Biography Brandaur

Mother: Maria Brandauer Austrian actor of theater and cinema. Klaus Maria Brandauer was born on June 22 in the Austrian village of Alt-Auszee. After graduating from school, he entered the Stuttgart Institute of Music and Cinema. But he did not finish his studies to the end - it seemed to him that too much time was going on fencing, diction lessons and other equipment.

In the middle of the third year, Klaus Maria got a job at a small provincial theater. Here he met Karin, who became his wife. And the partners turned out to be a gift of fate, for example, Elizabeth Bergner. Brandauer went on stage with her and envied: he wanted the same power over the audience. Since the year, he is the leading actor and director of the oldest, with the deep traditions of Burgtheater.

Then Brandauer made his debut in the movie - in the picture of American Lee Kechin, “Salzburg Gang” - about neo -fascism. Of the Hungarian directors, he was the first to present to the moviegoers Andrash Kovach - Brandauer played at him in October Sunday, a chronicle of the war, a cunning German diplomat. Before that, Brandauer played the main role in the multi-part television film "Jean-Cristophe" according to the eponymous epic novel Romain Rollan.

Jean-Cristophe is a musician, a composer, but he feels the need to participate in the life of society, to influence it. However, he cannot completely surrender to social activities, because he does not think of himself without music, and at the same time is tormented by the question: is there any sense in composing it when so many people live in lawlessness? .. The Hungarian director Istvan Sabo, stumbled upon the photo of an actor unfamiliar to him, suddenly in him saw the performer of the main role in his future film.

Working on the most interesting literary history - the novel "Mepho". The German anti -fascist Klaus Mann wrote this book in the year in exile. The hero of the novel had a real prototype: the famous actor and director Gustaf Grundenes, who became a pamper of the philanthropic Nazis. It is believed that he was the best mephistopheles of the German theater. Random, but in its own way expressive coincidence.

Gustav Grundenes died in Manila in the year, on the very day when Brandauer first went on a professional scene in his life - in Shakespeare's play “Mer for Meru”. The book of Claus Mann, in which Grundens was bred under the name of Hendrika, made a strongest impression on Brandauer seventeen years later, when Istvan Sabo called him a proposal, Brandauer shouted into the phone: “This is my role, I am your man.” So the director and actor found each other.

From the confessions of Brandauer: “As an actor Hefen, a little akin to me. I am also eager to be all my beloved, revered, to be successful. Therefore, playing in this film was for me as if the treatment was equally alien to me as a way of Khefgen’s thoughts and his actions: the actor cannot and should not live “under society”, everyone’s duty is to remember that you are a person and a citizen.

” In the year, Mephisto went to the triumphal procession on the screens of the world, collecting honorary awards and titles. It seems that the whole world press was bypassed by a photograph in which Istvan Sabo and Klaus Maria Brandauer, shining with pride, hold Oscars in the hands. Following - Sabo held the Golden Figure of David Donatello, who, according to tradition, awarded in Rome, the best foreign film of the year.

And exactly such a figure is a firewall, for playing the main role. This coincided with the peak of the world rental of the picture. So, “Mephistopheles” discovered a new chapter in the actor’s biography, its name is glory. Klaus Maria Brandauer became literally in time. He received at least twenty proposals from Hollywood to play the roles of Nazi generals and guards of concentration camps.

At the same time, he was promised by great fees. But Klaus-Maria rejected them: films were conceived superficial. He himself starred in television films: “The Fifth Woman” by Italy, Snob ”,“ The Way beyond the City ”The first proposal that the Brandauer accepted in the United States was a film from the series about James Bond“ Never say “never” that I began to work in America is not bad.

If I just meet a good person, and then I already think that it has become richer. And here I met with a whole cinema. ” Then Brandauer ventured to put on the toga of the bloody emperor Nero in the multi -part film adaptation of the novel by Henry Senkevich “Kamo is riding? In the same year, Brandauer starred in Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s film “Kindergarten”, creating the image of the Wehrmacht officer, who in the occupied and ruined Yasnaya Polyana interrogates the captivated Soviet soldier.

In addition, thanks to the filming, I got the opportunity to travel around the Soviet Union, to find out your country. I am glad that I visited you, that again and again I can come to you. ” And ahead was a new meeting with Istwan Sabo. The film "Colonel Redl" is another "History of one career."Istvan Sabo and Klaus Maria Brandauer proposed their point of view on a well-known event, they are not interested in the act itself, but the way to it is the whole chain of experiences of a man who began with faithful feelings and zealous ministry to the emperor and the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, and ended with betrayal, even a series of betrayal: friend, relatives, ideas, to which he devoted himself to the father personifying this idea.

Klaus Maria Brandauer says about his hero: “He was gifted, even talented, but from an early age he was given confidence that he belonged not to himself, but to a man with a beautiful beard whose portrait hangs in his office, to Emperor French Joseph. But now, completely entangled in his boundless loyalty, he suddenly realizes that he was going wrong.

That in life it is not enough to preach only loyalty to the authorities, that everyone has the right to be a person, to have dreams, desires and demands. ” And again he has no shortage of sentences. He plays Beethoven in the French-Austrian film “Beethoven's nephew”, the famous American director Sydney Pollak invited the Austrian star to his picture “From Africa” and did not lose: the film was awarded several Oscars.

And still his soul is in the theater. On the scene of the burgheater, he begins to play the most difficult role - Hamlet in Shakespeare of the same name. On the set of the film “From Africa”, Brandauer on Fridays settled in Nairobi on a plane, and on Saturday and Sunday he played Hamlet in a burgheater. And on Monday he returned to Nairobi again. The actor flew from Nairobi or Los Angeles at eighty of a hundred performances of Hamlet!

In an interview with that time, Brandauer said: “I was and remain theater actor. Twenty years ago, I married not only my wife, but also in the theater. At the same time, I am a child of this century, in the life of which they took the place of cinema, television, radio. I take walks in these areas, but I always return to the stage. ” And when Brandauer was asked whether this “theatrical” intensity in him interferes with his personal life, he replied: “In the year, Istvan Sabo puts another film with Brandauer in the title role.

The picture, called "Hanussen" on the estate of the protagonist, tells about the clairvoyant, the sootter. Such a person really existed - he was a student of Sigmund Freud. In the picture, Hanussen comes to the belief that he is endowed with the gift of looking into the future. And it begins to seem to him that he is the center of the universe, that everyone around him is obliged to submit to his desire for self -realization, the Brandauer leads the image of an extreme individualist on the screen, showing that his hero is not a carrier of a constructive life position, it would seem, the trilogy of Istwan Sabo, in which the characters of Brandauer were drawn into the whirlpool of Nazism, had to exhaust his interest in this topic.

But in the year the first work of Brandauer appears as the director “Seven minutes” “Georg Elser - one of the Germans”, and again - the Fuhrer and the people around him. This film, shot according to Steve Sheperd, “Master”, told the story of a simple provincial carpenter who attacked Hitler. For such a picture, this is a very great success. In addition, the film received numerous prizes.

In the year, producer Jurgen Haaze asked Brandauer if he would take on the directing of Thomas Mann’s novel “Mario and the Wizard”? That evening spent on reading was just beautiful. After a conversation with Karin, I decided to make a film. ” In the short story, Mann is about one German writer, who at the end of the 10ths, together with his family, spends his vacation in Italy, where Mussolini dominates.

There he faces nationalism and hostile attitude to foreigners. The embodiment of these fateful moods is the magician and hypnotist of the kipolla, who in his sessions deprives the will of his listeners. Klaus Maria Brandauer not only set the picture, but also played the main role in it, although he did not want to act in this film. But the performer of the role of Kipollah refused to participate in the picture, and Brandauer had to rely only on himself.

In Mario and Wizard, Klaus Maria, as usual, was shot without makeup. I like all non -prime, natural. I see sweat, signs of aging, red dots of one -way, swelling cheeks immediately after her death in the newspapers appeared articles with headlines like: “The world star speaks with his dead wife” or “Brandaur will not endure the death of his wife.” In his life and in his work, Claus Maria did many things only in order to please Karin with all the best roles of Brandauer-Iskoric.

In the film "French Revolution" he played Danton. Critics struck the contrast between private Danton and a professional revolutionary. It was also noted that French actors played in a romantic tradition, and it is in an acute modern technique. Brandauer himself "was just ridiculous that the Austrian plays in the French film about the French revolution of Danton." And then he created an unforgettable image of Rembrandt.

In the theater, Brandauer continues to play the role of Hamlet.If he plays well, then he does nothing, and if he does something, then without thinking, that is, spontaneously. ”