Senta Berger
Senta Berger ( born May 13, 1941 in Vienna) is an Austrian- German actress and film producer. Her international film career began in Austria and sent them over Germany in the 1960s to Hollywood. Ever since she was increasingly seen in numerous European movies, the theater and since the 1980s in lead roles German television series and movies.
Life
Senta Berger was born in 1941 in Vienna. Her father Josef Berger was a musician. Her mother was the teacher Therese Berger, born Jany. With the father, she performed at the age of four years. The father accompanied doing the singing daughter at the piano. At five years old, she received ballet lessons with 14 Berger turned to acting and took private lessons. Two years later, she left the public school, which she attended until then.
1957 Berger was by star director Willi Forst for their first, still committed small role in the film. She applied for the Max Reinhardt Seminar and was accepted. For her year included, inter alia, Marisa Mell, Elisabeth Orth and Erika Pluhar. She had to leave school after she had accepted a role in the movie The Journey with Yul Brynner, without the director to ask for permission. 1958 Berger was the youngest member at the Vienna Theater in der Josefstadt.
The director Bernhard Wicki and the producer Artur Brauner wanted to work with Berger. Brown produced the film The Good Soldier Schweijk with her and Heinz Rühmann. It succeeded Brown to commit Berger for several films. 1962 Berger moved to Hollywood and turned with Charlton Heston, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Richard Harris, George Hamilton, Kirk Douglas, John Wayne and Yul Brynner. In 1969 she returned to Europe and was seen in the 1970s, especially in Italian productions of various genres.
1963 Berger learned the German medical student Michael Verhoeven know, the son of actor and director Paul Verhoeven. On September 26, 1966 Berger and Verhoeven married in Munich, after they had been together founded in the Sentana - film production. In 1967, she turned to Alain Delon film with devilish regards, in 1968 played Berger in the three-part thriller Babeck by Herbert Reinecker, in which they. Composed of the Peter Thomas song Forget me if you can sing In 1970, she was the first time in the produced by her company and rotated under the direction of her husband film The trench or Who loves in a glass house before the camera. Further, internationally successful films of her production company were, inter alia, The White Rose, The Nasty Girl and Mother Courage after the play by George Tabori. In addition, Berger expanded its European career in France and Italy.
The birth of her two sons, Simon (* 1972) and Luca ( b. 1979 ) prompted Berger to turn back to the theater. Between 1974 and 1982 she was the paramour in Everyman at the Salzburg Festival on the side of Curd Jürgens and Maximilian Schell and was until now the longest to be seen in that role actress. She played at the Burgtheater in Vienna Tartuffe with Klaus Maria Brandauer (director Rudolf Noelte ), at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg and at the Schiller Theater in Berlin.
1985/86 she managed the TV comeback in front of the German-speaking audience in the television series Kir Royal on the side of Franz Xaver Kroetz, Dieter Hildebrandt and Billie Zöckler. This is followed by another series like The rapid Gerdi and Lilli Lottofee, both under the direction of her husband Michael Verhoeven. In 2000, she stood for the Austrian television production Try it with a younger, directed by Michael Kreihsl front of the camera. Since 2002 she plays Dr. Eva -Maria Prohacek, a police Councillor in the ZDF series Under Suspicion, for which she was awarded the Grimme Award ( 2003). In addition, Berger also appeared as a chanson singer and evening readings (about with Miss Else ) on. For the French film 8 Women (8 femmes ) she lent her voice in 2002 Catherine Deneuve.
1971 Senta Berger involved in by Alice Schwarzer initiated media campaign " We had abortions ". From 2003 to 2010 she was the first female president of the German Film Academy at the page of Günter Rohrbach. 2009 Senta Berger agreed to be an ambassador for both the animal protection organization Pro Wildlife for the protection of great apes as well as for the José Carreras Leukemia Foundation. Berger, who had already been used in 1972 during the campaign for Willy Brandt, was nominated by the SPD as delegates to the German presidential election in 2012. She lives for many years in Grünwalder district Geiselgasteig south of Munich, for some time in Berlin.
Filmography (selection)
Audiobooks (selection)
- 2005: Arthur Schnitzler: Fräulein Else Random House Audio. ISBN 978-3-898-30966-0
- 2006: Lyman Frank Baum: The Wizard of Oz Random House Audio. ISBN 978-3-866-04184-4
- 2009: Joseph Roth: The Leviathan. Diogenes. ISBN 978-3-257-80258-0
Awards
Appreciation
In 2013, a commemorative stamp series Austrians in Hollywood, designed by Adolf Tuma was launched by the Austrian Post.
Social Commitment
Senta Berger has been actively involved for many years in the fight against blood cancer. As part of DKMS Life, she joined in 2010 as a speaker at the DKMS Life Ladies Lunch on.