:Bruno Ganz

Ganz was born on 22 March 1941 in Zürich to a Swiss-German factory-worker father and a northern Italian mother.{{cite web|url=https://www.20min.ch/entertainment/kino/story/Schauspieler-Bruno-Ganz-ist-tot-28510862|title=Schauspieler Bruno Ganz ist tot|website=20 Minuten|date=16 February 2019|language=de}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.fandango.com/brunoganz/filmography/p25786|title=Born: 22 March 1941 in Zurich, Switzerland|access-date=26 April 2011|archive-date=6 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306095638/http://www.fandango.com/brunoganz/filmography/P25786|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.wim-wenders.com/bio/bruno_ganz_bio.htm|title=Born 1941 to a Swiss worker and his Northern Italian wife|access-date=26 April 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524144618/http://www.wim-wenders.com/bio/bruno_ganz_bio.htm|archive-date=24 May 2011}} He 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 on the stage.{{Cite web|url=http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/192300/Bruno_Ganz|title= Swiss-born actor Bruno Ganz established himself in Germany, first as co-founder of the Schaubuhne Theatre company, then as a romantic lead in films|access-date=26 April 2011}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/bruno-ganz/person/301789/summary.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130208213527/http://www.tv.com/bruno-ganz/person/301789/summary.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 February 2013|title=he got his first film role with 19... ...but his absolute break through he has with in a play by Peter Zadek in Bremen|access-date=26 April 2011}}

Ganz made his theatrical debut in 1961 and devoted himself mainly to the stage for almost the next two decades. In 1970, he helped found the Berliner Schaubühne ensemble{{cite news|url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/schauspieler-bruno-ganz-ist-tot-16044461.html|title=Schauspieler Bruno Ganz ist tot|work=FAZ|author=Simon Strauss|date=16 February 2019|access-date=16 February 2019|language=de}} and two years later performed in the Salzburg Festival premiere of Thomas Bernhard's Der Ignorant und der Wahnsinnige, under the direction of {{ill|Claus Peymann|de}}.{{cite news|url=https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/thomas-bernhards-ignorant-bei-den-salzburger-festspielen.1013.de.html?dram:article_id=363135|title=Thomas Bernhards "Ignorant" bei den Salzburger Festspielen / Große Schauspielkunst im ehemaligen Skandalstück|work=Deutschlandfunk|author=Bernhard Doppler|date=14 August 2016|language = de|access-date=16 February 2019}}

The German magazine Theater heute solidified Ganz's reputation as a stage actor by pronouncing him Schauspieler des Jahres (Actor of the Year) in 1973. One of Ganz's most physically demanding stage portrayals was the title character in Peter Stein's 2000 production of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust (Parts I and II); he suffered injuries during rehearsals which delayed his starting in the role.{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E3DF113BF937A35752C0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all|title=With Pivotal Actor Back, Marathon Faust Gets Another Look|work=The New York Times|author=John Rockwell|date=4 January 2001|access-date=1 February 2009}} He also served as a speaker in classical music works, including a 1993 recording of Luigi Nono's Il canto sospeso with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE3DE1030F937A15753C1A965958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all|title=After Karajan In Berlin, No Deluge Yet|work=The New York Times|author=John Rockwell|date=24 October 1993|access-date=1 February 2009}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/release/luigi-nono-il-canto-sospeso-gustav-mahler-kindertotenlieder-mr0002700966/credits|title=Luigi Nono: Il canto sospeso; Gustav Mahler: Kindertotenlieder – Claudio Abbado – Release Credits|website=AllMusic|access-date=17 February 2019}}

In 1960 Ganz landed his first film role, in Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone (The Man in the Black Derby).{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/16/obituaries/bruno-ganz-dead.html|title=Bruno Ganz, Who Played an Angel and Hitler, Is Dead at 77|work=The New York Times|author=Anita Gates|date=16 February 2019|access-date=16 February 2019}} Despite the support of the lead actor, Gustav Knuth, Ganz's 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 film breakthrough in a major part in the 1976 film {{ill|Summerfolk (1976 film)|de|3=Sommergäste (1976)|lt=Summerfolk}}, launching a widely recognized film career in Europe and the United States. He worked with several directors of the New German Cinema such as Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders, and also with international directors like Éric Rohmer and Francis Ford Coppola, among others. In 1977, he co-starred with Dennis Hopper in Wenders' American Friend, an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel Ripley's Game, playing a terminally ill father who gets hired as a professional killer. In 1979, he starred opposite Klaus Kinski in Herzog's Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night). Ganz played a professor opposite Laurence Olivier in the thriller The Boys from Brazil (1978), about Nazi fugitives.

In 1987 Ganz first played the role of the angel Damiel in Wim Wenders's Wings of Desire. He reprised the role in Faraway, So Close! in 1993. Ganz appeared in The Reader as a Holocaust survivor and as the police officer Horst Herold in The Baader Meinhof Complex, which were both 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 as a former Stasi operator opposite Liam Neeson in Unknown. Among Ganz's later roles were the grandfather in the literary adaptation Heidi (2015), a pseudo-scientific healer in Sally Potter's The Party (2017) and the ancient Roman poet Virgil in Lars von Trier's The House that Jack Built (2018).{{cite web|last1=Quinn|first1=Ruth|last2=Thorpe|first2=Vanessa|title=Bruno Ganz, actor who played Hitler in Downfall, dies aged 77|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/16/bruno-ganz-actor-who-played-hitler-in-downfall-dies-aged-77|website=The Guardian|date=16 February 2019|access-date=16 February 2019}}{{cite web|last1=Bradshaw|first1=Peter|title=Bruno Ganz: always poetic and inspired, from Hitler's bunker rant to a Berlin angel|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/16/bruno-ganz-always-poetic-and-inspired-from-hitlers-bunker-rant-to-a-berlin-angel|website=The Guardian|date=16 February 2019|access-date=16 February 2019}}

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Ganz portrayed Adolf Hitler in Der Untergang (Downfall) (2004){{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/sep/16/dvdreviews.2005inreview|title=Downfall|work=The Guardian|author=Rob Mackie|date=16 September 2005|access-date=1 February 2009}} after four months of researching the role.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/mar/25/1|title=Desperately seeking Adolf|work=The Guardian|author=Krysia Diver and Stephen Moss|date=25 March 2005|access-date=1 February 2009}} His performance was widely acclaimed by critics; Rob Mackie, writing for The Guardian, described Ganz as "the most convincing screen Hitler yet: an old, bent, sick dictator with the shaking hands of someone with Parkinson's, alternating between rage and despair in his last days in the bunker".{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/16/bruno-ganz-actor-who-played-hitler-in-downfall-dies-aged-77|title=Bruno Ganz, actor who played Hitler in Downfall, dies aged 77|work=The Guardian|date=16 February 2019|author=Ruth Quinn and Vanessa Thorpe|access-date=16 February 2019}} His performance has inspired many parodies on YouTube, using video and audio from the film with humorous subtitles.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47264709|title=Bruno Ganz, who played Hitler in Downfall, dies aged 77|work=BBC News|date=16 February 2019|access-date=16 February 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://www.20min.ch/schweiz/news/story/-Hitler-ist-tot---und-dieses-Mal-ist-es-traurig--11748107|title=Die Welt verneigt sich vor Bruno Ganz|website=20 Minuten|date=16 February 2019}}

Ganz was married to Sabine from 1965 until his death, although they were separated for a long time; their son, Daniel, was born in 1972.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004486/bio|title= Spouse: Sabine Ganz (1965 – present) (separated) 1 child|website= IMDb|access-date=26 April 2011}}

In February 2018, doctors in Salzburg found that Ganz was suffering from intestinal cancer, and he immediately began chemotherapy.{{Cite web|url=https://www.srf.ch/news/panorama/karzinom-im-darm-bruno-ganz-leidet-an-krebs|access-date=2 August 2018|title= Bruno Ganz leidet an Krebs (German)

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Ganz died on 16 February 2019 at his home in the village of Au, in Wädenswil, Switzerland, at the age of 77.Urs Bühler: [https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/bruno-ganz-ist-mit-77-jahren-gestorben-eine-wuerdigung-ld.1460388 Ob Engel oder Diktator: Bruno Ganz legte den allzu menschlichen Kern seiner Figuren frei.] Nachruf in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung 16 February 2019, retrieved 10 March 2019.Michel Imhof: [https://www.blick.ch/people-tv/schweiz/daniel-rohr-erlebte-die-letzten-minuten-der-schauspiellegende-bruno-ganz-starb-im-beisein-seiner-partnerin-und-seines-sohnes-id15173119.html Daniel Rohr erlebte die letzten Minuten der Schauspiellegende: «Bruno Ganz starb im Beisein seiner Partnerin und seines Sohnes»] In: Blick, 16 February 2019. He was attended by his partner, the theatrical photographer {{ill|Ruth Walz|de}}, and his son Daniel.

From 1996 until his death in 2019, Ganz held the 200-year-old Iffland-Ring, which passes from actor to actor—each bequeathing the ring to the next holder, judging that actor to be the "most significant and most worthy actor of the German-speaking theatre". Ganz was also honored with the Order of Merit of Germany and was made a knight of the French Légion d'honneur.

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• 1973: "Actor of the Year" in German magazine Theater heute

• 2000: David di Donatello Award for Bread and Tulips

• 2006: Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany{{Cite web|url=https://www.suedkurier.de/ueberregional/menschen/Bruno-Ganz-im-Alter-von-77-Jahren-gestorben-Schauspieler-erlag-einem-Krebsleiden;art1015351,10053763|title=Zürich: Bruno Ganz im Alter von 77 Jahren gestorben – Schauspieler erlag einem Krebsleiden|last=SK|date=16 February 2019|work=Südkurier|language=de|access-date=16 February 2019}}{{cite web | title=Bruno Ganz ist verstorben - Theater-News | website=Verlag Theater der Zeit | url=https://www.theaterderzeit.de/blog/meldungen/nachruf/bruno_ganz_ist_verstorben/ | language=de | access-date=18 November 2022}}

• 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{{cite web|title=Prize Winner Bruno Ganz – Category "National Lifetime Achievement Award"|url=http://www.goldene-kamera.de/en/2014winners_ganz|work=HÖRZU|access-date=24 May 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140525201204/http://www.goldene-kamera.de/en/2014winners_ganz|archive-date=25 May 2014}}
• 2015: Special Golden Camera 300 for lifetime achievement, Manaki Brothers Film Festival{{cite web|url=http://manaki.mk/pages/bruno-ganz|title=Manaki Brothers - International Cinematographers' Film Festival - Bruno GANZ|access-date=12 September 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919205328/http://manaki.mk/pages/bruno-ganz|archive-date=19 September 2015}}

Ganz appeared in the following films:{{cite web|url=https://www.filmportal.de/en/person/bruno-ganz_ef7358b846f08304e03053d50b37578c|title=Bruno Ganz|work=Film Portal|access-date=16 February 2019}}

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• The Man in the Black Derby (1960), as Bellboy
• {{ill|Chikita|de}} (1961)
• Es Dach überem Chopf (1962), as Fred Weber
• The Smooth Career (1967), as Barnhard Kral
• Eine große Familie (1970, TV Movie), as Heinz Hallasch
• {{ill|Summerfolk (1976 film)|de|3=Sommergäste (1976)|lt=Summerfolk}} (Sommergäste, 1976), as Jakov Shalimov
• Lumière (1976), as Heinrich Grün
• The Marquise of O... (1976), as Der Graf
• Die Wildente (The Wild Duck, 1976), as Gregers
• The American Friend (Der Amerikanische Freund, 1977), as Jonathan Zimmermann
• Die linkshändige Frau (The Left-Handed Woman, 1978), as Bruno
• The Boys from Brazil (1978), as Professor Bruckner
• Schwarz und weiß wie Tage und Nächte (1978, TV Movie), as Thomas Rosemund
• Messer im Kopf (Knife in the Head, 1978), as Dr. Berthold Hoffmann
• Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Nosferatu the Vampyre, 1979), as Jonathan Harker
• Retour à la bien-aimée (Return to the Beloved, 1979), as Dr. Stephan Kern
• Oggetti smarriti (Lost and Found / Lost Objects / An Italian Woman, 1980), as Werner
• 5% de risque (1980), as David
• Polenta (1980), as Jules, the Narrator
• Der Erfinder (The Inventor, 1980), as Jakob Nüssli
• La provinciale (1980), as Remy
• Etwas wird sichtbar (1981)
• La Dame aux camélias (The Lady of the Camellias, 1981), as Count Perregaux
• Ręce do góry (Hands Up!, 1981)
• Die Fälschung (Circle of Deceit, 1981), as Georg Laschen
• Logik des Gefühls (The Logic of Emotion, 1982)
• Krieg und Frieden (War and Peace, 1982)
• Dans la ville blanche (In the White City, 1983), as Paul
• {{Interlanguage link multi|Closed Circuit (1983 film)|de|3=System ohne Schatten|lt=Closed Circuit}} (System ohne Schatten, 1983), as Faber
• Killer aus Florida (Killer from Florida, 1983, Short)
• De ijssalon (Private Resistance, 1985), as Gustav
• El río de oro (1986), as Peter
• Der Pendler (1986)
• Väter und Söhne – Eine deutsche Tragödie (1986, TV Mini-Series), as Heinrich Beck
• Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire, 1987), as Damiel
• Un amore di donna (1988), as Franco Bassani
• Von Zeit zu Zeit (1989), as Jumbo
• Bankomatt (1989), as Bruno
• Strapless (1989), as Raymond Forbes
• The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway (1989), as Ezra Pound
• Tassilo (1991, TV Series), as Tassilo
• Erfolg (Success, 1991), as Jacques Tüverlin
• Children of Nature (1991), as Engill
• La Domenica specialmente (Especially on Sunday, 1991), as Vittorio (segment "La domenica specialmente")
• Prague (1992), as Josef
• {{ill|Night on Fire (film)|de|3=Brandnacht (Film)|lt=Brandnacht}} (Night on Fire, 1992), as Peter Keller
• L'Absence (The Absence, 1992), as Player
• The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992), as J.P.
• In weiter Ferne, so nah! (Faraway, So Close!, 1993), as Damiel
• Heller Tag (1994), as Georg
• Diario senza date (1995)
• Tödliches Schweigen (Deadly Silence, 1996, TV Movie), as Hans Plache
• Saint-Ex (1997), as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• {{ill|Daybreak (1998 film)|de|3=Gegen Ende der Nacht|lt=Gegen Ende der Nacht}} (Daybreak, 1998, TV Movie), as Fehleisen
• Mia aioniotita kai mia mera (Eternity and a Day, 1998), as Alexandros
• You Can't Go Home Again (1999), as Narrator (voice)
• WerAngstWolf (2000)
• Pane e Tulipani (Bread and Tulips, 2000), as Fernando Girasole
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust (2001, TV Movie), as Faust
• La forza del passato (The Power of the Past, 2002), as Bogliasco
• {{Interlanguage link multi|Epstein's Night|de|3=Epsteins Nacht|lt=Epsteins Nacht}} (Epstein's Night, 2002), as Adam Rose
• Behind Me (2002), as Himself
• Luther (2003), as Johann von Staupitz
• The Manchurian Candidate (2004), as Delp
• Der Untergang (Downfall, 2004), as Adolf Hitler
• Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II (2005, TV Movie), as Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski
• Vitus (2006), as Grandfather
• Baruto no Gakuen (バルトの楽園; Ode an die Freude, 2006), as Kurt Heinrich
• Youth Without Youth (2007), as Prof. Roman Stanciulescu
• Stairway to Nowhere (2008), as Brot Darsteller
• Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (The Baader Meinhof Complex, 2008), as Horst Herold
• Η Σκόνη του Χρόνου (The Dust of Time, 2008), as Jacob
• The Reader (2008), as Professor Rohl
• Giulias Verschwinden (2009), as John
• {{Ill|The Day of the Cat|de|Der grosse Kater}} (2010), as Kater
• Taxiphone: El Mektoub (2010)
• {{ill|Colors in the Dark|de|3=Satte Farben vor Schwarz|lt=Satte Farben vor Schwarz}} (Colors in the Dark, 2010), as Fred
• Das Ende ist mein Anfang (The End Is My Beginning, 2010), as Tiziano Terzani
• Unknown (2011), as Ernst Jürgen
• Sport de filles (2011), as Franz Mann
• Night Train to Lisbon (2013), as Older Jorge O'Kelly
• Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas (2013), as The Governor
• The Counselor (2013), as the Diamond Dealer
• In Order of Disappearance (2014), as Papa
• Amnesia (2015), as Bruno, Jo's grandfather
• Remember (2015), as Rudy Kurlander #1
• Heidi (2015), as Alpöhi, Heidi's grandfather
• Un Juif pour l'exemple (2016),{{IMDb title|id=5934634|title=Un Juif pour l'exemple}} as Arthur Bloch
• The Party (2017), as Gottfried
• In Times of Fading Light (2017), as Wilhelm Powileit
• Fortuna (2018), as Brother Jean
• The House That Jack Built (2018), as Verge
• {{ill|The Tobacconist (film)|de|3=Der Trafikant (Film)|lt=The Tobacconist}} (2018), as Sigmund Freud
• The Witness (2018), as Nikola Radin
• A Hidden Life (2019), as Judge Lueben
• Winter Journey (2019), as Gunther Goldschmidt (final film role)

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