Wolfgang Greese
Wolfgang Greese (born March 8, 1926 in Lübz ; † May 2, 2001 in Berlin ) was a German actor.
Life
The mime with the distinctive nose was engaged for six seasons at the Berliner Volksbühne . In 1971 he switched to GDR television. Active in film and television since 1961, Greese has participated in over 200 productions in a wide variety of roles. In addition to lovable ones, he has also embodied unsympathetic characters. In the television film Dr. med. Summer II by Lothar Warneke (1970) and in the DEFA production Orpheus in der Unterwelt by Horst Bonnet (1974) - a film adaptation of the Jacques Offenbach operetta - Greese played the leading role. Other well-known productions in which he played were, among others, Spuk unterm Ferris wheel and various episodes of The Public Prosecutor Has the Word and Polizeiruf 110 . Shortly before his death, from 1997 to 1999, he had another famous role as father-in-law "Old" Henry on the family sitcom Mama is Impossible .
Greese was married to the actress Manja Göring for the third time .
Wolfgang Greese died on May 2nd, 2001 at the age of 75 after a long period of cancer.
Filmography
- 1961: The house in the shade
- 1962: The Green Monster (TV)
- 1964: The Trumpeter's Song
- 1965: Lot's wife
- 1965: Episodes of Happiness
- 1965: The successor
- 1965: When you grow up, dear Adam
- 1966: Escape into silence
- 1966: living goods
- 1966: Shadows over Notre Dame
- 1967: Anatomy of a Judicial Murder
- 1967: Mrs. Venus and her devil
- 1967: encounters
- 1967: Burning dysentery
- 1967: Laurencia
- 1968: The murder that never expires
- 1968: I was nineteen
- 1968: Heroin
- 1968: Farewell
- 1968: 12 noon the boss arrives
- 1968: I - Axel Caesar Springer
- 1969: Krupp and Krause , episodes 4 a. 5 (TV)
- 1969: Moor and the Ravens of London
- 1969: Hans Beimler, comrade
- 1969: time to live
- 1969: Project Aqua
- 1970: Hey you!
- 1970: my zero hour
- 1970: network
- 1970: Dr. med. Summer II
- 1970: Young Woman from 1914 (TV movie)
- 1970: Everyone dies for himself alone (TV film, 3 parts)
- 1970: Two letters to Pospischiel
- 1970: Cloudless sky over all of Spain
- 1971: KLK to PTX - Die Rote Kapelle
- 1971: Anja
- 1971: Osceola
- 1972: The man who came after grandma
- 1972: Tecumseh
- 1972: Eolomea
- 1972: The pictures of the witness Schattmann (TV four-part series)
- 1972: Dangerous journey
- 1972: Don Juan
- 1972: Romance for a weekday
- 1973: The Light of the Black Candle (TV movie)
- 1972: The Secret of the Andes (TV)
- 1973: Under the pear tree
- 1973: Eva and Adam (TV four-part series)
- 1973: The invisible visor
- 1973: Police call 110: One Madonna too many (TV series)
- 1973: divorce process
- 1973: Maria and the paragraph
- 1973: The pigeon on the roof
- 1974: the keys
- 1974: Orpheus in the underworld
- 1974: Johannes Kepler
- 1974: Your Own Skin (TV movie)
- 1974: The Wardins' wives
- 1974: Maria and the paragraph
- 1975: At the end of the world
- 1975: Lotte in Weimar
- 1975: Between night and day
- 1975: My blue bird flies
- 1975: The bad guys have to turn
- 1975: A fig leaf for Kuhle Wampe or who does the world belong to?
- 1975: One hour stop
- 1975: Adventure with Blasius
- 1975: The invisible visor
- 1975: Am I Moses?
- 1976: Concerto for frying pan and orchestra
- 1976: Beethoven - Days in One Life
- 1976: Cinderella
- 1976: Large Federal Cross of Merit
- 1976: The Maid of Orleans
- 1976: Maria Tudor
- 1976: his last case
- 1976: Love and the Queen
- 1977: The island of the great egrets
- 1977: Who is going to run away from the devil?
- 1977: Polizeiruf 110: Trickster wanted (TV series)
- 1977: At Sea (TV)
- 1977: The prosecutor has the floor: A drachma from Syracuse (TV series)
- 1977: Golden times - fine people
- 1977: Camping - Camping
- 1977: Ernst Schneller
- 1977: The second man
- 1977: Scharnhorst
- 1978: End of the song [The Ochsenfurt Men's Quartet / From three million three]
- 1978: red tie
- 1978: How should a woman decide?
- 1979: Addio, piccola mia
- 1979: Spook under the ferris wheel
- 1979: The long road
- 1979: Engagement in Hollerbusch
- 1979: The blonde geisha
- 1980: Comedian Emil
- 1980: Levin's Mill
- 1980: Max and seven and a half boys
- 1980: The Director (TV movie)
- 1980: Nora S.
- 1980: Solo for Martina
- 1980: dolls for the night
- 1980: Police Call 110: The Ambush (TV series)
- 1981: My father Alfons
- 1981: cursed and loved
- 1981: Black gold
- 1981: Nora S. (TV movie)
- 1981: The fall
- 1981: Suturp - A love story
- 1981: The Uninvited Guest
- 1981: Two friends in Prussia (TV movie)
- 1981: Come to Chicago with me !
- 1981: Tomorrow I will wear a sombrero [Heroica de Buenos Aires]
- 1981: guitar and stethoscope
- 1982: The great adventure of Kaspar Schmeck
- 1982: Benno makes stories
- 1983: Martin Luther
- 1983: The leaded glass window [The prosecutor has the floor] (TV series)
- 1983: The shots of Noah's Ark
- 1983: Berlin firmament
- 1983: New Year's Eve is canceled [Ferienheim Bergkristall] (TV)
- 1983: The termination
- 1983: Breakfast in bed
- 1983: Our best man
- 1983: My hopeful children
- 1983: Haunted skyscraper
- 1983: Spring Symphony
- 1983: The Dear Babes (TV)
- 1983: The kidnapped prince
- 1983: In the mirror
- 1984: The widow Capet
- 1984: Police call 110: Out on the lake (TV series)
- 1984: Neumann family
- 1984: Sunday morning visit
- 1984: Oh, you my love
- 1984: The Magdalena Eigner case
- 1985: The people of Züderow
- 1985: Police call 110: Drift net (TV series)
- 1985: Johann Sebastian Bach
- 1985: Hubertusjagd [The public prosecutor has the floor] (TV series)
- 1985: From the bourgeois hero life [Die Hose]
- 1985: On our own behalf
- 1985: Variety show
- 1986: Caspar David Friedrich - The Limits of Time
- 1986: The Christmas plumbers
- 1986: Police call 110: With cunning and trickery (TV series)
- 1987: A Magdeburg story
- 1987: The Rabenhorst oath
- 1987: The wild boar hunt
- 1987: Police call 110: Disaster out of the bottle (TV series)
- 1987: Fridolin
- 1988: Königswald Castle
- 1988: Dr. Federau
- 1988: The dragon Daniel
- 1989: Darned misfortune!
- 1989: I, Thomas Müntzer, God's sickle
- 1989: the architects
- 1989: those involved
- 1990: Spreewald family
- 1991: Agency Herz
- 1994: The prosecutor
- 1995: Forsthaus Falkenau : The bear is loose (TV series)
- 1996: The blind cow
- 1997: The Secret of the Cormorant Island
- 1997–1999: Mom is impossible
- 1997: Wild times
- 1998: Police Call 110: Dead Sure (TV series)
- 1998: one sin too many
theatre
- 1967: Helmut Baierl : Mysterium Buffo - variant for Germany (noblemen) - Director: Wolfgang Pintzka ( Volksbühne Berlin )
- 1968: Horst Kleinadam : From Giants and People (Technical Director) - Director: Karl Gassauer (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1968: Boris Djacenko : But under the skirt the devil (Hell inspector) - Director: Fritz Bornemann (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1971: Bertolt Brecht : The Good Man of Sezuan - Director: Benno Besson (Volksbühne Berlin)
Radio plays
- 1967: James Fenimore Cooper : The Last of the Mohicans (Chingachgook) - Director: Dieter Scharfenberg
- 1970: Wilhelm Hauff : Der Zwergnase - Director: Joachim Herz
- 1970: Wilhelm Hauff: The fairy tale of the false prince - Director: Joachim Herz
- 1971: Hans-Jörg Dost : Passio Camilo (Cardinal) - Director: Barbara Plensat / Detlef Kurzweg (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR )
- 1971: Heinrich Mann : The Youth of King Henri Quatre - Director: Fritz Göhler (Radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1971: Günter Kunert : With the times a fire (Scheurl) - Director: Wolfgang Schonendorf (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1974: Hans-Ulrich Lüdemann : Blümlein is gone (Bishop) - Director: Fritz Göhler (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1976: Wolfgang Kohlhaase : The Green Stone Variant - Director: Günther Rücker (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1978: Helmut Bez : Jutta or the children of Damutz - Director: Fritz Göhler (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1979: Michail Schatrow : Blue horses on red grass (Lenin) - Director: Peter Groeger (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Greese in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature about Wolfgang Greese in the state bibliography MV
- Wolfgang Greese in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- obituary
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Greese, Wolfgang |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1926 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Luebz |
DATE OF DEATH | May 2, 2001 |
Place of death | Berlin |