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