Christoph Waltz - work

an overview of Christoph Waltz Werk is a history of the enlightenment and correction: the correction of the misconception that Waltz only became a great actor through Hollywood and the Enlightenment about how many great roles he has already filled in in almost four decades.

Until the media hype from the center of the American film brought the actor on everyone's lips, he had been using the less limited possibilities of his talent for a very long time, after all, Mr. Waltz was in a way in a way in the blood like a few: Christoph Waltz was born into a family arrested with the theater, which the Vienna Burgtheater had already been with actors, stage designers and food. supplied.

Of course, this son of a family who is performed in all lists of well-known families of actors also wanted to become an actor and was trained in Vienna and New York at the top institutes. He was on stage in Vienna at the age of 20, which was 1977. In the following years, engagements in Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Cologne, Salzburg and Zurich, also took over since his activity, Waltz took on roles in television productions and movies .

He was often occupied in crime novels , some of them in several episodes in a row he is known from “Sanka Chicago”, “The Old”, “Derrick”, “A case for two”, “The Prosecutor”, “Schimanski”, “Commissioner Rex”, “Police Call 110”, “Rosa Roth”, “In suspicion”, “The Last Witness”, “Sokrhein-Main”, “The public prosecutor” and "Stolberg". For the Viennese “crime scene” he was supposed to be the new inspector in 1987, but inspector Pasetti only survived one episode, in 2006 and 2008 Waltz played again in the more productive circle of those involved in the crime.

Neither in talent nor in the joy of playing Christoph Waltz was ever limited to crime novels, as the colorful sequence of his other roles can only indicate here in sections: Already in 1981 he was seen in the love drama “Tristan and Isult” under the direction of Veith von Fürstenberg, 1982 in the historical youth film “The Mysterious Stranger” according to a history of Mark Twain, in 1983 he plays in “Sandmann” in 1983 ETA Hoffmann the narcissistic Nathanael and 1986 Friedrich Nietzsche in Peter Patzak's “Wahnfried”, a film adaptation of Richard Wagner's life.

In 1989 follows a political satire, Waltz gives the young and idealistic EU officials Dorfmann in “Der Große Reibach” or “The Gravy Train”, in which the English director David Tucker also illuminates the Brussels bureaucracy in the light of the new Eastern European sales markets at the time with a distant look from the island.

The first collaboration with the Polish director and film producer Krzysztof Zanussi followed in 1991 in the film “Life for Life” about Maximilian Kolbe, here Waltz impresses as an escaped and guilt feelings of plagued concentration camp prisoners.

Waltz also participates in historical films and comedies. B. in Tom Toelle's two-part “King of the last few days” as Baptist Jan van Leiden (1993) or in 1994 in “Man (n) looking for a woman” directed by Vivian Naefe. In 1994 he noticed as a bomb-laying bus driver in the documentary drama “Day of Billing-the gunman of Euskirchen”, in 1995 he played in the internationally occupied television production “Katharina the Great” alongside Catherine Zeta-Jones.

In 1996 there are commendations again, for his performing performance in “You are not alone-the Roy Black Story” Waltz gets a special prize for the Baden-Baden days of the television game and in 1997 the Bavarian television award. It continues with “The Color of Life” (Krzysztof Zanussi), the thriller “Vicky's Nightmare” in the direction of Peter Keglevic (both 1997), the first own screenplay work and directed “If you dare” 1998.

In the same year he was still turning in two thrillers, “Shock - a woman in fear” and “The Finale”, two melodramas, “Murderous Heritage - Exchange with a Dead” and “Revenge for my dead child” and a comedy , “The strange behavior of sexual mature city of the city at mating”, in which Waltz is a lot of fun as a frustrated novelist.

The series continues unchanged: in 1999 with the Australian-German thriller “Falling Rocks”, 2000 with the “Dance with the Teufel”, the film about the kidnapping Richard Oetkers, for which Waltz and his colleagues Sebastian Koch and Tobias Moretti and director Peter Keglevic were able to receive the Adolf Grimme Prize .

In the same year he was still shooting “Queen's Messenger” and “She”, two community productions from Canada, Great Britain and Bulgaria and “Die Devil's female” with Iris Berben. The previous sequence is hardly to be beaten in terms of variation and game passion, the same remains, with action films (“Terror in the Orient Express”), dramas (“Rieke's love”), comedies (“Engel is looking for wings”) and thrillers (“Dorian - Pact with the devil”), all in 2001, but in the USA and in Great Britain and in Canada. In 2002, 2003 and 2004, the picture is similar, well over a dozen films that roles demanding and interesting (e.g. as a false friend Pföderl in “Jennerwein”, as a power-hungry business villain in “The Patriarch”, as a wonderful disoriented still-husband in “Divorce victim man” or as a cynical analytker in ”the old monkey fear”).

In 2004 there was also a Grimme Prize for Waltz as a bored field employee (“business trip-what for one night”), the offers are also becoming more and more, in the next few years he will take over all possible roles, in productions across national borders, the mere naming of the people presented illustrates the variety: he plays the Casanova (Karl Löwen in “Franziskas fly Men ”) and the scientist (Czerny in“ Lapislazuli-in the eye of the bear ”), Doctor (“ The Prosecutor-Fortunately ”) and investigators (“ The Last Court ”), lover (buffalo and Frank Arbogast in“ Die Zürch's engagement ”) and ex-inmates (Thomas Sell in“ Hase and Hedgehog ”), success-spoiled midlife crisis (Helmut Bahr in “The Enchantment”) and Life -drowning murderers (Sebastian Flies in “Death Sin”), all just roles from 2006 to 2008, but the real breakthrough, the recognition as a star, somehow longed.

Until Quentin Tarantino to occupy the role of an SS standard guide in his anti-war film “Inglourious Basterds” against Leonardo the Caprio and for Christoph Waltz, and certainly not just because of the appropriate Austrian accent. The film became a huge success in 2009 and is often referred to as Tarantino's best film, for his role Waltz received over a dozen awards, including the Oscar as the best supporting actor .

From this time, Hollywood is in the process of capturing the Talent Waltz, and he takes it up with enthusiasm and a little satisfaction: Quentin Tarantino had come to glow for decades of his efforts - one thing that means a lot at his age. He is not "in the so -called autumn", on the contrary, spring has just begun.

The Oscar gives him "the feeling that the means I have available are also required." So far, the opposite has been taught to him in his homeland (cited according to www.abendblatt.de/kultur-live/kino/article2106035/der-gott-des-guten-gute-komoedien-s-e-ernstache.html ).

Waltz has played the villain from the comic in Hollywood productions since then (Chudnofsky in “The Green Hornet”, 2010), a circus director (in “Water for the Elephant”, 2011), a father (Alan Cowan in “Gott of the Gletzel”, 2011) and a bounty hunter (Dr. King Schultz in “Django Unchained”) has directed and directed Working scracks and soundtrack, and the recognition and the offers are becoming more and more, some prices are on the rise and many projects are being planned.

The fact that Christoph Waltz is not too serious for us - after giving the Cardinal Richelieu in the film “The Three Musketeers” in 2011, he is supposed to embark in Mike Newell's political disaster film “Reykjavik” in 2013, Mikhail Sergejewitsch Gorbachow…

When you look at how relaxed Waltz face and charisma became through the finally deserved success, some admirers of all his skills and all of their sensitivity wishes completely different roles for him - perhaps a crazy magician or a cynical but amusing enlightener - no question, Christoph Waltz can still be trusted.

In the following video you can see the press conference with Quentin Tarantino, Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Kerry Washington and Samuel L. Jackson for the German premiere of Christoph Waltz Current movie "Django Unchained":