Armin Mueller-Stahl
Armin Mueller-Stahl | |
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 Mueller-Stahl in October 2007 | |
| Born | 17 December 1930 |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, writer, director |
| Years active | 1956–2015 |
Armin Mueller-Stahl (born 17 December 1930) is a retired German film actor, painter and author, who also appeared in numerous English-language films since the 1980s. He was nominated for the
Shine. In 2011, he was awarded the Honorary Golden Bear
.
Early life
Mueller-Stahl was born in
Tilsit, East Prussia (now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia). His mother, Editta, was from an upper-class family and became a university professor in Leipzig. His father, Alfred Müller, was a bank teller who changed the family's surname to "Mueller-Stahl".[1][2] The rest of the family moved to Berlin while his father fought on the Eastern Front in World War II.[1] Mueller-Stahl was a concert violinist while he was a teenager and enrolled at an East Berlin acting school in 1952.[1]
Career
Mueller-Stahl was a film and stage actor in
blacklisted by the government. Emigrating in 1980 to West Germany,[1] he found regular work in films. These included Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Lola (1981) and Veronika Voss (1982), Andrzej Wajda's A Love in Germany (1984), Angry Harvest and the Academy Award nominated Hungarian-West German film Colonel Redl (both 1985), the latter about the scandal surrounding Austro-Hungarian Army Colonel Alfred Redl
.
Mueller-Stahl played the
Night on Earth by Jim Jarmusch
(both 1991).
Mueller-Stahl won the
Conrad Strughold, in the feature film The X-Files. In 1999 he played the mastermind of a criminal gang opposite Ray Liotta and Gloria Reuben in Pilgrim
, also distributed under the title Inferno.
In the early 2000s, Mueller-Stahl received a positive response for his portrayal of
Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for Eastern Promises. Mueller-Stahl played the role of Cardinal Strauss, Dean of the College of Cardinals and the Papal conclave, in Angels & Demons
(2009).
In 2011, he was awarded the Honorary Golden Bear at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival.[4]
Since the creation of the Freya von Moltke Stiftung, working out of Berlin and Krzyżowa, he has been a supporter and linked with their work.[5]
Filmography
- Heimliche Ehen (1956), as Norbert
- Die Flucht aus der Hölle (1960), as Hans Röder
- Five Cartridges (1960), as Pierre Gireau
- Star-Crossed Lovers(1962), as Michael
- … und deine Liebe auch (1962), as Ullrich Settich
- Naked among Wolves(1963), as André Höfel
- Christine (1963)
- Preludio 11 (1964), as Quintana
- Alaskafüchse (1964), as Sowjetischer Arzt
- Wolf Among Wolves (1965, TV series), as Wolfgang Pagel
- Ein Lord am Alexanderplatz (1967), as Dr. Achim Engelhardt
- Ways across the Country (1968), as Jürgen Leßtorff
- Tödlicher Irrtum (1970), as Chris Howard
- Her Third (1972), as The Blind Man
- Januskopf (1972), as Dr. Brock
- Die Hosen des Ritters von Bredow (1973), as Dechant von Krummensee
- Kit & Co (1974), as Mr. Slavovitz
- Jacob the Liar (1974), as Roman Schtamm
- Nelken in Aspik (1976), as Wolfgang Schmidt
- Das unsichtbare Visier (1973–1976, TV series), as Werner Bredebusch
- Die Flucht (1977), as Schmidt
- Lola (1981), as Von Bohm
- Collin (1981, TV film), as Andreas Roth
- Veronika Voss (1982), as Max Rehbein
- God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore (1982), as 'Gandhi'
- The Lite Trap (1982), as Harald Liebe
- Wings of Night (1982), as Goedel
- Embers (1983), as François Korb / Andres Korb
- The Train Killer (1983), as Tetzlav
- Un dimanche de flic (1983), as The Lawyer
- The Wounded Man (1983), as Henri's Father
- A Love in Germany (1983), as Mayer
- Trauma (1984), as Sam
- Rita Ritter (1984)
- Thousand Eyes (1984), as Arnold
- Crooks in Paradise (1985, TV film), as Otto Flamm
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- Angry Harvest (1985), as Leon Wolny
- Die Mitläufer (1985)
- Forget Mozart (1985), as Graf Pergen
- The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (1985), as Blind Director
- Close-Up (1985, TV film), as Dold
- Momo (1986), as Leader of the Men in Grey
- Franza (1986, TV film), as Jordan
- Amerika(1987, TV miniseries), as General Petya Samanov
- Our Man in the Jungle (1987), as Lutz Kehlmann
- Jokehnen (1987, TV miniseries), as Karl Steputat
- Lethal Obsession (1987), as Axel Baumgartner
- A Touch of Danger (1988, TV film), as Max Telligan
- Midnight Cop a.k.a. Killing Blue (1988), as Inspector Alex Glass
- Spider's Web (1989), as Baron von Rastchuk
- C*A*S*H: A Political Fairy Tale (1989), as Maxwell
- A hecc (1989), as Marnó, kabinos, Tamás barátja
- Music Box (1989), as Mike Laszlo
- Avalon (1990), as Sam Krichinsky
- Night on Earth (1991), as Helmut Grokenberger
- Kafka (1991), as Grubach
- Bronstein's Children (1991), as Aaron
- Utz(1992), as Baron Kaspar Joachim von Utz
- The Power of One (1992), as Doc
- Far from Berlin (1992), as Otto Lindner
- Red Hot (1993), as Dimitri
- The Movie Teller (1993), as Movie Teller
- The House of the Spirits (1993), as Severo
- Taxandria (1994), as Karol / Virgilus
- Holy Matrimony (1994), as Wilhelm
- The Last Good Time (1994), as Joseph Kopple
- A Pyromaniac's Love Story (1995), as Mr. Linzer
- Theodore Rex (1995), as Elizar Kane
- Shine (1996), as Peter
- Conversation with the Beast (1996), as Adolf Hitler
- The Ogre (1996), as Count von Kaltenborn
- In the Presence of Mine Enemies(1997, TV Movie), as Rabbi Adam Heller
- 12 Angry Men (1997, TV Movie), as Juror #4
- The Game (1997), as Anson Baer
- The Assistant (1997), as Mr. Morris Bober
- The Peacemaker (1997), as Dimitri Vertikoff
- The Commissioner (1998), as Hans Koenig
- The X-Files (1998), as Strughold
- The Thirteenth Floor (1999), as Hannon Fuller / Grierson
- The Third Miracle (1999), as Werner
- Jakob the Liar (1999), as Kirschbaum
- Jesus (1999, TV film), as Joseph
- Mission to Mars (2000), as Ray Beck (uncredited)
- Pilgrim (2000), as Mac
- The Long Run (2001), as Bertold 'Barry' Bohmer
- Die Manns – Ein Jahrhundertroman (2001, TV miniseries), as Thomas Mann
- The Story of an African Farm (2004), as Otto
- The West Wing (2004, TV series, 4 episodes), as Israeli Prime Minister Efraim 'Eli' Zahavy
- The Dust Factory (2004), as Grandpa Randolph
- Local Color (2006), as Nicholi Seroff
- I Am the Other Woman (2006), as Karl Winter
- Eastern Promises(2007), as Semyon
- Buddenbrooks (2008), as Johann 'Jean' Buddenbrook
- The International (2009), as Wilhelm Wexler
- Angels & Demons (2009), as Cardinal Strauss
- Attack on Leningrad (2009), as Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb
- Knight of Cups (2015), as Fr. Zeitlinger
Awards
- Berlin Film Festival
- Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival
- Berlinale Camera at the 47th Berlin International Film Festival[6]
- Honorary Golden Bear at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival
- Lifetime Achievement Award of Zurich Film Festival (2015)
- Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role(2007)
- Honorary citizen of Sovetsk (2011)[7]
See also
- List of German-speaking Academy Award winners and nominees
References
- ^ a b c d Farrell, Mary H.J.; Franz Spelman (12 November 1990). "Emerging from Behind the Iron Curtain, Armin Mueller-Stahl Finds Freedom-and Stardom in Avalon". People Magazine. Retrieved 8 December 2009.
- ^ Geffen, Pearl Sheffy (21 February 1997). "Shining through the darkness". Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on 28 September 2018. Retrieved 8 December 2009.
- ^ "Berlinale: 1992 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
- ^ "Berlinale 2011: The Honorary Golden Bear". berlinale.de. 26 December 2010. Archived from the original on 28 December 2010. Retrieved 26 December 2010.
- ^ "Freya :: Schirmherr und Gremien / Kuratorium - Kuratorium". Archived from the original on 7 October 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
- ^ "Berlinale: 1997 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
- ^ Armin Mueller-Stahl Ehrenbürger seiner Heimatstadt Archived 23 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine Berliner Zeitung, 8 December 2011 (in German)
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