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 .
Filmography (selection)
- 1968: Four hours from Elbe 1
- 1972: Bremen freedom
- 1972/73: Eight hours are not a day
- 1973: The tenderness of wolves
- 1973: Welt on the wire
- 1974: Fontane Effi Briest
- 1974: Martha
- 1980: Berlin Alexanderplatz
- 1986: Tatort: From the Dream (TV series)
- 1987: Sierra Leone
- 1987: metropolitan area
- 1992: Mau Mau
- 1993: Adelheid and her murderers (TV series, one episode)
- 1995: Stubbe - Case by Case (TV series, an episode)
- 1997: Crime scene: Inflagranti
- 1997: Crime scene: Murder behind the dike
- 1999: Tatort: The Apocalyptic Horsemen
- 1999: Police call 110: Above the roofs of Schwerin (TV series)
- 2000: Police call 110: Power and its price
- 2001: Coast Guard (TV series, episode)
- 2002: Police call 110: Memory
- 2006: The Duo: Time Out (TV series)
- 2006: Crime scene: Silent days
Radio plays
- 1969: Georges Perec : Wuchungen - Director (radio play - SR / WDR)
Web links
- Wolfgang Schenck in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation ( Memento from December 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt , July 5, 2003.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schenck, Wolfgang |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor and theater director |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 22, 1934 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Germany |