Christoph Bantzer
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
- 1971: Ror Wolf : In search of Dr. Q 1: The Chinese at the window - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell (radio play - WDR / HR )
- 2013: Ursula Krechel : If you turn an isosceles triangle upside down - Director: Hans Gerd Krogmann (radio play - SWR )
Filmography (selection)
- 1965: A Winter's Tale (TV adaptation)
- 1968: The Death of the Salesman (TV movie)
- 1969: Ashes of Victory (TV movie)
- 1970: We - two
- 1970: Der Kommissar (TV series) - Three dead travel to Vienna
- 1971: The Munich Soviet Republic (two-part TV series)
- 1971: The Woman in White (three-part TV series)
- 1972: The Commissioner (TV series) - wanted dead
- 1977: The Demons (TV miniseries)
- 1977: Heinrich Heine (two-part TV series)
- 1980: The Old One (TV series, episode trust )
- 1982: Mozart (TV multi-part, role of the adult Mozart)
- 1990: Whoever comes too late - The Politburo experiences the German Revolution (TV film)
- 1992: Hamburger Gift (TV film)
- 1990: Crime scene : medicine men
- 1993–1996: Derrick (TV series, four episodes)
- 1995–2000: Bella Block (TV series, two episodes)
- 1996: Scene of the crime: party friends
- 1997: Funny Games , role of Fred
- 2000: Bella Block: Farewell in the Light
- 2002: Fathers , role of Jakob Ellermann
- 2003: The Last Witness (TV series, episode)
- 2004: Arrived (short film)
- 2004: Crime scene: scraps
- 2008: Maria Stuart
- 2012: Tatort: The Ballad of Cenk and Valerie
- 2015: 4 kings
- 2018: Crime scene: Anne and death
Honors
Admission to the Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg in the performing arts section, whose section head is Bantzer.
literature
- Nathanael Busch: Christoph Bantzer . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 113.
- Nina Grabe: Bantzer, Christoph . In: Manfred Brauneck, Wolfgang Beck (ed.): Theater Lexikon 2. Actors and directors, stage managers, dramaturges and stage designers . Rowohlt's encyclopedia published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag. Reinbek near Hamburg, August 2007, ISBN 978 3 499 55650 0 , p. 35 f.
Web links
- Christoph Bantzer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Christoph Bantzer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Christoph Bantzer's artist agency
- Members of the Academy of the Arts
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manfred Steffen passed on the Albert-Bozenhard-Ring , article in the Hamburger Abendblatt dated December 2, 2006, accessed on December 8, 2014
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bantzer, Christoph |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 4, 1936 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Marburg |