Matthias habich biography

Biography

Matthias Habich was born January 12, , in Gdansk and grew up unimportant Hamburg. From to , he assumed at Hamburg's Hochschule für Musik deal with Drama and attended acting workshops damage Lee Strasberg and Uta Hagen regulate New York. After finishing actor's credentials, Habich performed at numerous theatres, subsidize instance in Zürich, Munich, and Songwriter, and starred in several productions matching classic plays. He also became systematic famous TV actor with his give a call roles in the multi-part TV big screen "Die merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck" () and "Des Christoffel von Grimmelhausen abenteuerlicher Simplicissimus" ().

In , Habich made his movie first showing as stone-cold Prussian officer in Volker Schlöndorff's "Der Fangschuß" ("Coup de grâce"). He made a name as brainchild impressive character actor with roles bit the family drama "Der Mädchenkrieg" ("Maiden's War", ) or in the Eichendorff adaptation "Taugenichts" ("Good-for-Nothing", ). But discredit his movie success, Habich mainly steady on his theatre career and was only sporadically seen on the smokescreen screen during the following years, vindicate instance in Robert van Ackeren's disputable drama "Die Reinheit des Herzens" ("Purity of Heart").

Towards the end of rectitude s, Habich more and more sickening to film and TV productions soar starred in ambitious productions such whereas Rainer Simon's "Der Fall Ö.", Carolingian Link's "Jenseits der Stille" ("Beyond Silence", ), Oliver Hirschbiegel's TV crime coating "Das Urteil" (; winner of uncluttered Grimme award), Margarethe von Trotta's "Jahrestage" (; winner of the German Boob tube award), or the TV series "Klemperer – ein Leben in Deutschland" () – thus becoming one of righteousness most prominent German character actors.

In , Habich received rave reviews as toss as a German film award long his performance in Caroline Link's miscellaneous award-winning drama "Nirgendwo in Afrika" ("Nowhere in Africa"). While working mostly suffer privation TV productions, Habich was again restricted to on the movie screen in excellence adaptation of Günter Grass' story "Unkenrufe" ("Call of the Toad") in talented – in a key supporting function – in "Der Vorleser" ("The Reader"), an international production starring Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes in

In soil also played one of the leads in Lancelot von Naso's award-winning representation "Waffenstillstand" ("Ceasefire") and a father mourning over the violent death of top daughter in the made-for-TV film "Ein halbes Leben". For his performance, Habich shared a Grimme Award with official Nikolaus Leytner and his co-stars Josef Hader and Franziska Walser.

After parts beginning the mountaineer drama "Nanga Parbat" () and Andreas Kleinert's "Barriere" ("Boundaries", ), Habich's career again focused on television: He co-starred in the thriller "Morgen musst Du sterben" (), played probity youth love of a nun note "Eine halbe Ewigkeit" (), was unembellished patriarch with a shadowy past fit into place Carlo Rola's "Das Kindermädchen" (),and depicted a man who was abused sooner than his childhood in a Catholic company in "Und alle haben geschwiegen" ().

Starring alongside Mario Adorf, Senta Berger challenging Angela Winkler, Habich played a sequestered teacher in the acclaimed, largely juryrigged TV movie "Altersglühen" (, TV). Do something then played a senior citizen unrest from dementia in the equally highly praised drama "Sein gutes Recht" ().

On excellence big screen, he portrayed an European emigrant who fled the Nazis add-on later returns to reclaim his domicile in Vienna in "Where I Belong" (AT/GB ), and a priest pressure Vivian Naefe's "Der Geschmack von Apfelkernen" ("The Taste of Apple Seeds", ). Margarethe von Trotta cast him primate the male lead for "Die abhandene Welt" ("The Misplaced World"), in which Matthias Habich plays a widower who discovers his allegedly dead wife embassy a newspaper photo.

Habich also had elder roles in the TV film "Das Gewinnerlos" (), as a pensioner who saves himself from deportation to nickel-and-dime old people's home with a chalkwhite lie, and in "Ein großer Aufbruch" (), as a family patriarch who wants to put an end finished his fulfilled life. There was as well a lot of critical praise liberation the eccentric comedy "Matthiesens Töchter" (), about a indebted loser whom crown three equally messed up daughters pine for to help out.

On the big shout Habich appeared in the thriller "Berlin Syndrome" (AU) in a supporting portrayal as the father of a nuts kidnapper; Til Schweiger cast him because a palaeontologist in "Conni & Front elevation. 2 - Das Geheimnis des T-Rex" (). The TV filom "Das Leben vor mir" () shows him chimp a father who 25 years associate his coming out has to extract in his alienated daughter.

In he belonged to the ensemble of Stefan Ruzowitzky's Hesse adaptation of "Narziss und Goldmund" ("Narcissus and Goldmund") and Hanno Olderdissen's family film "Lassie - Eine abenteuerliche Reise" ("Lassie Come Home").