Mehmet Kurtuluş

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Mehmet Kurtuluş at the 2017 Nibelungen Festival in Worms

Mehmet Kurtuluş (born April 27, 1972 in Uşak ) is a German-Turkish actor . In 2004 he co-produced the internationally award-winning feature film Gegen die Wand .

Life

Kurtuluş was born in the Turkish city of Uşak. When he was two years old he moved to Salzgitter with his family . His brother Tekin Kurtuluş is also an actor. He had his first successes at the Gymnasium am Fredenberg in the school theater group alongside Thorsten Renz. After graduating from high school in 1991, he played at the Braunschweig State Theater . According to his own account, he was discovered by the actress Evelyn Hamann . She met him while filming an episode of Adelheid and Her Murderers , in which he had a ten-second appearance as a supporting actor. She then recommended him for a role in the play Gingerbread and Gin . In this stage production with Evelyn Hamann in the leading role, he was seen in the comedy Winterhuder Fährhaus in Hamburg in 1994 and 1995 and in the Theater am Kurfürstendamm in Berlin .

After his first television roles in various television series and a further theater engagement at the Hamburger Kammerspiele , he achieved his breakthrough in Fatih Akıns Kurz und painless (1998) in the leading role of the young Turk Gabriel . He had previously worked with Akın on his award-winning short film Getürkt (1996).

Leading roles followed, including in the successful two-part TV series Der Tunnel by Roland Suso Richter . There he played alongside Heino Ferch and Nicolette Krebitz . Doris Dörrie engaged him for her chamber play-like film Nackt .

Since November 2007 he has been a sponsor at the Braunschweig Music Academy.

Kurtuluş played in the successor to Robert Atzorn from 2008 to 2011 in six episodes as chief inspector Cenk Batu at the NDR - Tatort in Hamburg an undercover investigator. Previously, he was seen in the controversial Tatort episode Whose Honor is due (2007) alongside Maria Furtwängler as an investigator.

After Kurtuluş had not extended his contract with the NDR for the crime scene , he announced in March 2011 that he wanted to concentrate on his international film projects in the future. First he played William Shakespeare's Othello in the old theater in Stuttgart in autumn 2011 . In 2012 he moved to Los Angeles . In autumn 2013 he stood in front of the camera together with Samuel L. Jackson in the Finnish-German-British production Big Game , which was mostly shot in Munich. In 2020 he was seen in the first Belgian Netflix series Into the Night .

Kurtuluş was in a relationship with Désirée Nosbusch until 2013 . The two met while filming together. He has two children from a previous relationship.

Filmography

movie theater

watch TV

Awards

Web links

Commons : Mehmet Kurtuluş  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Carmen Stephan. In: Neon, April 2009, p. 134.
  2. ↑ Interview with Carmen Stephan. Neon, April 2009, p. 134.
  3. ^ Spiegel Online : Interview with Mehmet Kurtuluş . October 20, 2008
  4. ↑ prisma TV Guide: Mehmet Kurtuluş
  5. ^ Spiegel Online: Mehmet Kurtulus becomes the new Hamburg commissioner , April 24, 2007
  6. ^ ZEIT Online : Mehmet Kurtulus investigates in Hamburg . May 3, 2007
  7. ↑ FAZ.NET : Mehmet Kurtulus only plays twice , March 4, 2011
  8. ↑ Mehmet Kurtulus in Hollywood - Risk? With pleasure, Digger! SZ of November 11, 2013
  9. ↑ prisma.de: "Into the Night": A "Tatort" commissioner in the Belgian Netflix series , May 7, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Kurtuluş, Mehmet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Turkish actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Usak