Ulrich Tukur
German actor and musician (born 1957)
Ulrich Tukur
Tukur in 2015
Born Ulrich Gerhard Scheurlen
(1957-07-29 ) 29 July 1957 (age 67) 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 docudrama North Face 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 , Massachusetts 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. [ 1]
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 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 Hamlet 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. From 1999 until 2019 he and his second wife, the photographer Katharina John , lived in Venice , Italy, on Giudecca . Since 2019 Tukur has been living in Berlin-Schöneberg .[ 3]
In John Rabe ,Nanjing massacre , Tukur played the part of John Rabe .[ 4] [ 5] Kommissar Rex he played the psychopath Kurt Hauff, 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 Michael Verhoeven ) (with Lena Stolze as Sophie Scholl ), as Willi Graf
1983: The Swing Percy Adlon (with Anja Jaenicke and Lena Stolze), as Lhombre
1984: Die Story [de ] Eckhart Schmidt ), as Alexander
1984: Cold Fever Josef Rusnak ), as Michael
1986: Stammheim Reinhard Hauff ) (with Therese Affolter as Ulrike Meinhof ), as Andreas Baader
1986: The Lenz Papers [de ] Stefan Heym ), as Friedrich Engels
1988: Felix [it ] 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!
1991: The Kaltenbach Papers [de ] Rainer Erler ) (with Mario Adorf and Gudrun Landgrebe ), as Thomas 'Tom' Sadowski
1992: The Democratic Terrorist Stellan Skarsgård ), as Siegfried Maak
1992: The Mystery of the Amber Room [de ] Roland Gräf ) (with Corinna Harfouch ), as Siegfried Emmler
1992: The Last U-Boat Frank Beyer ) (with Ulrich Mühe ), as Röhler - 1. Wachoffizier
1993: Wehner – die unerzählte Geschichte [de ] 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 ]
1994: Felidae
1994: Geschäfte (TV film, Director: Michael Schottenberg ) (with Susanne Lothar and Ulrich Mühe ), as Dr. Weiß
1995: My Mother's Courage [de ] Pauline Collins , from an autobiographical novel by George Tabori ), as SS Officer
1995: Tár úr steini
1995: Nikolaikirche 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 ] Conrad Veidt
1999: Waiting Means Death [de ]
1999: Pünktchen und Anton (uncredited)
2000: Hunters in the Snow [de ]
2000: Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace [de ] Eric Till ), as Dietrich Bonhoeffer
2000: Apokalypse 99 - Anatomie eines Amokläufers
2001: Taking Sides István Szabó ) (with Harvey Keitel and Moritz Bleibtreu ), as Helmut Alfred Rode, 2nd violinist
2002: Amen. Constantin Costa-Gavras ) (with Ulrich Mühe - from the play Der Stellvertreter Rolf Hochhuth ), as Kurt Gerstein
2002: Solaris 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 Jo Baier ) (with Sebastian Koch as Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg ), as Henning von Tresckow
2005: The Axe
2005: The Night of the Great Flood [de ] Raymond Ley ), as Hamburg's senator for the interior Helmut Schmidt
2005: The Airlift [de ] Dror Zahavi ), as General Lucius D. Clay
2006: Das Leben der Anderen Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck ), as Oberstleutnant Anton Grubitz
2006: Das Schneckenhaus [de ] Florian Schwarz [de ] ), as Dr. Lukas Bator
2007: Mein alter Freund Fritz [de ] Dieter Wedel ), as head physician Seidel
2007: 42plus [de ] Sabine Derflinger ), as Georg
2007: Runaway Horse
2007: Où est la main de l'homme sans tête , as Peter
2008: North Face Philipp Stölzl ), as Henry Arau
2008: Séraphine
2009: John Rabe Florian Gallenberger ), as John Rabe
2009: Das Vaterspiel , as Jonas Shtrom
2009: Eden in West Costa-Gavras ), as Nick Nickleby
2009: The White Ribbon Michael Haneke ), as The Baron
2009: Within the Whirlwind
2010: Greed [de ] Dieter Wedel ), as Dieter Glanz
2010: Eichmann's End: Love, Betrayal, Death [de ]
2010: The Day of the Cat [de ]
Since 2010: Tatort Felix Murot [de ]
Wie einst Lilly (2010)Das Dorf (2011)Schwindelfrei (2013)Im Schmerz geboren [de ] Wer bin ich? (2015)Long Live Death 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
2011: When Pigs Have Wings
2012: Zettl [de ]
2012: Der Mondmann , as President (voice)
2012: Rommel Niki Stein ), as Gen. Erwin Rommel
2013: Houston [de ]
2013: Exit Marrakech
2014: Weekends in Normandy
2014: The Chosen Ones
2015: Grzimek [de ] Bernhard Grzimek
2016: Original Bliss [de ]
2017: In the Fade
2018: As Green as It Gets [de ]
2018: The Assassination [de ]
2019: Lost in Separation [de ]
2019: Adults in the Room
2020: Jagdzeit , as Hans Werner Brockmann
2020: Der Überläufer , as Ernst Menzel
2023: Gestern waren wir noch Kinder [de ]
2024: Martin reads the Quran , as professor of Islamic Studies
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