Bruno S., star of Herzog's Stroszek and The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser dies, aged 78
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| Bruno Schleinstein, 1932-2010 |
The New York Times reports the passing of Bruno Schleinstein (Bruno S.), aged 78, known to many as the star of Werner Herzog's
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser and
Stroszek: 'He was a street musician, a painter of pictures, a forklift operator in a steel mill and, at one time, a mental patient. But, perhaps most remarkably, he was the lead actor in a movie that won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1975.' Of his on-screen persona: 'Werner Herzog, one of the innovators of postwar German cinema, twice in the 1970s cast Bruno to play pretty much himself — a damaged but somehow transcendent character.'
Source:
Douglas Martin, 'Bruno S., Street Musician Turned Lead Actor in Herzog Classics, Dies at 78', New York Times, 14 August 2010
