Biography

In the early 1960s, when Bert van Kerkhoven became director of the KNS, Wieme was to join in for a while; for two seasons he was a dramaturg and member of the executive committee.

With the Brialmont Theatre, he made his own contribution to the development of educational theatre in Flanders in the 1970s. After it was removed from the subsidy list in 1984, Wieme continued to work tirelessly as a freelance actor on stage, in film, and on television. Just about everywhere in Flanders, as well as in the Netherlands and for a while at the Théâtre National de Belgique.

With large or small roles, he ended up in the most diverse productions. This could be in classical plays, under the tutelage of directors who emerged as idiosyncratic challengers of the traditional textual framework. In Hegenscheidt's Starkadd, for example, he played the nonchalant ghost of the murdered king from an unexpected angle. In Pirandello's 'Zes personages op zoek naar een auteur' (Six Characters in Search of an Author), his performance contributed to a curious osmosis of melodrama, tragedy, and boulevard comedy.

His voice could also regularly be heard in radio plays.

For many years he also worked at the K.V.S. (Brussels) and the K.N.S. (Antwerp).