Ulrich Tukur

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, 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.

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.

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).

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.

In John Rabe, the Sino-German co-production about the Nanjing massacre, Tukur played the part of John Rabe. In 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 .

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 Awards 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) 2006: Deutscher Filmpreis for Best Acting Performance - Male Supporting Actor for The Lives of Others 2009: Bayerischer Filmpreis 2008 Best Actor in John Rabe 2009: Deutscher Filmpreis for Best Leading Actor in John Rabe 2009: Bernhard-Wicki-Filmpreis|Friedenspreis des Deutschen Films for his acting in John Rabe

Selected filmography

1982: Die Weiße Rose (Director: Michael Verhoeven) (with Lena Stolze as Sophie Scholl), as Willi Graf 1983: The Swing (Director: Percy Adlon (with Anja Jaenicke and Lena Stolze), as Lhombre 1984: (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: (TV miniseries) (from a novel by Stefan Heym), as Friedrich Engels 1988: (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: (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: (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: (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: , 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: (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: , as Conrad Veidt 1999: (TV film), as Jürgen Venske 1999: Pünktchen und Anton (uncredited) 2000: , as Franz 2000: (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: (TV film, Director: Raymond Ley), as Hamburg's senator for the interior Helmut Schmidt 2005: (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: (TV film, Director: ), as Dr. Lukas Bator 2007: (TV film, Director: Dieter Wedel), as head physician Seidel 2007: (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: (TV film, Director: Dieter Wedel), as Dieter Glanz 2010: (TV film), as Willem Sassen 2010: , as Dr. Stotzer / Pfiff Since 2010: Tatort (TV series), as Wie einst Lilly (2010) Das Dorf (2011) Schwindelfrei (2013) (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: , as Urs Doucier 2012: Der Mondmann, as President (voice) 2012: Rommel (TV film, Director: Niki Stein), as Gen. Erwin Rommel 2013: , as Clemens Trunschka 2013: Exit Marrakech, as Heinrich 2014: Weekends in Normandy, as Ulrich 2014: The Chosen Ones (TV film), as Simon Pistorius 2015: , as Bernhard Grzimek 2016: , as Eduard / Psychologist and writer 2017: In the Fade, as Jürgen Möller 2018: As Green as It Gets, as Richard von Zeydlitz 2018: (TV film), as Hans-Georg Dahlmann 2019: , as Georg Lehnert 2019: Adults in the Room, as Wolfgang 2020: Jagdzeit, as Hans Werner Brockmann 2020: Der Überläufer, as Ernst Menzel 2023: (TV miniseries), as Hans Klettmann 2024: Martin reads the Quran, as professor of Islamic Studies 2025: Köln 75