Matthias Habich

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Matthias Habich (born January 12, 1940 in Danzig ) is a German actor .

Life

Habich grew up in Hamburg-Harburg and after graduating from the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Gymnasium he attended the State University for Music and Drama . He studied for a semester at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1966 and took acting lessons from Lee Strasberg in the USA . He then played at theaters in Chur , Baden-Baden , Basel , Wuppertal , Zurich and Munich .

His first major success was in 1973 in the leading role in the six-part television series The Strange Life Story of Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck , directed by Fritz Umgelter . This is followed by the adventurous Simplicissimus , Die Unfreiwilligen Reisen des Moritz August Benjowski and Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen , two four-part series under the same director with him (both broadcast in 1975). At least now he is known to a broad television audience in Germany. Habich made his cinema debut in 1976 as an ice-cold Prussian officer in Der Fangschuß . This is followed by roles in movies.

After numerous roles in theater and on television, he finally played his way into the top league of German character actors in 1999 with the lead role in the TV series Klemperer - A Life in Germany . In 2001 he received the German Film Prize for his performance in Caroline Link's multi-award-winning drama Nowhere in Africa . In 2009 he can be seen in the cinema alongside the international production Der Vorleser , alongside Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes , in the drama Armistice . For his role in the television film Half a Life , Habich received the Grimme Prize together with his fellow actors Josef Hader and Franziska Walser and director Nikolaus Leytner . After two cinema films in 2010, Habich is mainly involved in television productions again, including a. 2012 in the thriller The Nanny as a family patriarch who is confronted with the dark past of his family. In 2015, directed by Margarethe von Trotta , Habich played a leading role as a widower in Die abhandene Welt , who believed to recognize his allegedly dead wife in a newspaper photo.

Habich has now worked in around 100 film and television productions. He lives in Paris , Zurich and Locarno .

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SURNAME Habich, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig