Senta Berger in When Women Had Tails / 1970.

Senta Berger (born May 13, 1941, in Vienna) is an Austrian actress and producer. Image File history File links Sentaberger4. ... Image File history File links Sentaberger4. ... May 13 is the 133rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (134th in leap years). ... For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1941 calendar). ... Vienna (German: Wien ; Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian: Beč, Czech: Vídeň, Hungarian: Bécs, Greek: Βιέννη, Romanian: Viena, Romani: Bech or Vidnya, Russian: Вена, Slovak: Viedeň, Slovenian: Dunaj) is the capital of Austria, and also one of the nine States of Austria. ...

Berger's parents were not rich, but tried everything to meet the desires of their daughter. Her father, from whom she probably inherited talent, was a musician. With him, Senta first appeared on stage at the age of four, where he accompanied his daughter's singing on the piano. At the age of five she started ballet lessons. But her dream of a career as a dancer was destroyed by her last teacher, who did not like the physical changes in Senta during puberty. The Waltz of the Snowflakes from Tchaikovskys The Nutcracker. ...

Berger then took private acting lessons. In 1957, she won her first small role in a film. She applied for the Max Reinhardt Seminar, a famous acting school in Vienna, and was accepted, shortly afterwards was forced to leave, because she had accepted a film role without permission. In 1958, she became the youngest member of the Josefstadt theatre in Vienna. Her ambition was still to be a film actress. 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... There are two Max Reinhardts: Max Reinhardt (theatre director) Max Reinhardt (publisher) This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Vienna (German: Wien ; Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian: Beč, Czech: Vídeň, Hungarian: Bécs, Greek: Βιέννη, Romanian: Viena, Romani: Bech or Vidnya, Russian: Вена, Slovak: Viedeň, Slovenian: Dunaj) is the capital of Austria, and also one of the nine States of Austria. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

More and more directors and producers wanted to work with her, for example Bernhard Wicki and Arthur Brauner, who produced the film The Good Soldier Schweijk with Berger and Heinz Rühmann, a famous German actor. Brauner used Senta Berger in several films, but she soon tired of musicals. In 1962, she went to Hollywood and worked with stars such as Charlton Heston, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne and Yul Brynner. An offer for a series role, which would have brought an obligation of several years with itself, was the reason for their return to Germany. Bernhard Wicki (28 October 1919 in St. ... Fritz Muliar as Schwejk (1972) The Good Soldier Švejk (spelled Schweik or Schwejk in many translations, and pronounced /ʃvɛjk/) is the shortened title of the world-famous unfinished novel written by Czech humorist Jaroslav Hašek in 1921-22. ... Heinz Rühmann The title of this article contains the character ü. Where it is unavailable or not desired, the name may be represented as Heinz Ruehmann. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... ... Charlton Heston on the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C Charlton Heston (born October 4, 1923) is an Academy Award-winning American film actor noted for heroic roles and his long involvement in political issues. ... Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer who is one of the most highly acclaimed male popular song vocalists of all time. ... official U.S. stamp of John Wayne from 2004 John Wayne (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), popularly known as The Duke, was an American film actor whose career began in silent movies in the 1920s. ... Yul Brynner Yul Brynner (July 11, 1920 – October 10, 1985) was an Academy Award-winning Hollywood and Broadway actor who held French citizenship. ...

In 1963, Berger met Michael Verhoeven, son of the German film director Paul Verhoeven (not the Dutch Paul Verhoeven). In 1966, they married, after starting up their own film production company the previous year. In 1970, she starred for the first time in a film produced by her own company and directed by her husband. Other internationally successful films made by the duo included, amongst others, Die weiße Rose, The terrible girl (Das schreckliche Mädchen) and Mutters Courage. Berger continued to develop her European career in France and Italy. 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... Michael Verhoeven (July 13, 1938 in Berlin) is a German film director. ... Paul Verhoeven (June 23, 1901 - March 22, 1975) was a German film director, actor, and writer. ... Paul Verhoeven in 2004 in a documentary on Z Channel Paul Verhoeven (born July 18, 1938) is a Dutch-born film director best known for his sometimes extremely violent science fiction films. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... Die Weiße Rose (The White Rose) is a 1982 German movie about the resistance movement to the Nazi authorities led by a group of Catholic students in Munich in 1942-1943 whose members were caught and executed in February 1943, shortly after the German capitulation at Stalingrad. ...

Senta Berger 1986

In 1966, Berger co-starred with Kirk Douglas in the movie Cast a Giant Shadow. Berger played the role of Magda, a soldier in the army of Israel during the Israeli War of Independence (1948). Some say that this role was Berger's greatest movie role. Image File history File links Senta_berger-autograph. ... Image File history File links Senta_berger-autograph. ... President Jimmy Carter greets Kirk and Mrs Douglas in the Oval Office, March 16, 1978. ... Cast a Giant Shadow is a 1966 film, produced and directed by Melville Shavelson and distributed by MGM. Is is a story based on the life of Micky Marcus Cast a Giant Shadow is based on Ted Berkmans biography of Colonel Mickey Marcus Marcus (played by Kirk Douglas) served... The 1948 Arab-Israeli War, called the War of Independence by Israelis and al Nakba the catastrophe by Arabs, was the first in a series of wars in the Arab-Israeli conflict. ...

The birth of her two sons caused Senta to turn back to the theatre. She successfully played at the Burgtheater in Vienna, at the Thaliatheater in Hamburg and at the Schillertheater in Berlin. Between 1974 and 1982, she played the “Buhlschaft” in the play “Jedermannn” at the Salzburg Festival with Curd Jürgens and Maximilian Schell. In 1985/86, she started a comeback in front of German-speaking audiences in the very popular TV serial “Kir Royal”. Afterwards further serial hits followed, like “The fast Gerti”, where she plays a taxi driver. In the same year, she also started a career as a singer of Chansons. 2005 saw her in a beautiful and sad film, Einmal so wie ich will, as a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage who finds but turns her back on love when on holiday. Hamburgs Motto: May the posterity endeavour with dignity to conserve the freedom, which the forefathers acquired. ... This article is about Germanys largest city. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jürgens in a scene from Der Kommissar (1973) Curd Jürgens (December 13, 1915 - June 18, 1982) was a German stage and motion-picture actor. ... Maximilian Schell (left) in the film Judgment at Nuremberg Maximilian Schell (born December 8, 1930) is a Swiss-Austrian actor. ... Chanson is a French word for song, and in English-language contexts is often applied to any song with French words, particularly a cabaret song. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Since February 2003, Senta Berger has been president of the German Film Academy, who want to advance the new generation of actors and actresses in Germany and Europe and who will decide the assignment of the German Film Awards in the future. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In Spring of 2006, her autobiography was published in Germany, titled: "Ich habe ja gewußt, daß ich fliegen kann" (in English: "I did know that I could fly"). Among her memories of Hollywood are a less-than-subtle attempt by Darryl Zanuck to get her on his Casting Couch, and being called "You German Pig" on her first day on the set of Major Dundee by a gaffer, whose wife's had lost her family in Auschwitz. 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An Autobiography is an account of a persons life written by that person For music albums named Autobiography, see Autobiography (album) An autobiography (from the Greek auton, self, bios, life and graphein, write) is a biography written by the subject or composed conjointly with a collaborative writer (styled as... Darryl Francis Zanuck (September 5, 1902 - December 22, 1979) was one of the major figures in the Hollywood studio system and the longest survivor of that system. ... Major Dundee was a 1965 Western film written by Harry Julian Fink and directed by Sam Peckinpah. ... A gaffer in the motion picture industry is the head of the electrical department, responsible for the execution (and sometimes the design) of the lighting plan for a production. ... Auschwitz, in English, commonly refers to the Auschwitz concentration camp complex built near the town of Oświęcim, by Nazi Germany during World War II. Rarely, it may refer to the Polish town of Oświęcim (called by the Germans Auschwitz) itself. ...

External links

• Senta Berger at the Internet Movie Database
• Senta Berger-links (Yahoo group)
• Interview in the FAZ newspaper on her autobiography (in German)