Wolfgang Ostberg
Wolfgang Ostberg (born August 4, 1939 in Berlin ; † May 13, 2011 in Sankt Michaelisdonn ) was a German actor , radio play speaker and singer .
Life
Education and theater
Ostberg originally wanted to be a teacher . His stepfather was a Jew and a communist , a comrade loyal to the line in the GDR . He served in the National People's Army for two years . During his time in Schwerin he discovered his enthusiasm for the theater. From 1959 to 1962 he completed an acting training at the Leipzig Theater Academy ; his fellow students included Peter Ensikat and Peter Sodann .
From 1962 to 1968 he was a permanent member of the theater of friendship . There he took over the title role of Fritz Weineck in October 1963 in the world premiere of the piece Our Little Trumpeter by Hans-Albert Pederzani . He also appeared in the play First Encounter by Tatjana Sytina (premiere: October 1962; as a music student Lewa Strushanowski), in the Shakespeare comedy What you want (premiere: October 1963), in the fairy tale play Little Red Riding Hood by Yevgeny Schwarz ( Premiere: November 1963), in the play Tatort teachers' room by Rainer R. Lange (world premiere: February 1964; as Georg Kässner, known as Spinner), in the play A terrible day by Juri Sotnik (premiere: April 1965; as pioneer Sewa Koslow) , in the comedy Die Scapin von Molière (Premiere: October 1965) and in the revue Young People Here and Today (1964/1965).
After a guest performance in 1968 he was engaged at the Berlin Metropol Theater . There he remained a permanent member of the ensemble until the house was closed in 1997. His stage roles included: Hans Styx in Orpheus in der Unterwelt , Frosch in Die Fledermaus , Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream , Theophil in Frau Luna , Colonel Pickering in My fair Lady and Petrucchio in Kiss me Kate . In the latter role, he was on the stage of the Metropol Theater in August 1981 with the GDR comedian Rolf Herricht , when the latter suffered a heart attack and died. In the 1992/93 season he performed at the Metropoltheater as Kilian in the operetta Mask in Blue and in this role offered a “delicious character study” and an acting “type”.
Movie and TV
Since the 1960s, Ostberg also took on roles in feature films at DEFA and on GDR television . Ostberg played the young worker Ernst Lemke in the DEFA film biography So long life is in me (1965) about the life of Karl Liebknecht . In the GDR production Spur der Steine (1966), which is now considered a cult film , he had a small role as a brigade member. In film and television, he was mostly used in cheerful and comical roles. Ostberg's cheerful roles, however, never lapsed into superficiality. Ostberg also impressed in entertainment comedies or GDR TV drama such as Three Lovely Sisters , without slipping into superficial slapstick.
Ostberg also starred in episodes of the crime series Polizeiruf 110 (1975, as shunter Dieter Schaffrath in the episode Between the Gleisen ; 1977 as Klaus, friend of the fraudster Herta Tuch in the episode wanted con artist ) and The Public Prosecutor Has the Word (1972, as Thilo Bölke , Employee at VEB Stahlbau, subsequently the illegal project engineer ) with.
Radio play, opera and dubbing
Ostberg also worked as a radio play speaker . With the record label Litera radio plays appeared in which Ostberg participated. He spoke the role of poor Johannes in a radio play version of the novel Die Gerechten von Kummerow by Ehm Welk . He also took on the title role in the radio play version of the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn under the title Huckleberry Finn . The radio plays were published in 1973 and 1976 by Litera.
For the record he was the first rascal in the opera Die Kluge in 1982 ; Harald Neukirch sang the tenor part of this role . The recording was released in the GDR on the record label Eterna .
Ostberg also worked intensively as a voice actor. He lent Dustin Hoffman the voice in the DEFA version of Little Big Man . He spoke, among others, Georges Marchal in The Adventures of the Three Musketeers (1953), Dean Reed in Blood Brothers and Pierre Richard in the GDR dubbed version of Two crazy jesters .
Private
In 1969 he married the actress and operetta singer Maria Alexander , who was engaged at the Berlin Metropol Theater . The couple were married for almost 42 years. They raised three children together. Ostberg had a son from a previous marriage; Alexander a daughter from a previous relationship. Ostberg lived with his family in a house in East Berlin, in Berlin-Mahlsdorf . Their son Marcus Ostberg (* 1972 in Berlin ) also became an actor and voice actor.
Filmography (selection)
- 1963: Blaulicht : Hot money (TV series)
- 1963: Sunday driver
- 1965: As long as there is life in me
- 1966: Trail of the stones
- 1966: The prosecutor has the floor: Bummel-Benno (TV series)
- 1970: The prosecutor has the floor: Transferred to punishment
- 1972: Washerwomen (spokesman)
- 1972: The prosecutor has the floor: The illegal designer
- 1974: Night worker - Berlin, autumn 73 (speaker)
- 1975: The prosecutor has the floor: Help for Maik
- 1975: Police call 110: Between the tracks (TV series)
- 1976: The Girl Crumbs (TV series)
- 1977: Police call 110: Peter Schnok is missing
- 1977: Police call 110: Fraudster wanted
- 1979: Waldfrieden / Paralyzed Wings (TV)
- 1981: Meschka's grandson (TV)
- 1983: What one person's devil is to another's nightingale (TV)
- 1985: Three Lovely Sisters : A Man for Life (TV)
- 1986: Der Verrückte vom Pleicher-Ring (TV play)
- 1988: Matuschke is to blame for everything (TV)
- 1988: Three Lovely Sisters: Welcome to the Spotlight (TV)
- 1990: Marie Grubbe (TV, DDR / PL / HUN / DK)
theatre
- 1962: Tatjana Sytina : First Encounter (Lewa Strushanowski) - Director: Kurt Rabe ( Theater of Friendship )
- 1962: Hanuš Burger / Stefan Heym : Tom Sawyer's great adventure - Director: Hanuš Burger (Theater of Friendship)
- 1963: Alecu Popovici : The boy in the second row (layman, a cricket) - Director: Lucian Giurchescu (Theater of Friendship)
- 1965: Juri Sotnik : A Terrible Day (Sewa Koslow) - Directed by Kurt Rabe (Theater of Friendship)
- 1965: Molière : Scapin's crooks - directed by Hanuš Burger (Theater of Friendship)
- 1972: Rainer Northmann / Joachim Gocht : Love with Extension (Tom) - Director: Hans-Joachim Martens ( Metropol-Theater (Berlin-Mitte) )
- 1979: Bela Szakcsi-Lakatos / Geza Csemer : The Red Caravan (Müll-Satyo) - Director: Hans-Joachim Martens (Metropol-Theater Berlin-Mitte)
- 1983: Emmerich Kálmán : Countess Mariza (Penizek) - Director: Hans-Joachim Martens (Metropol-Theater Berlin-Mitte)
- 1984: Oskar Felzmann / Wladimir Polyakow : The Aunt from Brazil (Babbs) - Director: Hans-Joachim Martens (Metropol-Theater Berlin-Mitte)
Radio plays (selection)
- 1966: Nikolai Nossow : Nimmerklug im Knirpsenland (little dots) - director: Ingeborg Milster (children's radio play - radio of the GDR )
- 1966: Herribert Schanke : Dritabse - Director: Maritta Hübner (children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1967: Hans Siebe : Footsteps in the Sand (Dieter Hahnisch) - Director: Joachim Staritz (crime radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1967: Horst Enders : The Rescue Medal (Manfred Renneberg) - Director: Ingeborg Milster (children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1967: Michel Cournot : The Children of the Court (Ponydebat) - Director: Fritz Göhler (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1968: Erasmus Schöfer : Monument Pfeiffer - Director: Fritz-Ernst Fechner (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1968: Horst Girra : Brennpunkt Autowolf (Jörg Soltau) - Director: Joachim Gürtner (detective radio play from the series Traces, Part 6 - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1969: Fritz Selbmann : Ein weit Weg (Hardtke) - Director: Fritz-Ernst Fechner (radio play (8 parts) - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1970: Herbert Friedrich : Radsaison (Klawun) - Director: Maritta Hübner (children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1970: Anita Heiden-Berndt : Cities of our Republic 0: Leipzig (Robert) - Director: Christa Kowalski (children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1970: Wil Lipatow : Viktoria und die Fischer (Stjopka) - Director: Theodor Popp (radio play - Rundfunk der DDR)
- 1971: Bruno Gluchowski : Stahl von der Ruhr (Fenner) - Director: Helmut Hellstorff (radio play based on "Bloody Steel" (3 parts) - GDR radio)
- 1972: Kai Himmelstrup : The Dandelions (Ole) - Director: Helmut Hellstorff (radio play (2 parts) - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1972: Gerhard Jäckel : The Blue Lizard (Klaus) - Director: Joachim Gürtner (Radio play series: Neumann, ring twice - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1973: Joachim Witte : Die Arnsroder Schlacht (Meyer) - Director: Joachim Gürtner (radio play series: Neumann, ring twice - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1973: Linda Teßmer : Am schwarzen Mann (Oberleutnant Baumann) - Director: Joachim Staritz (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1973: The Righteous von Kummerow as Johannes
- 1973: Arne Leonhardt : Chess of the Checkers or How I Should Get a Man (Salzmann) - Director: Werner Grunow (radio play - Rundfunk der DDR)
- 1975: Irmgard Keun : Das Kunstseidene Mädchen (Karl) - Director: Wolfgang Brunecker (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1975: Iwan Bjelischew : The stubborn kitten (bunny) - Director: Albrecht Surkau (children's radio play - Litera )
- 1976: Mark Twain : The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Huckleberry Finn) - Director: Theodor Popp (Children's radio play - Litera )
- 1978: Karel Čapek : handheld games (Lysicki) - Director: Joachim Staritz (radio drama - broadcast of the GDR)
- 1979: Brigitte Martin : encouragement 79 (Pagel) - director: Hannelore Solter (radio play - radio of the GDR)
- 1980: Barbara Neuhaus : His only letter - Director: Ingeborg Medschinski (radio play - radio of the GDR)
- 1980: Karl-Heinz Jakobs : Casanova in Dux (crier) - Director: Barbara Plensat (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1981: Lothar Walsdorf : Wedding temporarily - Director: Ingeborg Medschinski (Children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1983: Linda Teßmer : 9 p.m. Erlenpark (Benno Stange) - Director: Fritz-Ernst Fechner (detective radio play / short radio play - radio of the GDR)
- 1985: Wilhelm Hauff : The Cold Heart (Peter Munk) - Director: Manfred Täubert (Children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1989: Gerhard Rentzsch : Scenes from the Country - Director: Karlheinz Liefers (Radio play series: Moments No. 1 - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1991: Waldemar Bonsels : Maya the Bee (A Grasshopper) - Director: Werner Grunow (Children's radio play - DS Kultur )
- 1997: Christa Kozik : The Enchanted Burglar - Director: Klaus-Michael Klingsporn (children's radio play - DLR Berlin )
- 1998: Michail Bulgakow : The Master and Margarita - Director: Petra Meyenburg (radio play (30 parts) - MDR )
- 1999: Isaak Babel : Die Reiterarmee (Dolgusov) - Director: Joachim Staritz (radio play (3 parts) - MDR / DLR )
Web links
- Wolfgang Ostberg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Wolfgang Ostberg at filmportal.de
- Wolfgang Ostberg in the German dubbing index
- Wolfgang Ostberg at DEFA-Sternstunden
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d A contentious comedian. The actor and singer Wolfgang Ostberg is dead . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 21, 2011
- ↑ a b c d e f He thought that one should do useful things. He only called great artists "Künschtler" . In: Der Tagesspiegel , August 25, 2011; obituary
- ↑ a b c Wolfgang Ostberg ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Vita ( Theater of Friendship )
- ↑ Stefan Lauter: JAJA, THE WOMEN . Performance review. In: Orpheus . Edition 12/13. December 1992. page 129.
- ↑ a b c d e Wolfgang Ostberg entry at Discogs
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ostberg, Wolfgang |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor, radio play speaker and singer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1939 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | May 13, 2011 |
Place of death | Sankt Michaelisdonn |