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Klaus Kinski
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German actor (1926–1991)
OverviewAI-generated
Klaus Kinski was a German male actor whose professional career spanned from 1947 to 1989. He was born on October 18, 1926, and died on November 23, 1991. His work is associated with genres including actor and German, and he has been referenced by 442 other encyclopedia articles.
Kinski’s discography includes five works, with musical tags such as poetry, spoken word, and idm. He has accumulated 110,298 plays from 9,086 listeners. The artist’s official website is kinski.de.
Quotes attributed to Kinski include statements regarding his identity and views on receiving prizes. One quote reads, "I don't shake the hand of a Jewish pig. I'm German and Jews sicken me." Another states, "I don't care about that scum! Why should I receive a prize? I know that I'm a genius!"
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1926-10-18
- Active to
- 1991-11-23
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 9,086
- Total plays
- 110,298
Tags
There is more than one Klaus Kinski on last.fm: 1. Klaus Kinski (October 18, 1926–November 23, 1991) was a German actor of Polish descent, in the second half of the 20th century. He was notorious for his explosive temperament. After World War II, he began acting and changed his name to Klaus Kinski. He started on stage in Germany, became a legend as a monologist (presenting the prose and verse of William Shakespeare and Francois Villon, among others), and soon moved, pragmatically, to film, wh
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 62,994x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,622x
- Scalable molecular dynamics with NAMD
· 2005 · cited 15,864x
- REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES: Metabolism, Oxidative Stress, and Signal Transduction
· 2004 · cited 9,723x
- nnU-Net: a self-configuring method for deep learning-based biomedical image segmentation
· 2020 · cited 9,249x
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Quotes
- “I don't try to justify myself or defend myself. I've always done what I had to. She should know for herself that I love her, that I've loved her always, always. Those years you can't replace by words, though. After years and years, words get weaker and weaker.”
- “I don't shake the hand of a Jewish pig. I'm German and Jews sicken me.”
- “Werner, nobody will read this book if I don't write bad stuff about you. If I wrote that we get along well together, nobody would buy it. The scum only wants to hear about the dirt, all the time.”
- “I don't care about that scum! Why should I receive a prize? I know that I'm a genius!”
- “Yeah, I've got violence in me, but no negative violence. My violence is the violence of the free man who refuses to knuckle under. Creation is violent. Life is violent. Birth is a violent process. Tempests and earthquakes are violent movements of nature. My violence is the violence of life. It is not violence against nature, like the violence of the state, which sends your kids to the slaughterhouse, deadens your minds, and drives out your souls!”
- “Just why are we so poor? Why can I never sleep at night? Because bombs keep dropping! Why does my mother have to torture herself like that? Why didn't anyone give my dad a break? Why is there a war? Why? Why? Why?”
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Encyclopedic overview
Klaus Kinski ( German: [klaʊs ˈkɪnski] ; born Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski 18 October 1926 – 23 November 1991) was a German actor. Equally renowned for his intense performance style and his notoriously eccentric and volatile personality, he appeared in over 130 film roles in a career that spanned 40 years, from 1948 to 1988. He is best known for starring in five films directed by Werner Herzog from 1972 to 1987 (Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Nosferatu the Vampyre; Woyzeck; Fitzcarraldo; and Cobra Verde), who would later chronicle their tumultuous relationship in the documentary My Best Fiend.
Kinski's roles spanned multiple genres, languages, and nationalities, including Spaghetti Westerns, horror films, war films, dramas, and Edgar Wallace krimi films. His infamy was elevated by a number of eccentric creative endeavors, including a one-man show based on the life of Jesus Christ, a biopic of violinist Niccolò Paganini directed by and starring himself, and over twenty spoken word albums.
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