Wotan Wilke Möhring

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Wotan Wilke Möhring (born May 23, 1967 in Detmold ) is a German actor and musician .

Life

Möhring was born the second of four children in Detmold and grew up in Herne . His father Heiko Möhring was an officer in the Bundeswehr , his mother worked at a school. Möhring has two brothers and a sister, his younger brother Sönke Möhring is also an actor. Möhring attended the Hiberniaschule , a Waldorf school in Herne. After graduating from high school, he signed up as a regular soldier in the paratrooper troops of the Bundeswehr. The trained electrician and former punk worked as a club owner, bouncer and model, studied visual communication at the University of the Arts in Berlin , attended acting workshops in Cologne and Los Angeles and lived in New York for two years.

Möhring was interested in art from an early age; he painted, played the violin and made punk music . He also produced film scores . He was a co-founder of the bands Red Lotus and - together with Gabi Delgado-López , formerly German American Friendship (DAF) - DAF / DOS . The latter released the album alone, for two, with a telephone in 1996 and the single I think I'll fuck you later . Möhring was no longer involved in later publications. Before that he was a member of a punk band called Störaktion .

Wotan Wilke Möhring made his film debut in 1997 in the Bubi Scholz story at the side of Benno Fürmann and Götz George . Since then he has worked in over 90 productions for cinema and television. He had his first major roles in movies in Otto - Der Katastrofenfilm and in the multiple award-winning psychological thriller Das Experiment (2001). For his leading roles in the television films Does he have a job? and love and betrayal , he was nominated for the German Television Award in 2002. In 2005 he received the Hessian TV Prize as a member of the ensemble for the film Die Konferenz and a prize as best actor at the Malaga Film Festival for Christian Alvart's Antibody , his first leading role in a cinema. In the cinema, Möhring was also seen in the successful films Soul Kitchen by Fatih Akin (2009) as well as Männerherzen (2009) and the successor Male Hearts ... and the very, very big love (2011) by Simon Verhoeven . He played another main character in the comedy Mann does was Mann kann (2012) by Marc Rothemund , with whom he had worked ten years earlier for the television drama The last hope dies (2002). In 2013, the tragic comedy Life is not for cowards (director: André Erkau ) was released in cinemas; Leading actor Möhring helped the film to get a new distributor and was run as executive producer .

The ARD television productions Homevideo and The Last Beautiful Day (both in 2011), in which Möhring played leading roles, received numerous awards . For the role in The Last Beautiful Day as a family man who has to cope with his wife's suicide, he was nominated for the Bavarian TV Prize and received the German TV Prize 2012 for best actor and the Grimme Prize 2013 . For the portrayal of a rapist in Brigitte Bertele's drama The Fire , he was also honored as best actor at the Thessaloniki Film Festival. The short film Raju by director Max Zähle, in which Möhring played the main character, won the Student Academy Award in 2011 and was nominated for an Oscar in 2012 . In July 2012, the NDR announced that Möhring had been hired as the new Tatort commissioner. Since 2013 he has been investigating Thorsten Falke in Northern Germany as chief detective of the Federal Police , initially together with Petra Schmidt-Schaller and since 2016 with Franziska Weisz . Before that, Möhring had already appeared in four Tatort episodes, mostly as a suspect. For the ARD crime scene , he had to give up his role as an investigator in the ZDF crime series Stralsund , which he had played four times since 2010.

Möhring was in a relationship with the camerawoman Anna Theis for ten years, with whom he has two daughters (* 2009, * 2013) and a son (* 2011). The couple, who lived together in Cologne , separated in early 2014.

In 2016 he played the role of Old Shatterhand on the side of Nik Xhelilaj as Winnetou in the three-part series Winnetou - The Myth Lives According to Karl Mays Winnetou, produced by RTL .

Before the Bundestag election in 2009, he confessed in Stern magazine : “I don't vote because you don't change anything through elections. Even people whom you definitely want to prevent get into parliament via their safe list. Absurd! This shows how the democratic system in Germany is degenerating. "

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

  • 2006: Ed McBain : Heat (Bert Kling) - Director: Ulrich Lampen (crime radio play - HR )
  • 2006: Ed McBain: The Annoying Widow - Director: Ulrich Lampen (radio play - HR)
  • 2006: Ed McBain: Dead Man's Song - Director: Ulrich Lampen (crime radio play - HR)

Awards

Prize winner Wotan Wilke Möhring at the German Television Prize 2012
  • 2002: Nomination for the German Television Award in the category "Best Actor in a Leading Role - Television Film" for Does he Work? and love and betrayal
  • 2004: Nomination for the New Faces Award in the category “Best Young Actor” for egg thieves
  • 2005: Hessian television award as a member of the ensemble in the film Die Konferenz
  • 2005: Award in the category “Best Actor” at the Spanish film festival Festival de Cine Espanol de Málaga for antibodies
  • 2011: German TV award in the category “Best TV Film” for home video , together with Jonas Nay on behalf of the drama ensemble
  • 2011: Bambi for the ensemble of men's hearts ... and the very, very big love
  • 2011: Award as Best Actor, Thessaloniki International Film Festival for the role in The Fire
  • 2012: Nomination for the Bavarian Television Award as best actor for The Last Beautiful Day
  • 2012: German television award in the “Best Actor” category for The Last Beautiful Day
  • 2013: Grimme Prize for The Last Beautiful Day
  • 2014: Jupiter in the “Best German Actor” category for Life is not for cowards
  • 2017: Golden Camera in the Best German Actor category

Web links

Commons : Wotan Wilke Möhring  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Kalitschke: "I'm a rebel!": Wotan Wilke Möhring on the crime scene, Dittmann's Skate Aid project - and Münster , Westfälische Nachrichten , November 15, 2012
  2. ↑ Interview at Filmreporter.de from October 10, 2012, accessed on October 18, 2012
  3. ↑ Möhring in Wetten, dass ..? on October 6, 2012 (ZDF)
  4. ↑ Volker Bleeck: One with a heart. Portrait of Wotan Wilke Möhring , tvspielfilm.de, accessed on February 11, 2014
  5. ^ Another "crime scene" commissioner for Hamburg. In: Stern.de of July 9, 2012
  6. ↑ Möhring has to give up "Stralsund" for "Tatort". In: DWDL.de of June 6, 2013
  7. ^ "Tatort" star Möhring separates after ten years , focus.de on February 10, 2014
  8. ↑ Stern 25/2009, p. 56.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Wilke is the middle name, not the first surname. Cf. Volker Bleeck: Wotan Wilke Möhring in a portrait - one with a heart. In: tvspielfilm.de, accessed on March 30, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Möhring, Wotan Wilke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and musician
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Detmold