Ulrich Mühe
- Acting
- June 20, 1953 · Grimma, Germany
- July 22, 2007
Biography
Friedrich Hans Ulrich Mühe (20 June 1953 – 22 July 2007) was a German film, television and theatre actor. He played the role of Hauptmann (Captain) Gerd Wiesler in the Oscar-winning film Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others, 2006), for which he received the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Gold, at Germany's most prestigious film awards, the Deutscher Filmpreis (German Film Awards); and the Best Actor Award at the 2006 European Film Awards. Curiously, events in Mühe's life were mirrored by the plot of the film, as he allegedly discovered in a Stasi file compiled on him that he had been under surveillance by his second wife, Jenny Gröllmann. Gröllmann denied this, and after an acrimonious and highly-publicized court case she succeeded in obtaining an injunction to prevent Mühe from repeating the allegation in a book. After leaving school, Mühe was employed as a construction worker and a border guard at the Berlin Wall. He then turned to acting, and from the late 1970s into the 1980s appeared in numerous plays, becoming a star of the Deutsches Theater in East Berlin. He was active in politics and denounced Communist rule in East Germany in a memorable address at the Alexanderplatz demonstration on 4 November 1989 shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall. After German reunification he continued to appear in a large number of films, television programmes and theatre productions. In Germany he was particularly known for playing the lead role of Dr. Robert Kolmaar in the long-running forensic crime series Der letzte Zeuge (The Last Witness, 1998–2007). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ulrich Mühe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- Jedermann Remixed · Devil (archive footage)
- Nemesis · Robert
- My Führer · Prof. Adolf Israel Grünbaum
- Peer Gynt · Der Knopfgiesser
- Das Geheimnis von St. Ambrose · Nicolas Cramer
- The Lives of Others · Gerd Wiesler
- Stars präsentieren · Self
- Snowland · Knövel
- Der Ausländer
- Hunger auf Leben · Jochen Hensel
- Der Auftrag · Director
- Alles Samba · Gerd Wegener
- In the Shadow of Power · Günther Gaus
- Hamlet_X · Claudius Müller
- Spy Sorge · Eugen Ott
- Through the Night with... · Self
- Amen. · The Doctor
- Langer Samstag · Self
- Goebbels und Geduldig · Goebbels bzw. Geduldig
- Dreimal Leben · Henri
- maybrit illner · Self
- Deutscher Fernsehpreis · Self
- Volle Kanne · Self
- Einfach raus · Manfred Reimann
- Straight Shooter · Markus Paufler
- Todesengel · Dr. Leon Stein
- Siska · Erich Branner
- 36 Stunden Angst - Ein Vater kämpft um sein Kind · Rudolph
- Rider of the Flames · Jacob Gontard
- Night Time · Eschbach
- Der letzte Zeuge · Robert Kolmaar
- The Johannes B. Kerner Show · Self
- Lebensläufe · Self
- Funny Games · Georg
- The Castle · K
- Little Angel · Commissioner
- Deadly Silence · Christian Plache
- Sterben ist gesünder · Hugo Wallner
- Nadja – Heimkehr in die Fremde · Sergej
- Peanuts - Die Bank zahlt alles · Dr. Jochen Schuster
- Nikolaikirche · Pfarrer Ohlbaum
- Geschäfte · Sturm
- … nächste Woche ist Frieden · Dr. Herbert Pieritz
- Rudy, the Racing Pig · Dr. Heinrich Gützkow
- Nadja – Heimkehr in die Fremde · Sergej
- Goldene Henne · Self
- Rosa Roth
- The Blue One · Karl 'Kalle' Kaminski
- Das tödliche Auge · Stefan Phillis
- The Last U-Boat · Gerber - Kommandant
- Benny's Video · Georg, Benny's Father
- Schtonk! · Dr. Wieland
- Jugend ohne Gott · Lehrer
- End of Innocence · Julian Green
- Der kleine Herr Friedemann · Johannes Friedemann
- Hard Days, Hard Nights · Flimmer
- Longing · Sieghart
- Die Zeit ist aus den Fugen
- Nathan der Weise · Patriarch
- Die gläserne Fackel · Maximilian Steinhüter
- Spider's Web · Theodor Lohse
- Späte Ankunft · Raoul Fürstenau
- Imago
- Blauer Panther · Self
- Nadine, meine Liebe · Oberleutnant Stein
- Sansibar oder Der letzte Grund · Dr. Grote
- Die erste Reihe · Rudolf Schwarz
- Das Buschgespenst · Siegfried Strauch
- Die dritte Frau
- Hälfte des Lebens · Friedrich Hölderlin
- The Woman and the Stranger · Revolutionär
- Die Poggenpuhls · Sohn Leutnant Leo
- Olle Henry · Junger Mann
- Gespenster · Osvald
- Der Mann und sein Name · Retzlow
- Telestar · Self
- Bavarian Film Awards · Self
- Polizeiruf 110 · Kegel
- Scene of the Crime · Peter Fuchs, Friedel Hebbel
- German Film Award · Self