Ulrich Mühe
Known For
Acting
Born
1953-06-20 in Grimma, Germany
Died
2007-07-22
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.
Most Known For
Scene of the Crime
as Peter Fuchs
Scene of the Crime
as Friedel Hebbel
Volle Kanne
as Self
Polizeiruf 110
as Kegel
maybrit illner
as Self
Bambi
as Self
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
as Self
Lebensläufe
as Self
German Film Award
as Self
Siska
as Erich Branner
Der letzte Zeuge
as Robert Kolmaar
Through the Night with...
as Self
Blauer Panther
as Self
Funny Games
as Georg
German Television Award
as Self
Bavarian Film Awards
as Self
The Lives of Others
as Gerd Wiesler
Gespenster
as Osvald
Rosa Roth
Goldene Henne
as Self