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Ulrich Noethen

Date of Birth
11/18/1959 - 12:00
Geburtsort
München
Biography

Ulrich Noethen was born on November 18, 1959, as Ulrich Schmidt in Munich. After attending actor's training at Stuttgart's Hochschule für darstellende Kunst he became a cast member at theatres in Freiburg (Breisgau), Köln and Berlin from 1985 on. After Berlin's Stattliche Bühnen were closed down, Noethen starred in the TV series "Die Partner" (1994-1995) and was seen in several TV movies like "Frau Bu lacht" (1996).

Later, Noethen also appeared in leading roles in movie productions. He played Harry Frommermann in "Comedian Harmonists" (1997) and received the Deutsche Filmpreis as well as the Bayerische Filmpreis for his performance, and he was seen as Kurt Tucholsky in "Gripsholm" (2000). Noethen also played the dreamy umbrella constructor Bruno Taschenbier in "Das Sams" ("The Slurb", 2001) and Dr. Johann "Justus" Bökk in the adaptation of Erich Kästner's children's novel "Das fliegende Klassenzimmer" ("The Flying Classroom", 2003).

He played Heinrich Himmler twice, in the elaborate "Der Untergang" ("Downfall", 2005) and in the Hitler-parody "Mein Führer" ("My Führer", 2007), and in two repeatedly awarded productions he appeared as the husband of Katja Riemann: the tragicomical family-drama "Das wahre Leben" ("Bumm! - Your Family, the Battlefield", 2006) and "Ein fliehendes Pferd" ("Runaway Horse", 2007) after the novel by Martin Walser. In the drama "Schattenwelt" ("Long Shadows") he appeared as a former terrorist of the RAF.

Ulrich Noethen also played some prominent roles in the TV productions "Die Luftbrücke" (2005) and "Teufelsbraten" (2007). In the TV movies about "Kommissar Süden" he played the title role.

He then starred in a row of high-profile TV productions: the comedy "Lügen haben linke Hände" (2011), the romance "Von Mäusen und Lügen" (2011), the biopic "Der Mann mit dem Fagott" (2011) and the acclaimed thriller "Das unsichtbare Mädchen" (2011).  On the big screen, he was seen as a demanding stage director who pushes a young actress to her limits in Christian Schwochow's drama "Die Unsichtbare" ("Cracks in the Shell", 2011), and in the Spring of 2012, he reprised his role as the shy Bruno Taschenbier for "Sams im Glück".

He played the father to Tom Schilling's character in Jan Ole Gerster's multi-award-winning surprise hit "Oh Boy", and portrayed the philosopher Hans Jonas in Margarethe von Trotta's "Hannah Arendt" (2012). He also starred in several TV productions: He played a provincial tax collector in Hermine Huntgeburth's "Eine Hand wäscht die andere" (2012), appeared as the King in the fairy tale adaptation "Allerleirauh" (2012), portrayed an anxious business manager in "Die Erfinderbraut" (2013) and was a murder suspect in "Mein Mann, ein Mörder" (2013).

In 2013, Noethen starred in the theatrical release "Scherbenpark" ("Broken Glass Park"), playing a journalist who takes care of the orphaned daughter of a murder victim. His next film was the family-friendly children's book adaptation "Pettersson & Findus - Kleiner Quälgeist, große Freundschaft" (2014), in which Noethen plays an eccentric loner – not unlike his character in the "Sams" franchise –  who one day befriends a cat.

After taking on the role of a psychiatrist with detective instincts in the 2014 TV thriller "Neben der Spur - Adrenalin", Noethen played a husband whose wife falls for another woman in the TV drama "Ich will dich" (2014). He next starred as the spouse of the German chancellor in the satire "Die Eisläuferin" (2015, TV), and played a West-German army officer in the acclaimed miniseries "Deutschland 83" (2015). Following his turn as general attorney Fritz Bauer in "Die Akte General" (2016, TV), Noethen took on the role of Otto Frank in Hans Steinbichler's feature film adaptation of "Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank".

Also in the following years, Noethen remained extremely active as an actor. He took on leading roles in episodes of the series "Der Kriminalist" (2017) and "Unter Verdacht", played a police officer in the two-parter "Gladbeck" ("54 Hours", 2018), a film director in the three-parter "Ku'damm 59" (also 2018) and continued to impersonate the main character in the crime series "Neben der Spur". In 2019 he starred in the series "Charité" as legendary physician Ferdinand Sauerbruch. Christian Schwochow cast him in the Siegfried Lenz adaptation "Deutschstunde" ("The German Lesson", 2019) as NS-loyal village policeman and father of the young main character.

 

Filmography
2023/2024
Riefenstahl
  • Voice
2023/2024
Ungeschminkt
  • Cast
2021
Die Wespe
  • Cast
2019/2020
Louis van Beethoven
  • Cast
2018-2020
Unterleuten - Das zerissene Dorf
  • Cast
2019
Die Ungewollten - Die Irrfahrt der St. Louis
  • Cast
2018/2019
Deutschstunde
  • Cast
2017/2018
Mein erster Mord
  • Cast
2017/2018
Ku'damm 59
  • Cast
2017/2018
Sag, es tut dir leid
  • Cast
2017/2018
Charité [Staffel 2]
  • Cast
2016-2018
Gladbeck
  • Cast
2016/2017
Die offene Tür
  • Cast
2016/2017
Verschlusssache
  • Cast
2016
Sumpfgebiete
  • Cast
2015/2016
Aufbruch
  • Cast
2015/2016
Die Ermittler - Nur für den Dienstgebrauch
  • Cast
2015/2016
Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank
  • Cast
2015
Die Akte General
  • Cast
2015/2016
Amnesie
  • Cast
2014/2015
Leberkäseland
  • Cast
2014/2015
Deutschland 83
  • Cast
2015
Die Eisläuferin
  • Cast
2013/2014
Ich will Dich
  • Cast
2013/2014
Adrenalin
  • Cast
2012-2014
Pettersson & Findus - Kleiner Quälgeist, große Freundschaft
  • Cast
2012/2013
Mein Mann, ein Mörder
  • Cast
2012/2013
Klänge des Verschweigens - Ein detektivischer Musikfilm
  • Voice
2011/2012
Scherbenpark
  • Cast
2010-2012
Oh Boy
  • Cast
2012
Eine Hand wäscht die andere
  • Cast
2010-2012
Zwei übern Berg
  • Cast
2011/2012
Sams im Glück
  • Cast
2009-2012
Der Mondmann
  • Voice
2011/2012
Hannah Arendt
  • Cast
2011
Das unsichtbare Mädchen
  • Cast
2011
Es ist nicht vorbei
  • Cast
2010/2011
Die Unsichtbare
  • Cast
2010/2011
Der Mann mit dem Fagott
  • Cast
2009-2011
Hindenburg
  • Cast
2008-2010
Henri 4
  • Cast
2010
Aghet - Ein Völkermord
  • Participation
2009
Tempelräuber
  • Cast
2008/2009
Erntedank. Ein Allgäukrimi
  • Cast
2007-2009
Kommissar Süden und das Geheimnis der Königin
  • Cast
2009
Rumpe & Tuli
  • Cast
2006-2008
Was wenn der Tod uns scheidet?
  • Cast
2007/2008
Kommissar Süden und der Luftgitarrist
  • Cast
2007/2008
Ein starker Abgang
  • Cast
2008
Schattenwelt
  • Cast
2007
Strahlende Zukunft
  • Cast
2006/2007
Ein fliehendes Pferd
  • Cast
2006/2007
Teufelsbraten
  • Cast
2006/2007
Mein Führer - Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler
  • Cast
2006
Die letzten Tage
  • Cast
2005/2006
Brecht - Die Kunst zu leben
  • Voice
2005/2006
TKKG - Das Geheimnis um die rätselhafte Mind-Machine
  • Cast
2005/2006
Silberhochzeit
  • Cast
2005/2006
Das wahre Leben
  • Cast
2005
Die Luftbrücke - Nur der Himmel war frei
  • Cast
2004/2005
Schiller
  • Cast
2003-2005
Polly Blue Eyes
  • Cast
2004/2005
Die Patriarchin
  • Cast
2003/2004
Bibi Blocksberg und das Geheimnis der blauen Eulen
  • Cast
2003/2004
Der Untergang
  • Cast
2003/2004
Kammerflimmern
  • Cast
2003/2004
Hitlers letzte Tage. Der Film "Der Untergang"
  • Participation
2003/2004
Der Boxer und die Friseuse
  • Cast
2003/2004
Jargo
  • Cast
2003
Sams in Gefahr
  • Cast
2003
Mörderische Elite
  • Cast
2002/2003
Warum läuft Herr V. Amok?
  • Cast
2001/2002
Bibi Blocksberg
  • Cast
2001/2002
Francisca
  • Cast
2001/2002
Väter
  • Cast
2002
Das fliegende Klassenzimmer
  • Cast
2002
Die rote Jacke
  • Cast
2000/2001
Das Sams
  • Cast
2000/2001
Das Rätsel des blutroten Rubins
  • Cast
2000/2001
Vera Brühne
  • Cast
2000
Tod im See
  • Cast
1999/2000
Bonhoeffer - Die letzte Stufe
  • Cast
1999/2000
Gripsholm
  • Cast
1998/1999
Beresina oder Die letzten Tage der Schweiz
  • Cast
1998/1999
Grüne Wüste
  • Cast
1998/1999
Viehjud Levi
  • Cast
1999
Heirate mir!
  • Cast
1999
Aber für Barbara
  • Cast
1998
Busenfreunde 2 - Alles wird gut!
  • Cast
1997
Der Skorpion
  • Cast
1997
Busenfreunde
  • Cast
1996/1997
Der Ausbruch
  • Cast
1997
Comedian Harmonists
  • Cast
1996
Lautlose Schritte
  • Cast
1995/1996
Sperling und das Loch in der Wand
  • Cast
1995
Frau Bu lacht
  • Cast
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