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Karlheinz B\u00f6hm \u00a0was Born on 16 March 1928 in Darmstadt, as the only son of the well-known conductor Karl B\u00f6hm and the singer Thea Linhard, Karlheinz B\u00f6hm is an Austrian citizen. He spent his youth first in Hamburg, then in Dresden. Due to a serious illness, he was in Switzerland from 1940 to 1945, continuing his education at the Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz, a Swiss boarding school. From 1945 onwards, he lived with his parents in Graz, where he graduated in 1947 and started a graduate course in philosophy and philology at the University of Graz. An illness once again thwarted his plans and forced him to stay in Rome, where he made use of the opportunity to study history of art for a term<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n


Although his parents arranged for him to take piano lessons at an early age, he was not interested in a musical career, but instead pursued his passion for directing and acting. So in 1948, he made an abrupt decision to go to Vienna, started work as a director\u2019s assistant with Karl Hartl and took acting lessons with the Burgtheater actor Albin Skoda. He got his first small film roles in shows like \u201cDer Engel mit der Posaune\u201d (1948) and \u201cHaus des Lebens\u201d (1952). In 1952 Arthur Rabenalt gave him the chance to show his talents in a leading role together with Hildegard Knef and Erich von Stroheim (\u201cAlraune\u201d). After this box-office hit, he acted in a number of entertaining films. He became hugely popular, in particular in his role as Emperor Franz Joseph at Romy Schneider\u2019s side in the \u201cSissi\u201d trilogy (1955-1957). In 1960, his role as Mark Lewis in Michael Powell\u2019s eerie psychodrama \u201cPeeping Tom\u201d was in stark contrast to the image of the Emperor in the Sissi series. After several years guest-starring in Hollywood in the mid-sixties, he turned more and more to the theatre in Europe and was involved in opera directing there, too. In 1964 he staged \u201cElektra\u201d in Stuttgart, \u201cTosca\u201d in Graz as well as \u201cThe Gypsy Baron\u201d in Munich, and went on tour as \u201cChicken\u201d in Tennessee Williams\u2019 play \u201cKingdom of Earth\u201d in 1971. At the beginning of the 1970s he gave some excellent performances in character roles in the Rainer Werner Fassbinder productions \u201cMartha\u201d (1973), \u201cEffi Briest\u201d (1974), \u201cFaustrecht der Freiheit\u201d (1974) and \u201cMutter K\u00fcsters\u2019 Fahrt zum Himmel\u201d (1975). In the years that followed, B\u00f6hm was a member of the cast at the D\u00fcsseldorf Schauspielhaus, playing King Lear to much acclaim, as well as in large theatres in Hanover, Basel, Zurich, Vienna and Munich. But he became a household word to the majority of the public, primarily for his roles in such popular television series as \u201cRingstrassenpalais\u201d (1980 and 1982) and \u201cDie Laurents\u201d (1981).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Karlheinz B\u00f6hm im Gespr\u00e4ch mit Bauern. Seit 1981 leistet er mit Menschen f\u00fcr Menschen Hilfe zur Selbstentwicklung in \u00c4thiopien.\nFotograf: Peter Rigaud\nVerwendung f\u00fcr redaktionelle Zwecke frei. Fotohinweis: Peter Rigaud\nwww.peterrigaud.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Menschen f\u00fcr Menschen\u00a0works exclusively in Ethiopia and carries out long-term, sustainable projects for the rural population there. Following the principle of \u201csupport for self-development\u201d, millions of Ethiopians have been given a secure future from the time it was founded to date. Several months a year, Karlheinz B\u00f6hm coordinates the\u00a0programmes\u00a0locally, spending the rest of the year in Europe to\u00a0publicise\u00a0the causes of global poverty and the work of his foundation. Karlheinz B\u00f6hm receives no payment for his commitment to one of the world\u2019s poorest countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ethiopian Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, paid tribute to Karlheinz B\u00f6hm in October 2003 by making him the first to receive honorary citizenship in his country.
With his Ethiopian wife Almaz (born in 1964), who has been vice president of the foundation board at Menschen f\u00fcr Menschen Switzerland and Liechtenstein since 1999, B\u00f6hm has two children, Nicolas (born in December 1990) and Aida (born in February 1993).<\/p>\n\n\n\n