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  • BIRTH 20/06/1953
  • DEATH 22/07/2007
  • Country Germany
  • SHOWS 3
  • MOVIES 14

Ulrich Mühe

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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Ulrich Mühe

Shows (3)

Tatort
Tatort
Friedel Hebbel / Peter Fuchs
Siska
Siska
Erich Branner
Police Call 110
Police Call 110
Kegel

Movies (14)

Das Leben der Anderen
Das Leben der Anderen
Gerd Wiesler
Funny Games
Funny Games
Georg
Amen.
Amen.
SS-Arzt
Mein Führer - Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler
Mein Führer - Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit…
Prof. Adolf Israel Grünbaum
Rennschwein Rudi Rüssel
Rennschwein Rudi Rüssel
Dr. Heinrich Gützkow
Das Schloß
Das Schloß
K
Engelchen
Engelchen
Kommissar
Schtonk!
Schtonk!
Dr. Wieland
Sieben Monde
Sieben Monde
Eschbach
Peanuts - Die Bank zahlt alles
Peanuts - Die Bank zahlt alles
Dr. Jochen Schuster
Das Spinnennetz
Das Spinnennetz
Theodor Lohse
Nemesis
Nemesis
Robert
スパイ・ゾルゲ
スパイ・ゾルゲ
Eugen Ott
Benny's Video
Benny's Video
Georg, Benny's Father