Wolfgang Kieling

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Wolfgang Kieling (1968)

Wolfgang Kieling (born March 16, 1924 in Berlin-Neukölln ; † October 7, 1985 in Hamburg ) was a German actor and voice actor .

Life

Kieling grew up with his stepfather, a master tailor, and recorded his first soprano record at the age of six . A career in children's radio followed and he made his screen debut in 1936 in Veit Harlan's film Maria, die Magd . After training as an actor with Albert Florath , he got his first theater engagements. He did military service in World War II , was wounded and remained in Soviet captivity until 1949 .

He then played theater , initially in West Berlin and in 1953 in Basel . From 1954 to 1957 he could be seen in productions of the East German DEFA . He then worked again in West Germany, in 1960 for the first time in a television production. He gained international recognition in 1966 for his role as a Stasi agent in Alfred Hitchcock's film The Torn Curtain .

In 1965 Kieling received the Federal Film Award in the category of best leading actor for his portrayal in the film Police Station Davidswache . In 1968 he had this price auctioned off in the Republican Club in West Berlin in connection with the Vietnam War for the benefit of the Viet Cong . Political scientist Johannes Agnoli bought the prize for 1,760 DM.

In 1966 he was awarded the Golden Camera of the Springer Verlag for his representation in closed society , which he returned the following year in protest against the policy of the Springer Verlag.

Grave of Wolfgang Kieling

After moving to East Berlin from 1968 to 1970, he returned to West Germany. Kieling had wanted to set an example against the political situation in the West, especially against the Americans' Vietnam War , but in the end he did not see himself in a position to find his way into East German society. Since the 1970s, Kieling was mainly active in television. For his acting performance in the ZDF television film Im Reservat by Peter Beauvais , in which he portrayed an aging transvestite , he received the television film award of the German Academy of Performing Arts in 1973 . In the television series The Lawyer , he played the title role for two seasons from 1977.

Kieling has worked as a dubbing actor since childhood , lending Freddie Bartholomew his voice in a 1930s dubbed version by David Copperfield (1935). As an adult, Kieling spoke z. B. for Glenn Ford (inter alia in kidnapping (film) , Das kleine Teehaus , Cimarron ), Marlon Brando (in Duel am Missouri ), Yul Brynner (in A Guy to Steal Horses ), Montgomery Clift (in The Judgment of Nuremberg ), Tony Curtis (in The Face of the Millions ), Kirk Douglas (in Vincent van Gogh - A Life in Passion ), Alec Guinness (in The Swan ), Charlton Heston (in Planet of the Apes ), Marcello Mastroianni (in La Dolce Vita ), Robert Mitchum ( in Legacy of Blood ), Paul Newman (among others in Hell is in me , The Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , Sweet Bird Youth , The Price ), Leslie Nielsen (in Alarm in Space ) and Frank Sinatra (among others in The Top Ten Thousand and Pal Joey ). He also lent his voice to the character Bert from 1973 to 1985 in the German version of Sesame Street . He also spoke the role of the locust researcher Cornelius Button in the children's series "The Grasshopper Island".

His distinctive, sonorous voice could also be heard in various radio plays: In 1974 he played the title role in the EUROPA radio play production "Räuberhauptmann Potzblitz" and in 1975 the "Magician Zackzarack". a. also with Hanni and Nanni . In episodes 3 and 4 of the radio play series “ Hui Buh das Schloßgespenst” he spoke the role of “King Julius the 111th”. In 1984 he was one of the “gray gentlemen” in the three-part Philips radio play version by Michael Ende's Momo . He also took part in radio plays in the GDR , including - shortly after his move - the visitation of a resident who dealt with the problems of working people in socialist industry.

Kieling was married a total of four times. His first wife, actress Jola Jobst , committed suicide two years after the separation. With his second wife, the actress Gisela Uhlen , he had the daughter Susanne Uhlen , who also became an actress. With his third wife, the sculptor Johanna Göllnitz , he had the daughter Annette. He was then married to the much younger actress Monika Gabriel , whom he met during his second stay in the GDR and who later followed him to the West. The son Florian Martens , who is also an actor, emerged from a brief relationship with the actress Ingrid Rentsch during his first stay in East Berlin . Kieling is the great uncle of the animal filmmaker Andreas Kieling .

Because of problems with his eyes, Kieling had to undergo several operations, and later he also suffered from cancer . He died at the age of 61 in a hospital in Hamburg after gastric surgery, which he had to undergo because of cancer. His grave is in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg.

Filmography

Radio plays

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland, March 25, 1968, p. 2.
  2. ↑ David Copperfield at the German dubbing index
  3. ^ Documentary filmmaker Andreas Kieling. The bears are not your friends . FAZ.net , March 24, 2012
  4. ^ Grave of Wolfgang Kieling , knerger.de
personal data
SURNAME Kieling, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German voice actor and actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Neukölln
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1985
Place of death Hamburg