Wolfgang Neuss
Wolfgang Neuss (3 December 1923 – 5 May 1989) was a German actor and Kabarett artist. Neuss and Wolfgang Müller (1922–1960) were a popular double act. Beginning in the mid-1960s, Neuss also became famous for his political engagement, first for the SPD, then for the extra-parliamentary opposition, APO. He died in 1989 from a longtime cancer.
Also recorded as Wolfgang Otto Neuss · Wolfgang Neuß · Der Mann mit der Pauke
Wolfgang Neuss
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- Born
- sources differ (1923 and 1923).
- Died
- 1989.
- Nationality
- Germany.
- Occupation
- stage actor, film actor, cabaret performer, film director, screenwriter, actor and musician.
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Wolfgang Neuss (3 December 1923 – 5 May 1989) was a German actor and Kabarett artist. Neuss and Wolfgang Müller (1922–1960) were a popular double act. Beginning in the mid-1960s, Neuss also became famous for his political engagement, first for the SPD, then for the extra-parliamentary opposition, APO. He died in 1989 from a longtime cancer.
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Wolfgang Neuss (died 1989) was an actor, cabaret performer and film actor, among other activities, of German nationality. The actor worked in Hamburg.
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Cabarett shows
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At the age of 15 he went to Berlin to become a clown but was dismissed. When Germany entered into the Second World War Neuss was drafted, first to the Reich Labour Service where he was occupied with road construction. Later he was sent to the Eastern Front where he became injured and was rewarded with the Iron Cross. It was during his stays in military hospitals and, after the war during military detention that Neuss began to discover his interest in acting and for Kabarett.
Lachkalorien (end of 1940s) Der Mann mit der Pauke (1951) Wer nicht hören will muss fernsehen … (1959) Zwei Berliner in Paris – eine musikalische Doppel-Conference von Wolfgang Neuss (1959) Das jüngste Gerücht (1963) Neuss Testament – Die Villon Show (1965) Asyl im Domizil (1967) Serenade für Angsthasen – in kabarettistisches Solo für Neuss und eine Geige (1967) Marxmenschen (1968) Neuss vom Tage (mid-1980s in WDR)
Life and career
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Life and career
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1960
Wir Kellerkinder – Wolfgang Neuss (1960) (1960) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
1989
Wolfgang Neuss died at West Berlin.
Films
"Wolfgang Neuss: Ekstase und Melancholie". Jürgen Miermeister. Production: ZDF, 1993, 23 min. "Narrkose – Von und mit Wolfgang Neuss". Rüdiger Daniel and Uschi Sixt-Roessler. First airing 4 December 1993, 43 min. Production: WDR "Der Mann mit der Pauke: Wolfgang Neuss". Documentation, book and regie: Jürgen Miermeister. Production: ZDF, first aired: 3 December 1998 "Neuss Deutschland: Querulant der Republik". Julia Oelkers and Peter Scholl. Documentation, 45 min. Production: rbb, first aired: 4 Dezember 2006 OCLC 699079325 "Das Neuss Testament". Rüdiger Daniel. Production dibsfilm and rbb, 2009, movie film, 72 min.
For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. 18.3.1964 Berlin/West In Vertretung des Senators für Wissenschaft und Kunst verlieh der Senator für Schulwesen, Carl Heinz Evers, im Kammersaal des Rathauses Schöneberg den diesjährigen"Berliner Kunstpreis-Jubiläumsstiftung 1848/1948 und
Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-P086980 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 · This image was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the German Federal Archive (Deutsches Bundesarchiv) as part of a cooperation project. The German Federal Archive guarantees an authentic representation
Other recordings
Die Dreigroschenoper (with Lotte Lenya as Jenny and Wolfgang Neuss as Moritat singer, recorded 11–15 January 1958, Afifa Studio, Berlin Tempelhof)
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q101868: Wolfgang Neuss
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1226720099, Wolf Biermann zu Gast bei Wolfgang Neuss.
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- 1.According to his ID-card as shown in documentation Neuss Deutschland – Querulant der Republik by Julia Oelkers & Peter Scholl, dated 2006
- 2.schauspieler 43. www.knerger.de.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 1
- Bergfelder, Tim & Bock, Hans-Michael. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopedia of German. Berghahn Books, 2009.
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 1226720099, Wolf Biermann zu Gast bei Wolfgang Neuss.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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