Wolfgang Schenck (actor)

Wolfgang Schenck (born November 22, 1934 ) is a German actor , radio play speaker , radio play and theater director .

Life

Schenck began his acting career in 1957 as a member of the theater group Niederdeutsche Bühne Bremen at the Waldau Theater . In the mid-1960s, at the instigation of the local artistic director Kurt Hübner, he moved to the Theater am Goetheplatz . There he worked for the first time with Peter Zadek , Johannes Schaaf and Rainer Werner Fassbinder and gave the role of Gottfried in the world premiere of the play Bremer Freiheit . He took this over in 1972 in Fassbinder 's television adaptation of the same name . In the meantime he had moved to the Schauspielhaus Bochum , where he played the title role in Liliom alongside Hanna Schygulla and under Fassbinder's direction . Schenck was seen in numerous film and television productions by Fassbinder, including as Franz in the five-part television series Eight Hours Are Not a Day , as Franz Hahn in Welt am Draht and as Baron von Instetten in Fassbinder's adaptation of Fontane's Effi Briest ; most recently he played a guest role in Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz . His other film and television activities include guest roles in television series such as Tatort , Polizeiruf 110 and Das Duo as well as the comedy film Mau Mau . Since 1986 he has worked repeatedly as an actor and director at the Ohnsorg Theater , where his older brother Jochen Schenck had also worked since 1956.

He and his wife Liesel Staats work extensively as a radio play speaker and director at NDR .

personal data
SURNAME	Schenck, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH	November 22, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH	Germany