German actor and musician (born 1957)
Ulrich Tukur
Tukur in 2015
Born Ulrich Gerhard Scheurlen
(1957-07-29 ) 29 July 1957 (age 66) Nationality German Other names Ulrich Scheurlen Occupation(s) Actor, musician Years active 1983–present Spouses
Amber Wood
Katharina John
Children 2
Ulrich Tukur (born Ulrich Gerhard Scheurlen ; 29 July 1957) is a German
actor and musician. He is known for his roles in
Michael Haneke's
The White Ribbon ,
Steven Soderbergh's
Solaris , the
docudrama
North Face based on the
1936 Eiger climbing disaster in
Switzerland , and as
Wilhelm Uhde in
Martin Provost's
biopic
Séraphine .
Early life and education
Tukur spent his youth near
Hannover where he finished his final secondary school examinations in 1977. He also earned a high school diploma in
Boston (USA) during a
student exchange , where he met his first wife, Amber Wood. With her, he has two daughters, Marlene and Lilian. While Tukur and Wood were dating, he finished his time with the army and began to study
German ,
English and
history at the
University of Tübingen . He worked as a musician for extra money. Someone who saw him asked him if he wanted to be in a play. Soon he became interested in acting and started studying acting at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in
Stuttgart in 1980.
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Career
Painting Ulrich Tukur and the Rhythm Boys by
Manfred W. Juergens
After finishing his acting studies in 1983, Tukur performed at a theatre in
Heidelberg . While he was still a student, he starred in his first movie. In
Die Weiße Rose , directed by
Michael Verhoeven , he plays the character of
Willi Graf .
In 1984 Tukur had his breakthrough at the theatre when famous director
Peter Zadek gave him a role at the Freie Volksbühne
Berlin in
Joshua Sobol 's play Ghetto . From 1985 to 1995 he was a staff actor at
Deutsches Schauspielhaus in
Hamburg , then managed by Zadek. Here he starred in many plays, such as
Shakespeare 's
Julius Caesar as Marc Anton,
Hamlet , and
Frank Wedekind 's Lulu directed by Zadek. In 1986 he was elected actor of the year by German theater critics. From 1995 to 2003 he was the director of the
Hamburger Kammerspiele theatre, sharing that job with
Ulrich Waller .
Potsdamer Platz Filmmuseum Boulevard der Stars Ulrich Tukur
Since 1989, Tukur has been recording and touring as a musician. In 1995, he founded the dance band "Ulrich Tukur & the Rhythmus Boys" together with Kalle Mews (drums), Ulrich Mayer (guitar, vocals), and Günther Märtens (contrabass, guitar, vocals).
[2]
Tukur has been married twice. Since 1999 he and his second wife, the photographer
Katharina John , have been living in
Venice (Italy), on
Giudecca .
In
John Rabe , the Sino-German co-production about the
Nanjing massacre , Tukur played the part of
John Rabe .
[3]
[4] In
Kommissar Rex he played the psychopath Kurt Hauff, a killer who killed police officer Richard Moser (
Tobias Moretti ). He also played the title role in the 1999 documentary
Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace [
de ] .
Awards
Selected filmography
1982:
Die Weiße Rose (Director:
Michael Verhoeven ) (with
Lena Stolze as
Sophie Scholl ), as Willi Graf
1983:
The Swing [
de ] (Director:
Percy Adlon (with
Anja Jaenicke and Lena Stolze), as Lhombre
1984:
Die Story [
de ] (Director:
Eckhart Schmidt ), as Alexander
1984:
Cold Fever (Director:
Josef Rusnak ), as Michael
1986:
Stammheim (Director:
Reinhard Hauff ) (with
Therese Affolter as
Ulrike Meinhof ), as
Andreas Baader
1986:
The Lenz Papers [
de ] (TV miniseries) (from a novel by
Stefan Heym ), as
Friedrich Engels
1988:
Felix [
it ] (Director:
Margarethe von Trotta ,
Helma Sanders-Brahms ,
Helke Sander , Christel Buschmann), as Felix
1988: Ballhaus Barmbek
1989: The Play with Billions (TV film, Director:
Peter Keglevic ) (with
Friedrich von Thun and
Sissy Höfferer ), as Gerd Asselt
1990:
Werner – Beinhart! (voice)
1991:
The Kaltenbach Papers [
de ] (TV film, Director:
Rainer Erler ) (with
Mario Adorf and
Gudrun Landgrebe ), as Thomas 'Tom' Sadowski
1992:
The Democratic Terrorist (Director: Pelle Berglund) (with
Stellan Skarsgård ), as Siegfried Maak
1992:
The Mystery of the Amber Room [
de ] (Director:
Roland Gräf ) (with
Corinna Harfouch ), as Siegfried Emmler
1992:
The Last U-Boat (TV film, Director:
Frank Beyer ) (with
Ulrich Mühe ), as Röhler - 1. Wachoffizier
1993:
Wehner – die unerzählte Geschichte [
de ] (TV film, Director:
Heinrich Breloer ) (with
Heinz Baumann as old Herbert Wehner), as young
Herbert Wehner
1993: Maus und Katz (with
Mario Adorf ), as Fred Tonndorf
1994:
Rotwang Must Go! [
de ] , as Bruno's Friend, the Famous Actor
1994:
Felidae (Director: Michael Schaack), as Francis (voice)
1994: Geschäfte (TV film, Director:
Michael Schottenberg ) (with
Susanne Lothar and
Ulrich Mühe ), as Dr. Weiß
1995:
My Mother's Courage [
de ] (Director: Michael Verhoeven) (with
Pauline Collins , from an autobiographical novel by
George Tabori ), as SS Officer
1995: Tár úr steini
1995:
Nikolaikirche (TV film, Director:
Frank Beyer ) (with
Barbara Auer and
Ulrich Matthes ), as Rechtsanwalt Werner Schnuck
1996: Charms Zwischenfälle , as Narrator
1996:
One More Kiss and He's Dead! [
de ] , as
Conrad Veidt
1999:
Waiting Means Death [
de ] (TV film), as Jürgen Venske
1999: Pünktchen und Anton (uncredited)
2000:
Hunters in the Snow [
de ] , as Franz
2000:
Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace [
de ] (TV film, Director:
Eric Till ), as
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
2000: Apokalypse 99 - Anatomie eines Amokläufers
2001:
Taking Sides (Director:
István Szabó ) (with
Harvey Keitel and
Moritz Bleibtreu ), as Helmut Alfred Rode, 2nd violinist
2002:
Amen. (Director:
Constantin Costa-Gavras ) (with
Ulrich Mühe - from the play
Der Stellvertreter by
Rolf Hochhuth ), as Kurt Gerstein
2002:
Solaris (Director:
Steven Soderbergh ) (with
George Clooney and
Natascha McElhone - from the homonymous novel by
Stanisław Lem ), as Gibarian
2003: Die fremde Frau (TV film, Director:
Matthias Glasner ) (with
Corinna Harfouch ), as Alexander Brandenburg
2004:
Stauffenberg (TV film, Director:
Jo Baier ) (with
Sebastian Koch as
Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg ), as
Henning von Tresckow
2005:
The Axe , as Gérard Hutchinson
2005:
The Night of the Great Flood [
de ] (TV film, Director:
Raymond Ley ), as Hamburg's senator for the interior
Helmut Schmidt
2005:
The Airlift [
de ] (TV film, Director:
Dror Zahavi ), as General
Lucius D. Clay
2006:
Das Leben der Anderen (Director:
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck ), as Oberstleutnant Anton Grubitz
2006:
Das Schneckenhaus [
de ] (TV film, Director:
Florian Schwarz [
de ] ), as Dr. Lukas Bator
2007:
Mein alter Freund Fritz [
de ] (TV film, Director:
Dieter Wedel ), as head physician Seidel
2007:
42plus [
de ] (Director:
Sabine Derflinger ), as Georg
2007:
Runaway Horse (Director: Rainer Kaufmann), as Klaus Buch
2007: Où est la main de l'homme sans tête , as Peter
2008:
North Face (Director:
Philipp Stölzl ), as Henry Arau
2008:
Séraphine (Director: Martin Provost), as Wilhelm Uhde
2009:
John Rabe (Director:
Florian Gallenberger ), as
John Rabe
2009: Das Vaterspiel , as Jonas Shtrom
2009:
Eden in West (Director:
Costa-Gavras ), as Nick Nickleby
2009:
The White Ribbon (Director:
Michael Haneke ), as The Baron
2009:
Within the Whirlwind , as Dr. Anton Walter
2010:
Greed [
de ] (TV film, Director:
Dieter Wedel ), as Dieter Glanz
2010:
Eichmann's End: Love, Betrayal, Death [
de ] (TV film), as Willem Sassen
2010:
The Day of the Cat [
de ] , as Dr. Stotzer / Pfiff
Since 2010:
Tatort (TV series), as
Felix Murot [
de ]
Wie einst Lilly (2010)
Das Dorf (2011)
Schwindelfrei (2013)
Im Schmerz geboren [
de ] (2014)
Wer bin ich? (2015)
Long Live Death (2016)
Murot und das Murmeltier (2019)
Angriff auf Wache 08 (2019)
Die Ferien des Monsieur Murot (2020)
Murot und das Prinzip Hoffnung (2021)
2011:
The Burma Conspiracy , as Dwight Cochrane
2011:
When Pigs Have Wings , as Officer U.N.
2012:
Zettl [
de ] , as Urs Doucier
2012: Der Mondmann , as President (voice)
2012:
Rommel (TV film, Director:
Niki Stein ), as Gen.
Erwin Rommel
2013:
Houston [
de ] , as Clemens Trunschka
2013:
Exit Marrakech , as Heinrich
2014:
Weekends in Normandy , as Ulrich
2014:
The Chosen Ones (TV film), as Simon Pistorius
2015:
Grzimek [
de ] , as
Bernhard Grzimek
2016:
Original Bliss [
de ] , as Eduard / Psychologist and writer
2017:
In the Fade , as Jürgen Möller
2018:
As Green as It Gets [
de ] , as Richard von Zeydlitz
2018:
The Assassination [
de ] (TV film), as Hans-Georg Dahlmann
2019:
Und wer nimmt den Hund? [
de ] , as Georg Lehnert
2019:
Adults in the Room , as Wolfgang
2020: Jagdzeit , as Hans Werner Brockmann
2020: Der Überläufer , as Ernst Menzel
2023:
Gestern waren wir noch Kinder [
de ] (TV miniseries), as Hans Klettmann
References
External links
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