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As an actor he became a world celebrity in the years 1955 to 1957 as Emperor Franz Joseph at the side of Romy Schneider in the “Sissi” films. He set a counterpoint to the image of the Sissi emperor in 1960 with the psychodrama “Peeping Tom”.
Today the New York Times ranks this film – radically rejected by the public at its premiere – among the top ten film classics. All in all Böhm appeared in 45 cinema films in three decades, celebrated numerous triumphs on the great stages of the German language theatre and played impressive characters in four films produced by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
In 1981 Karlheinz Böhm undertook a bet in the ZDF TV show “Wetten, dass…?” that “not one in three viewers would donate a German mark, Swiss franc or seven Austrian schillings for the needy people in the Sahel zone.” Karlheinz Böhm won the bet and nevertheless flew to Ethiopia with DM 1.2 million in October 1981. On 13 November 1981 he founded the relief organisation Menschen für Menschen in Germany.
Since this time he has spent several months each year in the most simple conditions in Ethiopia. In the remaining months of the year he delivers media interviews and talks to draw attention to the work of his foundation. His work since 1981 has been on a purely voluntary basis, without a salary or fee. “The little word RAGE gives me motivation,” Böhm explains, “Rage about the unjust and inhuman discrepancies between poor and rich.”
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