Christoph Bantzer

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Christoph Bantzer (born January 4, 1936 in Marburg ) is a German actor .

life and work

Christoph Bantzer was born in Marburg in 1936 into a family of artists, both father and grandfather Carl Bantzer were painters . His younger brother Claus Bantzer is a musician and composer .

Bantzer studied acting at the Max Reinhardt School in Berlin . From 1959 to 1962 he was engaged in Wuppertal and 1964/65 in Hamburg . From 1965 to 1969 he played at the Berlin Schillertheater under Boleslaw Barlog . In 1971 he had great success in the title role of Hamlet at the Schauspielhaus Zürich . From 1972 to 1977 Christoph Bantzer was part of the ensemble of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. There he could be seen as Leonce in Leonce and Lena (1975), St. Just in Dantons Tod (1976).

From 1982 to 1985 guest engagements took him to the Schauspielhaus Zürich , where he played Tellheim in Minna von Barnhelm (1982) and the Duke in Maß für Maß (1985). Bantzer has been part of the Hamburg Thalia Theater since 1985 - when Jürgen Flimms took over as artistic director . Here he embodied numerous characters in the course of his career, for example the title role in Peer Gynt (1985) and Hamlet (1986), Cléante in Tartuffe (1996) and Kulygin in Three Sisters (1999).

His focus is on theater acting ; he played on many important German-speaking theaters, a. a. the Vienna Burgtheater . In addition to his theater engagements, Bantzer works on many films, mainly television productions. He received great recognition for his portrayal of the title characters in the television play Heinrich Heine (1977) and the five-part play Mozart (1982/83).

He can be heard as a speaker on a number of audio books and also in dubbing.

Christoph Bantzer is married to the soprano Dorothea Röschmann .

Award

In 2006 Manfred Steffen handed over the Albert-Bozenhard-Ring to Bantzer.

Audiobook (selection)

  • Mario Vargas Llosa : Aunt Julia and the art writer. Editing: Daniel Howald, director: Claude Pierre Salmony, spoken by André Jung , Christoph Bantzer and others: Schweizer Radio DRS / Der Hörbuchverlag, Munich 2010 (10 CD)
  • Stéphane Hessel : Outraged! from the French by Michael Kogon, read by Christoph Bantzer, audio book Hamburg, Hamburg 2011, 1 CD 51 min, ISBN 978-3-89903-336-6 .

Radio plays

Filmography (selection)

Honors

Admission to the Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg in the performing arts section, whose section head is Bantzer.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Steffen passed on the Albert-Bozenhard-Ring , article in the Hamburger Abendblatt dated December 2, 2006, accessed on December 8, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Bantzer, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg