Ulrich Mühe

Also Known As: Friedrich Hans 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.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Grimma, Germany

Adult: No

Birthday: June 20, 1953

Age: 71 years old

Gender: Male

Deathday: July 22, 2007

Popularity:

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Known For:

The Lives of Others
Funny Games
Benny's Video
Nemesis
Snowland
Schtonk!
My Führer
Night Time
Amen.
The Castle
Rudy, the Racing Pig
Jugend ohne Gott
Das Buschgespenst
Das Geheimnis von St. Ambrose
Spider's Web
The Last U-Boat
Einfach raus
Little Angel
Goebbels und Geduldig
Hunger auf Leben
… nächste Woche ist Frieden
Nikolaikirche
Peer Gynt
Straight Shooter
Das tödliche Auge
The Woman and the Stranger
Die Poggenpuhls
Hälfte des Lebens
Peanuts - Die Bank zahlt alles
Sterben ist gesünder
36 Stunden Angst - Ein Vater kämpft um sein Kind
Olle Henry
The Blue One
Alles Samba
Nadja – Heimkehr in die Fremde
Spy Sorge
Dreimal Leben
Der kleine Herr Friedemann
Die erste Reihe
Hard Days, Hard Nights
Geschäfte
Späte Ankunft
Gespenster
Hamlet_X
Todesengel
Rider of the Flames
Die Zeit ist aus den Fugen
Sansibar oder Der letzte Grund
Der Ausländer
Deadly Silence
Der Mann und sein Name
Longing
Nadine, meine Liebe
Die dritte Frau
Nathan der Weise
Jedermann Remixed
Imago