Actor Ulrich Mühe

Ulrich Mühe
Photo of actor 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ulrich Mühe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of birth
Grimma, Germany Grimma, Germany
Date of birth
20th June 1953
Date of death
22nd July 2007
Movies that starred Ulrich Mühe (8 in total)
Nemesis poster

Nemesis [2010]

Robert
My Führer poster

My Führer [2007]

Prof. Adolf Israel Grünbaum
The Lives of Others poster

The Lives of Others [2006]

Gerd Wiesler
Amen. poster

Amen. [2002]

SS-Arzt
Straight Shooter poster

Straight Shooter [1999]

Markus Paufler
Night Time poster

Night Time [1998]

Eschbach
Funny Games poster

Funny Games [1997]

Georg
Benny's Video poster

Benny's Video [1993]

Vater
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