14-649: Klaus Maria Brandauer ( Austrian German pronunciation: [klaʊs maˈriːa ˈbrandaʊɐ] ; 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 The Russia House (1990), Mephisto (1981), Never Say Never Again (1983), Out of Africa (1985), Hanussen (1988), Burning Secret (1988), and White Fang (1991). For his supporting role as Bror von Blixen-Finecke in
28-640: A call from the University of Music and Performing Arts in 1929 to create a drama seminar. Initially, this Seminar was taught at the Schlosstheater Schönbrunn , the imperial theatre in the Schönbrunn Palace . After Reinhardt's emigration in 1937, the seminar moved to the nearby Palais Cumberland in 1940. From 1948 until 1954, Helene Thimig (Reinhardt's widow) directed the Seminar. The Seminar offers
42-1081: A civil servant. 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. Brandauer married Natalie Krenn in 2007. 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
56-479: A four-year course taught by some 40 professors, many of whom are themselves notable actors and directors, e.g. Karlheinz Hackl , Heiner Müller , Oleg Tabakov , Giorgio Strehler , István Szabó , Klaus Maria Brandauer . After the second semester, the students specialize into various branches of acting and directing. Student performances are staged at the Schlosstheater . Burning Secret Burning Secret
70-626: 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. Max Reinhardt Seminar The Max Reinhardt Seminar (Reinhardt Seminar)
84-601: A self-absorbed actor, launched his international career. (He would later act in Szabó's 1985 Oberst Redl .) 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
98-461: Is a 1988 drama film , based on the 1913 short story Brennendes Geheimnis by Stefan Zweig , about an American diplomat 's son who befriends a mysterious baron while staying at an Austrian spa during the 1920s. This symbol-filled story, filmed with sensuous detail and nuance, is set in Austria in the 1920s. While being treated for asthma at a country spa, an American diplomat's lonely 12-year-old son
112-450: 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." 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
126-463: Is befriended and infatuated by a suave, mysterious baron. During a story of his war experiences, the baron reveals the scar of a wound from an American soldier and thrusts a pin through it, saying "see—no feeling." Little does the boy realize that it is his turn to be wounded. But soon his adored friend heartlessly brushes him aside and turns his seductive attentions to his mother. The boy's jealousy and feelings of betrayal become uncontrollable. The film
140-758: Is the School of Drama at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna , Austria. It is located in the Palais Cumberland, Penzingerstraße 9, in Vienna's 14th district ( 48°11′21″N 16°18′44″E / 48.18917°N 16.31222°E / 48.18917; 16.31222 ). A Lehrgang für Declamation und Mimik (Course in Declamation and Mimics) had been in existence in Vienna since 1852, when Max Reinhardt received
154-522: The drama film Out of Africa (1985), Brandauer was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award . Brandauer has a working knowledge of at least five languages: German, Italian, Hungarian , English and French and has acted in each. Brandauer was born as Klaus Georg Steng in Bad Aussee , Austria (then part of the German Reich ). He is the son of Maria Brandauer and Georg Steng (or Stenj),
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#1732909026298168-1246: The performance. In 1987, he was the Head of the Jury at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival . 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
182-581: 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: Seven Minutes [ de ] (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,
196-818: Was written and directed by Andrew Birkin , and stars Klaus Maria Brandauer , Faye Dunaway , and David Eberts. The film won the Young Jury Prize at the Brussels Film Festival in 1989, and David Eberts won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival in the same year. According to Birkin, the making of the movie "was something of a nightmare" with the two lead actors thoroughly disliking one another and other problems while shooting on location in Mariánské Lázně while directing young David Eberts
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