio play and voice actor .

biography

After graduating from high school in 1930, the son of a doctor studied German , drama , Romance and English for a few semesters in Rostock and Göttingen . But very soon he realized his preference for acting and gave up studying. In 1932 he went to Max Reinhardt at the drama school of the German Theater in Berlin . In 1934 he completed his training with the exam and got his first engagement in the ensemble of Agnes Straub . In 1937 he came to the theater in Frankfurt am Main via the Altona City Theater .

His job kept him for a long time and until 1944 before convening for the Wehrmacht . In the last year of the Second World War , Wolfgang Büttner was called up after all. He survived the war in French captivity, from which he returned in 1946. He immediately resumed his work as a theater actor. Büttner went to Munich, where he appeared at the Junge Theater in 1947. In 1948 he became a member of the Bavarian State Theater . In 1960 he left the house in an argument after disagreements with the then director Helmut Henrichs . In the following years he gave numerous theater guest performances on many large German theaters.

1950 began his career as a film actor with the feature film Crown Jewels . Having only been at the front for a relatively short time, he was then filled, predominantly in the 1950s and 1960s, similar to his colleague Wolfgang Preiss , preferably for "military roles". Both appeared together in 1955 under the direction of Falk Harnack in the feature film July 20 , which refers to the failed assassination attempt against Adolf Hitler in the summer of 1944, in the leading roles.

German television soon became aware of the charismatic actor with the distinctive voice, for whom he mainly worked from the end of the 1950s, in addition to the theater. In 1959 he played together with Heinz Weiss and Hans Epskamp in the Umgelter film adaptation of the novel As far as feet carry the camp doctor Dr. Heinz Stauffer, and a year later, also with Fritz Umgelter , a. a. next to Utz Richter , Hans Pössenbacher and Anneli Granget , General Freiherr von Hach and zu Malserhaiden in Am green beach of the Spree . Both productions were the street sweepers of the then young German television and contributed greatly to Büttner's popularity.

In addition to many leading and supporting roles in television plays and theater films, he often played guest roles in well-known television series. In the science fiction series Raumpatrouille he was seen in the episode Die Raumfalle as a scientist Tourenne exiled to the penal colony of Mura, who tries to escape to the "Frogs" with the Orion VIII.

The versatile mime, who had suffered from progressive paralysis since the 1960s, was also often active as a voice actor. Among many others he lent his voice to Edward G. Robinson ( The Night Has A Thousand Eyes ), Donald Pleasence ( James Bond 007 - You Only Live Twice , Broken Chains ), Cyril Cusack ( The Spy Who Came Out Of The Cold ), John Gielgud ( Becket ) and Laurence Olivier ( Peter the Great ). One could also experience the fascination of his voice in numerous radio plays.

Büttner was married to the actress Eleonore Noelle (1924-2004). They had two children. The son died in June 1971 as a result of a rail accident.

In 1988 Büttner was last seen on stage. In a wheelchair he played the Grand Inquisitor in Don Karlos in a production by Niels-Peter Rudolph in Stuttgart . Wolfgang Büttner's grave is located in the Gräfelfing cemetery in the Munich district .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1972: Alarm TV series
  • 1972: End of a business trip (TV film)
  • 1973: The Red Scarf (TV movie)
  • 1973: Die Powenzbande (TV series)
  • 1973: Just Sail Away (TV Movie)
  • 1974: Karl May
  • 1975: Callsign (TV series)
  • 1975: The Lawyer (TV series)
  • 1975: Memento mori (TV movie)
  • 1975: A German Assassination Attack (TV Movie)
  • 1975: The rope around the neck (three-part television film)
  • 1976: Senior Switzerland (TV film)
  • 1976: Derrick (TV series, episode: Death of the Trumpeter )
  • 1977: Eurydice or the Girl from Nowhere (TV movie)
  • 1977: Time of Sensibility (TV film)
  • 1978: Gesche Gottfried (TV movie)
  • 1978: The Spirit of Mirabelle, Stories by Bollerup (TV)
  • 1978: Marja (TV movie)
  • 1979: The Forest (TV movie)
  • 1979: Michael Kohlhaas
  • 1979: Steiner - The Iron Cross - Part 2
  • 1979: Derrick (TV series, episode An Eerie House )
  • 1979: Richard Strauss - no hero life (TV film)
  • 1981: The Judge (TV movie)
  • 1981: The Knapp Family - TV series
  • 1981: Crime scene - African violets
  • 1982: The Peacocks (TV movie)
  • 1983: Hanna from eight to eight
  • 1984: Ghost Stories (TV series)
  • 1985: Der Fahnder (TV series, episode A Dead Runs Amok )
  • 1985: The Black Forest Clinic (TV series, episode euthanasia )
  • 1987: Dead or Alive (TV movie)

Radio plays (selection)

literature

  • Nina Grabe: Büttner, Wolfgang . In: Manfred Brauneck, Wolfgang Beck (ed.): Theater Lexikon 2. Actors and directors, stage managers, dramaturges and stage designers . Rowohlt's encyclopedia published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag. Reinbek near Hamburg, August 2007, ISBN 978 3 499 55650 0 , p. 112

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the first matriculation from 1930 in the Rostock matriculation portal . A second matriculation in Rostock took place in the winter semester 1931/32.
  2. ^ Klaus Nerger: Wolfgang Büttner's grave at the Gräfelfing cemetery
personal data
SURNAME Büttner, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, radio play and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1990
Place of death Gauting - Stockdorf