Burghart Klaußner

Burghart Klaussner (* September 13, 1949 in Berlin) is a German actor, theater director and singer.

Life

Burghart Klaussner began in 1969 a degree in German and theater studies at the Free University of Berlin, moved in the same year at the Berlin Max -Reinhardt - School for Acting, to become an actor. From 1970 to 1972 he worked on the stage at the Hall 's shore. He was then obliged by the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, the Schiller Theatre and the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin as well as stage in Frankfurt, Bochum and Zurich.

2005 Klaussner has been are over awarded the German Film Award for his supporting role in The Fat Years. He stars as the ruthless businessman Justus Hardenberg, who, however, can also be seen from a different page. In the same year he played in the TV miniseries The Airlift - The sky was clear, the historical person of the mayor of Berlin in 1948, Ernst Reuter.

In 2006 he received at the film festival in Locarno Golden Leopard for Best Actor for his role as an ambassador in the movie The Man from the Embassy. In 2007, he starred in The Novembermann next Götz George as a blind piano teacher 's husband Henry light box light box lover who is undetected for a friend of the piano teacher.

2009 saw him in the silent film about friendship and death age and beauty Sibylle Canonica addition, Henry Hübchen and Peter Lohmeyer in the role of fun-loving friend Justus. In the same year Klaussner played in the Golden Palm of Cannes winning and Oscar-nominated movie The White Ribbon, the role of the pastor. He was awarded the Prize of the German Film Critics 2009 Best Actor. Also in 2009, he was seen alongside Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes and Matthias Habich in the role of the judge in the movie The Reader.

Klaussner in 2010 was awarded the German Film Award for Best Actor for The White Ribbon. In the same year he starred as King of Spain, Philip II at the Dresden State Theatre in Don Carlos.

Klaussner in 2011 received the German Audio Book Prize for Best Artist.

2012 was awarded the Rolf Klaussner - Mares Award in the category Outstanding Achievement performer and the German Theatre Prize FIST in the category Actor Acting for death of a salesman.

Burghart Klaussner is a member of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg and the German Film Academy, whose board he was elected in 2010. He is also active as a director and writer. In 2009, he staged at the Schauspielhaus Bochum his first piece of Marigold.

Filmography (selection)

• 2006: The Man from the Embassy
• 2006: Requiem
• 2006: Crime Scene - The dream
• 2007: The November Man
• 2007: The braggart
• 2007: Police 110 - Tauber fear (TV series)
• 2007: Yella
• 2008: The Reader
• 2009: Age and Beauty
• 2009: The White Ribbon - A German children's story
• 2010: Aghet - A genocide
• 2010: The Silence
• 2010: Goethe!
• 2011: The really big dream
• 2011: Police 110 - The Prodigal Daughter
• 2011: The Prime of Life
• 2012: Invasion
• 2013: The Adlon. A Family Saga ( TV miniseries )
• 2013: Night Train to Lisbon ( Night Train to Lisbon)
• 2013: George

Radio plays, readings (selection)

• The role of the pastor in Jailhouse Blues. Director: Klaus multi-country. Production: DLR Berlin / NDR, 2003.
• Eduard von Keyserling: Sultry days. 2 CDs. Hoffmann und Campe Verlag, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-455-30413-3.
• Tony Hillerman: The labyrinth of ghosts. 1 CD. The audio Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-89813-476-7.
• Eric -Emmanuel Schmitt: The Gospel According to Pilate. 3 CDs. The audio Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-89813-457-6.
• John Banville: The Sea. 6 CDs. Patmos, Dusseldorf 2006, ISBN 3-491-91220-2.
• Robert Löhr: The chess machine. 5 CDs. The audio Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-89813-554-2.
• Horst Eckert: The take-off. 1 CD. Audiobook Hamburg, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89903-456-1.
• Werner Lansburgh: Dear Doosie. 3 CDs. The audio Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89813-729-4.
• Jürgen Leinemann: Life is the real thing. 2 CDs. Hoffmann und Campe Verlag, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-455-30674-3.
• Ferdinand von Schirach crime. 3 CDs. The Audio Publishers (DAV), Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89813-859-8.
• Eric -Emmanuel Schmitt: The Gospel According to Pilate. 3 CDs. The audio Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89813-844-4.
• Paul Auster: Invisible. 6 CDs. The audio Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89813-966-3.
• Ferdinand von Schirach: guilt. 3 CDs. Audiobook Hamburg, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86952-046-9.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby. Audiobook Hamburg, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89903-088-4.
• Ferdinand von Schirach crime. Random House Audio, 2011 ISBN 978-3-8371-0876-7.

Music

• 2013: THE Klaussner! - The musical journey of the restaurant unscrupulous type "

Awards

• 2005 German Film Award in the category Best Supporting Actor for The Edukators
• 2006 Golden Leopard Locarno Film Festival in the category Best Actor for The Man from the Embassy
• 2009 Prize of the German Film Critics for Best Actor for The White Ribbon
• 2010 German Film Award for Best Actor for The White Ribbon
• 2011 German Audio Book Prize for Best Artist for debt
• 2012 Rolf- Mares Award in the category Outstanding Achievement Actor for Death of a Salesman
• 2012 German Theatre Prize FIST in the category Actor Acting for Death of a Salesman