Senta Berger

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. They have one child and divide their time between homes in Virginia, United States and Sydney, Australia. In the same year, she also started a career as a singer of Chansons. Brooks married Tony Horwitz in Tourette-sur-loup, France, in 1984. Afterwards further serial hits follow, like “The fast Gerti”, where she plays a taxi driver. Her new novel, March, will be published in early 2005. In 1985/86, she started a comeback in front of German-speaking audiences in the very poular TV serial “Kir Royal”. Set in 1666, Year Of Wonders follows a young woman's battle to save her family and her soul when the plague suddenly strikes the small Derbyshire village of Eyam.

Between 1974 and 1982, she played the “Buhlschaft” in the play “Jedermannn” at the Salzburg Festival with Curd Jürgens and Maximilian Schell. Her first novel, Year of Wonders, published in 2001, is an international bestseller. She successfully played at the Burgtheater in Vienna, at the Thaliatheater in Hamburg and at the Schillertheater in Berlin. Kibble Award for women's writing, was a memoir and travel adventure about a childhood enriched by penpals from around the world, and her adult quest to find them. The birth of her two sons caused Senta to turn back to the theatre. Foreign Correspondence (1997), which won the Nita B. Berger continued to develop her European career in France and Italy. Her first book, Nine Parts of Desire (1994), based on her experiences among the Muslim women of the Middle East, was an international bestseller, translated into 17 languages.

Other internationally successful films made by the duo included, amongst others, Die weiße Rose, The terrible girl (Das schreckliche Mädchen) and Mutters Courage. She completed a Master's Degree in journalism at Columbia University in New York City in 1983, and worked for The Wall Street Journal, where she covered crises in the the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. In 1970, she starred for the first time in a film produced by her own company and directed by her husband. She attended Sydney University and worked as a reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald. In 1966, they married, after starting up their own film production company the previous year. Geraldine Brooks is an Australian author, who grew up in the Western suburbs of Sydney. In 1963, Berger met Michael Verhoeven, son of the German film director Paul Verhoeven (not the Dutch Paul Verhoeven).

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. In 1962, she went to Hollywood and worked with stars such as Charlton Heston, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne and Yul Brynner. Brauner used Senta Berger in several films, but soon she tired of musicals. 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.

Her ambition was still to be a film actress. In 1958, she became the youngest member of the Josefstadt theatre in Vienna. 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 1957, she won her first small role in a film.

Berger then took private acting 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. At the age of five she started ballet lessons. With him, Senta first appeared on stage at the age of four, where he accompanied his daughter's singing on the piano.

Her father, from whom she probably inherited talent, was a musician. Senta Berger's parents were not rich, but tried everything to meet the desires of their daughter. Senta Berger (born May 13, 1941, in Vienna) is an Austrian actress and producer.