He was one of the greatest actors in Europe. Companions, friends and admirers pay tribute to the 77 years of the late Bruno Ganz with respect and explain your love.
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Bruno Ganz Hitler, Freud, and “Alp-Uncle”
Bruno Ganz at the Berlin Schaubühne (from the 1970s)
As a student of Bruno had discovered the stage. After the first Engagements, he met with Peter Stein, a Director with whom he worked together for a long time. The of co-founded Berlin’s Schaubühne, it was in the 1970s, to the pivotal point of the European theatre life. The title role in Ibsen’s “Peer Gynt” and in “Kleist’s dream of the Prince of Homburg played All others”.
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Bruno Ganz Hitler, Freud, and “Alp-Uncle”
Bruno Ganz and the German Film
In the 1970s film career began: Under the direction
Wim Wenders, with him since then, and a close friendship developed, he played in 1977, the main role in “The American friend”. Collaborations with other great Directors have followed. -
Bruno Ganz Hitler, Freud, and “Alp-Uncle”
Jonathan Harker in “Nosferatu” (1979)
In Werner Herzog’s “Nosferatu” was Bruno Ganz, the Dracula-victim Jonathan Harker. Klaus Kinski gave the count Dracula in the dark-staged Film.
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Bruno Ganz Hitler, Freud, and “Alp-Uncle”
The angel Damiel in “sky over Berlin” (1987)
Wim Wenders “Himmel über Berlin” became the classic film: critics and audiences alike were thrilled by the man with the kind eyes, often with a brooding Facial expression. His angel Damiel, the not Affection to the people on his immortality, is unforgettable.
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Bruno Ganz Hitler, Freud, and “Alp-Uncle”
A war reporter in “The fake” (1981)
Impressive also the Whole’ representation of a self-doubting war correspondent in Volker schlöndorff, “The fake” (1981): A German Reporter, working for the rainbow press, the device in the turmoil of the Lebanese civil war. His war experiences in the competitive Beirut make him aware that he has built his life on lies.
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Bruno Ganz Hitler, Freud, and “Alp-Uncle”
Faust in a production by Peter Stein (2000)
In the 1990s, Film and theatre, alternating the roles – and the prices increased: in 1973, he was named actor of the year in 1996, received the Iffland-Ring, an award that honors the “most important and most memorable artists of the German-speaking theatre”. In 2004, he received the Federal cross of merit.
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Bruno Ganz Hitler, Freud, and “Alp-Uncle”
Fernando Girasole in “Pane e tulipani” (2000)
The Italian Film Director Silvio Soldini in 2000 was a crowd favorite. The authentic and lovable characters made the Film with unspectacular plot, a heart-warming romantic Comedy.
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Bruno Ganz Hitler, Freud, and “Alp-Uncle”
Adolf Hitler in “downfall” (2004)
Him have it “blown away, how I saw Hitler-like”, said the
Actor on the sidelines of the filming of “The fall”. “If I were a German, it could well be that I wouldn’t play.” Bruno was Very
Nazi dictator, disturbing, scary, and at the same time true to life and
understandable. Then he could save himself from the Role. -
Bruno Ganz Hitler, Freud, and “Alp-Uncle”
Father Tiziano Terzani, “The end is my beginning” (2010)
A father-and-son conversation about life and death, is the red thread of the film. It is based on talks by Folco Terzani with his father, the writer Tiziano Terzani (1928-2004), which they had shortly before the death of the father, and the first in the form of a book appeared. An intense Reflection on life and death.
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Bruno Ganz Hitler, Freud, and “Alp-Uncle”
Alp-Grandfather in “Heidi” (2015)
The children’s book classic, is also the national Shrine of Switzerland. Obviously, that Bruno should be involved in the staging of Alain Gsponer. To play the “Alpöhi” said Very tongue-in-cheek reporters of the Swiss television, “is a Patriotic duty.”
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Bruno Ganz Hitler, Freud, and “Alp-Uncle”
Sigmund Freud in “He” (2017)
Most recently, new ventures went Very still, such as in the case of the participation in the Horror-Thriller “The House that Jack built” by Lars von Trier. In “He” by Nicholas Lytner he is the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, developed on the eve of the Second world war, with the young Franz Huchels (Simon Morzé), a unusual friendship.
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Bruno Ganz Hitler, Freud, and “Alp-Uncle”
Bruno Ganz at the Berlin Schaubühne (from the 1970s)
As a student of Bruno had discovered the stage. After the first Engagements, he met with Peter Stein, a Director with whom he worked together for a long time. The of co-founded Berlin’s Schaubühne, it was in the 1970s, to the pivotal point of the European theatre life. The title role in Ibsen’s “Peer Gynt” and in “Kleist’s dream of the Prince of Homburg played All others”.
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Bruno Ganz Hitler, Freud, and “Alp-Uncle”
Bruno Ganz and the German Film
In the 1970s film career began: Under the direction
Wim Wenders, with him since then, and a close friendship developed, he played in 1977, the main role in “The American friend”. Collaborations with other great Directors have followed. -
Bruno Ganz Hitler, Freud, and “Alp-Uncle”
Jonathan Harker in “Nosferatu” (1979)
In Werner Herzog’s “Nosferatu” was Bruno Ganz, the Dracula-victim Jonathan Harker. Klaus Kinski gave the count Dracula in the dark-staged Film.
-
Bruno Ganz Hitler, Freud, and “Alp-Uncle”
The angel Damiel in “sky over Berlin” (1987)
Wim Wenders “Himmel über Berlin” became the classic film: critics and audiences alike were thrilled by the man with the kind eyes, often with a brooding Facial expression. His angel Damiel, the not Affection to the people on his immortality, is unforgettable.
-
Bruno Ganz Hitler, Freud, and “Alp-Uncle”
A war reporter in “The fake” (1981)
Impressive also the Whole’ representation of a self-doubting war correspondent in Volker schlöndorff, “The fake” (1981): A German Reporter, working for the rainbow press, the device in the turmoil of the Lebanese civil war. His war experiences in the competitive Beirut make him aware that he has built his life on lies.
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Bruno Ganz Hitler, Freud, and “Alp-Uncle”
Faust in a production by Peter Stein (2000)
In the 1990s, Film and theatre, alternating the roles – and the prices increased: in 1973, he was named actor of the year in 1996, received the Iffland-Ring, an award that honors the “most important and most memorable artists of the German-speaking theatre”. In 2004, he received the Federal cross of merit.
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Bruno Ganz Hitler, Freud, and “Alp-Uncle”
Fernando Girasole in “Pane e tulipani” (2000)
The Italian Film Director Silvio Soldini in 2000 was a crowd favorite. The authentic and lovable characters made the Film with unspectacular plot, a heart-warming romantic Comedy.
-
Bruno Ganz Hitler, Freud, and “Alp-Uncle”
Adolf Hitler in “downfall” (2004)
Him have it “blown away, how I saw Hitler-like”, said the
Actor on the sidelines of the filming of “The fall”. “If I were a German, it could well be that I wouldn’t play.” Bruno was Very
Nazi dictator, disturbing, scary, and at the same time true to life and
understandable. Then he could save himself from the Role. -
Bruno Ganz Hitler, Freud, and “Alp-Uncle”
Father Tiziano Terzani, “The end is my beginning” (2010)
A father-and-son conversation about life and death, is the red thread of the film. It is based on talks by Folco Terzani with his father, the writer Tiziano Terzani (1928-2004), which they had shortly before the death of the father, and the first in the form of a book appeared. An intense Reflection on life and death.
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Bruno Ganz Hitler, Freud, and “Alp-Uncle”
Alp-Grandfather in “Heidi” (2015)
The children’s book classic, is also the national Shrine of Switzerland. Obviously, that Bruno should be involved in the staging of Alain Gsponer. To play the “Alpöhi” said Very tongue-in-cheek reporters of the Swiss television, “is a Patriotic duty.”
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Bruno Ganz Hitler, Freud, and “Alp-Uncle”
Sigmund Freud in “He” (2017)
Most recently, new ventures went Very still, such as in the case of the participation in the Horror-Thriller “The House that Jack built” by Lars von Trier. In “He” by Nicholas Lytner he is the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, developed on the eve of the Second world war, with the young Franz Huchels (Simon Morzé), a unusual friendship.
Colleague Ulrich Matthes, recently re-elected President of the German film Academy, was “dismayed and very sad about the death of my great, if not greatest colleagues”. “Bruno Ganz’s brilliant sensibility, including more and more visible fury, his smartest penetration of texts, his humour, his Knowledge of the Shine and the abysses of human existence have moved me for decades, enchants and stop,” explained Matthes. Bruno was died on Saturday morning of 77 in Zurich.
Federal President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier called Quite a great human being and actor. “Some of the figure of the world literature has only received through it’s profile and color,” said Steinmeier in Berlin. “You watched him and felt that there on the stage something happened, what was not to describe with the profane mountain reefs.”
Friends: Wim Wenders and Bruno were Very
“Icon of the German-speaking theatre”
“In the world, he is revered: whether as the angel Damiel in “The sky over Berlin” or as a sad waiter, Fernando in “bread and tulips””,
state Minister for Culture Monika Grütters (CDU) said. She praised as “an icon of the German-speaking theatre and an excellent-rounder, the international art of acting”.
He got it, to make one’s own personality behind the role-playing game unnoticed and within your baby. “Such an approach, which went up to the own existence, was the appearance as Adolf Hitler in “downfall” – a theatrical challenge, and one of the many feats that have made him one of the great German character actor, on the boards that mean the world.”
Berlin pays tribute to his angel
The outgoing head of the Berlin film festival, Dieter Kosslick, is reminiscent of the “wonderful cooperation” with the actor Bruno Ganz. With views of blue sky and bright sunshine over Berlin, said Kosslick on Saturday during the Berlinale: “I have the feeling that nothing should be in the way when he is on his way in the skies over Berlin. “The sky above Berlin” by Wim Wenders was one of the most famous movies with Bruno Ganz.
Dieter Kosslick, Bruno Ganz, Christiane Paul at the Berlinale in 2009
Berlin’s governing mayor Michael Müller spoke affected to the death of the actor who was seen in the capital in a number of roles. “One of the greats of his profession. He belongs to the Ensemble of the schaubühne, and has played in Berlin under the great Directors of the time,” it said in a statement. Also, in particular, his political commitment was emphasized. “We will miss Bruno.”
Mourning in Switzerland
Also in the Swiss cultural scene, there have been countless outpouring of Grief. The Swiss Federal President, Alain Berset said on Saturday: “Even in the wicked roles humanity shines through in the case of Bruno Ganz and his characters always. This makes his Work and the work is so important, because it is differentiated and, thereby, disturbing acts. He played the role, he lived it.”
Bruno Ganz had looked back in 2017 with satisfaction on his career: “If you have found a job, then that’s a gift,” he told the “NZZ”. “I’ve spent the time well.”
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