Bruno Ganz
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| Born | March 22, 1941  Zürich, Switzerland |
Bruno Ganz (
listen (help·info); born March 22, 1941, Zurich) is a Swiss actor.
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[edit] Biography
Ganz was born to a Swiss mechanic father and a northern Italian mother. He had decided to pursue an acting career by the time he entered university. He was equally drawn to stage and screen but initially enjoyed greater success in the theater.
In 1960, Ganz landed his first film role, in Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone (The Man in the Black Derby). Despite the support of lead actor Gustav Knuth, his cinematic debut was not particularly successful and it was only many years later that his career in film got off the ground. Ganz made his theatrical debut the following year and devoted himself primarily to the stage for almost two decades thereafter. In 1970, he helped found the Berliner Schaubühne ensemble and two years later performed in the Salzburg Festival premier of Thomas Bernhard's Der Ignorant und der Wahnsinnige, under the direction of Claus Peymann. The German magazine Theater heute (Theater Today) solidified Ganz’s reputation as a stage actor by pronouncing him Schauspieler des Jahres (Actor of the Year) in 1973. One of Ganz's most physically demanding stage portrayals was as Faust in Peter Stein’s 2000 production of Goethe's Faust (Parts I and II), where he had suffered injuries during rehearsals and his assumption of the role was delayed.[1]
Ganz’s breakthrough in cinema came with a major part in the 1976 film Sommergäste. His performance launched a distinguished career that has included important roles in both European and American films, for which he has received several of Europe’s most prized accolades. He has worked with the directors Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Éric Rohmer, and Francis Ford Coppola, among others. In 1979 he starred opposite Klaus Kinski in Herzog’s Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night).
Ganz played a professor opposite Sir Laurence Olivier in the thriller The Boys from Brazil (1978), about Nazi fugitives. He went on to portray Adolf Hitler in Der Untergang (2004)[2]. Ganz himself researched for 4 months on Hitler in preparation for the role.[3]
In the United States, Ganz probably is best known for his role in Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire (American title), as the angel Damiel. Ganz played in The Reader and Der Baader Meinhof Komplex, which are both nominated for the 81st Academy Awards (best picture and best foreign language film).
Ganz has also served as a speaker in classical music works, including a recording of Luigi Nono's Il Canto Sospeso with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.[4]
Ganz is separated from his wife Sabine, whom he married in 1965, and with whom he had his only son Daniel (b. 1972). When not in his hometown of Zürich, he resides in Venice and Berlin.
[edit] Awards
- 1973 "Actor of the Year" in German magazine Theater heute (Theatre Today)
- 1976 German Film Awards
- 1979 Deutscher Darstellerpreis (Chaplin-Shoe)
- 1991 Hans-Reinhart-Ring, given by The Swiss Society for Theatre Culture
- 1996 Iffland-Ring
- 2000 Swiss Film Awards
- 2000 Ritter der Kunst und Literatur/Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- 2000 David di Donatello
- 2001 Berliner Filmpreis (Berlin Film Awards)
- 2004 Bavarian Film Awards, Best Actor[5]
[edit] Filmography
- Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone (The Man in the Black Derby), 1960
- Chikita, 1961
- Sommergäste (Summer Guests), 1976
- Lumière, 1976
- Die Marquise von O... (The Marquise of O...), 1976
- Die Wildente (Wild Duck), 1976
- Der Amerikanische Freund (The American Friend), 1977
- Die Linkshändige Frau (The Left-Handed Woman), 1977
- The Boys from Brazil, 1978
- Messer im Kopf (Knife in the Head), 1978
- Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Nosferatu the Vampyre), 1979
- Retour à la bien-aimée (Return to the Beloved), 1979
- 5% de risques, 1980
- Der Erfinder (The Inventor), 1980
- La Dame aux camélias (Lady of the Camelias), 1980
- Die Fälschung (Circle of Deceit), 1981
- Krieg und Frieden (War and Peace), 1983
- Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire), 1987
- Strapless, 1989
- Erfolg (Success), 1991
- La Domenica specialmente (Especially on Sunday), 1991
- The Last Days of Chez Nous, 1992
- Brandnacht (Night on Fire), 1992
- In weiter Ferne, so nah! (Faraway, So Close!), 1993
- L'Absence (The Absence), 1994
- Saint-Ex, 1997
- Mia aioniotita kai mia mera (Eternity and a Day) 1998
- Pane e tulipani (Bread and Tulips), 2000
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust, 2001 TV
- Epsteins Nacht (Epstein's Night), 2002
- Behind Me - Bruno Ganz, 2002
- Luther, 2003
- The Manchurian Candidate, 2004
- Der Untergang (The Downfall), 2004
- Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II (2005)
- Baruto no Gakuen (バルトの楽園; Ode an die Freude), 2006
- Vitus, 2007
- Youth Without Youth, 2007
- The Reader, 2008
- Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (The Baader Meinhof Complex), 2008
- Dust of Time (Η Σκόνη του Χρόνου), 2009
[edit] References
- ^ John Rockwell (4 January 2001). "With Pivotal Actor Back, Marathon Faust Gets Another Look". New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E3DF113BF937A35752C0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all. Retrieved on 2009-02-01.
- ^ Rob Mackie (16 September 2005). "Downfall". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2005/sep/16/dvdreviews.2005inreview. Retrieved on 2009-02-01.
- ^ Krysia Diver and Stephen Moss (25 March 2005). "Desperately seeking Adolf". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2005/mar/25/1. Retrieved on 2009-02-01.
- ^ John Rockwell (24 October 1993). "After Karajan In Berlin, No Deluge Yet". New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE3DE1030F937A15753C1A965958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all. Retrieved on 2009-02-01.
- ^ http://www.bayern.de/Anlage19170/PreistraegerdesBayerischenFilmpreises-Pierrot.pdf
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