Kurt Wagner (actor)
Kurt Wagner ( born May 1, 1953 in Saarlouis ) is a former amateur actor, who in the early 1980s in Germany and partly international fame was in the role of " Glasisch Karl" in the 1981/1982 turned first season home - A German Chronicle of the Hunsrück epic home of Edgar Reitz.
Here he plays the outward force as goofy, but in reality shrewd individualists who leads as a kind of village and family chronicler by the action. Wagner, who was at the shooting time not yet 30 years old, is in the eleven parts of the series a man at different ages 19-82 years represents the figure of the " Glasisch " was originally planned as a small supporting role, but during the filming decided to Reitz, to make it a main role. It had been shown that Wagner " was ideally suited to the village original and as an emcee could perform the film's plot. " Also his role benefited from the fact that Kurt Wagner dominated the Moselle Franconian dialect of his home town of Saarlouis, the with the dialect of the Rhine- Hunsrück -Kreis, in which the fictional Handlungsort Schabbach is, is closely related. Wagner speaks in his role exclusively dialect.
Before his starring role in homeland Kurt Wagner was head of his own amateur theater and already had many years of acting experience. In the early 1980s he appeared in two episodes of the TV series dialect to six (Author: Alfred Gulden ) to the Saarland Radio. After 1984, he played supporting roles in six produced by the Saarland Radio consequences of the crime scene, the most important of these in sequence No. 237, Blue Lady (1990). He also appeared in the television series The court reporter (1994) and in the children's television series The Nutcracker.
He was awarded the awarded by the old town of Saarlouis patrons Tonton Prize 2005. Kurt Wagner lives (2006) with his wife and sons in Saarbrücken where he is owner of an advertising agency.