Wotan Wilke Möhring

Wotan Wilke Möhring (born 23 May 1967) is a German actor.

Biography Möhring was born in Augustdorf near Detmold and grew up in Herne. His father was an army officer and his mother worked as a teacher. He has a sister and two brothers. One of them, Sönke Möhring, is also an actor.

After receiving a Waldorf education in Herne and finishing high school with the Abitur diploma, Möhring took vocational training to become an electrician, but then worked as a club owner, doorman, and model. He studied communication at the Berlin University of the Arts, joined actors workshops in Cologne and Los Angeles, and lived for two years in New York City. He was also an army officer for two years.

Together with Gabi Delgado-López, Möhring founded the band DAF/DOS. Furthermore, he has produced soundtracks.

Möhring had his first screen appearance in the 1998 television film , a bio-pic about a German boxer, which also featured Benno Fürmann and Götz George. Since then he has played in over 90 German film and television productions and has received numerous prizes, including the German Television Prize as Best Actor in 2012. He starred in the German film which was awarded a Grimme Prize in 2013. He played the lead role in a short film directed by Max Zähle, which won a Student Academy Award in 2011 and was nominated for an Oscar in 2012. He had a small role in the international film production of 2008 titled Valkyrie about the plot to assassinate Hitler on 20 July 1944.

Since 2013, Möhring has played the detective Thorsten Falke in seventeen episodes as of June 2022 of the long-running crime television series Tatort, after previously playing guest roles four times in the series.

In 2016, he played the part of Old Shatterhand, the blood brother of Winnetou, in the German film production Winnetou based on three novels by Karl May.

Möhring plays the main character, Ludvig Licht, in the 2018 Swedish television thriller series West of Liberty, based on the novel by Thomas Engstrom.

Filmography (selection)

1998: (TV film) 1999: Zoe – Ted 1999: Bang Boom Bang – Fußballspieler – Kellerbar (scenes deleted) 1999: 2000: 8 Grad Celsius – Mark 2000: Otto – Der Katastrofenfilm – Brock 2000: (TV film) – Nikolaus Kolvin 2000: Hat er Arbeit? (TV film) – Karl Hansen 2001: Das Experiment – Joe Maier Nr. 69 2001: A Goddamn Job – Gangster 2001: Lammbock – Frank 2001: Julietta – Castor 2001: Schwarz & McMurphy (TV film) – Schwarz 2002: Olgas Sommer – Paul 2002: Himmelreich auf Erden (TV film) – Roland 2002: La mer 2002: (TV film) 2003: Anatomy 2 – Gregor 2003: Eierdiebe – Martin Schwarz 2003: Echte Männer? (TV film) – Mike Krieger 2003: (TV film) – Hartmut Brücken 2004: (TV film) – Karsten Graf 2004: Zwischen Liebe und Tod (TV film) – Max 2004: Cowgirl – Max 2005: A Witch's Kiss (TV film) – Harry Tänzel 2005: Antibodies – Michael Martens 2005: – Carlo 2005: – Jan (35) 2005: Secret Love: The Schoolboy and the Mailwoman (TV film) – Peter Wörner 2006: Goldene Zeiten – Ingo Schmitz 2006: Erased (TV film) – Noah Becker 2006: Freundinnen fürs Leben (TV film) – Meier 2006: – Jonas 2006: Bettis Bescherung (TV film) – Fabian Fuchs 2007: – Horst 2007: Counterparts – Michael Gleiwitz 2007: (TV film) – Jens 2007: Copacabana (TV film) – Harald 2007: Tour Excess – Johannes 2008: Hardcover – Dominik 'Nick' 'Dom' Adler 2008: KDD – Kriminaldauerdienst (TV series) – Fred Steiner 2008: Ein riskantes Spiel (TV film) – Andreas 2008: (TV film) – Leo Schreiber 2008: – Christoph Zach 2008: Valkyrie – Sergeant Kolbe 2009: – Torte's Father 2009: Kinder des Sturms (TV film) – Harald Bergmann 2009: Soul Kitchen – Thomas Neumann 2009: Pandorum – Young Bower's Father 2009: Men in the City – Roland Feldberg 2010: Wie Matrosen – Dennis Koch 2010: Henri 4 – Henri de Guise 2010: The Silence – Timo Friedrich 2011: – Ralph Nester 2011: – Fan Steiger 2011: Raju (short) – Jan 2011: (TV film) – Karl Erdmann 2011: Black Brown White – Doc 2011: (TV film) – Claas Moormann 2011: – Roland Feldberg 2011: (TV film) – Lars Langhoff 2012: Elmo: Wort des Tages – Wotan 2012: Life Is Not for Cowards – Markus 2012: Men Do What They Can – Paul Schuberth 2013: (TV miniseries) – Friedrich Loewe 2013: Tatort – Feuerteufel (TV series) – Thorsten Falke 2014: Tatort – Kaltstart (TV series) – Thorsten Falke 2014: – Carsten Rasmus 2014: Who Am I – No System is Safe – Stephan 2014: – Hannes 2015: – Paul 2015: – Jakob 2016: – Valentin 2016: Seitenwechsel – Alex Paschke 2016: Unsere Zeit ist jetzt – Basti 2016: Winnetou – Old Shatterhand 2017: Lommbock – Frank 2017: – Fussel Poschka 2018: Don't. Get. Out! – Karl Brendt 2018: Parfum – Prosecutor Grünberg

Awards and nominations Hat er Arbeit? (2000) 2002: German Television Award nomination for Best Actor Liebe und Verrat (2002) 2002: German Television Award nomination for Best Actor Antikörper (2005) 2005: Málaga Spanish Film Festival Award for Best Actor The Fire (2011) 2011: Thessaloniki Film Festival Award for Best Actor Homevideo (2011) 2011: German Television Award The Last Fine Day (2011) 2012: German Television Award for Best Actor 2013: Grimme Award Winnetou (2016) 2017 Goldene Kamera Award for Best German Actor