Movies
: Bruno is 75
Angels, Hitler, Almöhi: has worked with the most innovative Directors of his time – in the Film and in the theatre. What you should want such a actor for your birthday? A simple “keep it up”!
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Unheard Of Debut
A Student of Bernard in “The smooth running” is a 1967 Bruno Ganz’ first cinema in the main role. The Film shows not the loud, social battles of the ‘ 60s, but the everyday and casual struggles in his debut, a noticeable level of depth. A Film with clout, shot in the spirit of the “Oberhausen Manifesto”, the Declaration of war to the dusty post-war cinema.
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Negotiating with count Dracula
After his debut it took almost ten years, until the theatre was to see again on the big screen. The Wait was worth it: From the mid-1970s, the Who-is-Who of the German film rang in him: Wim Wenders, Peter Handke and Werner Herzog. With him, he turned the page of Klaus Kinski’s 1979 “Nosferatu”.
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The Thinking Player
In 1981, another well-known Director: Volker Schlöndorff booked him. In “The fake” plays Bruno Ganz a journalist, to report on the civil war in Lebanon. First of all, ruthlessly, he comes more and more into a work – and-life crisis. Bruno was one of Quite the most important actors of the New German cinema.
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Heavenly Ambassador
A milestone for Bruno Ganz: “The sky over Berlin”, 1987. In the cult film by Wim Wenders, he plays on the side of the theater colleague, Otto Sanders, a sensitive, brooding angel who falls in love with a human. Filmed against the backdrop of a divided Berlin, the movie to global film history and was adapted in 1998 as “city of angels” with Nicolas Cage Hollywood.
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What a theatre!
Born in 1941 in Zurich, Bruno grew up in a working-class family. An acting career fit because first of all not in the family picture. Still less, that Bruno dropped out of school and to the Theater went out. Already at the age of 20 he was playing an acclaimed theatre star, in Göttingen, Bremen and Berlin. In spite of the film to follow, he remained faithful to its own heritage, like here in 1986 at the schaubühne in Berlin.
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The history of theatre
Again and again Bruno works with Directors, the Film or theatre history. In 2000, he played Faust – 21 hours! The mammoth staging of Peter stone celebrated at the world exhibition Expo in Hannover Premiere, which missed Entirely, unfortunately: In the case of samples, he was badly hurt and had to be replaced. In the case of other performances, such as here in Berlin, he was then.
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The Italians
“Bread and tulips” – the cinema’s success was made known Bruno Ganz 2000 the mass audience. He plays a thoughtful waiter who fights for the love of an unhappy wife. Was filmed in Italian – Bruno is the son of an Italian. During the filming of love in the city work in Venice and bought then an apartment there.
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Friend and acting partner
Otto Sander and Bruno Ganz countless success here in 2003, shared in “Oedipus” at the Vienna Burgtheater. The death of Sanders in 2013, he wrote: “Nevertheless, you do not let go of us, the question of the How. There are laws on the stage. We did a little more research, in the cafeteria, in pubs, in homes, in the wardrobe, Outdoor, (…) on the high seas, in railway stations, also at some sandy beach.”
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Unplayable?
“I knew that for me this thing would be long to attach. But how long, that was not clear to me, as I had accepted the offer,” said the “Berliner Morgenpost” about his role as Adolf Hitler. In “The downfall” (2004) he made Hitler to the people, also showed his weak moments. You’re not supposed to? Bruno may – his Interpretation was not trivial, it produced goose bumps.
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Common Suicide
“Rich colors of Black” is the name of the controversial Film, Bruno, played the Whole of 2010, together with Senta Berger. As his evening of Life together end, if the man is diagnosed with cancer? The couple meets a radical solution. And the criticism is unanimous: Berger and are a perfect Duo for the canvas.
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Joint Presidency
1600 members belong to the German film Academy, including actors, Directors, and camera people. Annually they award the doped film award “Lola” in several categories. Honor, therefore, the presidency. From 2010 to 2013, Iris Berben and Bruno were the President couple of the German film Academy.
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Prices are overwhelmed
Bruno is a knight of the French Legion of honor, and since 1996 as “the most important, and thou most worthy actor” bearer of the Iffland-ring, given by actors to actors. Add to this a Plethora of prices – here are just a few of them: actor of the year in 1973, the European film award 2000, the Federal cross of merit in 2006 and the Golden camera for the life’s work of 2014.
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Of fist, about Hitler, the Almöhi
With his role as the fierce yet loving Almöhi in the “Heidi”remake has proven to Bruno Ganz in 2015 once more to its adaptability, sensitivity and profundity to the characters. The controversial role of Hitler is not present, overshadowed but his career. And he is determined to us even after his 75. Birthday in numerous films surprise.
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Unheard Of Debut
A Student of Bernard in “The smooth running” is a 1967 Bruno Ganz’ first cinema in the main role. The Film shows not the loud, social battles of the ‘ 60s, but the everyday and casual struggles in his debut, a noticeable level of depth. A Film with clout, shot in the spirit of the “Oberhausen Manifesto”, the Declaration of war to the dusty post-war cinema.
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Negotiating with count Dracula
After his debut it took almost ten years, until the theatre was to see again on the big screen. The Wait was worth it: From the mid-1970s, the Who-is-Who of the German film rang in him: Wim Wenders, Peter Handke and Werner Herzog. With him, he turned the page of Klaus Kinski’s 1979 “Nosferatu”.
-
The Thinking Player
In 1981, another well-known Director: Volker Schlöndorff booked him. In “The fake” plays Bruno Ganz a journalist, to report on the civil war in Lebanon. First of all, ruthlessly, he comes more and more into a work – and-life crisis. Bruno was one of Quite the most important actors of the New German cinema.
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Heavenly Ambassador
A milestone for Bruno Ganz: “The sky over Berlin”, 1987. In the cult film by Wim Wenders, he plays on the side of the theater colleague, Otto Sanders, a sensitive, brooding angel who falls in love with a human. Filmed against the backdrop of a divided Berlin, the movie to global film history and was adapted in 1998 as “city of angels” with Nicolas Cage Hollywood.
-
What a theatre!
Born in 1941 in Zurich, Bruno grew up in a working-class family. An acting career fit because first of all not in the family picture. Still less, that Bruno dropped out of school and to the Theater went out. Already at the age of 20 he was playing an acclaimed theatre star, in Göttingen, Bremen and Berlin. In spite of the film to follow, he remained faithful to its own heritage, like here in 1986 at the schaubühne in Berlin.
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The history of theatre
Again and again Bruno works with Directors, the Film or theatre history. In 2000, he played Faust – 21 hours! The mammoth staging of Peter stone celebrated at the world exhibition Expo in Hannover Premiere, which missed Entirely, unfortunately: In the case of samples, he was badly hurt and had to be replaced. In the case of other performances, such as here in Berlin, he was then.
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The Italians
“Bread and tulips” – the cinema’s success was made known Bruno Ganz 2000 the mass audience. He plays a thoughtful waiter who fights for the love of an unhappy wife. Was filmed in Italian – Bruno is the son of an Italian. During the filming of love in the city work in Venice and bought then an apartment there.
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Friend and acting partner
Otto Sander and Bruno Ganz countless success here in 2003, shared in “Oedipus” at the Vienna Burgtheater. The death of Sanders in 2013, he wrote: “Nevertheless, you do not let go of us, the question of the How. There are laws on the stage. We did a little more research, in the cafeteria, in pubs, in homes, in the wardrobe, Outdoor, (…) on the high seas, in railway stations, also at some sandy beach.”
-
Unplayable?
“I knew that for me this thing would be long to attach. But how long, that was not clear to me, as I had accepted the offer,” said the “Berliner Morgenpost” about his role as Adolf Hitler. In “The downfall” (2004) he made Hitler to the people, also showed his weak moments. You’re not supposed to? Bruno may – his Interpretation was not trivial, it produced goose bumps.
-
Common Suicide
“Rich colors of Black” is the name of the controversial Film, Bruno, played the Whole of 2010, together with Senta Berger. As his evening of Life together end, if the man is diagnosed with cancer? The couple meets a radical solution. And the criticism is unanimous: Berger and are a perfect Duo for the canvas.
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Joint Presidency
1600 members belong to the German film Academy, including actors, Directors, and camera people. Annually they award the doped film award “Lola” in several categories. Honor, therefore, the presidency. From 2010 to 2013, Iris Berben and Bruno were the President couple of the German film Academy.
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Prices are overwhelmed
Bruno is a knight of the French Legion of honor, and since 1996 as “the most important, and thou most worthy actor” bearer of the Iffland-ring, given by actors to actors. Add to this a Plethora of prices – here are just a few of them: actor of the year in 1973, the European film award 2000, the Federal cross of merit in 2006 and the Golden camera for the life’s work of 2014.
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Of fist, about Hitler, the Almöhi
With his role as the fierce yet loving Almöhi in the “Heidi”remake has proven to Bruno Ganz in 2015 once more to its adaptability, sensitivity and profundity to the characters. The controversial role of Hitler is not present, overshadowed but his career. And he is determined to us even after his 75. Birthday in numerous films surprise.
In many films of Bruno played All the main roles, described later in film history. Or the movies made history, because Bruno was Quite? Are rolling with tough breaks and crises of Meaning, the burning of the spectators to the memory: an unscrupulous Journalist in the Lebanon war, a fallen angel in divided Berlin, a disturbed Adolf Hitler.
All of these roles, Bruno brings Quite effortless life, as if only this would be a figure and then another Film. “I tend to identify myself with my characters and say phrases with great Conviction, I believe, never in life,” said
Bruno Ganz, in a DW Interview. As Adolf Hitler in “downfall” had been “very difficult.”
There are no excited monologues that draw the viewer into the spell, but slow Gestures and a simple look, this Bruno-view: reduced, sad and to the point. Nevertheless, he remains convertible, Hardly any actor can look back on such a long and diverse filmography. And hardly an actor can look with 75 still to the front.
As the work of the son to the actor
First cinema in the main role, in 1967: Haro senft’s “gentle walking”
The actor is an integral part of the German film landscape. This dates back to Quite a native of Zurich in Switzerland. There, he grew up in a working-class family that was able to comprehend his professional amibitionen little. He was, however, very seriously: As a Teenager, he dropped out of school, visited the Zurich-based Studio, on stage, has earned his extra income as a book-seller, and completed training to be a paramedic. Already at 20, he had roles in smaller film, in the early 1960s, he left Switzerland and tried to succeed as a theater actor in Göttingen and Bremen.
Most of the actors make a decision: Theater or Film. Bruno needs All the question doesn’t – he is convincing both on stage and on the canvas. Starting in the 1970s, he played at the Berlin Schaubühne with Directors such as Peter Zadek, Peter Stein, Luc Bondy. In 1972, he excelled at the Salzburg festival under Claus Peymanns “The Ignoramus and the Maniac,” a play by Thomas Bernhard. All was in order for the “actor of the year” and Bernhard remained connected until his death deeply. This was dedicated to him the piece “The hunting party”: “For Bruno Ganz, who else”.
As an angel in “The sky over Berlin”
At the same time the actor built up an impressive screen career. And as in the theatre work, the list of film Directors, with whom All worked together, like a Who-is-Who of the scene: Wim Wenders, Werner Herzog, Peter Handke, Volker Schlöndorff. Was known to the world Entirely, especially with Wenders of “The sky over Berlin”. Here he played in 1987, the angel Damiel, who watches over the divided Berlin and in love with a woman. The material was adapted later by Hollywood with Nicolas Cage in “city of angels”.
Heavenly messenger: Bruno Ganz as the angel Damiel in Wim Wenders’s world success “The sky over Berlin”
It has shown time and time again, always a good feeling for breaks in his characters. As is the case with the Italian Film “bread and tulips”, in which he plays a – of course, melancholic-thoughtful – waiter wins the heart of an unhappy wife. Or as terminally ill in “Rich colors of Black”, where he commits together with his wife, played by Senta Berger, suicide.
With “The fall”?
In 2004, he is offered his most challenging role: Adolf Hitler in his last days in the führer’s bunker. A tricky offer – do not need to fail to be an actor on this figure necessarily? Bruno Ganz human Hitler, shows an old, tattrigen man who spits while screaming and hands shaking. According to both the voices of the critics as well as the well-wishers after the Premiere. “The fall” is to the movies success and a world-wide Star. But how to get rid of him again, this Hitler? Later, Bruno admitted in an Interview with the “Berliner Morgenpost”, that he was surprised at how long him and this figure is pursued still. And it was in the public’s perception, until the Whole back was: the versatile actor.
Delicate role as Adolf Hitler in “downfall”
His theatre engagement of non-delivery, meanwhile, more, here, too, without a Superlative: As a rule of thumb, 2000 in Peter Stein’s mammoth production, which lasted about 21 hours, or as Oedipus in 2003, in the Vienna Burgtheater, where he debuted at that time as a 62-Year-old. Bruno can call it even officially the “most important and most memorable artists of the German-speaking theatre”: Since 1996, he is the bearer of the Iffland-ring, which is awarded for more than 100 years, from one actor to the next.
This award is not the only one: Countless his awards and honors, such as the European film award, the Golden camera for lifetime achievement,
the Carl-Zuckmayer-medal or the Federal cross of merit. His private life, he had meanwhile Hidden. Only so much we know: He is to have apartments in Berlin, Zurich and Venice, in the latter, he fell in love during the filming of “bread and tulips”. Of his wife, with whom he has a son, he lives separately. His partner will be the photographer Ruth Walz.
“Early enough to stop”
Bruno is not a purely German-speaking Star. A great international career, he has not made, but a number of important meetings, such as, for example, as Professor Rohl in “The reader” directed by Stephen Daldry, as the diamond dealer in “The Counselor” directed by Ridley Scott, as a Stasi Agent in “Unknown Identity” under the direction of Jaume Collet-Serra.
Bruno Ganz in the case of the awarding of the Carl-Zuckmayer-medal 2015 in Mainz
He had already died in many films, he once said of the weekly newspaper “die Zeit”. “In die rolls, and you learn that it does not help on your own prepare for death,” said. “Sometimes, if it is then there and the other games, you are already grateful to be alive.”
On 22.03.2016 he celebrates his 75. Birthday. In this age many are long retired, had to give the actor his thoughts: “I find it alarming, when you are dragging, only as a cripple by a ten-hour day of shooting – just so you get a taste of on the environment – and I hope that I soon enough to stop”, said in a DW Interview. May this day be long in coming.