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Image:Bruno Ganz.jpg Bruno Ganz (help·info) (born March 22 1941 in Zurich) is a Swiss actor.

Bruno Ganz is one of the leading figures in contemporary European theatre and cinema. Ganz 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, at the age of 19, he 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. Perhaps his most breathtaking role was to perform for 13 hours straight as the lead in Peter Stein’s 2000 production of Goethe's Faust (Parts I and II).

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). More recently, in Bernd Eichinger’s much acclaimed film Der Untergang [2004] (The Downfall), Ganz became the first native German speaker to play Adolf Hitler on screen, an unprecedented role that German directors had until then scrupulously relegated to very brief scenes or bit parts, often shot from behind.

Bruno Ganz is the son of a Swiss father and a northern Italian mother. He 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.


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[edit] Awards

In 1996 he received the Iffland-Ring. Further awards:

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Trivia

  • Alcide Nikopol, the protagonist of the "Nikopol trilogy" of graphic novels by Enki Bilal, is clearly modelled after the likeness of a young Bruno Ganz.
  • Played a biologist convincing Liebermann (Laurence Olivier) that cloning Hitler was possible in The Boys from Brazil and later went on to play Hitler himself in Der Untergang.
  • Turned down the lead role in Schindler's List

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