Christoph Waltz

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Christoph Waltz, 2017

Christoph Waltz (born October 4, 1956 in Vienna ) is a German - Austrian actor , director , voice actor and two-time Oscar winner.

He gained worldwide fame through his acting performances as SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa in the film Inglourious Basterds (2009) and as a bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained (2012), both directed by Quentin Tarantino . For both, Waltz received the Oscar for best supporting actor and several other awards.

Life

family

Waltz is the son of the set and costume designer couple Johannes Waltz and Elisabeth Urbancic ; his mother comes from Austria, his father from Germany. Johannes Waltz died in 1964 when Christoph Waltz was eight years old. His grandmother Maria Mayen and his mother's stepfather Emmerich Reimers were actors at the Burgtheater in Vienna. The latter's father was the actor Georg Reimers .

Private life

There are three children from a previous marriage to a US psychotherapist that lasted 17 years. Waltz has been married to the German costume designer Judith Holste since 2013 and has a daughter with her. He lives in Los Angeles and Berlin .

citizenship

Waltz was born in Vienna and grew up there. A debate broke out in the Austrian media in August 2010 when it became known that, due to the legal situation at the time of his birth, he had German citizenship like his father, but not Austrian like his mother. On August 24, 2010, he was also granted Austrian citizenship because of his “services in the interest of the Republic” ; The award ceremony was held in autumn 2010 by the City of Vienna .

Acting

Beginnings

As a schoolboy he attended the Theresianum in the Viennese district of Wieden and the Gymnasium Billrothstrasse in his home district of Döbling , where he also graduated . Waltz originally wanted to become a cameraman because he was interested in technology. According to his own statement, he only “came to the film for lack of other ideas”. He later studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar and the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in New York . In 1977 he first appeared on the theater stage in his hometown. Theater engagements in Zurich and Cologne followed. He also played in Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Salzburg and Vienna. In 1982 he received the prestigious O. E. Hasse Prize . Since the late 1970s, he has appeared in numerous television and cinema films and has taken on episode roles in the crime series Derrick , Der Alte , Schimanski , Kommissar Rex , Polizeiruf 110 , Rosa Roth , Unter Verdacht , The Last Witness , SOKO Rhein-Main and Stolberg .

In the hundredth episode of Der Alte (title: Two Lives), he shot the main investigator Köster ( Siegfried Lowitz ), who died of the consequences at the end of the series. Rolf Schimpf appeared in this role as his successor .

Theater and television career

At the end of the 1980s, Waltz played the role of the Viennese crime scene investigator Inspector Passini in one episode .

Waltz worked mostly for television and also stood in front of the camera for French, Australian and British productions. In the early 1990s, he played alongside Ian Richardson in the miniseries Der große Reibach ( The Gravy Train , The Gravy Train Goes East ), the official Dorfmann . In Krzysztof Zanussi's film Leben für Leben , Waltz played an escaped concentration camp prisoner in 1991. Another collaboration with the Polish director followed in 1997 with The Color of Life ( Our God's Brother ).

In 1993, Waltz took on the role of Anabaptist Jan van Leiden in Tom Toelle's historical two-part play King of the Last Days . In 1995 he played in the television production Katharina the Great .

For his performance as Roy Black in You Are Not Alone - The Roy Black Story , directed by Peter Keglevic , he was awarded a special prize at the Baden-Baden Days of Television Play in 1996 and the Bavarian TV Prize in 1997 .

In 2002, together with director Peter Keglevic and his fellow actors Sebastian Koch and Tobias Moretti , he received the Adolf Grimme Prize for the television film Der Tanz mit dem Teufel - Die Entführung des Richard Oetker , in which he played a kidnapper .

In 2000, Waltz himself directed the television film If you dared for the first time , of which he co-wrote the screenplay.

International breakthrough

Christoph Waltz at the 2009 Cannes International Film Festival

In 2009 Waltz played the SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa in Quentin Tarantino's film Inglourious Basterds . For the role of Hans Landa, Waltz received several Best Supporting Actor awards in 2009 and 2010 , including the Golden Globe Award , the Screen Actors Guild Award , the British Academy Film Award and the Oscar . 48 years after Maximilian Schell , who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1962 for The Judgment of Nuremberg , a German-speaking actor was honored again for the first time by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . In May 2009 Waltz had already been awarded the prize for the best actor at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival .

After the success of Inglourious Basterds , the actor was hired for other US productions; He played the villain Chudnofsky in the comic book adaptation The Green Hornet and was seen as ringmaster in the strip Water for the Elephants , which was launched in April 2011 .

In March 2010, 20th Century Fox announced that Waltz would direct the film Up and Away , which he was also working on. The film is about the business of feelings of love, a topic that Christoph Waltz says he has had his sights on for several years, and is loosely based on the novel of the same name by Meike Winnemuth and Peter Praschl. Waltz also played one of the four main characters in the adaptation of the play The God of Carnage by Roman Polański.

In 2012 Waltz was in front of the camera for Tarantino's film Django Unchained . In the western he plays the German bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz. The Hollywood Foreign Association nominated Waltz for a Golden Globe in the category "Best Supporting Actor", which he received at the 70th Golden Globe Awards in 2013. Waltz won the Golden Globe for best supporting actor for the second time in a role occupied by Tarantino. Waltz also won his second Oscar for this role. Christoph Waltz is only the second actor after Dianne Wiest to have won an Oscar in two films by the same director ( Quentin Tarantino ). With Dianne Wiest it was Woody Allen .

On February 16, 2013, Christoph Waltz was the first host with a German mother tongue to host the legendary American comedy show Saturday Night Live . In the same year he was appointed to the jury of the 66th Cannes Film Festival , the following year to the jury of the 64th Berlinale . In 2013 he staged an opera for the first time in Antwerp with the Rosenkavalier . On March 3, 2014 Waltz presented the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress to Lupita Nyong'o . On December 1, 2014, Waltz received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame . It is the star with the number 2536 (6667 Hollywood Blvd.). On December 4, 2014, Christoph Waltz was introduced as the actor for one of the main roles, Franz Oberhauser , at the official press conference of the 24th James Bond film Specter .

In 2018 he was appointed to the competition jury of the 75th Venice International Film Festival .

Musical theater director

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

  • 2000: Helmut Peschina and Edwin Ortmann: The Last Town Clerk - Director: Robert Matejka (DeutschlandRadio Berlin / NDR )

Awards (selection)

Oscar

2010 : Best Supporting Actor in Inglourious Basterds
2013 : Best Supporting Actor in Django Unchained

Golden Globe Award

2010 : Best Supporting Actor in Inglourious Basterds
2013 : Best Supporting Actor in Django Unchained

British Academy Film Award

2010 : Best Supporting Actor in Inglourious Basterds
2013 : Best Supporting Actor in Django Unchained

Screen Actors Guild Award

2010 : Best Supporting Actor in Inglourious Basterds
2010: Best Acting Ensemble in Inglourious Basterds (with the rest of the cast)

Cannes International Film Festival

2009 : Best Actor in Inglourious Basterds

Other awards:

Nominations:

literature

Audio books

Web links

Commons : Christoph Waltz  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Waltz - Biography in www.christophwaltzfans.com accessed on June 5, 2011
  2. ↑ Christoph Waltz has long been secretly married. In: Focus , January 13, 2013.
  3. ↑ Marc Pitzke : Hollywood is the goal - always. In: Spiegel Online , February 24, 2013 (interview).
  4. ^ Austrian citizenship for Christoph Waltz. In: Der Standard , August 8, 2010.
  5. ↑ a b Christoph Waltz receives citizenship. In: ORF , August 24, 2010, accessed on January 10, 2013.
  6. ↑ Christoph Heshmatpour: In the interest of the Republic. Retrieved August 10, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Guest in the journal : Christoph Waltz on Ö1 from February 23, 2013, accessed on February 23, 20113.
  8. ↑ Prize winners ( memento of June 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) at festival-cannes.fr, accessed on May 24, 2009 (English).
  9. ↑ Christoph Waltz makes his debut as a cinema director. In: Rheinische Post , March 19, 2010, accessed on August 26, 2010.
  10. ↑ 2013 Golden Globe Nominations. In: goldenglobes.org , December 13, 2012 (English).
  11. ↑ Christoph Waltz wins Golden Globe. In: Rhein-Zeitung , January 14, 2013.
  12. ↑ Killer-Jesus inspires US media. In: Spiegel Online , February 18, 2013, accessed on March 21, 2013.
  13. ↑ Hollywood looks through binoculars. In: FAZ.net from December 16, 2013
  14. ↑ Christoph Waltz: Hollywood star on Walk of Fame for Oscar winners.
  15. ↑ Hollywood looks through binoculars in FAZ from December 17, 2013, page 25
  16. ^ Cross of Honor for Waltz. In: news.at , June 6, 2012, accessed on June 6, 2012.
  17. ↑ Gold / platinum database of the Federal Music Industry Association, accessed on July 1, 2016
  18. ^ US cultural medal for Waltz, Eröd, Welser-Möst and Rabl-Stadler. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Waltz, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria