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Ulrich Mühe (2005)

Friedrich Hans Ulrich Mühe (born June 20, 1953 in Grimma ; † July 22, 2007 in Walbeck ) was a German film and theater actor . His greatest achievements starring one in the movie The Lives of Others , of 2007 the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film was awarded.

Live and act

education

Ulrich Mühe was the son of a master furrier and grew up with his brother Andreas, who later continued his father's workshop. After graduating from school, he completed vocational training as a construction worker. His subsequent military service , which he had to end prematurely because of a stomach ulcer, he performed with the GDR border troops at the Berlin Wall . From 1975 to 1979 he studied acting at the “Hans Otto” theater school in Leipzig .

As a theater actor

Ulrich Mühe with Inge Keller  (left) and Simone von Zglinicki  (right) at a performance of Ibsen's Ghosts , November 18, 1983

After completing his studies, Ulrich Mühe was employed at the Städtisches Theater Karl-Marx-Stadt before Heiner Müller brought him to Berlin in 1982, initially as a guest at the Volksbühne Berlin . In 1983 Mühe became a member of the Deutsches Theater , where he impressed in roles such as Egmont (1986), Lessing's Philotas and the Patriarch in Nathan der Weise (1988) and became the star of the ensemble. Mühle's embodiment of the title role in Hamlet and in Die Hamletmaschine in a production by Heiner Müller from 1989 should be emphasized .

After the political change he had changing theater engagements, including at the Burgtheater under Claus Peymann ( Clavigo von Goethe with Andrea Clausen and Paulus Manker as well as Peer Gynt ) and in 1990 at the Salzburg Festival as King Alphons in Die Jüdin von Toledo (with Susanne Lothar ). Since the end of the 1990s he returned to the stage and played for example in 1999 at the Hamburger Kammerspiele in Sarah Kanes Gesäubert (director: Peter Zadek ) and at the Wiener Burg in Henri in Yasmina Reza's Drei Mal Leben (director: Luc Bondy ). In addition to other extraordinary stage productions such as Wittgenstein Incorporated (Wiener Festwochen, 2003) and Sarah Kanes Zerbombt (Berlin, 2005), you could experience trouble at many literary readings and events.

Mühe was a member of the performing arts department of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts .

As a film actor

From 1983 on, Mühe took part in various cinema and television films. As Lieutenant Lohse, the leading role in The Spider's Web by Bernhard Wicki from 1989, he shone alongside Klaus Maria Brandauer and for the first time achieved greater fame in the West; He built his fame throughout Germany especially in 1992 with his role in the Oscar-nominated satire Schtonk! about the forged Hitler diaries . In 1990 he played the title role in the film adaptation of Thomas Mann's novella Der kleine Herr Friedemann, Friedemann suffering from his ugliness and crippling.

At the side of his wife Susanne Lothar , Mühe played in the films Das Schloß (1997, film adaptation of the Franz Kafka novel of the same name ) and Funny Games (1997) by the Austrian director Michael Haneke .

In 2000 he played the role of Propaganda Minister Goebbels in the TV comedy Goebbels and Geduldig . In 2002, he embodied a high-ranking SS man in the multiple award-winning drama Der Stellvertreter, based on the play of the same name by Rolf Hochhuth , who enthusiastically fulfilled his task in the extermination of the Jews.

In 2004, Mühe portrayed Stasi captain Gerd Wiesler in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's film The Lives of Others , which was released in German cinemas in March 2006 and received the Oscar for best foreign language film in 2007 . Ulrich Mühe was awarded the German Film Prize 2006 for best leading actor and the European Film Prize 2006 for best actor for this role . Woody Harrelson said at the beginning of 2010 that Mühe had produced the best acting performance for him in the last decade . He also received the Golden Hen in 2006 .

In addition, Mühe has played the coroner Dr. Robert Kolmaar in the ZDF crime series The Last Witness . His last movie was Nemesis , in which he played the leading role together with Susanne Lothar . Due to a legal dispute, the film could only be shown in 2010, three years after his death.

Private life

Grave of Ulrich Mühe in Walbeck

Mühe had two sons from his first marriage to the dramaturge Annegret Hahn (* 1951): Andreas Mühe (* 1979) is a photographer; Konrad Mühe (* 1982) studied fine arts at the Berlin University of the Arts ; his short film Questions to My Father received an honorable mention from the jury at the 2011 Berlinale. In his second marriage, Ulrich Mühe was married to actress Jenny Gröllmann (1947-2006) from 1984 to 1990 , whom he met while filming Die Poggenpuhls . From this marriage a daughter emerged, the actress Anna Maria Mühe (* 1985).

During an engagement at the theater in Zurich in 1990, he fell in love with the actress Susanne Lothar (1960–2012), whom he married soon afterwards and with whom he lived until his death. He lived with her and their two children first in Hamburg and from 1999 in Berlin.

Shortly after the Academy Awards in March 2007, Mühe had an operation for gastric cancer. He succumbed to the disease at the age of 54 in his summer house in Walbeck, where US actor Tom Cruise had visited him ten days before his death . On July 25, 2007, Mühe was buried in the parish cemetery .

Others

Political commitment

Johanna Schall and Ulrich Mühe speak at the large demonstration in Berlin on November 4, 1989

During the fall of the Berlin Wall, Mühe was involved in public discussions in the GDR and was one of the initiators of the demonstration on November 4, 1989 on Alexanderplatz in Berlin. He read publicly in the German Theater in East Berlin, which was then run by Dieter Mann , from Walter Janka's book Difficulties with Truth, even before it was allowed to appear in the GDR.

Documentation

The director Christoph Rüter documented the rehearsals for Heiner Müller's production Hamlet / Machine at the Deutsches Theater in East Berlin, in which Ulrich Mühe played the leading role: The Time is out of Joint (100 min. , WDR ). At the same time, the film shows the disappearance of the GDR. Another documentary by Rüter, Now I'm Alone, was made after Ulrich Mühe's death and was first broadcast on 3sat on July 26, 2008, close to the first anniversary of his death . After Mühle's death, his son Konrad made the short film Questions to My Father (2011).

Confrontation with Jenny Gröllmann

In 2006 Ulrich Mühe expressed himself in an interview for the film book The Lives of Others about alleged informal contacts of his second wife Jenny Gröllmann with the HA II / 13 of the MfS . Gröllmann then obtained preliminary injunctions from the Berlin Regional Court against the publisher of the book and against Mühe himself. She affirmed that she had never “knowingly” collaborated with the Ministry for State Security. The court granted Gröllmann's application and prohibited further distribution of the book. The court dismissed Mühes' objection and forbade him to continue to designate Jenny Gröllmann as an unofficial employee , since the MfS documents would provide "suspicious factors", but no facts.

Filmography

Theater engagements

Theater roles

As a theater director

Radio plays (selection)

Audio books

Documentaries

  • Ulrich Mühe - Relentless, even against himself. Documentary film, Germany, 2007, 30 min., Script and director: Leonore Brandt, production: MDR , series: CVs, first broadcast: March 30, 2008 on MDR, synopsis by MDR.
  • Now I'm alone - the actor Ulrich Mühe. Documentary film, Germany, 2008, 60 min., Script and director: Christoph Rüter, production: Christoph Rüter Filmproduktion, arte , first broadcast: September 29, 2008 by arte, summary by Christoph Rüter.

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Ulrich Mühe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Broken . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 26, 2007; obituary
  2. ↑ Short interviews for the New York Times Magazine , youtube
  3. ↑ How the Merkel photographer put Berlin in . rbb-online; January 21, 2010, accessed January 29, 2010.
  4. ^ University of the Arts Berlin
  5. ↑ Prizes & Awards 2011 . berlinale.de. Retrieved May 24, 2013.
  6. ↑ Yes, I have cancer . Welt Online , July 21, 2007
  7. ↑ Benedikt Vallendar His other life. justament.de, accessed on June 25, 2016
  8. ^ Hahne, Dieter: Why our community center bears the name 'Ulrich Mühe', in: Heimatgrüße aus Walbeck (ed. By Dietmar Pätz, Dieter Hahne and Jutta Pätz), design: Meiling Druck, Haldensleben 2015, page 65.
  9. ↑ Pathos, razor sharp . In: Der Tagesspiegel , July 26, 2008
  10. ↑ Questions to my father . Berlinale Shorts, Berlinale 2011
  11. ↑ The Lives of Others: Court stops Suhrkamp-Buch . In: Spiegel Online , April 13, 2006
  12. ↑ Trouble process: Gröllmann may not be called IM . In: Spiegel Online , July 4, 2006
  13. ↑ Jenny Gröllmann: "I have to finish this - until my death, if you like" . Stern Online, July 19, 2006.
  14. ↑ In the audio commentary of the film The Lives of Others , the director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck points out that the Birthler authority Ulrich Mühe had confirmed Jenny Gröllmann's IM activity, but he was not allowed to call her such, any more than Bärbel Bohley , which could confirm that her lawyer Gregor Gysi was doing the same, but calling Gregor Gysis as "IM notary" was forbidden under penalty. The sales company responsible for the DVD committed itself in writing in December 2006 not to distribute these passages in the future.
  15. ↑ Awarding of the Helene Weigel Prize from the Minister for Culture to the actor Ulrich Mühe in 1988 ( Memento from October 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) BArch Bild 183-1988-0328-024
  16. ↑ Gold / platinum database of the Federal Music Industry Association, accessed June 12, 2016
  17. ↑ Jochen-Martin Gutsch: The praise of others . In: Der Spiegel . No. 33 , 2007 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Trouble, Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trouble, Friedrich Hans Ulrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Grimma , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 2007
Place of death Walbeck , Saxony-Anhalt