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Ulrich Mühe

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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.


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Born:
Jun 20, 1953 In Grimma, German Democratic Republic [now Saxony, Federal Republic of Germany]
Movie/TV Credits:
58
First Appeared:
In the series Scene of the Crime 1970-11-29
Latest Project:
Movie Jedermann Remixed 2011-07-31
Known For
Poster of Im Schatten der Macht
Poster of Nikolaikirche
Poster of … nächste Woche ist Frieden
Poster of Die erste Reihe
Filmography
Movie Jedermann Remixed Devil (archive footage) 2011-07-31
Movie Nemesis Robert 2010-10-27
Movie My Führer Prof. Adolf Israel Grünbaum 2007-01-11
Movie The Lives of Others Gerd Wiesler 2006-03-23
Movie Das Geheimnis von St. Ambrose Nicolas Cramer 2006-10-03
Movie Peer Gynt Der Knopfgiesser 2006-12-13
Movie Snowland Knövel 2005-01-20
Movie Hunger auf Leben Jochen Hensel 2004-06-18
Movie Der Ausländer 2004-10-20
Movie Hamlet_X Claudius Müller 2003-06-21
Movie Spy Sorge Eugen Ott 2003-06-14
Movie Alles Samba Gerd Wegener 2003-12-12
Movie Im Schatten der Macht Günter Gaus 2003-10-23
Movie Amen. SS-Arzt 2002-02-27
Movie Goebbels und Geduldig Goebbels bzw. Geduldig 2001-10-24
Movie Dreimal Leben Henri 2001-01-01
Movie Straight Shooter Markus Paufler 1999-04-15
Movie Todesengel Dr. Leon Stein 1999-03-13
Movie Einfach raus Manfred Reimann 1999-06-30
Movie Night Time Eschbach 1998-05-20
Series Der letzte Zeuge Robert Kolmaar 1998-03-23
Movie Rider of the Flames 1998-05-26
Movie 36 Stunden Angst - Ein Vater kämpft um sein Kind Rudolph 1998-10-27
Series Siska Erich Branner 1998-10-30
Movie Deadly Silence Christian Plache 1997-05-03
Movie Little Angel Kommissar 1997-09-04
Movie Sterben ist gesünder Hugo Wallner 1997-01-01
Movie Funny Games Georg 1997-09-11
Movie The Castle K 1997-09-06
Movie Peanuts – Die Bank zahlt alles Dr. Jochen Schuster 1996-03-21
Movie … nächste Woche ist Frieden Dr. Herbert Pieritz 1995-04-25
Movie Rudy, the Racing Pig Dr. Heinrich Gützkow 1995-01-01
Movie Nadja – Heimkehr in die Fremde Sergej 1995-01-01
Movie Nikolaikirche Pfarrer Ohlbaum 1995-10-16
Movie Geschäfte Sturm 1995-10-09
Movie The Blue One Karl 'Kalle' Kaminski 1994-02-21
Series Rosa Roth 1994-11-05
Movie Das tödliche Auge Stefan Phillis 1993-01-18
Movie The Last U-Boat Gerber - Kommandant 1993-03-20
Movie Schtonk! Dr. Wieland 1992-03-12
Movie Benny's Video Vater 1992-10-20
Movie Der kleine Herr Friedemann Johannes Friedemann 1991-03-29
Movie Jugend ohne Gott Lehrer 1991-11-24
Movie Die Zeit ist aus den Fugen 1990-01-01
Movie Longing Sieghart 1990-05-30
Movie Hard Days, Hard Nights Flimmer 1990-08-16
Movie Späte Ankunft Raoul Fürstenau 1989-02-26
Movie Spider's Web Theodor Lohse 1989-09-21
Movie Die erste Reihe Rudolf Schwarz 1987-11-22
Movie Sansibar oder Der letzte Grund Dr. Grote 1987-12-13
Movie Das Buschgespenst Siegfried Strauch 1986-12-26
Movie Hälfte des Lebens Friedrich Hölderlin 1985-04-18
Movie The Woman and the Stranger Revolutionär 1985-01-31
Movie Die dritte Frau 1985-08-25
Movie Die Poggenpuhls Sohn Leutnant Leo 1984-05-23
Movie Der Mann und sein Name Retzlow 1983-05-29
Movie Olle Henry Junger Mann 1983-11-24
Series Scene of the Crime Friedel Hebbel 1970-11-29