Bruno Ganz
Bruno Ganz ( born March 22, 1941 in Zurich ) is an internationally active Swiss actor and, since 1996, the winner of the Iffland - Ring.
Life
Bruno Ganz grew up in Zurich -Seebach on the son of a Swiss factory worker and an Italian mother. Even before graduating from high school he decided to become an actor. At age 19 he played his first film role in The Lord with the black bowler hat.
Bruno Ganz entered the Zurich stage studio (now University of the Arts ). In addition, he worked as a bookseller and graduated from the Swiss school recruits as a medic. In 1961 he played in a jazz fan Chikita.
A year later came full in the Federal Republic of Germany and first played at Göttingen Youth Theatre. From 1964 to 1969 he played at the theater at the Goethe Square in Bremen under the direction of Kurt Hübner and worked here in the projects of Peter Zadek with. In 1967 he met Peter Stone, with whom he produced numerous theater projects in the following decades. Following this he was engaged by the Zurich Schauspielhaus.
In 1970, he joined the ensemble of the Berlin stage. Subsequently, he worked with notable directors such as Peter Zadek, Peter Stein, Claus Peymann, Klaus Michael Grueber, Luc Bondy and Dieter Dorn. In 1972 he played for the first time at the Salzburg Festival under Peymanns Director in the world premiere of Thomas Bernhard's The Ignorant and the madman. For this illustration, he was honored as " Actor of the Year ". The most intensive cooperation in the theater has developed since the early 1970s with the director Klaus Michael Gruber. With the premiere of Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus (Translation Peter Handke ) in Klaus Michael Griiber Director Bruno returned whole to Salzburg in 1986.
Through several film roles ( including in Wim Wenders' The American Friend and The Sky over Berlin) Bruno Ganz as it was announced mid-1970s to a wider audience. In 1991, he starred alongside Otto Šimánek ( Pan Tau ), directed by Martin Walz in the film The Bet ( Sazka ) with.
In 2000 he turned to Silvio Soldini the film Bread and Tulips, which has won several awards in Italy especially. Impressed in the same year as a whole fist in Peter Stein's 21- hour production of Goethe's Faust I and Faust II, which premiered at the Expo 2000 in Hanover before should lead a tour to Berlin and Vienna. Whole was so badly injured in a sample accident that he could not play at the premiere. 2003 debut full at the Vienna Burgtheater under Griiber Director in Oedipus at Colonus of Sophocles ( Set and Costume Design: Anselm Kiefer; translation from ancient Greek: Peter Handke ).
After a falling out with full Peymann played at the Berliner Ensemble does not work as expected in Botho Strauss ' play desecration by Shakespeare, but only in 2006 at the Schauspielhaus Bochum, directed by Elmar Goerden.
In 2004, he portrayed Adolf Hitler in the produced by Bernd Eichinger film Downfall - his performance was described by the press as predominantly outstanding.
In 2008 he played in also produced by Eichinger Baader Meinhof Complex the BKA President Horst Herold. The story of the film he looks closely related to his own life. He has long been a sympathizer of the extra-parliamentary left, and Ulrike Meinhof, but quickly distanced itself from the violence of the RAF since the mid- 1970s.
From 2010 to 2013 Bruno was full, together with Iris Berben president of the German Film Academy.
Bruno Ganz is married since 1965 with his wife Sabine, although estranged, and has a son who lost his sight at the age of four. The actor lives in his hometown of Zurich, Venice and Berlin. His longtime partner is photographer Ruth Walz.
Awards
In February 1996, the actor Josef Meinrad Bruno bequeathed Quite the Iffland -Ring, which is passed on to the respective " worthy " actor of German theaters for over 100 years. The Austrian Decoration for Science and Art, on 2 March 2006 Full presented in Vienna by the Austrian Federal President Heinz Fischer. This was recorded in the whole Austrian Curia for art.