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Ulrich Mühe
Born: 20th Jun 1953 Grimma, Germany - Died 22nd Jul 2007
Dept: Acting
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).
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 80
Film: 57 (71%)
Television: 23 (29%)
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Filmography
2011
Based on archive holdings from nine decades, director Hannes Rossacher has created a complete Jedermann performance and thus a unique cultural-histori ... view
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Devil (archive footage)
2010
Claire and Robert spend most of their time in a house they own in the beautiful and remote countryside in Italy. Their life seems to be perfect. But w ... view
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Robert
Original title: Mein Führer - Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler
2007
Hitler no longer believes in himself, and can barely see himself as an equal to even his sheep dog. But to seize the helm of the war he would have to ... view
Character:
Prof. Adolf Israel Grünbaum
2006
Young Peer Gynt returns home once again after unsuccessfully looking for work. His mother already goes to meet him and he describes his alleged advent ... view
Character:
Der Knopfgiesser
Character:
Nicolas Cramer
Original title: Das Leben der Anderen
2006
In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes un ... view
Character:
Gerd Wiesler
Original title: Schneeland
2005
Based on the novel Hohaj by Elisabeth Rynell, it depicts the devastation felt by Elizabeth, a woman who had lost her husband in a car accident and wan ... view
Character:
Knövel
2004
Documentary by Thomas Heise filmed in East Berlin in 1987/88. ... view
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2003
Art expert Katharina Diezmann is out of the blue, when one day the little Brazilian Marcia is standing at her door. Years ago Katharina had taken over ... view
Character:
Gerd Wegener
2003
A great mosaic, a labyrinth of scenes, dialogue splinters, interviews, portraits of people surrounding Hamlet and wanting to be part of his story. ... view
Character:
Claudius Müller
Original title: スパイ・ゾルゲ
2003
A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outbreak of World War II and in the midst of the Japan ... view
Character:
Eugen Ott
May 2002 (first aired)
Durch die Nacht mit … is a German documentary film television series produced by ZDF for Franco-German television channel ARTE. Locations are mainly ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
2002
Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is being used to ... view
Character:
The Doctor
2001
It is 1944 and Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels narrowly escapes an assassination attempt on the way to Obersalzberg. It is whispered to h ... view
Character:
Goebbels bzw. Geduldig
Oct 1999 (first aired)
Political talk show on current topics presented by Maybrit Illner. ... view
Character:
Self (2 ep.)
1999
"Einfach raus!" is the wish that 18-year-old Andreas has had for a long time. Simply get out of the GDR and go to the West to realize his life's dream ... view
Character:
Manfred Reimann
1999
After his daughter died of cancer, former French foreign legionnaire "Straight Shooter" alias Volker Bretz threatens those who financed, built, favour ... view
Character:
Markus Paufler
1999
A 15-year-old girl goes into the woods with some friends at night. She is raped by three men. Those who witnessed the crime did nothing and are not ke ... view
Character:
Dr. Leon Stein
Oct 1998 (first aired)
Siska is a German television series created by Herbert Reinecker and Helmut Ringelmann and broadcast since October 30, 1998 on the network ZDF. In Fra ... view
Character:
Erich Branner (1 ep.)
Original title: Feuerreiter
1998
Feuerreiter is an elegant period drama that begins in Frankfurt in 1796. Through his friend, Baron von Sinclair, romantic and rebellious poet Friedric ... view
Character:
Jacob Gontard
Original title: Sieben Monde
1998
Thomas Krömer follows the traces of a brutal murder in werewolf-manner out of personal interest. After investigating for some time, the traces all po ... view
Character:
Eschbach
1997
Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for th ... view
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Georg
Original title: Das Schloß
1997
When land surveyor K arrives at a small village that houses a castle, local authorities refuse to allow him to enter. As he tries to convince the offi ... view
Character:
K
Original title: Engelchen
1997
Ramona lives her lonely life in Berlin working in a lipstick factory. One day she accidentally runs into Andrzei, a Polish mechanic illegally selling ... view
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Kommissar
Original title: Tödliches Schweigen
1997
A gay man's return to his family in East Germany begins a series of tragic events. ... view
Character:
Christian Plache
1996
Building contractor Jochen Schuster takes out loans worth millions to finance a dubious building project and fulfill the extravagant wishes of his lov ... view
Character:
Dr. Jochen Schuster
1995
The story of a Leipzig family from 1987 to the Monday demonstrations in 1989. After the death of her father, a high-ranking officer in the People's Po ... view
Character:
Pfarrer Ohlbaum
Original title: Rennschwein Rudi Rüssel
1995
Flat-dwelling urban family win a pig in a raffle, and decide to keep it. They lose their flat (no pets allowed) but eventually Rudi the pig makes good ... view
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Dr. Heinrich Gützkow
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: Der Blaue
1994
In this German political drama, an ex-Stasi agent encounters an old friend whom he may have betrayed after his friend tried to escape East Germany. Th ... view
Character:
Karl 'Kalle' Kaminski
Original title: Das letzte U-Boot
1993
Near the end of WWII a lone U-Boat is sent from Germany to Japan carrying plutonium needed for a Japanese A-Bomb. During the long journey, news arrive ... view
Character:
Gerber - Kommandant
1992
A 14-year-old video enthusiast obsessed with violent films decides to make one of his own and show it to his parents, with tragic results. ... view
Character:
Georg, Benny's Father
1992
Schtonk! is a farce of the actual events of 1983, when Germany's Stern magazine published, with great fanfare, 60 volumes of the alleged diaries of Ad ... view
Character:
Dr. Wieland
1991
A teacher at a German high-school in the nineteen thirties has issues with his students who seem to be getting less human and more convinced of Nazi i ... view
Character:
Lehrer
Apr 1991 (first aired)
End of Innocence is a two-part television film that focuses on the work of the German Uranium Association during World War II.
At Farm Hall in Englan ... view
Character:
Julian Green (2 ep.)
1991
The Lübeck merchant Friedemann owes his crippled figure to a wet nurse "devoted to drink". He lives a secluded life with his three simple-minded sist ... view
Character:
Johannes Friedemann
1990
Hamburg 1960: The Liverpool band "Rick and the Rich Kids" and their manager, the young American Chris, arrive in the land of the economic miracle with ... view
Character:
Flimmer
Original title: Sehnsucht
1990
Ena lives on a remote farmstead. One stormy night, hydraulic engineer Sieghart appears at her door after his car gets stuck in the mud. Although Ena f ... view
Character:
Sieghart
1990
From August 1989 to March 1990, Heiner Müller and the Deutsches Theater ensemble develop “Hamlet/Maschine” amid East Germany’s peaceful uprisin ... view
Character:
Oct 1989 (first aired)
A moving chronicle of the long-established company Carl Zeiss Jena. ... view
Character:
Maximilian Steinhüter (7 ep.)
Original title: Das Spinnennetz
1989
Ulrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an eminently suitable candidate for success in the ch ... view
Character:
Theodor Lohse
1989
In 1896 the Berlin noble doctor Dr. Wilhelm Holtfreter takes over his well-to-do wife Mathilde and takes over the country doctor's office in the Pruss ... view
Character:
Raoul Fürstenau
1987
Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, the paths of three people on the run cross by chance in the small Baltic Sea port of Rerig: Gregor, a mem ... view
Character:
Dr. Grote
1987
Berlin in the 1930s - Adolf Hitler comes to power, communists and social democrats are persecuted, books are burned and Jewish citizens are ostracized ... view
Character:
Rudolf Schwarz
1986
In the forests of the Ore Mountains, on the border with Bohemia, a gang of smugglers is up to mischief. Anyone who dares to oppose them is murdered in ... view
Character:
Siegfried Strauch
1985
This tragic love story relates ten decisive years in the life of the great Romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin, played by a young Ulrich Mühe. ... view
Character:
Friedrich Hölderlin
Original title: Die Frau und der Fremde
1985
Based on a switched identity, in circumstances that are found in real life as well as fiction, this drama tells the story of two soldiers fighting tog ... view
Character:
Revolutionär
1984
The long-established aristocratic von Poggenpuhl family has seen better days. Towards the end of the 19th century, the major's widow and her children ... view
Character:
Sohn Leutnant Leo
1983
1945. Peace still bears the traces of war everywhere. There meet the animated girl Xenia and the former boxer Henry. Being together gives them a sense ... view
Character:
Junger Mann
1983
Mrs. Alving has hidden her unhappy marriage to a morally depraved man from the world for years. To remove all doubt, she founds an orphanage in her hu ... view
Character:
Osvald
1983
The young Walter Retzlow, drafted into the guard team of a foreign labor factory in the last year of the war, receives the papers of a murdered anti-f ... view
Character:
Retzlow
Jun 1971 (first aired)
Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Re ... view
Character:
Kegel (1 ep.)
Nov 1970 (first aired)
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels ... view
Character:
Peter Fuchs (1 ep.)
Friedel Hebbel (1 ep.)
Jan 1948 (first aired)
The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in i ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)