--- name: "Ulrich Tukur" canonical: "https://film.one/person/ulrich-tukur" fi1m_id: "ulrich-tukur" imdb_id: "nm0876300" tmdb_id: 8198 wikidata_id: "Q697129" roles: ["Actor"] born: "29 July 1957" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 81 average_as: "actor" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-09-17T15:15:46.654865+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." --- # Ulrich Tukur ## Identity Ulrich Tukur - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ulrich-tukur - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** ulrich-tukur - **IMDb ID:** nm0876300 - **TMDB ID:** 8198 - **Wikidata ID:** Q697129 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich_Tukur, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q697129, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0876300/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8198 Actor. Born 29 July 1957 in Viernheim, Germany. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 29 July 1957, Viernheim, Germany - **Active:** 2002–2009 - **Also known as:** Ulrich Gerhard Scheurlen, Ulrich Scheurlen - **Average Fi1m score:** 81, as actor, over 3 titles - **Fi1m against the critics:** 81 to 71 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 0 of 3 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 3, Mystery 2, Science Fiction 1, Thriller 1 - **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $119m across 3 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich_Tukur, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q697129, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0876300/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8198 ## Streaming the US now - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Lives of Others*](https://film.one/film/the-lives-of-others.md) (84) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Ulrich Tukur > Ulrich Tukur is persuasive as men whose authority makes them difficult to read. We value the precision of his supporting work, especially when a few scenes leave a stronger impression than their size would suggest. In *Solaris* (2002), Ulrich Tukur's Gibarian has a handful of scenes and a recorded message. We found that message unsettling; his restrained presence makes a brief appearance difficult to shake off. Steven Soderbergh has Jeremy Davies mumbling and fluttering his hands as Snow, and Viola Davis refusing to soften as Gordon. Tukur's economy holds its own in that company. This is supporting work we rate for what it contributes, without wishing the film would give him more to do. His international film work took hold in the early 2000s, after a stage breakthrough with Peter Zadek in *Ghetto* (1984). The parts were not uniformly small: Costa-Gavras's *Amen.* (2002) cast him in the lead as Kurt Gerstein. We would still begin with the supporting performances, where his precision has to count quickly. They also make clear why he is so useful as an authority figure: he can suggest a man accustomed to being heard without making a display of it. In Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's *The Lives of Others* (2006), that authority belongs to Anton Grubitz, a Stasi officer. Tukur is persuasive as a bureaucratic figure whose moral position requires watching, and his understatement serves the part. Ulrich Mühe's patient performance carries the film, so there is no need to overstate Tukur's share of its success. We recommend it warmly, while finding that its faith in personal goodness sometimes makes a brutal system look too easily understood. The risk for Tukur himself is familiar casting becoming too comfortable. Michael Haneke's *The White Ribbon* (2009) gives him the Baron, another figure defined by rank; *John Rabe* (2009) gives him the title role. We would want each new official to offer more than the reassurance that the actor knows how authority behaves. Try *Solaris* for him, provided a cold, patient film about grief suits the evening. ## Biography Ulrich Tukur (born Ulrich Gerhard Scheurlen) is a German actor and musician. He was born on 29 July 1957 in Viernheim. He studied German, English and history at the University of Tübingen before training as an actor at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart from 1980 to 1983. Tukur began his career in theatre, becoming a member of the ensemble at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg under Peter Zadek and later co-directing the Hamburg Kammerspiele. His film roles include Willi Graf in *Die weiße Rose* (1982), Gibarian in Steven Soderbergh's *Solaris* (2002), Kurt Gerstein in *Amen.* (2002), Anton Grubitz in *The Lives of Others* (2006) and the Baron in Michael Haneke's *The White Ribbon* (2009). He has also performed and recorded as a musician with his band Ulrich Tukur & The Rhythm Boys since 1995. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, filmportal.de.* ## On Fi1m (3) - *The White Ribbon* (2009), Fi1m 86, as The Baron — [page](https://film.one/film/the-white-ribbon.md) - *The Lives of Others* (2006), Fi1m 84, as Anton Grubitz — [page](https://film.one/film/the-lives-of-others.md) - *Solaris* (2002), Fi1m 74, as Gibarian — [page](https://film.one/film/solaris.md) ## Complete filmography (122) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *My Friend Barry* (2026), as Prior - *Cabaret-Berlin, the Wild Scene* (2025), as voice - *Time We Lost* (2025), as Hans Schenke - *Köln 75* (2025), as Dr. Brandes - *The Three Investigators and the Carpathian Dog* (2025), as Mr. Prentice - *Martin Reads the Quran* (2024), as Professor Dr. Neuweiser - *Drahá Vivi* (2023), series, as Hans Klettmann - *Die Geschichte der Menschheit - leicht gekürzt* (2022), as Erik der Rote - *Bis zum letzten Tropfen* (2022), as Dr. Rainer Gebhard - *Faking Hitler* (2021), series, as Hans Stöckel - *It's Just a Phase, Honeybunny* (2021), as René Güldenberg - *Die Unschuldsvermutung* (2021), as Marius Atterson - *MuM Calls It Quits* (2021), as Paul - *Meeresleuchten* (2021), as Thomas Wintersperger - *Ökozid* (2020), as Victor Graf - *The Turncoat* (2020), series, as Ernst Menzel - *Open Season* (2020), as Hans Werner Brockmann - *Defender of the Faith* (2019), as Narrator (voice) - *Adults in the Room* (2019), as Wolfgang Schäuble - *Und wer nimmt den Hund?* (2019), as Georg Lehnert - *Attempted Murder* (2018), series, as Hans-Georg Dahlmann - *As Green As It Gets* (2018), as Richard von Zeydlitz - *In the Fade* (2017), as Jürgen Möller - *Die Lebenden und die Toten* (2017), series, as Dirk Stadler - *Original Bliss* (2016), as Eduard Gluck - *Herr Lenz reist in den Frühling* (2016), as Herr Lenz - *Grzimek* (2015), series, as Bernhard Grzimek - *The Chosen Ones* (2014), as Simon Pistorius - *Week-ends* (2014), as Ulrich - *Pinocchio* (2013), series, as Mangiafuoco - *Pinocchio* (2013), as Mangiafuoco - *Exit Marrakech* (2013), as Heinrich - *Der Tote im Eis* (2013), as Thomas Gruber - *Houston* (2013), as Clemens Trunschka - *Moon Man* (2012), as President (voice) - *Rommel* (2012), as Erwin Rommel - *The Second Execution of Romell Broom* (2012), as Reader - *Zettl* (2012), as Urs Doucier - *When Pigs Have Wings* (2011), as UN official - *Jedermann Remixed* (2011), as Jedermann (archive footage) - *Largo Winch II* (2011), as Dwight Cochrane - *Eichmanns Ende* (2010), as Willem Sassen - *The Day of the Cat* (2010), as Dr. Stotzer / Pfiff - *Gier* (2010), series, as Dieter Glanz - *Kill Daddy Good Night* (2009), as Jonas Shtrom - *The White Ribbon* (2009), as The Baron — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/the-white-ribbon.md) - *Within the Whirlwind* (2009), as Dr. Anton Walter - *John Rabe* (2009), as John Rabe - *Eden Is West* (2009), as Nick Nickelby - *North Face* (2008), as Henry Arau - *Séraphine* (2008), as Wilhelm Uhde - *Die Frau aus dem Meer* (2008), as Karl Kress - *Der Mann, dem die Frauen vertrauten* (2008), as Horst David - *Hand of the Headless Man* (2007), as Peter - *Mein alter Freund Fritz* (2007), as Prof. Dr. Harry Seidel - *Earth* (2007), as Narrator (voice) - *Runaway Horse* (2007), as Klaus - *42plus* (2007), as Georg - *Une famille parfaite* (2006), as Harald Beckmann - *Das Schneckenhaus* (2006), as Dr. Lucas Bator - *The Lives of Others* (2006), as Anton Grubitz — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-lives-of-others.md) - *Heute heiratet mein Mann* (2006), as Dr. Agatz - *Dornröschen erwacht* (2006), as Prof. Seebaldt - *Die Luftbrücke* (2005), series, as Lucius D. Clay - *Die Nacht der großen Flut* (2005), as Helmut Schmidt - *The Ax* (2005), as Gérard Hutchinson - *Mein Vater, meine Frau und meine Geliebte* (2004), as Dr. Mohrauer - *Die fremde Frau* (2004), as Alexander Brandenburg - *Operation Valkyrie* (2004), as Henning v. Tresckow - *Die Dreigroschenoper* (2004), as Macheath, genannt Mackie Messer - *Solaris* (2002), as Gibarian — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/solaris.md) - *Under Suspicion* (2002), series, as Eric Glasner - *Taking Sides* (2002), as Helmut Rode - *Amen.* (2002), as Kurt Gerstein - *Probieren Sie’s mit einem Jüngeren* (2000), as neuer Mann - *Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace* (2000), as Dietrich Bonhoeffer - *Hunters in the Snow* (2000), as Franz - *Warten ist der Tod* (1999), series, as Jürgen Venske - *Annaluise & Anton* (1999), Actor - *Das Böse* (1998), as Johannes Lenz - *Die Verbrechen des Professor Capellari* (1998), series, as Alexander - *Blutige Scheidung* (1997), as Bernd - *Free Fall* (1997), as Werner März - *Ein Vater sieht rot* (1997), as Matthias Heller - *Charm's Incidents* (1996), Actor - *Beim nächsten Kuß knall ich ihn nieder* (1996), as Conrad Veidt - *Nikolaikirche* (1995), as Rechtsanwalt Schnuck - *Geschäfte* (1995), as Dr. Weiß - *Das Alibi* (1995), as Dr. Thomas Lamprecht - *Tears of Stone* (1995), as Ernst Züchner - *My Mother's Courage* (1995), as SS-Offizier - *Der Mörder und sein Kind* (1995), as Martin Dreyer - *Inspector Rex* (1994), series, as Kurt Hauff - *Rosa Roth* (1994), series, as Peter Nikolai - *Felidae* (1994), as Francis (voice) - *Rotwang Must Go!* (1994), as Bruno's Friend - *Der König* (1994), series, as Peter Kissling - *Maus und Katz* (1993), as Fred Tonndorf - *Wehner - Die unerzählte Geschichte* (1993), series, as Herbert Wehner - *The Last U-Boat* (1993), as Röhler - 1. Wachoffizier - *Die Spur des Bernsteinzimmers* (1992), as Siegfried Emmler - *The Democratic Terrorist* (1992), as Siegfried Maak - *Glückliche Reise* (1992), series, as Dirk - *Kleiner Furz* (1992), as Narrator (voice) - *Die Kaltenbach-Papiere* (1991), series, as Tom Severin - *Werner and the Wizard of Booze* (1990), as (voice) - *Wenn das die Nachbarn wüßten* (1990), series, as Taxifahrer - *Das Milliardenspiel* (1989), series, as Gerd Asselt - *Julius Caesar* (1988), as Mark Anthony - *Felix* (1988), as Felix - *Solaris TV – Der freundliche Sender im All* (1986), series, as Boss - *Lenz oder die Freiheit* (1986), series, as Friedrich Engels - *The Lenz Papers* (1986), as Friedrich Engels - *The Baader-Meinhof Gang on Trial* (1986), as Andreas Baader - *Le dernier civil* (1984), Actor - *Kaltes Fieber* (1984), as Michael - *The Story* (1984), as Alexander - *Dear Melanie* (1983), Actor - *The Swing* (1983), as Lhombre - *The White Rose* (1982), as Willi Graf - *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, as Hanno Haak, Dr. Meister, Felix Murot, Karl Petzold, Georg Hochreiter, Kommissar Murot - *Das Kind in dir muss Heimat finden*, Actor ## Gallery - ![Ulrich Tukur](https://film.one/media/person/9748/gallery-c7870fc5a004.jpg) Ulrich Tukur — Siebbi, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Ulrich_Tukur_%28Berlin_Film_Festival_2009%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Ulrich_Tukur_%28Berlin_Film_Festival_2009%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Auf dem roten Teppich des Festivals des deutschen Films 2014 (Von links nach rechts Golo Euler, Lucie Heinze, Programm-Managerin Daniela Kötz, Ulrich Matthes, D](https://film.one/media/person/9748/gallery-89c071fecba9.jpg) Auf dem roten Teppich des Festivals des deutschen Films 2014 (Von links nach rechts Golo Euler, Lucie Heinze, Programm-Managerin Daniela Kötz, Ulrich Matthes, D — Iff-MH, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Festival_des_deutschen_Films_Tag_17.jpg/1280px-Festival_des_deutschen_Films_Tag_17.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Ulrich Tukur bei der Grimme-Preis-Verleihung 2015](https://film.one/media/person/9748/gallery-2bc1f9c76795.jpg) Ulrich Tukur bei der Grimme-Preis-Verleihung 2015 — JCS, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Grimme-Preis_2015_-_Ulrich_Tukur_1.JPG/1280px-Grimme-Preis_2015_-_Ulrich_Tukur_1.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Ulrich Tukur bei der Grimme-Preis-Verleihung 2015](https://film.one/media/person/9748/gallery-9a418544d9d9.jpg) Ulrich Tukur bei der Grimme-Preis-Verleihung 2015 — JCS, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Grimme-Preis_2015_-_Ulrich_Tukur_2.JPG/1280px-Grimme-Preis_2015_-_Ulrich_Tukur_2.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Ulrich Tukur](https://film.one/media/person/9748/gallery-7caad5d32615.jpg) Ulrich Tukur — Image via TMDB - ![Ulrich Tukur](https://film.one/media/person/9748/gallery-0d7bb7b1701b.jpg) Ulrich Tukur — Image via TMDB - ![Verleihung des Grimme-Preises 2015.](https://film.one/media/person/9748/gallery-62311f876358.jpg) Verleihung des Grimme-Preises 2015. — Krd, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Grimmepreis_2015_015.jpg/1280px-Grimmepreis_2015_015.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Verleihung des Grimme-Preises 2015.](https://film.one/media/person/9748/gallery-57f58e4eaf38.jpg) Verleihung des Grimme-Preises 2015. — Krd, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Grimmepreis_2015_016.jpg/1280px-Grimmepreis_2015_016.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Other awards — 3 won, 1 nominated - Askania Award for Best Actor 2024: Askania Award for Best Actor (won) - Helmut Käutner Prize 2015: Helmut Käutner Prize (won) - Lower Saxony State Prize 2010: Lower Saxony State Prize (won) - Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actor 2002: Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actor (nominated), for *Amen.* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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