Ulrich Tukur

Ulrich Tukur (born Ulrich Scheurlen, July 29 1957 in Viernheim) is a German actor and musician.

Biography

Tukur spent his youth near Hanover where he finished his final secondary-school examinations in 1977. He also achieved a high school degree in Boston (USA) during an exchange of students where he met his first wife, Amber Wood. With her, he had two daughters, Marlene and Lilian. While they were dating, he finished his time with the army and began to study German, English and History at Tübingen university. He worked as a musician to get some extra money. Someone who saw him asked him if he wanted to be in a play. Soon he became interested in acting and started to study acting at the "Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst" in Stuttgart in 1980. Fact|date=April 2007

After finishing his studies there in 1983 he played at a theatre in Heidelberg. While he was still a student he got a chance to star in his first movie. In "Die Weiße Rose", directed by Michael Verhoeven, he plays the character of Willi Graf.

In 1984 he had his breakthrough at the theatre when famous director Peter Zadek gave him a role at the Freie Volksbühne Berlin in Joshua Sobols 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 Caesar, "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 himself was director of Hamburger Kammerspiele theatre, sharing that job with Ulrich Waller.

Since 1989 he has been recording and touring as a musician. Fact|date=April 2007

Ulrich Tukur is married for the second time. Since 1999 he and his wife, photographer Katharina John, have been living in Venice (Italy), on Giudecca island.

He will play the part of John Rabe in a Sino-German co-production movie on the Nanking massacre [http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-12/11/content_7231106.htm] [http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ff20071206r1.html]

In Kommissar Rex he had played the psychopath Kurt Hauff, a killer who killed police officer Richard Moser (Tobias Moretti)

Awards

* 1984 O.E. Hasse Preis
* 1985 Boy-Gobert-Preis
* 1986 Schauspieler des Jahres (Actor of the Year) and Goldener Bär of the Berlinale for the film "Stammheim".
* 1996 Goldene Kamera and "Insel-Kunstpreis Hamburg"
* 2000 Adolf Grimme Preis
* 2004 Deutscher Fernsehpreis (German Television Award) as Best Actor for the role of a serial killer in the crime series "Tatort", episode "Das Böse" (Evil)

Filmography

* 1982 - "Die Weiße Rose" - Director: Michael Verhoeven (with Lena Stolze as Sophie Scholl)
* 1983 - "Die Schaukel" - Director: Percy Adlon (with Anja Jaenicke and Lena Stolze)
* 1984 - "Die Story" - Director: Eckhart Schmidt
* 1986 - "Stammheim" - Director: Reinhard Hauff (Tukur as Andreas Baader, Therese Affolter as Ulrike Meinhof)
* 1988 - "Felix" - Director: amon others Helma Sanders-Brahms, Margarethe von Trotta (Tukur as Felix)
* 1989 - "Das Milliardenspiel" - Director: Peter Keglevic (with Friedrich von Thun and Sissy Höfferer)
* 1992 - "Die Spur des Bernsteinzimmers" - Director: Roland Gräf (with Corinna Harfouch)
* 1993 - "Wehner / Die unerzählte Geschichte" - Director: Heinrich Breloer (with Tukur as young Herbert Wehner and Heinz Baumann as old Herbert Wehner)
* 1995 - "Mutters Courage" - Director: Michael Verhoeven (with Pauline Collins and Jens Harzer from an autobiographical novel by George Tabori)
* 1995 - "Nikolaikirche" - Director: Frank Beyer (with Barbara Auer and Ulrich Matthes)
* 2000 - "Bonhoeffer" - Director: Eric Till (Tukur as Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
* 2001 - "Taking Sides" - Director: István Szabó (with Harvey Keitel and Moritz Bleibtreu)
* 2002 - "Amen." - Director: Constantin Costa-Gavras (with Ulrich Mühe - from the play "Der Stellvertreter" by Rolf Hochhuth)
* 2002 - "Solaris" - Director: Steven Soderbergh (with George Clooney and Natascha McElhone - from the homonymous novel by Stanisław Lem)
* 2004 - "Stauffenberg" - Director: Jo Baier (with Sebastian Koch as Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg and Ulrich Tukur as Henning von Tresckow)
* 2005 - "Die Nacht der großen Flut" - Director: Raymond Ley (Tukur as Hamburg's senator for the interior Helmut Schmidt)
* 2005 - "Das Leben der Anderen" - Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (Tukur as Anton Grubitz)

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