Uwe Ochsenknecht

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Uwe Adam Ochsenknecht (born January 7, 1956 in Biblis ) is a German actor and singer . Ochsenknecht became famous in 1981 with the film Das Boot and in 1985 with the comedy Men .

Life

Uwe Ochsenknecht as producer Konstantin Trauer at the Nibelungen Festival in Worms 2016
The Ochsenknecht family at the film premiere of "Sommer" in Munich (from left): Wilson Gonzalez, Uwe, Cheyenne Savannah, Jimi Blue and Natascha (2008)
Uwe Ochsenknecht (right) and Michaela Galli (left) in red light! by Urs Odermatt (1986)

Ochsenknecht's parents left the GDR in 1951 and moved from Saalfeld to Biblis . Ochsenknecht grew up in Mannheim , where he attended, among other things, the Ludwig-Frank-Gymnasium and discovered his love for acting early on when he was hired as an extra at the Mannheim National Theater. At the age of 15 he had to leave high school after not being transferred for the third time. After completing secondary school in evening school, he was accepted at the Westphalian Drama School in Bochum , which he successfully completed. First theater engagements followed, from 1977 film and television roles . As early as 1978 he played a mini role in a Hollywood film .

Ochsenknecht's breakthrough came with the role of a boatman in the film Das Boot (1981) by Wolfgang Petersen . Four years later the next success came: Men (1985) by Doris Dörrie with Heiner Lauterbach . Another great success was the leading role of the forger Fritz Knobel in the Oscar-nominated satire Schtonk! (1992) by Helmut Dietl , who targeted the affair of the forged Hitler diaries in a not too detailed way . For his role as Hans Pollak in Football is Our Life , he was awarded the Bavarian Film Prize in 1999 and the German Film Prize in 2000 . In 2001 he was awarded the German Television Prize for the supporting role of Johann "Hans" Ferbach in the television film Vera Brühne . In addition, Ochsenknecht has appeared in numerous television and cinema films. He explains his successful career in part by the fact that he wanted to turn acting into a profession as a teenager: “I knew quite early - at 14 or 15: 'I want to be an actor.' That was 150 percent clear to me. "

Uwe Ochsenknecht was one of the founding members of the German Film Academy in 2003 .

Ochsenknecht has been promoting Appenzeller cheese on Swiss television since 2003 . He receives part of his fee in the form of cheese at his own request.

In May 2011 Ochsenknecht took part in the Sat1 format Der Bastelkönig . In 2011 he and his son Wilson Gonzalez appeared in the music video for "House on Fire" by the Berlin band Beatsteaks. In 2011 he appeared as Hansi Haller , who started a comeback as a pop singer after a long time. In his role he performed with his own stage program in several German cities and released a download single entitled Oh-La-La-Larissa .

At the beginning of the 1990s he gained a second mainstay with music; he has since released several albums. He is the singer with The Screen, Mick Rogers ( Manfred Mann's Earth Band ) and Thomas Blug are guitarists. The two ex-musicians from Gary Moore's band Pete Rees (bass) and Graham Walker (drums) are also represented.

The television films in the series Der Bulle und das Landei , which have been broadcast at irregular intervals since 2009 and of which six episodes have been seen so far, present Ochsenknecht as a police commissioner who has been transferred to the Eifel and has to deal with criminal cases in the rural seclusion. His partner is Diana Amft .

family

Uwe Ochsenknecht was married to Natascha Ochsenknecht from 1993 to the end of July 2012 . He has three children with her: the sons Wilson Gonzalez and Jimi Blue , who work as actors themselves, and a daughter, the model Cheyenne Savannah Ochsenknecht. He is also the father of actor Rocco Stark from a previous relationship .

In July 2017, Ochsenknecht married Kiki Viebrock.

Awards

Act

Films (selection)

theatre

Radio plays

biography

What happened so far . Bastei Lübbe, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-7857-2485-9 .

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
1992 Ochsenknecht DE18 (14 weeks)
DE 		- CH19 (5 weeks)
CH
First published: March 1992
1994 Girls Crossing DE78 (8 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: March 1994

more publishments

  • 2001: Singer
  • 2008: MatchPoint

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
1992 Only One Woman
Ochsenknecht 		DE21 (13 weeks)
DE 		- CH21 (12 weeks)
CH
First published: January 1992
If I Had a Wish
Ochsenknecht 		DE60 (6 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: April 1992
1994 Blue Water
Girls Crossing 		DE83 (6 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: March 1994

Synchronous rollers (selection)

Trivia

In some film productions, his surname, which is difficult to pronounce in English, is also written “Oxenknecht”.

Web links

Commons : Uwe Ochsenknecht  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Uwe Ochsenknecht: What happened so far: autobiography . Bastei Lübbe, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-8387-4512-1 .
  2. ↑ Herlinde Koelbl: Uwe Ochsenknecht: "As an actor I finally got recognition". In: The time . May 6, 2010, accessed January 26, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Paul Katzenberger: Uwe Ochsenknecht on recognition: "Being famous is great". In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . March 16, 2012, accessed January 26, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Cheese tourist Ochsenknecht . In: Tagblatt , October 14, 2009, accessed on September 20, 2010
  5. ↑ Haller, Hansi - Oh-La-La-Larissa. EMI Germany, archived from the original on August 1, 2012 ; Retrieved January 14, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Uwe and Natascha Ochsenknecht - “He got what he deserved!” In: BUNTE . August 1, 2012, accessed January 26, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Secret wedding - Yes to "Kiki": Uwe Ochsenknecht got married again. In: Munich evening newspaper . July 7, 2017, accessed January 26, 2020 .
  8. ↑ RSH Gold '93. In: RSH-History. February 13, 1993, archived from the original on July 19, 2011 ; accessed on June 24, 2011 (award of the RSH Gold for the “most successful German interpreter”).
  9. ↑ Uwe Ochsenknecht - short biography. In: ae-tv. Archived from the original on April 13, 2016 ; accessed on April 13, 2020 .
  10. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE CH
  11. ^ "Warning: Football Can Damage Your Health" , Berlinale Review by Elke de Wit on football is our life
personal data
SURNAME Ochsenknecht, Uwe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ochsenknecht, Uwe Adam (full name); Oxenknecht, Uwe (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and singer
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Biblis