Wolfgang Brunecker

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The actor and director Wolfgang Brunecker in a portrait shot by the Berlin photographer Werner Bethsold

Wolfgang Brunecker (born December 10, 1914 in Zwickau , Saxony , † June 26, 1992 in Berlin ; actually Wolfgang Waßer ) was a German actor and radio play director .

Life

Wolfgang Waßer, the real name of the artist, first studied theater studies in Leipzig, then took acting lessons in Munich from 1938 to 1940 and made his debut as an actor on a stage in Freiberg in 1940 . During the Second World War he was taken prisoner by the French as a Wehrmacht soldier, but in 1946 he started his stage activities again at venues in Tübingen and Karlsruhe. Then he moved to the GDR . From 1951 to 1952 he was engaged by the German National Theater in Weimar and then until 1954 by the German Theater in Berlin. After being appointed senior director at the theaters in Cottbus and Plauen, he was employed by the GDR radio station in 1956 , where he worked as an actor, radio play director and speaker until he retired in 1980.

In addition to his work for the theater and radio, Brunecker has also worked in DEFA feature films and DFF television productions as a character actor since the 1950s , such as in 1958 in The Song of the Sailors , in 1962 as Governor Lightwell in the television film Mord in Gateway and in 1965 in as long as there is life in me .

Wolfgang Brunecker was married to the actress Brigitte Waßer .

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Radio plays

Director

  • 1958: Rolf Schneider : Resistance (radio play - radio of the GDR )
  • 1959: Rolf H. Czayka : Der Wolf von Benedetto (radio play - radio of the GDR)
  • 1960: Rolf Schneider: The Third Crusade or The Wonderful Story of the Knight Kunifried von Raupenbiel and his Aventiures (radio play - Rundfunk der DDR)
  • 1960: Wolfgang Beck / Walter Karl Schweickert : Erich lasts the longest (radio play - radio of the GDR)
  • 1960: Axel Kielland : One says no (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
  • 1961: Jane Kavcic : Train No. 612 (radio play - radio of the GDR)
  • 1961: Heinrich Böll : For tea with Doctor Borsig (radio play - radio of the GDR)
  • 1962: Charles Dickens : Oliver Twist (children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
  • 1963: John Lilly : Alexander and Campaspe (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
  • 1963: Gerhard Jäckel : Die Wahnmörderin (radio play - radio of the GDR)
  • 1964: Alexander Kent : Grenzstation (radio play - radio of the GDR)
  • 1965: Heinz Knobloch : Pardon for Bütten (children's radio play - radio of the GDR)
  • 1965: Richard Groß : The expert is dead (radio play - Rundfunk der DDR)
  • 1966: Lothar Kleine : Gott auf Hiwa Oa (biography - radio of the GDR)
  • 1967: Petko Todorow : The Dragon Wedding (radio play - radio of the GDR)
  • 1968: Giles Cooper : The indigestible oyster (radio play comedy - radio of the GDR)
  • 1968: Hans Pfeiffer : Down there in Alabama (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
  • 1969: Armin Müller : Faces (radio play - radio of the GDR)
  • 1969: Karl-Heinrich Bonn / Maria Bonn : Die Reise nach K. (radio play - radio of the GDR)
  • 1975: Irmgard Keun : The Artificial Silk Girl (radio play - radio of the GDR)
  • 1980: Norbert Klein : Everything is different (radio play series: Neumann, ring twice - Broadcasting of the GDR)
  • 1981: Peter Gauglitz : Drei Schweizer Uhren (radio play series: Cases of the criminal candidate Marzahn, No. 1 - Broadcasting of the GDR)
  • 1985: Alfred de Musset : You don't play with love (radio play - Rundfunk der DDR)

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personal data
SURNAME Brunecker, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waßer, Wolfgang (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1992
Place of death Berlin