Ulrich Mühe
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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Full filmography
- Scene of the Crime (1970) as Peter Fuchs
- Scene of the Crime (1970) as Friedel Hebbel
- Polizeiruf 110 (1971) as Kegel
- Volle Kanne (1999) as Self
- The Johannes B. Kerner Show (1998) as Self
- Bambi (1948) as Self
- maybrit illner (1999) as Self
- German Film Award (1951) as Self
- Siska (1998) as Erich Branner
- The Lives of Others (2006) as Gerd Wiesler
- Der letzte Zeuge (1998) as Robert Kolmaar
- Blauer Panther (1989) as Self
- Bavarian Film Awards (1979) as Self
- Through the Night with... (2002) as Self
- German Television Award (1999) as Self
- Rosa Roth (1994)
- Goldene Henne (1995) as Self
- Funny Games (1997) as Georg
- Lebensläufe (1998) as Self
- Telestar (1983) as Self
- My Führer (2007) as Prof. Adolf Israel Grünbaum
- Benny's Video (1992) as Georg, Benny's Father
- Amen. (2002) as The Doctor
- Spy Sorge (2003) as Eugen Ott