Wolfgang Winkler (actor)
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)
- 1965: I am the rabbit
- 1966: Harras, the Police Dog - Episode: The Party (TV)
- 1967: The girl on the board
- 1968: I was nineteen
- 1968: needle and bayonet (TV theater Moritzburg)
- 1968: The end of the beginning (TV theater Moritzburg)
- 1969: Hans Sachs Carnival Games (TV theater Moritzburg)
- 1969: Unusual excursion (TV theater Moritzburg)
- 1969: Three from the K (TV)
- 1970: Zernik corpse matter ( first filming canceled due to the death of Gerhard Klein )
- 1970: The money marriage (TV theater Moritzburg)
- 1971: Whoever Laughs Last ... (Moritzburg TV Theater)
- 1971: Rottenknechte - 4th part (TV)
- 1971: the time of the storks
- 1972: The man after the clock or The ordinary man (TV theater Moritzburg)
- 1972: I'll show you
- 1973: The second life of Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow
- 1973: Cement (TV film, two parts)
- 1974: Your Own Skin (TV movie)
- 1974: ... damn it, I'm an adult
- 1975: Broddi (TV)
- 1975: Banquet for Achilles
- 1975: Bedtime Story (TV Theater Moritzburg)
- 1975: Late podium: When I was sitting on the juniper (TV theater Moritzburg)
- 1976: an old model (TV)
- 1977: joke, satire, irony and deeper meaning (theater recording)
- 1977: A snowman for Africa
- 1977: Dangerous Manhunt (TV)
- 1978: The little train driver's long journey
- 1978: Spook under the ferris wheel (TV)
- 1978: Stories from the Vienna Woods (theater recording)
- 1979: Kleistertopf and auntie tricks (TV theater Moritzburg)
- 1979: Polizeiruf 110: Am Abgrund (TV series)
- 1979: Tull (TV movie)
- 1979: The horse girl
- 1980: Max and seven and a half boys
- 1981: Nora S. (TV movie)
- 1981: May I say Petrushka to you?
- 1981: The fat man and me
- 1982: Police call 110: Barriers (TV series)
- 1982: Holiday with surprises (TV theater Moritzburg)
- 1983: Difficult to get engaged
- 1983: The shots of Noah's Ark
- 1984: The Doll's House in Pinnow (TV movie)
- 1984: Railway family (spokesman)
- 1984: Pension Butterpilz - The Leisure Paradise (TV Theater Moritzburg)
- 1985: The Bet (Moritzburg TV Theater)
- 1985: The prosecutor has the floor : Hubertus hunt
- 1986: The brigadier's hat
- 1986: Raven father
- 1986: Hilde, the maid
- 1987: The Rabenhorst oath
- 1987: Liana
- 1988: Animals Make People (nine-part television series)
- 1988: Revision for three (TV theater Moritzburg)
- 1988: With body and soul
- 1988: Police call 110: You never catch me! (TV series)
- 1988: The Pirate's Heart
- 1989: Johanna (TV series)
- 1989: Police call 110: Tramper variant (TV series)
- 1989: Police call 110: Invisible tracks (TV series)
- 1989: The dragon Daniel
- 1990: Beyond the borders
- 1990: Farewell disco
- 1991: Youth without God
- 1991: The rhinestone
- 1992: The big festival
- 1992: Karl May (TV miniseries)
- 1993: Hello, Comrade (TV)
- 1993: Police call 110: Death in the power plant (TV series)
- 1994: Favorite Kreuzberg : Red Ears
- 1995: Police call 110: Seven Days of Freedom (TV series)
- 1995: We are also only one people
- 1995: Tatort - Deadly Friendship (TV series)
- 1996: Tatort - Those who do not remain silent must die
- 1996: Kurklinik Rosenau (TV series)
- 1996–2013: Police call 110 (as Chief Inspector Schneider); 50 episodes, for details see under Schmücke and Schneider
- 1997: Une femme sur mesure
- 2001: Heinrich the Sawyer
- 2003: Fly returns
- 2004, 2006: Schloss Einstein (as chief inspector Schneider)
- 2004: Fly is afraid
- 2005: Little Red Riding Hood
- 2008: little table set yourself
- 2008: The dream couple
- 2008: Six days, six nights. 100 years of the Berlin six-day race
- 2009: Tango in the snow
- 2012: The men of Emden
- 2012: SOKO Leipzig - Gears
- 2012: Fallwurf Böhme - The wondrous ways of a left-hander , TV version: Love, handball and the Cold War (narrator's voice)
- 2012: Everything Klara - Trabi murder weapon
- 2015–2019: Pensionnercops (TV series, 40 episodes in three seasons)
- 2017: The Specialists - In the Name of the Victims (TV series, episode: Bum Bum )
- 2018: Wolfsland - The stone guest
Radio plays
- 1971: Hans Siebe : Luggage compartment 19 - Director: Walter Niklaus (radio play - radio of the GDR)
- 1974: Joachim Nowotny : An old model - Director: Walter Niklaus (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1975: Hans Siebe: Pleskauer Harte - Director: Joachim Staritz (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1990: Hans Siebe: Gröninge Forst corpse matter - Director: Walter Niklaus (radio play - Funkhaus Berlin)
- 1991: Michel Tournier / Christian Hussel: Veronique's welding cloths (radio play - SachsenRadio)
- 1991: Gerhard Pötzsch : He was all alone - Director: Joachim Staritz (radio play - SachsenRadio / hr)
- 1992: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm / Katrin Lange : Princess behind thorn hedges - Director: Walter Niklaus (radio play - MDR)
- 1992: Thomas Brasch : Mercedes - Director: Joachim Staritz (radio play - MDR)
- 1992: Halldór Laxness / Armin Stolper : Seelsorge am Gletscher - Director: Joachim Staritz (radio play - MDR)
- 1993: Adam Bodor : The Branch Office - Director: Peter Groeger (radio play - MDR / ORF )
- 1993: Andreas Berger : Bank robbery (Herbert Wagner) - Director: Joachim Staritz (detective radio play - MDR)
- 1993: Andreas Knaup : Man in the train, man in the house, man in the bush - Director: Joachim Staritz (radio play - MDR)
- 1994: John B. Keane : The Field - Director: Robert Matejka (radio play - MDR)
- 1994: Norbert Marohn : Wipe your tears away - Director: Joachim Staritz (radio play - MDR)
- 1996: Dylan Thomas : Margate - Director: Joachim Staritz (radio play - MDR)
- 1997: Alexandr Dumas the Elder Ä. / Helmut Peschina : The Count of Monte Christo - Director: Walter Niklaus (radio play - MDR / BR / ORF)
- 1998: Jens Sparschuh : The Great Coup - Director: Joachim Staritz (radio play - MDR)
- 1998: Peter Steinbach : Why is it so beautiful on the Rhine ... (Rugoff) - Director: Hans Gerd Krogmann (radio play - WDR / DLR)
- 1998: Michail Bulgakow : The Master and Margarita - Director: Petra Meyenburg (radio play (30 parts) - MDR)
- 1999: Isaak Babel : Die Reiterarmee (Pan Timofej) - Director: Joachim Staritz (radio play (3 parts) - MDR / DLR )
- 2000: Donna W. Cross / Friedrich Bestereiner : Die Päpstin - Director: Walter Niklaus (radio play - MDR)
- 2001: Józef Ignacy Kraszewski : Countess Cosel (Curator Herzog) - Director: Walter Niklaus (radio play (5 parts) - MDR)
- 2014: Thilo Reffert : Kurschatten (Jürgen) - Director: Götz Fritsch ( Radio-Tatort - MDR)
literature
- Primary literature
- Frank-Burkhard Habel , Volker Wachter : Lexicon of the GDR stars. Actors from film and television. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-304-7
- Frank-Burkhard Habel, Volker Wachter: The great lexicon of the GDR stars. The actors from film and television. Extended new edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89602-391-8
- Günter Helmes , Steffi Schältzke (Ed.): The Moritzburg TV Theater. Institution and schedule . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2003. ISBN 3-936522-99-5 .
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Claudia Kusebauch (ed.): TV theater Moritzburg II. Program history . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2005. ISBN 3-86583-015-3 .
- Claudia Kusebauch (with the assistance of Michael Grisko ): The Moritzburg TV Theater - Program Chronology . Ibid., Pp. 15-208.
- Frank-Burkhard Habel: Lexicon. Actor in the GDR. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-355-01760-2
- Secondary literature
- Andreas Kurtz , Jaecki Schwarz, Wolfgang Winkler: Herbert & Herbert - I don't want to be married to you! Eulenspiegel Verlag , Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-359-02363-0
Awards
- 2013: Golden Hen for his life's work (together with Jaecki Schwarz)
Web links
- Wolfgang Winkler in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Wolfgang Winkler in the German dubbing file
- Wolfgang Winkler in the Apitz agency
- I was always the comedian - the actor Wolfgang Winkler - a portrait feature by Steffen Lüddemann, 24 minutes, MDR KULTUR
- On the death of Wolfgang Winkler - Stefan Blattner in conversation with Matthias Thalheim, MDR KULTUR, December 8, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Died 2019 - The Dead of the Year - Image 58. In: Spiegel-Online, photo gallery. Accessed December 31, 2019 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Winkler died . Obituary; in: Süddeutsche Zeitung of December 8, 2019. Accessed July 6, 2020
- ↑ a b c d e f g mdr.de: Police call actor Wolfgang Winkler is dead | MDR.DE. Retrieved December 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Herbert & Herbert: Andreas Kurtz talks to Jaecki Schwarz and Wolfgang Winkler about friendship, TV inspectors and life. Eulenspiegel Verlag 2012
- ↑ Sylvester Groth and Claudia Michelsen new "Polizeiruf" -Fahnder welt.de (accessed on January 29, 2013)
- ↑ Wolfgang Winkler is Günter Hoffmann daserste.de. Retrieved April 2, 2015.
- ↑ imfernsehen GmbH & Co KG: A pensioner cop is retiring: New partner for Tilo Prückner. Retrieved September 22, 2019 .
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ a b Goldene Henne 2013: These are the winners online edition of the Superillu from September 30, 2013.
- ↑ Reading Jaecki Schwarz talks about alcoholism. In: mz-web.de. Retrieved September 6, 2012 .
- ^ Police call actors Wolfgang Winkler and Jaecki Schwarz in Leinefelde. In: mz-web.de. Retrieved June 23, 2014 .
- ^ Herbert & Herbert on tour in Eulenspiegel-Verlag ; accessed on December 8, 2019.
- ↑ Dirk Skrzypczak: Wolfgang Winkler: Hallescher Polizeiruf-Star has died. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , December 7, 2019, accessed on December 7, 2019 .
- ^ Actor Wolfgang Winkler has died. Zeit Online , December 8, 2019, accessed on the same day.
personal data | |
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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 |