Wolfgang Grönebaum

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Wolfgang Grönebaum and Annemarie Wendl ("Egon and Else Kling") at the open day in Cologne-Bocklemünd 1997

Wolfgang Grönebaum (born March 14, 1927 in Grabs , Canton St. Gallen , Switzerland ; † March 16, 1998 in Gummersbach , North Rhine-Westphalia ) was a German actor , radio drama speaker and voiceover speaker .

Life

Grönebaum, who grew up in Dortmund from 1930 , began his training at the Folkwang University in Essen in 1946 and worked at the Bochum theater from 1947 to 1949 ; After that he ran his own small theater in Dortmund for a few years. In 1953 he moved to the Dortmund City Theater ; from 1957 to 1970 he had a permanent engagement at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus .

From 1970 Grönebaum worked as a freelance actor in film and television. As Egon Kling , he was part of the ensemble of the ARD series Lindenstrasse from 1985 until his death  - and there he spoke the very first sentence: “Well, there he would be [the key], Mr. Kronmüller!”, In which he accidentally included Siegfried Kronmayr addresses the wrong last name. Before his role in Lindenstrasse, he played the husband of his colleague Marie-Luise Marjan ( mother Beimer ) several times , for example in Wolfgang Petersen's Smog (1973) or Wolfgang Becker's Die Vorstadtkrokodile (1977).

With his distinctive sonorous voice, Grönebaum was also represented as a speaker in numerous documentaries and radio plays , but also in television series such as the show with the mouse . For the ZDF series Aktenzeichen XY ... unsolved , for which he remained employed until 1989, Grönebaum took over the commentary on all film cases from the first broadcast in 1967 to 1985 and was seen in some of them as an actor.

Grönebaum lived in Morsbach from the late 1960s until his death . He died two days after his 71st birthday from the effects of pneumonia . He was buried in the cemetery in Hohenhausen in the municipality of Kalletal .

Filmography (selection)

Work as a speaker

Radio plays

  • 1997: Irmgard Keun : Gilgi, one of us (father) - Director: Barbara Plensat (radio play - NDR )
  • 1980 in the TSB John Sinclair radio plays:
    • The sorcerer's night
  • 1980 as G-man Jerry Cotton in the TSB radio plays:
    • Death came from Sing Sing
    • Taiwan death trap
    • The merciless two
    • The great killer game, part 1
    • The great killer game, part 2
    • The Jamaica princess

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Christoph Buchen: From "sorcerer's apprentice" to the nation's most famous caretaker . In: Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar 2010 . Joh. Heider, 2009, ISBN 978-3-87314-444-6 , ISSN  0722-7671 , p. 223-231 .
  2. knerger.de: The grave of Wolfgang Grönebaum