Ulrich Noethen

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Ulrich Noethen (2010)

Ulrich Noethen (born November 18, 1959 in Munich ; real name Ulrich Schmid ) is a German theater and film actor .

Life

Ulrich Noethen grew up as the youngest of five children in a parish family . The family initially lived in Neu-Ulm on the Danube , where their father Klaus-Peter Schmid (1920–2018) was the dean of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. The family later moved to Augsburg . He graduated from high school there near St. Anna . He studied for a short time law , but later drama at the University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart . Ulrich Schmid took his mother's maiden name (Noethen) as his stage name. He married the actress Friederike Wagner , with whom he has a daughter. After thirteen years of marriage, the couple lived separately from 2005 onwards. The marriage has been divorced since 2009. Ulrich Noethen lives with Alina Bronsky and their three children from their first marriage in Berlin-Charlottenburg . The couple have a daughter together.

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theatre

From 1985 to 1987 he was a member of the ensemble of the municipal theaters in Freiburg . He was then engaged in the Birach tent ensemble until 1988 and then moved to the Schauspiel Köln for two years , where he worked under the direction of Frank Castorf and Max Färberböck , among others . He then moved to the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin . He drew attention to himself there through his performance in productions of Faust , Death and the Devil and A Midsummer Night's Dream . When the Staatliche Bühnen Berlin closed, he switched to film.

Movie

Ulrich Noethen as Ferdinand Sauerbruch , 2018

In 1995 he was able to see him for the first time in the television series The Partners . He appeared in Dominik Graf's Tatort episode Frau Bu lacht (1995) and in The Scorpion (1996). For his role in Scorpio , he was nominated for the Golden Lion for Best Supporting Actor.

1997 was the year of Ulrich Noethen's breakthrough as a film actor with the role of a cappella singer and arranger Harry Frommermann in the successful film Comedian Harmonists . For the role he was awarded the German Film Prize for Best Actor in 1998 and, together with Ben Becker , Heino Ferch , Heinrich Schafmeister , Max Tidof and Kai Wiesinger , the Bavarian Film Prize . In 1997 he won the Bavarian TV Prize for best actor in Der Ausbruch und Bosenfreunde .

In 2000 he played the theater critic and columnist Kurt Tucholsky in the literary film adaptation of Gripsholm, alongside Heike Makatsch , Rudolf Wessely and Jasmin Tabatabai . In 2001 Noethen played the role of Mr. Taschenbier in Paul Maar's film Das Sams . In the following years he remained in the family comedy genre with roles in Bibi Blocksberg (2002), The Flying Classroom by Erich Kästner as a teacher Dr. Johann “Justus” Bökh (2003) and in the sequel to Sams in Danger (2003) treu.

In 2004 he took part in Oliver Hirschbiegel's film Der Untergang in the role of Heinrich Himmler , a role he took in 2007 in Dani Levy's black comedy Mein Führer - The Truly Truth About Adolf Hitler alongside Helge Schneider , Sylvester Groth and Ulrich Mühe in completely different Interpretation occupied again. Also in 2004 he was seen in the television drama The Boxer and the Hairdresser as the gay star hairdresser Fränki Laue. In 2005 he embodied the figure of the father in the tragic comedy Polly Blue Eyes alongside Matthias Schweighöfer and Meret Becker . In the same year he received a nomination for the German Television Prize for his acting creation of the opaque cool Bent Peerson in Carlo Rola's ZDF multi-part series Die Patriarchin with Iris Berben in the lead role.

In 2005 he was seen in The Airlift - Only the Sky Was Free when Dr. Alexander Kielberg again alongside Heino Ferch and Ulrich Tukur . For the role he received the German Television Award for Best Supporting Actor. On February 2, 2006, he was awarded the Golden Camera as the best German actor for his role interpretations in Die Luftbrücke , Der Boxer und die Friseuse , and Silberhochzeit .

In 2007, he played the role of husband Helmut Halm in Rainer Kaufmann's film Ein Flehendes Pferd based on the novel of the same name by Martin Walser alongside Ulrich Tukur and Katja Riemann . He was nominated for the German Film Award 2008 in the category of best leading actor . In 2009 Ulrich Noethen was seen as Commissioner Tabor Süd in two ZDF film adaptations based on Friedrich Anis' crime novels. Noethen received the Adolf Grimme Prize for Inspector South and the air guitarist , as he had previously for his leading role in Hermine Huntgeburth's two-part TV devil's roast . For his portrayal of the French monarch Charles IX. in Jo Baier's historical film Henri 4 (2009) he was nominated for the German Film Prize.

In Hannah Arendt (2012) Noethen put the philosopher Hans Jonas constitutes Since 2014 he plays in the television series. In addition to tracking the psychiatrist Dr. Jessen. In the literary film The Diary of Anne Frank , which was shot in spring 2015 and was released in cinemas on March 3, 2016, Noethen plays Anne's father Otto Heinrich Frank .

Noethen is a member of the Federal Drama Association (BFFS) .

Noethen was originally supposed to play the role of Professor Boerne in Tatort Münster from 2002 , but was unable to maintain his original promise because of other interesting role offers that would have collided with the long-term Tatort format.

Filmography

theatre

  • 1988: Hamlet
  • 1989: Faith, Love, Hope
  • 1989: Dear Jelena Sergejewna
  • 1990: Faust
  • 1990: love makes death
  • 1990: death and the devil
  • 1991: Bohemia by the sea
  • 1992: Britannicus
  • 1992: A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • 2004: The wild duck

Audio books

Radio plays and features

Awards

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim Schmitz: Interviews - Golden Camera for the "Super Papa". In: Bersenbrücker Kreisblatt. March 8, 2008, accessed August 10, 2008 .
  2. ^ Eva Harm: Alina Bronsky. The writing housewife. In: FR. August 29, 2013. Retrieved September 18, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Eva Harm: Ulrich Noethen has become a father again. In: Bunte. August 29, 2013. Retrieved September 15, 2013 .
  4. ↑ ZDF is shooting the third thriller in the series “Beside the Track” with Ulrich Noethen and Juergen Maurer . presseportal.de, June 16, 2015; accessed on December 14, 2015
  5. ^ BFFS member list , Bundesverband Schauspiel, bffs.de, accessed on December 10, 2015
  6. ↑ New WDR Tatort team shoots for the first time in Münster - Axel Prahl and Jan Josef Liefers investigate in "Der dunkle Fleck" , WDR press release on presseportal.de from June 4, 2002, accessed on January 1, 2019.
  7. ↑ - Dr. Faustus in ten parts . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed on February 12, 2018]).
  8. ^ Actors - Vita - Ulrich Noethen. In: die-agenten.de. April 18, 2008, accessed October 16, 2015 .


personal data
SURNAME Noethen, Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmid, Ulrich (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich