---
name: "Rüdiger Weigang"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rudiger-weigang"
fi1m_id: "rudiger-weigang"
imdb_id: "nm0917826"
tmdb_id: 556044
wikidata_id: "Q2203779"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "25 June 1942"
died: "20 April 2022"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T11:09:16.261162+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Rüdiger Weigang

## Identity

Rüdiger Weigang

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rudiger-weigang
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** rudiger-weigang
- **IMDb ID:** nm0917826
- **TMDB ID:** 556044
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2203779
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2203779, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0917826/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/556044

Actor. Born 25 June 1942 in Saarbrücken, Germany. Died 20 April 2022.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 25 June 1942, Saarbrücken, Germany
- **Died:** 20 April 2022
- **Active:** 1984–1987
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2203779, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0917826/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/556044

## Biography

Rüdiger Weigang was a German actor. He was born on 25 June 1942 in Saarbrücken and died on 20 April 2022 in Berlin. He received acting training at the Konservatorium Wiesbaden under Axel Ivers. Weigang began his stage career in 1964 at the Zimmertheater Tübingen, remaining there until 1968. He later performed at the Nationaltheater Mannheim and the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, among other venues.

Weigang gained recognition for his role as Eduard Simon in the 1984 miniseries *Heimat – Eine deutsche Chronik*. He appeared as Axel in the 1987 BBC miniseries *A Perfect Spy*. He also featured in the series *Familie Heinz Becker* from 1992 to 2004 and its 1999 spin-off film *Tach, Herr Dokter! – Der Heinz-Becker-Film*, as well as reprising his *Heimat* character in the 2006 film *Heimat-Fragmente: Die Frauen*.

*Sources: de.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, filmportal.de.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Heimat* (1984), Fi1m 91, as Eduard Simon — [page](https://film.one/tv/heimat.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Kommissarin Lucas* (2003), series, as Toni
- *Die Wache* (1994), series, as Herr Leitz
- *Familie Heinz Becker* (1992), series, as Hedwigs Mann
- *Abenteuer Airport* (1990), series, as Controller Mülheim
- *Ignaz, der Gerechte* (1988), series, as Ignaz
- *A Perfect Spy* (1987), series, as Axel
- *Liebling Kreuzberg* (1986), series, as Fahrlehrer Pfeffgen
- *Heimat* (1984), series, as Eduard Simon — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/tv/heimat.md)
- *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, as Mann mit Homburg, Backes

## Gallery

- ![Reporter (Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur)](https://film.one/media/person/6774760/gallery-8db179070657.jpg) Reporter (Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur) — Gerd Weiss, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Reporter_%28Ben_Hecht%2C_Charles_MacArthur%29_-_LABW_-_Generallandesarchiv_Karlsruhe_57-3_Nr._18133.jpg/1280px-Reporter_%28Ben_Hecht%2C_Charles_MacArthur%29_-_LABW_-_Generallandesarchiv_Karlsruhe_57-3_Nr._18133.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Rotkäppchen (Evgenij L'vovic Svarc)](https://film.one/media/person/6774760/gallery-eda8ff866c6b.jpg) Rotkäppchen (Evgenij L'vovic Svarc) — Gerd Weiss, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Rotk%C3%A4ppchen_%28Evgenij_L%27vovic_Svarc%29_-_LABW_-_Generallandesarchiv_Karlsruhe_57-3_Nr._9946.jpg/1280px-Rotk%C3%A4ppchen_%28Evgenij_L%27vovic_Svarc%29_-_LABW_-_Generallandesarchiv_Karlsruhe_57-3_Nr._9946.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Bremer Freiheit (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)](https://film.one/media/person/6774760/gallery-c5235ea67da1.jpg) Bremer Freiheit (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) — Gerd Weiss, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Bremer_Freiheit_%28Rainer_Werner_Fassbinder%29_-_LABW_-_Generallandesarchiv_Karlsruhe_57-3_Nr._10060.jpg/1280px-Bremer_Freiheit_%28Rainer_Werner_Fassbinder%29_-_LABW_-_Generallandesarchiv_Karlsruhe_57-3_Nr._10060.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Der Menschenfeind (Molière)](https://film.one/media/person/6774760/gallery-cd04c303e815.jpg) Der Menschenfeind (Molière) — Gerd Weiss, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Der_Menschenfeind_%28Moli%C3%A8re%29_-_LABW_-_Generallandesarchiv_Karlsruhe_57-3_Nr._9704.jpg/1280px-Der_Menschenfeind_%28Moli%C3%A8re%29_-_LABW_-_Generallandesarchiv_Karlsruhe_57-3_Nr._9704.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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