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Klaus Kinski was a German actor. Equally renowned for his intense performance style and his notoriously eccentric and volatile personality off-screen, 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, who would later chronicle their tumultuous relationship in the document…
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Born 18 October 1926 · Died 23 November 1991 · Q55419
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“He should get the plague. Syphilis. Malaria. Yellow fever. Leprosy. In vain. The more I wish the most horrible of deaths on him and treat him like the scum of the earth he is, the less I can get rid of him.”
“This is a difficult moment for me. I am on my sister”
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The Guardian: Jesus Christ Kinski by Benjamin Myers review – inside the mind of an actor in meltdown
Public attention spiked: 7,645 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.6× the usual 1,663, with 2 article edits. Coverage that week: “Wim Wenders withdraws 1975 film featuring 13-year-old Nastassja Kinski topless” (The Guardian).
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The Guardian: Wim Wenders withdraws 1975 film featuring 13-year-old Nastassja Kinski topless
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Benjamin Myers published Jesus Christ Kinski, a novel written from Kinski's imagined point of view during his performance of Jesus Christus Erlöser
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Yahoo Style UK: The terrifying reign of Klaus Kinski, the most evil actor who ever lived
International Business Times: Klaus Kinski Allegedly Abused Daughter At Young Age, Pola Kinski Says Actor Father Used Her As ‘Little Sex Object’
Toronto Star: Klaus Kinski’s daughter claims late actor repeatedly sexually abused her
New York Daily News: Klaus Kinski’s eldest daughter claims late actor raped her repeatedly during her childhood
More than 20 years after her father's death, Pola Kinski published an autobiography titled Kindermund (or From a Child's Mouth), in which she claimed her father had sexually abused her when she was between the ages of 5
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Christian David published the first comprehensive biography of Kinski, based on newly discovered archived material, personal letters and interviews with the actor's friends and colleagues
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Released album “Kinski singt und spricht Brecht”.
Died 1991-11-23.
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“I don't shake the hand of a Jewish pig. I'm German and Jews sicken me.”
Spanish film director Fernando Colomo alleged that Kinski had tried to rape actress Maria Lamor during the filming of The Knight of the Dragon
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“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!”
(reprinted in 1996 as Kinski Uncut)
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Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (1986).
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Kinski refused the lead villain role of Major Arnold Toht in Raiders of the Lost Ark, telling director Steven Spielberg that the script was "a yawn-making, boring pile of shit" and "moronically shitty"
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Starred as the RZ guerrillero Wilfried Böse in Operation Thunderbolt, based on the events of the Entebbe raid
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Their son Nikolai Kinski was born in 1976.
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Their daughter Nastassja Kinski was born in January 1961.
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Kinski lived in the same boarding house as a 13-year-old Werner Herzog, who would later direct him in a number of films
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Kinski stayed at the Karl-Bonhoeffer-Nervenklinik (de), a psychiatric hospital in West Berlin, for three days after stalking his theatrical sponsor and attempting to strangle her
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Was hired by the renowned Schlosspark-Theater in Berlin, but he was fired the following year due to his unpredictable behavior
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At the age of 17, serving in a Fallschirmjäger unit
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Began attending the Prinz-Heinrichs-Gymnasium in Schöneberg
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Where they also experienced financial difficulties
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Born 1926-10-18.
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