Christian Brückner

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Christian Brückner (2011)

Christian Brückner (born October 17, 1943 in Waldenburg / Silesia ) is a German actor , radio play and voice actor . He is best known as a permanent dubbing voice for Robert De Niro , as a voiceover in documentaries and as a reciter and interpreter of audio books .

Together with his wife Waltraut, he has been running his own audio book publisher Parlando since the beginning of 2000 , which was awarded the German Audio Book Prize in 2005. In 1990 Brückner received the Adolf-Grimme-Preis Spezial in Gold for “outstanding speaking achievements”, in 2006 the Lesewerk-Preis as honorary laureate. In 2012 he was awarded the first special prize of the German Audiobook Prize for his life's work. Christian Brückner is currently considered the most successful speaker in Germany and is referred to by the German-speaking press as The Voice .

Life

theatre

After graduating from high school in 1963 at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Cologne, Brückner first studied German , drama and journalism at the Free University of Berlin , but left without a degree. Parallel to his studies, he took acting classes and received speech lessons. This was followed by engagements at theaters in Berlin, Klagenfurt, Freiburg im Breisgau and New York, including in the vocal play Unter dem Milchwald by Dylan Thomas , staged by Brückner , as Heinrich Heine in Der Doppelganger and in the prison production And they handcuff the flowers by the Spanish-French playwright Fernando Arrabal . 2007 joined Brückner as Sigmund Freud in The Method of Christopher Hampton in Ernst German Theater in Hamburg.

synchronization

Christian Brückner at the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 7, 2006

Through the synchronization of Warren Beatty in Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and especially by Peter Gilmore in the popular British television series The Onedin Line (1972), his distinctive voice became known to a wide audience. Since The Godfather II (1974) he has been the voice of the American character actor Robert De Niro , two years later the responsible director Martin Scorsese selected him for the synchronization of Taxi Driver (1976). With the exception of individual productions, Brückner has dubbed the two-time Oscar winner in over sixty of his films to date. At irregular intervals he lent his voice to other actors such as Martin Sheen ( Apocalypse Now ), Peter Fonda , Peter Riegert ( Local Hero ), Harvey Keitel and Burt Reynolds ; he has also dubbed the voices of Gary Oldman , Robert Redford , Dennis Hopper , Gérard Depardieu , Donald Sutherland and Jon Voight .

Audio productions

Since 1970 Christian Brückner has also been active in setting radio plays and audio books to music as well as in public literature readings. Many of his productions are regularly featured on the audiobook list, including From the Life of a Good-for-nothing by Joseph Eichendorff , The Trial by Franz Kafka , The Street by Cormac McCarthy , The Embers by Sándor Márai , The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire and the novel for Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx . In 2006, an unabridged, thirty-hour reading of the novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville in the German translation by Friedhelm Rathjen was published with Brückner as sole speaker . In a contemporary setting of the Erlkönig , he delivered the dramatic Goethe recitative.

Brückner also participated in three radio play series based on works by Karl May: In 1980 he spoke Winnetou in the radio play series Mein Freund Winnetou (or dubbed Pierre Brice in the original television series ) and was also a speaker in the radio play productions Schloß Wildauen (Mr. Treskow) - based on the novel Captured on the Sea - as well as German Hearts - German Heroes (Mr. Normann).

Christian and Waltraut Brückner have been running the Parlando - Edition Christian Brückner label since the beginning of 2000 , which translates prose and poetry as well as political writings into audio book form from different literary epochs . The edition was awarded the German Audiobook Prize in 2005 in the “The Special Audiobook” category.

Music productions

Christian Brückner in the role of the narrator of the Codex Manesse in the Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg 2006

Another focus of Brückner's work is the merging of music and literature. Accompanied by the conductor Bill Dobbins and the WDR Big Band Cologne , he recited from Erik Satie, I came to a very old world at a very young age, during public events . Under the direction of Heiner Schmitz joined Brückner also with the Cologne Contemporary Jazz Orchestra and read from the epic odyssey of Homer . In addition, he played staged readings with a wind orchestra in alternating formation , during which he performed the musical work Ahab! accompanied by composer Stephen Melillo with excerpts from Moby-Dick . The translation of the text came from Brückner himself. Together with the trumpeter Michael Leuschner (* 1962) and his band Brückner performed in 2007 and 2010 under the program title Prince of Darkness with passages from the autobiography of the important jazz trumpeter Miles Davis .

In the Brückner Beat production , released by Hazelwood Records in 2001, he recited texts by authors and protagonists of the so-called Beat Generation . The background music was provided by the Lone World Trio around his son Kai Brückner , who appeared as a guitarist. In 2003 he published the album Brückner Bukowski with texts by the American poet and writer Charles Bukowski , also musically staged by Kai Brückner and the formation Yakou Tribe.

As part of other music productions, Brückner lent his voice to several titles from the E Nomine project and the Tim Isfort Orchestra. In 2008 Brückner moderated the special concert for Philharmonic Film Music by the Hamburg Philharmonic at the Hamburg State Opera . He is a regular guest at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , and he also appears regularly at the Rheingau Music Festival .

Voiceover

As a voice- coined Brückner alongside Rolf Schult especially the historical documentary films by Guido Knopp , including Hitler's helpers , Hitler's warriors , Hitler's Women , War of the Century , The Wehrmacht - a balance sheet and 100 Jahre - Der Countdown . In addition, it was used in numerous nature documentaries, reports and radio features as well as in commercials . His voice can also be heard in the intro of the computer game Physikus from Heureka-Klett-Softwareverlag .

Movie and TV

In front of the camera, Brückner took on leading roles in Adaptation to a Destroyed Illusion (1977) directed by Eberhard Itzenplitz , The Million Coup (1984) directed by Wolfgang Storch , Reise ohne Einsatz (1988) directed by Friedemann Schulz , Dolores , Colorado (1995) directed by Peter Leippe, End of the Season (2001) directed by Stefan Krohmer and in Shadow of Memory (2007) directed by Inga Wolfram . In the ZDF series Spiel des Lebens (1996), which dealt with the private life and the training of acting students in thirteen episodes, Brückner acted in the role of Alexander Selin alongside Ruth Maria Kubitschek and Manfred Zapatka . In 1998 he appeared in the crime thriller Das Bitstück . In addition, he appeared as a guest actor in episodes of various crime series, including Tatort - Lauf einer Todes (1990), Tatort - Falsches Alibi (1995) and Rosa Roth as Chief Public Prosecutor Seibold. In 2010 Brückner starred in the short film A Box for Screws , directed by Christoph Dobbitsch. Together with Hannelore Elsner and Hildegard Schmahl , he was one of the main actors in the film Liebe am Fjord - Zwei Sommer, which is set in the Norwegian fjords .

Directed by Wolfgang Tumler 1976, a 45-minute documentary about Christian Brückner, who was born under the title The Voice in the ARD aired.

social commitment

As a reciter, Christian Brückner volunteered to support the German winter trip project by the author Stefan Weiller. In this project, since 2009, in cooperation with institutions such as the Diakonisches Werk, a song and text cycle has been used to draw attention to the situation of the homeless in particular.

Private life

The marriage of Christian and Waltraut Brückner has two sons. Before the family moved back to Berlin, they lived in Larchmont , a small town in the New York City catchment area, from 1984 to 1986 . In spring 2013, Brückner stayed at the Villa Massimo in Rome as part of a practical scholarship .

Radio plays

Audio book

  • Markus Topf, Dominik Ahrens The New Adventures of Phileas Fogg, Episode 5: The Secret of the Eissphinx Year of publication 2016 Publisher Highscore Music,

Nominations

German audio book award

Hörkules

Awards

literature

  • Hardy Prothmann: The voice . In: Cut , 5/2000.

Web links

Commons : Christian Brückner  - More pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Winner of the German Audio Book Prize 2005 ( Memento of March 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
  2. ^ Lesewerk Prize for Christian Brückner ( Memento from August 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Culture from September 29, 2006.
  3. ↑ Christian Brückner receives prize for his life's work ( Memento from January 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Deutscher Hörbuchpreis.de, January 4, 2012, accessed on January 4, 2012.
  4. ^ The man behind Robert De Niro Die Berliner Literaturkritik from June 24, 2008.
  5. ↑ Christian Brückner - Rooms are free! ( Memento from December 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ).
  6. ↑ Christian Brückner in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  7. ^ Welt online from January 5, 2007 .
  8. ↑ http://www.karl-may-hoerspiele.info/versioninfo.php?_id=434
  9. ↑ http://www.karl-may-hoerspiele.info/vproduktion.php?_id=204
  10. ↑ http://www.karl-may-hoerspiele.info/vproduktion.php?_id=219
  11. ↑ Prince of Darkness ( Memento from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ^ Brückner Beat Hazelwood Records 2001.
  13. ^ Brückner Bukowski Hazelwood Records 2003.
  14. ↑ Hollywood's heroes: Christian Brückner and Karen Kamensek present Philharmonic film music  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Press release from the Hamburg State Opera.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hamburgische-staatsoper.de
  15. ↑ A people in the time machine time online.
  16. ↑ Frankfurter Winterreise ( Memento from July 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on March 6, 2012.
  17. ^ The voice of many gentlemen Zeit Online 37/1997.
  18. ↑ Practical scholarship from Villa Massimo ( Memento from January 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) villamassimo.de, accessed on January 2, 2015.
  19. ↑ Hörkules nominations 2002 .
  20. ↑ Hörkules nominations 2005 .
  21. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: nominations for the Hörkules 2012 ).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hoerkules.de
  22. ↑ Overview of the winners of the Kriegsblindenbund.de, accessed on March 5, 2011.
  23. ^ IFPI Austria - Association of the Austrian Music Industry .
  24. ↑ When he reads, images arise in his head  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Schwäbische Zeitung from November 28, 2006.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.schwaebische.de
  25. ↑ For the 5th time “Der Deutsche Vorlesepreis” in the Children's Opera Cologne Awards for volunteer readers - professional prizes a. a. to Otto Sander, Markus Stenz and the WDR radio ( memento of September 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) in the press portal, October 6, 2010.
  26. ↑ Record criticism honors Christian Brückner , boersenblatt.net, February 10, 2017, accessed on February 11, 2017
  27. ↑ Awarding of the medal on the Day of German Unity. In: bundespräsident.de. October 2, 2018, accessed October 2, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Brückner, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldenburg , Silesia