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Klaus Maria Brandauer

Klaus Maria Brandauer (born June 22, 1943, Bad Aussee, Austria), aged 83, is an Austrian actor and director. Brandauer's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, Romy and Berliner Bär.

Klaus Maria Brandauer’s zodiac sign is Gemini or Cancer (the Sun changed sign that day, and no documented birth time settles which), Chinese zodiac is Water Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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How common is the name Klaus in the U.S.?

#2245

US rank in 2025

~1,471

Americans share it since 1953

2022

its peak year

The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Klaus falls under that line for 1943. Its peak came in 2022, and 1,471 Americans have carried it since 1953.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Klaus’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

7

Soul Urge · understanding

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on K (2) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Klaus’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

—

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Pearl, Your planetary stone, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💠 Water Lily

Rose pink · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1943, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Klaus apart

Klaus Maria Brandauer took the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture in 1986, at 43.

The working life starts in 1962, at 19.

Klaus Maria Brandauer was married Karin Katharina Brandauer and raised one child.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Klaus Maria Brandauer: Austrian film directors, Male actors from Styria and People from Bad Aussee.

The same date carries J. Michael Kosterlitz. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Awards
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture (1986), Berliner Bär (2008) and Golden Nymph for Outstanding Actor in a Television Film (2014)
Nominated for
European Film Award for Best Actor and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Working from
1962
Citizenship
Austria
Languages
German
Wikipedia editions
40

What the chart says

Klaus, according to the stars

How Klaus wants to be loved

Klaus wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Klaus openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Klaus creates

How Klaus makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Klaus creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Klaus is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Klaus is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Klaus gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

Computed from Klaus's birth date. Working below.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Klaus Maria Brandauer

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bad Aussee on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Bad Aussee that night

Computed for 47.61°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Bad Aussee was Alkaid, in Ursa Major, 87.4° up.

Of the 87 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

Bad Aussee sits at 47.6°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −42.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

Sun -0° below the horizon, Moon down and 73% lit at waning gibbous.

How unusual Klaus's chart is

Chart pattern score

40 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

A bowl chart · 2 planets at a critical degree · No retrogrades at all

An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.

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If you only read one paragraph

Gemini or Cancer Sun

Klaus Maria Brandauer was born on a day when the Sun moved from Gemini into Cancer. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.

Water Goat

Needs beauty like air.

Klaus Maria Brandauer was born on June 22, 1943, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 9

Compassion at scale.

Klaus Maria Brandauer's birth date, June 22, 1943, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Klaus’s chart

Klaus’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Uranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.4° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.8° orbMars opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.1° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.1° orbMercury fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1.6° orbSun flows with Moon · Trine, 1.7° orbMercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2° orbVenus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.5° orbSun in Cancer · 0°07′☉0°Moon in Aquarius · 28°26′☽28°Mercury in Gemini · 7°49′☿7°Venus in Leo · 15°24′♀15°Mars in Aries · 19°01′♂19°Jupiter in Cancer · 28°13′♃28°Saturn in Gemini · 17°55′♄17°Uranus in Gemini · 6°11′♅6°Neptune in Virgo · 29°19′♆29°Pluto in Leo · 5°47′♇5°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunsquareNeptune0.3° to 1.3° orb

    Klaus’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableUranussextilePluto0.4° orb

    Klaus’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMarssextileSaturn0.8° to 1.4° orb

    Klaus’s drive opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune1.0° to 1.2° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionUranus1.1° to 2.2° orb

  • stableMercurysextilePluto1.5° to 2.6° orb

  • stableVenussextileSaturn2.1° to 2.9° orb

  • stableVenustrineMars3.5° to 3.8° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune6.8° to 6.9° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionPluto7.5° to 7.7° orb

  • possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.0° to 8.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.6° to 15.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

Klaus’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLeo 26°05′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 1°16′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosLeo 5°04′ (moves 0.92° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 19°01′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 3°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea trine Mars 0.0°
  • Eros conjunction Pluto 0.7°
  • Eros sextile Uranus 1.1°
  • Hygiea sextile Saturn 1.1°
  • Ceres trine Neptune 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 2.6°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 2.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 3.0°

Klaus’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☽ Moon5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Jupiter

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4 pts

    in its own sign, Aries; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Klaus’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
  • Sun quintile Mars 0.9°
  • Venus semi-square Neptune 1.1°
  • Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.9°

Born the same day as Klaus

J. Michael Kosterlitz was born on June 22, 1943 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 47.6°N, Bad Aussee keeps Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.

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Klaus’s cards

Computed from June 22, 1943. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

9 · Healer
The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Klaus’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q78533 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Manfred Werner / Tsui, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Klaus Maria Brandauer at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Klaus Maria Brandauer.

Quick answers about Klaus Maria Brandauer’s chart

How old is Klaus Maria Brandauer?
Klaus Maria Brandauer is 83 years old, born June 22, 1943 in Bad Aussee, Austria.
What zodiac sign is Klaus Maria Brandauer?
Klaus Maria Brandauer was born on a day when the Sun moved from Gemini into Cancer. Without a documented birth time, the exact Sun sign cannot be determined reliably, so AsterNym shows both rather than choosing one.
What is Klaus Maria Brandauer's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 22, 1943 birth.
What is Klaus Maria Brandauer's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Klaus Maria Brandauer's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Klaus Maria Brandauer's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Klaus Maria Brandauer's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Moon is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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