A phone call to Klaus Maria Brandauer before his 80th birthday confirms that the man celebrating his 80th birthday is very much the same. Which means something like: just the boy, i.e. as energetic and short-tempered as ever. In this respect, it is reassuring that the actor immediately becomes uncomfortable again because the questions that are put to him upset him. There are questions about age (eighty – does this number mean something to him? Does that exist: old age? Does he think differently about himself, his path, his job, death?) and about a possible age role that we viewers might hope for may. After all, it’s been a long time since the last theater premiere with him. That was Shakespeare’s “King Lear” at the Burgtheater ten years ago, when Brandauer was seventy.
Klaus Maria Brandauer turns 80: darling of the gods – culture
