Wolfgang Kaus

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Wolfgang Kaus (born July 23, 1935 in Hofheim am Taunus ; † July 18, 2018 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German actor and director who was the artistic director of the Volkstheater Frankfurt from 1976 until the end of 2007 .

Life

After graduating from the Hofheim district middle school with a secondary school leaving certificate , he completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk at Deutsche Philips GmbH from 1952 to 1954 . He then worked as an industrial clerk at Philips in the record department until 1960. During this time he was a member of the student theater at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt and attended the Hertha Genzmer drama school in Wiesbaden from 1958 to 1960 . From 1961 he had engagements at the Städtische Bühnen in Frankfurt, at the Schwäbisches Landesschauspiel in Memmingen and at the Schlosstheater Celle . He also worked as an actor at the Schauspielhaus , the Thalia Theater , the Fritz Rémond Theater in Frankfurt am Main and the Contra-Kreis-Theater in Bonn . After Liesel Christ founded a “literary folk theater” in 1971, he worked with her there and in 1976 became artistic director for many years.

He translated and edited plays by Shakespeare , Molière and Goldoni for the Frankfurt dialect and organized recitations with texts by Goethe and Friedrich Stoltze . Other productions for the Volkstheater were plays by Carl Malß , in the 1999 Goethe year Götz von Berlichingen and Urfaust in dialect. Heinz W. Krähkamp , Ralf Bauer , Margit Sponheimer , Dieter Henkel and Hans Zürn played under his direction . The 2005 production of Anatevka with Tony Marshall as milkman Tevje was a great success . His last production was a Hessian version of Dinner for One he created with Margit Sponheimer and Walter Flamme in collaboration with Hessischer Rundfunk , which became the most successful TV production on Hessian television in 2007. Since 2008 he has been a freelance director, editor, actor and author.

In summer 2005 he staged in front of the Frankfurt imperial to everyone by Hugo von Hofmannsthal . Ralf Bauer played the role of Jedermann , with whom Wolfgang Kaus played the Urfaust , Romeo and others in the past few years . a. had staged. Guest tours to Israel followed. The Everyman was a surprising about regional success in the Helmut Markwort of the magazine, the editor of Focus , the death played.

In 2012, Kaus directed with Ralf Bauer and Ann-Cathrin Sudhoff for the comedy in the Bayerischer Hof in Munich and for the Munich tourGut gegen Nordwind ” by Daniel Glattauer , which toured Germany with great success and returned to the comedy in autumn 2013 . In 2014, Kaus staged the continuation of Glattauer's e-mail play Alle seven Wellen (also with Ralf Bauer and Ann-Cathrin Sudhoff), which was also very successful on tour and played again at the Munich Comedy in the Bayerischer Hof in autumn 2014 and then at the Kammerspiele in Karlsruhe. The Munich tour put both pieces on tour again in 2015.

The theater was invited to the Bavarian Theater Days with Gut gegen Nordwind in May 2014.

In 2010 the first volume of his life story was published by Societätsverlag Frankfurt under the title People are all sin se anners . In 2012, the book Ein Liebesgruß an Frankfurt with poems by Frankfurters about their city was also published by Societätsverlag, and in 2015 the second volume of his life story and it's worth it .

Kaus died in July 2018, a few days before his 83rd birthday.

Prizes and awards

Directing work for television (selection)

In addition to working as a director and actor at the theater, he was also involved in directing and acting on television.

  • 1999: The small district court
  • 1999: The country tour to Königstein
  • 1996: The conceited sick man
  • 1995: The five Frankfurters
  • 1987: Rendezvous in the palm garden
  • 1979: The jubilee
  • 1979: Schweig, boy
  • 1977: Old Frankfurt

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Don't let go of my hand on your last descent, God! In: wolfgangkaus.de. July 19, 2018. Retrieved July 19, 2018 .
  2. Wolfgang Kaus in the Internet Movie Database (English)