Name
Ulrich Mühe
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1953-06-20
Deathday
2007-07-22 (54 years old)
Place of Birth
Grimma, Germany
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).
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- 2006 The Lives of Others as Gerd Wiesler
- 1997 Funny Games as Georg
- 1992 Benny's Video as Georg, Benny's Father
- 2010 Nemesis as Robert
- 2005 Snowland as Knövel
- 1992 Schtonk! as Dr. Wieland
- 2007 My Führer as Prof. Adolf Israel Grünbaum
- 1998 Night Time as Eschbach
- 2002 Amen. as The Doctor
- 1997 The Castle as K
- 1995 Rudy, the Racing Pig as Dr. Heinrich Gützkow
- 1991 Jugend ohne Gott as Lehrer
- 1986 Das Buschgespenst as Siegfried Strauch
- 2006 Das Geheimnis von St. Ambrose as Nicolas Cramer
- 1989 Spider's Web as Theodor Lohse
- 1993 The Last U-Boat as Gerber - Kommandant
- 1999 Einfach raus as Manfred Reimann
- 1997 Little Angel as Kommissar
- 2001 Goebbels und Geduldig as Goebbels bzw. Geduldig
- 2004 Hunger auf Leben as Jochen Hensel
- 1995 … nächste Woche ist Frieden as Dr. Herbert Pieritz
- 1995 Nikolaikirche as Pfarrer Ohlbaum
- 2006 Peer Gynt as Der Knopfgiesser
- 1999 Straight Shooter as Markus Paufler
- 1993 Das tödliche Auge as Stefan Phillis
- 1985 The Woman and the Stranger as Revolutionär
- 1984 Die Poggenpuhls as Sohn Leutnant Leo
- 1985 Hälfte des Lebens as Friedrich Hölderlin
- 1996 Peanuts - Die Bank zahlt alles as Dr. Jochen Schuster
- 1997 Sterben ist gesünder as Hugo Wallner
- 1998 36 Stunden Angst - Ein Vater kämpft um sein Kind as Rudolph
- 1983 Olle Henry as Junger Mann
- 1994 The Blue One as Karl 'Kalle' Kaminski
- 2003 Alles Samba as Gerd Wegener
- 1995 Nadja – Heimkehr in die Fremde as Sergej
- 2003 Spy Sorge as Eugen Ott
- 2001 Dreimal Leben as Henri
- 1991 Der kleine Herr Friedemann as Johannes Friedemann
- 1987 Die erste Reihe as Rudolf Schwarz
- 1990 Hard Days, Hard Nights as Flimmer
- 1995 Geschäfte as Sturm
- 1989 Späte Ankunft as Raoul Fürstenau
- 1983 Gespenster as Osvald
- 2003 Hamlet_X as Claudius Müller
- 1999 Todesengel as Dr. Leon Stein
- 1998 Rider of the Flames as Jacob Gontard
- 1990 Die Zeit ist aus den Fugen
- 1987 Sansibar oder Der letzte Grund as Dr. Grote
- 2004 Der Ausländer
- 1997 Deadly Silence as Christian Plache
- 1983 Der Mann und sein Name as Retzlow
- 1990 Longing as Sieghart
- 1988 Nadine, meine Liebe as Oberleutnant Stein
- 1985 Die dritte Frau
- 1990 Nathan der Weise as Patriarch
- 2011 Jedermann Remixed as Devil (archive footage)
- 1989 Imago
- 1989 Die gläserne Fackel ( 7 episodes ) as Maximilian Steinhüter
- 1970 Scene of the Crime ( 1 episode ) as Peter Fuchs
- 1970 Scene of the Crime ( 1 episode ) as Friedel Hebbel
- 1994 Rosa Roth ( 1 episode )
- 1998 Der letzte Zeuge ( 73 episodes ) as Robert Kolmaar
- 1998 Siska ( 1 episode ) as Erich Branner
- 1971 Polizeiruf 110 ( 1 episode ) as Kegel
- 2002 Through the Night with... ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1999 German Television Award ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2003 Im Schatten der Macht ( 2 episodes ) as Günther Gaus
- 1951 German Film Award ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1989 Blauer Panther ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1948 Bambi ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1995 Goldene Henne ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1983 Telestar ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1999 Volle Kanne ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1979 Bavarian Film Awards ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1998 The Johannes B. Kerner Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2005 Stars präsentieren ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1999 maybrit illner ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2002 Langer Samstag ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1998 Lebensläufe ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1996 Nadja – Heimkehr in die Fremde ( 2 episodes ) as Sergej
- 1991 End of Innocence ( 2 episodes ) as Julian Green
