Wolfgang Engels (actor)

Wolfgang Engels (born May 13, 1908 in Braunschweig ; † 1983 ) was a German actor , theater director , radio play and voice actor .

Life

Wolfgang Engels began his theater career in 1928 at the Schauspielhaus in Leipzig, until 1932 he also played at the Dresden State Theater and on the stages in Erfurt, Freiburg i. Breisgau, Halberstadt and Krefeld. In the 1940/41 season he was engaged in Darmstadt. From 1945 Engels headed the Konstanz City Theater for three years and then moved to Bremen, where he stayed until 1954. He later worked in Bonn, Kassel and at the Hanover State Theater .

Since the late 1950s, Wolfgang Engels has appeared in a large number of television productions, for the first time in the 1957 television film Corruption directed by Franz-Peter Wirth . He was also seen in the street sweeper The Death Runs Behind (1967), in the five-part farmers, bigwigs and bombs based on Hans Fallada (1973) and in several episodes of the crime series Der Kommissar .

As voice actors , Wolfgang Engels lent his voice to Jean Gabin ( Martin Roumagnac , 1946), Eric Porter ( The Fall of the Roman Empire , 1964) and Peter Cushing ( The Death Cards of Dr. Schreck , 1965).

In addition, Engels was extensively involved in radio play productions, such as B. in Dance of Death by Wolfgang Weyrauch or Drums in the Night by Bertolt Brecht .

Wolfgang Engels was married to the opera singer Hannefried Grether.

Filmography (selection)

1957: corruption 1963: friends like wolves 1964: Davidswache police station 1965: Party in the twilight 1965: the house 1965: Doctor Murke's collected obituaries 1966: The fellow citizen 1966: a castle 1967: In silence 1967: The last 1967: Phaedra 1967: The strange methods of Franz Josef Wanninger - servants wanted 1967: King Oedipus 1967: This Platonov ... 1967: The fifth column - A call from the zone 1967: Death chases after 1968: Schinderhannes 1968: A citizen of Calais 1968: Transfer 1968: The judge of Zalamea 1968: Count Öderland 1968: ping pong 1969: Peter Brauer 1969: The petty bourgeoisie 1969: moon over the river 1969: Golden Cities 1969: The Commissioner - A girl no longer answers 1970: Right to a conscience

1970: The death of Deputy Jean Jaurès 1970: The blind ants 1970: Father Brown - The Vamp of Protters Pond 1970: The Commissioner - ... like wolves 1971: The Journalist - Pagel Affair 1971: I'm not a bird 1971: The devil in love 1971: Operation Valkyrie 1971: Fool's Mirror 1971: Ivanov 1971: The Commissioner - The death of Mr. Kurusch 1972: land 1972: Hamburg Transit - murder on expense account 1972: German novella 1973: farmers, bigwigs and bombs 1974: For the love of sport - The journey 1974: fog 1974: Count Yoster does the honors - four men play poker 1974: The Commissioner - Three Brothers 1974: Telerop 2009 - There is still something to be saved - We are allowed into the boats 1974: Trotsky in Coyoacan 1975: Special Department K1 - dead end 1975: PS - stories about the car 1975: Berlin - 0:00 to 24:00 1975: toothache 1975: Watussi 1977: Generale - Anatomy of the Marne Battle 1978: We are looking for ... - Emil Beermann

Radio plays (selection)

1948: Of Mice and People - Director: Gert Westphal 1948: The Flemish Christmas Game - Director: Gert Westphal 1949: The Age of Fear - Director: Gert Westphal 1949: Monte Cassino - Director: Gert Westphal 1950: The Snow from Kilimanjaro - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm 1950: The blind Geronimo and his brother - Director: Günter Siebert 1951: The Emperor of America - Director: Karl Peter Biltz 1951: The railway attendant - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm 1952: Caesar and Cleopatra - directed by Theodor Steiner 1952: Nausicaa and Odysseus - Director: Carl Nagel 1953: The Ship of the Damned - Director: Oswald Döpke 1953: Heroic Comedy - Director: Peter Arthur Stiller 1954: King Nicolo - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth 1954: The hour after twelve - Director: Carl Nagel 1955: To start big things - Director: Armas Sten Fühler 1955: Dead Souls - Director: Carl Nagel 1956: Police files X. A series from the practice of criminology (1st episode: four years later) - Director: Günter Bommert 1956: A Well Fortified City - Directed by Carl Nagel 1957: The Wall - Director: Oswald Döpke 1957: Giordano Bruno - Director: Theodor Steiner 1958: In the year nine ... - Director: Carl Nagel 1958: The Dream Pillow - Director: Carl Nagel 1959: The Animal Farm - Director: Günter Bommert 1959: Looking for a good neighbor - Director: Hans Rosenhauer 1960: A visitor came tonight - Director: Ulrich Lauterbach 1960: The Museum of Jugs - Director: Ernst Drolinvaux 1961: I am the murderer or: 20 dead and no murderer - Director: Albert Pelle 1961: Times are changing - Director: Oswald Döpke 1961: Wolfgang Weyrauch : Totentanz (General) - Director: Martin Walser (BR / NDR) 1962: The Blue Milk Canal - Director: Horst Loebe 1962: Noah breaks up - Director: Roland H. Wiegenstein

1963: Cross-examination - Director: Ulrich Lauterbach 1963: The local editor - director: Horst Loebe 1964: Drums in the Night - Director: Günter Bommert 1964: Solo for Störtebeker - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell 1965: Mare Nostrum - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn 1965: Smetse Smee - Director: Gustav Burmester 1966: Seven good qualities - Director: Gustav Burmester 1966: Paul Temple and the Geneva case - Director: Otto Düben 1967: Klaubätze und Spione - Director: Wolfram Rosemann 1967: Aufstiegsspiele - Director: Hans Gerd Krogmann 1968: Dialogue on the eve of a court hearing - Director: Fränze Roloff 1968: Trial in Nuremberg - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell 1969: The plaintiff - Director: Jan Fuchs 1969: Das Feld - Director: Gustav Burmester 1970: 2000 Trees - Director: Otto Düben 1970: Epsilon special - directed by Otto Düben 1971: Adam Riese and the Great War - Director: Oswald Döpke 1971: The Experiment - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn 1972: The Festival of King Ahab - Director: Hein Bruehl 1972: You are my witness - Director: Oswald Döpke 1973: Limited change - Director: Hans Gerd Krogmann 1973: Three times time - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell 1974: Fast Money - Director: Hans Gerd Krogmann 1974: I, Heinrich von Kleist, can basically speak for all writers, dear teachers - Director: Horst Loebe 1975: The Repair - Director: Hans Gerd Krogmann 1976: Report from a research trip - Director: Heiner Schmidt 1976: Journey into a cloudy landscape full of catastrophes - Director: Hans Rosenhauer 1977: The Last Day of Lisbon - Director: Hans Rosenhauer 1978: A collar for the queen - director: Heinz Wilhelm Schwarz 1979: The Man from Granada - Director: Otto Düben

Web links

• Wolfgang Engels in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Wolfgang Engels in the German dubbing file

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The GND names 1971 as the year of death. Query date: January 30, 2015.
2. ^ Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorfs international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 1: A-Heck. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1960, DNB 451560736 .
3. ↑ Dance of Death
4. ↑ Drumming in the night
5. ^ Karl-Josef Kutsch / Leo Riemers: Großes Opernlexikon , Volume 4, 2003