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Wolfgang Heinz is a Actor Allemand born on 17 may 1900 at Plzeň (Republique tcheque)

Wolfgang Heinz

Wolfgang Heinz
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Birth name David Hirsch
Nationality German
Birth 17 may 1900 at Plzeň (Republique tcheque)
Death 30 october 1984 (at 84 years) at Berlin (German)
Awards National Prize of East Germany, Honarary citizen of Berlin

David Hirsch (May 18, 1900 - October 30, 1984), known as Wolfgang Heinz, was an Austrian and East German actor and theater director. He served as President of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin between 1968 and 1974.

Biography

Early life
Born to journalist and theater director Julius Hirsch and his wife Camilla, David Hirsch was the half-brother of Heinrich Theodor Hirsch. He left the Archduke Rainer Gymnasium in Vienna at the age of 17 to pursue an acting career. Heinz was exempted from military service due to a lung illness. He moved to Germany, working in theaters in Friedrichroda and Eisenach during 1917. Although he never attended an acting studio, he was also given roles in theaters in Berlin, Hamburg and other cities. In November 1918, he joined the cast of the Deutsches Theater. He had his debut on screen in the 1919 film Die Geächteten; another of his early roles in cinema was that of the first mate on the Empusa in Nosferatu. He married during 1921, but his wife suffered from Pleurisy and died after six months. Heinz later acted in the Schauspielhaus Berlin, which he left at 1923, when voice problems forced him to abandon his career for three years. In 1926, Max Reinhardt accepted him to the cast of the Deutsches Theater again, where he also started to direct plays. Heinz was a close friend of actor Hans Otto, and under his influence became a member of the Communist Party of Germany at 1930.


Exile
Along with all the Jewish and leftist actors, Heinz was dismissed from his work on 27 February 1933. He left for the Netherlands, from where he moved to Great Britain, and on to Vienna. He finally settled in Switzerland, in which - with many other exiles from Germany - he acted in the Schauspielhaus Zürich. At 1938, he began to direct plays in the theater. During his time in Switzerland, Heinz was one of the founders and the president of the Swiss Free Austrian Movement. He rescinded his membership in the KPD at 1943.

After the end of World War II, Heinz emigrated to the Soviet-occupied part of Vienna; at 1946, he joined the Communist Party of Austria. At first, he was part of the ensemble of the People's Theater. In 1948, with Karl Paryla and Emil Stöhr, he was a founding member, from 1948 to 1956, of the "Neue Theater in der Scala", a "workers' theatre". The theater held a communist and a pro-Soviet line, and openly defied the ban on Bertolt Brecht's works imposed in Vienna. Heinz met his second wife, Austrian actress Erika Pelikowsky, while working in the Scala. He was also active as a director in the Deutsches Theater since 1951. In 1956, after the Soviet withdrawal from Austria, the theater was closed. Heinz, Pelikowsky and their daughter Gabriele (born 1948) moved to East Berlin.


East Germany

In East Germany, Heinz permanently joined the cast of the Deutsches Theater under Wolfgang Langhoff. He appeared in more than 300 roles, and was best known for his portrayal of the title characters in King Lear, Life of Galileo, Wallenstein, Nathan the Wise and Professor Mamlock. Beside this, he also directed 80 plays through the years and appeared in several DEFA films. From 1959 to 1962, he headed the National Theatre School in Berlin. In 1960, he became a professor and a member of the Academy of the Arts. In 1963, he left the KPÖ and joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. At the same year, he replaced Langhoff as the theater's director and manager, holding this position until 1969.

At 1966, Heinz was appointed head of the East German Theater Artists' Association, an office he held until his death. Between 1968 and 1974, he was the president of the Academy of the Arts. In 1975, he had made his last appearance on stage, performing Nathan the Wise; afterwards, he became an honorary member of the Deutsches Theater.

Heinz received the Patriotic Order of Merit at 1965 (with an honorary clasp granted at 1980), the National Prize of East Germany in 1968, the Order of Karl Marx during 1974 and the Goethe Prize of Berlin in 1976. On 30 September 1983, he was granted an honorary citizenship of the city of Berlin by the authorities in East Berlin. After the German reunification Heinz's status was retained by the city council, since his theater career in the capital begun before the communist rule and was independent of it. Heinz is buried in Adlershof Cemetery in Berlin.

After his death, a Wolfgang Heinz Ring was bestowed annually to new and promising young actors by the Theater Artists' Association. Following the reunification, the right to award the ring was passed to the manager of the Deutsches Theater.

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Filmography of Wolfgang Heinz (5 films)

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Professor Mamlock, 1h40
Directed by Konrad Wolf
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Wolfgang Heinz, Hilmar Thate, Peter Sturm, Ulrich Thein, Manfred Krug, Kurt Jung-Alsen
Roles Professor Hans Mamlock
Rating69% 3.4573853.4573853.4573853.4573853.457385
Professor Mamlock, a respected Jewish surgeon, is certain that the Weimar Republic would survive the political crisis of the early 1930s. He disapproves of his son, Rolf, a communist activist who openly opposes the Nazis. When Hitler rises to power, Mamlock loses his work and his dignity. Realizing the mistake he made by being politically apathetic, Mamlock commits suicide. The film ends with his dead face blending away from the screen, on which appears the inscription: "there is no greater crime than not wanting to fight when fight one must."
Fusilier Wipf, 1h56
Directed by Hermann Haller, Leopold Lindtberg
Origin Suisse
Genres Drama
Themes Military humor in film
Actors Paul Hubschmid, Heinrich Gretler, Alfred Rasser, Robert Trösch, Elsie Attenhofer, Wolfgang Heinz
Roles Kriegsgefangener
Rating68% 3.439393.439393.439393.439393.43939
Le 1er août 1914, des clients de salon de coiffure Wiederkehr discutent de la mobilisation générale décrétée en Allemagne, Belgique et Russie. L’armée suisse étant également mobilisée, l’aide-coiffeur Reinhold Wipf doit quitter la vie civile pour aller occuper son poste dans les troupes gardes-frontières. Trimbalé entre les Alpes valaisannes, le Tessin et les forêts du Jura, le jeune soldat maladroit, timide et quelque peu efféminé devient un homme qui gagne progressivement le respect de ses camarades et de ses supérieurs hiérarchiques. Cet engagement militaire le sépare aussi de Rosa Wiederkehr, la fille assez prétentieuse de son maître d’apprentissage, mais il connaît le grand amour avec Vreneli, toute simple et naturelle.
A Blonde Dream, 1h40
Directed by Paul Martin
Origin German
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Willi Forst, Paul Hörbiger, Trude Hesterberg, Hans Deppe
Roles Portier
Rating62% 3.141253.141253.141253.141253.14125
Berlin au début des années 1930. Deux laveurs de vitres de l'entreprise Blitz-Blank, Willy et Willy, pédalent, l'échelle sous les bras et leurs ustensiles dans les mains, ils vont dans la grande ville de mission en mission, de bâtiment en bâtiment. Ils travaillent bien ensemble, jusqu'à ce qu'ils soient intéressés par la même fille, la blonde Jou-Jou. Ils voient derrière la fenêtre de l'ambassade américaine. Alors qu'elle est sur le point d'être mise dehors par le portier, ils la soutiennent.
Nosferatu
Nosferatu (1922)
, 1h34
Directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Origin German
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Medical-themed films, Dracula films, Vampires in film, Films about viral outbreaks
Actors Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder, Alexander Granach, Wolfgang Heinz, Georg H. Schnell
Roles 1st Sailor
Rating78% 3.948093.948093.948093.948093.94809
Thomas Hutter lives in the fictitious German city of Wisborg. His employer, Knock, sends Hutter to Transylvania to visit a new client named Count Orlok. Hutter entrusts his loving wife Ellen to his good friend Harding and Harding's sister Annie, before embarking on his long journey. Nearing his destination in the Carpathian mountains, Hutter stops at an inn for dinner. The locals become frightened by the mere mention of Orlok's name and discourage him from traveling to his castle at night, warning of a werewolf on the prowl. The next morning, Hutter takes a coach to a high mountain pass, but the coachmen decline to take him any further than the bridge as nightfall is approaching. A black-swathed coach appears after Hutter crosses the bridge and the coachman gestures for him to climb aboard. Hutter is welcomed at a castle by Count Orlok. When Hutter is eating dinner and accidentally cuts his thumb, Orlok tries to suck the blood out, but his repulsed guest pulls his hand away.