Burghart Klaußner (born 13 September 1949) is a German film actor.
He received acting training at the in Berlin.
Klaußner had engagements at
Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin,
Hamburger Kammerspiele and at the theaters in
Cologne,
Hamburg,
Zürich,
Bremen
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and
Bochum. In Hamburg 2006, Klaußner also made his debut as a theater director.
He has appeared in more than 90 films and television shows since 1983. He has also narrated many
audiobooks, including
Ian McEwan's ''
Solar
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** Solar calendar, a calendar whose dates indicate t ...
'', and several
Ferdinand von Schirach novels.
Selected filmography
* ''Ziemlich weit weg'' (1983)
* ''Love Is the Beginning of All Terror'' (1984)
* ''
Das Rätsel der Sandbank
''Das Rätsel der Sandbank'' is a German television series based on the 1903 novel ''The Riddle of the Sands'' by Erskine Childers (author), Erskine Childers. It was produced by the public television and radio station Radio Bremen, and starring B ...
'' (1987, TV film) – Davies
* ''Europa, abends'' (1989) – Reisebüro-Angestellter
* ''The State Chancellery'' (1989, TV film) – Björn Engholm
* ''
The Terrible Threesome
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'' (1991) – House Owner
* ''
Child's Play'' (1992) – Father
* ''Schattenboxer'' (1992) – Maler
* ''
Just a Matter of Duty'' (1993) – Werner Kraengel
* ''La lumière des étoiles mortes'' (1994) – Capitaine Krantz
* ''Ein falscher Schritt'' (1995) – Eugen Himmelreiter
* ' (1996) – Herr Leer
* ''
The Superwife
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Liselotte Pulver (born 11 October 1929) ...
'' (1996) – Rudi Fährenberg
* ' (1997) – Tabatier
* ''
23'' (1998) – Weber
* ''
Crazy
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'' (2000) – Klaus Lebert, Benjamins Vater
* ''
Good Bye Lenin!
''Good Bye Lenin!'' is a 2003 German tragicomedy film, directed by Wolfgang Becker. The cast includes Daniel Brühl, Katrin Sass, Chulpan Khamatova, and Maria Simon. The story follows a family in East Germany (GDR); the mother (Sass) is dedica ...
'' (2003) – Alex' Vater
* ''Hamlet_X'' (2003) – Polonius
* ''
The Edukators
''The Edukators'' (german: Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei) is a 2004 crime drama film directed by the Austrian director Hans Weingartner. A co-production between Germany and Austria, it stars Daniel Brühl, Stipe Erceg, and Julia Jentsch as thr ...
'' (2004) – Hardenberg
* ''Ein Goldfisch unter Haien'' (2004) – Rupert
* ''
Requiem
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'' (2006) – Karl Klingler
* ''Der Mann von der Botschaft'' (2006) – Herbert Neumann
* ' (2007) – Prof. Udo Keller
* ''
Yella'' (2007) – Dr. Gunthen
* ''
The Reader
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'' (2008) – Judge
* ''Mediator'' (2008) – Mediator
* ' (2009) – Justus Lenz
* ''
The White Ribbon
''The White Ribbon'' (german: Das weiße Band) is a 2009 German-language drama film, written and directed by Michael Haneke. Released in black-and-white, the film offers a dark depiction of society and family in a northern German village just be ...
'' (2009) – The Pastor
* ''
The Silence
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'' (2010) – Krischan Mittich
* ' (2010)
* ''
Young Goethe in Love
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'' (2010) – Lottes Vater
* ''
Lessons of a Dream'' (2011) – Gustav Merfeld
* ''
Invasion'' (2012) – Josef
* ''
The Zigzag Kid
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'' (2012) – Felix
* ' (2013, TV miniseries) – Lorenz Adlon
* ''
Night Train to Lisbon
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'' (2013) – Judge Prado
* ''
Inbetween Worlds
''Inbetween Worlds'' (german: Zwischen Welten) is a 2014 German drama film produced, written and directed by Feo Aladag. The film tells the story of a friendship between the German soldier Jesper and his young Afghan interpreter Tarik. Both men ...
'' (2014) – Oberst Haar
* ''
Diplomacy'' (2014) – Hauptmann Werner Ebernach
* ''
13 Minutes'' (2015) – Arthur Nebe
* ''
The People vs. Fritz Bauer
''The People vs. Fritz Bauer'' (german: Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer) is a 2015 German biographical drama film directed by Lars Kraume, chronicling the German Jewish prosecutor Fritz Bauer's post-war capture of former Holocaust planner Adolf Eic ...
'' (2015) – Fritz Bauer
* ''
Bridge of Spies'' (2015) – Harald Ott
* ''
The Lion Woman
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Story
The book tells the story of Eva Arctander, who was born with ...
'' (2016) – Johannes Joachim
* ''Freddy/Eddy'' (2016) – Dr. Weiss
* ''
The Crown'' (2017, TV series) –
Kurt Hahn
* ''
Das schweigende Klassenzimmer'' (2018) – Volksbildungsminister Lange
* ''
Brecht'' (2019) –
Bertolt Brecht
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1949 births
Living people
German male film actors
German male television actors
Male actors from Berlin
20th-century German male actors
21st-century German male actors
German Film Award winners
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