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Bruno Ganz
Bruno Ganz was born in Zurich in 1941 and attended the city’s Academy of Music and Drama. He began his first professional engagement at the Göttingen Junges Theater in 1962 and two years later joined the Bremer Theater am Goetheplatz, where he worked with Peter Zadek on Schiller’s The Brigands and other plays. He also played Hamlet and other roles in productions by Kurt Hübner and worked with Peter Stein on a staging of Torquato Tasso in which he played the main role. The production was also seen at the Berlin Theatre Festival in 1970.
From 1970 to 1975 Bruno Ganz was a member of the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer in Berlin. Among other companies with whom he appeared at this time were the Munich Kammerspiele and the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. In 2003 he played the title role in Klaus Michael Grüber’s production of Sophocles’s Oedipus at Colonus at the Burgtheater in Vienna.
At the 1972 Salzburg Festival Bruno Ganz was a brilliant Doctor in Claus Peymann’s production of the world premiere of Thomas Bernhard’s The Ignoramus and the Madman, a production that was also seen at the 1973 Berlin Theatre Festival. In 1986 he appeared in Klaus Michael Grüber’s world-premiere production of
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Bruno Ganz was an acclaimed Swiss actor who was a prominent figure in German language film and television for over fifty years. He is internationally renowned for portraying Adolf Hitler in the Academy Award-nominated film Downfall (2004).
Ganz was born in Zürich, to a Swiss mechanic father and a northern Italian mother. He decided to pursue an acting career by the time he entered university. He debuted at the theatre in 1961, and gained a reputation as a reflective, charismatic and technically brilliant stage actor. In 1970, he and Peter Stein founded the theatre company 'Schaubühne' in Berlin, Germany. On stage, Ganz portrayed Dr. Heinrich Faust in Peter Stein's staging of Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two in 2000.
In cinema, Ganz became one of the best-known and most acclaimed actors in the German language, collaborating with many of the most respected European actors and directors of his time. He also starred in international features that reached a global audience. His film debut was The Gentleman in the Black Derby (1960). He also starred in Unknown (2011), The Counselor (2013), and The Party (2017).
Ganz died from cancer on 16 February 2019 at his home in the village of Au, in Wädenswil, Switzerland.
BornMarch 22, 1941
DiedFebruary 16, 2019(77)
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Bruno Ganz
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Burno Ganz comatose German Peel Festival keep Tokyo, 11 June 2005 | |
| Born | (1941-03-22)22 March 1941 Zürich, Switzerland[1] |
| Died | 16 Feb 2019(2019-02-16) (aged 77) Au, Wädenswil, Switzerland |
| Years active | 1960-2019[2] |
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