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: 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”!

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.

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