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Bruno Ganz
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Bruno Ganz

1941 – 2019 · aged 78

Swiss actor (1941–2019)

Born
22 Mar 1941 · Zurich
Died
16 Feb 2019 · Au
Part ofSwitzerland218 BCE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 90 years
  1. 22 Mar 1941BornBorn in Zurich
  2. 1991AwardSwiss Grand Prix for performing arts / Hans Reinhart Ring
  3. 1996AwardIffland-Ring
  4. 2001AwardCross of Merit First Class of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit
  5. 2001AwardTheaterpreis Berlin
  6. 2004AwardBambi Award
  7. 2005AwardAustrian Decoration for Science and Art
  8. 2006AwardOfficer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  9. 2007AwardKnight of the Legion of Honour
  10. 2010AwardEuropean Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award
  11. 2015AwardCarl Zuckmayer Medal
  12. 16 Feb 2019DiedDied in Au

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1941 – 2019).

  1. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  2. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  3. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  4. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  5. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  6. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  7. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  8. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  9. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  10. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  11. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  12. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  13. 1956Suez Crisis
  14. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  15. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  16. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  18. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  19. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  20. 1968Prague Spring
  21. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  22. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  23. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  24. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  26. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  27. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  28. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  29. 1985Schengen Agreement
  30. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  31. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  32. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  34. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  36. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  37. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  38. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  39. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  40. 20062006 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Bruno Ganz (Swiss Standard German: [ˈbruːnoː ˈɡants] ; 22 March 1941 – 16 February 2019) was a Swiss actor whose career in German stage, television and film productions spanned nearly 60 years. He was known for his collaborations with the directors Werner Herzog, Éric Rohmer, Francis Ford Coppola, Theo Angelopoulos and Wim Wenders, earning widespread recognition with his roles as Jonathan Zimmerman in The American Friend (1977), Jonathan Harker in Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) and Damiel the Angel in Wings of Desire (1987).

Ganz received renewed international acclaim for his portrayal of Adolf Hitler in the Academy Award-nominated film Downfall (2004). He also had roles in several English-language films, including The Boys from Brazil (1978), Strapless (1989), The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992), Luther (2003), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), The Reader (2008), Unknown (2011), The Counselor (2013) and Remember (2015). On stage, Ganz portrayed Dr. Heinrich Faust in Peter Stein's staging of Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two in 2000.

Text from the Wikipedia article Bruno Ganz, CC BY-SA 4.0

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