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Klaus Maria Brandauer comes to the Munich Isarphilharmonie: devilishly good!

2022-12-18T17:18:37.421Z


Klaus Maria Brandauer comes to the Munich Isarphilharmonie: devilishly good! Created: 2022-12-18, 2:39 p.m By: Katja Kraft Klaus Maria Brandauer.jpg © Christof Mattes On January 13, 2023, Klaus Maria Brandauer immerses himself in his greatest roles of 60 years in the Munich Isarphilharmonie. An interview with the theater and film star about the art of acting, wisdom, genius and madness. An in


Klaus Maria Brandauer comes to the Munich Isarphilharmonie: devilishly good!

Created: 2022-12-18, 2:39 p.m

By: Katja Kraft

Klaus Maria Brandauer.jpg © Christof Mattes

On January 13, 2023, Klaus Maria Brandauer immerses himself in his greatest roles of 60 years in the Munich Isarphilharmonie.

An interview with the theater and film star about the art of acting, wisdom, genius and madness.

An interview with Klaus Maria Brandauer (79) is itself like a small play.

The Austrian stage, film and television star slips from one role to the next when telling a story.

And yet he always remains the charming, clever, inspiring person who has been sweeping the world's stages for 60 years.

He has been a member of the ensemble and director at the Burgtheater since 1972.

He became internationally known in 1981 as Höfgen in István Szabó's film adaptation of the Klaus Mann novel "Mephisto", which won the Oscar for best foreign language film.

On January 13, 2023, Brandauer will perform "Almost a Hamlet my Mephisto, an Oedipus for everyone" in the Isarphilharmonie.

From 8 p.m. he will create texts from 60 years on the stage.

Tickets are still available from Munich Ticket.

A conversation with him makes you want to do it.

They say that good acting requires art, craft and hilarity.

So can anyone learn to be an actor?

Klaus Maria Brandauer:

At least you can try.

If we take a closer look, we see that there are very, very many actors in the world who are not trained at all - and are still able to act excellently.

But mostly only in relation to himself. Personally, I played Struwwelpeter in elementary school and in this role I was extremely angry with people.

Then they said: "Klaus will be an actor one day!" I have no idea, now I think I've become one.

(grins mischievously.)

Henrik Ibsen said: "You can't do anything cleverer than playing in this beautiful world." Would you subscribe to that?

Klaus Maria Brandauer:

Well, it sure is nice to play, we know that from our childhood.

But always just play - our world is not suitable for that, you learn that very quickly.

It's better we have something to hold onto that's more than play.

We need many influences to get by in the world.

Open eyes and open ears guide us through life.

And learn what goes in.

Met in Munich: Klaus Maria Brandauer and culture editor Katja Kraft.

© kjk

What was your driving force behind becoming an actor?

Because even that isn't just a game, it's hard work.

Klaus Maria Brandauer:

Oh, that was so nice when learning the text didn't cause me any difficulties.

I only had to read a page two or three times - and I was already able to read the text in any case.

I might not have understood it straight away, but I was able to do it.

Behind the letters there is something written by hopefully good people that you can't just learn by heart.

You actually have to interpret it with the help of the others involved in the play.

Very precise, very clear and, what is very important: honest.

Playing in the sense of pretending - I couldn't do anything with that.

I want so badly to be who I pretend to be.

I know it's not possible, but try it!

I try this!

That has to come, that's me!

Do you get better as an actor the older you get?

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My space

Klaus Maria Brandauer:

That would be nice.

Then you can always say: I'm not ready yet, but wait until I'm 30!

But I'm sure you'll get a better handle on the craft over the years.

And acting actually thrives on the experience we have in life.

It's a lot of observation, a lot of learning, a lot of reading, a lot of seeing.

And yet: cheerfulness.

Huge success: As Mephisto actor (left) Hendrik Höfgen, Brandauer excelled in 1981 in István Szabó's Oscar-winning Klaus Mann film adaptation.

© unknown

What did you learn from a Goethe?

Klaus Maria Brandauer:

Oh, Goethe: an almost endless cosmos in which one cannot settle down immediately, but after a certain time with really diligent reading and studying.

He is a great example of what you should think about in life in order to get through.

And yet, of course, even a Goethe is not immune to horrors and vanity, that's so nice about the boys.

relieving!

They are geniuses but it doesn't work there and there.

Also Shakespeare: he is one of us.

Sometimes I think: why does he know me so well?

He understands little people like me.

Relieving – but sobering at the same time?

Because it shows: you can deal with the world as much as you like - in the end we always do the same stupid things?

Klaus Maria Brandauer:

Maybe.

But maybe that's why I grow so fond of these authors.

they must be friends.

As I said to my students: "I know Willi!" "Who is Willi?" "Well, Shakespeare!"

There are voices that say you shouldn't read the works of authors who were bad people.

Can you make any author your friend?

Klaus Maria Brandauer:

Yes.

Can I.

As?

Klaus Maria Brandauer:

Because of what he wrote.

Even if he's guilty of something.

That can't shake me.

On the contrary, I would ask myself: How about me?

I'm actually quite good, but do I also have an alternative world within me?

Yes, I have.

Of course, brilliant artists also have an alternative world and their deficits.

If they are clever, it is in the works they create.

Then we can recognize them.

But I can't ask everyone to put everything on a salver and say: Look, these are my worries.

But let's be generous when he declares them to be worries that he would have liked to fight but couldn't fight, or when the time has come to him when a criminal system said: If you don't do this, then do it!

So: Over-a-comb-scissors is not possible.

Do we have to learn to take a more differentiated look?

Klaus Maria Brandauer:

Absolutely.

Instead, everyone is so quick to throw something at someone without even knowing what it's about.

There's something about a person in the newspaper, and he's demonized.

We must form our own judgement, be our master.

And then I also urgently request a generosity.

If you don't know what generosity is, you have to learn it.

You can't actually learn it, you have to feel it.

We all urgently need - I don't even want to say help, but conversations, encounters.

They can be silent too.

This is often more effective than shouting or raising fingers.

You are experiencing many raised index fingers at the moment...

Klaus Maria Brandauer:

Yes, terrible.

I have the feeling that people don't let anyone get close to them anymore.

But that's the only way we can move forward.

a conversation

Or a touch.

This also works with the breath, with looks.

I'm not an actor just playing a role.

I play a piece, a context.

Together with my colleagues.

We can't stand each other.

And then we still have the friends from upstairs who wrote the plays, who send little messages: "Toi, toi, toi, you're doing well." Then the hall lights go out, it gets dark in the theater - and the magic begins .

World star: Brandauer in 1983 in the role of Maximilian Largo (left) in the James Bond classic "Never say never," alongside Sean Connery and Kim Basinger.

© imago stock

A magical moment - does the magic still work on you after 60 years?

Klaus Maria Brandauer:

Yes, one day when I know that I will be performing in the evening is another.

I have tremendous ambition, I would like to be good if I can.

I know that no evening can be like another.

Even with the utmost precision.

It's an incredibly great story that I've been making for so many years.

And yet sometimes you have the feeling that you are a candy that has been sucked off.

What do you do when you feel like you've sucked on candy?

Klaus Maria Brandauer:

You take a break.

And looks for another sucked candy and says: Shall we swap?

I learned a lot from the other person, from friends, from original enemies, of whom at some point you say: "Hey, great guy, I didn't know it, it took that long.

It's great that at least we can do it now.” You have to allow a lot.

So generosity is an important thing.

How generous are you yourself?

Klaus Maria Brandauer:

Sometimes not at all.

That annoys me two days later: Why were you so small-minded?

Terrible!

Then I would like to call and say

(tearfully)

: "You, I didn't mean it like that."

But you don't do it?

Klaus Maria Brandauer:

Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

Does it get easier with age?

Will you be more generous?

Klaus Maria Brandauer:

Well, I haven't become wise yet.

I'm waiting for it.

I was recently asked by a journalist for my opinion on the war in Ukraine.

What can I say?

Since I've been alive, there's been war.

In Ireland, Israel, Korea.

Then came the anti-war films.

Where we sat in when we were young lads.

Fascinated by the roaring helicopters.

And we were all Americans.

The good ones.

Klaus Maria Brandauer:

Yes, of course, we were the good guys.

Until you learn it's all bullshit.

War has always been fought through images.

Theater history: Klaus Maria Brandauer as Salzburger Jedermann (1983-1989).

© Istvan Bajzat

Even church pictures tell war stories.

Klaus Maria Brandauer:

Oh, I have my own access to the church.

I read a beautiful sentence: "An atheist by the grace of God." The person who wrote that is my husband!

Your self-description in questions of faith?

Klaus Maria Brandauer:

Yes, I'm in!

How about your belief in yourself?

In Arthur Schnitzler's "Fräulein Else" it says: "I knew that I could fly." Did you always know that you could fly?

Klaus Maria Brandauer:

Yes.

Who inspired you so much?

Klaus Maria Brandauer:

Mom, Dad, Grandfather, my classmate Renate, who loved me very much when I was seven.

What is Renate doing today?

Klaus Maria Brandauer:

She is in Bremen and is well married.

From time to time we write to each other.

A conversation that never ends?

Klaus Maria Brandauer:

That's the best way.

Source: merkur

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