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Wolfgang Neuss (3 December 1923 – 5 May 1989) was a German actor and

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artist. Beginning in the mid-1960s, he also became famous for his political engagement, first for the

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, then for the extra-parliamentary opposition, ''APO''. He died in 1989 from a longtime

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. At the age of 15 he went to

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to become a

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but was dismissed. When Germany entered into the

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Neuss was drafted, first to the

Reich Labour Service The Reich Labour Service (''Reichsarbeitsdienst''; RAD) was a major organisation established in Nazi Germany as an agency to help mitigate the effects of unemployment on the German economy, militarise the workforce and indoctrinate it with Naz ...

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 The Iron Cross (german: link=no, Eisernes Kreuz, , abbreviated EK) was a military decoration in the Kingdom of Prussia, and later in the German Empire (1871–1918) and Nazi Germany (1933–1945). King Frederick William III of Prussia est ...

. It was during his stays in

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s and, after the war during military detention that Neuss began to discover his interest in

acting Acting is an activity in which a story is told by means of its enactment by an actor or actress who adopts a character—in theatre, television, film, radio, or any other medium that makes use of the mimetic mode. Acting involves a broad r ...

and for

Filmography

* (The man in search of himself) (1950) * (Who drove the grey Ford?) (1950) as Uwe Lauterbach * (You have to be beautiful) (1951) as Moritat singer * (1952) as Ballman * (Mikosch comes in) (1952) as Franzek * (I lost my heart in Heidelberg) (1952) as Karl * (You only live once) (1952) as boxer Willy * (All clues lead to Berlin) (1952) as Martin * (The uncle from America) (1953) as conferencier * (We'll talk about love later) (1953) as detective Leonhard Pingel * (Dutch girl) (1953) as Mr. Zimt * (Not afraid of big animals) (1953) as magician * (The empress of China) (1953) as Wonderful * (No way back) (1953) as comedian * (Hooray, it's a boy!) (1953) * (On the Reeperbahn at half past midnight) (1954) as Nigrantz * (The phantom of the big tent) (1954) * (The beautiful miller) (1954) * (The golden plague) (1954) * (The devil's general) (1955) as police photographer * (1955) * (Sacred lie) (1955) * (Sergeant Borck) (1955) as Krüger * (I was an ugly girl) (1955) as journalist Mopp * (Bandits of the Autobahn) (1955) as chansonnier * (The happy wanderer) (1955) as director Kneppke * (Operation sleeping bag) (1955) as Hauptmann Z. * (My Leopold) (1955) as Charly * (Sky without stars) (1955) as Vopo Edgar Bröse * (The three from the filling station) (1955) as Prokurist Bügel * (1955) as Gefreiter Krawutke * (1956) * (1956) as police medic * (1956) as Peter * (The captain of Köpenick) (1956) as Kallenberg (Director:

Helmut Käutner Helmut Käutner (25 March 1908 – 20 April 1980) was a German film director active mainly in the 1940s and 1950s. He entered the film industry at the end of the Weimar Republic and released his first films as a director in Nazi Germany. Käu ...

) * (Without you all is darkness) (1956) as pharmacist * (1956) as Lemke * (1956) as Knacker-Karl * (Charley's aunt) (1956) * (Tired Theodore) (1957) as director Noll * (Spring in Berlin) (1957) as bank robberer * (1957) as Gast * (The Spessart inn) (1958) as robberer Knoll * (The green devils of Monte Cassino) (1958) as Neumann * (1958) as Egon * (The muzzle) (1958) as Wilhelm Donnerstag * (The star of Santa Clara) (1958) as Matteo * (1958) as narrator * (Here I am, here I stay) (1959) as presenter * (Nick Knatterton's adventure) (1959) as a butler at Rieselkalk Castle * (The night before the premiere) (1959) as Gavrilo * (Roses for the prosecutor) (1959) as Paul * (1959) as Willibald Pauke * (1959) as Jakob Wilkins * ''Napoleon in New Orleans'' (1959) (TV film) * (1960) as "Pulle" Kulka * (We cellar children) (1960) as Macke Prinz * (1961) as Gabriel Ernst, Bildhauer * (The dream of Lieschen Mueller) (1961) as chauffeur * (1961) (TV series) * ''Macky Pancake'' (1961) (TV series, 3 episodes) * (1962) as Oskar Puste * (1963) as Bowlingbahnangestellter Wolfgang * (Dead woman from Beverly Hills) (1964) as Ben * (Serenade for two spies) (1965) as secret service chief * (1966, TV film) as Jones * (1967) as Pilenz * (1969, TV film) as

Erich Mühsam Erich Mühsam (6 April 1878 – 10 July 1934) was a German-Jewish antimilitarist anarchist essayist, poet and playwright. He emerged at the end of World War I as one of the leading agitators for a federated Bavarian Soviet Republic, for which ...

* (1974) as Mr. Draeger * (1983) * ' (1984) as

Annemarie Renger Annemarie Renger (née Wildung), (7 October 1919 in Leipzig – 3 March 2008 in Remagen-Oberwinter), was a German politician for the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). From 1972 until 1976 she served as the 5th President of the Bundestag ...

(final film role)

Cabarett shows

* (end of 1940s) * (1951) * (1959) * (1959) * (1963) * (1965) * (1967) * (1967) * (1968) * (mid-1980s in WDR)

Other recordings

* (with

Lotte Lenya Lotte Lenya (born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer; 18 October 1898 – 27 November 1981) was an Austrian-American singer, diseuse, and actress, long based in the United States. In the German-speaking and classical music world, she is best ...

as Jenny and Wolfgang Neuss as Moritat singer, recorded 11–15 January 1958, , Berlin Tempelhof)

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* 1923 births 1989 deaths German male film actors Actors from Wrocław People from the Province of Lower Silesia 20th-century German male actors Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor people Burials at the Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf Reich Labour Service members German Army personnel of World War II Recipients of the Iron Cross (1939) German prisoners of war in World War II {{Germany-film-actor-stub

Filmography

Cabarett shows

Other recordings

See also

References

Further reading

Films

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