Ulrich Mühe

Friedrich Hans Ulrich Mühe 20 June 1953 22 July 2007 was a German film television and theatre actor He played the role of Hauptmann Captain Gerd Wiesler in the Oscarwinning film Das Leben der Anderen The Lives of Others 2006 for which he received the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Gold at Germanys most prestigious film awards the Deutscher Filmpreis German Film Awards and the Best Actor Award at the 2006 European Film Awards Curiously events in Mühes life were mirrored by the plot of the film as he allegedly discovered in a Stasi file compiled on him that he had been under surveillance by his second wife Jenny Gröllmann Gröllmann denied this and after an acrimonious and highlypublicized court case she succeeded in obtaining an injunction to prevent Mühe from repeating the allegation in a book After leaving school Mühe was employed as a construction worker and a border guard at the Berlin Wall He then turned to acting and from the late 1970s into the 1980s appeared in numerous plays becoming a star of the Deutsches Theater in East Berlin He was active in politics and denounced Communist rule in East Germany in a memorable address at the Alexanderplatz demonstration on 4 November 1989 shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall After German reunification he continued to appear in a large number of films television programmes and theatre productions In Germany he was particularly known for playing the lead role of Dr Robert Kolmaar in the longrunning forensic crime series Der letzte Zeuge The Last Witness 19982007 Description above from the Wikipedia article Ulrich Mühe licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia