Christian Quadflieg
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Born | Christian Urs Quadflieg April 11, 1945 Växjö, Sweden |
Other name(s) | Christian Urs |
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Christian Urs Quadflieg (b. April 11, 1945 in Växjö, Sweden) is a German television actor and director. He has lived in Hamburg since 1991. His father was the German actor Will Quadflieg.
Christian Quadflieg visited the school in Hamburg. After he finished his education with the Abitur (A-levels) he began a three year lasting education at the Westfälischen Schauspielschule (Actors school of Westphalia) in Bochum. Between 1969 and 1973 he was a member of the theater companies in Oberhausen, Wuppertal and Basel. These were followed by work in Berlin, Hamburg, München, Wien and Zürich. He was also engaged at the Salzburg Festspiele.
He had roles in a great number of TV series and movies, among them e.g. in Der Alte, Derrick, Das Traumschiff, Siska and Tatort. In the 40 episodes of Der Landarzt, he portrayed the title role of Dr. Karsten Matthiesen, in 16 of these episodes he also worked as director.
He regularly tours Germany with programmes of reading the work of various poets. In recent years he has been seen less on TV, which he explains with 'his search for a better quality of his roles'.[citation needed]
He also is the German voice of, among others, Dean Stockwell in Paris, Texas and of Henry Wilcoxon.
During his time in Oberhausen he worked under the name Christian Urs as he did not want to profit from the fame of his father Will Quadflieg, who was born and raised in Oberhausen.
[edit] References
- Deutsches Bühnenjahrbuch 1968 and 1969 (German)
[edit] External links
- Christian Quadflieg at the Internet Movie Database
- Official site (German)