Editing Klaus Maria Brandauer

{{short description|Austrian actor and director}}
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{{Infobox person
| name         = Klaus Maria Brandauer
| image        = Klaus Maria Brandauer Viennale 2012 b (cropped).jpg
| caption      = Brandauer at the [[Vienna International Film Festival]] 2012
| birth_name   = Klaus Georg Steng
| birth_date   = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1943|6|22}}
| birth_place  = [[Bad Aussee]], [[Styria]], [[Nazi Germany]]
| occupation   = Actor, director
| years_active = 1962–present
| spouse       = {{marriage|Karin Mueller|1963|1992|end=died}} (1 child)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/21161%7C0/Klaus-Maria-Brandauer/|title=Klaus Maria Brandauer|website=Turner Classic Movies}}</ref><br />{{marriage|Natalie Krenn|2007}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thebondbulletin.com/weekly-special-germans-in-bond-films-4-klaus-maria-brandauer/|title=Weekly Special: "Germans in Bond Films" #4 – Klaus Maria Brandauer -|date=23 August 2013|website=thebondbulletin.com}}</ref>
| children     = 1
}}

'''Klaus Maria Brandauer''' ({{IPA|de-AT|klaʊs maˈriːa ˈbrandaʊɐ|lang|De-at Klaus Maria Brandauer.ogg}}; born '''Klaus Georg Steng'''; 22 June, 1943) is an Austrian actor and director. He is also a professor at the [[Max Reinhardt Seminar]].

Brandauer is known internationally for his roles in ''[[Mephisto (1981 film)|Mephisto]]'' (1981), ''[[Never Say Never Again]]'' (1983),  ''[[Hanussen (1988 film)|Hanussen]]'' (1988), ''[[Burning Secret]]'' (1988),  ''[[The Russia House (film)|The Russia House]]'' (1990), and ''[[White Fang (1991 film)|White Fang]]'' (1991). 

For his supporting role as [[Bror von Blixen-Finecke]] in ''[[Out of Africa (film)|Out of Africa]]'' (1985), he was nominated for an [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Academy Award]] and won a [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture|Golden Globe Award]].

Brandauer has a working knowledge of and has acted in at least five languages including German, Italian, [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]], English and French.

== Personal life ==
Brandauer was born as Klaus Georg Steng in [[Bad Aussee]], Austria (then part of the [[Nazi Germany|German Reich]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.whoswho.de/templ/te_bio.php?PID=98&RID=1 |title=Klaus Maria Brandauer – Biografie WHO'S WHO |publisher=Whoswho.de |date=22 June 1944 |access-date=6 October 2013}}</ref> He is the son of Maria Brandauer and Georg Steng (or Stenj), a civil servant.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/0/Klaus-Maria-Brandauer.html|title=Klaus Maria Brandauer Biography (1944–)|website=www.filmreference.com}}</ref> He subsequently took his mother's name as part of his professional name, Klaus Maria Brandauer.

His first wife was Karin Katharina Müller (14 October 1945 – 13 November 1992), an Austrian film and television director and screenwriter, from 1963 until her death in 1992, aged 47, from cancer. Both were teenagers when they married, in 1963. They had one son, Christian.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.b/b683262.htm |title= Brandauer, Karin Katharina geborene Müller |website= Aeiou.at |date=31 July 2001 |access-date=6 October 2013}}</ref> Brandauer married Natalie Krenn in 2007.

== Career ==
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Brandauer began acting on stage in 1962. After working in national theatre and television, he made his film debut in English in 1972, in ''[[The Salzburg Connection]]''. In 1975 he played in ''[[Derrick (TV series)|Derrick]]'' – in Season 2, Episode 8 called "Pfandhaus". His starring and award-winning role in [[István Szabó]]'s ''[[Mephisto (1981 film)|Mephisto]]'' (1981) playing a self-absorbed actor, launched his international career. (He would later act in Szabó's 1985 ''[[Oberst Redl]]''.)

[[File:Klaus Maria Brandauer, actor.jpg|thumb|Brandauer in 1982]]

Following his role in ''Mephisto'', Brandauer appeared as [[Emilio Largo|Maximillian Largo]] in  ''[[Never Say Never Again]]'' (1983), a remake of the 1965 James Bond film ''[[Thunderball (film)|Thunderball]]''. [[Roger Ebert]] said of his performance: "For one thing, there's more of a human element in the movie, and it comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, as Largo. Brandauer is a wonderful actor, and he chooses not to play the villain as a cliché. Instead, he brings a certain poignancy and charm to Largo, and since Connery always has been a particularly human James Bond, the emotional stakes are more convincing this time."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19831007/REVIEWS/310070301/1023 |title=Never Say Never Again |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=7 October 1983 |publisher=rogerebert.com |access-date=18 October 2008 |archive-date=4 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004010948/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F19831007%2FREVIEWS%2F310070301%2F1023 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

He starred in ''[[Out of Africa (film)|Out of Africa]]'' (1985), opposite [[Meryl Streep]] and [[Robert Redford]]. Brandauer was nominated for an [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] and won a [[Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe]] for the performance. In 1987, he was the Head of the Jury at the [[37th Berlin International Film Festival]].<ref name="Berlinale">{{cite web |url= http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1987/04_jury_1987/04_Jury_1987.html |title=Berlinale: Juries |access-date=27 February 2011 |work=berlinale.de}}</ref> In 1988 he appeared in ''[[Hanussen (1988 film)|Hanussen]]'' opposite [[Erland Josephson]] and [[Ildikó Bánsági]].

Brandauer was originally cast as Marko Ramius in ''[[The Hunt for Red October (film)|The Hunt for Red October]]''. That role eventually went to [[Sean Connery]], who played [[James Bond]] to Brandauer's Largo in ''Never Say Never Again''. He co-starred with Connery again in ''[[The Russia House (film)|The Russia House]]'' (1990).

His other film roles have been in ''[[The Lightship]]'' (1986), ''[[Streets of Gold (film)|Streets of Gold]]'' (1986), ''[[Burning Secret]]'' (1988), ''[[White Fang (1991 film)|White Fang]]'' (1991), ''[[Becoming Colette]]'' (1991), ''[[Introducing Dorothy Dandridge]]'' (1999, as director [[Otto Preminger]]), and ''[[Everyman's Feast]]'' (2002). In 1989 he participated in [[TF1]]'s two-part historical film ''[[La Révolution française (film)|La Révolution française]]'', playing the role of [[Georges Danton]]. He has also appeared as [[Nebuchadnezzar II|King Nebuchadnezzar II]] in 1998, in Time Life's [[Jeremiah]], from The Bible Collection: The Old Testament.

Brandauer has directed two films: ''{{ill|Seven Minutes (1989 film)|de|3=Georg Elser – Einer aus Deutschland|lt=Seven Minutes}}'' (1989), in which he starred as attempted [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] assassin [[Georg Elser]]; and ''[[Mario and the Magician (film)|Mario and the Magician]]'' (1994), based on the [[Mario and the Magician|1929 novella]] by Thomas Mann, in which he starred as Cipolla, a magician with hypnotic powers.

In August 2006, Brandauer's much-awaited production of ''[[The Threepenny Opera]]'' gained a mixed reception. Brandauer had resisted questions about how his production of [[Bertolt Brecht]] and [[Kurt Weill]]'s classic musical comedy about the criminal MacHeath would differ from earlier versions, and his production featured Mack the Knife in a three-piece suit and white gloves, stuck to Brecht's text, and avoided any references to contemporary politics or issues.

== Filmography ==
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#B0C4DE;"
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Notes
|-
| 1970 || ''Friede den Hütten! Krieg den Palästen!'' || [[Georg Büchner]] || TV film
|-
| 1972 || ''[[The Salzburg Connection]]'' || Johann Kronsteiner ||
|-
| 1975 || '' [[Derrick (TV series)|Derrick]]'' || Erich Forster || TV series<br />Episode: "Pfandhaus"
|-
| 1979 || ''A Sunday in October'' || Hoffmann ||
|-
| 1981 || ''[[Mephisto (1981 film)|Mephisto]]'' || Hendrik Höfgen ||
|-
| 1983 || ''[[Never Say Never Again]]'' || [[Emilio Largo|Maximilian Largo]] ||
|-
| rowspan=4|1985 || ''[[Colonel Redl]]'' || [[Alfred Redl]] ||
|-
|| ''[[Quo Vadis? (miniseries)|Quo Vadis?]]'' || [[Nero]] || TV miniseries
|-
|| ''[[The Lightship]]'' || Captain Miller ||
|-
|| ''[[Out of Africa (film)|Out of Africa]]'' || [[Bror von Blixen-Finecke|Baron Bror Blixen]] || [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture]]<br />Nominated—[[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor]]
|-
| 1986 || ''[[Streets of Gold (film)|Streets of Gold]]'' || Alek Neuman ||
|-
| rowspan=2| 1988 || ''[[Hanussen (1988 film)|Hanussen]]'' || [[Erik Jan Hanussen]] ||
|-
|| ''[[Burning Secret]]'' || Baron Alexander von Hauenstein ||
|-
| rowspan=3| 1989 || ''[[Spider's Web (1989 film)|Spider's Web]]'' || Benjamin Lenz ||
|-
|| ''{{ill|Seven Minutes (1989 film)|de|3=Georg Elser – Einer aus Deutschland|lt=Seven Minutes}}'' || [[Johann Georg Elser|Georg Elser]] || Also director
|-
|| ''[[La Révolution française (film)|La Révolution française]]'' || [[Georges Danton]] || TV miniseries
|-
| 1990 || ''[[The Russia House (film)|The Russia House]]'' || Dante ||
|-
| rowspan=2|1991 || ''[[White Fang (1991 film)|White Fang]]'' || Alex Larson ||
|-
|| ''[[Becoming Colette]]'' || [[Henry Gauthier-Villars]] ||
|-
| rowspan=2|1994 || ''[[Felidae (film)|Felidae]]'' || Pascal/Claudandus || Voice only
|-
|| ''[[Mario and the Magician (film)|Mario and the Magician]]'' || Cipolla || Also director
|-
| 1998 || ''[[Jeremiah (film)|Jeremiah]]'' || [[Nebuchadnezzar II|King Nebuchadnezzar]] || TV film
|-
| rowspan=2|1999 || ''[[Rembrandt (1999 film)|Rembrandt]]'' || [[Rembrandt]] ||
|-
|| ''[[Introducing Dorothy Dandridge]]'' || [[Otto Preminger]] || TV film
|-
|| 2000 || ''{{Interlanguage link|Dykaren|sv}}'' || Orlov ||
|-
| 2001 || ''[[Druids (film)|Druids]]'' || [[Julius Caesar]] ||
|-
| rowspan=2|2002 || ''[[Everyman's Feast]]'' || Jan Jedermann ||
|-
|| ''[[Between Strangers]]'' || Alexander Bauer ||
|-
| 2003||''Entrusted''||Gregor Lämmle || TV film
|-
| 2006||''[[The Crown Prince (2006 film)|Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe]]''|| [[Franz Joseph I of Austria|Emperor Franz Joseph]] || TV film
|-
| 2009 || ''[[Tetro]]'' || Carlo Tetrocini ||
|-
| 2011 || ''Manipulation'' || Urs Rappold ||
|-
| 2013 || ''[[The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich]]'' || [[Wilhelm Reich]] ||
|-
| 2013 || ''{{Interlanguage link|Blank (2013 film)|de|Die Auslöschung|lt=Blank}}'' || Ernst Lemden || TV film
|-
| 2020 || ''{{Interlanguage link|Zárójelentés|hu|Zárójelentés (film, 2020)|lt=Zárójelentés}}'' || S doktor ||
|-
| 2021 || ''{{Ill|Enemies (2021 film)|de|3=Ferdinand von Schirach: Feinde|lt=Enemies}}'' || Konrad Biegler || TV film
|}

== Awards ==
* 1982: [[BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles]] – ''[[Mephisto (1981 film)|Mephisto]]'' (nominated)
* 1985: Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor – ''[[Out of Africa (film)|Out of Africa]]'' '''(won)'''
* 1985: [[National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor]] – ''[[Out of Africa (film)|Out of Africa]]'' '''(won)'''
* 1985: [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor|NYFCC Award for Best Supporting Actor]] – ''[[Out of Africa (film)|Out of Africa]]'' '''(won)'''
* 1986: [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture|Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture]] – ''[[Out of Africa (film)|Out of Africa]]'' '''(won)'''
* 1986: [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor]] – ''[[Out of Africa (film)|Out of Africa]]'' (nominated)
* 1987: [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role]] – ''[[Out of Africa (film)|Out of Africa]]'' (nominated)
* 1988: [[European Film Awards|European Film Award]] for Best Actor – ''[[Hanussen (1988 film)|Hanussen]]'' (nominated)
* 1988: [[Ciak d'oro|Golden Ciak]] for Best Actor – ''[[Hanussen (1988 film)|Hanussen]]'' '''(won)'''
* 1989: [[Bavarian Film Awards]] for Best Actor – ''[[Burning Secret]]'' '''(won)'''<ref>[http://www.bayern.de/Anlage19170/PreistraegerdesBayerischenFilmpreises-Pierrot.pdf] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325165025/http://www.bayern.de/Anlage19170/PreistraegerdesBayerischenFilmpreises-Pierrot.pdf|date=25 March 2009}}</ref>
* 1995: [[19th Moscow International Film Festival|Andrei Tarkovsky Award]] for ''[[Mario and the Magician (film)|Mario and the Magician]]'' '''(won)'''<ref name="Moscow1995">{{cite web|url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1995 |title=19th Moscow International Film Festival (1995) |access-date=16 March 2013 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130322162953/http://moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1995 |archive-date=22 March 2013 }}</ref>
* 1995: [[19th Moscow International Film Festival|Golden St. George]] for ''[[Mario and the Magician (film)|Mario and the Magician]]'' (nominated)<ref name="Moscow1995" />
* 2000: [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film]] – ''[[Introducing Dorothy Dandridge]]'' (nominated)
* 2000: [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie]] – ''[[Introducing Dorothy Dandridge]]'' (nominated)

== See also ==
* [[List of German-speaking Academy Award winners and nominees]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
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* {{IMDb name|1970}}

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