Karl heinz boehm biography channel

A one-hour portrait of the great conductor.

Born in Graz, Austria, on 28 August 1894, Karl Böhm made his conducting debut in his hometown in 1917 before going to Munich in 1921, where he was hired by Bruno Walter. He made his debut at the Vienna State Opera in 1933 and was appointed general manager of the Dresden State Opera the same year. This marked the beginning of an intensive and fruitful collaboration with Richard Strauss (Böhm conducted the world premieres of Die Schweigsame Frau and Daphne). He died in Salzburg on 14 August 1981.

One of the hallmarks of Böhm's conducting was its perennially youthful vigor and directness, its lack of pathos and sentimentality. Dramatic climaxes and full sonorities grew out of almost imperceptible accents, out of the natural rhythm of the human breath. His gestures were minimalistic, his baton suggested movement more than it described it. Böhm set standards with his interpretations of the works of his long-time friend Richard Strauss. The unofficial curator of Strauss' musical legacy, Böhm knew his friend's music inside and out – and he knew just how Strauss wanted his works to sound. Böhm's Mozart interpretations reflect the naturalness and clarity of his conducting. Although Wagner was o

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Karlheinz Böhm

Austrian-German affair and donor (1928–2014)

Karlheinz Böhm
Böhm in 2009
Born	(1928-03-16)16 March 1928 Darmstadt, Hesse-Nassau, Germany
Died	29 May 2014(2014-05-29) (aged 86) Grödig, City, Austria
Other names	Karl Boehm Carl Boehm
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1948–2014
Spouses	Elisabeth Zonewa ​ ​ (m. 1954; div. 1957)​ Gudula Blau ​ ​ (m. 1958; div. 1962)​ Barbara Lass ​ ​ (m. 1963; div. 1980)​ Almaz Böhm ​ (m. 1991)​
Children	7; including Katharina

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Karlheinz Böhm

Biography

Karlheinz Böhm (sometimes Carl Boehm) (born March 16, 1928 in Darmstadt, Germany) is an Austrian actor. The son of conductor Karl Böhm, he is best known internationally for his role as Mark, the psychopathic protagonist of Peeping Tom, directed by Michael Powell. Before that, he had played the young Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria in the three Sissi movies. He also played Jakob Grimm in the 1962 Cinerama spectacular The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm and Ludwig van Beethoven in the Walt Disney film The Magnificent Rebel. He appeared as the Nazi-sympathizing son of Lee J. Cobb in the MGM Technicolor remake of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Between 1974 and 1975, Böhm appeared prominently in four consecutive films from prolific New German Cinema director Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Martha, Effi Briest, Faustrecht der Freiheit (aka Fistfight of Freedom or Fox and his Friends), and Mutter Küsters' Fahrt zum Himmel (Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven). Since 1981, when he founded Menschen für Menschen ("Humans for Humans"), Böhm has been actively involved in charitable work in Ethiopia. Karlheinz Böhm has been married