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Ulrich Mühe
Actor
Born June 20, 1953Died July 22, 2007 (54 years)
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).
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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).
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Known For
Filmography
| 2010 | Nemesis · as Robert |
| 2007 | My Führer · as Prof. Adolf Israel Grünbaum |
| 2007 | So what?! - Friedrich Gulda · as Cast |
| 2006 | Peer Gynt · as Der Knopfgiesser |
| 2006 | The Lives of Others · as Gerd Wiesler |
| 2005 | Snowland · as Knövel |
| 2004 | Hunger auf Leben · as Jochen Hensel |
| 2003 | Alles Samba · as Gerd Wegener |
| 2003 | In the Shadow of Power · as Günther Gaus |
| 2003 | Hamlet_X · as Claudius Müller |
| 2003 | Spy Sorge · as Eugen Ott |
| 2002 | Amen. · as Ss-Arzt |
| 2001 | Goebbels und Geduldig · as Goebbels Bzw. Geduldig |
| 1999 | Einfach raus · as Manfred Reimann |
| 1999 | Straight Shooter · as Markus Paufler |
| 1999 | Todesengel · as Dr. Leon Stein |
| 1998 | Feuerreiter · as Jacob Gontard |
| 1998 | Siska (TV Series) · as Erich Branner |
| 1998 | Sieben Monde · as Eschbach |
| 1998 | Der letzte Zeuge (TV Series) · as Robert Kolmaar |
| 1997 | Funny Games · as Georg |
| 1997 | The Castle · as K |
| 1996 | Little Angel · as Kommissar |
| 1996 | Peanuts - Die Bank zahlt alles · as Dr. Jochen Schuster |
| 1996 | Tödliches Schweigen · as Christian Plache |
| 1995 | Nikolaikirche · as Pfarrer Ohlbaum |
| 1995 | Rudy, the Racing Pig · as Dr. Heinrich Gützkow |
| 1994 | Rosa Roth (TV Series) |
| 1994 | Der Blaue · as Karl 'kalle' Kaminski |
| 1993 | Wehner - Die unerzählte Geschichte · as Selbstmörder |
| 1993 | The Last U-Boat · as Gerber - Kommandant |
| 1992 | Benny's Video · as Georg, Benny's Father |
| 1992 | Schtonk · as Dr. Wieland |
| 1991 | Jugend ohne Gott · as Lehrer |
| 1991 | Extralarge (TV Series) · as Father Enrique |
| 1991 | Ende der Unschuld · as Julian Green |
| 1990 | Hard Days, Hard Nights · as Flimmer |
| 1990 | Der kleine Herr Friedemann · as Johannes Friedemann |
| 1989 | Die glaeserne Fackel (TV Series) · as Maximilian Steinhüter |
| 1989 | Spider's Web · as Theodor Lohse |
| 1989 | Egmont · as Egmont |
| 1989 | Späte Ankunft · as Raoul Fürstenau |
| 1987 | Sansibar oder Der letzte Grund · as Dr. Grote |
| 1987 | Die erste Reihe · as Rudolf Schwarz |
| 1986 | Das Buschgespenst · as Siegfried Strauch |
| 1985 | |
| 1985 | Hälfte des Lebens · as Friedrich Hölderlin |
| 1985 | The Woman and the Stranger · as Revolutionär |
| 1984 | Die Poggenpuhls · as Sohn Leutnant Leo |
| 1983 | Olle Henry · as Junger Mann |
| 1971 | Police Call 110 (TV Series) · as Kegel |
| 1970 | Tatort (TV Series) · as Peter Fuchs |