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