Wolfgang Häntsch

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Wolfgang Häntsch (born June 7, 1951 in Seifhennersdorf ) is a German actor , radio play and voice actor .

Life

From 1971 to 1975 Wolfgang Häntsch graduated from the Leipzig Theater Academy . During his apprenticeship he already played at the drama studio of the Dresden State Theater . In the following years he had engagements at the State Theater in Eisenach and at the Stralsund Theater .

In Stralsund, in the course of the preparations for a festival program "30 Years of the GDR", there were arguments with the theater management. Häntsch then planned, with other colleagues, including Frieder Venus , Immo Sennewald and Thomas Wieck, to found a free artist community in Carlsdorf, Mecklenburg . This project was destroyed by the State Security and Häntsch was temporarily banned from working. During this time he worked, among other things, as a cemetery gardener and telegram messenger. From 1982 onwards, Häntsch appeared again - now freelance - at the theater, initially at the Uckermärkische Bühnen Schwedt and at the opera house in Halle . When, in the mid-1980s, as a member of the Mecklenburg State Theater in Schwerin, he was prevented from going on tour abroad with the ensemble due to the long-ago professional ban, Häntsch decided to leave the GDR.

From 1989 onwards, Häntsch made guest appearances at the state theaters in Berlin (Schillertheater) in Stuttgart and Nuremberg , at the National Theater Weimar and at the Dresden State Operetta , in Hamburg at the St. Pauli Theater and the Operettenhaus and in Berlin at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm , the Schlosspark Theater , am DOCK 11 and at the Renaissance Theater . Foreign guest appearances have taken him to the Theater der Jugend in Vienna and the Théâtre national du Luxembourg. Häntsch worked with directors such as Peter Sodann , Heribert Sasse , Horst Hawemann , Jiří Menzel and Holger Berg .

Häntsch's countless stage roles so far have included Der Andere in Draußen vor der Tür by Wolfgang Borchert , Torvald Helmer in Henrik Ibsens Nora , Agamemnon in Iphigenie in Aulis by Euripides and Colonel Pickering in the musical My Fair Lady by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner . From 2013 to 2015 he played the character of Mickey Goodmill , trainer of the title hero, in the musical Rocky at the Hamburg Operettenhaus .

Since the mid-1970s, Wolfgang Häntsch has also been a busy film and television actor, especially from 1990. He has appeared repeatedly in the crime series Der Alte and Siska as well as in the series Polizeiruf 110 and Tatort . Häntsch also works as a radio play and voice actor. As the latter, he lent his voice to foreign colleagues such as Wayne Rogers , Robert Pugh , Ed Lauter and Jackie Shroff .

Häntsch was also the initiator of various theater projects in France and Switzerland and in 2005 he founded the association Epopée de l'Europe e. V., which has made the cultural exchange with Eastern European countries its task.

Wolfgang Häntsch is married and has five children. He has two sons with his current wife Tatsiana Navumava.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

literature

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Häntsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Häntsch at schauspielervideos.de.
  2. ↑ Christian Halbrock : "Freedom means losing fear" - Refusal, resistance and opposition in the GDR: The Baltic Sea District of Rostock. 2nd, corrected edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-35118-5 , pp. 198/199.
  3. ↑ Dirk Moldt: No, I won't do that! Self-determined work biographies in the GDR. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-606-2 , pp. 84/85.
  4. ↑ Note: When Wolfgang Häntsch was allowed to leave the GDR cannot be precisely determined; According to his vita at Schauspielervideos.de , he still had engagements at the Friedrichstadt-Palast and the Chemnitz Theater until 1988 .
personal data
SURNAME Häntsch, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, radio play and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Seifhennersdorf