Burghart Klaußner

Burghart Klaussner studied in his home town Berlin, complementing his studies with a drama course at the Max Reinhardt School and made his debut under George Tabori in his Vietnam play „Pinkville". Since then, he has been engaged at nearly all important stages of German language, and furthermore made his debut as a director in 2006 at the Hamburg Kammerspiele.

In 2012, he was honoured for the main role in „Death of a Salesman" in Hamburg, with the German Theatre Award „Der Faust" for best actor. After his first movie appearance in 1980 (the leading part in Ziemlich weit weg) and numerous other films, he became known to a wider audience in cinema hits like The Superwife (1995), Rossini (1996) and Good Bye, Lenin! (2003). For Requiem (2005) he was nominated as Best Supporting Actor for the Deutscher Filmpreis 2006, after he had received that award already in 2005 for his performance in The Edukators (2004).

At the International Filmfestival Locarno he was awarded the Silver Leopard as Best Male Actor, for his lead role in The Man from the Embassy (2006), and on the small screen he could be seen in many TV-movies and series since 1985. For his part in Der Novembermann (2007) he was nominated for the 2008 Goldene Kamera as Best German Actor.

In internationally cast films, like the Oscar-nominated film version of The Reader (2008), he was as convincing as in Michael Haneke's drama The White Ribbon (2009), which won the Palme d'Or at the International Filmfestival in Cannes, then the Golden Globe and the Europäischer Filmpreis and received an Oscar nomination as Best Foreign Film. For his performance in it he was decorated with the Preis der deutschen Filmkritik and as Best Actor with the Deutscher Filmpreis 2010. Further films were Diplomacy (2014), Inbetween Worlds (2013), The Silence (2009), Goethe! (2009), Lessons of a Dream (2010) and Invasion (2011).

At the Berlinale 2013, together with Isabella Rossellini in Nono, the Zigzag Kid (2012), he opened the Children's' Filmfest of the Filmfestspiele, and could be seen in Bille August's Night Train to Lisbon (2012).

The 2013 ZDF three-parter Hotel Adlon – A Family Saga, in which he acted as the founder of the famous Berlin Hotel, presented him with excellent reviews and an audience of millions. Burghart Klaussner has been a Member of the Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg and the Deutsche Filmakademie, where he was elected a board member in 2010.

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