---
name: "Martin Wuttke"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/martin-wuttke"
fi1m_id: "martin-wuttke"
imdb_id: "nm0943487"
tmdb_id: 49056
wikidata_id: "Q65922"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "8 February 1962"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 83
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-30T09:15:57.760933+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Martin Wuttke

## Identity

Martin Wuttke

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/martin-wuttke
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** martin-wuttke
- **IMDb ID:** nm0943487
- **TMDB ID:** 49056
- **Wikidata ID:** Q65922
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Wuttke, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65922, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0943487/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/49056

Actor. Born 8 February 1962 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 8 February 1962, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
- **Active:** 2009–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 83, as actor, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 92 (1), 2010s 82 (2), 2020s 77 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 84 to 68 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 4, War 2, Crime 1, History 1, Mystery 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 8 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $327m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Wuttke, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65922, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0943487/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/49056

## Coming up

- *Krux* (2027-02-04), as Prastor

## Biography

Martin Wuttke is a German actor and director. He was born on 8 February 1962 in Gelsenkirchen. He trained at the college theatre in Bochum before moving to the Westfälische Schauspielschule Bochum.

Wuttke has appeared on numerous German-speaking stages, including the Berliner Ensemble, Volksbühne Berlin, Thalia Theater Hamburg and, since 2009, as a member of the ensemble at the Burgtheater in Vienna. He received the Nestroy-Theaterpreis in 2010 for his performance in Das Begräbnis.

He is known internationally for playing Adolf Hitler in *Inglourious Basterds* (2009). Other film and television credits include *Cloud Atlas* (2012), *Hanna* (2011), *A Hidden Life* (2019), *Babylon Berlin* (2017–) and the series *54 Hours: The Gladbeck Hostage Crisis* (2018). He played Herr Fuchs in *Silent Friend* (2025).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, filmportal.de, rottentomatoes.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Silent Friend* (2026), Fi1m 77, as Herr Fuchs — [page](https://film.one/film/silent-friend.md)
- *A Hidden Life* (2019), Fi1m 82, as Major Kiel — [page](https://film.one/film/a-hidden-life.md)
- *Babylon Berlin* (2017), Fi1m 82, as Gustav Heymann — [page](https://film.one/tv/babylon-berlin.md)
- *Inglourious Basterds* (2009), Fi1m 92, as Hitler — [page](https://film.one/film/inglourious-basterds.md)

## Complete filmography (54)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Krux* (2027), as Prastor
- *Silent Friend* (2026), as Herr Fuchs — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/silent-friend.md)
- *Other People's Money* (2025), series, as Daniel Köhler
- *Verified Target* (2025), as Brody
- *Die Zweiflers* (2024), series, as Siggi
- *Sleeping Dog* (2023), series, Actor
- *Bonn* (2023), series, as Reinhard Gehlen
- *Elfriede Jelinek: Language Unleashed* (2022), as (voice)
- *Broll + Baroni – Für immer tot* (2022), as Leopold Wagner
- *Confessions of Felix Krull* (2021), as Clock Maker
- *Ich und die Anderen* (2021), series, as Vater
- *Stay Still* (2021), as Dr. Herrmann
- *Highfalutin* (2021), Actor
- *Heute stirbt hier Kainer* (2021), as Ulrich Kainer
- *Die Toten am Meer* (2020), as Wernicke
- *Ottilie von Faber-Castell - Eine mutige Frau* (2019), as Lothar von Faber
- *A Hidden Life* (2019), as Major Kiel — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/a-hidden-life.md)
- *Verliebt in Valerie* (2019), as Henk
- *Happiness Sucks* (2019), as Stefan Gabriel
- *54 Hours: The Gladbeck Hostage Crisis* (2018), series, as Leiter Kripo Bremen
- *Partisan* (2018), Actor
- *Babylon Berlin* (2017), series, as Gustav Heymann — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/babylon-berlin.md)
- *Ich werde nicht schweigen* (2017), as Windhorst
- *Maximilian and Marie De Bourgogne* (2017), series, as Ulrich Fugger
- *The Duelist* (2016), as German Baron
- *Colonia* (2016), as Niels Biedermann
- *Sense8* (2015), series, as Volker Bohm
- *A Most Wanted Man* (2014), as The Admiral
- *Fever* (2014), as Vater
- *George* (2013), as Joseph Goebbels
- *Cloud Atlas* (2012), as Mr. Boerhaave / Guard / Leary the Healer
- *Homeland* (2011), series, as BND Officer Adler — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/homeland.md)
- *Hanna* (2011), as Knepfler
- *Inglourious Basterds* (2009), as Hitler — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/inglourious-basterds.md)
- *Delta* (2008), Actor
- *Silent Resident* (2008), as Hauks
- *Die Tote vom Deich* (2006), as Manuel Bove
- *Call Me Agostino* (2006), Actor
- *Der Idiot* (2006), as Myschkin
- *Detektive oder Die glücklosen Engel der inneren Sicherheit* (2006), Actor
- *Rosenstrasse* (2003), as Joseph Goebbels
- *Hamlet_X* (2003), as Claudius
- *Liebesau - Die andere Heimat* (2002), series, as Schorsch Schönstein
- *Hand in Hand* (2001), as Peter Plachotny
- *Demons* (2000), as Nikolai Wsewolodowitsch Stawrogin
- *The Legend of Rita* (2000), as Erwin Hull
- *No Place to Go* (2000), as Imbissverkäufer
- *Geiselfahrt ins Paradies* (1998), Actor
- *The 120 Days of Bottrop* (1997), as Christoph Schlingensief
- *Die Bernauerin* (1997), as Mönch
- *Bella Block* (1993), series, as Wolfgang Krauss
- *The Party: Nature Morte* (1991), Actor
- *Buster's Bedroom* (1991), as Joe
- *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, as Andreas Keppler, Dr. Wimmer, Georg, Bruno Kandis, Adrian Goser

## Gallery

- ![Martin Wuttke, ausgezeichnet als bester Schauspieler, bei der Verleihung des Nestroy-Theaterpreises 2010 im Burgtheater in Wien. (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/323034/gallery-2fd48df2d5e8.jpg) Martin Wuttke, ausgezeichnet als bester Schauspieler, bei der Verleihung des Nestroy-Theaterpreises 2010 im Burgtheater in Wien. (2011) — Nestroy_2010_(43)_Martin_Wuttke.jpg: Manfred Werner - Tsui
derivative work: Parzi (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Nestroy_2010_%2843%29_Martin_Wuttke-2011-26-02.jpg/1280px-Nestroy_2010_%2843%29_Martin_Wuttke-2011-26-02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Martin Wuttke](https://film.one/media/person/323034/gallery-a7d62982b85a.jpg) Martin Wuttke — Superbass, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Martin_Wuttke.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Martin Wuttke, ausgezeichnet als bester Schauspieler, bei der Verleihung des Nestroy-Theaterpreises 2010 im Burgtheater in Wien.](https://film.one/media/person/323034/gallery-b0a5d80be4e5.jpg) Martin Wuttke, ausgezeichnet als bester Schauspieler, bei der Verleihung des Nestroy-Theaterpreises 2010 im Burgtheater in Wien. — Manfred Werner - Tsui, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Nestroy_2010_%2833%29_Martin_Wuttke.jpg/1280px-Nestroy_2010_%2833%29_Martin_Wuttke.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Doris Schretzmayer und Martin Wuttke (ausgezeichnet als bester Schauspieler) bei der Verleihung des Nestroy-Theaterpreises 2010 im Burgtheater in Wien.](https://film.one/media/person/323034/gallery-0eda4381429a.jpg) Doris Schretzmayer und Martin Wuttke (ausgezeichnet als bester Schauspieler) bei der Verleihung des Nestroy-Theaterpreises 2010 im Burgtheater in Wien. — Manfred Werner - Tsui, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Nestroy_2010_%2821%29_Doris_Schretzmayer%2C_Martin_Wuttke.jpg/1280px-Nestroy_2010_%2821%29_Doris_Schretzmayer%2C_Martin_Wuttke.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Martin Wuttke](https://film.one/media/person/323034/gallery-04fea93166af.jpg) Martin Wuttke — Image via TMDB
- ![Martin Wuttke und Simone Thomalla als Ermittlerduo Keppler/Saalfeld (Leipzig) bei einem WDR-Pressefototermin zum Kölner Tatort "Ihr Kinderlein kommet" (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/323034/gallery-4066fb6e9a1e.jpg) Martin Wuttke und Simone Thomalla als Ermittlerduo Keppler/Saalfeld (Leipzig) bei einem WDR-Pressefototermin zum Kölner Tatort "Ihr Kinderlein kommet" (2011) — Superbass, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Tatort_Keppler_Saalfeld.jpg/1280px-Tatort_Keppler_Saalfeld.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Nestroy Theatre Prize 2015: Nestroy Theatre Prize (won), for *John Gabriel Borkman*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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