Wolfgang Höper

Wolfgang Höper (born March 15, 1933 in Braunschweig ; † May 25, 2020 in Stuttgart ) was a German actor , musician and singer .

life and career

After secondary school, Höper attended the State University for Music and Theater in Hanover . From 1956 to 1958 he was engaged at the Hildesheim City Theater.

There he played the captain in Shaw's Androclus and the Lion , Jim in The Glass Menagerie and Koninsky in The Robbers (1957, directed by Erwin Piscator ). In 1958 he moved to the Nationaltheater Mannheim , where he stayed until 1964. Here he played Melchtal in Wilhelm Tell (1958), Marsili in the Life of Galilei (1959), Edgar in Frys Venus in the Light (1959), Warwick in Jeanne or The Lark (1960), Melefont in Miss Sara Sampson (1960), Nestor le Fripé in Irma la Douce (1961) and Fred Graham in Kiss me, Kate (1964).

From 1964 to 1966 he was part of the ensemble of the Wiesbaden State Theater . Roles were Ed in Orton's Be Kind to Mr. Sloane and Oronte in The Misanthrope . In 1966 he became a member of the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart , which he stayed with in the following decades. Only in 1972/73 he worked at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf .

In Stuttgart he embodied Somerset in Heinrich VI. (1967), Baxter in Hopkins ' This Story of You (1969), Malvolio in Was ihr wollt (1974), Theseus / Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1977), Martin in Die kahle Sängerin (1974/75), Dr. Relling in Die Wildente (1977), Valère in Der misanthrope (1967), Lenny in Pinters Die Heimkehr (1967), Licht in Der Scherbrochne Krug (1968), Magneau in Victor or the Children in Power (1970), Harry in Storeys Home (1971), Sultan Saladin in Nathan der Weise (1976), Strasser in Zur Schöne Aussicht (1976), Wehrhahn in Der Biberpelz (1976), Kulygin in Drei Schwestern (1978), Chandebise / Poche in Feydeau's Flea in the Ear (1981 ), Job in Demetrius (1982), Dave Moss in Mamets Hillside Sea View (1986, German premiere), Jack McCracken in Ayckbourn's Family Business (1988), Rauch in Kasimir and Karoline (1989), Canon Burren in O'Casey's Das Freudenfeuer für den Bischof (1990) and Hansen in Philippe Adrien's Sundays by the Sea (1994/95). He was successful as a soloist in Samuel Beckett's The Last Volume and in Patrick Süskind's The Double Bass .

In 1976, Höper was appointed state actor , in the same year he became a lecturer at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts and in 1998 an honorary member of the Stuttgart State Theater. He worked for Südwestrundfunk and appeared in numerous television games . He also organized poetry readings and recitation evenings . Höper lived in Stuttgart, was married and the father of two children. He died in May 2020 at the age of 87 years during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany to COVID-19 .

1955: Maturing youth
1967: The assassination attempt - Schleicher: General of the last hour
1970: Like a tear in the ocean (multi-part)
1970: Not just at Christmas time
1972: A dead man stops at 8:10 a.m.
1972: The Pueblo Affair
1973: Early meeting (TV series, episodes: Dibbedidapp; The green license plate )
1977: A House for Us - Youth Recreation Home (TV series, episodes: The Island; From the family of armored lizards )
1979: crime scene - midnight, or shortly after
1981: Histoires de voyous: Opération Primevère
1982: For a while, it was in Rome, he only thought of snow-covered fields
1982: The Pawlaks - A Story from the Ruhr Area (TV series)
1984: the end of the world
1984: The disappearance of harmony
1984: The beautiful Wilhelmine (TV series, episode: Visitation )
1987: Crime Scene - One Million Mice
1987: Tatort - playing with fire
1991: Black Red Gold (TV series, episode: Stoff )

1996: Alfred Marquart : Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Murders (Mr. Pendergast) - Director: Patrick Blank (radio play - SWF )
2011: Hanns Heinz Ewers : Clarimonde (based on the story "Die Spinne") - Director: Uwe Schareck ( DKultur )