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Ulrich Mühe

Actor
Died 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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Known For
  • The Lives of Others
  • Funny Games
  • Benny's Video
  • Amen.
  • The Castle
  • My Führer
  • Schtonk
  • Rudy, the Racing Pig
  • The Last U-Boat
  • Der letzte Zeuge
  • Spider's Web
  • Straight Shooter
  • Sieben Monde
  • Peanuts - Die Bank zahlt alles
  • Snowland
  • Hälfte des Lebens
  • Jugend ohne Gott
  • Peer Gynt
  • Nemesis
  • Hunger auf Leben
  • The Woman and the Stranger
  • Spy Sorge
  • Einfach raus
  • Little Angel

Filmography

2010
Nemesis · as Robert
2007
My Führer · as Prof. Adolf Israel Grünbaum
2007
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
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
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
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

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