Wolfgang Condrus

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Wolfgang Condrus (born February 11, 1941 in Berlin-Schöneberg ; born Wolfgang Breuer ) is a German film and theater actor as well as dubbing , radio drama and audio book interpreter . His voice is best known through numerous dubbings by the American actors Ed Harris , Jeff Daniels , Mark Harmon , Sam Neill and Hugo Weaving . In the category “Outstanding Male Dubbing”, Condrus received the 2006 German Prize for Synchronizing as the German voice of Choi Min-sik in the South Korean cinema production Oldboy .

Live and act

Theater, film and television

The son of the actors and actresses Siegfried Breuer (1906–1954) and Lia Condrus (1918–1997) appeared as a child actor at the theater in early youth, in 1952 at the Berlin Comedy and in 1955 at the Schlossparktheater alongside Bernhard Minetti . He also worked in several film and television productions, including as Günter in Postman Müller (1953) at the side of Heinz Rühmann , as Gustav with the horn in Emil and the detectives (1954) and as a page in Charley's aunt (1956). In 1956 he became mayor of Kalle and took on the title role.

After graduating from high school, Condrus completed an acting training at the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin and was then engaged there from 1960 to 1966. During this time he stepped u. a. in the Shakespeare comedy As You Like It , in Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind and in Goethe's Faust II . In 1967 Condrus was involved in the German-language premiere of Peter Weiss ' Gesang vom Lusitanischen Popanz at the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer .

As a freelance actor, he then made guest appearances at numerous theater stages, including in Berlin at the Hansa-Theater in Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm (1980), at the Freie Volksbühne and at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm as well as at the Komödie im Marquardt in Stuttgart . He played Dromio in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors and Stephan Fjodorow in The Righteous by Albert Camus . After various film engagements in the 1960s and 1970s, including the remake Die Feuerzangenbowle , Condrus only acted sporadically in front of the camera from the beginning of the 1980s and shifted his professional focus to film dubbing .

synchronization

Since Der Grenzwolf (1980) Wolfgang Condrus has been used for the dubbing of Ed Harris with a few exceptions , and since The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) also for Jeff Daniels . He has also been heard as the German voice of Malcolm McDowell since Das fgende Auge (1983) and Sam Neill since Das Piano (1993) , for example in Jurassic Park (1993) and also in Der Pferdeflüsterer (1998).

A selection of other casts include Michael Palin in the British medieval parody Jabberwocky (1977), Keith Carradine in the literary film adaptation The Duellists (1977), Robin Williams in the tragic comedy Garp and How He Saw the World (1982), Harvey Keitel in Italian Thriller Copkiller (1983), Daniel Auteuil in the French period film Die Bartholomäusnacht (1994) and Hugo Weaving in the fantasy film trilogy The Lord of the Rings (2000s).

Condrus also took on well-known series synchronizing roles with Dack Rambo as Jack Ewing in Dallas (1985–1987), Jan-Michael Vincent as Stringfellow Huckleberry Hawke in Airwolf (1986–1988), Mark Harmon as Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs in Navy CIS (2003–) , Malcolm McDowell as Mr. Linderman in Heroes (2007), Tzi Ma as Cheng Zi in 24 (2006-2008) and Robert John Burke as Bart Bass in Gossip Girl (2009).

Audio productions

In addition to his dubbing work, Condrus also took part in numerous radio play productions, including for radio in the last message from Lagos with Elisabeth Trissenaar and Gerd Wameling ( WDR / HR , 1986), fleeing acquaintance ( RB , 1990) alongside Wolfgang Kaven and Marlies Engel , Sunrise Club (WDR, 1992) alongside Manuela Alphons and Matthias Ponnier , and also for commercial records such as 12 Uhr Majakowski Platz by Sergej Ustinow (2000), Der Himmel von Hollywood by Leon de Winter (2001), The Christmas Secret by Jostein Gaarder (2009) and The three question marks - episode 102 "Double Deception" (2002) and episode 150 "Haunted Bay" (2011). Also in numerous episodes of the radio drama series " Die Denkmaschine " (" Professor van Dusen ") by Michael Koser - first in 1979 (episode 3), most recently in 2002 (episode 77).

In the radio play series NYPDead - Medical Report published by Maritim-Verlag , Condrus has played the leading role since 2008, in the same year he was also hired for the radio play series Top Secret from the same company . As an audio book interpreter, Condrus set to music, among others, Die Tulpe des Böse by Jörg Kastner (2008), The Cathedral of the Sea by Ildefonso Falcones (2009) and the unabridged reading Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe on Audible (2009).

Family background

Wolfgang Condrus is the brother of the actor Siegfried Breuer jr. and grandson of the opera singer Hans Breuer . His nephews are the actors and voice actors Jacques and Pascal Breuer .

Filmography (selection)

actor

Series

Feature films

Voice actor

Jeff Daniels

Sam Neill

Hugo Weaving

Movies

Series

Radio plays and features

Awards

source

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Condrus receives the Synchron Oscar for Oldboy ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) NFSA Online, January 30, 2006
  2. ↑ Literature Network NRW

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personal data
SURNAME Condrus, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Breuer, Wolfgang (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film and theater actor as well as dubbing and radio play speakers
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Schöneberg