Christoph Waltz - Biography

How should you begin the biography of a person who did an excellent job in his profession and from which some fleeting viewers still have the feeling that he has just become a star, so that his real life only really started at 56?

Well, it is not so few people in this world, namely all the people who have made a certain passion for their profession and who could only prevail very late in life in this field of activity to the extent that they would have grown from the beginning.

Behind the statement that appears so terrifying above is actually a very soothing statement: quality prevails, always! took a while up to Christoph Waltz

Origin committed

Folding viewers mentioned above usually go out of false prerequisites: Waltz has by no means only rose into the ranks of the great actors through his latest Hollywood appearances, but for decades he has been able to look back on an impressive and continuously progressive career: Waltz was born in Vienna in 1956, and with his family there was actually only the way to the theater:

His father Johannes Waltz was a stage designer and costume designer, as well as his mother Elisabeth Urbancic, at the Munich chamber games and at the Bavarian state play, at the Burgtheater and for the Salzburg Festival, and also the backdrop of the many well-known films such as the “confessions of the imposter Felix Krull” in the well-known Horst-Buchholz film adaptation by director Kurt Hoffmann.

Waltz Grandfather Emmerich Reimers was an actor at the Vienna Burgtheater, as was his grandmother Maria Mayen, who was honored in 1926 with the title of the Austrian chamber actress.

Both entered the footsteps of Christopher's great -grandfather Georg Reimers, who rose from the Dresden Residenztheater to the Vienna Hofburgtheater and succeeded as a court actor, an ensemble member for life, honorary member and senior director.

Training and early works

Viennese Max Reinhardt seminar after graduating from high school and then completed his training at the legendary Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in New York .

Already at the age of 20 he gave his feature film debut in the production “Der Deut” for ZDF and stood on the theater stage in Vienna, as well as on the well -known stages of many other German, Austrian and Swiss city theater.

This was followed by countless roles in television films and series and cinema films, in crime novels and literary adaptations, historical dramas and thrillers, light and black comedies and politicians, documentary games and action films, love films and home yields, always more international and finally also in Hollywood in war films and comic films and international literature films and Italian Catastrophic drillers.

Quality is recognized

Waltz always got a lot of prizes , as a winner of the second year he received renowned OE Hasse Prize in 1982, a special prize of the Baden-Baden television game days in 1996, the Bavarian television award for the “Roy Black Story” in 1997, in 2002 he received together with director Peter Keglevic and the actor colleague Sebastian Koch and Tobias Moretti for the filming of the kidnapping of the kidnapping Industrial son Richard Oetker, “The Dance with the Devil”, the Adolf Grimme Prize , and in 2004 he got him again for his representation in the black comedy “BUTER IN-what a night”.

In the meantime, he can look forward to a dozen awards as the best supporting actor, including the Golden Globe Award , the award for the best actor at the film festival in Cannes, the Screen Actors Guild Award, the British Academy Film Award and the Oscar (as best supporting actor in "Inglourious Basterds").

Master of the quiet tones

Some details about filming and roles will follow in a separate article on his work in a few days, in any case there was a lot of praise for his hundreds of roles, only the real breakthrough was long in coming. This may also have to be done with the fact that Christoph Waltz is not one of the individuals who like great fuss about his person, he prefers to live his life without accompanying PR-rim and gives interviews as economical as possible.

The public therefore experiences little about his private life, he has had a first marriage to an American and long, but completely unnoticed by the media, married the second woman; And when he is asked by journalists in 2011 on the occasion of his father role in Roman Polanski's film adaptation "The God of the Schletzel" whether he had to settle out of the sandpit as a father of four children (so much you knew that much), he only smiles mischievously and notes that children at the age of his dispute should be visited in prison.

From the little attention of character actors to the Hollywood favorite

The fact that Waltz has not yet become a favorite is perhaps also due to the roles for which the actor is usually occupied: his well -thought -out sensitivity, his bright and finely accented voice and his opaque voice, with the minimalism of a expert, mimically inserted "visa", which Waltz does not say to his own statement for an "Otto normal consumer", predestined him as a protagonist abysmal, unstable and cunning figures, it was determined as a “respected character actor of less respected characters” (quotes according to www.faz.net ) .

Waltz delivered a charming and interesting appearance in the Harald Schmidt Show in 2001:

After “Inglourious Basterds” , Hollywood had finally discovered the exceptional actor, and now it really starts: a number of roles in a number of big Hollywood productions, directing and screenplay work (“on and of them”), participation as a co-producer and cooperation in Soundtrack (“Django Unchained”), for his role of the German head money hunter Dr. King Schultz in this Italowestern Tarantinos in 2012 also receives the Golden Globe as the best supporting actor, further nominations in 2013 have been given, further prices are waiting, and other, more and more demanding roles too.

How much joy the late, but all the more brilliant recognition makes the actor, can be noticed by his unlimited planning joy with numerous future projects, but also in its ever more relaxed appearance in public, and it can be seen in almost all photos that Christoph Waltz has recently taken:

He smiles or he shines, all the facial expressions have become softer, the eyes flashed from the eyes that should be preserved for a long time!