Wolfgang Arps

Wolfgang Arps (* 23 February 1926 in Hamburg; † 11 May 2001 in Wildbad Kreuth) was a German actor. Arps attended the acting school of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus and the acting school of Helmuth Gmelin after graduating in 1944. He began his theater career 1946/47 with guest performances at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus and the Theater Junge Bühne in Hamburg. In 1947/48 he played at the Stadttheater Lüneburg, 1948/49 at the Theater im Zimmer and from 1949 to 1955 at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Roles there were Mortimer in Maria Stuart, Hartmann in Des Teufels General, Orlando in Wie es you like and Armand Duval in a stage version of Die Kamelliendame.1955/56 he was engaged at the Staatstheater Stuttgart and played the temple lord in Nathan der Weise there. As a young hero he came to the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus in 1956, where he was a member for over 40 years and played more than 200 roles. He impersonated Carlos in Clavigo, Karl Moor in Die Räuber, Brutus in Julius Caesar, weather from the beam in Das Käthchen von Heilbronn, the accuser in In der Sache J. Robert Oppenheimer, professor in Uncle Wanja, Hassenreuter in Die Ratten, Alonso in Der Sturm (1989), Walter in Der zerbrochne Krug (1990), Semjon in Gorki's summer guests (1993) and the patriarch of Jerusalem in Nathan der Weise (1996). Arps was relatively rare on television. He became a larger audience in 1968 as senior physician Dr. Petersen is known in the television series Hafenkrankenhaus. He is buried on the Düsseldorf Nordfriedhof.