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 | Appeared in Eric Rohmer's "The Marquise of O" |
1976 | Cinematic breakthrough in the film, "Sommergäste" |
1977 | Cast in "The American Friend," his first film with director Wim Wenders |
1978 | Appeared in "The Boys From Brazil" opposite Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier |
1979 | Starred opposite Klaus Kinski in Werner Herzog's "Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht/Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night" |
1981 | Cast in Volker Schlondorff's "Circle of Deceit" starring Hanna Schygulla and Gila von Weitershausen |
1983 | Appeared in "Krieg und Frieden/War and Peace" |
1987 | Reunited with director Wim Wenders for "Der Himmel über Berlin/Wings of Desire" |
1989 | Appeared with Bridget Fonda in "Strapless" |
1993 | Third film with Wim Wenders, "In weiter Ferne, so nah!/Faraway, So Close!" a sequel to "Wings of Desire" |
1994 | Cast in "L'Absence/The Absence" written and directed by Peter Handke |
1998 | Cast in the Theo Angelopoulos directed, "Mia aioniotita kai mia mera/Eternity and a Day" |
2000 | Performed for 13 hours straight as the lead in Peter Stein's production of "Goethe's Faust" (Parts I and II) |
2004 | Cast in the remake of "The Manchurian Candidate" directed by Jonathan Demme |
2004 | Portrayed Adolf Hitler in Bernd Eichinger's much acclaimed film "Der Untergang - Hitler und das Ende des Dritten Reichs/The Downfall: Hitler and the End of the Third Reich" |
2005 | Cast in the ABC TV movie, "Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II" |
2007 | Cast in "Youth Without Youth" Francis Ford Coppola's first directed film in ten years |
