Metre gauge Ganz-Mávag trainset of Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE) at Tripoli, Greece

The Ganz (Ganz vállalatok, "Ganz companies") electric works in Budapest is probably best known for the manufacture of tramcars, but was also a pioneer in the application of three-phase alternating current to electric railways. Ganz also made: ships (Ganz Danubius), bridge steel structures (Ganz Acélszerkezet), high voltage equipment (Ganz Transelektro). Notable engineers employed by Ganz in the field were Kálmán Kandó and Ottó Bláthy. The company is named after Ábrahám Ganz. In 2006, the power transmission and distribution sectors of Ganz Transelektro were acquired by Crompton Greaves,^[1] but still doing business under the Ganz brand name, while the unit dealing with electric traction (propulsion and control systems for electric vehicles) was acquired by Škoda Holding and is now a part of Škoda Electric.^[2]

History[link]

Before 1919, the company built ocean liners, dreadnought type battleship and submarines, power plants, automobiles and fighter planes too.

The Hungarian "ZBD" Team (Károly Zipernowsky, Ottó Bláthy, Miksa Déri). They were the inventors of the first high efficiency, closed core shunt connection Transformer. The three also invented the modern power distribution system: Instead of former series connection they connect transformers that supply the appliances in parallel to the main line.^[3] These inventions of ZBD-team put a stop to the War of Currents.

The prototypes of the world's first high efficiency transformers (Széchenyi István Memorial Exhibition, Nagycenk, Hungary, 1885).

The company was founded by Abraham Ganz in 1844. He established his own iron foundry in Buda. Consequently this factory played an important role in building the infrastructure of Hungarian Kingdom. At this time the agricultural machines, steam-locomotives, pumps and the railway carriages were the main products. At the beginning of the 20th century 60-80% of the factory's products were sold for export. On this base there has developed the firm-group which companies assist continuously the development of the Hungarian Machinery Industry.

At the end of the 19th century, the products of the Ganz and Partner Iron Mill and Machine Factory (hereinafter referred to as Ganz Works) promoted the expansion of alternating-current power transmissions.

In 1878, the company's general manager András Mechwart (1853–1942) founded the Department of Electrical Engineering headed by Károly Zipernowsky (1860–1939). Engineers Miksa Déri (1854–1938) and Ottó Bláthy (1860–1939) also worked at the department producing direct-current machines and arc lamps.

In cooperation, Zipernovsky, Déri and Bláthy constructed and patented the transformer (see Picture 2). The name "transformer" was created by Ottó Titusz Bláthy.

The transformer patents described two basic principles. Loads were to be connected in parallel, not in series as had been the general practice until 1885. Additionally, the inventors described the closed armature as an essential part of the transformer. Both factors assisted the stabilization of voltage under varying load, and allowed definition of standard voltages for distribution and loads. The parallel connection and efficient closed core made construction of electrical distribution systems technically and economically feasible.

It is noteworthy that the Ganz Works built the first transformers using iron cover of enameled mild iron wire, and started to use laminated core of today at the end of 1885.

Following introduction of transformer, the Ganz Works changed over to production of alternating-current equipments successfully. (For instance, Rome's electric supply was resolved by hydroelectric plant and energy transfer of long distance.)

The first specimen of the kilowatt-hour meter (electricity meter) produced on the basis of Hungarian Ottó Bláthy's patent and named after him was presented by the Ganz Works at the Frankfurt Fair in the autumn of 1889, and the first induction kilowatt-hour meter was already marketed by the factory at the end of the same year. These were the first alternating-current wattmeters, known by the name of Bláthy-meters.^[4]

Engineers[link]

Early 20th century alternator made by Ganz in Budapest, Hungary, in the generating hall of a Russian hydroelectric station on the Morghab River. 1911 colour photo by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky

Early Ganz turbogenerators in a power plant for electric railways, 1906

Ottó Bláthy in the armature of a Turbogenerator

Generator in Zwevegem, West Flanders, Belgium

Besides invention of transformer, three engineers had significant inventions, and made a lot for electronic engineering during their lives. Here we mention the major inventions. Károly Zipernowsky participated in construction of 60 power stations; he acted as the first professor of electric engineering of the Budapest University of Technology, and Economics (hereinafter referred to as BMGE).

András Mechwart invented the hard cast rolling mill, which revolutionized the milling industry.^[5]
Miksa Déri developed the repulsion motor for elevators of buildings with alternating current. He also participated in construction of Vienna's electric supply.

His whole life, Ottó Titusz Bláthy worked at the Ganz Works. His basic job was the construction and patenting of induction flow meter of 1889 used today. (See Picture 3.) He invented the Turbogenerator in 1901. In the 1930s, he initiated the Hungarian production of turbogenerator known worldwide.

Invention of Nikola Tesla, the short circuit rotary-field motor (induction motor) had significant importance in the field of alternating current. He patented it in the USA (1888), and he remembered that his idea had born during his activity in Budapest (1881–82).

Kálmán Kandó was the first who recognised that an electric train system can only be successful if it can use the electricity from public networks. After realising that, he also provided the means to build such a rail network by inventing a rotary phase converter suitable for locomotive usage. He developed high-voltage three phase alternating current motors and generators for electric locomotives; he is known as "the father of the electric train".

During World War I, Theodore Karman worked for Ganz Aeroplane factories as engineer, and eventually became head of research in the air force of Austria Hungary.

Theodore Karman (May 11, 1881 – May 7, 1963) was the inventor of the mathematical tools to study fluid flow, the mathematical background of supersonic flight, and the swept-back wing. He is often called "the father of Supersonic Flight" due to his work on the stability of laminar flow, turbulence, airfoils in steady and unsteady flow, boundary layers, and supersonic aerodynamics, largely taking place in the 1940s through 60s. He made additional contributions in other fields, including elasticity, vibration, heat transfer, and crystallography. His name appears in at least the following concepts:

• Foppl-von Kármán equations (large deflection of elastic plates)
• Born-von Kármán lattice model (crystallography)
• Chaplygin-Kármán-Tsien approximation (potential flow)
• Falkowich-Kármán equation (transonic flow)
• von Kármán constant (wall turbulence)
• Kármán line (aerodynamics/astronautics)
• Kármán-Howarth equation (turbulence)
• Kármán-Nikuradse correlation (viscous flow; coauthored by Johann Nikuradse)
• Kármán-Pohlhausen parameter (boundary layers)
• Kármán-Treffz transformation (airfoil theory)
• Prandtl-von Kármán law (velocity in open channel flow)
• von Kármán integral equation (boundary layers)
• von Kármán ogive (supersonic aerodynamics)
• von Kármán vortex street (flow past cylinder)
• von Kármán-Tsien compressibility correction

Internal combustion engines and vehicles[link]

Ganz Bus, made in 1908

Ganz Automobile from 1904

Beginning of gas engine manufacturing is linked to the names of Bánki and Csonka in our Company in 1889.

1889 the first four-stroke gas engine was built by the Ganz factory

1893 the manufacture of the paraffin- and petrol-fuelled engine with carburettor

1898 the start of the manufacture of the engines with the Bánki water injection system

1908 the introduction of a new petrol engine type, the series Am

1913 the manufacture of the Büssing petrol engines for truck vehicles

1914-1918 the manufacture of fighter plane engines

1916 the manufacture of petrol engines, type Fiat

1920 the usage of petrol engines for suction gas engine operation

1924 Mr. György JENDRASSIK started his engine development activity

1928 there was finished the first railway Diesel engine according to the plans of Ganz-Jendrassik

1929 the first export delivery of a railway engine according to the System of Ganz-Jendrassik

1934 there was an engine reliability World Competition in the USSR where the Ganz engine achieved the best consumption in its category

1944 the first application of the engine type XII JV 170/240 in the motor-train set

1953 modernization of the Diesel engines System Ganz-Jendrassik type

1959 the union of the Ganz factory and the MÁVAG company, establishing of the Ganz-MÁVAG

Railways[link]

The world's first AC locomotive in Valtellina (1898-1902). Power supply: 3-phase 15 Hz AC, 3000V, (AC motor 70km/h).

Cutaway Drawing of Millennium Underground in Budapest (1894–1896) which was the first underground in Continental Europe

Ganz Tram-train, photo from 1893

The Ganz Works identified the significance of induction motor and commissioned Kálmán Kandó (1869–1931) to develop it. After construction of different types, Kálmán Kandó initiated the development of railway electric traction with induction motor of alternating current by the Ganz Works. The first-ever electric rail vehicle manufactured by Ganz Works was a 6 HP pit locomotive with direct current traction system. Later on Kálmán Kandó initiated the application of asynchronous motors for traction purpose. The first Ganz made asynchronous rail vehicles (altogether 2 pieces) were supplied in 1898 to Évian-les-Bains (Switzerland) with a 37 HP asynchronous traction system. The Ganz Works won the tender of electrification of railway of Valtellina Railways in 1897. Under the management and on the base of plans of Kálmán Kandó, three phase electric traction (two upper wires + rails) of feed 3 kV and 15 Hz - produced by a different power station - was realized for thirty years from 1902.

After World War I, in the frames of the Ganz Works, Kálmán Kandó constructed one-phase railway electric system of 16 kV and 50 Hz incipient all over the world. Its main attribute was the feed by normal network, so additional power station became unnecessary. Consequently, Hungarian electric traction could be formed according to the country's energy management. Kálmán Kandó adapted the speed-torque curve to electric traction through changing the phase number and pole number. Kálmán Kandó incorporated a phase shifter in the locomotives which governed speed levels.

Because of early death of Kálmán Kandó, László Verebély continued the work for the Hungarian Railways (MÁV). Moreover, he managed the construction of a nationwide power station (Bánhida) supplying as the railways as Budapest with electric power by transmission line of 110 kV. He elaborated the first plans of the nationwide cooperation of electric energy. In the 1930s he organized the Department of Electric Stations and Railways of the BMGE, so he became a professor of a significant branch of heavy current engineering.^[6]

In 1959 Ganz merged with the MÁVAG company and was renamed Ganz-MÁVAG.

Shipbuilding[link]

Hungarian built dreadnought class battleship SMS Szent István at Pula (military dock)

The battle damaged SMS Novara (1913) after a victorious naval battle

As Ganz Danubius, the company became involved in shipbuilding before, and during, World War I. Ganz was responsible for building the dreadnought Szent István, supplied the machinery for the cruiser Novara, and built U-boats at its shipyard in Budapest, for final assembly at Fiume. Several U-Boats of the U-27 class were completed, and a number of other types were laid down, remaining incomplete at the war's end.^[7] The company built some ocean liners too.

Aircraft[link]

The first Hungarian "aeroplane factory" was founded by Ganz Company and Weiss Manfréd Works in 1912. During World War I, the company made many types of Albatros and Fokker fighter planes. In 1917, the engineers of the company designed a radical motorized flying machine (named "P.K.Z.") to replace the dangerous hydrogen-filled balloons then being used to observe enemy positions. That early helicopter flew to a height of over 50 m. It was supported by 120 hp engines and two massive wooden propellers turning in opposite directions. It was intended to lift a pilot, observer, machine gun and fuel for an hour's flight.^[8] Because of great success and curious design, many specialists consider it as the world's first real helicopter.^[9]

The world's first turboprop jet was the Jendrassik Cs-1 designed by the Hungarian mechanical engineer György Jendrassik. It was produced and tested in the Ganz factory in Budapest between 1939 and 1942. It was planned to fit to the Varga RMI-1 X/H twin-engined reconnaissance bomber designed by László Varga in 1940, but the program was cancelled. Jendrassik had also designed a small-scale 75 kW turboprop in 1937.

Rail Rolling Stock[link]

A Tranz Metro EM class Ganz-Mávag unit in service in the Hutt Valley, New Zealand

In 1982 - 1983 Ganz-Mávag supplied an order for electric multiple units to New Zealand Railways Corporation for Wellington suburban services. The order was made in 1979, and was for 44 powered units and 44 trailer units, see NZR EM class.

A series V63 Ganz-Mávag electric locomotive of Hungarian State Railways

In 1976 Ganz-Mávag supplied ten 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in) (standard gauge) 3-car diesel trainset to the Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE), designated as Class AA-91 and four 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 ³⁄₈ in) (metric gauge) 4-car trainsets, designated as Class A-6451. In 1981-82 Ganz-Mávag supplied to OSE 11 B-B diesel-hydraulic DHM7-9 locomotives, designated as class A-251. Finally, in 1983, OSE bought eleven 3-car metric gauge trainsets, designated as Class A-6461. All these locomotives and trainsets have been withdrawn with the exception of one standard and one metric gauge trainset.

After World War II[link]

In 1946, the Ganz Works were nationalised and in 1949 they became independent and six big companies came into existence, e.g. the Ganz Transformer Factory. In 1959, Ganz Wagon and Machine Factory merged with the famous MÁVAG Locomotive and Machine Factory under the name of Ganz-MÁVAG Locomotive, Wagon and Machine Works. Of the products of the Works, outstanding results were born in the field of the manufacture of diesel motor-railcars and motor trains. Traditional products included tramcars as well, with which, first of all, the tramway network of Budapest was provided by the Works. In the meantime the Foundry workshop was closed down.

In 1974, the locomotive and wagon Works were merged under the name of Railway Vehicle Factory and then the machine construction branch of went through significant developments. The production of industrial and apartment house lifts became a new branch. Ganz-MÁVAG took over a lot of smaller plants in the 1960s and 1970s and their product range was extended. Besides others, they increased their bridge-building capacity; they made iron structures for several Tisza Bridges, for the Erzsébet Bridge in Budapest, for public road bridges in Yugoslavia and for several industrial halls.

The Ganz Shipyard experienced its most stirring times during the four decades following nationalisation: in the course of this period 1100 ship units were produced, the number of the completed seagoing ships was 240 and that of floating cranes was 663. As a result of the great economic and social crises of the 1980s the Ganz-MÁVAG had to be reorganised. The company was transformed into seven independent Works and three joint ventures.

In 1989, the British company Telfos Holding gained a majority of the shares in Ganz Railway Vehicle Factory Co. Ltd. The name of the company was changed to Ganz-Hunslet Co. Ltd. In the course of 1991 and 1992, the Austrian company Jenbacher Werke obtained 100% of the companys shares and consequently the railway vehicle factory now is a member of the international railway vehicle manufacturing group, Jenbacher Transport Systeme. At present, the Ganz Electric Works, under the name of Ganz-Ansaldo is a member of the Italian industrial giant, Ansaldo. The Ganz Works were transformed into holdings. Ganz-Danubius was wound up in 1994. The Ganz Electric Meter Factory in Gödöllő became the member of the international Schlumberger group.

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Ganz Works

• A photo of a Ganz railcar of Hungarian State Railways c1936
• A withdrawn Ganz-Mavag DMU at Mendoza, Argentina
• Ganz Transelektro Ltd's page in english
• Ganz Danubius homepage

Wolfgang "Wolle" Petry (born 22nd September 1951^[1]) is a former musician from Cologne, Germany. He was the leading German language musician in terms of chart figures in 1997, with his most successful album "Alles".^[2]

Awards[link]

Echo awards

• 1997: for "Schlager/Volksmusik Künstler/in National/International"
• 1998: for "Schlager/Volksmusik Künstler/in National/International"
• 1999: for "Schlager/Volksmusik Künstler National/International"
• 2000: for "Schlager/Volksmusik Künstler National/International"
• 2001: for "Schlager/Volksmusik Künstler/in National/International"

References[link]

External links[link]

• Wolfgang Petry at the Internet Movie Database

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Dirk Bach
Dirk Bach with colleague Hella von Sinnen 2006 at an AIDS charity party in Cologne
Born	Dirk Bach (1961-04-23) 23 April 1961 (age 51) Cologne
Occupation	Comedy actor
Awards	Boggslaward

Dirk Bach (23 April 1961 in Cologne) is a German television comedy actor, best known as Pepe^[1] in the German version of Sesamstraße and as an actor in television series Lukas.

Life[link]

After school Bach worked in theatres in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, New York City, Utrecht and Vienna, Boggalhausen. In 1992 Bach was part of the theatre group in Cologne at the Schauspielhaus and appeared on the German television channel RTL on the Dirk Bach Show. Bach performed in Lukas (1996–2001) on the German television channel ZDF, for which he received the Telestar award (1996), the German Comedy Award (1999) and the Goldene Kamera (2001).

In 2002, Bach starred in Der kleine Mönch on German television channel ZDF. Bach worked in Sesamstraße as the character Pepe. He often performs with Hella von Sinnen on different television productions. Since 2004, Bach and Sonja Zietlow present the German edition of the show I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! on channel RTL. And in 2005 Bach played the character Urmel in Urmel aus dem Eis. Since 2006 Bach has presented the German game show Frei Schnauze on channel RTL.

Bach is a German LGBT-activist, is a vegetarian^[2] and is member of the LSVD. Bach also helps Amnesty International and the organization PETA. He lives together with his partner Thomas in Cologne.^[3]

Bach is part of the campaign to bring the 2010 Gay Games to Cologne.^[4]

Television[link]

• 1983: Kiez / Kiez - Aufstieg und Fall eines Luden
• 1984: Im Himmel ist die Hölle los / Hullygully in Käseburg
• 1986: Kir Royal (TV series)
• 1988: Krieg der Töne (TV experimental film)
• 1989: Im Jahr der Schildkröte
• 1993: Kein Pardon
• 1994: Die Weltings vom Hauptbahnhof - Scheidung auf Kölsch (TV series)
• 1994: Drei zum Verlieben (TV series)
• 1995: Nich' mit Leo
• 1995: Marys verrücktes Krankenhaus (TV series)
• 1996: Lukas (TV series)
• 1997: Rendezvous des Todes (TV)
• 1998: Frau Rettich, die Czerni und ich
• 1998: Varell & Decker (TV series)
• 1999: Zum Sterben schön (TV)
• 2001: Das Rätsel des blutroten Rubins (TV)
• 2001: Der Mann, den sie nicht lieben durfte (TV)
• 2002: Der kleine Mönch (TV series)
• 2003: Karlchens Parade
• 2003: Crazy Race 2 – Warum die Mauer wirklich fiel (TV)
• 2003: Suche impotenten Mann für's Leben
• 2005: Popp Dich schlank! (TV)
• 2005: Urmel aus dem Eis (TV)
• 2006: Zwei zum Fressen gern (TV)
• 2006: Crazy Race 3 – Sie knacken jedes Schloss (TV)
• 2007: Die ProSieben Märchenstunde - Des Kaisers neue Kleider
• 2009: Einfach Bach
• 2010: Teufel Gott und Kaiser - Nibelungenfestspiele Worms - 16.07.2010 bis 1.8.2010

References[link]

1. ^ NDR
2. ^ Dirk Bach - Biography
3. ^ Bild
4. ^ Gay Games VIII in Cologne^{[dead link]}.

External links[link]

• Dirk Bach in Internet Movie Database
• Literature on Dirk Bach in German National Library

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Bruno Ganz
at German Film Festival in Tokyo, 11 June 2005
Born	(1941-03-22) 22 March 1941 (age 71) Zürich, Switzerland
Years active	1957-present

Bruno Ganz (German pronunciation: [ˈbruːno ˈɡants] ( listen); born 22 March 1941) is a Swiss actor, known for his roles as Damiel in Wings of Desire and Adolf Hitler in Downfall.

Early life[link]

Bruno Ganz was born in Zürich to a Swiss mechanic father and a northern Italian mother.^[1][2] He had decided to pursue an acting career by the time he entered university. He was equally drawn to stage and screen but initially enjoyed greater success in the theater.^[3][4]

Career[link]

In 1960, Ganz landed his first film role, in Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone (The Gentleman in the Black Derby). Despite the support of lead actor Gustav Knuth, his cinematic debut was not particularly successful and it was only many years later that his career in film got off the ground. Ganz made his theatrical debut the following year and devoted himself primarily to the stage for almost two decades thereafter. In 1970, he helped found the Berliner Schaubühne ensemble and two years later performed in the Salzburg Festival premier of Thomas Bernhard's Der Ignorant und der Wahnsinnige, under the direction of Claus Peymann. The German magazine Theater heute (Theater Today) solidified Ganz’s reputation as a stage actor by pronouncing him Schauspieler des Jahres (Actor of the Year) in 1973. One of Ganz's most physically demanding stage portrayals was the title character in Peter Stein’s 2000 production of Goethe's Faust (Parts I and II), as he suffered injuries during rehearsals and his assumption of the role was delayed.^[5]

Ganz made his film breakthrough in a major part in the 1976 film Sommergäste, launching a widely recognized film career in both Europe and the U.S. He has worked with directors Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Éric Rohmer, and Francis Ford Coppola, among others. In 1979 he starred opposite Klaus Kinski in Herzog’s Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night).

Ganz played a professor opposite Sir Laurence Olivier in the thriller The Boys from Brazil (1978), about Nazi fugitives.

Ganz then became known for his role in Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire, as the angel Damiel. He co-starred with Dennis Hopper in Wenders' The American Friend, an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel Ripley's Game.

Ganz is best known for portraying Adolf Hitler in Der Untergang (The Downfall) (2004).^[6] Ganz did four months of research on Hitler in preparation for the role.^[7]

Ganz recently appeared in The Reader and Der Baader Meinhof Komplex, which were both nominated for the 81st Academy Awards (best picture and best foreign language film).

It has been announced that he will play Italian journalist Tiziano Terzani in an upcoming biopic.^[8]

Ganz has also served as a speaker in classical music works, including a recording of Luigi Nono's Il Canto Sospeso with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.^[9]

Personal life[link]

Bruno Ganz is separated from his wife Sabine, whom he married in 1965,^[10] and with whom he had his only son Daniel (born 1972). When not in his hometown of Zürich, he resides in Venice and Berlin.

Awards[link]

• 1973 "Actor of the Year" in German magazine Theater heute (Theatre Today)
• 1976 German Film Awards
• 1979 Deutscher Darstellerpreis (Chaplin-Shoe)
• 1991 Hans-Reinhart-Ring, given by The Swiss Society for Theatre Culture
• 1996 Iffland-Ring
• 2000 Swiss Film Awards
• 2000 Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
• 2000 David di Donatello
• 2001 Berliner Filmpreis (Berlin Film Awards)
• 2004 Bavarian Film Awards, Best Actor^[11]
• 2006 Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Filmography[link]

• Der Herr mit der schwarzen Melone (The Man in the Black Derby), 1960
• Chikita, 1961
• Sommergäste (Summer Guests), 1976
• Lumière, 1976
• Die Marquise von O... (The Marquise of O...), 1976
• Die Wildente (Wild Duck), 1976
• Der Amerikanische Freund (The American Friend), 1977
• Die linkshändige Frau (The Left-Handed Woman), 1977
• The Boys from Brazil, 1978
• Messer im Kopf (Knife in the Head), 1978
• Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Nosferatu the Vampyre), 1979
• Retour à la bien-aimée (Return to the Beloved), 1979
• 5% de risques, 1980
• Der Erfinder (The Inventor), 1980
• La Dame aux camélias (The Lady of the Camellias), 1980
• La provinciale (1981)
• Hands Up!, 1981
• Die Fälschung (Circle of Deceit), 1981
• Krieg und Frieden (War and Peace), 1983
• Dans la ville blanche (In the White City, directed by Alain Tanner), 1983
• Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire), 1987
• Bankomatt (1989)
• Strapless, 1989
• Erfolg (Success), 1991
• La Domenica specialmente (Especially on Sunday), 1991
• The Last Days of Chez Nous, 1992
• Brandnacht (Night on Fire), 1992
• Prague, 1992
• In weiter Ferne, so nah! (Faraway, So Close!), 1993
• L'Absence (The Absence), 1994
• Saint-Ex, 1997
• Mia aioniotita kai mia mera (Eternity and a Day) 1998
• Pane e Tulipani (Bread and Tulips), 2000
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust, 2001 TV
• Epsteins Nacht (Epstein's Night), 2002
• Behind Me - Bruno Ganz, 2002
• Luther, 2003
• The Manchurian Candidate, 2004
• Der Untergang (Downfall), 2004
• Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II (2005)
• Baruto no Gakuen (バルトの楽園; Ode an die Freude), 2006
• Vitus, 2007
• Youth Without Youth, 2007
• The Reader, 2008
• Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (The Baader Meinhof Complex), 2008
• Dust of Time (Η Σκόνη του Χρόνου), 2009
• Satte Farben vor Schwarz (Colours in the Dark), 2010
• Das Ende ist mein Anfang (The End Is My Beginning), 2010
• Unknown, 2011

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Bruno Ganz

• Bruno Ganz at the Internet Movie Database
• theartsdesk Q&A: Bruno Ganz on Playing Hitler (5 December 2010)

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Patrizio Buanne
Patrizio Buanne in Thailand, 2005
Background information
Birth name	Patrizio Franco Buanne
Born	(1978-09-20) 20 September 1978 (age 33) Vienna, Austria
Genres	Adult contemporary Pop Oldies
Occupations	Singer
Instruments	Singing, Guitar
Years active	1991–present
Labels	Concord Records-USA Warner Music-GSA
Website	www.patrizio.tv

Patrizio Franco Buanne (20 September 1978, Naples) is an Italian singer baritone, songwriter, producer. He was previously with Universal Music UK worldwide , but has later signed a record deal with Warner Music Germany for GSA and Concord Records USA worldwide.

Biography[link]

Early life[link]

Patrizio Buanne spent his childhood living and traveling from an early age between his family's hometown Naples, Italy, and Vienna, Austria, for his parents' restaurant business, developing a passion for languages. But another gift was emerging from an early age — a gift for singing and entertaining.

Career[link]

Buanne began participating in talent contests at age 11. Several small musical productions and gigs with his self-formed rock and roll band and as a solo performer followed. When he was seventeen, a music industry manager proposed a performance at the occasion of the Papal visit in Wroclaw, Poland. The song, which was half in Italian, half in Polish, had been written for the opening mass, and with 85,000 people in attendance, the exposure led to his first local record dealAngelo di Dio (1997). When his father died of cancer that year and Buanne himself suffered a perforated ulcer, he said, “It was music and the goal to make my family proud that kept me alive and made me strong” Patrizio. At nineteen, Buanne graduated from school in Vienna and moved back to Italy. He attended university in Rome to study languages, while looking for opportunities in the entertainment industry. He was a guest and entertainer on Italian television shows such as “Momenti di Gloria”, “Domenica In” and “Libero”. This led to a contract with the production company that produced shows for the Italian Broadcasting Corporation, RAI and Mediaset. Buanne also invested his own money in tours and independently distributed CDs and DVD’sShake the Spaghetti/CD and DVD (2002).

In 2004 Buanne approached a producer with the idea of recording with an orchestra a collection of fun, romantic Italian songs that he had grown up listening to. He dedicated the album to his father. With a finished produced album under his belt he auditioned for several record companies and was signed by a record company in the UK for a worldwide release. His international debut album, “The Italian”, was finished in London at the Abbey Road Studios with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Released in February 2005, it reached the top ten on the pop charts in the United Kingdom, where it went gold in a week. The album was also certified as platinum in South Africa and New Zealand, and reached triple platinum status in Australia. Following “The Italian” ’s international release, Buanne performed two tours in 2006, including a six-week tour of theatres and concert venues in Australia, Asia, South Africa and Europe. His live concert DVD was broadcast on the American public television network PBS, which lead to his first U.S. tour playing 2,000-3,500 capacity venues.

In October 2006 Buanne was invited by Dr. A. Kenneth Ciongoli, the chairman of the National Italian American Foundation, to perform at their annual gala in Washington, D.C. where he met the President of the United States.

Buanne’s second album, “Forever Begins Tonight," reached #53 in the US. The album included an Italian version of "Angels"(entitled “Un angelo”) originally recorded by British singer Robbie Williams, which became Patrizio’s first radio hit in the United States.

Within two years, “The Italian” and “Forever Begins Tonight” had sold several million albums worldwide. Buanne decided that to take his career to the next level, he needed to move to the U.S. After living in the US for two years, he signed with successful Los Angeles-based manager Jim Morey.

Morey secured a new global recording contract Universal and began recording Patrizio’s 3rd album, under the helm of veteran music producers such as Humberto Gatica and Brian Rawlings. This self-titled CD “Patrizio”(2009) broke the artist own sales record and was followed by an Austral-Asia tour in May 2010, a successful promo tour in the US 2010 and reached in september 2011 #4 on national jazz bill board charts in the US. Ever since Buanne has become one of the most requested artists and is signed world wide to Concord records-Universal and to Warner Music Germany.

Buanne's "Italian songbook" and his european approach and interpretation of international and American standards has become next to own compositions his trademark-given title "the ambassador of Dolce Vita".

He has recorded in English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Polish, Afrikaans, Japanese, and Chinese.

Discography[link]

• Angelo di Dio (1997)
• Shake the Spaghetti (2002)
• The Italian (2005)
• Forever Begins Tonight (2007)
• Patrizio (2009)
• Dankie-Suid Afrika (2011)
• Wunderbar (2012)

References[link]

• http://patriziobuanne.com/
• http://www.umrg.com/artist.aspx?aid=547
• http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p700430
• http://www.ilikemusic.com/interviews/Patrizio_Buanne_interview_2007-3574
• http://www.patrizio.tv/news,a-new-era_5.htm

External links[link]

• Official website
• Patrizio Buanne on Myspace
• Facebook
• Warner Music Germany