Ulrich Tukur
Ulrich Tukur ( born July 29, 1957 in four home as Ulrich Gerhard Scheurlen ) is a German actor and musician. Tukur embodied in the 2006 Oscar-winning film The Lives of Others, the role of Lieutenant Colonel of the East German state security Anton Grubitz. Tukur is now considered one of the most renowned film actor of his generation in Germany.
Life
Ulrich Tukur, a descendant of Gustav Schwab, grew up in Westphalia, Hesse and Lower Saxony. He spent his youth in Wedemark near Hanover. There he also made his Abitur at the Gymnasium 1977 Großburgwedel and during a student exchange program with the American Field Service in Boston ( USA), a high school graduation. After military service, he studied German, English and History at the University of Tübingen and worked as a musician. He was discovered for the stage and began in 1980 at the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart an education in drama. After completion of the drama school in 1983, he was hired by the City Theater Heidelberg.
His stage name put Tukur is prompted by Michael Verhoeven, the director of his first feature film, at the beginning of his career. He led him out of an incident during the occupation of the Rhineland by Napoleon at the beginning of the 19th century from when a French officer of the name of a new-born son of his ancestors " Napoleon, tout court " ( for, Napoleon, very briefly ') as Napoleon Tukur eindeutschte.
Ulrich Tukur is married to his second wife, the photographer Katharina John. Since 1999, they live in Venice on Giudecca Island and the Tuscan village of Monte Piano (city Vernio ). Tukurs first marriage produced the daughters Lilli and Marlene, both studying in the United States.
Artistic creation
Even during his studies enabled him to Michael Verhoeven, for the first time to participate in a movie: In the white rose he played the students and members of the resistance group against the Nazi dictatorship Willi Graf. In a later engagement in Munich in Ferdinand Bruckner's Pains of Youth Peter Zadek was aware of him, resulting in a fruitful artistic collaboration resulted, in 1984 eventually led to Tukurs breakthrough in the theater.
Tukur played under Zadek first at the Freie Volksbühne Berlin as an SS officer in Joshua Sobol's play Ghetto gowns. Later the German Schauspielhaus in Hamburg for both their artistic home - for Zadek as a director and for Tukur from 1985 to 1995 as an ensemble member in numerous major and minor roles. In particular, he was able to Zadek in Shakespeare's As You Like It, as Marc Antony in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar convince, in Zadek's production of Lulu by Frank Wedekind as Alwa Schön as well as Hamlet, directed by Michael Bogdanov. In 1986 he was chosen by the German theater critics for Actor of the Year. From 1995 to 2003 he headed together with Ulrich Waller as director, the Hamburg Chamber of games that he opened the door with the role of Beckmann in Wolfgang Borchert's outside. From 1999 to 2001 he acted at the Salzburg Festival in the title role of Everyman by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
Ulrich Tukur is a member of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg.
In 1995 he founded the dance band Ulrich Tukur and the rhythm Boys, with whom he has played many tours and released several recordings. It trades under the name The oldest boy band in the world and plays his own compositions and evergreens, with Tukur as a singer, pianist and accordion player. The Rhythm Boys are Kalle Mews (drums, animal sounds ), Ulrich Mayer (guitar, vocals ) and Günter Maertens (double bass, guitar, vocals).
In August 2009 it was announced that Tukur plays a role as a crime scene investigator Felix Murot for the Hessischer Rundfunk. On 28 November 2010 the 40th anniversary of the crime scene, the first episode was aired.
Filmography (selection)
Discography
Music
Audiobooks
- 2000: Waiter, please a dancer. From the life of Eintänzers by Billy Wilder, Patmos
- 2002: The Strangler Hugo Bettauers, Roof Music
- 2002: I wept in my dream, Ulrich Tukur sings and speaks Heinrich Heine, accompanied by Efim Jourist quartet, Hoffmann und Campe
- 2004: Instructions for Italy by Henning Klüver, Roof Music
- 2004: Venice (author and speaker ), Hoffmann and Campe
- 2005: The confusion of the pupil Törless by Robert Musil, Dhv the Hörverlag
- 2005: 36 hours. The story of Miss Pollinger of Odon von Horvath, Tacheles
- 2006: Freedom is a work of words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Random House Audio
- 2006: Rainer Maria Rilke - The most beautiful poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, Argon Verlag
- 2009: Italian Journey by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, coproduction BR4
- 2009: Listen, my heart, the most beautiful love poems. Piano: Alexander Raytchev, Audiobook
- 2009: The head of George Frideric Handel. Story by Gert Jonke with music by George Frideric Handel, Cybele Records
- 2010: cocaine. Biography, poetry, prose, letters of Walter Rheinermark, spoken by Helmut Krauss, Marc Bator, Ulrich Tukur, Edition Apollo
- 2013: The musical clock, ASIN: B00FPTH6PI
Awards
Publications
- The water lily in the dining room. Venetian stories. List, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-548-60839-6.
- Alas, confused, whimsical words. German love poems. Selected by Ulrich Tukur. Photographs by Catherine John. Ullsteinhaus, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-550-08864-3.
- The game clock. Ullsteinhaus, 2013, ISBN 978-3-550-08030-2.