Uwe Kockisch
Uwe Kockisch ( born January 31, 1944 in Cottbus ) is a German actor.
Life
Uwe Kockisch trained as a mining machine operators. As a teenager Kockisch, together with friends, tried to escape in 1961 by means of a cutter across the Baltic Sea from the GDR. The group was arrested before; Kockisch then sat more than six months in prison.
His training as an actor Uwe Kockisch graduated at the Academy of Dramatic Arts " Ernst Busch" Berlin. Kockisch participated in engagements in Cottbus and Karl- Marx-Stadt. He played for 20 years at the Maxim Gorki Theater and later two years at the stage in Berlin.
From 1972, Uwe Kockisch was working for the film. In 1981 he played the lead role in your unknown brother of Ulrich Weiss. Kockisch occurred among others in the crime series Tatort, Police 110 and the prosecutor has the word on and was seen as a Commissioner in the TV series Zappek. Since 2003, he embodies the Commissario Guido Brunetti in Donna Leon crime series. In 2010 he played a starring role in the six -part television series Weissensee as a Stasi officer Hans copper.
Kockisch lives with his wife Christine Gautier in Madrid and has two sons.
Awards
- 2008: Adolf Grimme Award as the lead in the category " fiction" for the film A city is being blackmailed by Dominik Graf
- 2011: German Television Award for Best series Weissensee, representative of the ensemble cast
- 2013: Film Festival, Turkey / Germany for Best Actor in The Visitor
Filmography (selection)
Donna Leon series
As Guido Brunetti was Kockisch to see directed by Sigi Rothemund in the following television films of the crime series Donna Leon:
- 2003: Venetian Finale
- 2003: Friends in High Places
- 2003: Acqua alta
- 2004: Soft asleep
- 2005: evidence that it is evil
- 2005: Secretive channels
- 2006: Final Venice
- 2006: The Law of the lagoon
- 2008: The dark hours of the Serenissima
- 2008: Blood from a Stone
- 2009: As through a dark glass
- 2010: Let the little children come to me
- 2011: The Girl of his dreams
- 2012: Beautiful appearance
- 2013: In good faith