Wolfgang Rottsieper

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Wolfgang Rottsieper (born July 24, 1919 in Frankfurt am Main ; † December 6, 1973 in Bern ) was a German actor and radio play speaker .

Life

Wolfgang Rottsieper passed his Abitur in his hometown and then trained as an actor in Mannheim. After initial engagements, he was drafted into military service and was subsequently taken into Soviet captivity. After his release, Rottsieper was able to continue his artistic career and performed at Hamburg theaters for a number of years before he moved to Switzerland and was exclusively committed to federal theaters until his death. From 1951 to 1960 Rottsieper had an engagement at the Lucerne Theater , then he went to Bern and played there from 1960 to 1964 at the City Theater and from 1964 to 1973 at the Atelier Theater. In the meantime he has made guest appearances at stages in Bonn, Konstanz and Linz as well as in the 1967/68 season at the Theater Basel .

Well-known roles by Rottsieper were in Lucerne Iago in William Shakespeare's Othello and the title role in Tartuffe by Molière , in Bern Gerstein in Rolf Hochhuth's deputy , Saint-Claude in The Marriage of Mr Mississippi by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, and Pastor Manders and Wilhelm Foldal in Ibsen -Pieces of Ghosts or John Gabriel Borkman .

In addition, from the end of the war until the 1950s, Wolfgang Rottsieper worked extensively as a speaker in radio play productions of the North West German and later North German Radio , including in a radio play version of the Graham Greene novel Unser Mann in Havanna , in Günter Eich's radio play cycle Träume and repeatedly in the series the court retires for deliberation . As a voice actor, he lent David McCallum in The Last Night of the Titanic and Dirk Bogarde in A Child Was Witness His Voice.

Wolfgang Rottsieper was married to his colleague Eva Portmann until his death . Both were engaged at the Lucerne Theater from 1952 to 1960.

Filmography

Radio plays (selection)

Synchronous roles

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Thomas Blubacher : Wolfgang Rottsieper . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1534 f.
personal data
SURNAME Rottsieper, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 6th December 1973
Place of death Bern