Wolfgang Heinz (actor)
Wolfgang Heinz, actually Wolfgang Hirsch ( born May 18, 1900 in Pilsen, † October 30, 1984 in Berlin) was a German actor and director.
Life
Wolfgang Heinz, was born as the son of the journalist Julius Hirsch and his wife, actress Camilla old. He attended the Archduke Rainer secondary school in Vienna. After completing his goal was to become an actor. After a short training he received in 1917 in Eisenach his first engagement. In 1918 he came to Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater Berlin to Berlin. In the season 1918/19, he also played at the National Theatre in Vienna. 1919 to 1923 he was in Berlin at the Prussian State Theatre under Leopold Jessner. After Heinz worked among other things, to the Hamburg Chamber games.
In 1927 Wolfgang Heinz played again at the Prussian State Theatre under Leopold Jessner. Under the influence of his friend Hans Otto, he joined the Communist Party in 1930. Shortly after coming to power of the Nazis in 1933, he fled because of his Jewish origin, Austria. In 1934 he went to the Schauspielhaus Zurich and remained until 1946 as a director and actor. In 1943 he resigned from the Communist Party, but remained a communist.
1946 Wolfgang Heinz was engaged at the Viennese popular theater. 1948-1956 he worked as an actor, director and director of La Scala Vienna. Since his theater was ostracized as a communist stage and closed in 1956, he moved to the German theater in East Berlin. Here he had already worked as a guest director since 1951. From 1956 to 1962 he was senior director and artistic director from 1963 to 1969. 1959 to 1962 he was also director of the State acting school in Berlin.
Until 1976 he played at the Deutsches Theater Berlin and was particularly through his interpretation of the title role in Lessing's Nathan the Wise known that he gave for the first time in 1966 there. Other roles were Woyzeck, Shylock, Gessler, Lear, Galileo Galilei in Bertolt Brecht The Life of Galileo, Wallenstein, Falstaff, Danton and the Teterev in the petty bourgeois of Gorky. As a director, he directed the productions of the plays of Gorky, Chekhov and Captain. In 1961, Heinz the title role of Professor Konrad Wolf Mamlock in film adaptation of the stage play of the same name. The role had previously played on the stage of the Deutsches Theater Heinz.
Heinz came in 1963 under the SED. He was since 1966 President of the Association of theater artists and 1968 to 1974 President of the German Academy of Arts.
The actress Erika Pelikowsky he lived, the daughter of the connection is the actress and director Gabriele Heinz. In the 1980s, he tried to get his half-brother David Hurst to Berlin to East Germany, but this failed due to opposition from the authorities. His final resting place in the cemetery Heinz Adlershof in Berlin.