Bruno Ganz as JOHN

Born in 1941 to a Swiss factory worker and an Italian mother, attended Zurich’s University of Music and Theater. In 1970, he joined the ensemble of the Schaubühne Berlin. Following this, he worked with greatly renowned directors such as Peter Zadek, Peter Stein, Claus Peymann, Klaus Michael Grüber, Luc Bondy, and Dieter Dorn. From the mid-seventies on, thanks to several roles (amongst others in Wim Wenders Der amerikanische Freund (“The American Friend”) and Der Himmel über Berlin (“Wings of Desire”), Bruno Ganz became known to large audiences. 
In February 1996, actor Josef Meinrad bequeathed to Bruno Ganz the Iffland Ring - a prize passed on, for 100 years now, to “the most outstanding actors” on German stages. In 2000, Ganz played in the movie classic, Pane e tulipani and in 2004, he incarnated Adolf Hitler in Der Untergang (“Downfall”), produced by Bernd Eichinger.


Feature films (excerpt)
2009 Giulias Verschwinden (Director Christoph Schaub)
2009 Dust of Time (Director Theo Angelopoulos)
2008 Der grosse Kater (Director Wolfgang Panzer)
2008 Der Vorleser (Director Stephen Daldry)
2007 Jugend ohne Jugend (Director Francis Ford Coppola)
2006 Vitus (Director Fredi M. Murer)
2004 The Manchurian Candidate (Director Jonathan Demme)
2003 Der Untergang (Director Oliver Hirschbiegel)
2002 Bruno Ganz – Behind me (Director Norbert Widmer)
2000 Pane e Tulipani (Director Silvio Soldini)
1998 Die Ewigkeit und ein Tag (Director Theo Angelopoulos)
1993 In weiter Ferne, so nah (Director Wim Wenders)
1987 Der Himmel über Berlin (Director Wim Wenders)
1983 In der weißen Stadt (Director Alain Tanner)
1980 Der Erfinder (Director Kurt Gloor)
1979 Nosferatu (Director Werner Herzog)