Martin Wuttke
{{short description|German actor and director}}
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|name = Martin Wuttke
|image = Martin Wuttke.jpg
|caption = Wuttke in 2011
|birth_date = February,8,1962
|birth_place = Gelsenkirchen, West Germany
|occupation = Actor, director
|yearsactive = 1991–present
|partner =
|children =
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Martin Wuttke is a German actor and director. He has performed on many stages in the German-speaking theatre world, as well as in numerous films and TV series. He achieved international recognition for his portrayal of Adolf Hitler in the 2009 film Inglourious Basterds.
Early life and education
Martin Wuttke began his actor training at the college theatre in Bochum, before switching to the Westfälische Schauspielschule Bochum (later renamed Schauspielschule Bochum).{{cn|date=February 2025}}
Career
Wuttke has performed 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, and Schauspielhaus Zürich in Switzerland.{{cn|date=February 2025}}
When the Berliner Ensemble performed at the United States in 1999,{{Cite news |last=Midgette |first=Anne |date=27 June 1999 |title=Brecht's Company Finally Follows Him to America |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/27/theater/theater-brecht-s-company-finally-follows-him-to-america.html}} Wuttke portrayed Hitler as a petty Chicago gangster in Heiner Müller's adaptation of Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, in a performance praised by critics.[http://sfgate.com/news/article/A-Brecht-of-fresh-air-3077873.php Hurwitt, Robert A Brecht of fresh air SFGate, July 2, 1999]{{Cite web |title=Dog Eat Dog - Martin Wuttke as Arturo Ui |url=https://www.stephenlegawiec.com/new-blog/martin-wuttke |access-date=16 November 2022 |website=Stephen Legawiec |date=16 February 2021 |language=en-US}}
In 2009 Wuttke was appointed director of the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria, where he also became a member of the ensemble.{{cn|date=February 2025}}
He has also starred in many films, achieving international recognition for his portrayal of Adolf Hitler in the 2009 film Inglourious Basterds,{{cn|date=February 2025}} and German TV series, notably Babylon Berlin from 2020 to 2022.{{cn|date=February 2025}}
In 2023 he played Reinhard Gehlen in Bonn – Alte Freunde, neue Feinde, a political drama set in post-war West Germany in 1954.{{cite web | last=Wiseman | first=Andreas | title=Leonine Picks Up Distribution Rights To Odeon Fiction Spy Series 'Bonn' | website=Deadline | date=17 August 2021 | url=https://deadline.com/2021/08/leonine-picks-up-distribution-rights-to-odeon-fiction-spy-series-bonn-1234815566/ | access-date=1 March 2025}}{{cite web | title=High-end historical series Bonn now in post-production | website=Cineuropa | date=23 March 2022 | url=https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/423643/ | access-date=2 March 2025}}
Filmography
=Films=
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| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | No Place to Go | Fast food seller | |
| 2002 | Delusion | Robert Bergmann | |
| rowspan="2" | 2003 | Rosenstrasse | Joseph Goebbels | |
| Hamlet X | Claudius | ||
| rowspan="2" | 2006 | Call Me Agostino | Agostino Stone | |
| Detektive oder Die glücklosen Engel der inneren Sicherheit | |||
| 2007 | Silent Resident | Hauks | |
| 2008 | Delta | ||
| 2009 | Inglourious Basterds | Adolf Hitler | |
| 2011 | Hanna | Knepfler | |
| 2012 | Cloud Atlas | Mr. Boerhaave/Guard/Leary the Healer | |
| rowspan="2" | 2014 | A Most Wanted Man | ||
| Fever | |||
| 2015 | Colonia Dignidad | ||
| 2016 | The Duelist | German Baron | |
| 2019 | A Hidden Life | ||
| 2020 | Berlin Alexanderplatz |
=Television=
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| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Moskau – Petuschki | Jerofejev Venedikt | |
| 1997 | Die Bernauerin | Mönch | |
| 1998–2015 | Tatort | Andreas Keppler | 21 episodes |
| 1998 | Geiselfahrt ins Paradies | ||
| rowspan="2" | 2000 | Dämonen | Nikolai Wsewolodowitsch Stawrogin | |
| Bella Block | Wolfgang Krauss | 1 episode | |
| 2001 | Hand in Hand | Peter Plachotny | |
| 2002 | Liebesau – die andere Heimat | Schorsch Schönstein | 3 episodes |
| 2006 | Die Tote vom Deich | Manuel Bove | |
| 2013 | {{Ill|George (2013 film)|de|3=George (Fernsehfilm)|lt=George}} | 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 Heymann | 14 episodes |
| 2023 | Bonn – Alte Freunde, neue Feinde | Reinhard Gehlen | TV miniseries |
Awards
References
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External links
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- [http://www.burgtheater.at/Content.Node2/home/burgtheater/ensemble/Wuttke_Martin.php Burgtheater – Martin Wuttke]
- {{IMDb name|0943487|Martin Wuttke}}
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Category:Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award winners
Category:20th-century German male actors
Category:21st-century German male actors
Category:German male stage actors
Category:German male film actors
Category:German male television actors