Wolfgang Rau

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Wolfgang Rau (born October 22, 1935 in Berlin ) is a German stage and television actor .

Live and act

Rau received his artistic training in Berlin in the 1950s and then gave his theater debut in Bautzen. Before the Wall was built , he played in Eisenach, then moved to the Federal Republic and has played in theaters there since the 1960s (including in Gießen, Gelsenkirchen, Bonn, Schleswig and Kiel). He also appeared as a guest at the Gandersheim and Bad Hersfeld theater festivals. After all, Rau practiced his profession as a freelance artist on Hamburg theaters.

From 1965 to the turn of the millennium, Wolfgang Rau was also a popular supporting actor in a plethora of television films, where he practically covered the entire range of small roles from the driver to the general to customs investigator and hospital patient. In 1977 he played the organizer of the murder of millions of Jews, Adolf Eichmann , in a production about Reinhard Heydrich with Dietrich Mattausch in the title role. In several individual episodes of the popular series / series Tatort and Großstadtrevier you could also see Wolfgang Rau, who is Hamburg by choice, but also in other North German series as a guest.

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