Wolfgang Bathke

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Wolfgang Bathke (* 1944 in Berlin ) is a German actor .

Life

Bathke made his first acting experiences as a child. As a nine-year-old he played an errand boy at the Berlin State Opera . He then completed a two-year training course as an electrician from 1965 ; During this time he worked as a cabaret artist in the cabaret "Die Pillen". From 1967 to 1970 he attended the Ernst Busch drama school in Berlin-Schöneweide . He had his first theater engagement in the 1971/1972 season at the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater in Zittau . From 1973 (until 1979) he worked as a freelance actor in the GDR . He played Karl Moor in Die Räuber and President von Walter in Kabale und Liebe on GDR stages .

He came to West Berlin as part of a family reunification . He played theater and appeared in cabaret , including programs for the Berlin cabaret Die Stachelschweine . He had theater engagements at the Freie Volksbühne (1980 in The Investigation ), at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm (1980, in Ernest Thompson's Das Haus am See ), at the Renaissance Theater , at the Berliner Kammerspiele (1982, in Die Physiker ) and at the Hansa Theater (1996, as defense attorney for Sir Wilfrid Robarts in the prosecution ). In 2009/2010 he played the role of Mr. Schumacher in the dance musical Dirty Dancing at the Theater am Potsdamer Platz in Berlin .

In the GDR , Bathke had a smaller role in the DEFA film Die Insel der Silberreiher , as well as roles in the television series The Public Prosecutor Has the Word and For Murder No Proof . Since 1980 Bathke has also worked for West German television and for the cinema . He had his first early role in the West in 1980 as a speaker for the Salvation Army in Berlin Alexanderplatz . Bathke then took on several continuous series roles, recurring episode roles and guest roles.

In 1982, directed by Wolfgang Staudte , he played Steiger Zissmann in the family saga The Pawlaks - A Story from the Ruhr Area . He had a continuous series role in the 1980s as sleazy bank director Kneisel in the ZDF family series The Wicherts from next door . He also played in several episodes of the ARD series Drei Damen vom Grill . He had other series appearances in Cirkus Humberto and alongside Thekla Carola Wied in How good that there is Maria .

Became famous for Bathke especially in the role of sober, but also stubborn Detective Chief Commissioner Stefan Kehler in RTL - crime series In the Name of the Law , where he, among others, together with since 1994 Mariella Ahrens , Wolfgang Krewe , Axel Pape and Matthias Bullach played.

In the cinema Bathke was seen in smaller roles in the films Escape from Sobibor and Hitler Youth Salomon, among others.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The film database IMDb names 1940 as the year of birth. In other sources, 1944 is given as the year of birth, entry on Filmportal. Bathke himself states 1944 as the year of birth on his homepage.
  2. ↑ The actor Wolfgang Bathke Short portrait at Opal Filmproduktion
  3. ↑ RTL press kit in the name of the law , October 2004
  4. ^ The piece after the film performance review in: Berliner Zeitung from August 19, 1996
  5. ^ Dirty Dancing - The original live on stage in Berlin cast
personal data
SURNAME Bathke, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bathke, wolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin