Ulrich Matthes

Last updated
Ulrich Matthes
Ulrich Matthes bei der Verleihung zur Auszeichnung 2015.JPG
Ulrich Matthes (2015)
Born (1959-05-09) 9 May 1959 (age 64)
Occupations
  • Actor
  • voice actor
Years active1969–present
Notable work Downfall , The Ninth Day

Ulrich Matthes (born 9 May 1959) is a German actor. He is best known for having played Joseph Goebbels in the 2004 film Downfall .

Contents

Life and work

Matthes was born in West Berlin and educated at the Evangelisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster. He studied acting in the early 1980s in Berlin under Else Bongers. In the 2004 movie Downfall he plays Joseph Goebbels. In the 2004 movie The Ninth Day , he plays Fr. Henri Kremer, a Catholic priest imprisoned at Dachau. He is also the standard German voice for Kenneth Branagh along with Martin Umbach.

In 2019, Matthes served on the jury that chose Pauline Curnier Jardin as winner of the Preis der Nationalgalerie. [1]

Awards

Film

Television

Personal life

In February 2021, Matthes came out as gay. [6]

In April 2023, Matthes was one of the 22 guests at the ceremony in which former Chancellor Angela Merkel was decorated with the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit for special achievement by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at Schloss Bellevue in Berlin.. [7]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ulrich Tukur</span> German actor and musician (born 1957)

Ulrich Tukur 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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Josef Bierbichler</span> German actor (born 1948)

Josef "Sepp" Bierbichler is a German actor.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ulrich Noethen</span> German actor (born 1959)

Ulrich Noethen is a German actor who has appeared in many movies and TV films.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Klaus J. Behrendt</span> German actor

Klaus Johannes Behrendt is a German actor. Since 1992 he has starred in the Westdeutscher Rundfunk version of the popular television crime series Tatort; he also starred in the 2008 film Die Bienen – Tödliche Bedrohung.

Rosalie Helga Lina Zech, known as Rosel Zech, was a German theater and film actress, she is most well known for her works associated with the "Autorenkino" movement, which began in the 1970s.

Udo Samel is a German actor. He has appeared in more than 80 films and television shows since 1977. He starred in the 1994 film Back to Square One, which was entered into the 44th Berlin International Film Festival.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Saralisa Volm</span>

Saralisa Volm is a German actress, famous, among other things for her starring role in Finale, a film by Klaus Lemke. Volm grew up in Freising, where she also went to high school. Part of her schooling was at the Gabriel-von-Seidl-Gymnasium Bad Tölz.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dieter Thomas Heck</span> German television presenter, singer, and actor (1937–2018)

Dieter Thomas Heck was a German television presenter, singer and actor. He is known as the presenter of the popular TV program ZDF-Hitparade, featuring German Schlager music, from 1969 to 1984, reaching millions of people. As an actor, he starred in the TV play Das Millionenspiel in 1970.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jens Harzer</span> German actor

Jens Harzer is a German stage, film, and television actor. He began his career at the Munich Kammerspiele, and has been a member of the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg since 2009. He has appeared at the Salzburg Festival regularly since 2000. Harzer received prizes for roles on stage, in film and on television. He has been the bearer of the Iffland-Ring since March 2019.

The Förderpreis für Literatur der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf is a German literary award donated by the City of Düsseldorf in North Rhine-Westphalia. The Prize for Literature in support of the City of Düsseldorf has been awarded since 1972 by the city council based on the decision of the prize jury.

Der Faust, officially Deutscher Theaterpreis Der Faust, is a German theatre prize, a national prize from 2006. It is awarded annually by the organizations Deutscher Bühnenverein, Kulturstiftung der Länder, Deutsche Akademie der Darstellenden Künste and the state in which the award ceremony is held. The trophy was designed by the Austrian stage designer Erich Wonder.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sabine Derflinger</span> Austrian film director, screenwriter and film producer

Sabine Derflinger is an Austrian film director, screenwriter, producer and dramaturgical consultant. She lives and works in Vienna and Berlin. Many of her films have won several awards, notably Geraubte Kindheit, Vollgas, Kleine Schwester, 42plus and Tag und Nacht. She is also well known for directing a number of films in the cult series Tatort.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dominik Graf</span> German film director

Dominik Graf is a German film director. He studied film direction at University of Television and Film Munich, from where he graduated in 1975. While he has directed several theatrically released feature films since the 1980s, he more often finds work in television, focussing primarily on the genres police drama, thriller and crime mystery, although he has also made comedies, melodramas, documentaries and essay films. He is an active participant in public discourse about the values of genre film in Germany, through numerous articles, and interviews, some of which have been collected into a book.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Martin Werhand Verlag</span> German publishing house

The Martin Werhand Verlag is a German publishing house with a focus on contemporary literature and poetry. More than 25% of the 150 published authors have an immigrant background with parents who were born outside of Germany and have their roots in countries like the Netherlands, Greece, Spain, Croatia, Austria, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Russia or Uganda. Thus is also a mirror image of the German Society. The Martin Werhand publishing house stands for tolerance, integration and openness. It is located in Rhineland-Palatinate.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Philipp Sichler</span> German cinematographer

Philipp Sichler is a German cinematographer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dietrich Hollinderbäumer</span> German-Swedish actor

Dietrich Hollinderbäumer is a German-Swedish actor. He is known for his role in Downfall as Robert Ritter von Greim and for playing Adam in the German Netflix series Dark.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Deutsche Akademie für Fernsehen</span>

The Deutsche Akademie, Fernsehen (DAfF) was founded in December 2010 by television professionals from various fields of television production. It has its headquarters in Munich and an office in Cologne.

Raphael von Bargen is a German TV, film and stage actor.

Elisa Johanna Lucie Schlott is a German actress. Her younger half-sisters are the actresses Emilia Pieske and Helena Pieske.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Claudia Wolscht</span> German film editor

Claudia Wolscht is a German film editor.

References

  1. Alex Greenberger (3 March 2019), Preis der Nationalgalerie, Prestigious German Art Award, Names 2019 Nominees ARTnews .
  2. "Ulrich Matthes in: Förderpreis für Literatur der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf". Archived from the original on 2016-06-06. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
  3. "Ulrich Matthes". Goldene Kamera (in German). Retrieved 1 March 2015.[ permanent dead link ]
  4. Antanoviča, Agnija (13 October 2016). "Feature film Mellow Mud and documentary Under the Sun win Lielais Kristaps awards". LETA. Archived from the original on 29 November 2016. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
  5. "Rede: Ordensverleihung an Ulrich Matthes". Der Bundespräsident (in German). 22 May 2022. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
  6. «Wir sind schon da». in: SZ-Magazin, 4 February 2021.
  7. Miriam Rathje (17 April 2023), Ohne Merz, aber mit Klinsmann: Das ist die Gästeliste für Angela Merkels Ordensverleihung Der Tagesspiegel .