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| name = Klaus Maria Brandauer

| image = Klaus Maria Brandauer Viennale 2012 b (cropped).jpg

| caption = Brandauer at the Vienna International Film Festival 2012

| birth_name = Klaus Georg Steng

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1943|6|22}}

| birth_place = Bad Aussee, Styria, Nazi Germany

| occupation = Actor, director

| years_active = 1962–present

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Klaus Maria Brandauer ({{IPA|de-AT|klaʊs maˈriːa ˈbrandaʊɐ|lang|De-at Klaus Maria Brandauer.ogg}}; born Klaus Georg Steng; 22 June, 1943) is an Austrian actor and director. He is also a professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar.

Brandauer is known internationally for his roles in Mephisto (1981), Never Say Never Again (1983), Hanussen (1988), Burning Secret (1988), The Russia House (1990), and White Fang (1991).

For his supporting role as Bror von Blixen-Finecke in Out of Africa (1985), he was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award.

Brandauer has a working knowledge of and has acted in at least five languages including German, Italian, Hungarian, English and French.

Personal life

Brandauer was born as Klaus Georg Steng in Bad Aussee, Austria (then part of the German Reich).{{cite web|url=http://www.whoswho.de/templ/te_bio.php?PID=98&RID=1 |title=Klaus Maria Brandauer – Biografie WHO'S WHO |publisher=Whoswho.de |date=22 June 1944 |access-date=6 October 2013}} He is the son of Maria Brandauer and Georg Steng (or Stenj), a civil servant.{{Cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/0/Klaus-Maria-Brandauer.html|title=Klaus Maria Brandauer Biography (1944–)|website=www.filmreference.com}} He subsequently took his mother's name as part of his professional name, Klaus Maria Brandauer.

His first wife was Karin Katharina Müller (14 October 1945 – 13 November 1992), an Austrian film and television director and screenwriter, from 1963 until her death in 1992, aged 47, from cancer. Both were teenagers when they married, in 1963. They had one son, Christian.{{cite web |url= http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.b/b683262.htm |title= Brandauer, Karin Katharina geborene Müller |website= Aeiou.at |date=31 July 2001 |access-date=6 October 2013}} Brandauer married Natalie Krenn in 2007.

Career

Brandauer began acting on stage in 1962. After working in national theatre and television, he made his film debut in English in 1972, in The Salzburg Connection. In 1975 he played in Derrick – in Season 2, Episode 8 called "Pfandhaus". His starring and award-winning role in István Szabó's Mephisto (1981) playing a self-absorbed actor, launched his international career. (He would later act in Szabó's 1985 Oberst Redl.)

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Following his role in Mephisto, Brandauer appeared as Maximillian Largo in Never Say Never Again (1983), a remake of the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball. Roger Ebert said of his performance: "For one thing, there's more of a human element in the movie, and it comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, as Largo. Brandauer is a wonderful actor, and he chooses not to play the villain as a cliché. Instead, he brings a certain poignancy and charm to Largo, and since Connery always has been a particularly human James Bond, the emotional stakes are more convincing this time."{{cite web |url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19831007/REVIEWS/310070301/1023 |title=Never Say Never Again |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=7 October 1983 |publisher=rogerebert.com |access-date=18 October 2008 |archive-date=4 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004010948/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F19831007%2FREVIEWS%2F310070301%2F1023 |url-status=dead }}

He starred in Out of Africa (1985), opposite Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. Brandauer was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe for the performance. In 1987, he was the Head of the Jury at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.{{cite web |url= http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1987/04_jury_1987/04_Jury_1987.html |title=Berlinale: Juries |access-date=27 February 2011 |work=berlinale.de}} In 1988 he appeared in Hanussen opposite Erland Josephson and Ildikó Bánsági.

Brandauer was originally cast as Marko Ramius in The Hunt for Red October. That role eventually went to Sean Connery, who played James Bond to Brandauer's Largo in Never Say Never Again. He co-starred with Connery again in The Russia House (1990).

His other film roles have been in The Lightship (1986), Streets of Gold (1986), Burning Secret (1988), White Fang (1991), Becoming Colette (1991), Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999, as director Otto Preminger), and Everyman's Feast (2002). In 1989 he participated in TF1's two-part historical film La Révolution française, playing the role of Georges Danton. He has also appeared as King Nebuchadnezzar II in 1998, in Time Life's Jeremiah, from The Bible Collection: The Old Testament.

Brandauer has directed two films: {{ill|Seven Minutes (1989 film)|de|3=Georg Elser – Einer aus Deutschland|lt=Seven Minutes}} (1989), in which he starred as attempted Hitler assassin Georg Elser; and Mario and the Magician (1994), based on the 1929 novella by Thomas Mann, in which he starred as Cipolla, a magician with hypnotic powers.

In August 2006, Brandauer's much-awaited production of The Threepenny Opera gained a mixed reception. Brandauer had resisted questions about how his production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's classic musical comedy about the criminal MacHeath would differ from earlier versions, and his production featured Mack the Knife in a three-piece suit and white gloves, stuck to Brecht's text, and avoided any references to contemporary politics or issues.

Filmography

class="wikitable"
style="background:#B0C4DE;" ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes
1970	Friede den Hütten! Krieg den Palästen!	Georg Büchner	TV film
1972	The Salzburg Connection	Johann Kronsteiner
1975	Derrick	Erich Forster	TV series Episode: "Pfandhaus"
1979	A Sunday in October	Hoffmann
1981	Mephisto	Hendrik Höfgen
1983	Never Say Never Again	Maximilian Largo
rowspan=4\|1985	Colonel Redl	Alfred Redl
\| Quo Vadis?	Nero	TV miniseries
\| The Lightship	Captain Miller
\| Out of Africa	Baron Bror Blixen	Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
1986	Streets of Gold	Alek Neuman
rowspan=2\| 1988	Hanussen	Erik Jan Hanussen
\| Burning Secret	Baron Alexander von Hauenstein
rowspan=3\| 1989	Spider's Web	Benjamin Lenz
\| {{ill\|Seven Minutes (1989 film)\|de\|3=Georg Elser – Einer aus Deutschland\|lt=Seven Minutes}}	Georg Elser	Also director
\| La Révolution française	Georges Danton	TV miniseries
1990	The Russia House	Dante
rowspan=2\|1991	White Fang	Alex Larson
\| Becoming Colette	Henry Gauthier-Villars
rowspan=2\|1994	Felidae	Pascal/Claudandus	Voice only
\| Mario and the Magician	Cipolla	Also director
1998	Jeremiah	King Nebuchadnezzar	TV film
rowspan=2\|1999	Rembrandt	Rembrandt
\| Introducing Dorothy Dandridge	Otto Preminger	TV film
\| 2000	{{Interlanguage link\|Dykaren\|sv}}	Orlov
2001	Druids	Julius Caesar
rowspan=2\|2002	Everyman's Feast	Jan Jedermann
\| Between Strangers	Alexander Bauer
2003	Entrusted	Gregor Lämmle	TV film
2006	Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe	Emperor Franz Joseph	TV film
2009	Tetro	Carlo Tetrocini
2011	Manipulation	Urs Rappold
2013	The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich	Wilhelm Reich
2013	{{Interlanguage link\|Blank (2013 film)\|de\|Die Auslöschung\|lt=Blank}}	Ernst Lemden	TV film
2020	{{Interlanguage link\|Zárójelentés\|hu\|Zárójelentés (film, 2020)\|lt=Zárójelentés}}	S doktor
2021	{{Ill\|Enemies (2021 film)\|de\|3=Ferdinand von Schirach: Feinde\|lt=Enemies}}	Konrad Biegler	TV film