Nationality: Swiss
Birthdate: 03/22/1941
Birthplace: Zurich, Switzerland
Engaging performer who helped found Berlin's experimental theater company Schaubuhne with director Peter Stein in 1970. Ganz's screen acting career began with Eric Rohmer's "The Marquise of O" (1976) and has continued through films by some of Europe's best directors, including Wim Wenders, Claude Goretta and Alain Tanner. Best known as Damiel, the angel longing to be human, in Wenders' "Wings of Desire" (1987).
Professor Stanciulescu
2007
1960
First film role, in "Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone/The Man in the Black Derby"
1970
Co-founded Schaubuhne theater company (with Peter Stein)
1972
Performed in the Salzburg Festival premier of Thomas Bernhard’s "Der Ignorant und der Wahnsinnige"
1976
Cinematic breakthrough in the film, "Sommergäste"
1976
Appeared in Eric Rohmer's "The Marquise of O"
