Wolfgang Stumph

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Wolfgang Stumph (2008)

Wolfgang Stumph (born January 31, 1946 in Wünschelburg, Glatz district , today Radków , Poland ) is a German actor and cabaret artist .

Life

Wolfgang Stumph was born in Lower Silesia in 1946 , one year after the region came under Polish administration . He never met his father, he was considered missing since the end of the Second World War . Shortly after birth, the family was Stumphs from Silesia marketed ; Stumph settled in Dresden with his mother and grandmother and grew up there in the Hellerau district . After finishing school, he completed an apprenticeship as a boiler maker and studied engineering education . As a student he founded the amateur cabaret “Die Lachkarte” in Dresden. Later he was on the stage of the Dresden cabaret Die Herkuleskeule . The calm atmosphere in Dresden in this regard - not to be compared with the stages in Leipzig or Berlin - formed the cornerstone of his work. His prime role is that of the little man, a prototypical Saxon who knows how to hide criticism of the system behind simple sentences .

Towards the end of the 1980s, Stumph made the leap into television entertainment with comedic guest appearances as a so-called bag man in Gunther Emmerlich's show colade . Here he appeared as a man from the people who "got on the nerves" of the show master Emmerlich with his critical hints and his experiences - in favor of the enthusiastic audience. In the show he was called Stumpi and had the reusable Dederon bags that were common in the GDR with him. This satirized the East German urge to buy goods that were not available .

Wolfgang Stumph lives in Dresden , is married and has a son and a daughter, the actress Stephanie Stumph .

Stumph is committed to the Dresden support groups for children with cancer, Dresdner Kinderhilfe e. V. and Sonnenstrahl e. V. He is also a member of the board of trustees of Dresdner Kinderhilfe . He has been supporting UNICEF since 2001 and is currently one of the eleven official German-speaking UNICEF sponsors.

Stumph learned Esperanto in his youth , as he announced on WDR in 2002 ; he underlined the value of Esperanto in international communication.

successes

Stumph's big breakthrough came in 1991 with the successful movie Go Trabi Go . As a German teacher Udo Struutz and in the footsteps of Goethe , he traveled with his family to Italy by Trabant and had to survive many adventures. In the comedy, as well as in the second part in 1992, the clash between West and East Germans was in the foreground, whereby all common clichés were used comedically.

Stumph celebrated his second big success on television in the role of Wolle Stankoweit , a postal worker from the fictional village of Niederbörnicke in Brandenburg . Stumph achieved success with a sitcom format, which until then had not been possible in Germany. Salto Postale was awarded the Telestar (German Television Award ) in 1995 and the Golden Hen in 1996 and 1999 (audience award from MDR and Superillu ). With his colleague Rudi Reschke and Western Chief default were to endure a number of problems in the series; some east-west problems were again the focus. The post office officials Stankoweit and Rudi Reschke eventually became the community officials of the village and in a new area the sitcom continued in 1996 under the name Salto Kommunale until 2001. Your former boss became mayor of Niederbörnicke .

In the meantime, from 1995 onwards, Stumph also began to play a role as Kommissar Stubbe in the crime series Stubbe - From Case to Case . Stumph's biological daughter Stephanie supported the father from one episode to the next in the role of daughter Stubbes . The crime series was one of the most successful crime thrillers on ZDF . After the provisional end of the series at the beginning of 2014, Stumph returned to the screen almost five years later as a now retired commissioner.

With a double role in the film The Job of his Life , he achieved another comedic television success for ARD in 2003. But Stumph also serves the tragic subject, e.g. For example, in the movie Up to the Horizon and Further, which was enthusiastically received by the audience, as well as in the television productions A Piece of Happiness and A Love in Königsberg . This is how numerous films were made in which Stumph dropped out of the purely comedic role.

cabaret

Since 1991 Stumph has appeared in parallel in his cabaret program Antrak on STUMPHsinn together with his partners Gunter Antrak and Detlef Rothe . The constantly sold out and updated program was filled with numerous characters and songs about the passing of communism in eastern Germany. The last performance took place in the Comödie Dresden on May 5, 2006.

operetta

From 2003 Stumph played the role of the prison servant Frosch in the Johann Strauss operetta Die Fledermaus (production: Günter Krämer ) in the Semperoper Dresden and from 2009 also in Bremen .

Trivia

The role names of most of the characters, with which he can personally identify, begin, like his name, with " W " and " St ".

In March 2012, Stumph told the magazine Bild der Frau that he had never advertised “despite six-figure offers” and said: “At least I can't reconcile that with my claim. Advertising messages are like election promises: They are hardly kept. "

Filmography

Feature films

TV Shows

  • 1993–1996: Salto Postale (24 episodes on ZDF)
  • 1996: The Beloved (in an episode of 20 on ZDF)
  • 1998–2001: Salto Kommunale (26 episodes on ZDF)
  • 2006: Salto Speziale (three episodes on ZDF). Salto Speziale was broadcast in honor of Wolfgang Stumph's 60th birthday, Christel Peters ' 90th birthday and for the 10th anniversary and the end of Salto Postale in 2006.

Television series

Prices

literature

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Stumph  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ UNICEF GOVERNOR Wolfgang Stumph. Accessed May 31, 2020 .
  2. ↑ WDR, B. meets. Esperanto Bavaria. November 23, 2002, archived from the original on February 16, 2013 ; accessed on September 9, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Video list of the Centro Herzberg. Archived from the original on July 21, 2007 ; accessed on September 9, 2017 .
  4. ↑ picture of the woman, reproduced on ARD teletext, accessed on April 4, 2012 (VT page 424)
  5. ↑ Nov. 12, 2015, ASB Germany e. V. [1]
personal data
SURNAME Stumph, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Wünschelburg , Silesia