Wolfgang Neuss

Wolfgang Neuss was a German actor and Kabarett artist. Wolfgang Neuss and 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.
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.

Filmography

Der Mann, der sich selber sucht
Wer fuhr den grauen Ford? as Uwe Lauterbach
Schön muß man sein as Moritat singer
Pension Schöller as Ballman
Mikosch rückt ein as Franzek
Ich hab' mein Herz in Heidelberg verloren as Karl
Man lebt nur einmal as boxer Willy
Die Spur führt nach Berlin as Martin
Der Onkel aus Amerika as conferencier
Von Liebe reden wir später as detective Leonhard Pingel
Hollandmädel as Mr. Zimt
Keine Angst vor großen Tieren as magician
Die Kaiserin von China as Wonderful
Weg ohne Umkehr as comedian
Hurra – ein Junge!
Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um halb eins as Nigrantz
Phantom des großen Zeltes
The Beautiful Miller
Die goldene Pest
Des Teufels General as police photographer
Ein Mann vergißt die Liebe
Sacred Lie
Oberwachtmeister Borck as Krüger
Ich war ein häßliches Mädchen as journalist Mopp
Banditen der Autobahn as chansonnier
Der fröhliche Wanderer as director Kneppke
Unternehmen Schlafsack as Hauptmann Z.
Mein Leopold as Charly
Himmel ohne Sterne as Vopo Edgar Bröse
Die Drei von der Tankstelle as Prokurist Bügel
Urlaub auf Ehrenwort as Gefreiter Krawutke
The Road to Paradise
as police medic
Küß mich noch einmal as Peter
Der Hauptmann von Köpenick as Kallenberg
Ohne Dich wird es Nacht as pharmacist
Zu Befehl, Frau Feldwebel as Lemke
as Knacker-Karl
Charleys Tante
Der müde Theodor as director Noll
Frühling in Berlin as bank robberer
as Gast
Das Wirtshaus im Spessart as robberer Knoll
Die grünen Teufel von Monte Cassino as Neumann
as Egon
Der Maulkorb as Wilhelm Donnerstag
Der Stern von Santa Clara as Matteo
Wir Wunderkinder as narrator
Hier bin ich – hier bleib ich as presenter
Nick Knattertons Abenteuer as a butler at Rieselkalk Castle
Die Nacht vor der Premiere as Gavrilo
Rosen für den Staatsanwalt as Paul
as Willibald Pauke
as Jakob WilkinsNapoleon in New Orleans
as "Pulle" Kulka
Wir Kellerkinder as Macke Prinz
as Gabriel Ernst, Bildhauer
Der Traum von Lieschen Müller as chauffeurMacky Pancake
as Oskar Puste
as Bowlingbahnangestellter Wolfgang
Die Tote von Beverly Hills as Ben
Serenade für zwei Spione as secret service chief
as Jones
Cat and Mouse as Pilenz
Rotmord as Erich Mühsam
as Mr. Draeger
Das fliegende Chaos
as Annemarie Renger

Cabarett shows

Lachkalorien
Der Mann mit der Pauke
Wer nicht hören will muss fernsehen …
Zwei Berliner in Paris – eine musikalische Doppel-Conference von Wolfgang Neuss
Das jüngste Gerücht
Neuss Testament – Die François Villon
Asyl im Domizil
Serenade für Angsthasen – in kabarettistisches Solo für Neuss und eine Geige
Marxmenschen
Neuss vom Tage

Other recordings

Die Dreigroschenoper

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
"Das Neuss Testament". Rüdiger Daniel. Production dibsfilm and rbb, 2009, movie film, 72 min.