Ulrich Mühe

  • Name: Ulrich Mühe
  • Date of Birth: June 20, 1953
  • Place of Birth: Grimma, German Democratic Republic [now Saxony, Federal Republic of Germany]
Mini-bio: Lived in Berlin, Germany.


Father of five children from three marriages: his oldest son works a photographer, his daughter Anna Maria Mühe is a successful actress and the younger children Sophie...( read more) Marie and Jacob lived together with him and his wife Susanne Lothar until his death.


Collaborated with author and theatre director Heiner Müller at the Volksbühne and the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, where his 1989 performance as "Hamlet" became legendary.


Father of Anna Maria Mühe, together with Jenny Gröllmann.


Even as a child, he dreamed to become an actor.


Has an older brother named Andreas, who took over the family furrier business from their father.


He and other activists initiated the demonstrations against the East German communist regime in Berlin (November 1989).


Popular reader of audio books.


Studied acting at the Theaterhochschule "Hans Otto" in Leipzig in the late 1970s.


Shortly before his death, he was awarded honorary citizenship of his hometown Grimma (2007).


Father was a furrier.


Educated at the Leipzig university for theatre "Hans Otto".


Ex-stepfather of Jeanne Gröllmann.


In "The Lives of Others," Muehe plays a secret police surveillance expert in communist East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall. His stoicism gradually melts as he becomes swept up in the lives of an artistic couple. The role had particular resonance for Muehe, who was under surveillance by the Stasi when he was a star of East German theater. He later discovered that his then wife, German actress Jenny Groellmann, was registered as an informant for the Stasi during their years of marriage. She had denied she was an informant.
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Replace this image with an actor photoUlrich Mühe mini-bio: Lived in Berlin, Germany.
Father of five children from three marriages: his oldest son works a photographer, his daughter Anna Maria Mühe is a successful actress and the younger children Sophie Marie and Jacob lived together with him and his wife Susanne Lothar until his death.
Collaborated with author and theatre director Heiner Müller at the Volksbühne and the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, where his 1989 performance as "Hamlet" became legendary.
Father of Anna Maria Mühe, together with Jenny Gröllmann.
Even as a child, he dreamed to become an actor.
Has an older brother named Andreas, who took over the family furrier business from their father.
He and other activists initiated the demonstrations against the East German communist regime in Berlin (November 1989).
Popular reader of audio books.
Studied acting at the Theaterhochschule "Hans Otto" in Leipzig in the late 1970s.
Shortly before his death, he was awarded honorary citizenship of his hometown Grimma (2007).
Father was a furrier.
Educated at the Leipzig university for theatre "Hans Otto".
Ex-stepfather of Jeanne Gröllmann.
In "The Lives of Others," Muehe plays a secret police surveillance expert in communist East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall. His stoicism gradually melts as he becomes swept up in the lives of an artistic couple. The role had particular resonance for Muehe, who was under surveillance by the Stasi when he was a star of East German theater. He later discovered that his then wife, German actress Jenny Groellmann, was registered as an informant for the Stasi during their years of marriage. She had denied she was an informant.

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  • theholycuteness
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    I would put this into German, but im not clever enough. Haha sorry. Anyway, just wanted to say i thought you were amazing in Das Leben Der Anderen. Your acting was brilliant.

    "Nein, es ist fur mich" One of the best last lines of a film i have ever heard.
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