Wolfgang Langhoff
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Wolfgang Langhoff (born: 6th October, 1901 in Berlin, Germany; died: 26th August, 1966 in Berlin, GDR)[1] was a German theatre, film and television actor and theatre director.
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[edit] As an actor
Langhoff played Eilif in the first production of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, which opened at the Schauspielhaus Zürich on the 19th April, 1941. He also performed in the first production of Brecht's Life of Galileo, which also opened at the Schauspielhaus Zürich, on the 9th September, 1943.[2]
He played Ernst Mehlin in Konrad Wolf's film Genesung (1956), von Geir in Nikola Korabov's Tyutyun (1962), and Professor Holt in Joachim Kunert's Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt (1965); he also appeared in Kurt Maetzig and Günter Reisch's Das Lied der Matrosen (1958). On television, he appeared in Hans-Joachim Kasprzik's mini-series Wolf unter Wölfen (1964).[1]
[edit] As a director
It is on the strength of his productions of classical texts at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, a theatre which he led from 1946 to 1963, that Langhoff's fame as a director rests. His notable productions there include: Goethe's Faust (1949 and 1954, productions in which he also played Mephisto) and Egmont (1951), Schiller's Don Carlos (1952), Shakespeare's King Lear (1957) and Lessing's Minna of Barnhelm (1960).[3]
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[edit] References
- ^ a b The Internet Movie Database. "Wolfgang Langhoff". Accessed August 17, 2007.
- ^ Willett, John. 1959. The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht: A Study from Eight Aspects. London: Methuen. ISBN 0413 34360 X. p.47, 48.
- ^ This article's description of Langhoff's directing career is taken from a section of the equivalent German-language Wikipedia article (retrieved 17 August 2007).
