Wolfgang Michael (actor)

Wolfgang Michael (born June 15, 1955 in Heinsberg ) is a German actor.

Life

Wolfgang Michael completed his acting training at the Folkwang University in Essen. His first theater engagements took him to Bremen in 1981 and from 1982 to 1987 at the Mannheim National Theater . In 1987, artistic director Frank-Patrick Steckel brought him to the Schauspielhaus Bochum . This is where he began his collaboration with director Andrea Breth , which continues to this day . His first starring role with Andrea Breth he played in 1987 as a lieutenant Wiczewski in the Civil War drama South of Julien Green alongside Andrea Clausen and Nicole Heesters . Michael stayed in Bochum until 1993 and then moved to the Berlin Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz together with Andrea Breth . From 1999 to 2009 he was a member of the Burgtheater ensemble in Vienna. At the beginning of Oliver Reese's directorship in the 2009/10 season, Michael moved to Schauspiel Frankfurt .

Wolfgang Michaels appearances away from the theater stage are extremely rare. So far he has only taken on a few episode roles in various crime series and smaller roles in television and cinema films.

Theater works (selection)

Schauspielhaus Bochum

• Lieutenant Wiczewski in the south of Julien Green
• Creon in Antigone by Sophocles
• Major von Tellheim in Minna von Barnhelm by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
• Duke Orsino in What You Want by William Shakespeare

Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz

• 1993: Ejlert Lövborg in Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen - Director: Andrea Breth
• Trigorin in The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
• New Year's Eve in The Schroffenstein Family by Heinrich von Kleist

Burgtheater Vienna

• Astrov in Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
• Hector in Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
• Robespierre in Danton's death by Georg Büchner
• Conti in Emilia Galotti by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
• Henry in The Lion in Winter by James Goldman

Theater in the Josefstadt

• Murau in extinction by Thomas Bernhard

Berlin Ensemble

• Wolfgang in Galileo Galilei. The theater and the plague by and after Bertolt Brecht
• Goodwill in The Unstoppable Rise of Arturo Ui by and after Bertolt Brecht

Filmography (selection)

• 1993: Wehner - the untold story - director: Heinrich Breloer
• 1999: Abendland - Director: Fred Kelemen
• 2001: My Slow Life - Director: Angela Schanelec
• 2002: Brothers - Director: Wolfgang Murnberger
• 2003: Egg thieves - Director: Robert Schwentke
• 2003: Brothers II - Director: Wolfgang Murnberger
• 2004: Edelweiss Pirates - Director: Niko von Glasow
• 2006: Bella Block: Murder under the Cross - Director: Hans Steinbichler
• 2007: Treasure Island - Director: Hansjörg Thurn
• 2008: Palermo Shooting - Director: Wim Wenders
• 2008: Polizeiruf 110: How is the world so quiet - Director: Alain Gsponer
• 2010: Tomorrow You Must Die - Director: Niki Stein
• 2010: Tatort: ​​As once Lilly - Director: Achim von Borries
• 2011: Tatort: ​​Death of a Teacher - Director: Thomas Freundner
• 2012: Murder with a View - Amore Forest House
• 2015: Tatort: ​​The house at the end of the street - Director: Sebastian Marka
• 2015: Eternal Youth - Director: Paolo Sorrentino
• 2016: The fairy tale of the land of milk and honey (ARD fairy tale)
• 2019: I was at home, but - Director: Angela Schanelec
• 2019: My father-in-law, the camper - Director: Holger Haase

Radio plays

• 1995: Werner Buhss : No more song after mine - Director: Werner Buhss ( DLR )
• 1996: Gabriele Bigott : Mieze, Tarzan and Paul Klee (poets) - Director: Werner Buhss (children's radio play - DLR)
• 2004: Ulrich Wildgruber : The Salmon Train of Words - Director: Andrea Getto (radio play - HR )
• 2005: Jane Bowles : Two very serious ladies - adaptation / director: Heike Tauch (radio play - DLR)
• 2013: Joseph Mitchell : Die Zigeunerinnen von New York - adaptation and direction: Ulrich Gerhardt (radio play - DKultur )
• 2014: Feridun Zaimoglu : Paulus - Director: Oliver Sturm ( HR / DLF )

Web links

• Wolfgang Michael in the Internet Movie Database (English)