Burghart Klaußner

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 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, and several Ferdinand von Schirach novels.

He is a member of the Deutsche Filmakademie and vice-president of the Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg since 2021.

Selected filmography

Ziemlich weit weg (1983) Love Is the Beginning of All Terror (1984) Das Rätsel der Sandbank (1987, TV film) – Davies Europa, abends (1989) – Reisebüro-Angestellter The State Chancellery (1989, TV film) – Björn Engholm (1991, TV film) – Referent The Terrible Threesome (1991) – House Owner Child's Play (1992) – Father Shadow Boxer (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 (1996) – Rudi Fährenberg (1997) – Tabatier 23 (1998) – Weber Crazy (2000) – Klaus Lebert, Benjamins Vater Good Bye Lenin! (2003) – Alex' Vater Hamlet_X (2003) – Polonius The Edukators (2004) – Hardenberg Ein Goldfisch unter Haien (2004) – Rupert Requiem (2006) – Karl Klingler Der Mann von der Botschaft (2006) – Herbert Neumann (2007) – Prof. Udo Keller Yella (2007) – Dr. Gunthen (2007, TV film) – Professor Karow The Reader (2008) – Judge Mediator (2008) – Mediator (2009) – Justus Lenz The White Ribbon (2009) – The Pastor The Silence (2010) – Krischan Mittich Life Is Too Long (2010) Young Goethe in Love (2010) – Lottes Vater Lessons of a Dream (2011) – Gustav Merfeld Invasion (2012) – Josef The Zigzag Kid (2012) – Felix (2013, TV miniseries) – Lorenz Adlon Night Train to Lisbon (2013) – Judge Prado (2013, TV film) – Helmut Maurer Inbetween Worlds (2014) – Oberst Haar Diplomacy (2014) – Hauptmann Werner Ebernach 13 Minutes (2015) – Arthur Nebe The People vs. Fritz Bauer (2015) – Fritz Bauer Bridge of Spies (2015) – Harald Ott The Lion Woman (2016) – Johannes Joachim (2016, TV film) – Vorsitzender Richter (2016) – Dr. Weiss The Crown (2017, TV series) – Kurt Hahn Das schweigende Klassenzimmer (2018) – Volksbildungsminister Lange Brecht (2019) – Bertolt Brecht

Writings