Known For
Acting
Born
Jun 20, 1953
Died
Jul 22, 2007
Place of Birth
Grimma, Germany
Credits
81 titles
Ulrich Mühe
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
Im Schatten der Macht
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
German Television Award
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
Kommissar
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
Goldene Henne
Self
Rudy, the Racing Pig
Dr. Heinrich Gützkow
Nadja – Heimkehr in die Fremde
Sergej
Rosa Roth
The Blue One
Karl 'Kalle' Kaminski
Das tödliche Auge
Stefan Phillis
The Last U-Boat
Gerber - Kommandant