RESOUNDING ECHOES: From August 2022, Robert McCarney's regular series features little-known twentieth century classical composers.
FROM ROME: From December 2009 until March 2023, the late Giuseppe Pennisi sent us regular reports from the Italian opera and classical music scene.
German actor and singer Wolfgang Ostberg was born in Berlin on 4 August 1939. Known for his appearances in the East German TV films Steckbrieflich gesucht (1982), An allem ist Matuschke schuld (1988) and Das tägliche Brot (1963), he also worked in operetta, at the Metropol Theater in East Berlin. He married actress Maria Alexander, and was the father of actor Marcus Ostberg.
Ostberg died in Schleswig-Holstein on 13 May 2011, aged seventy-one.
Profile. Love Comes Stealing In - George Colerick remembers Wolfgang Ostberg (1939-2011)