Martin Wuttke

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Martin Wuttke
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Wuttke in 2011
Born (1962-02-08) 8 February 1962 (age 62)
Occupation(s)Actor, director
Years active1991–present
PartnerMargarita Broich
Children3

Martin Wuttke (born 8 February 1962) is a German actor and director who achieved international recognition for his portrayal of Adolf Hitler in the 2009 film Inglourious Basterds . [1]

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Life and career

Wuttke began his actor training at the college theater in Bochum and then switched to the Westfälische Schauspielschule Bochum (now Schauspielschule Bochum). He played on numerous German-speaking stages: Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin, Berliner Ensemble, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Schiller Theater in Berlin, Deutsches Theater Berlin, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Theater des Westens Berlin, the Thalia Theater of Hamburg, Stuttgart State Theater, Freie Volksbühne Berlin, Schauspiel Frankfurt am Main, Schauspielhaus Zürich (CH) and at the Burgtheater in Vienna (AT), where he has been a director and a member of the ensemble since 2009. When the Berliner Ensemble performed at Berkeley in 1999, [2] his portrayal of Hitler as a petty Chicago gangster in Heiner Müller's adaptation of Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui was described as an "astonishing grotesque... comically loathsome and rivetingly outrageous." [3]

Wuttke lives with actress Margarita Broich and their two children.

Filmography

Films

YearFilmRoleNotes
2000 No Place to Go Fast food seller
2002DelusionRobert Bergmann
2003 Rosenstrasse Joseph Goebbels
Hamlet X Claudius
2006Call Me AgostinoAgostino Stone
Detektive oder Die glücklosen Engel der inneren Sicherheit
2007Silent ResidentHauks
2008Delta
2009 Inglourious Basterds Adolf Hitler
2011 Hanna Knepfler
2012 Cloud Atlas Mr. Boerhaave/Guard/Leary the Healer
2014 A Most Wanted Man
Fever
2015 Colonia Dignidad
2016 The Duelist German Baron
2019 A Hidden Life
2020 Berlin Alexanderplatz

Television

YearFilmRoleNotes
1991Moskau – PetuschkiJerofejev Venedikt
1997Die BernauerinMönch
1998–2015 Tatort Andreas Keppler21 episodes
1998Geiselfahrt ins Paradies
2000DämonenNikolai Wsewolodowitsch Stawrogin
Bella Block Wolfgang Krauss1 episode
2001Hand in HandPeter Plachotny
2002Liebesau – die andere HeimatSchorsch Schönstein3 episodes
2006Die Tote vom DeichManuel Bove
2013 George  [ de ] Joseph Goebbels
2015 Homeland BND officer Adler
2016–2017 Sense8 Volker Bohm
2017 Maximilian Ulrich Fugger the Elder TV miniseries
2020—2022 Babylon Berlin Gustav Heymann14 episodes
2023 Bonn – Alte Freunde, neue Feinde  [ de ] Reinhard Gehlen TV miniseries

Awards

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References

  1. "Dog Eat Dog - Martin Wuttke as Arturo Ui". Stephen Legawiec. 16 February 2021. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  2. Midgette, Anne (27 June 1999). "Brecht's Company Finally Follows Him to America". The New York Times.
  3. Hurwitt, Robert A Brecht of fresh air SFGate, July 2, 1999