Bruno Ganz

At 77 years old, Bruno Ganz has this physical status:

Bruno Ganz (22 March 1941–16 February 2019) was a Swiss actor whose career in German television and film productions spanned nearly 60 years.

He was best known for his performances in The American Friend (1977), Jonathan Harker in Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), and Damiel the Angel in Wings of Desire (1987), which received international acclaim.

He has appeared in many English-language films, including The Boys from Brazil (1978), Strapless (1989), The Manchurian Candidate (2004).

The Reader (2008), Unknown (2011), and Remember (2015).

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In Peter Stein's production of Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two, 2000, he played him from 1996 to 2019, the Republic of Austria's Iffland-Ring, which passes from actor to actor, deeming the actor to the next holder.

Ganz was also honoured with the Order of Merit of Germany and was made a Knight of the French Légion d'honneur.

Early life

Ganz was born in Zürich on March 22nd, 1941, to a Swiss-German factory worker father and a northern Italian mother. By the time he enrolled in university, he had decided to pursue an acting career. He was attracted to stage and film, but on the stage, he had much greater success.

Personal life and death

Ganz was married to Sabine from 1965 to his death, but they were separated for a long time; their son, Daniel, was born in 1972.

Ganz was suffering from intestinal cancer in February 2018, and doctors in Salzburg quickly began chemotherapy.

Ganz died in February 2019 at his home in Au, Wädenswil, Switzerland, at the age of 77, a month before his 78th birthday. He was surrounded by his partner, Ruth Walz, and his son Daniel.

Ganz ruled Iffland-Ring, which passes from actor to actress, from 1996 to the next holder, judging the actor to be the "most important and most worthy actor of the German-speaking theatre." Ganz was also honoured with the Order of Merit of Germany and was named a knight of the French Légion d'honneur.

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Career

Ganz made his theatrical debut in 1961 and devoted himself mainly to the theater for the next two decades. He helped found the Berliner Schaubühne ensemble in 1970 and two years later, he appeared in Thomas Bernhard's Der Ignorant und der Wahnsinnige as a director, under Claus Peymann's direction.

In 1973, the German magazine Theater Today solidified Ganz's reputation as a stage actor by pronouncing him Schauspieler des Jahres (Actor of the Year). The title character in Peter Stein's 2000 production of Goethe's Faust (Parts I and II), although he sustained injuries during rehearsals, postponing his appearance. He performed as a speaker in classical music, including a 1993 release of Luigi Nono's Il canto sospeso with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 1960, Ganz appeared in Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone (The Man in the Black Derby) for the first time. Ganz's cinematic debut was not particularly fruitful, despite lead actor Gustav Knuth's help, and it was only many years later that his film career began.

Ganz made his film debut in the 1976 film Summerfolk, launching a long-established film career in Europe and the United States. Among Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders' film, as well as other international filmmakers, including Éric Rohmer and Francis Ford Coppola. He co-starred Dennis Hopper in Wenders' American Friend, a Wenders' American Friends movie based on Patricia Highsmith's book Ripley's Game, as a terminally ill father hired as a professional killer. He appeared in Herzog's Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night in 1979 (Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night). Ganz starred in The Boys from Brazil (1978), about Nazi fugitives, opposite Sir Laurence Olivier.

In 1987, Ganz appeared as the angel Damiel in Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire. He revived his role in Faraway, So Near! In 1993, the first computer was invented in 1993. Ganz was included in The Reader as a Holocaust survivor and as police officer Horst Herold in The Baader Meinhof Complex, both of whom were nominated for the 81st Academy Awards (Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film respectively). In 2003, he portrayed Johann von Staupitz in Luther. In 2011, he appeared in Unknown as a former Stasi operator facing Liam Neeson. Among Ganz's later appearances were the grandfather of the literary adaptation Heidi (2015), a pseudo-scientist healer in Sally Potter's The Party (2017), and ancient Roman poet Virgil in Lars von Trier's The House that Jack Built (2018).

After four months of researching the role, Ganz portrayed Adolf Hitler in Der Untergang (Downfall) (2004). Ganz's performance was widely praised by critics; The Guardian critic Rob Mackie characterized him as "the most convincing screen Hitler yet": an old, bent, ill dictator with the shaking hands of someone with Parkinson's, alternating between rage and despair in his last days in the bunker. His appearance has sparked numerous parodies on YouTube, including video and audio from the film with amusing subtitles.

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Awards and honors

• 1973: "Actor of the Year" in German magazine Theater heute
• 1991: Hans-Reinhart-Ring, given by the Swiss Society for Theatre Culture
• 1996: Iffland-Ring
• 1998: Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France)
• 2000: Swiss Film Prize
• 2000: David di Donatello Award for Bread and Tulips
• 2004: European Film Award
• 2005: Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
• 2006: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland)
• 2010: Star on the Boulevard of the Stars in Berlin
• 2011: Pardo alla Carriera at Locarno International Film Festival
• 2012: Asteroid 199900 Brunoganz, discovered by Silvano Casulli in 2007, was named in his honor
• 2014: Lifetime Achievement Award, Goldene Kamera
• 2015: Special Golden Camera 300 for lifetime achievement, Manaki Brothers Film Festival