Wolfgang Borchert (actor)

Wolfgang Borchert (born August 11, 1922 in Königsberg ; † November 4, 2007 in Hamburg ) was a German actor . Together with Friedrich Schütter he founded the Young Theater in Hamburg, today's Ernst-Deutsch-Theater .

Life

Wolfgang Borchert was born the son of a pharmacist and an opera singer. At the age of five he was on stage for the first time in a Christmas tale at the Hamburg Thalia Theater . After a commercial apprenticeship, he served in the Caucasus from 1941 to 1945 during the Second World War and from 1946 took acting lessons from Helmuth Gmelin .

Until 2003 he was administrative director of the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater. Nevertheless, Borchert found the time to be on stage in numerous roles (including in his own house and the Ohnsorg Theater ) and to participate in film and television productions and at the Ruhr Festival in Recklinghausen . As a voice actor, for example, he voiced Derek Blomfield in the film Lord of the House I (1954). In addition, Borchert was a busy radio play speaker in High and Low German productions until 1980, including in numerous episodes of the series The Hunt for the Perpetrator .

Filmography

• 1957: The engagement in Zurich
• 1957: great night
• 1959: Nocturno in the Grand Hotel - TV movie
• 1960: The artificial silk girl
• 1964: Davidswache police station
• 1967: Thirteen Letters - TV series
• 1969: Ida Rogalski - TV series
• 1970: Police radio calls ; Consequence: the beneficiary
• 1970: Maximilian of Mexico - TV film
• 1971: Sparks in New Greenland - TV movie
• 1973: The Lord von Barmbeck
• 1973: Crime scene: Cherchez la femme or the ghosts from Mummelsee - TV series
• 1974: Crime scene: Blechschaden - TV series
• 1974: Bismarck from behind or We never close - TV film
• 1976: The Lord von Barmbeck
• 1977: The Law of the Clan
• 1986: Tatort: ​​Death on Ice - TV series
• 1993: The Rat

Radio plays (selection)

• 1948: Radio plays of the time (9th episode: The Axel Petersen case) - Author: Carl Dietrich Carls - Director: Ludwig Cremer - NWDR
• 1949: Shooting Stars - Author: Horst-Günther Patzke - Director: Gustav Burmester - NWDR
• 1949: The Obergrunder Christmas Game - Author: Anton Gruda - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn - NWDR
• 1949: Paul Temple and the Gregory Affair - Writer: Francis Durbridge - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn - NWDR
• 1950: A Son of the Sun - Writer: Jack London - Director: Curt Becker - NWDR
• 1950: The man at the bridge - author: Lucille Fletcher - director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn - NWDR
• 1950: The jump over the shadow - author: Ellie Tschauner - director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn - NWDR
• 1951: The way to the space ship - Author: Heinz Gartmann - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn - NWDR
• 1952: Dark wishes - author: Walther von Hollander - director: Hans Lietzau - NWDR
• 1954: The things with Fadenherr - author: Josef Martin Bauer - director: Kurt Reiss - NWDR
• 1955: Interlude - Author: Joachim Friedrich Meyer - Director: SO Wagner - NWDR
• 1957: The hunt for the perpetrator (episode 12: Murder on the Matterhorn) - author and director: Kurt Reiss - NDR
• 1958: Malmgreen - author: Walter Erich Schäfer - director: Kurt Hübner - NDR
• 1962: Een was missing - Author: Walter Köster - Director: Curt Timm - NDR
• 1962: De Soot - author: Dieter Bellmann - director: Friedrich Schütter - NDR
• 1966: De Hölten Deern - Author: Hans Heitmann - Director: Günther Siegmund - NDR
• 1971: De Slankheitskur - author: Jep Nissen Andersen - director: Karl-Heinz Kreienbaum - NDR
• 1974: Max un Moritz - author: Wilhelm Busch - director: Friedrich Schütter - NDR
• 1975: Rohrbacher - Author: Wilhelm Staudacher - Director: Friedrich Schütter - NDR / RB
• 1980: Channel X or The Concentration Model - Author: Ingomar von Kieseritzky - Director: Hans Rosenhauer - NDR

Awards

• 1997: Biermann Ratjen Medal

Web links

• Wolfgang Borchert in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marilen Andrist: we are performing ! Ernst Deutsch Theater , Dölling and Galitz Verlag GmbH, Hamburg, ISBN 3-935549-07-5