Wolfgang Winkler (actor)

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Wolfgang Winkler (born March 2, 1943 in Görlitz ; † December 7, 2019 in Berlin ) was a German actor .

Life

Training and initial engagements

Wolfgang Winkler grew up well protected with his grandparents, who regularly went to the theater, which is why he came into contact with acting at an early age. After leaving school, he first completed an apprenticeship as a train driver at the Deutsche Reichsbahn and at the same time founded the cabaret The Purposes . Finally he applied to the German Academy for Film Art in Potsdam, where he studied from 1962 to 1965. In 1965 he made his debut at the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater in Görlitz as a craftsman Zettel in William Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream . From 1967 he was engaged at the Landestheater Halle . When his colleague Peter Sodann became theater director in 1980, he finally resigned his engagement in 1986 because of his difficult relationship with Sodann. After finding a job at the new Halle Theater after the fall of the Wall , the artistic director Horst Schönemann brought him to the Dresden State Theater in the early 1990s .

Movie and TV

GDR

Winkler made his first appearance in front of the camera in 1965 in Kurt Maetzig's drama The Rabbit I Am . The film, an adaptation of the novel Maria Morzeck or The Rabbit I am by Manfred Bieler , was banned in the GDR until 1990 because it dealt critically with socialism and in particular with the criminal justice system. Also with offers and leading role options for the DEFA films I Was Nineteen (1968), Dr. med. Sommer II (1970) and Leichensache Zernik (1970) had little luck for Winkler - they went to Jaecki Schwarz and Werner Tietze, respectively, and in the case of Leichensache Zernik , where he had started filming alongside Wolfgang Kieling , he fell ill Director Gerhard Klein on the 10th day of shooting and passed away. The crime film, which was finally produced two years later under the direction of Helmut Nitzschke, was made with a different cast.

Winkler only became known to a wide audience with various small and medium-sized television roles, for example in numerous productions at the Moritzburg television theater between 1968 and 1988, as well as with Egon Schlegel's children's film The Horse Girl (1979).

After the turn

Even after the reunification , Winkler managed to stay in the television business. In 1992 he played in Frank Beyer's Das große Fest at the side of Hans Christian Blech , Rolf Hoppe and Iris Berben or in 1994 alongside Manfred Krug in Werner Masten's nine-part series Wir sind auch nur ein Volk based on scripts by Jurek Becker . He became known to an audience of millions in the role of chief inspector Herbert Schneider in the crime series Polizeiruf 110 , where he investigated together with Jaecki Schwarz in Halle (Saale) and the surrounding area from 1996 to 2013 . At the end of January 2013, the MDR determined their successors with Claudia Michelsen and Sylvester Groth as the investigation duo Brasch and Drexler . During the time of the police call, Winkler was repeatedly seen with Schwarz in other television films as a joint duo, such as in 2008 in the ARD television film Das Traumpaar .

From 2015 to 2019, Winkler played the main role of the retired inspector Günter Hoffmann in the ARD early evening series Rentnercops at the side of Tilo Prückner . In October 2017 he stood in front of the camera as Bruno Hass for the television film Der Steinerne Gast in the crime series Wolfsland . He also played theater, among others in Dresden and in 2007 and 2011 with the theater ensemble Klassik am Meer under the direction of Jürgen Kern . In 2013 he and his colleague Jaecki Schwarz received the Golden Hen for life's work.

Private and death

Winkler was involved as a voluntary ambassador for the Children's Hospice Foundation for Central Germany Nordhausen e. V. in Tambach-Dietharz. In addition, he regularly gave recitations and readings . With his colleague and friend Jaecki Schwarz, he recited at irregular intervals from the book Never forget where I come from - life paths of famous and less famous alcoholics , published at the end of December 2009 . In September 2012 he and Jaecki Schwarz published the book Herbert & Herbert - I don't want to be married to you in Eulenspiegel-Verlag . , which Winkler and Schwarz also presented in readings for several years.

Winkler died in December 2019 of complications from a brain tumor . He last lived in Berlin-Karow , was married and had a son and a daughter.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

literature

Primary literature
Secondary literature

Awards

  • 2013: Golden Hen for his life's work (together with Jaecki Schwarz)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Died 2019 - The Dead of the Year - Image 58. In: Spiegel-Online, photo gallery. Accessed December 31, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Winkler died . Obituary; in: Süddeutsche Zeitung of December 8, 2019. Accessed July 6, 2020
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g mdr.de: Police call actor Wolfgang Winkler is dead | MDR.DE. Retrieved December 8, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Herbert & Herbert: Andreas Kurtz talks to Jaecki Schwarz and Wolfgang Winkler about friendship, TV inspectors and life. Eulenspiegel Verlag 2012
  5. ↑ Sylvester Groth and Claudia Michelsen new "Polizeiruf" -Fahnder welt.de (accessed on January 29, 2013)
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Winkler is Günter Hoffmann daserste.de. Retrieved April 2, 2015.
  7. ↑ imfernsehen GmbH & Co KG: A pensioner cop is retiring: New partner for Tilo Prückner. Retrieved September 22, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Winkler, who became popular as a police inspector, died at the age of 76. Online edition of the Leipziger Volkszeitung from December 8, 2019.
  9. ↑ a b Goldene Henne 2013: These are the winners online edition of the Superillu from September 30, 2013.
  10. ↑ Reading Jaecki Schwarz talks about alcoholism. In: mz-web.de. Retrieved September 6, 2012 .
  11. ^ Police call actors Wolfgang Winkler and Jaecki Schwarz in Leinefelde. In: mz-web.de. Retrieved June 23, 2014 .
  12. ^ Herbert & Herbert on tour in Eulenspiegel-Verlag ; accessed on December 8, 2019.
  13. ↑ Dirk Skrzypczak: Wolfgang Winkler: Hallescher Polizeiruf-Star has died. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , December 7, 2019, accessed on December 7, 2019 .
  14. ^ Actor Wolfgang Winkler has died. Zeit Online , December 8, 2019, accessed on the same day.
personal data
SURNAME Winkler, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz
DATE OF DEATH 7th December 2019
Place of death Berlin