The unwanted son of a prostitute, Bruno S. was beaten so severely by his mother at age 3 that he became temporarily deaf. This led to his placement in a mental institution; he spent the next 23 years in various institutions, often running afoul of the law. Despite this past, he a self-taught painter and musician; while these were his favorite ...
On America: Bruno is still being pushed around, not physically but spiritually; here they hurt you with a smile.
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I have my pride, and I can think, and my thinking is clever.
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In the movie Control about Ian Curtis and Joy Division, Ian was drinking and watching Stroszek, the part where Bruno was losing his trailer and things at the auction in Wisconsin, a few hours before Ian killed himself. Ian and Bruno forever missed.
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He was also the subject of Nazi experiments on mentally disabled children during the Nazi era in Germany.
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Director Werner Herzog once named him the "unknown soldier of German cinema".
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Has become involved in outsider art and an exhibition of some of his works was put on display in New York in 2004.
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