Actor and director Paul Roland died
Paul Roland, an actor, director, and radio personality from Bern, has died. Roland passed away last week at the age of 84, his family announced on Wednesday.
Roland has worked as an actor and director mainly in Bern, at the Städtebundtheater Biel-Solothurn and at the Komödie in Basel, as well as in Germany. In 1993, he received the Hans Reinhart Ring from the Swiss Society for Theater Culture for his services to Swiss theater. In Bern, he gained great merit with the expansion of the drama school, which he directed from 1965 to 1996. In radio, he was one of the first creators of the short radio play "Schreckmümpfeli," as the newspaper Der Bund reported on Wednesday in a Obituary mentioned. (SDA)
Photo: Derbund.ch
