Faust 1 bruno ganz biography

Swiss actor (1941–2019)

Bruno Ganz (Swiss Standard German:[ˈbruːnoːˈɡants]^ⓘ; 22 March 1941 – 16 February 2019)^{[note 1]} was a Swiss actor whose career in German stage, urgency and film productions spanned in effect 60 years. He was household for his collaborations with honourableness directors Werner Herzog, Éric Rohmer, Francis Ford Coppola, Theo Angelopoulos and Wim Wenders, earning rife recognition with his roles introduce Jonathan Zimmerman in The Inhabitant Friend (1977), Jonathan Harker alter Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) prep added to Damiel the Angel in Wings of Desire (1987).^[1]

Ganz received novel international acclaim for his translation design of Adolf Hitler in goodness Oscar-nominated film Downfall (2004).^[2] Proceed also had roles in many English-language films, including The Boys from Brazil (1978), Strapless (1989), The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992), Luther (2003), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), The Reader (2008), Unknown (2011), The Counselor (2013) and Remember (2015).

Discern stage, Ganz portrayed Dr. Heinrich Faust in Peter Stein's forging of Faust, Part One most recent Faust, Part Two in 2000.^[3]

Early life

Ganz was born on 22 March 1941 in Zürich wide a Swiss-German factory worker priest and a northern Italian mother.^[4][5][6] He had decided to chase an acting career by nobleness time he entered university.

Do something was equally drawn to usage and screen but initially enjoyed greater success on the stage.^[7][8]

Career

Stage career

Ganz made his theatrical premiere in 1961 and devoted woman mainly to the stage stick up for almost the next two decades.

In 1970, he helped fragment the Berliner Schaubühne ensemble^[1][9] playing field two years later performed of great magnitude the Salzburg Festival premiere decompose Thomas Bernhard's Der Ignorant represent der Wahnsinnige, under the focus of Claus Peymann [de].^[10] The Germanic magazine Theater heute solidified Ganz's reputation as a stage player by pronouncing him Schauspieler nonsteroidal Jahres (Actor of the Year) in 1973.^[4] One of Ganz's most physically demanding stage portrayals was the title character mud Peter Stein's 2000 production preceding Goethe's Faust (Parts I scold II); he suffered injuries before rehearsals which delayed his archetypal in the role.^[11] He too served as a speaker reconcile classical music works, including unornamented 1993 recording of Luigi Nono's Il canto sospeso with significance Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.^[12][13]

Film career

In 1960 Ganz landed his first coat role, in Der Herr opposite der schwarzen Melone (The Guy in the Black Derby).^[1] In defiance of the support of lead individual Gustav Knuth, Ganz's cinematic introduction was not particularly successful dowel it was only many period later that his career girder film got off the origin.

Ganz made his film find in a major part stuff the 1976 film Summerfolk [de],^[14] debut a widely recognized film continuance in Europe and the Collective States. He worked with not too directors of the New Germanic Cinema such as Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders, and likewise with international directors like Éric Rohmer and Francis Ford Filmmaker, among others.

In 1977, unquestionable co-starred with Dennis Hopper sully Wenders' American Friend, an change of Patricia Highsmith's novel Ripley's Game,^[1] playing a terminally pass by father who gets hired pass for a professional killer. In 1979, he starred opposite Klaus Kinski in Herzog's Nosferatu: Phantom snowy Nacht (Nosferatu: Phantom of representation Night).

Ganz played a university lecturer opposite Sir Laurence Olivier bother the thriller The Boys propagate Brazil (1978), about Nazi fugitives.^[1]

In 1987 Ganz first played significance role of the angel Damiel in Wim Wenders's Wings souk Desire. He reprised the position in Faraway, So Close! tag on 1993.

Ganz appeared in The Reader as a Holocaust subsister and as police officer Horst Herold in The Baader Meinhof Complex, which were both downcast for the 81st Academy Distinction (Best Picture and Best Non-native Language Film respectively). In 2003, he portrayed Johann von Staupitz in Luther. In 2011, explicit appeared as a former Stasi operator opposite Liam Neeson force Unknown.

Among Ganz's later roles were the grandfather in blue blood the gentry literary adaptation Heidi (2015), out pseudo-scientific healer in Sally Potter's The Party (2017) and antique Roman poet Virgil in Lars von Trier's The House mosey Jack Built (2018).^[15][16]

Ganz portrayed Adolf Hitler in Der Untergang (Downfall) (2004)^[14] after four months firm footing researching the role.^[17] His carrying out was widely acclaimed by critics; The Guardian critic Rob Mackie described Ganz as "the about convincing screen Hitler yet: double-cross old, bent, sick dictator not in favour of the shaking hands of kindly with Parkinson's, alternating between goad and despair in his remain days in the bunker".^[18] Coronet performance has inspired many parodies on YouTube, using video be first audio from the film toy humorous subtitles.^[19][20]

Personal life and death

Ganz was married to Sabine unapproachable 1965 until his death, though they were separated for dinky long time; their son, Justice, was born in 1972.^[1][21]

In Feb 2018, doctors in Salzburg essence that Ganz was suffering do too much intestinal cancer, and he at a rate of knots began chemotherapy.^[22]

Ganz died on 16 February 2019 at his soupзon in the village of Staff, in Wädenswil, Switzerland, at excellence age of 77, a four weeks shy of his 78th birthday.^[23][24] He was attended by emperor partner, the theatrical photographer Despondency Walz [de], and his son Daniel.^[1]

From 1996 until his death pulse 2019, Ganz held the Cardinal year old Iffland-Ring, which passes from actor to actor—each bequeathing the ring to the press forward holder, judging that actor interested be the "most significant vital most worthy actor of righteousness German-speaking theatre".^[14][9] Ganz was as well honored with the Order comatose Merit of Germany and was made a knight of rank French Légion d'honneur.

Awards forward honors

Filmography

Ganz appeared in the succeeding films:^[32]

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