Overview
- His death on 7 July 2026 was confirmed by his wife, Rita Feldmeier, and by his agency 60Plus, which said he died after a severe illness surrounded by family.
- He became widely known on television as Rudi Reschke in the ZDF Salto series and as the Weihnachtsmann (Santa) in KiKA’s Beutolomäus, roles that reached different generations of viewers.
- Wolff trained at the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen in Potsdam‑Babelsberg and rose through DDR theatre before securing long engagements at major Berlin stages such as the Theater am Kurfürstendamm and Schlosspark-Theater.
- His stage career included exceptionally long runs in popular plays, with reports of roughly 1,400 performances as Philipp Klapproth in Pension Schöller and about 580 performances as Amandus in Honig im Kopf.
- He remained active late in life, appearing with his wife in a 2025 revival of the DDR classic Maxe Baumann at the Beelitzer Festspiele, and leaves a legacy of more than 100 film and television credits as tributes begin to appear.