Ulrich Mühe
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1953-06-20
Deathday 2007-07-22 (54 years old)
Place of Birth Grimma, Germany
Also Known As Friedrich Hans Ulrich Mühe
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
Actor
as Devil (archive footage)
as Robert
as Prof. Adolf Israel Grünbaum
as Der Knopfgiesser
as Nicolas Cramer
as Gerd Wiesler
as Knövel
as Self
as Jochen Hensel
as Gerd Wegener
as Claudius Müller
as Eugen Ott
as Günther Gaus
as SS-Arzt
as Self
as Self
as Goebbels bzw. Geduldig
as Henri
as Manfred Reimann
as Markus Paufler
as Dr. Leon Stein
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Jacob Gontard
as Eschbach
as Erich Branner
as Robert Kolmaar
as Self
as Self
as K
as Kommissar
as Georg
as Christian Plache
as Hugo Wallner
as Dr. Jochen Schuster
as Pfarrer Ohlbaum
as Sturm
as Dr. Herbert Pieritz
as Dr. Heinrich Gützkow
as Sergej
as Self
as Karl 'Kalle' Kaminski
as Stefan Phillis
as Gerber - Kommandant
as Georg, Benny's Father
as Dr. Wieland
as Lehrer
as Johannes Friedemann
as Flimmer
as Sieghart
as Patriarch
as Theodor Lohse
as Raoul Fürstenau
as Maximilian Steinhüter
as Self
as Oberleutnant Stein
as Dr. Grote
as Rudolf Schwarz
as Siegfried Strauch
as Friedrich Hölderlin
as Revolutionär
as Sohn Leutnant Leo
as Junger Mann
as Osvald
as Retzlow
as Self
as Self
as Kegel
as Peter Fuchs
as Friedel Hebbel
as Self
as Self
Director
as Director