Wolfgang Kaven

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Wolfgang Kaven (born April 28, 1940 in Hamburg ) is a German actor , radio play and voice actor .

life and work

Kaven completed a traineeship at the German Press Agency before training as an actor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main. Stations of his stage career included Bonn, Coburg, Dortmund, Gießen, Lübeck and Lucerne before he returned to his hometown in 1973 and played Edward IV in Shakespeare's Richard III. made his stage debut at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg under the direction of Hans Hollmann . In the role of Wilhelm Davison , Kaven was in the Thalia production Boy Goberts with the play Maria Stuart by Friedrich Schiller from May to June 1976 on a five-week tour of the former Soviet Union and Poland with appearances in Leningrad, Riga, Vilnius, Moscow and Warsaw . In the same year he moved to the neighboring theater . In retrospect, Kaven describes the collaboration there with the director Giorgio Strehler as “formative” .

In the episode The perpetrator confesses from the ARD early evening series Hamburg Transit , Kaven was seen in front of the camera for the first time in 1973. A large number of roles in series and television films followed, such as: B. in different episodes of the series Tatort , Die Männer vom K3 or Mit Leib und Seele . In the series The Fat Kaven played the role of the judge Dr. Ruiss , he was also one of the main characters in the 13-part series The Blind Judge . Kaven received other tasks in the literary film adaptation of Kudenow or Weeping in Stranger Waters based on the novel of the same name by Arno Surminski , in Michael Kramer or in The Night of the Great Flood .

In addition, Kaven works as a radio play speaker. In various episodes of Bob the Builder he spoke the character of Mr. Bauer , in the classic The Three ??? he can be heard in several different roles. Radio play fans also know Kaven as the narrator in countless episodes of the series Ein Fall für TKKG . In total, the Hörspielland.de portal has used more than 130 radio plays. Audiobooks with his participation are z. B. English - no witchcraft or English with witch Huckla .

The voice of Kavens is also known from many documentaries in cultural, satirical and socio-political areas in television and radio, for example in the travel magazine Between Hamburg and Haiti, which has been broadcast by NDR since 1951 . Kaven also works as a voice actor. In the 1939 film adaptation of The Dog of Baskerville , he lent his colleague John Carradine the voice in a dubbed version from 1992, and Kaven dubbed several characters in the series Miami Vice .

As a reciter, he offered the complete reading of the novel Die Fälschung by Nicolas Born on ten consecutive Sundays in 2001 at the Künstlerhof Schreyahn in Wustrow . On December 23, 2002, he read the story Pilatus by Friedrich Dürrenmatt in the church of Prezelle . Kaven's repertoire also includes works by writers such as Robert Walser , Cees Nooteboom and Bohumil Hrabal .

Kaven lives in the community of Gusborn near Dannenberg .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

1998: from episode 111 TKKG (as narrator)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography at Hörspiel-Board.de , accessed on March 25, 2015
  2. ↑ Biography at Litraton.de ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 25, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.litraton.de
  3. ↑ a b c d portrait at Literaturatlas.de ( Memento from March 23, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Guest performances in the USSR and Poland in 1976 , published by the Hamburg Thalia Theater in 1978
  5. ↑ Bücher-Magazin.de , accessed on March 25, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Kaven, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, radio play and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg